Rams lose 17-18, move to 3-4 overall

I can’t understand how we can get so outplayed in 2nd half two weeks in a row.

shurmur..his play calling was awful in the 2nd half, and Sam was a mess 2day

reminded me of Nate Burleson TD in Detroit. Catch it on the outside and run it back inside. It was why they scored.

Is not “why can’t we win on the road”?
But can someone tell me “why we can’t score in the 2nd half”?

The Rams will frack with fans emotions all year long – up and down The 2nd half against TB was f’ing dismal. The coaches are morons for not adjusting at halftime.

No points in 2nd half, not even a field goal. F u k!

Lambs are not a team united, The only consistency is inconsistency. Ugly, f’ing ugly.

So, a 3-4 team that could easily be 6-1 had consistency been respected.

$##%!&#))_@(&#%#%#&( – ah, forget about it, not even worth it!

If they established the run….against the worst run D in the league, someone tell me why you’re asking them to go deep?

They should have punded the ball down their throats all day, not gone deep.

AND, WTF with the DB’s – pathetic 1st downs on long pass plays…….

Now I know why being teased as a lambs fan during junior school days!

It is like the comic strip – Born Loser

and compare it with the crowds at our home games, and tell me if he’s still wondering if St. Louis is a viable NFL market. Our home crowds are 10x better than the one today, and we’ve been much worse than the Bucs recently. St. Louis really gets a bad rap as a football market for no good reason.

Tampa tried all day to give us the game, but Shurmer wasn’t takin’. Or trying. Maybe we could just keep him in the locker room until half-time, them tell him that the game just started. Maybe that would get him aggressive.

That was evident when we threw fade after fade to Gibson. He can get open in space, but he sure as hell can’t get separation on fades and go routes.

but fire him? The calls were great in the first half. I hate to say it, but it’s not like this game cost us our shot at a superbowl run – we weren’t going anywhere this year regardless of the outcome. Just need to get this group used to playing with each other and the system.

Defense blowing turnover chances, wasting plays by throwing to Gibson, forcing plays to SJ39, the inability to stop the QB scramble and the inability to get our defense off the field in the 2nd half. A smart coach has to see where this is going and find a way to adapt. I saw zero adaptation by the Rams. In the NFL games are won and lost by halftime adjustments and this coaching staff has shown a deficiency in this area. I put a lot of this on the coaches upstairs; Shummer hasn’t shown me he is capable of the job he has- probably a tad unfair given the lack of talent but it’s the NFL so to hell with being fair. It’s probably time for shake up the staff a little and the offensive coordinator is the weakest link at this point. In reality this shouldn’t surprise anyone because frankly he wasn’t able to get this team to score didely poo last year either. In my mind the only question at this point is who do we bring in and do we wait until the off season.

I mean think about it…. what OC goes into a game and goes…" Oh Boy an 11 point game now I get to call conservative plays!" “woohoo!” OCs all like scoring TDs. With this in mind, I think he is being told to call the game that way and let the Defense protect the lead.

BUT. Tom Brady is playing worse right now lol

The Rams played a lot better than I thought,congrats 2 the bucs,Freeman is a stud.The rams R getting close,next year we will have more weapons,and hope a better coach that wont play scared,stop taking your foot of the pedal.

we need to loose games in order to get AJ green or some other good draft pick

THE DETROIT LIONS LOSS!

that Spags is a defensive-minded coach exclusively and because of that, one of two things is happening. Either he has more or less no input on the offensive side of the ball, which means the OC is making obscene decisions at half time, after calling a nice mix of plays in the first half. That’s sort of unlikely, IMO. So I think we are seeing Spags taking some control of the game, in terms of aggressiveness and that’s backfiring. And if that’s the case, it’s pretty outrageous. This coaching staff needs to take advantage of the tools at it’s disposal. That means utilizing weapons like DX, Fendi & Illinois Mike more. The O line was fine; Bradford did not look sharp but what was he working with? And what was the plan in the second half?

I’m sensing the coaching staff has difficulty making in-game decisions because this Rams team can put points on the board in the first half, when the first 15-20 plays are predetermined. There is a disconnect somewhere and seven games into the second season of this regime, that’s a bit concerning. Any thoughts?

I don’t know how much of it was him, and how much of it was Sam, but I understand the fades. I don’t understand the fades to Gibson, but I understand why he used the fade. Tampa is famous for running the Tampa 2 defense, which, when in zone, leaves a whole right past the corner and right before the safety, which is where a fade route would be run. Unfortunately we ran it with a smaller receiver, and they were in man every time we ran it. Even in man, there is no safety help on that play, so it makes sense to try and exploit it, but it makes even more sense to try and exploit with a receiver who has a huge height advantage over the corner. If Gibson were on Talib, he’d actually be shorter or the same height as the corner, and if he were on Barber, its only a 1 inch difference. So why not exploit a half foot height difference and supreme jumping ability on those fades. Why do we only utilize rookies in their first games? Fendi’s first game, we targeted him several times, Danario’s first game, same thing. What have Fendi and Danario done since their first games? Very little. Perhaps if you keep utilizing them, they might be able to help more. Shurmur seems to have the right idea a lot of the time, but he never does it completely right. He’ll either overuse a play (like the Darby draw last year), under use a play or player (where are these short passes and screens to Jackson?) or he’ll call a play at the wrong time or with the wrong player (last year, 3 straight fades to Gibson and Avery, one on fourth down, this year, fades to Gibson, none to Alexander). There are mismatches on a football field that are not being utilized. I’d say Fendi on a LB, could be a mismatch, and Danrio on a fade with no safety help is a mismatch. Steven Jackson in the open field is a huge mismatch. Why don’t we take advantage of it? Who knows? Also, another over used play, PA naked bootleg to the right, comeback route by Gibson. Run it at least twice every game and it’s only been successful 2 or 3 times. Also, throw the ball deep. The short passing game isn’t open because you never stretch the field past 10 yards, run, run, short pass, run, short pass, short pass, short pass, short-medium pass, 30 yard gain, 25 of them after the catch. You are unbelievably bad Pat Schumur, I hope I don’t see you here next year.