Cooks Drop In Superbowl

[nighttrain]

this is history, forgetaboutit
train

 

[SWAdude]

Team sport.

It was too big of a game for a few key players and our HC.

The NOLA game haunted the lead up to the game. Too big of a distraction for that team.

We sure had a great time that weekend. A win would have made it that much better.

GO RAMS!!!

 

[badnews]

Team sport.

It was too big of a game for a few key players and our HC.

The NOLA game haunted the lead up to the game. Too big of a distraction for that team.

We sure had a great time that weekend. A win would have made it that much better.

GO RAMS!!!

Great post and the right way to view that game imo.

 

[dieterbrock]

Team sport.

It was too big of a game for a few key players and our HC.

The NOLA game haunted the lead up to the game. Too big of a distraction for that team.

We sure had a great time that weekend. A win would have made it that much better.

GO RAMS!!!

And with all that, they still were only a play or two away. They didn’t get blown out and didn’t choke like Atlanta or San Fran

 

[dang]

this is history, forgetaboutit
train

Agreed. That is now ancient history. This is a completely different team that hasn’t reached their summit yet. Good time to be a Rams fan.

 

[FrantikRam]

Aaron Rodgers can miss his guys running free 4 times in a game, and he isn't questioned on air. If he throws a ball that isn't near his WR, its automatically assumed its the reciever. If Goff does either, somebody like Aikman will immediately say "Goff has to see his open guy" or "uhh.. off target pass there", it's never on his reciever running the wrong route and they really never know what the route was supposed to be. Doesn't matter as much as making Goffs play sound like it fits their narrative. If he puts a ball in the endzone, but it doesn't happen at the exact best moment for the reciever its "Goff has to be better there and get the ball out on time."
If it's a Rodgers throw its "he gave his guy a chance. The reciever needs to make a play for his QB."

The talking heads paint the discussion how ever they like and a ton of people can't see the double standards. They just accept their description of the play as accurate. "They're the experts" after all.....

Any darling QB gets a 1st down with his hard count, they like to tell us what a smart guy he is and how many ways he can get you. If Goff does it over and over and is as good at it as anyone in the league, if they say anything it's "See how the Rams Oline all stood up? Smart play."

It's lame and I am so tired of all the retired egomaniacs doing commentary. Everyone of them.
I wish the NFL would start from scratch with really smart people who know the game and are good at commentary but have zero agendas, you could never tell who they are pulling for, unlike the thinly veiled bullshit that these "former greats" get away with. I don't want former players with their obvious biases towards teams or players. They can have all the cable talkshow bullshit but stay TFO of the booth please...

/rant over

I've heard them bash Rodgers plenty of times when he has a bad game.

It's not smart for the Rams OL to stand up in some cases and I've never heard them say that? It'd be better if they were all in tune to snap the ball like GB does for an actual free play, instead of just a free five yards - that's on either the OL or McVay.

 

[Mojo Ram]

IMO that late throw wasn't on Cooks - that's a really tough play because of how late it was, his position in the endzone and where the defender was. You'd like a $15 million WR to make that play, but that's just not Cooks' game. Goff not seeing it was the problem there.

The second one was absolutely on Cooks, and I agree that we win the game if he just catches it. The NFL came out and said it should have been DPI on Gilmore, which is ironic.

But the holding call was the worst play of the game and it swung it. It wasn't much of a hold, and it smelled of helping the Patriots. Prior to that hold, the win probability was 58.9% Rams - after that hold it was 50.3% Patriots - a swing of 9.2%, and then it just kept going up for the Patriots.

The thing that will always piss me off the most is without that holding call, WITHOUT it, the penalties would have been:

Patriots - 3-20
Rams - 8-55

WITHOUT the holding call it was still one-sided in favor of the Patriots. You'll never convince me that it wasn't a steer job by the refs, either for the Patriots because, who the fuck knows, or because of the media outrage over the non call, even though the Saints still had several chances to win the damn game.

Yeah i used up my lifetime supply of conspiracy bullets after SB36. I'm still shooting an empty clip to this day.

Two years ago i feel like the Rams just got Belichecked. Beat. Outcoached, outplayed. Outlasted. No overtly shady stuff. The holding call was bullshit but the Rams had a gazillion chances to score points and compliment a strong defensive effort.

I've moved on. With McV on the sideline i think we get another shot or two.

I'm not sure i'll ever truly move on from the 9/11 2001 Patriots Homeland Security Bowl though.

 

[SWAdude]

this is history, forgetaboutit
train

Even if we would have won that game it only would have lasted a year. And the memories that come with that year.

After that it is a number. And we fight for the next SB win. That is what makes this loyalty to my teams so enjoyable. Not the past, but what we are doing now with hopes for the future.

Otherwise you just become an insufferable whiner or midget fan. They are constantly stuck in the past, frustrated with the present, and have no idea how to hope for the future. Poor bastards.

 

[RamDino]

I'm not sure i'll ever truly move on from the 9/11 2001 Patriots Homeland Security Bowl though.

The hope for me moving on was the Rams beating their asses in that last Super Bowl. That would have righted the wrong. Actually, in my opinion, the Rams should have won BOTH Super Bowls. We have beaten that dead horse (Cooks) since the Super Bowl. But Mojo is right... the Rams had their chances to win that game... they just got beat. And when you have an injured Gurley and a missing Kupp, it certainly did not help.