I've wallowed since last night. Couldn't sleep. Was sick to my stomach, just revisiting the Corum fumble, Kyren drop on 3rd down, the missed FG, the blocked XP, the last Corum fumble, and the 4th and 1 playcall. This is how good we can be - with the above, we left a possible 18 points on the board. With our terrible defensive showing, we still should have won this game by 10-14 points. It would have ended up looking VERY similar to the Bills/Dolphins Thursday game from a week or two ago, where it was back and forth but the Bills pulled away.
I need this post to clear my head and move on from this damn game. So here we go..
-This is officially the best offense we've had since 2018. Yes we won it all in 2021, but we couldn't run the ball to save our lives.
-Stafford is ON FIRE - this is a Super Bowl caliber offense
-With two backups, the OL held up - though part of that was the Niners having no healthy players
-Adams is still an elite WR, and it opens this offense up
-Puka is the best WR in the league
-This has to be Kyren's last chance, and I'm chalking this up as a positive because for us to make a run, he can't fumble again
The above were positives after watching the first five games. Pass rush or no, the Niners pass defense had been VERY good, and Shanahan knew they wouldn't be able to stop us anyways.
Kyren fumbling is what it is. The dropped pass that led to the missed FG was also a HUGE play.
Weird stuff happens on Thursday nights....so what are the real takeaways here?
-Clean up the execution on some things - goes without saying
-GO GET A CB
Sean, please. Please. This appears to be the best year of Stafford's entire career thus far. We're five games in. He's playing at an MVP level. And while we've shown we CAN play with anyone (Eagles), we've shown we can play with anyone (this walking IR Niners team last night). What was the common theme in both games? PLEASE SEAN.
The execution will get cleaned up. Kyren will know that one more fumble and he may not be a Ram. Those things are fixable. The execution is fixable.
Right now, we are a good (10/11 win) team who can win a playoff game. But with this CB room (even with Akhello I fear), we cannot win it all. I would rather spend one of our first round picks to maximize this season from Matt than roll the dice with this shitty CB room. PLEASE SEAN. Please.
TLDR: everything will be fixed from last night. The game meant nothing. The Brady Pats once lost to a bad Bills team 31-0. The Chiefs from a few years ago lost to an awful Raiders team. David has been beating Goliath since the beginning of time. The worst part for me is that I love watching and listening to everything in the media about the Rams, and I have to turn that off for 10 days - but everything will be fixed.......it will be. Except that our CB room can't magically get better, and it IS the thing that will stop this team from being a Super Bowl caliber team.
We will get it fixed. Avoid the media stuff. Avoid other forums. But us fixing it, we're still just a divisional round team right now until we upgrade that CB room.
EDIT: I forgot what I named this post - apologies, it probably should have been "well there is a glass, and its both half full and half empty"
I need this post to clear my head and move on from this damn game. So here we go..
-This is officially the best offense we've had since 2018. Yes we won it all in 2021, but we couldn't run the ball to save our lives.
-Stafford is ON FIRE - this is a Super Bowl caliber offense
-With two backups, the OL held up - though part of that was the Niners having no healthy players
-Adams is still an elite WR, and it opens this offense up
-Puka is the best WR in the league
-This has to be Kyren's last chance, and I'm chalking this up as a positive because for us to make a run, he can't fumble again
The above were positives after watching the first five games. Pass rush or no, the Niners pass defense had been VERY good, and Shanahan knew they wouldn't be able to stop us anyways.
Kyren fumbling is what it is. The dropped pass that led to the missed FG was also a HUGE play.
Weird stuff happens on Thursday nights....so what are the real takeaways here?
-Clean up the execution on some things - goes without saying
-GO GET A CB
Sean, please. Please. This appears to be the best year of Stafford's entire career thus far. We're five games in. He's playing at an MVP level. And while we've shown we CAN play with anyone (Eagles), we've shown we can play with anyone (this walking IR Niners team last night). What was the common theme in both games? PLEASE SEAN.
The execution will get cleaned up. Kyren will know that one more fumble and he may not be a Ram. Those things are fixable. The execution is fixable.
Right now, we are a good (10/11 win) team who can win a playoff game. But with this CB room (even with Akhello I fear), we cannot win it all. I would rather spend one of our first round picks to maximize this season from Matt than roll the dice with this shitty CB room. PLEASE SEAN. Please.
TLDR: everything will be fixed from last night. The game meant nothing. The Brady Pats once lost to a bad Bills team 31-0. The Chiefs from a few years ago lost to an awful Raiders team. David has been beating Goliath since the beginning of time. The worst part for me is that I love watching and listening to everything in the media about the Rams, and I have to turn that off for 10 days - but everything will be fixed.......it will be. Except that our CB room can't magically get better, and it IS the thing that will stop this team from being a Super Bowl caliber team.
We will get it fixed. Avoid the media stuff. Avoid other forums. But us fixing it, we're still just a divisional round team right now until we upgrade that CB room.
EDIT: I forgot what I named this post - apologies, it probably should have been "well there is a glass, and its both half full and half empty"