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Here's something else that ticks me off, the Cleveland Browns are 4-3 with a rookie head coach. That is all.
 

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I expected to play flat late in the season if it was over. This team quit when Schotty starting calling way too predictable plays after Davis's pick. You kidding me?

This season is over, they didn't care, so why should I? That's my mindset. It is troubling I wanted the to win more than they did in the second half.
 

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I think Fisher is once again showing us that he is what his record says he is. I have no idea how a guy with a total of 6 winning seasons in 20 freaking years is considered some kind of guru! There is no excuse for this team to ever play this bad, given the talent on the roster.

I thought that the NFL was a win now/results driven league. That does not seem to be the case with Fisher. I also have no reason to believe that SK will retire this joker after the season. For whatever reason, this guy can churn out a mediocre product year after year with no fear of reprisals. If you step back and look, it is astonishing. Has any other coach in any sport ever had a blank check for this long? I wish everyone had this kind of job security!

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/FishJe0.htm
 

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I thought the D was actually playing better. The amount of time they were on the field was ridiculous. No defense can stay on that long and not start giving up points.
 

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This game was forgettable. I shut it off with 6 minutes left and didn't really give it another thought until just now. Had a nice dinner, enjoyed a sweet come from behind win in fantasy football... and am about to watch the Walking Dead. Let's beat the Whiners tho, plz. This Jekyl and Hyde stuff is getting old.
 

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Didnt Shaw or Zygnuts say one time that they wanted a team that was competitive but not one that pushed deep into the playoffs every year because it was to expensive? Could this be a Kronke philosophy? Have a team and coach that gives the fans hope every year but not really a past the first round playoffs type team. If it is then Fisher is the absolute perfect coach for having fans hoping for that wildcard shot with the occasional divisional title to keep the fans pooring in without having to pay out all the playoff money every year.
 

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Well Kroneke does have his wealth spread across the globe. I mean look at Arsenal!...We should hire an Arsene Wenger to coach us.
 

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I don't normally agree with Bernie Miklasz, but in some ways this article pretty much sums it up for me:

Bernie: Rams are numbingly bad

KANSAS CITY, Mo. • There is hope, Rams fans. There is absolutely hope because I am sitting here in the Arrowhead Stadium press box early Sunday evening, high above the field, and I’m looking across the parking lot to Kauffman Stadium.
There will be a World Series game played at Kauffman on Tuesday night, and another may be played on Wednesday. And for as long as it lasts, an entire town of wild-eyed, overjoyed people will be wearing blue and putting costume crowns on their heads.

After failing to make baseball’s postseason tournament for 29 consecutive seasons (1986 through 2013) the Kansas Royals will have the chance to win a World Series at home, a few hundred yards from the spot where your Rams just absorbed a punishing 34-7 beatdown administered by the KC Chiefs.

So that is why there is always hope of a Rams turnaround.

The Royals show that anything is possible.

Just don’t ask me to predict if the Rams’ revival will occur in your lifetime. I can’t even tell you where they’ll be playing.

I don’t believe the year of the Rams’ next winning season is listed in the Mayan calendar, but I’ll double check.

Maybe your grandchildren will be able to enjoy it.

As for the present day …

The Rams are 2-5 on the season and have lost four of their last five games after a 1-1 start. The trail will only get bloodier over the next month, with road games at San Francisco and Arizona, a home game against Denver and a road contest at San Diego.

The Rams franchise is now 45-105-1 since the start of the 2005 campaign. Pardon my mixing of sports here, but that’s 151 games, or nearly enough to add up to a full major-league baseball season.

So basically, the Rams are cousins of the 1962 New York Mets (40-120), or maybe the 2003 Detroit Tigers (43-119). Or, closer to home, the 1939 St. Louis Browns (43-111.)

This is where we are.

And there isn’t a thing anyone can do about it.

I could sit here and write another angry column, the spittle flying as a I knife away at the keyboard, demanding the firing of coach Jeff Fisher, the ouster of GM Les Snead and the dismissal of the offensive and defensive coordinators.

Yeah, and what’s the point? No one is getting fired. No one even knows if the Rams will be in St. Louis for much longer. And it’s not as if the team owner will pick up the phone to answer questions about his team and his plans and this whole mess.

We’re stuck in an endless cycle of losing, caught in the draft of increasing alienation. I prefer disengagement over distemper. Frankly, the Rams aren’t worth the rage and the risk of high blood pressure that comes with it.

That’s why I dropped a ’62 Mets reference in here; sometimes, a team is so bad it almost becomes comical. I’m not suggesting laughter here. I know many of you are passionate about this football team. But goodness, don’t have a heart attack over it.

After using a satchel of magic tricks to upset the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, the Rams had a chance to come to Arrowhead and get a little something going. Put together a little two-game winning streak to signify that things were on the upswing. You know, a little serving of hope for the people.

The day began promisingly enough for the visitors, with a crisp opening drive of six plays, 65 yards and a touchdown for a 7-0 lead.

That’s all, folks.

There’s your highlight. Kansas City outscored St. Louis 34-0 over the final three hours of conflict.

“It’s disappointing,” Fisher said. “We had a great week, a short-lived bit of momentum, and weren’t able to put two in a row together.”

After scooting out for that 7-0 lead, here’s what the Rams did on their next eight possessions: 33 plays, 51 yards, six punts, an interception, a missed field goal.

The Rams’ offensive line was overrun for seven sacks, which overwhelmed the young starting quarterback, Austin Davis.

The special teams allowed a 99-yard kickoff return to open the second half, and the rout was on. The big play was set up by a shanked kickoff from Greg Zuerlein, who also missed a 38-yard field goal that would have given his team a 10-7 lead. Zuerlein’s leg has gone crooked, at least in terms of accuracy.

Coordinator Brian Schottenheimer’s dull, uncreative offense managed only 135 yards after the opening series and could do nothing to stay on the field and give the Rams’ defense a break. And the Rams’ defense finally collapsed in the second half.

On the offensive side, faulty preparation was apparently a factor.

“We struggled all across the board,” tight end Lance Kendricks said. “It was loud out there. We couldn’t get the signals out. We couldn’t get the personnel out. So the game wasn’t really flowing for us as it may have for them. But that’s on us. We’re professionals. We play ball, too. We have to be ready for that type of stuff. I just don’t think we were ready for everything they threw at us.”

Six more Rams players limped their way out of this game. The body count included starting offensive linemen Jake Long, Rodger Saffold and Scott Wells. If the Rams aren’t good enough to play or win consistently when healthy, they have no shot at any sustained success with so many players missing.

And of course, some of the pain is self-inflicted. The Rams committed eight penalties Sunday.

That’s about the usual quota, right?

“It’s frustrating,” defensive end Robert Quinn said. “To beat a Super Bowl champion (Seattle) and then come in and perform like we did today is not what we want.”

It’s not what anyone wants — not if they care about the Rams. I don’t know if I’m just numb to it by now. Or if I’ve just accepted the reality. The Rams lose … and lose … and lose.

So why would we expect a different outcome, except for the occasional Sunday surprise?

I’m sorry to disappoint readers who expected me to go on the attack today. Maybe next time. But on another bloody Sunday I just didn’t have it in me to rage against this broken-down machine.
 

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Didnt Shaw or Zygnuts say one time that they wanted a team that was competitive but not one that pushed deep into the playoffs every year because it was to expensive? Could this be a Kronke philosophy? Have a team and coach that gives the fans hope every year but not really a past the first round playoffs type team. If it is then Fisher is the absolute perfect coach for having fans hoping for that wildcard shot with the occasional divisional title to keep the fans pooring in without having to pay out all the playoff money every year.

too expensive? everyone has the same salary cap.

the rams just can't put it together. if the offense plays well the d can't finish the job. if the d plays well the offense can't get anything going then the d gives up in the second half. maybe gives up is too harsh, cannot sustain it's level of play and the points pile up on the scoreboard.

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I don't normally agree with Bernie Miklasz, but in some ways this article pretty much sums it up for me:

Bernie: Rams are numbingly bad

KANSAS CITY, Mo. • There is hope, Rams fans. There is absolutely hope because I am sitting here in the Arrowhead Stadium press box early Sunday evening, high above the field, and I’m looking across the parking lot to Kauffman Stadium.
There will be a World Series game played at Kauffman on Tuesday night, and another may be played on Wednesday. And for as long as it lasts, an entire town of wild-eyed, overjoyed people will be wearing blue and putting costume crowns on their heads.

After failing to make baseball’s postseason tournament for 29 consecutive seasons (1986 through 2013) the Kansas Royals will have the chance to win a World Series at home, a few hundred yards from the spot where your Rams just absorbed a punishing 34-7 beatdown administered by the KC Chiefs.

So that is why there is always hope of a Rams turnaround.

The Royals show that anything is possible.

Just don’t ask me to predict if the Rams’ revival will occur in your lifetime. I can’t even tell you where they’ll be playing.

I don’t believe the year of the Rams’ next winning season is listed in the Mayan calendar, but I’ll double check.

Maybe your grandchildren will be able to enjoy it.

As for the present day …

The Rams are 2-5 on the season and have lost four of their last five games after a 1-1 start. The trail will only get bloodier over the next month, with road games at San Francisco and Arizona, a home game against Denver and a road contest at San Diego.

The Rams franchise is now 45-105-1 since the start of the 2005 campaign. Pardon my mixing of sports here, but that’s 151 games, or nearly enough to add up to a full major-league baseball season.

So basically, the Rams are cousins of the 1962 New York Mets (40-120), or maybe the 2003 Detroit Tigers (43-119). Or, closer to home, the 1939 St. Louis Browns (43-111.)

This is where we are.

And there isn’t a thing anyone can do about it.

I could sit here and write another angry column, the spittle flying as a I knife away at the keyboard, demanding the firing of coach Jeff Fisher, the ouster of GM Les Snead and the dismissal of the offensive and defensive coordinators.

Yeah, and what’s the point? No one is getting fired. No one even knows if the Rams will be in St. Louis for much longer. And it’s not as if the team owner will pick up the phone to answer questions about his team and his plans and this whole mess.

We’re stuck in an endless cycle of losing, caught in the draft of increasing alienation. I prefer disengagement over distemper. Frankly, the Rams aren’t worth the rage and the risk of high blood pressure that comes with it.

That’s why I dropped a ’62 Mets reference in here; sometimes, a team is so bad it almost becomes comical. I’m not suggesting laughter here. I know many of you are passionate about this football team. But goodness, don’t have a heart attack over it.

After using a satchel of magic tricks to upset the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, the Rams had a chance to come to Arrowhead and get a little something going. Put together a little two-game winning streak to signify that things were on the upswing. You know, a little serving of hope for the people.

The day began promisingly enough for the visitors, with a crisp opening drive of six plays, 65 yards and a touchdown for a 7-0 lead.

That’s all, folks.

There’s your highlight. Kansas City outscored St. Louis 34-0 over the final three hours of conflict.

“It’s disappointing,” Fisher said. “We had a great week, a short-lived bit of momentum, and weren’t able to put two in a row together.”

After scooting out for that 7-0 lead, here’s what the Rams did on their next eight possessions: 33 plays, 51 yards, six punts, an interception, a missed field goal.

The Rams’ offensive line was overrun for seven sacks, which overwhelmed the young starting quarterback, Austin Davis.

The special teams allowed a 99-yard kickoff return to open the second half, and the rout was on. The big play was set up by a shanked kickoff from Greg Zuerlein, who also missed a 38-yard field goal that would have given his team a 10-7 lead. Zuerlein’s leg has gone crooked, at least in terms of accuracy.

Coordinator Brian Schottenheimer’s dull, uncreative offense managed only 135 yards after the opening series and could do nothing to stay on the field and give the Rams’ defense a break. And the Rams’ defense finally collapsed in the second half.

On the offensive side, faulty preparation was apparently a factor.

“We struggled all across the board,” tight end Lance Kendricks said. “It was loud out there. We couldn’t get the signals out. We couldn’t get the personnel out. So the game wasn’t really flowing for us as it may have for them. But that’s on us. We’re professionals. We play ball, too. We have to be ready for that type of stuff. I just don’t think we were ready for everything they threw at us.”

Six more Rams players limped their way out of this game. The body count included starting offensive linemen Jake Long, Rodger Saffold and Scott Wells. If the Rams aren’t good enough to play or win consistently when healthy, they have no shot at any sustained success with so many players missing.

And of course, some of the pain is self-inflicted. The Rams committed eight penalties Sunday.

That’s about the usual quota, right?

“It’s frustrating,” defensive end Robert Quinn said. “To beat a Super Bowl champion (Seattle) and then come in and perform like we did today is not what we want.”

It’s not what anyone wants — not if they care about the Rams. I don’t know if I’m just numb to it by now. Or if I’ve just accepted the reality. The Rams lose … and lose … and lose.

So why would we expect a different outcome, except for the occasional Sunday surprise?

I’m sorry to disappoint readers who expected me to go on the attack today. Maybe next time. But on another bloody Sunday I just didn’t have it in me to rage against this broken-down machine.

suck on my nuts Bernie!
You enjoy this.... and you can't even do a decent job of hiding your smirk.....
 

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He may enjoy it, but he's not wrong. They should be embarrassed.

Obviously.
But I wasn't commenting on how embarrassed they should be. I think that's been pretty well covered.
 

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I just don’t think we were ready for everything they threw at us.”

It's the job of the coaching staff to get the players ready for anything the other team might throw at them. Sigh...