GAME DAY Rams vs Saints Pre-season game #2

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Coliseum Ram said:
Yeah, but it was 3-3 at the time. Would've been 10-3 Saints. I don't have to tell you, the game could've played out completely differently. No big deal, just how I remember it, and 2019 was a shit season for us anyway. Goff was starting his fade.
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So, 27-16...still a win for the Rams!
 
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Allen2McVay said:
Plenty of good stuff here ... but we're talking about different things. I am not focused on the Saints.

I was simply pointing-out that the top-tier teams play in big games and compete for Lomabrdi Trophies; and many of those big games are close games that are impacted by a few critical plays and, sometimes, questionable officiating.

Fans of teams (ALL fans of ALL teams) tend to assume and take-for-granted the wins in these toss-up-games but then take a "woe-is-me, we got screded attitude" in the losses. It's a little silly, in my opinion.

As an example, I offer the last five years for the Rams ...
They won seven playoff games since 2021 ... five were extremely-close, down-to-the-wire, toss-up games.
Thay lost three playoff games since 2021 ... all three were extremely close, down-to-the-wire, toss-ups.

If the Rams have good health in 2026, they Should be a top-tier team, in the playoffs; and, in order to win a Lombardi, they will most-likely NEED to win one or two extremely close, down-to-the-wire, toss-up games.

My topic is different than your topic ... and in an extremely close, down-to-the-wire, toss-up game with a handful of huge plays, some of which were poorly officiated ... Robey-Coleman did commit pass interference
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Oh not doubt we won the game because of the timing of the penalty. And you're 100% right about the winners simply accepting the win without conceding it was because of a bad call, while the losers adopt a "woe is me, we got screwed attitude". But that's human nature in sports fandom. As winners you can always have some nut justify it because of something that happened in the 1st quarter. :sunglasses: :laugh4:

How about the Buccaneer fans? Tommy the Goat, got his first ever and only unsportsmanlike penalty in that game in 2021. But they overcame it by getting to the Rams 30 for a FG. Unfortunately, they missed!!!

Or more accurately, in 2014 at Dallas, the Lions face a 3rd and 1, 8:28 left in the game, 20-17 Detroit. Stafford targets TE Brandon Pettigrew but LB Anthony Hitchens does everything but sodomize the guy and no penalty is called. There's 8:23 left in the game and Cowboys leading by 3. A penalty there might have changed the outcome of the game but Cowboys fans acted like Ram fans in 2018 and totally ignored the bad call. When you see the replay you can't believe there was no call on an obvious DPI. They actually called DPI then picked the flag up. "There is no foul on the play"

Hitchens/Pettigrew
 
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Coliseum Ram said:
He makes that play we win the Super Bowl and our history is much different. The moment was too big for him. 2nd tier safety.
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Not sure what you mean by second tier safety but if you’re calling in question his success as a NFL football player I’m calling BS. Look it up if you don’t recall:




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Coliseum Ram said:
He (Nolan Cromwell) makes that play we win the Super Bowl and our history is much different. The moment was too big for him. 2nd tier safety.
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dang said:
Not sure what you mean by second tier safety but if you’re calling in question his success as a NFL football player I’m calling BS. Look it up if you don’t recall:



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Oh right. He won the Super Bowl as a coach with the Packers. I take it ALL back.
 
dang said:
yeah, I should’ve removed the Super Bowl bullet, but if you ignore all the other bullets, then I question your ability to objectively valuate the career of an NFL player.
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Saw him with my own eyes. Good player, not quite a great player. And as we know he could have won us that Super Bowl with a basic catch. Am I holding that drop against him? Perhaps.....
 
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dang said:
yeah, I should’ve removed the Super Bowl bullet, but if you ignore all the other bullets, then I question your ability to objectively valuate the career of an NFL player.
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I know you didn't mean the Super Bowl thing, dang pal, I just couldn't resist. Bit of a cheap shot by me.
 
PARAM said:
Oh not doubt we won the game because of the timing of the penalty. And you're 100% right about the winners simply accepting the win without conceding it was because of a bad call, while the losers adopt a "woe is me, we got screwed attitude". But that's human nature in sports fandom. As winners you can always have some nut justify it because of something that happened in the 1st quarter. :sunglasses: :laugh4:

How about the Buccaneer fans? Tommy the Goat, got his first ever and only unsportsmanlike penalty in that game in 2021. But they overcame it by getting to the Rams 30 for a FG. Unfortunately, they missed!!!

Or more accurately, in 2014 at Dallas, the Lions face a 3rd and 1, 8:28 left in the game, 20-17 Detroit. Stafford targets TE Brandon Pettigrew but LB Anthony Hitchens does everything but sodomize the guy and no penalty is called. There's 8:23 left in the game and Cowboys leading by 3. A penalty there might have changed the outcome of the game but Cowboys fans acted like Ram fans in 2018 and totally ignored the bad call. When you see the replay you can't believe there was no call on an obvious DPI. They actually called DPI then picked the flag up. "There is no foul on the play"

Hitchens/Pettigrew
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As a Ram fan myself, I can tell you I didn’t ignore the call, I just thought the totality of no-calls in that game favored the Saints.
 
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Coliseum Ram said:
Saw him with my own eyes. Good player, not quite a great player. And as we know he could have won us that Super Bowl with a basic catch. Am I holding that drop against him? Perhaps
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I assume you're also holding the drop (or muffed punt if you want to call it that) by Xavier Smith against him then too (NFCC 2025 Season to be clear)?
 
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Karate61 said:
I assume you're also holding the drop (or muffed punt if you want to call it that) by Xavier Smith against him then too (NFCC 2025 Season to be clear)?
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Not really. We weren't staring a win in the face if he catches that punt. If Cromwell catches the INT we are going to beat the mighty Steelers and change the entire history and trajectory of the Franchise. I am probably being too dramatic....
 
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Coliseum Ram said:
Not really. We weren't staring a win in the face if he catches that punt. If Cromwell catches the INT we are going to beat the mighty Steelers and change the entire history and trajectory of the Franchise. I am probably being too dramatic....
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Right...what would the Rams franchise have looked like going forward had they pulled out the win in this Super Bowl. Still one of my favorite Rams games, even with the loss. I loved the players on that team.
 
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Karate61 said:
Right...what would the Rams franchise have looked like going forward had they pulled out the win in this Super Bowl. Still one of my favorite Rams games, even with the loss. I loved the players on that team.
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Can you imagine what that would have done for our esteem? I was 13 at the time. Had my team actually won a Super Bowl at that age, who knows. We would have been "struttin," that's for sure....
 
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Coliseum Ram said:
Can you imagine what that would have done for our esteem? I was 13 at the time. Had my team actually won a Super Bowl at that age, who knows. We would have been "struttin," that's for sure....
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I was 12. All I know is that over the years from 12-29 I was constantly laughed at and teased by my friends and later co-workers for being a Rams fan...the same old sorry ass Rams. Would had been different if Cromwell got the damn interception...lol!
 
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