RamView, December 18, 2011, Game #14: Bengals 20, Rams 13. by Mike Franke
RamView, December 18, 2011
From Row HH
(Report and opinions from the game.)
Game #14: Bengals 20, Rams 13
Same stuff, different week for the 2011 Rams. The defense plays well as long as it can before getting worn out by the incompetent play of the offense. At least the offense wasn't as incompetent as the officiating...
Position by position:
* QB: Kellen Clemens, surprisingly, wasn't half-bad in his first game as a Ram (25-36-229, 95.7 PR). He threw well on the move, an improvement over the currently immobile Sam Bradford (who's probably about to be put on season-ending I.R. for his sprained ankle). And by surviving 60 minutes against a good defense without committing any turnovers, let alone making one or two stupid ones, Clemens is already an improvement over A.J. Feeley. Clemens threw with good accuracy and showed pretty good pocket presence. He ran when he had to and threw the ball away when he had to. He got the Rams in early FG position with back-to-back play-action sideline passes to Austin Pettis and Brandon Lloyd for about 30 yards. He never looked lost despite only having practiced with the Rams for about a week. No, the Rams didn't do any more scoring than usual, for several reasons. There's the familiar wretched play-calling and below-average receiver play. Clemens hurt the team's cause a little by taking a career's worth of checkdowns to Steven Jackson in the 2nd half while missing other open receivers downfield. And the Rams missed out on a TD in the 2nd quarter after Clemens badly underthrew a bomb for Lloyd, who had beaten two Bengal DBs cleanly. It took until the final 2:00 for the Ram offense to dent the end zone this week, with Clemens firing a tight pass to Danario Alexander in double-coverage from 25 yards out. So, yeah, the more some things change, the more they stay the same. But if Clemens can knock the rust off his deep throwing and field-reading as quickly as he seems to have picked up the offense, the Rams might have something here.
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RamView, December 18, 2011
From Row HH
(Report and opinions from the game.)
Game #14: Bengals 20, Rams 13
Same stuff, different week for the 2011 Rams. The defense plays well as long as it can before getting worn out by the incompetent play of the offense. At least the offense wasn't as incompetent as the officiating...
Position by position:
* QB: Kellen Clemens, surprisingly, wasn't half-bad in his first game as a Ram (25-36-229, 95.7 PR). He threw well on the move, an improvement over the currently immobile Sam Bradford (who's probably about to be put on season-ending I.R. for his sprained ankle). And by surviving 60 minutes against a good defense without committing any turnovers, let alone making one or two stupid ones, Clemens is already an improvement over A.J. Feeley. Clemens threw with good accuracy and showed pretty good pocket presence. He ran when he had to and threw the ball away when he had to. He got the Rams in early FG position with back-to-back play-action sideline passes to Austin Pettis and Brandon Lloyd for about 30 yards. He never looked lost despite only having practiced with the Rams for about a week. No, the Rams didn't do any more scoring than usual, for several reasons. There's the familiar wretched play-calling and below-average receiver play. Clemens hurt the team's cause a little by taking a career's worth of checkdowns to Steven Jackson in the 2nd half while missing other open receivers downfield. And the Rams missed out on a TD in the 2nd quarter after Clemens badly underthrew a bomb for Lloyd, who had beaten two Bengal DBs cleanly. It took until the final 2:00 for the Ram offense to dent the end zone this week, with Clemens firing a tight pass to Danario Alexander in double-coverage from 25 yards out. So, yeah, the more some things change, the more they stay the same. But if Clemens can knock the rust off his deep throwing and field-reading as quickly as he seems to have picked up the offense, the Rams might have something here.
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