PREGAME Rams at Cardinals Pregame Thread

[RamBall]

Tape their practices and walkthroughs?
Deflate some footballs?
Mess with the radio signals of the headsets?
Use the big video screen to put up some fake images of the goal posts and wind patterns?

All of the above, if you aint cheatin, you aint tryin.

 

[den-the-coach]

All of the above, if you aint cheatin, you aint tryin.

 

[PARAM]

You can always second-guess the play call when it doesn't work. It's as much about execution as it is about play calling. Sometimes the defense makes plays.

You mean like that inside handoff to Allen on 4th and 1?

I re-watched the game and glad I did because I forgot about some interesting things.

1. Grupe was injured 6 minutes into the game so we had to go on 4th down instead of attempting FGs and PATs weren't going to be easy. However, Evans made the PAT to put us up 1 on our final drive.
2. Stafford missed a wide open Puka in the 3rd quarter....would have been 6.
3. Defense was horrible at tackling between the 20's. In the red zone they were tough
4. Higbee had the ball ripped out of his arms at the Cardinals 22.

Like somebody said, Queesenberry was at LT. He did allow some pressures and a sack.
We ran at a 4.7 clip but in the first half it was 4.9, in the second 4.4.

Of course the penalty at the end was ridiculous. They would have had the ball at our 44 with 41 seconds left and no timeouts. I'm not confident they win the game without that penalty. By the time they snapped the ball next to spike it, there would have been less than 35 seconds on the clock. But it's all water under the bridge now.