Great Season

[Bootleg]

After sleeping on it and getting some emotional distance, it was a great season.

McVay took a flawed roster heavy on offense, weak on defense, and atrocious on special teams within a hair's length of the Super Bowl. Can he and the Rams be criticized? Sure. But that's a bias. Every year 31 teams go home weeping and gnashing their teeth. Winning the Super Bowl is an extremely rare thing.

It's just entertainment. And overall I was very entertained.

 

[Jacobarch]

I've been wondering the same and then looked at the free agent list and don't see many "names" to get.

If you remember the rams traded for Ramsey and other players

 

[Loyal]

We went went one game farther than last year and I have chosen to be happy about that. Matthew Stafford. Is a great QB and deserves the MVP and I am happy about that too. I would like to trade down for picks in the top 100. Oh, and no more tiny CB’s, eh Les? We need some fast physically talented CB’s that can shut down TE’s that stand more than 6ft! Draft a player who was a home run hitter in college returning punts and kicks. How about an OT with tons of upside?
Get Bones back!
Enjoyed the year, even with @Merlin being a hambone!

 

[PhillyRam]

After sleeping on it and getting some emotional distance, it was a great season.

McVay took a flawed roster heavy on offense, weak on defense, and atrocious on special teams within a hair's length of the Super Bowl. Can he and the Rams be criticized? Sure. But that's a bias. Every year 31 teams go home weeping and gnashing their teeth. Winning the Super Bowl is an extremely rare thing.

It's just entertainment. And overall I was very entertained.

When the Rams were bad year in and year out, I would think we were all jealous of those franchises that were always good, always playing in big prime time games.

Unfortunately, now that we have been a bit spoiled by McVay, we now realize that it can be tough rooting for an annual contender. Unless things align perfectly for your team, you probably end the season very disappointed.

In 21', Arizona lost the last teg season game that year to give the Rams the division. SF took out the #1 seed in GB and the #2 seed in Dallas. The Rams rallied to win last second wins over TB & SF. Then pulled out a tough last minute win over the Bengals. A lot of shit fell their way to win it all.

That doesn't happen often. In a league that is so balanced now, whoever wins it will have to get breaks more often than not.

So it is basically hang on and enjoy the ride no matter how it ends.

 

[gogoat1]

I know this is the anti vent thread but I don’t think it was a great season because despite all the flaws the Rams are the best team in the league this year and should have won the SB hands down.

If those last 2 pass attempts were to either Puka, Devante or Parkinson we were going to be SB champs .
Hard one to swallow.

 

[Merlin]

I would like to trade down for picks in the top 100.

Is that you Les.

 

[Spider2YB]

If those last 2 pass attempts were to either Puka, Devante or Parkinson we were going to be SB champs .
Hard one to swallow.

Parkinson had a shot to make a big play like 3 plays prior and he dropped what could’ve possibly been a touchdown. Seattle just out schemed us on the last two plays. They dropped 8 into coverage, doubled multiple players, and no one was open. Puka got doubled on both plays. Davante’s route on third down was an out and up that took way too long to develop and on fourth down he was just completely and totally blanketed.

I DO think we should’ve tried a fade to Davante on third down. Even if it was incomplete it’s a play that can draw a DPI. I don’t know why we had him run such a slow developing route.

 

[dang]

I know this is the anti vent thread but I don’t think it was a great season because despite all the flaws the Rams are the best team in the league this year and should have won the SB hands down.

I loved the offense and there were really good defensive moments but I was never comfortable with the inconsistent pass rush and subpar pass coverage. It was close but the hole of having to win 4 on the road in the playoffs was too deep. Stellar CB play or a more effective pass rush would have put them over the top.

 

[Ramit]

Is that you Les.

 

[Tumak61]

Going on the road 3 straight weeks in tough conditions finally caught up to the good guys. Don't necessarily need the one seed, but you need to be able to host at least one playoff game. Our team looked tired at times against the hawks. I saw Verse stumble while trying to rush the passer. It was a bridge too far considering the brutal conditions they played in the week before. It was a great effort though and one of the most fun and interesting seasons I've watched of our team. Fun as hell.

 

[Soul Surfer]

Great season is winning a SB or at least making it. This was a frustrating season because we should have won a SB.

Maybe next year we won't beat ourselves like we did this time.
In my opinion we need;
A real return man.
One with real confident hands and knows when to call a fair catch.

A shutdown corner and an overall upgrade in our cornerbacks.
Even a more hard-hitting brutal Safety.

And what I always call for.
A real power running back/fullback lead blocker type.
I'm not taking anything away from Williams and Corum who do a great job.
But I would love to see a running back that wears the defensive line and linebackers down a little more so for the second half.

 

[DeaconJones]

I keep thinking.....................if the Rams had Denver's defense with our Offense........................ouch!!

Maybe just give us Patrick Surtain II.

 

[DeaconJones]

For all of the ST failures, the one you can't necessarily blame on management is Xavier Smith. He was basically rock solid for the almost 2 year period he had the kick return job. He chose to have his first miscues at the worst possible time. Hard to anticipate.

We need to appreciate this offense, especially Stafford and our passing game. As Joni Mitchell said "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone". This year I had trouble watching games of other teams because quite frankly they were typically both inferior to the Rams. We had the best show on O.

If Stafford comes back, and we have good injury ju ju, we might be blessed with another year of great football. Fingers crossed.

 

[Mojo Ram]

I love being a fan of a team that competes at a high level every year. Consistently relevant and often a true contender.

The alternative to that stinks.

 

[gogoat1]

Parkinson had a shot to make a big play like 3 plays prior and he dropped what could’ve possibly been a touchdown. Seattle just out schemed us on the last two plays. They dropped 8 into coverage, doubled multiple players, and no one was open. Puka got doubled on both plays. Davante’s route on third down was an out and up that took way too long to develop and on fourth down he was just completely and totally blanketed.

I DO think we should’ve tried a fade to Davante on third down. Even if it was incomplete it’s a play that can draw a DPI. I don’t know why we had him run such a slow developing route.

I can not stand fades if its a big play. IMO the are a run up the score play. Too many things have to go right on a fade. They look pretty and all that. But I am more about direct line of sight throws if its one you have to have. Back shoulder, hook, crosser slant ect.
I don't know why we do not see more plays where the WR looks like he is running to the corner for a fade, but he stops, the QB makes the throw before he turns around and hits him as he takes a step back to the QB.
A back shoulder on the goal line got us the SB win vs Cincy after all. And to our best receiver. Not 2 no name rooks.