Ramdom Ramsdom 10/5: At least we won't lose Sunday

by Brick Top on Oct 5, 2011 9:44 AM CDT

Well at least the Rams can't lose this week has been the general consensus over the last few days. I agree the Rams can't lose but they certainly can still "win". They can take this bye week to get back to basics and start playing better football. This is a crucial week for everyone in the Rams organization from the coaches to the players. Let's get to the links.

Stock Watch- In Mike Sando's weekly NFC West stock watch he listed anyone who wears horns as falling. It's hard to argue with him on that. The team has been one of the worst disappointments in the NFL. It's not that they just haven't won a game, it that they get hammered every game. If the Rams were a stock there would be a fire sale right now.

Amendola loss hurting- Roger Hensley of stltoday.com (holy crap!! Some one not named Jim Thomas writes about the Rams for them!) had a nice questionnaire with other writers of stltoday.com (oh wait Jim Thomas is in it) with one question had bad is the Danny Amendola injury. The consensus is that with Bradford loosing his go to guy third downs have become a nightmare for the Rams. We get blitzed and to me it seems that Bradford doesn't trust the hot read, who was always Danny. The bad news is Danny might get surgery and be out for a long time, perhaps the whole season.

SJax gets peppy- Jim Thomas had a great article about that pep talk Steven Jackson gave to the team in practice yesterday. So what did he say? No one knows since Jackson declined comment but here's what Spags had to say.

"Just some determination," Spagnuolo said. "Some will to succeed, some drive for excellence. Just some key points and we appreciate that. I'm sure the guys on defense were doing the same thing. (Defensive captain) James Hall and I talked this morning. They get it. These guys are warriors. They've been through this and we've just got to fight our way out of it."

By the way, Douglas M is the man. His articles are alway great, but these last two, here's one and here's two, have been incredibly great, and there are still 3 more to go!! I can only dream I can write as well as Doug some day. We are all so happy to have you here on TST Doug.

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Were Caddy and Norwood backup plans, moreso than just backups?

Caddy barely touched the ball, and I know his touches were limited due to the hamstring injury, but I don’t know that Norwood saw the field. Those pickups sounded great when we made them. I wonder if we’ve got a plan for them outside of ’Steven’s hurt……..get in there and make a miracle happen,’ because they’re essentially non-existent when he’s healthy.

Norwood, we’ve discussed, could play a part on special teams, but it’s as if Spags has a Rex Ryan-like foot fetish kinda thing for seeing Pettis get KO’d

by DCRamFan on Oct 5, 2011 10:27 AM CDT reply actions

Yeah seeing Pettis getting killed out there was tough

Two times I thought the man would be out for 4-6 weeks minimum. He definitely proved he’s tough and not afraid to take a hit, but for fuck’s sake call a fair catch once in a while.

It's put up or shut up time for these WR's. Someone's going to have to perform or else they'll all be hitting the street. ESPECIALLY YOU ALEXANDER

by ramswo85 on Oct 5, 2011 10:49 AM CDT up reply actions

Getting back to basics.

i don’t know about you, but i’am really getting tired of hearing one day at a time and getting back to basics. aren’t they supposed to be doing that anyways, lets see running, passing, blocking, tackleling,covering wrs, kicking and coaching oh yeah also working on not getting penalties. lets have a wonderful 2 weeks of PRACTICE gets some fire under those uniforms, start a fight or two pull somebodies helmet off, have a big scrum. gess coach get pissed off and show it and don’t feel bad that you hurt their feelings. big boys now, if they don’t get it take them behind the wood shed. have faith my friends.

by crazy mike on Oct 5, 2011 12:25 PM CDT reply actions