2020 schedule thread

[PressureD41]

so 15-1, your on record sir!

 

[PressureD41]

Buffalo would be the trip my kids and I would be looking at of the border is open and games have crowds.

Catch some dude table breaking LMAO

 

[Rams77]

1st 3 games are brutal. Then the at Tampa Bay (short week) at SF later in the year will be really tough as well. I wish I can be optimistic and say 11-5 or 10-6 but my realistic brain is leaning 8-8

 

[Loyal]

I look at the schedule and think "We should play all games at home, except for the one vs the Chargers...."
The league can go ahead fix everything after this necessary change. Make it so, number one.

 

[CGI_Ram]

good shit

A bunch of us got together in Detroit for a game... met @andre (his family too). Good ppl.

And, @andre a post or two back, Libs says he has some disposable cash. That sounds like someone to party with!

Whiners get an easy start. Ouch.

It looks like a schedule that (unless we simply start out on fire) we will have to play the role of comeback. Tough start against 3 teams with playoff aspirations.

 

[kurtfaulk]

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mgm has the rams +2.5 points vs the cowboys.

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[CGI_Ram]

2020 Los Angeles Rams Schedule: Instant Reaction

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Instant reaction to Rams 2020 schedule

Here are some instant reactions to the Rams schedule, announced Thursday evening, viewed through the lens of positive or negative implications for Los Angeles. On the whole, I think you'll find this to be a fair, and overall, favorable slate for 2020.

Pro: Five Prime Time Games

This is the maximum the league allows for each team at the outset. Therefore, the Rams – with SoFi Stadium as the backdrop for three of those occasions – remain a high-profile draw for the NFL and its television partners.

Con: This Doesn't Necessarily Reflect High Expectations for L.A.

Detractors can minimize those prime time assignments by attributing the cachet to the opponent.

For example, Week 1 is an ideal confluence of SoFi's unveiling, Jerry Jones, and the Dallas Cowboys (with an appetizing quarterback drama developing with Dak Prescott).

Monday Night Football at Tampa Bay in Week 11 is for Tom Brady.

What's more telling than prime time is actually the placement of the matchups with the 49ers, though.

A bitter rivalry featuring the last two NFC Champions and neither contest lands in December? It's hard not to interpret this as a prediction that the West is not expected to come down to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Assuming there's a 49ers-Seahawks matchup deep in the year, it feels like the schedule makers are buying in to those teams as the favorites in the best division in the NFL.

Pro: Thursday Night Football at Home

The best case scenario for your Thursday Night assignment is to not have to get on a plane Wednesday. However, the Rams advantage is minimized by the fact their opponent, the Patriots, will already be in Los Angeles to face the Chargers four days prior.

Con: Thursday Night Football in December

This year's matchup with New England is late in the year, and players will tell you they prefer sooner to later when it comes to TNF.

Week 14 is rough placement, but the Rams can't complain; they've drawn Thursday Night games prior to Week 6 in each of the past three seasons.

Con: Early in the East

Not only is it a competitive disadvantage, it's also generally perceived as a slight to be playing in the early window as a West Coast team. The Rams have four such games in 2020, and they all fall in the first half of the schedule: PHI, BUF, WAS, MIA.

Fortunately, under McVay, the Rams have thrived in these situations, boasting an 8-1 record in the 1:00 p.m. ET time slot (including London games), with the only loss coming at Minnesota in 2017.

Pro: Fair Weather

At Philadelphia, followed by at Buffalo in September, takes foul weather out of the equation, almost entirely. Christmas Week in Seattle is the only cold weather forecast on the entire docket.

Con: Stay or Fly?

Will the Rams stay east between those games against the Eagles and Bills? The back-to-back comes at a less-than-ideal time, so early in the schedule.

We've seen the Rams benefit from in-season mini-camps on the road under McVay: between wins at Jacksonville and London in 2017, between wins against the Seahawks and Chiefs in 2018, and between wins against the Falcons and Bengals in 2019.

Those instances were all down the schedule, though. Having just wrapped up training camp in August, a week of practice on the East Coast might feel a bit redundant this year.

However, jetting home from Philadelphia only to turn around for an early kickoff in Buffalo the following Sunday doesn't make much sense, either.

Pro: Well-Placed Bye

All things being equal, Week 9 is where just about every team would hope to have its open date. In the case of the 2020 Rams, their 16-game schedule is evenly split in half.

Pro: Five of the Final Eight Games at SoFi Stadium

Coming off that bye, the Rams will only have to leave the Pacific Time Zone once the rest of the season: for a Monday Night contest at Tampa Bay on November 23. (Technically, Arizona will be on Mountain Time in December, but you know what I mean.)

If they can get through a first half travel gauntlet, the Rams will be well-positioned for the stretch run with a home-heavy schedule to finish.

Con: Short Week Before 49ers

What could be the most important game on the schedule: Week 12 versus San Francisco, will come on short rest for the Rams.

But it's not just a short week. It follows that Monday Night game on the other side of the country. The Rams will get back from Tampa in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

But it gets worse. The 49ers are set up for this game with a Week 11 bye before arriving at SoFi Stadium.

Pro: The Preseason

This is the best preseason slate for the Rams since they returned to Los Angeles in 2016. Only one road trip, and in theory they could bus to Las Vegas for the preseason finale (4.5 hours from Cal Lutheran). Compare that to trips to Napa/Oakland, Honolulu, and Houston a year ago.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Random thought; with Garrett the offensive coordinator for the Giants... you would expect that insight to help the Giants be a much tougher matchup for Dallas all season than otherwise would.

 

[RhodyRams]

Yeah, I lived in Boston at the time and went to that last reg season game in Foxboro. What a great season!

I was there also..I think that was the last game I ever went to at Foxboro until Gillette opened

 

[Merlin]

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No surprise there. Jerruh was Stan's "+1" at the NFL meetings lol and the sched had to allow for the Rams to break in that new stadium.

 

[Merlin]

I dislike the early schedule. Cowboys will be one of the best offenses in the league this year so they're a tough opener draw even if it's not a surprise. Then the Eagles is the most favorable matchup of the early going, but it's in Philly. And that matchup in Buffalo will be rough, as I see them as a Super Bowl contender in the AFC.

IMO by the end of the season that will prove to be one of the toughest 3 game opening stretches in the league with two deep playoff contenders. Rams better be ready to start fast.

 

[Psycho_X]

I think coaching will be much more important the first half of the season. With basically no offseason programs in person some teams are going to be sloppy and off in the beginning of the season. As long as McVay gets the team ready appropriately I don’t mind having more home games in the back half. That’s when post seasons are earned.

Also, first regular home game against the Cowboys is awful. Stan going to be opening up his $5 billion stadium to a full house of Cowboy fans. Hope I’m wrong but that’ll be embarrassing in prime time.

 

[bluecoconuts]

 

[den-the-coach]

Also, first regular home game against the Cowboys is awful. Stan going to be opening up his $5 billion stadium to a full house of Cowboy fans. Hope I’m wrong but that’ll be embarrassing in prime time.

If the season does start on time I don't think there will be many fans in the stadiums, maybe a limit of 15,000 and I believe all of them will be Ram fans because of travel restrictions.

Plus you have to remember, if not for Jerry Jones football would not have returned to Los Angeles, he was instrumental especially for Kronke, so it was obvious the first game in the new venue was going to be the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[Psycho_X]

If the season does start on time I don't think there will be many fans in the stadiums, maybe a limit of 15,000 and I believe all of them will be Ram fans because of travel restrictions.

Actually good point, it’s likely fans won’t be allowed. For a brief second actual sports news made me forget about the current clusterfuck of the world we now live in lol.

 

[den-the-coach]

For a brief second actual sports news made me forget about the current clusterfuck of the world we now live in lol.

My humblest apologies, that why we have sports, to forget about life for a while.

 

[Angry Ram]

Pro: Five Prime Time Games

This is the maximum the league allows for each team at the outset. Therefore, the Rams – with SoFi Stadium as the backdrop for three of those occasions – remain a high-profile draw for the NFL and its television partners.

I hate the PT schedule.

Sunday night against Dallas..LA is a transplat city. There's gonna be a ton of Dallas fans there. At least its still a home game.

Sunday night AT SF...yeah ok. The last two games against SF in primetime were over there. The bandwagoners over there will make that place sold out. Not that I'm worried about playing there, but I don't like its two years in a row.

Monday night against Chicago. Why is this matchup in PT three years in a row? Neither team is the same as they were in 2018. Would it have killed them to put say, the Giants for a non division game or the shitbirds to get a division game?

Monday night @ Tampa...honestly this is a forced game to show of Tom Brady. At least its in late November and probably not humid.

Thursday night against NE. Will this even matter? It looks like the last Thursday game of the year. This should be an October matchup.

No variance, away games that focus more on those teams than equal coverage, and home games that invite more opposing teams' fans.

 

[MarkyMark]

Make your schedule predictions:

Rams at Arizona
NY Giants at Rams
Seattle at Rams (SNF)
Rams at Washington
New England at Rams
Rams at SF (MNF)
Rams at MIami
Chicago at Rams
Rams at Tampa Bay (Thurs)
NYJets at Rams
Rams at Buffalo
Dallas at Rams (MNF)
Rams at Philadelphia
Rams at Seattle
Arizona at Rams(SNF)
SF at Rams

I like our new schedule a lot, but the one thing your schedule offers that the real one doesn't is you have the Rams playing back to back home games twice! I think it's pretty fucked up having back to back home games only once! I haven't looked at everyone else's schedule to see what other teams are in the same boat, but then again I don't care about everyone else's schedule, I only care about ours. I see us going 11-5 Horns Up MobSquadie Ramily!!

 

[André]

A bunch of us got together in Detroit for a game... met @andre (his family too). Good ppl.

And, @andre a post or two back, Libs says he has some disposable cash. That sounds like someone to party with!



It looks like a schedule that (unless we simply start out on fire) we will have to play the role of comeback. Tough start against 3 teams with playoff aspirations.

Thanks - I definitely enjoyed meeting you and everyone else in Detroit. Just wish that was a McVay game instead of a Fisher one!