Twice the last game I saw AD stop and walk as others pursued the ballcarrier. I realize he should conserve his energy to play more snaps but this was the first time I actually saw it.

This is not a criticism. Aaron Donald is the greatest football player of all time. It just surprised me is all.

I felt like channeling a little @Prime Time for good luck as we enter the home stretch.

Wow, what a down trodden fan base. Doom and gloom. Apparently this team has been bad coming out of the bye the last few years as well.
Makes me feel fortunate to be a fan of a great young team competing and balling out.
We have Back to back games in LA: This tune up game against the Skins with Saints coming to town 4 nights later.
Following that, a nice 10 days before facing the Giants on New Year's Eve. Here's to hoping for a nice and healthy 3-0 stretch of games followed up with a nice hangover on January 1st.

But first, one game at a time. Let's not look past these poor Deadskins.



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The Game Prediction Thread - Week 15 - The Commodes @ The Rams

Just need to see Howell not make any mistakes and play well. The D doesn't need to do anything just like they have been doing lol

Us: 27
Them: 31
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We will come out even worse than before the bye.

Rams 55
Comms 12

Sam gets benched at halftime after throwing 3 ints.
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He might also run for his life if Aaron Donald is back.
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The wheels are set to fall off the team wagon proper. They fell off the defense wagon long ago, with Sam now on the reigns where Ron should be sitting. Ron will say we are regrouping after the bye but will double down on the same failed schemes and add no new wrinkles. I used to think we MUST have hit rock bottom so many times, but there has always been another bottom on the horizon rapidly approaching. I fear we may still be waiting for the true Snyder era bottom to happen, which hopefully won't be Sam getting Ramsey'd by our abysmal coaching.

Kyren Puca and Kupp are going to rip Ron's defense a new one.
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Skins lose 24-10. Howell plays well but his offensive line gives up 5 more sacks. Howell avoids 3 other sacks by running for his life.
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Rams 34
Ders 16
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Rams - 30
Us - 24
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38-13 Rams.
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34-24 Rams.

Offense actually plays okay but defense gets lit up again.
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Washington are 1-3 after a bye over the last 4 years. Ron is 1-2 here.

I got nothing else other than this gets us within 3 weeks of the end, just trying to contribute a little, not much, just a little.
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Rams have been looking stronger lately and are still in the playoff hunt. They need this one and will get it.

LAR 41
WAS 24
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Who’s going?

My one game for the year, now that my daughter is based in La-La Land. I know the team used to do meet and greets at away games, but haven’t seen one announced the past couple years.

Sunday morning I’ll be watching the greatest football team in the land, Liverpool FC, taking on those heinous devils up north a piece. Then, off to check out SoFi, and watch the Commies tighten their grip on a top 4 pick in the ‘24 draft.

If anyone is going, knows of a meet-up, or wants to enjoy an ale with another Commie masochist, PM me.

Oh yeah…

Rams 34
nee Skins 17
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We know bye weeks are not really our thing.

We tend to come out flaccid and sluggish. This will be one of those games.

Lambs - 38
Comms - 17
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Aaron Donald might win this game by himself. Man is gonna shred our interior like tissue paper. Not looking forward to that.
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Joe Flaccid and Fred Sluggish will be two of the Commodes 2024 draft picks.

Commodes 74, Rams 3.
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Rams playing legit ball lately.

RAMS 31
SKINS 17 (at most)
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Meh.
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Fred "Sluggish" Davis is coming out of retirement?
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OH BOY, another "coming off a bye " game.
Same **** different year.
I picture Sean McVay standing across the sideline from Lifeboat Ron, and envision coach Klein looking across at Red Beaulieu and making puppydog sounds, baby gotta poo poo?
A wittle poo poo? Wittle poo poo? Then Ron's pants completely balloon out from blasting out 3 plates of cheese enchiladas and the brown stains and drips begin oozing onto his shoes.

Rams 43
Ders Duhs 13
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Well, Ron had the bye to game plan so it's going to be a lot closer than you would think. Once Ron has time to game plan, he gets things done.

Rams 45
Commodes 9
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40 to 10 rams. Rams have a good team are defense is terrible.
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At the beginning of the season I thought this could be a win. Figured Stetson Bennett would be qb by now with no Cooper Kupp. Now that half the teams in the NFC are 6-7, I see McVay running it up on us.
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Rams don't look good, but they look better than we do, no point in winning for us at this point. I just hope the offense looks capable...Sam looks capable...and no injuries.
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Did you watch them against the Ravens? They looked pretty good to me--they hung 31 on a really good Ravens defense that is currently 2nd in the league in PPG against at 16.8.

Rams 48
Coms 13
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McVay is a legitimate top 5 coach in the league. They went all in to get their SB. They got it, now they have to pay for it with mediocre talent and an aging roster for a few yeas before they can truly re-tool.

Not that it matters a ton, but Jamin Davis was placed on IR. And while he wasn't great, he was better than the guys playing behind him.

The Rams are going to be able to name their score on offense. I think it's 34. 4 TDs and 2 FGs. Seems about right.

I actually think there's a very good chance the offense has a bounce back game. I'm going with 27. 3 TDs and 2 FGs.

Rams 34
Commodes 27

In a game that's never as close as the score might lead you to think it was.
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Rams: 38
Commies: 20

No more wins this season, and next year even with a new coaching staff doesn’t look bright…I’m hoping by the time I’m 45-46 we can become winners again (Ill be 42 in January)
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Ron, (Didn't Know How!) D gives up another 40 and Howell is sacked 9 times but still makes some plays. Out come the same as the last several weeks.
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Long time lurker, first time posting. Rams in a must win, they have a great qb wr connection. That is manders cryptonite. Im thinking 31-23 rams with a game that was never really in doubt with some big garbage time yards and a td for Sam. Man I hope we don't screw this up and loose this top 4 pick, don't think we have to worry but that this week

With the Giants taking out the Packers, things got a bit more interesting!

The 49ers, Eagles, Cowboys and Lions are still comfortably locked into playoff spots. A fifth spot is held by the NFC South leading Bucs.

That leaves the following teams fighting for the remaining two playoff births:

Vikings 7-6
Packers 6-7
Rams 6-7
Seahawks 6-7
Falcons 6-7
Saints 6-7

Week 15 looks promising for the Rams. We'll bounce back against the Commodes. The Vikings will fall @ the Bengals. The Falcons will jump back into the NFC South lead with a win at Carolina, while the Bucs fall at Green Bay. The Seahawks will lose to the Eagles, while the Saints will beat the Giants.

This will leave the Rams outside looking in for another week, but only due to the Vikings superior conference record:

Vikings 7-7
Packers 7-7
Rams 7-7
Saints 7-7
Bucs 6-8
Seahawks 6-8

This will set up a key TNF showdown against the Saints... but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Keep this thing going!

Read down a bit for the Rams love!

Do NFL teams have analytics on various ref crews and their tendencies? I’m not a conspiracist but they are human and data over time may show some sort of correlation, regardless of how hard one tries to be objective.

I wouldn’t be surprised if any team does this, but I would let DBs and WRs know that this crew doesn’t call defensive holding or OPI as much, so you can be more physical…let the lineman know how a crew calls holding penalties, etc

We barely knew ya Hunter

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Suh is trying to get back into the league. Should the Rams pick him up if he’s cheap?

The run defense has been pretty good lately. But he’d be decent in rotation, especially in case of injury.

So the Jets agreed to trade Zach Wilson this offseason. I have no idea what it may take to acquire him.

Let’s assume the Rams are out of position to get a top QB in the draft. Would anyone here think the Rams should kick the tires on Zach Wilson. To play the backup roll and try to groom him into being their future starter, under McVay’s tutelage. He had a decent game against the Texans in week 13.
What level pick would be worth it?

If not the Rams, then who do you think will? My guess is the Seahawks. Pete always thinks he can motivate anybody into being a good player.

Wycheck‘s death seemed to fly under the radar this weekend.

Great player.

Back from Baltimore with a re-newed sense of purpose, ha.

Lets start the drum up. BEAT THE DEADSKINS or whatever they are calling themselves now.

At least they arent coming off a bye like our last opponent.

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Defense



STs

Don’t look now, but Rams have elevated scrappy and entertaining to a whole new level, haven’t they?

This team is growing by leaps and bounds and is now far ahead of where I thought they’d be by mid-December. They can now play with anybody.

If we want to know why Rams lost this game we needn’t look too far. THREE blown coverages gifted the Ravens 21 points in a game eventually won by 6 points. Even one less blown coverage and Rams win.

Also, Rams seemed to go ‘bend, not break’ in that crucial late 4th quarter drive where Ravens stole their soul with a back breaking score. Why get away from what was working for 55 minutes?

Havenstein was missed.

Headset problems weren’t helpful (kinda suspicious), but the refs completely ignoring blatant holding by Ravens right in front of them? Not just on AD, either. Like the ‘fix’ was in? Shakes my faith in the integrity of today’s NFL. I’m serious. I don’t recall ever seeing anything like it.

But there was plenty of good news for Ram fans yesterday, too.

Stafford is playing well.

KW is a beast.

Rams OL handled a potent Ravens D quite well for the most part.

Kupp looked healthy once again.

Davis Allen might be our future starter at TE. He’s certainly earned more quality snaps at the very least. He should have been getting more snaps weeks sooner.

Honestly, I prefer Allen Robinson playing ahead of Atwell. There. I said it.

Our secondary had 3 catastrophic blown coverages. And against a team like the Ravens? Just too much to overcome. Rams have some work to do in that secondary. Might be some new faces back there next season.

McVay was right about playing Havrisik over Crosby and I was wrong. The kid had a fine game and certainly did his job.

What’s with the yips from Trammel? Where did that come from?

It is my hope that Morris impresses an owner enough to be hired as HC elsewhere. I’d love the 2 comp 3rds plus the opportunity to see McVay hire a more aggressive DC for this emerging D.

Those were the highlights (and lowlights) for me. All the rest was window dressing.

Thoughts?

Monday Night Football - December 11, 2023

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I said it last week after the Rams beat the Browns. This team would be very much alive in the playoff hunt even with a loss to the Ravens. This game is a barometer of their potential going into the last 4 games. They went toe to toe with a legitimate Super Bowl contender.

IMO they have a legit opportunity to sweep the remaining 4 games and go 10-7 which gets them into the playoffs as probably the 6th seed. It's going to be a coin toss at this time to get in at 9-8 but its a realistic possibility. That would probably pit them against Dallas which is just fine with me. IMO Dallas is not as good as the Niners and gives the Rams a legit shot at an upset in the playoffs.

I've always felt that the Rams would make it at least to the divisional round.

The way the OL played in the run game against a good defensive front shows how good they can be. Robinson is an underappreciated talent. His route running and blocking is pretty damn good. I can see him making a case to be Jefferson's replacement at XWR going forward and would be surprised if he wasn't extended.

Yeah, the Rams are still very much alive in the playoff hunt here in December. What more can you ask. Win out and they are in. Win three of the last four which is realistic and they probably get in as well.

Before the season started, I felt we’d be lucky to win 5 games, and was fine w that given our “remodel” and preparation for ‘24 and ‘25.

But considering all the weird bounces, bad calls and just plain bad luck this season, I think this team could actually have been 11-2.

Here is the season based on who “deserved” to win (by taking away the bad luck and bad calls):

Hawks: W
49ers: W
Bengals: W
Colts: W
Eagles: L (W was a reach)
Cards: W
Steelers: W
Cowboys: L (we were no match)
Green Bay: W
Hawks: W
Cards: W
Browns: W
Ravens: W

I feel better now. 11-2. Same team.

I'm one of 3 teams left in week 14 out of 164 teams with $3200 at stake and I was the only one who still had Baltimore left. I of course took them and sweated out the advancement while knowing if I lost Rams would be in great playoff position. Was a tough watch to say the least. The other 2 guys have Green Bay tomorrow night so hoping for a Giant upset.

Next week I am taking the Rams of course against Washington lol.

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Starts at the 8 minute mark. I know he's pissed because the call cost his team the game but I can't disagree with what he's saying. Let the players play, no one watches football to see what the refs call and don't. For the face of the NFL to go in on officiating like this you know there's a problem.

1. ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

2. So many chances to put this one away....

3. In a game this close, it always comes down to a few mistakes.

4. In the first half, the Rams gave up two TDs on blown coverages. Those two plays really obscured a strong start to the game by the defense (including a first drive stop!).

5. The two errors getting a play off in time cost us a key time out on the final drive in regulation, and a chance to extend a drive in overtime. Those are really inexcusable. We've seen our offense play on the margin when it comes to getting plays off. Today, it finally bit us.

6. Finally, the coverage on the game winning punt return was atrocious. Again, its an area we've been teetering on the edge of for a while, and today it killed us.

7. Glass Half Full: we went toe-to-toe with one of the top 5 teams in football on their own field.

8. Glass Half Empty: yet another close game in which we fell short. This could be the story of the season in the end.

9. There was definitely some good today. My Offensive MVP this week, once again, is Matthew Stafford. He did a great job spreading the ball around and pushing the game into overtime against another top defense.

10. Kyren Williams also had another excellent performance. With 114 yards rushing, he now has surpassed 800 yards on the ground in 9 games. He is a true catalyst for this offense.

11. Nice 1-2 punch from Cooper Kupp (115 yards, TD) and Puka Nacua (84 yards).

12. You have to love the contribution from Davis Allen and Demarcus Robinson.

13. Hope Rob Havenstein is okay. I thought Joe Noteboom did a fairly good job (though he did miss a block on a screen that may have cost us a chance at a long FG attempt) in his place.

14. My defensive MVP is Ernest Jones (10 tackles, 1 sack, 1 PD, 1 QB hit, several pressures).

15. Damn, Lamar Jackson is hard to corral!

16. Still a lot of key games to be played, but we'll still be in the thick of the playoff race at the end of this week. Next three games (Washington, New Orleans, @ NYG) are very winnable, particularly the way our team has been playing in the last few weeks.

17. Though there were a few questionable calls, overall I'd say McVay did a very good job again today. Second week against a Top 5 defense with some great success.

18. "Moral victory" is an empty cliche, but I have to believe that today's performance (1) only served to enhance our young team's confidence, and (2) shows the potential of this team's core.

19. I'm exhausted from watching this one!

20. Keep moving forward!

Sunday December 10, 2023

Los Angeles Rams vs. Baltimore Ravens — 1:00 p.m., Fox​

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Sunday Night Football; Week 14 - December 10, 2023

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Week 14 - Sunday, December 10, 2023

THE LATE GAMES
Minnesota Vikings vs. Las Vegas Raiders — 4:05 p.m., Fox
Seattle Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers — 4:05 p.m., Fox
Buffalo Bills vs. Kansas City Chiefs — 4:25 p.m., CBS
Denver Broncos vs. Los Angeles Chargers— 4:25 p.m., CBS

THE EARLY GAMES
Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Atlanta Falcons — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Detroit Lions vs. Chicago Bears — 1:00 p.m., Fox
Indianapolis Colts vs. Cincinnati Bengals — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Cleveland Browns — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Carolina Panthers vs. New Orleans Saints — 1:00 p.m., Fox
Houston Texans vs. New York Jets — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Los Angeles Rams vs. Baltimore Ravens — 1:00 p.m., Fox

SNF
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys: 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC, Peacock

Monday, December 11, 2023

Tennessee Titans vs. Miami Dolphins: 8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN, WatchESPN

Green Bay Packers vs. New York Giants: 8:15 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN+

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Thursday, December 7
New England Patriots vs. Pittsburgh Steelers — 8:15 p.m. ET, Prime Video

Week 14 - Sunday, December 10, 2023

THE EARLY GAMES
Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Atlanta Falcons — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Detroit Lions vs. Chicago Bears — 1:00 p.m., Fox
Indianapolis Colts vs. Cincinnati Bengals — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Cleveland Browns — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Carolina Panthers vs. New Orleans Saints — 1:00 p.m., Fox
Houston Texans vs. New York Jets — 1:00 p.m., CBS
Los Angeles Rams vs. Baltimore Ravens — 1:00 p.m., Fox

THE LATE GAMES
Minnesota Vikings vs. Las Vegas Raiders — 4:05 p.m., Fox
Seattle Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers — 4:05 p.m., Fox
Buffalo Bills vs. Kansas City Chiefs — 4:25 p.m., CBS
Denver Broncos vs. Los Angeles Chargers— 4:25 p.m., CBS

SNF
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys: 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC, Peacock

Monday, December 11, 2023

Tennessee Titans vs. Miami Dolphins: 8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN, WatchESPN

Green Bay Packers vs. New York Giants: 8:15 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN+

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ALREADY PLAYED

Thursday, December 7
New England Patriots vs. Pittsburgh Steelers — 8:15 p.m. ET, Prime Video