Official Rams@Cardinals Celebration Thread

[dieterbrock]

Gurley passes up his 1st career td to ensure a win. Awesome

 

[tavian]

Nick Foles, Todd Gurley, Tavon Austin....

:grouphug:

Baily needs a hug too.I think we're seeing our future O starting to be born

 

[Prime Time]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/10/04/rams-ride-defense-and-todd-gurley-to-win-at-arizona/

Rams ride defense and Todd Gurley to win at Arizona
Posted by Darin Gantt on October 4, 2015

The Rams already had a great defense, and some good running backs.

But now they have an available quarterback and a potential star in Todd Gurley, and things might be different.

The Rams were able to keep the Cardinals offense in check, and had enough of their own for a change, beating Arizona 24-22 on the road.

Gurley had 146 yards on 19 carries, and showed presence of mind staying in bounds to keep the clock rolling as he was salting away the game.

But the story was the Rams defense, which has played well in the past but seemed to be at a different gear Sunday as they improved to 2-2.

The Cardinals were averaging 42.0 points per game in winning their first three, but didn’t approach that. The Rams sacked Carson Palmer four times and picked him off once, keeping him off balance throughout the day.

In addition to three lost Cardinals fumbles, they routinely stalled in the red zone, settling for field goals too many times, with three of them from inside 30 yards (i.e. shorter than extra points). They didn’t find the end zone until the fourth quarter, by which point the Rams had built enough of a lead.
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Jeff Fisher should just tell his players that every game is against a division rival.
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I guess the Rams schemes were not so simple as the 49ers.
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Well, if no one else will say it, I will. I was wrong that running backs were no longer worth a First Round Pick.
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Arizona beat the awful Saints, Bears and 49’ers and the analysts @ ESPN and NFL Network already had them in Super Bowl 50. Great Job guys!
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Starting to understand why Rams drafted Todd Gurley. Dudes a beast.
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Tip of the hat to the Rams as they brought it today. That defense is the real deal.

Football is all about the little things; David Johnson’s fumble (and dropped TD pass) were the difference. Add on Fitz’s fumble and the incredible “forward progress” call negating a clear Ram fumble and that’s how a football team loses at home.

Again, all credit to the Rams. As for the Cardinals, time to work on the small stuff.

 

[WestCoastRam]

Couple things:

- Gotta watch the game again but there were one or two running plays where it looked like Gurley helped out the oline by cutting back at the right time when the hole wasn't there.

- Second half-adjustments! Broadcasters mentioned that we went to having Harkey in the backfield quite a bit more in the 2nd half. I'd like to see more of that.

- Foles bounced back. To see a Rams QB look crappy but come back and make some great throws was impressive. Foles gets rightly criticized for making some inaccurate throws but he had some good ones in there, sad that Britt couldn't hold on to that third down throw. It was a good throw and needs to be caught.

- We got REALLY lucky with that horrible sequence of fumbles or "near-fumbles" near our goaline towards the end of the gam.e

 

[Walter]

The 3-and-outs need to stop, but damn, what a resilient game. Where was this in Washington and against Pittsburgh? This was the definition of a tough, motivated team. LOVED seeing this. Let's see it again next week.

Go Rams!

Also Gurley = smart, selfless and talented. Beast.

Ok e are God let's see this many more times.

 

[RaminExile]

A bit of luck - but a star was born today in TG30.

 

[HometownBoy]

Austin turned the corner, and I couldn't be happier.

 

[RhodyRams]

man there are so many members there I could quote and paste here just for gits and shiggles, but I wont

 

[tavian]

What made it even better for me, was watching the game in a bar in AZ that was full of Cards fans, hahahahahha.

No deer in highlights on their face pics?That had to be a awesome scene

 

[Walter]

Couple things:

- Gotta watch the game again but there were one or two running plays where it looked like Gurley helped out the oline by cutting back at the right time when the hole wasn't there.

- Second half-adjustments! Broadcasters mentioned that we went to having Harkey in the backfield quite a bit more in the 2nd half. I'd like to see more of that.

- Foles bounced back. To see a Rams QB look crappy but come back and make some great throws was impressive. Foles gets rightly criticized for making some inaccurate throws but he had some good ones in there, sad that Britt couldn't hold on to that third down throw. It was a good throw and needs to be caught.

- We got REALLY lucky with that horrible sequence of fumbles or "near-fumbles" near our goaline towards the end of the gam.e

X you called it last week. More Harkey. Brilliant sir.

 

[NateTheRam]

Feels so good right now!!! Time to wear my Tavon jersey and go to a bar and watch everyone At the bar look at me with my bright yellow and blue colors. #RAMS

 

[anode8]

I'm most impressed by the actual halftime adjustments! It was like two different offensive teams were playing the two halves. Also, the emergence of Tavon as a receiving threat!

Really, just the maturing of the young offense as a whole. I think we all understand what we're looking at on the defensive side.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Finally they put Harkey back in. Why they ever went away from him I will never understand.

Great win in the big AZ to boot. NFC West, there is a new sherriff in town.

 

[OntarioRam]

So glad Schotty is gone. I attribute Tavon's breakout in large part to Schotty's absence. I would say fully.... but have to stop short of doing so because Austin obviously deserves credit for the strides he has made and work he has put in to improve.

 

[RAMpage28]

I will say a couple of negatives before I get to the good.

Offense needs to be more consistent. Too many 3 or 4 play drives and negative plays.
Alec's injury sucks.

That said, the offense put up big plays, the defense was great holding the Cards to field goals. The blocking was improved but Gurley was able to make plays that others wouldn't have.

Foles, the WVU connection, and Gurley got me fired up.

 

[LACHAMP46]

great goal-line stand....great o-line work...great work cigs....JJ was also born today....JL55 restored my faith...so did chris long...Todd fuckin Gurley.....Tavon Austin, 3rd down receiver, how awesome is that? Sted your time will come. Fucking NIck Foles!!!!!!!!

Props to the entire D! Amazing holding AZ to all those FGs in the redzone despite the fact that they were on the field most of the first half due to all the 3 and outs by the O. Palmer got happy feet after getting hit early. And if I told you our D had 4 sacks would you guess the guys would be TJ, Long, JL, and Joyner? Also big ups to the O for coming up with big drives when we needed to respond to AZ, much like the Seattle game.

Greg Fucking Williams!!!! Bendy but no breaky!!! Now figure out something for Green Bay!!!

 

[RamWoodie]

I'm watching the game now on NFL Game Pass. I could only listen to the game live. Now I get to see what happened. I'm happy with the win, but still concerned about the offense.

 

[iamme33]

Tavon is a different player this year. He made something out of nothing at least 3 or 4 times today. Foles made an amazing throw on both the Stedman TD and the second Tavon TD. Foles had an amazing second half after a bad first half. I like that. Shows toughness.

But yea, in the first 3 games, I thought Tavon was consistently our best threat. He finally got a chance to show it on the stat sheet today.

And Todd Gurley...that's what I expected to see. He's an amazing talent. Has patience and vision along with breakaway speed and doesn't go down easy. He's going to be a special player.

yea there were several of travons runs that I thought were dead then that ungodly speed. wow