RamView, October 21, 2012, Game #7: Packers 30, Rams 20, by Mike Franke
RamView, October 21, 2012
From Row HH
(Report and opinions from the game.)
Game #7: Packers 30, Rams 20
The standings said both teams were 3-3 coming into this week's game, but forgot to mention that the Packers are in a different league than the Rams. To join that league, and stay with teams like the Packers, the Rams have to start making a lot more plays, and a lot less mistakes.
Position by position:
* QB: Sam Bradford had a pretty average game (21-34-255, 82.4 PR), and the Rams don’t appear to have the kind of offense that’ll win games with Bradford being just average. Goes both ways, though, which is where I’d rather see the focus going instead of the blame-the-QB analysis that’s starting to germinate here in the fan base. I see Bradford making clear progress this season. He’s finding receivers open downfield that he wouldn’t have considered open in college or as a rookie. He’s staying with the play longer, and standing taller in the pocket, but also uses his mobility better to extend plays or get out of trouble. Opening drive of the game, he beats a blitz with a perfectly good throw to a deep corner route, but Lance Kendricks incorrectly cut off his route instead, ending the drive. Another drive ended with the Rams trying a screen pass on 3rd-and-7. Not happening. Bradford had a TD dialed up to Austin Pettis in the 1st, but Pettis got tangled up by Casey Hayward instead and hit the deck. No six, just an incomplete. Bradford’s got the “make-it-happen” ability some think he lacks; on a 2nd-quarter flea-flicker, the toss barely got to him, and he had to step away from a blitz, but he still fired a back-footed pass to Chris Givens for a nice gain, a play a safety-first QB never makes. Later in the 2nd, 4th-and-2, he throws a ball right into Brandon Gibson’s hands. Clank. Bradford did kill a drive at the end of the 1st half after taking his eye off a shotgun snap, but he had the presence of mind to scoop and scoot with the ball out of bounds to preserve a FG. And though heavily pressured on his interception in the 3rd, Bradford still made a pretty bad play, really just chucking the ball up for grabs. It doesn't step out and announce itself every week, but the Rams are a young, improving team with a young, improving QB. The two things aren't independent of one another.
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RamView, October 21, 2012
From Row HH
(Report and opinions from the game.)
Game #7: Packers 30, Rams 20
The standings said both teams were 3-3 coming into this week's game, but forgot to mention that the Packers are in a different league than the Rams. To join that league, and stay with teams like the Packers, the Rams have to start making a lot more plays, and a lot less mistakes.
Position by position:
* QB: Sam Bradford had a pretty average game (21-34-255, 82.4 PR), and the Rams don’t appear to have the kind of offense that’ll win games with Bradford being just average. Goes both ways, though, which is where I’d rather see the focus going instead of the blame-the-QB analysis that’s starting to germinate here in the fan base. I see Bradford making clear progress this season. He’s finding receivers open downfield that he wouldn’t have considered open in college or as a rookie. He’s staying with the play longer, and standing taller in the pocket, but also uses his mobility better to extend plays or get out of trouble. Opening drive of the game, he beats a blitz with a perfectly good throw to a deep corner route, but Lance Kendricks incorrectly cut off his route instead, ending the drive. Another drive ended with the Rams trying a screen pass on 3rd-and-7. Not happening. Bradford had a TD dialed up to Austin Pettis in the 1st, but Pettis got tangled up by Casey Hayward instead and hit the deck. No six, just an incomplete. Bradford’s got the “make-it-happen” ability some think he lacks; on a 2nd-quarter flea-flicker, the toss barely got to him, and he had to step away from a blitz, but he still fired a back-footed pass to Chris Givens for a nice gain, a play a safety-first QB never makes. Later in the 2nd, 4th-and-2, he throws a ball right into Brandon Gibson’s hands. Clank. Bradford did kill a drive at the end of the 1st half after taking his eye off a shotgun snap, but he had the presence of mind to scoop and scoot with the ball out of bounds to preserve a FG. And though heavily pressured on his interception in the 3rd, Bradford still made a pretty bad play, really just chucking the ball up for grabs. It doesn't step out and announce itself every week, but the Rams are a young, improving team with a young, improving QB. The two things aren't independent of one another.
full report: http://www.nflfans.com/rams2/article.ph ... 3070245297
