CELEBRATE !! Celebration thread...shoot its a pheW

[Pupped]

I know it's not a vent thread, but our kick returner did not run any punts back. Not one.

One of the worst days for special teams all together that I can recall. Really a joke!

I think he’s been told not to even try.

 

[Spider2YB]

I think Cowherd was playing the spread more than he was picking a team?

Vegas was all over the Giants making this a close game. It was just the perfect trap game for the Rams.

 

[Ewe83]

Well, a win is a win, saving the celebrating for if the Seahawks lose

 

[ottoman89]

Curious what the personal reasons are for. Is he mad because he wants a contract?

I doubt it, couldn't see a player who was coached by Kirk Ferentz and now McVay not play in a big game because of his contract.

Hopefully it's not health related, or something tragic happening in his family.

 

[JimY53]

So.. offseason priorities… new ST coach & new kicker.

I guess we are going to have a new coach to rip now?

Honestly, and not saying I care one way or other, but I don't think Blackburn is the kind of coach that is lax and teaching fundamentals. Rams players blew that. They had him...and were lazy... That's on the players.

The coverage was there...

I don't think Blackburn is teaching Evan to outkick coverage, either. He just does it too often.
And bad tackling? These are NFL guys ... they have to be able to do it.

 

[Q729]

So now we go staggering into 'Frisco?

Nah they subconsciously took a break with the 5-11 Giants, no matter how many right things they thought and said to themselves. They'll be up for the 9ers.

 

[Q729]

I doubt it, couldn't see a player who was coached by Kirk Ferentz and now McVay not play in a big game because of his contract.

Hopefully it's not health related, or something tragic happening in his family.

If it's family related, maybe he wants to play lights out in honor of them? Still sucks though.

 

[ottoman89]

I guess we are going to have a new coach to rip now?

Honestly, and not saying I care one way or other, but I don't think Blackburn is the kind of coach that is lax and teaching fundamentals. Rams players blew that. They had him...and were lazy... That's on the players.

The coverage was there...

I don't think Blackburn is teaching Evan to outkick coverage, either. He just does it too often.
And bad tackling? These are NFL guys ... they have to be able to do it.

I think he out kicks coverage because he's in such a rush to punt. I feel like there's a lot of pressure most punts.

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

I haven’t been on here.. are people blaming the defense?

Missed kicks, 2 ints… a fumble lost?

D did its job well enough today.

I was going to post the same thing, but then I thought about Tyrod running loose down the field at the end and said nope.

 

[Merlin]

Pissed me off that seemed like our DBs were miscommunicating all game too.. and had zero safety help over top at times.

It's a serious problem right now for us, that back end. That and teams are going to be our downfall.

 

[Corbin]

I doubt it, couldn't see a player who was coached by Kirk Ferentz and now McVay not play in a big game because of his contract.

Hopefully it's not health related, or something tragic happening in his family.

Which is part of the reason I’m leaning towards a contract thing because it was for “ personal reasons”

 

[RamWoodie]

Well...when you win with all kinds of adversity, there's a pile of stuff to learn from...BUT IT'S A WIN.

I'm celebrating by watching the Steelers v Seahags looking for a Steeler win. Steelers up right now 7-0.

 

[Pupped]

I guess we are going to have a new coach to rip now?

Honestly, and not saying I care one way or other, but I don't think Blackburn is the kind of coach that is lax and teaching fundamentals. Rams players blew that. They had him...and were lazy... That's on the players.

The coverage was there...

I don't think Blackburn is teaching Evan to outkick coverage, either. He just does it too often.
And bad tackling? These are NFL guys ... they have to be able to do it.

Maybe.
But have they been good in any special teams aspect?

I’m open to it being a lack of personnel… but they just haven’t shown anything, imo.

 

[thirteen28]

I haven’t been on here.. are people blaming the defense?

Missed kicks, 2 ints… a fumble lost?

D did its job well enough today.

They had a few coverage breakdowns, but they weren't terrible. We are just really talent limited on the back end more than anything else.

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

It's a serious problem right now for us, that back end. That and teams are going to be our downfall.

You know everybody's seeing that as our achilles heel and is trying to exploit it.

 

[Dodgersrf]

Wow this site really needs to look into better servers.

Almost 1500 people on here at once today.
I’m not sure what the site capacity is.

 

[JBRam77]

I believe we should have mixed in some Royce Freeman and Ronnie Rivers more and pounded the rock.. we got too pass happy after that Saints win. The Giants were teeing off at the end

 

[JimY53]

I think he out kicks coverage because he's in such a rush to punt. I feel like there's a lot of pressure most punts.

I think it's because he's still raw, has not learned to quite control his rare leg strength ... but I have not made a study of it. But I do see there is pressure. But I have been noting his outkicking coverage since preseason, so possible some of both ... but often pressure causes short kicks, not overly long, IMO. But what you are saying is worth a close study

 

[Ellard80]

I guess we are going to have a new coach to rip now?

Honestly, and not saying I care one way or other, but I don't think Blackburn is the kind of coach that is lax and teaching fundamentals. Rams players blew that. They had him...and were lazy... That's on the players.

The coverage was there...

I don't think Blackburn is teaching Evan to outkick coverage, either. He just does it too often.
And bad tackling? These are NFL guys ... they have to be able to do it.

the penalty on the FG looked like a designed play that didn't understand the rules.

The punt return was missed tackles... but when you have two punt return TDs in 4 games... the special teams coach is going to get scrutinized.

 

[FrantikRam]

The Rams didn't win, the Giants simply lost.

BUT, it's sure nice to finally be on the right side of a game we didn't deserve to win.

To be fair we tried like hell to give this game away. Staffords picks were bad, fumble, missed extra pts, lack of tackling on that punt return