Toughest Loss of the Year

[12intheBox]

I thought about titling this - "Toughest Loss of the Year So Far" - but we are done losing.

Its a tough choice. Feel free to explain your answer.

 

[Jorgeh0605]

Simple. San Diego killed any inkling of playoff aspirations.

 

[Faceplant]

Why??

 

[TheDYVKX]

Probably the Minnesota game, I was hyping up the Rams all summer and that deflated me a lot.

 

[VeteranRamFan]

The first game just sucked. Can't even think it was tough lose. All the remaining are tough and excellent selections to put in your pole. But the SD game (I was there) was the toughest because we played well!!! We should have won that game. The others we lost. See the difference? WE lost. SD we should have won. That is what makes it so tough for me.

Thanks for doing this, fun stuff.

 

[RhodyRams]

Going with SF

At home
Prime time national audience
Division opponent

 

[IowaRam]

Vikings

My entire family are Vikings fans , my wife's entire family are Vikings fan ,

 

[12intheBox]

Why??

to ... you know ... talk about football.

 

[FRO]

Many tough losses. I would have to go with the 49er game. The crap offensive pass interference call against Cook took points off the board. Then to have Brandon Lloyd get behind the defense with under a min to go deep in their own territory just was crushing. Winning that game would given us a 3-1 divisional record.

 

[VelleRams1]

The Dallas game sticks with me

 

[SierraRam]

The Cowboy game just killed me. The refs gave it to them. period

The only silver lining to this thread is the reality of how close we are to being 7-5 or 8-4 right now.

SD / Dallas / Arizona / Next time we win those games

 

[mr.stlouis]

I was at KC, MIN, and Dallas.

It was KC for me. It was the day I started to realize Davis sucked and he was benched two weeks later. Very tough loss for me.

 

[jibbajab34]

San Diego since we were playing the Chargers and the Refs!

 

[Jumava1968]

All the losses have been tough to take but Dallas sticks out to me.It became obvious the refs were not going to let them lose.SD loss sucked a alot too that's a win 9/10 times and we got the 1.

 

[-X-]

The whiners. It's always the worst when we lose to that shit team.

 

[Win1-4Ned]

To have such a weak showing in the first game of the season at home was inexcusable. And it once again put us in a hole of being under .500. Plus the injury to Hill forced Davis into the starting line up. It seemed to me to set the tone for so many of the struggles that the Rams have endured throughout this season. Also, for me at least, the flatness seemed to re-enforce that it wasn't just the fans that felt at a loss after the injury to Bradford.

 

[rams24/7]

To be honest DAL, SF, AZ, and SD were all terrible for me. Hard to pick the worst among them, as all were painful for different reasons.

I'll go with SF. Division rival, in our house, MNF, all eyes on us, chance to shut up national media, chance to change national perception of our team, Rams alumni week celebrating GSOT, early in the season. And we let it slip through our fingers.

I'll never forget the feeling of pounding them into a paste. 14-0. Dominating in all phases. Rookie making their first starts giving this team a spark (Mason, Donald, Robinson). We're driving for another TD to put us up 21-3 at half. 3rd and 9 from SF 46, Cook makes a catch short of the first and then fights for the first down, rumbling to the 25. OPI 3rd and 19. Never have I felt an outcome was more fixed. If anything Culliver initiated the contact and any contact between the 2 was minimal and within the 5 yard window. We go on to punt. Lloyd double moves JJ in a situation you should never be peeking in the backfield as a CB or have a MLB covering the deep middle of the field. Punch in the gut. I knew after that that we couldn't win a game this tough making crucial mistakes like that. Then niners get a favorable DPI call on their first drive in the 3rd Q to extend their drive, ending in 7.

And that's all she wrote. Davis folded and our team seemed to have lost its swagger. Most frustrating was the fact that we beat ourselves and had to play the refs. SF SHOULD HAVE LOST. See the game @ SF if you don't believe me.

 

[RamzFanz]

SD because:

• It was the Rams last outside chance of being in the playoffs
• Hill engineered a win only to be demonized on a mistake on a great defensive play and a terrible play call
• It was a game they HAD to give away where other games they got beat

 

[12intheBox]

As painful as this year has been - the 'what could have been' is pretty amazing.

We could have won the Dallas game, certainly.

We could have won in Philly.

We could have beaten SF at home, beaten Az on the road, beaten SD on the road.

We are just a few bad breaks away from being in the drivers seat to having home field throughout the playoffs.

On the other hand, we very nearly lost to TB, Seattle, and SF so we could are also a few lucky breaks away from looking at another top 5 pick in the draft.

What a crazy season for us - all of the relo talk, Bradford, Michael Sam, Ferguson - it makes you dizzy.

 

[NukeRam]

I was at the SD game and the comeback along with the fan energy was awesome. When we were on the goal line I was sure we were going to pull out the win. That int killed me.