but i’ll give this a shot anyway.

1. as you stated, steven jackson has been a beast. he’s fourth in the league in rushing, and has done almost all of his work after contact playing behind a poor offensive line at times. he hasn’t done much in terms of receiving this year, but that can be attributed to a number of things, but mostly the rams lack of passing offense this year.

2. the defense as a unit is playing decently. you may not notice because of the final scores (which often include many points that had nothing to do with the defense), but they really are. the rankings somewhat suggest otherwise, but that’s because of points given up in garbage time when the defense has lost passion. run defense has been especially good.

3. speaking of defense, rams second round pick and middle linebacker james laurinaitis is a stud. the dude has been in on tackles all year, and continues to get better. he is going to be a real star in this league for years to come.

4. punter donnie jones. i know i’m reaching here, but he absolutely the best punter in the league hands down.

5. richie incognito has finally got his head on straight the past four weeks and really become the best offensive lineman on the team. we always knew he was a good blocker, but it’s the stupid penalties that always had us calling for his head. coach spags seems to have sent him a message, and he has really played his ass off the past four weeks. alex barron showed signs of the same type of turnaround last week, we’ll see if that continues.

6. the play of the #2 and 3 tight ends has been somewhat encouraging. daniel fells has a couple decent catches for TDs and been laying some good blocks.

overall, the team continues to get better. i know it’s hard for people on the outside to notice this, but it really is true. the final scores don’t always show it, but the rams are inching closer and closer to their first victory and just may get it this week.

While I appreciate the optimism, it’s totally misplaced. Everybody’s trying to make out like we’ve dramatically improved cause we piled up some offensive yards last week against the Vikes. The facts remain; we were blown out at home 38-10. Our team’s giving up 28+ points per game and scoring around 7. All that’ll do is get us in the record books as the most hapless NFL team to ever play a season. Right now we’re 0-5 with no hint of a team we can beat on the schedule. Our starting QB’s shoulders have been turned to hamburger by age and repeated hits/injuries. Incognito, like a simmering volcano, could erupt again at any time. Barron had one “good” game last week after dozens of lackluster performances. Why does anybody think he can keep up the pretense of actually caring about winning? Jason Smith has yet to show anything in camp or on the field. Jacob Bell took our $$$ and hasn’t even provided mediocre performance. Gibson is out for the year, as is our best receiver; Robinson. Adam Carriker will never play again. Chris Long has 0 sacks through 5 games (that’s the same amount as me). Can you say bust? Little and Hall are almost eligible for social security. Nobody knows what happened to Vic Aydenaju. Boller has shown he’s no better than Frerotte or Trent Green were. Super-star kicker Josh Brown is 2-5 in the FG dept. McMichaels is starting to make, ugh, Joe Klop look good. Avery and Burton are the inconsistent twins – Bruce and Holt, they ain’t. Vobora, who was the weakest link in our LBs, got himself suspended. The bottom line is that this team is bereft of talent with possible exception of SJax, Lauranitis, Donnie Jones, Otogwe, Bartell, Butler, Jason Brown and who else? These few creible guys ain’t enough to win an NFL game. Yecch!

stop watching e-_n and do some homework. or maybe the only thing we have is green grass and not green enough.

I got one, more losses= higher draft pick.

If people want to engage in crazy and fun ideas about positive aspects of the Rans team, for Pete’s sake let ’em have fun with it.

Once on a while people want to have fun, and it’s nice to escape constant negativity. You don’t have to ruin the idea that there is some little thing that’s positive about our team, you don’t have to appoint yourself to bring the rain, we have lots of other topics where that’s the right thing to do

It really isn’t that hard to find positives for our team:

1)Half of the Defense: Laurinaitis plays well in coverage, is a sure tackler, a sound leader, and is racking up stats. Atogwe looked good in pursuit against AD and showed veteran awareness. Witherspoon hasn’t looked amazing but he remains consistently above average (maybe a stretch). D-line held AD to less than 100 and Dahl was a consistent tackler.

2)Coaching: Play calling last game was pretty sweet on offense, the players were put in good position to score and move the ball but execution got in the way often. Defense wasn’t as good as the offense but it’s tough to hide parts of the defense against a multi-faceted attack like Minnesota’s, although we did get to Favre and keep AD underwraps.

3)Pass attack: Bulger looked good against the second team of the Vikings (it’s something right?). Avery showed remnants of playmaking ability, the TE’s got open often and led to field stretching, and Amendola emerged as a dependable slot guy, which could lead to the opening up of S-Jax’s screen and flat passes.

Since that is done. Edjpr what is with you man. It’s not real hard to do what your doing on these posts. These things you are stating are actively running through fans’ minds. I can do it too. Jags D-line has not faced an O-line like ours, bound to improve their sack numbers/our best player will be dealing with a stout run D/our recievers boast a practice squad player on any other team at #3/we just lost our starting DT with MJD coming through/ Garrad is good enough to take advantage of our corners often/ we could easily go 0-16/ J.Smith has looked bad along with all our draft picks except Laurinaitis and B.Fletcher is serviceable. I’m not trying to be mean, I just think your posts don’t help the discussion, their off topic, obvious, and kinda sad. Makes me sad reading them, not only because the info is blaringly negative and unavoidable but it also signifies the increasingly futile fan base looking to get on the “i told you so” wagon to keep from feeling so dejected every week after a build up of hopes. Hey if you want to save your weekend by being right about your team being bad, thats fine, but don’t ruin other people’s weekends by telling them they have no chance before the games are even played.

bravo to kinzav29 for that last spiel

nuff said