The Quick Five: Week 2
by Eric Nagel on Sep 19, 2010 6:13 PM CDT
in 2010 St. Louis Rams season
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Started off good, then got ugly. Here are five up's and downs for this week:
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Bradley Fletcher, CB Looked good in coverage. So well that they'd leave him alone, even in the red zone. The coaching staff definitely believes in his ability. |
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Pat Shurmur, OC Seriously dude, you just need to go. When the offense can't get a first down on first and five, you've got a serious problem. Why go for Vincent Jackson when you'd only throw two yard slants to him anyway. |
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The Rams Team This is the second game you should have won. 2-0. Do you have any idea what that would do for the team, let alone the fanbase? This team needs to get it's shit together QUICK or bad things or going to happen across the board. Kroenke isn't the type of owner who is going to sit around and wait. |
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Josh Brown, K This is why you don't miss chip shot field goals. If he would have made it, the Rams probably would have won the game. |
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Mark Clayton, WR Whenever you score 2 touchdowns, you get a green arrow. |
Tough day for fans.
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Things we learned.
Smith and Saffold have a lot room for improvement. A lot of good, but a lot of bad. Bradford was okay when he had time. Josh Brown still is still mediocre, and the ref called a bunch of bs personal fouls because we tackled too hard. The on on Dahl was bull, the two roughing the passers were bull, and the Raiders suffered too when they got called for tackling Amendola too hard.
This team will get better. The pass rush looked pretty good, but we need to give some time for Fletcher and Murphy to develop. They have a lot of upside. The safeties played well, the linebackers played well for the most part.
The offensive line should get better as Smith and Saffold gain experience. Jackson was great when he had blocks. Clayton is really good, Amendola played well, but the other receivers need a lot of work. Shurmur was really stupid again, but it’s hard when the o-line can’t do anything.
We really should have won, but we have a couple home games up next where we can win at least one.
Soooo painful!
Defense gets a green arrow. This is the second game now where they have been on the field for a long time and kept the rams in the game.
I'm taking the night off
This one hurts. See you guys tomorrow
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
I already started
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi
i would have been cheering the same way
if grant had put that hit on Mcfadden in the fourth, at least then we could have deserved the penalty
when he needed to?
Do you even know what you are saying?
Sam Bradford drops back, sees Laurent Robinson in the open, and he completes the pass for a gain of 28! Oh- Wait, looks like a holding penalty is going to call this one back...(Oh wait; Barron's gone, ignore that last sentence).
+1
he needs to move the ball on 1st and 5.
i have my money on sam calling those plays when we got the TD drive. or even spags. he knows an offensive game better than that dickwad
Bradford to Onobun!
Another disappointing loss
Does Shurmer even watch the game he’s coordinating?
I think Bradford has forgotten how to throw deep accurately. It has been so long and few between.
Ultimately, the Raiders...
Made adjustments to Gradkowski (who I thought was a pretty good quarterback last year) and went all in on stuffing the run.
The rams chose not to counter and wished for a miracle or something until the last 5 minutes of the game when they let sam throw the football down field a bit after the interception. But it was too late by that point, the defense was way to gassed to get the critical stop needed to get the ball back for the second score.
If the Rams cant run the ball, they are sunk. If Jackson gets in a jam, then the Rams must throw the ball down field to back off the secondary. This is what happened in the Cardinal game.
Other arrows
Up:
Renardo Foster – Came in and manned the left side with pride after Saffold was benched. He did a really good job of protecting Sam’s blind side.
Murphy – Showed a lot of promise in limited action. He is a much better option to play CB than Butler (please for the love of god, don’t put this guy in man to man coverage, just deep in a double/triple team).
Down:
Rams team maturty – Between penalties and Robbins’ late hit these guys are just too young. When the veteran on defense cannot lead by example, maturity is going to be very problematic.
Conditioning – The Rams brought the pressure early and often. After the 2nd half, there was little to get excited about. Yes the D was on the field for a long time, but after last season, Flajole and the conditioning coaches need to understand that without good guards on the O-Line and a true #1 WR, and having asshole Shurmur calling plays, these guys are going to be on the field for a long time.
by 81 Witness on Sep 20, 2010 11:41 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
hey i didn't notice foster come in
please elaborate because i have been curious about this guy…. he is a big sob… but that’s all I know
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