I feel like thinking this is a playoff team would be setting us up for disappointment. We have too many question marks. We don't have much that we know will be good enough. Mostly what we hope will be good enough.We know some things.
We know we are not a contender. This is not the team who is going to run the division and win a high seed. This is the team that prays they can make the playoffs. It's pretty clear actually. So if you are thinking Super Bowl right now you're simply setting yourself up for disappointment and you will probably be one of the rage-filled posters in the vent threads this year.
But that doesn't mean we should throw in the towel. We're gonna win some games. Maybe the offense can carry us a bit further than we expect. We just are very dependent on the offense to produce at a high level consistently, and we are also dependent on health. We have very little depth at some spots and it's gonna hurt if we get into that depth.
Problem is everything has to be extremes nowadays. It's either "season over" defeatist thinking, to which I will never subscribe I don't care how dismal it looks, or having way too high expectations which end up causing a lot of anger during the season when the team doesn't live up to it.
Rams are somewhere in the middle I think. Where in the middle I have no idea but hopefully more towards the 7-9 win range. Fish would be proud.
But but but...I do know at this point!
Have you not seen the thread I started where I guarantee a superbowl appearance?
And I'm not even kidding. It's guaranteed.
Yes but the good thing is this time there's a light at the end of the tunnel not a train.
If and when you take that victory lap I will be glad to cheer you on.Sigh.
You know what is gonna bug me. When we're in this year's super bowl and NO ONE gives me oodles and oodles of credit for calling it way before it happened.
LOL. Good stuff sir. I have respect for your "razzing" of me, and am not too full of myself to take offense. It's all in good fun. But I'm telling you. I just feel it. This year we go to the superbowl. It's gonna happen.
Also, funny you should mention me playing football. I still enjoy it. I'm 56 years old now so I've lost a step (well, 4 steps) but here's recent video of me.
Can I get your approval on this throw?
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View: https://youtu.be/7A5zWUkzUaU
Glad to hear you are taking my post in the good spirit it was intended. Yeah, I think the offense has a chance to be good again... sounds like Stafford is killing it in practices this year. But our defense is just so young and inexperienced.... hard for me to imagine a bunch of UDFA's and 6-th rounders can be dominant right away.LOL. Good stuff sir. I have respect for your "razzing" of me, and am not too full of myself to take offense. It's all in good fun. But I'm telling you. I just feel it. This year we go to the superbowl. It's gonna happen.
Gonna take longer than midseason for our depth to get better. This is a try out year for a lot of youngsters to see if they are Rams beyond this year. With all the cap space opening up next year, you can bet if a certain position isn't up to snuff, they'll be replaced in some sense. Witherspoon isn't a savior at CB and my concern with him is he's been super injury prone, Fuller hasn't proven reliable either, Johnson severly underperformed recently so he's got a lot to prove. The fact that you listed Kendrick as someone that possibly has talent to be tapped is laughable as that guy needs to show he won't get burned first before I take him serious as nothing more than a JAG. There is other young talent around the defense that can come thru and hopefully does, but man are you banking on young pups to get with the program sooner than is usually done. I will root for them to get there, but that is an extremely tall ask.
We know some things.
We know we are not a contender. This is not the team who is going to run the division and win a high seed. This is the team that prays they can make the playoffs. It's pretty clear actually. So if you are thinking Super Bowl right now you're simply setting yourself up for disappointment and you will probably be one of the rage-filled posters in the vent threads this year.
But that doesn't mean we should throw in the towel. We're gonna win some games. Maybe the offense can carry us a bit further than we expect. We just are very dependent on the offense to produce at a high level consistently, and we are also dependent on health. We have very little depth at some spots and it's gonna hurt if we get into that depth.
Problem is everything has to be extremes nowadays. It's either "season over" defeatist thinking, to which I will never subscribe I don't care how dismal it looks, or having way too high expectations which end up causing a lot of anger during the season when the team doesn't live up to it.
Rams are somewhere in the middle I think. Where in the middle I have no idea but hopefully more towards the 7-9 win range. Fish would be proud.
