Recap: Rams hang on for their first road win, NFC West lead

It was nice to see Danario dominate today, and I loved watching Hoomanawanui outrun the Bronco defense to the endzone. Also, congratulations to Billy Bajema for his first and second career touchdowns today.

I also liked to see the renewed (for one game) committment to the run. No matter how bad it was today. DX was awesome today and Mr. Robinson also showed up somewhat today, which was also a welcomed surprise.

He can’t block anyone on the run, but neither can Bell or Brown. The interior is just playing like garbage right now. They not only can’t get a push, they can’t stop the d-line from pushing them 2 yards back on run plays.

the conservative play calling early in the 4th was tough to watch. But those runs at the very end of the game….I’m sorry if we can’t pick those yards up with SJax, do we really deserve to win? The clock must roll. That is an absolute must. I mean where was the run blocking? When everyone in the world knew SJax was getting the ball at the end of the game against San Diego, it didn’t matter and he kept reeling off huge runs. The Denver Run D is atrocious. How do we go 3 and out twice there at the end?

The D continues it’s shocking ability to lay down when the opponent goes into a hurry up. I’m surprised all teams don’t run the hurry up against the Rams D. I do like that Flajole did not sit back and did blitz (somewhat), but the secondary gets exposed again. I mean these weren’t double moves. It was just snap-run past the corner- pitch n’ catch. It’s almost as if the corners weren’t there, and the safeties had trouble providing support over the top.

Random Question (don’t know if this has been discussed on game day threads): whenever Sam is at the line, and he audibles to his receivers by touching the side of his head with his hands, almost like a cupping motion, it’s always a run to SJax. I’m just seeing things, right?

Karney was on the bench because he was benched. He is part of the problem with the run blocking.

now we know we can win on the road. Let’s go to the playoffs!!!!

they did keep Bradford from being sacked or even pressured.

And much of the problem with the running game is that the Rams running game is almost completely one dimensional. They know exactly what they are going against every time they see a running formation.

When they run out of a passing formation, Jackson does a lot better. Why? Because the line magically blocks better? No, the defense doesn’t know what is going to happen.

And heck, do the Rams even have a fullback?

He jumped ridiculously high in the air and the ball just graised his fingertips before Lloyd made a miraculous catch.

Perfect throws and perfect catches sometimes beat good coverage.

If the near implosion gets pinned on Shurmur, I’m going to be very disappointed. 100% of the coaches in this league would try to run out the clock with a 20 pt lead in the 14th quarter. Even with all the huge plays for the Broncos offense, the game would have been locked up had we just gotten a first down. It’s not like we needed to move the ball all over the place, we just needed to get 1 damn first down. I don’t care what plays are being called, if the offense can’t get a single first down to win the game then that has to be on the players, and it’s a perfect example of why we were winless on the road up until today. We can’t just stop running the ball in the 4th quarter, it is imperative that we improve in that area if we are in big trouble. The play calling was fine, either the execution or the personnel needs to change. We definitely need a guard and fullback next year to fix this problem.

I feel like Shurmur can’t win. Last week he didn’t run with SJax enough, against one of the best run defenses in the NFL. Now he stuck with him too long against one of the worst. Lets not be too results oriented guys, the logic behind the play calling is solid.

And lets be more positive, WE WON ON THE ROAD AND YOU CAN BARELY TELL BY THE COMMENTS HERE.

I’m glad we won. Now all we need is a niners loss and the week will be a complete success.

We almost got you, but when you give up that many points, not much an offense can do. Good game, a tight finish for sure. Bradford looked great though.