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PREGAME Pregame Thread - Saints @ Rams

The 2025 Saints vs. Rams game is scheduled for Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 4:05 p.m. ET (3:05 p.m. CT) at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

Taints 2025 stats:

Offensive rankings
  • Total Offense: 23rd in the NFL (297.9 yards per game)
  • Points For: 29th in the NFL (17.9 per game)
  • Total First Downs: 120
  • Rushing Yards: 657
  • Passing Yards: 1832
Defensive rankings
  • Passing Defense: 12th in the NFL (206.3 yards allowed per game)

  • Points Against: 27th in the NFL (26.6 per game)
Player stats
  • Leading Passer: Spencer Rattler (passing stats vary by source, e.g., 639 yards according to this ESPN source and 2,145 yards according to this other ESPN source )
  • Leading Rusher: Alvin Kamara (950 rushing yards)
  • Leading Receiver: Juwan Johnson (548 receiving yards)
  • Leading Tackler: D. Davis LB (136 tackles)

Rams 2025 Stats

Offense
  • Passing Yards per Game: 256.7 (4th)
  • Rushing Yards per Game: 103.4 (22nd)
  • Total Yards per Game: 360.1 (8th)
  • Points For per Game: 25.0 (tied 12th)
  • Yards per Pass Attempt: 7.7
Defense
  • Points Allowed per Game: 117 (2nd)
  • Defense Yards per Game: 314.1 (12th)
Other stats
  • Third Down Conversion %: 37.7% (19th)
  • Kick Return Avg: 24.2
  • Punt Return Avg: 8.4

Rams on a bye, are you as well?

So normally on Rams bye weeks it gives me a chance to do some stuff around the house and yard. Today I plan on cleaning out the basement and getting the yard ready for winter. I’ll most likely watch a little football today but having a little break will be nice. What’s everyone’s plans today? Just want the Whiners to lose at all costs!

GAME DAY The Early Games - Week 8

October 26, 2025

EARLY GAMES
1:00 pm ET — Miami Dolphins (1-6) @ Atlanta Falcons (3-3)
1:00 pm ET — Chicago Bears (4-2) @ Baltimore Ravens (1-5)
1:00 pm ET — Buffalo Bills (4-2) @ Carolina Panthers (4-3)
1:00 pm ET — New York Jets (0-7) @ Cincinnati Bengals (3-4)
1:00 pm ET — San Francisco 49ers (5-2) @ Houston Texans (2-4)
1:00 pm ET — Cleveland Browns (2-5) @ New England Patriots (5-2)
1:00 pm ET — New York Giants (2-5) @ Philadelphia Eagles (5-2)

LATE GAMES
4:05 pm ET — Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-2) @ New Orleans Saints (1-6)
4:25 pm ET — Dallas Cowboys (3-3-1) @ Denver Broncos (5-2)
4:25 pm ET — Tennessee Titans (1-6) @ Indianapolis Colts (6-1)

SNF
8:20 pm ET — Green Bay Packers (4-1-1) @ Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2)

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GAME DAY The Late Games - Week 8

October 26, 2025

LATE GAMES
4:05 pm ET — Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-2) @ New Orleans Saints (1-6)
4:25 pm ET — Dallas Cowboys (3-3-1) @ Denver Broncos (5-2)
4:25 pm ET — Tennessee Titans (1-6) @ Indianapolis Colts (6-1)

SNF
8:20 pm ET — Green Bay Packers (4-1-1) @ Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2)

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EARLY GAMES
1:00 pm ET — Miami Dolphins (1-6) @ Atlanta Falcons (3-3)
1:00 pm ET — Chicago Bears (4-2) @ Baltimore Ravens (1-5)
1:00 pm ET — Buffalo Bills (4-2) @ Carolina Panthers (4-3)
1:00 pm ET — New York Jets (0-7) @ Cincinnati Bengals (3-4)
1:00 pm ET — San Francisco 49ers (5-2) @ Houston Texans (2-4)
1:00 pm ET — Cleveland Browns (2-5) @ New England Patriots (5-2)
1:00 pm ET — New York Giants (2-5) @ Philadelphia Eagles (5-2)

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U.S. Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky's Death Being Investigated.

Only twenty-nine years old, Naroditsky became a grandmaster (the highest ranking in chess other than world champion) at seventeen, played chess and did incredibly well at a young age.

From what little from what I can tell it looks like, his boyhood idol, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, basically called him and basically everyone a cheater and directed a smear campaign that drove him to this death, and now Kramnik is inserting himself into the investigation and calling Naroditsky an "addict" and himself a "victim" of it all. Kramnik sounds like a real piece of shit that a lot of other chess players and fans around the sport utterly hate because he's basically being a sore old loser and calling everyone cheaters when he loses, while Naroditsky is beloved by a lot of chess people, not just for his skills, not just because he brought chess into the wider public eye and online as a player and teacher, but because the guy was apparently very nice to his fellow competitors, warm to his fans, and a good person in real life, and his integrity was beyond reproach.

May he rest in peace and paradise.

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Why so little talk about Karty?

Or maybe there's been a fair bit, and I've missed it.

But the guy really worries me. And clearly he worries McVay because he hasn't had a look in for the last two games.

I mentioned watching him warm up at Wembley, and he did not impress me at all.

Missing from 52 yards without any pressure, and kicking really low.

I think I've always been an outlier in how much value I put on kickers, because I'd happily give up a fourth or even a third to get a consistent kicker. Multiple games every season are won and lost based on field goals Yet people get more excited by a wide receiver third in the depth chart. I don't get it.

There are two weeks before the trade deadline, and if there's a team that looks out of the running with a decent kicker, I'd go after them with an offer they can't refuse.

A report from Wembley

I've been a Rams supporter since 1984. I went to my first game in 1985, a 6-0 pre-season win over the Houston Oilers in Anaheim, and I went to my second game the following year, a 7-0 loss to the Saints. I know, seriously, two games, and I only saw 13 points.
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Since then, I've seen the Rams play about 20 times, including the game against Denver at the old Wembley Stadium in 1987. But my last game was the final game at the Coliseum, when we beat the Cowboys in the playoffs in 2018.

I was hoping to get to S-Fi this season, but alas, circumstances made that impossible. So, I was beyond stoked to see the Rams coming to Wembley after missing the games they played here a few years ago because I was living in Florida.

The walk-up Olympic way, and seeing so many Rams fans, probably outnumbering the Jags 10 to 1 (at least when it came to wearing colours), was a buzz.

I forgot to drop my water bottle off prior to going through security. The guy said to me, "It's fine to take the water bottle, you just can't take the cap." So I unscrewed the cap and, without thinking about it, put it in my pocket. He then waved us through. Brilliant security.

We were about 90 minutes before kickoff, but we went and took our seats just to have a look at the stadium.

I've only ever been to the new Wembley once, and that resulted in my football team, Derby, losing to Aston Villa in the playoff final. So I didn't have happy memories. The fact that I was at the same end made things even more ominous.

I'd taken a pair of binoculars with me and watched Karty taking kicks 20 minutes before kickoff.

Man, he kicks the ball low, even when practising, and I’m not surprised he's had a couple blocked this season. He did nail one from 60 yards, but it would have never got over any decent special teams, and he missed from 52 yards.

Jeez, I thought, I hope we don't need him to win the game. As it turned out, McVay obviously agreed and Karty only saw the field for extra points.

It turned out fine against the Jags, but this is a genuine concern if the Rams are to go deep in the playoffs. Kickers make the difference between winning and losing a game several times a season. I'd like to see the Rams give up a fourth or a fifth for a reliable kicker from a team that doesn't look likely to make the playoffs.

Anyway, back to the game.

I knew the stadium hadn't sold out, and I think it's the first game here that hasn't sold the full allocation. But even so, by 2:30 p.m., there were very few spare seats and the atmosphere was comparable to an NFL game.

Just before kick-off, the guy to the side of me wearing a Seahawks jersey asked me how the D was without Aaron Donald.

I replied that it may be better because of the players we have drafted since he left.

And better it was because they fucking dominated the first half.

With McVay and Stafford, we take the O for granted.

But man, this D is almost as exciting now because they just swarm, and they are freakin' fast. It seems incredible now that we could lose one of the greatest defenders to have ever played the game, but not lose a step.

Cap permitting, they are going to be a force for quite a long time fellas!

The Rams were on fire from the kickoff and romped away.

We were right in line with the goal line at the end the Rams were attacking in the first quarter, so we had a brilliant view of Mumpfield's first NFL touchdown and Adams's great catch for his first of the day.

With the latter, I just happened to be recording the video on my phone, but got so excited when I saw the pass going his way that it looks like a sugared-up kid on a trampoline was recording it.

Each time the Rams scored, Helen (my wife) and I jumped up, and I high-fived the guy sitting behind me in a Rams jersey.

Fair play to him, because I got a couple of high fives from the Seahawks fan sitting to my left. He was disappointed but very complimentary of the Rams and thought they would run away with the division. I'm not sure about that. I think their win over Houston suggests they're better than he thinks.

After the Rams went 14-0 up, the atmosphere in the stadium just died, and it felt more like a preseason game.

My guess is that even though I didn't see many fans in Jags colours for a 'home' game, most of the supporters following other teams have the Jags as their second team because they brand them as London's team.

I can never quite understand having second teams, as I'd quit the sport, or move to College ball if the Rams ceased to exist, but that's just me.

By halfway through the third quarter, the game was over, the stadium was starting to quickly empty, and what little atmosphere remained evaporated.

I was used to leaving Rams games (even on the raod) with shouts of "Whose house? Rams house!” But there was none of that, and leaving Wembley was more like we were in a funeral procession with the occasional high-five and broad smile from a relative who clearly hated the deceased as much as I did.

After claiming London records for Stafford and Adams, the Rams headed home having spent fewer hours in London than points the put on the board. That may have been a gamble by Sneed and McVay, but it paid off. It seems that those two are pretty good at gambling.

I have to confess, I was really disappointed with the atmosphere at Wembley. I feel bad for neutrals or anybody who attended a game for the first time and didn't support the Rams. Maybe two games in London is one too many now?

But in the final analysis, we won, and that's all I fucking care about!

Go Rams!
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