Recap: Rams fight to the end despite a blowout loss

The SF game will eliminate them and the last 1 against the gulls won’t matter.

And I’ll be extremely disappointed in this team. They could have made it much closer, and I’m sure that realization will factor into there remaining 3 games.

I may be in the minority, but I am uncertain about this team’s ability to go into Qwest in January and win a division-deciding game. If that game truly does decide the division winner, that crowd is going to be fired up, the weather is going to be awful, and Seahawks as bad as they are, are halfway decent at home. They’re getting healthier every week too.

just for momentum and confidence.

I don’t want to leave anything to chance and KC at home is a winnable game, regardless of how improved they are, we are at home and will be fighting for playoffs.
It will be tough no doubt, but a win vs them will propel us into a confident state of mind when San Fran come into town, and we should beat them, memories of that awful call hurt bad and we need to stamp some authority on the division.

winning at QWEST will be very tough but I think Sam is determined to overcome his road woes and we will beat them through sheer desire, giving us great momentum in the playoffs at home to most likely the Saints.

then it’s time to pray for health, good luck and some amazing game planning.

to see sam chase down roman harper. I feel like I caught the best part of the game

Shot ourselves in the foot today. We didn’t play like we normally do..,good thing is we might c them again

Rodger Saffold said he missed the block and because of it Bradford couldn’t step through and make a strong throw on that pick 6.

We beat ourselves. They’re not that much better than us.

I like it.

…but is there ANY chance that we were saving something if we have to see them in the playoffs? And I’m (again) beginning to tire of dink and dunk…and our pass rush was terrible! Brees had 5 secs on just about every dropback…no way we can stop them in that scenario.

Tough loss to the SB champs…we’re gonna win out from here though!

You’re gonna use a one game average compared to the league average to verify that we weren’t dinking and dunking? Really? Well then, you’re definitely no genius :) Or you didn’t watch the game…

In the 4th quarter, when the game was over, he was 7-10 with 103 yds. So through the first three QTRs when the game was still “somewhat” competitive, he was 11-22 for 128 yards, which would put him way the hell down at the bottom of the list. There were only a handful of times KING SAM went deep today.

was he being covered well or just not out there?

I hope the Rams pick that up from the Saints. If the other team gets a turnover from you, go right back and do it to them.

Conversely, if you get a turnover or a big play….BE WARY of the other team coming back and doing it to you.

1 against Arizona (Not sure if it was we were at the 20 but we were really close to it)

1 vs Seattle ( Earl Thomas)

1 vs ATL (The shovel pass)

2 vs NO

That’s something that Bradford needs to clean up. Maybe Shurmur can help with the playcalling this season.

And your young QB was really impressive today
He made a few rookie mistakes but we do have the best DB’s in the nfl and we are ranked 3rd in pass defense so i wouldnt be to hard on him
Good luck the rest of the year we will probably see you in the first round of the playoffs because if we tie with Atlanta at 13-3 they have the tie breakers

  I wouldn’t have the poise to put this one in the proper context. So hats off to you. But as it pertains to the team, this one hurts much, much more than the Falcons loss.
  The players got it, whether it was Brandon Gibson or Chris Long as noted above: the Rams took themselves out of this one. And whereas in seasons past, recognizing that was the issue, the question is how to overcome that. It certainly isn’t something I feel confident that this coaching staff can combat, whether by ability or experience. And it’s not something we have the depth to be able to deal with by rotating starters out for backups whose motivation and dedication may allow them to make plays where more talented, yes lesser focused, superiors cannot.
  In the end, this one hurts because it reminded me how much more we need to grow, and specifically how well we need to draft, to make the 2011 Rams SB contenders. I know it’s possible, but I’m less optimistic that it’s likely after today.

We can talk about momentum, or a few plays etc etc, but bottom line, we got beat today by the defending super bowl champions, and a team that is most likely destined to represent the NFC once again this year in the super bowl against the Pats (most likely).

We got beat by an outstanding football team (not just good, but outstanding) on their home turf, in our THIRD road game in a ROW (a rare occurrence I might ad) with a rookie quarterback who has no real targets to speak of due to injury and lack of talent. Period. End of story.

I know it sucks, we lost, but there is no shame in this loss, only satisfaction in knowing we’ve improved, and also knowing where we stand.

Barring the lock out, one more draft and our team is going to get a WHOLE lot better, not just a little.

Let’s just suck it up, win our next two HOME games, and wrap this puppy up so we can at least host a playoff game and get our young players some valuable playoff experience.

That’s reality, and it’s not really a bad reality either.

We r better than that, next wk will come fast, let’s focus on Kc

I was actually hoping we could finish off the first half conservatively by handing the ball to Jackson a couple of more times when we got in the red zone down 14-6. I figured if we could have ate up the clock and settled for the field goal we could have gone into the locker only down 14-9 and feeling good about ourselves after being down 14-0. Especially knowing that we were getting the ball to start the second half. Bradford throwing that ball in the flat for the pick six was the huge momentum changer that basically put the nail in our coffin.

I didn’t think the Saints defense was Super Bowl caliber, our fumbles and interceptions were just ill timed. We should have protected the ball a little better especially since we forced two turnovers ourselves in the first half.