Week 14 Power Rankings

[DCH]

NFL.com:
31st
Remember the days when Nick Foles threw for 445 yards and three touchdowns like Ben Roethlisberger, Russell Wilson or Blake Bortles? Yeah, me neither. St. Louis' offense has almost as much difficulty sustaining drives as you did when you set up your Electric Pro Football, and you had to make the guys vibrate 80 yards down the field. The quarterback was required to catapult a foam ball, resulting in something that strangely resembled the Foles-to-Cook connection.

Yahoo!:
27th
Nick Foles has the third-best passer rating in a single season in NFL history. I can't explain it either.

ESPN:
30th

Other ESPN:
28th
The Rams have scored 10 points the past two weeks, and have lost by 24 points in three of their past four games. No other team has two such losses this season.

 

[DCH]

Walterfootball:
31st
St. Louis Rams (4-8) - Previously: #22 - The Rams might just be the second-worst team in the league. They were playing well earlier, but they've been exposed as hot garbage. Just look at how bad their offense is:


image: http://walterfootball.com/images/folesfirstdown.jpg

The NFL feels so bad for Foles that it's willing to give him a charity first down. How nice! 'Tis the season, after all.

 

[DCH]

Washington Post:
31st
Can the city of St. Louis make any new-stadium offers to the Rams contingent on them actually having a .500 season at some point?

 

[junkman]

It'd be interesting to go back and see what the power rankings had the Rams at when they were 4-3, with the hard part of the schedule behind them and "easy" games coming up.

5 weeks ago, the topic of Jeff Fisher's continued employment wasn't on anyone's radar. Now it's all we can talk about.

 

[SuperMan28]

It'd be interesting to go back and see what the power rankings had the Rams at when they were 4-3, with the hard part of the schedule behind them and "easy" games coming up.

5 weeks ago, the topic of Jeff Fisher's continued employment wasn't on anyone's radar. Now it's all we can talk about.

They were hovering from 12-10 range. Mid teens at the highest. This was merely 5 weeks ago. We were neck and neck with the Vikings going into that game, some had us rated higher. It's been a free fall ever since MIN.

 

[DCH]

It's unbelievable how things change so quickly in the NFL. Did defenses catch up to our schemes? Did losing Brown and Havenstein doom us completely? It seems like when things were going well, the offense wasn't efficient, but there was a lot of "well, they're 2 or 3 plays away from breaking it open, and they're doing just enough to win with their great defense behind them." Now it's more "Well, they're 2 or 3 plays away from having zero net yards in the game, and they're doing just enough to make their great D try to knock each other out of the game."

I blame the Chiefs. Those fuckers stole our mojo from across the state.

 

[Mojo Ram]

It's a little bizarre that if the Rams win their final four games, they will finish with the best record they've had since 2006.

 

[DCH]

It's a little bizarre that if the Rams win their final four games, they will finish with the best record they've had since 2006.

What would you rather see - them win out to go 8-8, take the pressure off the staff, go into 2016 with "Hey, we turned it on down the stretch" giving us hope, or for them to lose out, get a top 5 pick and force ownership's hand on cleaning out the coaching staff?

I'm genuinely interested. I can see positives and negatives for both outcomes.