Monday Night Football Photo Gallery: Giants Make Key Plays, Rams Cannot
by Ryan Van Bibber on Sep 20, 2011 8:38 AM CDT
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PIck your poison in the St. Louis Rams Monday Night Football loss to the New York Giants. They turned the ball over. They made dumb penalties. They blew assignments. And once again, receivers failed to hang onto passes that would have made a significant change in the outcome of the game.
Contrast that with the Giants. For much of the game, certainly the first half, the Giants played terrible football. Eli Manning completed 2 out of 12 pass attempts, until his final drive of the first half. On that drive, he nailed all six of his attempts, including a 31-yard and a 22-yard pass, to take the Giants to into the end zone. On the final play of that drive, Domenik Hixon made a bobbling catch in the end zone to give the Giants a 21-6 lead.
A fifteen point differential is an insurmountable lead for the Rams these days. In fact, they've topped 15 points just three times in their last seven games.
Hixon's catch offers a very good contrast between the Giants and the Rams. Rams receivers failed to catch far easier passes. The St. Louis receivers came up short when it mattered in the red zone. The Giants receivers did not, and it's not as though Domenik Hixon is one of those "number one" receivers we keep pointing to as some kind of magic elixir for the Rams' troubles. Though the 300+ yards of passing were nice, the Rams offense failed to execute when it mattered.
The Giants, for as much as they stunk during the game, made the plays when they needed to make them. It's as simple as that.
Spagnuolo and his team need to dig deep, ask themselves if they are in fact capable of making important catches, staying the right gap, or not drawing a flag when they can least afford it. Right now, going all the way back to last season, it looks as though they cannot.
If you can stomach it, plenty of great photos from last night's game. Just click on the image above.
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of all pic's to post mr. van and it had to be the one that pissed me off to near homicidal thoughts!
that right there, dahl stood there, in awe, like he was saying…“WOW!…look at him juggle that ball around….(chuckle)…heh, pretty cool!….oh wait”….touchdown! uuuugh!
it's a damn good photo
and a painful moment to relive
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by 3k on Sep 20, 2011 9:18 AM CDT up reply actions
This
Hixon’s catch offers a very good contrast between the Giants and the Rams. Rams receivers failed to catch far easier passes.
Rams pass catchers are failing to make basic plays. Not “holy shit wow” plays, just fundamental, “catch the ball in bounds” plays. It’s just embarrassing when you contrast the receiver play between the Rams and any other team I’ve seen this year. Williams letting the ball go through his hands, Salas…..Salasing a few more would be catches etc…….maddening.
That is, other than DX. I’m pretty sure they should go ahead and let him play as long as he can step on the field, k? They got Mythical TST #1 Receiver® play out of him last night.
Not afraid to nitpick
Yeah
He is supremely talented. I am just holding out for when we have him, MSW, Clayton, and Amendola with SJax in the backfield
by King Sam Rules! on Sep 20, 2011 9:04 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Bad Day
The wheels are about to come off of the wagon. This Ram team is very, very, Bad. How bad is pettis if mr. cement hands,(Salas) beat him out.
Why CAN'T we stay healthy?
Is their some freakish germ? Also, who decided on Salad(s) as opposed to Pettis to activated? Did that come from upstairs. I am not even gonna get into Kick off returns from a one week old rookie.. Who makes this stuff up? Would someone tell me if we are in the rebuilding stage still? I could swear last year we had the offensive rookie of the year and not a owner in sight? Are not we done with this and time to move up?
Salas got the nod because Pettis can't replicate Amendola's role
Amendola and Salas play similar styles, though Salas is a bit slower and is better at intermediate depth. If we go with Pettis over Salas while Amendola’s out, there isn’t really a short slot role on the offense (save for some H back options).
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by 3k on Sep 20, 2011 9:19 AM CDT up reply actions
Salas can't replicate Amendola's role either.
Largely because Amendola’s role involves catching the damn ball.
(Yes, I am bitter and disillusioned, why do you ask?)
Yeah, why can't those D backs learn
to avoid getting flagged for allowing the receiver to grab them by the jersey.
PFT's on it
so hopefully we’ll see something from the league today
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by 3k on Sep 20, 2011 9:20 AM CDT up reply actions
Who wants to see about Jeff Fisher
And keep McD on offense
by King Sam Rules! on Sep 20, 2011 9:05 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
One thing I wanted to mention about the Hixon play.
Those are the types of plays quarterbacls need to bail them out. For the first time in a very long time a Ram receiver bailed Bradford out. DX was fantastic last night making big time plays that lead to momentum turning drives, we didn’t finish them but finally a player made a play to help out.
A great example of this is watch the Lions. Calvin Johnson bails out Stafford almost routinely, Andre Johnson bails out Schuab, Steve Smith bailed out Cam Newton, Larry Fitzgerald bails out Kolb, so on and so on. Thats the issue here. It’s not just because we need a #1, it’s because those #1’s can bail out their QB. Make a play when no one else can, turn the tide in favor of the offense. Watch the Nicks TD last night. Eli threw a terrible ball behind and low yet Nicks made a fantastic grab and bailed out Eli. We don’t have that, or at least until last night not on a regular basis. That’s what’s so frustrating.
maybe bradford is too accurate
hitting guys on the numbers in practice makes them mentally lazy perhaps. just throw it to where they have to dive to catch it or really bust their butt to get to it. getting used to catching that way will only help in the long run.
We spotted them 2 scores ....
do the math, if we hadn’t allowed 14 points … We only lost by 12, we win!
Go RAMs !!!
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