Rams season hinges on game versus Washington, again

  We ran a solid amount of blitzes in week 1, and disguised them relatively well. We backed off last week, and played more coverage. It worked against Jason Campbell, but not Gradkowski. I don’t see how we don’t go back to something closer to the week 1 gameplan this week with Donovan at the helm.

Clayton was covered mano-a-mano by Nnamdi Asomugha (probably the 2nd or 3rd best CB in the world) and Clayton was giving up 4 inches and 20 pounds in that match-up. Bradford and Clayton still managed to make the most of their very limited opportunities and with the 2 hookups for TD’s.

So does Washington have someone (or ones) that can shut the Rams duo down? Matt Shaub just ripped the skins for … are you ready?…..497 freaking yards. The Texans had 4 Receivers over 50 yards, and 2 of them went over 140.

Now I’m not saying the Rams offense is the Texans, and Clayton is not Andre Johnson of course, but damn, we’re talking nearly 500 yards the Skins gave up though the air. 2 guys with double digit receptions and a combined 300 receiving yards? That’s pretty heavy damage. That Redskins D has been exposed in a very serious way.

I think Bradford and Clayton will light it up this week, with the one big IF — the same if we have every week apparently — if the O-line can give him time. Hopefully the coaching staff can work around the loss of TE’s and get Amendola more catches than the running back…..

McNabb to Cooley has to be covered, and I think last week’s work against Mc Fadden was good prep for this week’s Portis matchup. Skins are only a 3 1/2 point favorite at home. If the Rams can stay mentally strong, I believe they can upset.

Broken Fibula.

did not get to ply much.

the way they lost too!

Can we try something new? There no way the dink n dunk will bring a win. Let’s give the what they absolutely will not be prepared for. A 3 & 4 WR set with Onobun at TE & WR. What have got to lose? If we can have success with mid and long range passing then they would have to abandon the slam Sam 8 in the box. I think San can do it, do you? What else we gonna do? Keep try what keeps failing?

If we are gonna have 3 and outs, and we will, let them be 3 long bombs and out.

by one mili-second

Another year, two, three??? We’re in probably, what is the worst division in the NFL so you would think things would look better than what they are. But. no… we are still at the bottom of this division, albeit we share the cellar with the 49ers.

How long will it be before we get a ‘true’ #1 WR? Next year, or the next? It’s really hard to stick by these Rams. I just hope once we do become a playoff contender we will be there for quite a while.

Go Rams! (haven’t given up on them so far)

If your best shot is 14 points and a loss to oakland, you better take a trip to nepal and meditate with those monks that wrap themselves in scalding hot towels! LOL!

I hope that Shurmur realizes that he needs to mix it up on offense, do a lot of short stuff, medium stuff, and a bit of long stuff to keep the defense stretched out. Otherwise, they can condense when all you do is play around at the line of scrimmage. If Shurmur mixes things up, Jackson will get going, Bradford will get going if he has protection, and the offense will click. We have the players to be more effective than just 13.5 points a game on offense.

Execution needs to be better too, especially on the offensive line. We need Jason Smith to have a nice bounceback game against Washington, and Saffold needs to play well. Brown was fine last week, but neither Bell or Goldberg played well. That needs to change. Playing against the 3-4 that Washington employs, I’m worried about how the line responds.

The receivers played an underrated secondary against Oakland last week, and it’s not getting any easier against the ‘Skins. Last week, the Raiders played a bunch of press coverage because they knew we weren’t going deep. If the playcalling improves, the receivers might still be able to separation, but they definitely need to get better.

On defense, we should dress Bartell, Fletcher, Murphy, King at cornerback. We’ve only been going with three lately, and we are screwed if we lose somebody. We need to dress four. The secondary has a tough test, but they are good enough to succeed. I worry about the linebackers, who will have to cover Chris Cooley at tight end. We need Grant and Diggs to step up their play, and Animal Jr. needs to continue to be a beast. The Redskins don’t have an exceptional offensive line, so the defensive line needs to get good penetration to stop the running game. Hopefully our blitzes work well enough to rattle the offense, but they have a lot of veterans, especially McNabb, that might mean the blitz doesn’t work well.

We don’t need to play a perfect game, but we are going to need to play damn well if we want to have a chance at the upset.

“As Fans we want the Rams to win every game” OFCOURSE WE DO! But let’s put this season into perspective. O.K., 0-2 is not a good start, but can you say this year is much better than last year at this time. This team can’t be measured by it’s record! It has to be with the product we’ve seen so far. This is a very young team and it shows on the field.
As pretty much a life long fan, I have seen the cycles that teams go though. We’re not there, yet! I’m preaching patence to the newer fans who didn’t see those losing years in the last few decades only to return to the playoffs and finally a Superbowl win.
Experience, a full year of progress, a good 2011 draft and a few good free agent signings will have the Rams in the playoff hunt by week 12 in 2011.

Nah, I’d never GIVE UP on my Rams but i feel I may THROW-UP.

EVERY GAME OM YOUR SCHEDULE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME. I know we have a lot of pieces in place and some not, but I think this should carry over. I don’t feel like we are playing with ALL of the fervor that we need to. The defense is playing good, but the offense has to get to the point where its felt, its grabbed ahold of, and shaken like a rag doll. It’s just not there yet.

Bum, leg.