wooo reunite him with spags

Keeping them healthy is another… dang this team’s injuries killed us and any progress we thought we may have made.

and loved him in college. Gotta think he’s a very respectful backup, more so than Darby. I wonder what has stopped the FO from promoting him off the practice squad

I admit I am an idiot for buying Direct TV NFL package to watch the Rams lose every week. But what’s the players and coaches excuse for being such knuckleheads??? This “team” is bad on the top, the bottom and in the middle, i.e. rotten to the core. And if I hear one more TV announcer say something stupid like; “Spags has them really motivated” or “they play so hard in every game,” I’m gonna lose it. You don’t get beat by scores like 31-10 when you’re playing hard. You don’t get beaten to a pulp and swept by crummy teams like Seattle either. You don’t score 160-170 points in a season and give up over 400. It does NOT compute. We’ll need Suh and about 20 more NFL calibre players just to get to a 0.500 record. Conversely, we do not need Keith Null or Alex Barron or about 30 of the other players on our current roster. I have also just about lost what little faith I had remaining in Spags and Shurnur. The absolute worst thing that could happen to the franchise now is to let the 49ers give us next week’s meaningless game. The hated Niners are an order of magnitude better team than the Rams, and we all know it. But, it would be in their long-term best interest to lose to us next week so we don’t get Suh into our division. It would also strengthen their draft postion, and I understand they have TWO 1st round picks anyway.

i agree with you ed, biggest squad of losers ever including the coaches

I was at the game and I will say that I was impressed on hpw you guys were able to run the ball. And Keith Null does have some potential, I’d like to see what he can do next year since Bulger will probably be gone and Boller isn’t much better.

But it must have been nice to see Warner play well, since I know everyone in St. Louis still loves him.

that is freakin deep
love those rams!!!

The Rams basically remind me of an XFL team. They play pretty hard, but they just don’t have all the much talent or experience starting.

I’m withholding judgement on this weeks game since I was busy driving through the Illinois “blizzard” for roughly 5 hours yesterday. But I will say that Jackson sitting pretty much cost me in my fantasy football championship game.

As it stands, I need the shitty Bears defense to hold Purple Jesus to under 10 FFL points in order to capture the trophy for the second consecutive year against a team that has delivered 2 of my 3 losses on the season (and is named Steeler Domination for puke’s sake).

I’m not pleased….

posts are bitter sweet. Yeah we have some players w/low talent, BUT the reason they’re playing is our massive injury list. How many players have we picked up because of need due to injury? I think the coaches do what they can to prepare the team and get them ready… at some point the players play and the game proceeds. Our ‘wire players’ are not up to caliber, that is a given. Thanks for being the master of the obvious, how astute.

Null isn’t playing that bad IMO, but I had lower/realistic expectations for him. He could be a quality back up for us. Obgonnaya played better than any backup RB we have on the roster. Maybe not the 2nd stringer most of us hope for, but he’ll improve. We still need a better WR… our ‘committee’ is good, but we need another player to make us better. Our defense is only a few players short of vastly improving IMO.

Is the players and how they have progressed through the season. Besides all the obvious things (this is somewhat obvious in itself, but anyway) player progression is the most glaring benefit of having a good coach. What did we see with Linehan? a vanilla offense that didn’t benefit anyone. He constantly searched for “big names” in the hope that they would help right the ship without having to coach them up a bit. One thing I liked about Martz is that he always seemed to find good talent at the WR position and extract that talent into yards and scores. Kevin Curtis. Mike Furrey. Shaun McDonald. They all have had good seasons (some of them with him). He couldn’t pick a defensive player to save his life, but that’s besides the point (he didn’t have the skills to do that- he was an offensive guy, always).

Now look at coach Spags’. Obviously, this wasn’t his team, and won’t be his team (in terms of personnel) for a while. No amount of undrafted street free agents will change that fact. Obviously, you can’t coach undrafted free agents and 7th rounders into star players- sure it’ll happen on that lucky occasion, but it just can’t happen. This is the NFL, and the talent disparity is just too damn high.

But look at players like Bradley Fletcher, Craig Dahl, James Butler, Animal Jr. and even Chris Long (Offensively, Danny Amendola and RIchie Incognito, for awhile at least). These are players that were coached by Spags’ and have generally done well when the play. In Fletcher’s case, you see the season get cut short- but these players were making a difference. They HAVE been progressing.

When this offseason rolls around, they will have released a lot of their dead money and hopefully will be able to pick up players that fit the system and can work with Spag’s.

One year is never enough to turn a team around, especially if it’s the Rams. You can’t undo years of shit in a few months.

“You can’t undo years of shit in a few months.”