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Or Harkey. I love me some Kendricks and Harkey!
I know, right?! Harkey is a beast and it looks like Bayer could be too!
Or Harkey. I love me some Kendricks and Harkey!
...no one listens!
But that's OK, I'm going to do my own vent thread right here and now.
HOW COULD ANYONE BE DOWN ON THIS TEAM?!
When your THIRD STRING QB plays like that, holy sh1t! He's not a superstar (yet) but he's THIRD STRING for god's sake. We should be freaking joyful that Rams took it to Dallas with their 1st string QB and damn near beat them in a SHOOTOUT, with Davis stomping Romo's stats!
How about these for headlines:
Austin Davis crushes Tony Romo! The Cowboys 1st string QB gets schooled by SECOND GAME and THIRD STRINGER Austin Davis with 110 more passing yards and 1 more TD!
Quick does it again! Dallas was the first team able to quiet Brian Quick but he still catches 2 pass for 62 yards and a TD! 31 YPC. If he weren't interfered with he would have 2 TDs and a big pile of yards! NICE job Quickie!
Britt emerges! The third game of the season may mark Kenny Britt's emergence as a season long threat. 5 receptions for 69 yards and several clinch catches! Welcome Britt, good job!
Cook leads the team in receiving! He's statistically the BEST TE the Rams have EVER had! Yes, he dropped a TD pass but at least he showed heart being pissed at himself despite leading the receiving corps all game. Most of those drives by the Rams don't happen without Cook making clutch plays and taking big hits. Keep your chin up Cook, you had a solid game!
Zac Stacey has 5.6 YPC! Good job Stacey!
Passes made to eight different players! WOW, I haven't seen the ball spread around this much since GSOT days. What depth and width the Rams have on offense! And all this WITHOUT Bailey and TA!
Defense creates 2 turnovers and SIX points! Janoris Jenkins has a pick six and Ogletree forces a fumble! Dez Bryant and D. Murray were not anywhere near as productive as predicted. One of, if not the BEST runningback in the league, was held to 100 yards! One bad play leads to a 44 yard run or he's held to 56 yards! That's amazing! Bryant was also a one play wonder. Jenkins bottled him up all day. Without that one play, he has 21 yards! The Rams D played the run so well, the two teams had almost identical yards rushing! How many 3rd down stops were handed away by the refs? At least 2 that I remember. This D played well against a FIRST STRING FRANCHISE QB, WR, and RB. Rams were tackeled for a loss once for one yard and where Dallas lost 18 yards on 5 TFLs.
Rams create first downs like it's nothing! Rams create 26 first downs to Dallas's 19! Their third down efficiency was 61% to Dallas's 50%.
Rams as good as Dallas in Red Zone Efficiency! 50% red zone efficiency and rising every week! At goal to go, Rams were 100% at 2 for 2!
Rams control the ball! Rams control the ball for over 5 minutes more than the Cowboys!
Dallas gets ZERO sacks! An improved performance by the O line and Austin Davis prevent Dallas from registering a sack!
RAMS won this game. You take away the bad calls and the Rams win. Even WITH the bad calls they were in it until the end. Austin Davis throws a "go up and get it" ball to quick and it's inches too far. If Quick catches that or breaks up the play, Rams had a very real chance to win.
I'm proud of what they did and now, with a buy week to work on issues and heal up players, I'M PUMPED about playing the Eagles, going 2-2, and heading into the division games firing on all cylinders!
@CoachO TOLD us fans would get down early when the Rams struggled getting it together with a new QB and he was right. CALM DOWN fans and be amazed at what the Rams have done to improve these last 3 weeks with a THIRD STRING QB!
Rant over.
Do NOT post negative sh1t below please. It's BS and I don't want to read it. YES the Rams can improve but this was one hell of a showing for game 3 and AD's SECOND START EVER.
The defense has not been what we expected and needs to improve.
I appreciate it, but we're to the point where moral victories feel hollow. Should we have won that game? freak yes! Did we. no?
Wins, now more than ever, mean more to me than playing a "good" game.
Very winnable game that we figured out a way to lose. When we start playing good teams, with some on the road it has the potential to get real ugly. More than likely we are starting over again in the next year or two.
I'd much rather be a playoff team that looks lucky, than a non-playoff team that looks good.
Give me some of what you drinking RamzFanz lol. Love the positive energy.
...and I don't think you have reason. That was an offensive show by a SECOND GAME and THIRD STRING QB who was an assistant high school football coach a year ago. We need to get real in our expectations and acknowledge the accomplishment for what it was... amazing.
Until yesterday, I had little real quantifiable hope for this season. THAT game gave me hope again. It was SO CLOSE and the talent displayed was undeniable.
It was a great accomplishment. Too bad he won't be starting against Philly to see if he can build on it.
I agree with others, positives are nice and it's nice that you're not acting as if the world is falling apart and we should all jump off ship or we'll surely drown, but that's not all there is to it and many of the criticisms are very justified. Moral victories stopped mattering for most of us sometime around 2011 when Spags ran the idea into the ground.
Players looking good can only go so far before it has to manifest itself into the record, potential and looking good doesn't make the playoffs, quell any critics, explain egregious errors in effort, ability to finish and general unpreparedness or make you less of the laughingstock of the league. Sometimes you gotta put up Ws, ugly wins are a lot more fun than pretty losses.