Fun with numbers: Key stats from the Rams week 1 loss
by Ryan Van Bibber on Sep 14, 2010 3:56 PM CDT
in 2010 St. Louis Rams season
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Setting aside moral victories, I came across a few interesting things in the game book from the St. Louis Rams tight loss to the Cardinals this week. Let's have a little fun with numbers.
An inspired performance from the defensive line highlighted the defensive performance. Cardinals quarterback Dereck Anderson was hit 9 times. Rams DE Chris Long had three of those hits. Last season Long emerged for the Rams, showing a real ability for getting to opposing QBs. Long could really be in for a breakout year in 2010.
James Hall and Fred Robbins each had a hit on the QB. Defensive line play will be key again this week as the Rams take on a Raiders team that allowed 4 first half sacks against the Titans.
Last season the Rams had a total third down conversion rate of 32 percent. Last week, the Rams converted 40 percent of their third downs. Of the Rams ten longest plays, three of them came on third downs with 10 or more yards to go. They converted 3 of 8 fourth quarter third downs.
For all the praise Sam Bradford has earned for his chairmanship of the two-minute offense for the Rams. Derek Anderson had his most successful run of the day late in the game, completing 9 of his last 11 passes for 154 yards and 1 TD. That also coincided with the Rams missing two of the four cornerbacks dressed that day, forcing them to use S James Butler in the nickel package.
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Having to use Butler shows that when it comes to depth we are sucking wind
And considering this is the first game I would have to say we are in deep trouble already any injury to the starting line up leaves us with out back ups that just cant do the job and that was evident in preseason No depth with kill us this year
Rams sign Johnson, Release Cudjo
Hopefully Johnson is the inactive TE, and Fendi’s active. Although I don’t know that will be the case since they probably want blocking out of their TEs more.
Shurmur, your career is in 3rd and long. Don't run a draw.
Onobun > Gates
i don't know anything about Johnson
: ( on the cudjo thing though… I thought he had alot of potential for growth…. but I guess growth wont win us any games this year so I might as well get used to these sad cuts
Someone enlighten me
Why didn’t we ad Onobun and send Cudjo to the practice squad?
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi
Onobun has been on the roster since final cuts
We re-signed Darcy Johnson and released Cudjo, I’m not sure if he’s on the PS or not, seems like a good candidate.
Shurmur, your career is in 3rd and long. Don't run a draw.
Onobun > Gates
Yes I knew Onobun was, but it sounds like
Johnson will be active correct? Why sign a TE when we are loaded there already.. didn’t make sense to me.. I know uh-oh is hurt but Fells, Bajema and Onobun I would think would suffice. Releasing Cudjo sounded like a mistake to me.
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi
that's not even the most interesting thing to me about our moves we made today
We added two players to our practice squad today, fullback Brit Miller and fullback/te Jamie McCoy. Now in order to do that we cut Allen Patrick (He lasted 8 days?) and BRANDON MCRAE. Now this can only mean one of two things. Either Mcrae got some major attitude all of a sudden OR danario alexander was a better option to keep. That at least means his atrophy is coming along and they think he can possibly get healthy. It could point to even more since Mcrae had been with us all through OTA and training camp and has had much more time with the playbook and supposedly was impressive in many ways but needed time. I’m not saying that means DA is going to be suiting up in the next couple of weeks but with as many injuries we showed to the WR line in the first game I found the move curious and somewhat telling of their feelings about Danario’s potential.
To me, playing marbles is complicated
This post puts me in a fog, since I don’t know these players. I’m still working on another post that a guy said here that our #1 WR (Clayton) was really a #4 WR, (wimpy reciever?) and might become at best a #2. How is it that that Fritz guy is a golden #1 when our wimpy #4 did better than him last sunday? Cheez, I wish I was old enough to have a beer. I needed one at game time Sunday when a bunch of old crypt geesers showed up with Blue hair and faces and yellow horns painted on their heads. Ha! I thought there were weird guys at school, but that was spooky. They wanted to use grandpa’s Ram Room with the big screen.
hey be happy the wierd old geezers showed up
I’ll take die hard fans of any age wierd or not as long as they show up and put butts in seats…lol….I heard the stadium was pretty loud though
oh ps.... Fitz is a stud who is just coming off injury
Our guys did do better than him buy he is about 70% percent right now and couldn’t get his cuts down yet because of the knee. If you watch him at 100% you would see why they are saying he is a real #1. He’s amazing. I don’t agree that clayton is a #4 though. He caught 10 passes for 119 yards. On our team, that makes him number one until they show me someone who can do better.
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