AmpLified Game Balls and Lame Balls
by AmpLee on Sep 26, 2010 8:22 PM CDT
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GAME BALLS
King Sam: What can you say? The dude is a natural talent, leader, and player. That fake tuck and run, then dink to Fells was so sweet and quick the announcers missed the beautiful nuances of it. The team believes in him. The fans believe in him. The NFL coaching fraternity of analysts already believe in him. Besides a couple grounders to get the yips out, Sam was putting the rock everywhere the DBs weren't. That quick strike to Baby Danny looked like some shit out of arena football where the WR has a running lead. How freaking exciting is it to have King Sam the Ram?!
Animal Jr: Quintessential "I'm here muthaf*&^%#s!" game. I can remember only a handful of plays where he wasn't the last dude getting up off of a tackled player. A beast. A beautiful, violent beast. The Young General on D.
The DB's : They made some nice plays for takeaways and the coverage was pretty damn good. A very young group that's only going to get better. Mr. Bartell, you are playing your ass off this year. Just make that ball stick to those gloves, playa. Your man to man coverage has been sick. Please stay healthy. You are very good healthy.
The Coaching Staff: Ladies and Gentlemen, adjustments, an attacking attitude, and very little boneheaded bullcrap! The guys on the field really do listen to you!
LAME BALLS
Special teams: Figure it out now. No more excuses. Cut the bullshit. We'd be 3-0 if you guys were simply average.
Brandon Gibson: Nice showing after the PD article of you and Mardy wanting more playing time. Well, I guess the coaches were seeing the first few weeks in practice what we saw today. Drops. Lots of them. You better thank God King Sam is your QB. After your first 4 drops, any veteran QB would have had your ass crying in the huddle. Saw the tweet, make it right next week.
Jason Smith: The number 2 overall doesn't need to be going number two over all of our drives. C'mon, Jason... it's big boy time now. You look a little timid out there sometimes. I don't get it. We believe in you. Believe in yourself now and go apeshit on those DLs.
The Officiating Crew: That wasn't a hold on Fendi? Really? How come my wife who hates football and knows nothing about it walked by on that play and asked me, without any care or prompting, "Do the guys that tackle get to hold onto the guys that catch so they can't catch the ball before its thrown to tackle them ?" That about says it all. And, oh, by the way, Cooley fumbled the damn ball.
Give me your Game Balls and Lame Balls and let's just swim around in this like pigs in slop for the next 6 days.
GO RAMS!
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Excellent post and I agree with everything you said
Only thing I would add would be a game ball to darby for really stepping up and filling in nicely for Sjax.
Gibson
I actually really liked the way Gibson played today. Obviously he did have some drops which are inexcusable, however he plays with toughness and quickness that I just do not see out of Laurent Robinson. I want to see more of Gibson and definitely believe he will get better as time progresses.
I'm hoping it was just nerves.
The kid hasn’t gotten a sniff of the field, and he has to be feeling that the coaching staff doesn’t have confidence in him. I’m hoping the early drops were due to trying to do to much to prove himself. I was a fan of the kid last year, and he sure seems to find holes the other receivers aren’t. He’s a big body and very athletic. It isn’t unheard of for a young receiver to have trouble catching balls. I remember a young Torry Holt having the same issue. Let’s just hope he can get it figured out cuz it certainly doesn’t look like there is anything outside to look for in terms of help at that position. He sure found his way to the ball more than we’ve seen from Robinson this year.
i agree with both of you
Gibson has to catch the freaking balls and not drop them… but what I did see is that he has a knack for getting open and a nack for getting seperation… two things we were in great need of… I really hope he can put it all together because I actually am getting to where I like the kid… and I liked his attitude after this game… no bs … called himself out and promised to do better
I had a post the other day about how receivers
practice whenever someone throws them the ball. They have to snatch and tuck it in one motion every time. I watched the Rams receivers today and most of them in warmups just catch the ball and stand there admiring it instead of tucking it. Some of Gibson’s drops today were because of that. He has got to learn to instantly tuck that ball. But you are right, he sure does know how to get open.
Yeah that was kind of a mixed bag..
… He came up huge and got wide open quite a few times..that is all good and I hope he can continue to do that.
On the flip side it is obvious that he cant catch the ball when covered. Anytime the DBs were near him while catching the ball, he would drop it.
How about Spags getting some balls
and going for it on 4th down.. not once, but TWICE.. and converting.
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi
3 More:
Game Ball:
Mark Clayton – Cant say enough about this guy and how much he brings to our offense. Another great day for Mark.
Kenneth Darby – Obviously he is no SJax but this was better than I have EVER seen him play. Period.
Lame Balls:
Darcy Johnson: Why is he on our roster?…Oh thats right to give us those unnecessary penalties
by Jigzsaw on Sep 26, 2010 9:37 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
I thought after the preseason he would be a non-factor.
I’m sure Johnson is only here because of the decimation of the TE position, but I hope that Fendi’s good day buries Johnson. I’m sure Fendi still needs to learn some blocking, but he definitely looked good catching the ball. His athleticism is scary.
first of all, on the officiating
cooley really didnt fumble the ball, i wish he did, but i really didnt think so.
also i think the entire offensive line should have had a holding call when mcnabb ran for the 29 yard gain. no way the entire defensive line is taken out of the play so suddenly after dominating the snap.
also little general is a good nickname for animal jr.
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I respectfully disagree with you on the Cooley fumble.
I thought it was pretty evident on the replay that he had lost control of the football on the way to the ground. It hadn’t come all the way out, but it was certainly bouncing around between his chest and his arm. I’m not exactly crystal clear on the rule, but I’m pretty sure that it’s considered a fumble from the point he starts losing control of the ball if he doesn’t regain control. Cooley never regained control of the ball from the time it started bouncing around, so I believe it was a fumble. Clearly the referees believed differently, though. :-)
I think it WAS a fu7mble
What was not conclusive to me was the rtesultant recovery being by the Rams. The whistle blew before recovery was secured. Just my opinion, but the call had to stand there.
+1
i thought it showed it was a fumble but not good enough footage to make it absolutely conclusive which is what the rules state it had to be.
Yep. When they say the call "stands"
that just means there wasn’t enough conclusive evidence to overturn it. If they had called it a fumble, that would have also been allowed to stand. It just wasn’t clear enough one way or the other.
bartell has ALWAYS been a good cover corner
he could just never stay on the damn field. the rams secondary is twice as good with his ass on the opposing teams’ #1 receiver.
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by stlcardinalsfang on Sep 27, 2010 12:11 AM CDT reply actions
White Chocolate
Amendola was making big plays through the whole game, he deserves a game ball for sure.
I never saw a guy get knocked around so hard so often
and just keep bouncing up. He got knocked abolutely head over heels in a 360 degree flip on his one kickoff return, but it didn’t seem to bother him. He took another hard hit after catching a pass, but he keeps bouncing back up. I wonder if we can transplant some of his “stay healthy” genes to the rest of the team?
I was just looking at the league stats.
Do you guys realize in points allowed we are 5th best in the NFC and 10th best in the entire NFL? It’s hard to imagine the Rams in the top third of the league in an important defensive stat like points allowed. And it’s been consistent – 17, 16, 16 the three games. I know we haven’t played any of the powerhouses of the league yet, but I’m impressed.
there's your fantasy defense!
I think I’ll pick them up. Haven’t played (won’t play) powerhouses sure helps.
by CoachConnors on Sep 27, 2010 6:50 PM CDT up reply actions
We're tied second in the league
with four 4th down conversions and second at 80% conversion rate. Out of the teams ahead of us, only one of them have attempted it more than once and that is the Bengals, who are 5 for 5. We also forced the most fumbles with 7 =D HIT EM HARD BOYS! My game ball goes to the o-line. Sure, Jason had those 2 holding calls, but he played well.
I hate Pat Shurmur.
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