Ya know... I don't even want to vent anymore... I just want to deal with the TRAUMA of this game.
I mean... we've been waiting for NINE MONTHS for this season. Two weeks prior to the start, we lose our Franchise QB who finally looks like he's about to have a career year.
But, hey, we got the best backup available in FA in Shaun Hill. He sure beat the crap out of us when he was on other teams. It still seemed like there was hope.
Well, hope is a dangerous thing and this time, it bit back...
So, herein lies the TRAUMA of this game. We waited NINE MONTHS of hoping and analyzing and rooting and all that for... this? A devastating loss to an at best middling team? I'm no fool. I get that it's one game. That said, this team isn't going to go 15-1. This team has significant issues that were exposed in this game that no amount of being a homer or projecting positives or being a pollyanna can cover up. In some ways, the Rams lost that game 34-6, but it wasn't that close.
So... if we really have waited nine months for this... are we really as fans in the same boat as Bradford? Are we really essentially forced to watch knowing that nothing can really demonstrate any change for another YEAR???
Part of me wants to go to this game in Tampa really badly. I'm just not sure I could handle watching a second blowout like this, only this time in person...and I'd have to watch it until the bitter end, that's how I am...
After watching Tampa, well, I'd say that they seemed vulnerable, but at this point, that seems mentioning the vulnerabilities of another team is like asking the football gods to imbue them with super powers...
I'm hoping we can turn this around. I really am. I'm hoping that that game was just one of "those bad hair days" or Murphy's Law type games where the Rams are just SHOCKED into a different level of football consciousness now that they've seen that what level of effort and execution they thought would succeed, clearly....um...won't.