The "It's One (Bleep)ing Game and the Season's Still Young" Thread

[Karate61]

Every team in every sport has had a massive blowout loss. Everyone in this league has had that one bad game, including Super Bowl winners, World Series winners, Stanley Cup winners, soccer team championships (around the world; don't know every one) winners, NBA championship winners, all the way down to college and high school.

Here's an applicable memory. 9ers were blown out week 5 of 1994 season, and went on to win a Super Bowl. May still be hope for a Rams turn around this season.

I used AI to write a quick summary:

The 40-8 blowout win by the Philadelphia Eagles over the San Francisco 49ers took place in Week 5 of the 1994 regular season (on October 2, 1994).

Yes, the 49ers did win the Super Bowl that season.

Despite the embarrassing home loss to the Eagles dropping them to a 3-2 record and causing local fans to call for head coach George Seifert's firing, the game served as a major turning point. San Francisco went on a massive run, finishing the regular season 13-3, defeating the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Championship, and ultimately crushing the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.

 

[gogoat1]

Look fellas, when the Niners have all their guys........ they can be really good. As much shit as Shanahan takes around here he knows what he is doing. He has been Kryptonite to McVay as long as both have been in the NFC West. Most of us were hoping we would get Shanahan when the interviews were happening after Fisher got fired. But this McVay guy blew the Rams away and they never got to Kyle, the rest is history.
This game reminded me of when the Rams would get beat up by the Niners all the time a few years back.
McVay did not have the guys ready. They did not look like themselves in any way. Niners wanted it more and it showed. You think they were not tired of this Super Team shit ! The rest of the NFL is and they are taking it personally.
To be fair, it was the media and not the Rams saying this crap.
Maybe there is something to this flying west is not the same as flying east . Even McVay looked slow and tired on the sideline.
Just get the guys ready and beat the Giants. I mean, beat up on them. No prisoners, run the score up.
Dump the soft zone, get in their faces.
What is the worst that can happen ? We lose 27-7 ?

 

[PhillyRam]

Look fellas, when the Niners have all their guys........ they can be really good. As much shit as Shanahan takes around here he knows what he is doing. He has been Kryptonite to McVay as long as both have been in the NFC West. Most of us were hoping we would get Shanahan when the interviews were happening after Fisher got fired. But this McVay guy blew the Rams away and they never got to Kyle, the rest is history.
This game reminded me of when the Rams would get beat up by the Niners all the time a few years back.
McVay did not have the guys ready. They did not look like themselves in any way. Niners wanted it more and it showed. You think they were not tired of this Super Team shit ! The rest of the NFL is and they are taking it personally.
To be fair, it was the media and not the Rams saying this crap.
Maybe there is something to this flying west is not the same as flying east . Even McVay looked slow and tired on the sideline.
Just get the guys ready and beat the Giants. I mean, beat up on them. No prisoners, run the score up.
Dump the soft zone, get in their faces.
What is the worst that can happen ? We lose 27-7 ?

I said in another thread, the additions of Greenlaw, Warner, and Bosa, over last yrs defense, is a bigger upgrade than Garrett, McDuffie, and Watson. This is especially true when you consider they were not new. They know the system and what they want to do. It might take time for Garrett to feel at home in this defense.

 

[snackdaddy]

Didn't we start 3-6 one season and 1-4 the next? Still made the playoffs both times. So I'm gonna look to that for comfort. A win or loss in the first game doesn't define the season. We could still win 12 or 13 games. Or we could lose a lot of games. I don't know. I think the next game will tell us more. While I do think we're still a contender, I also think we aren't as good as everyone thought. I think we'll be in the mix with a number of teams trying to win a championship. Who comes out on top is anyone's guess.

 

[dang]

The Denver/Philly/Buffalo stretch will be huge. Now have to win 2 of 3.

The Rams Need to start with a foundational win against the Giants.
The defense will come together but it may take another 2 or 3 games. There are 4 or 5 new starters (Speights is a goner) that need to mesh with the other starters.
The offense is a bigger concern as they had all of their starters back. RBs looked good but the pass game was flacid. Stafford likely wont play that bad again this year but they have to find receivers other than Nacua or they will struggle.

 

[RamFan58years]

We could still win 12 or 13 games. Or we could lose a lot of games. I don't know.

 

[Snaz]

It might be one game but glaring issues that can continue to plague this team.

Myles Garrett's knee issue
The Soft Zone Bend and Break Defense
QB Matthew Stafford... Did he fall off a cliff or still have it (They praised him in the preseason)
WR Davante Adams? Why out so much?

 

[RamsSince1969]

Ask Blue Jay fans if its not heart wrenching!!!!

Go Dodgers!

My son went to theDodgers game last weekend and they had bobblehead night: The Catch!

 

[kmramsfan]

My son went to theDodgers game last weekend and they had bobblehead night: The Catch! View attachment 77019

For a bobblehead, that's not bad.
Kiki should be looking at the ball, though.
Kind of a gay looking stare goin' on there.

 

[PhillyRam]

I was just thinking this morning, while GMF was talking about Atlanta's QB situation, had Penix never gotten hurt, maybe Atlanta loses a few more games down the stretch last year. So then the Rams are picking around 7th instead of 13th. So then maybe they pass on Simpson and take someone else at 7. Then the trade maybe never happens since they need to keep the 27' first and we still have Verse.

Funny how that could have easily turned out that way. Then again maybe we draft Tyson and are in worse shape in terms of potentially wasting this yrs #1 if he never stays healthy.

 

[Oyster]

It wasn't so much the loss that bothers me. It's was the lack of effort shown by the whole team. An off season to prepare for the opener against our biggest enemy and they came out with that effort.

Going forward we may lose some more games but I want to see our best efforts out there.

Now, let's go kick some ass!

 

[den-the-coach]

The Myles Garrett injury has me very concerned about this season and beyond. If that knee is bad, this could derail the Rams for more than just this season. Currently, that is my only concern. BTW if that was an issue, Garret should have be clean about that prior to the trade.

 

[Soul Surfer]

We should all just blame it on jet lag and move on with our lives.

Do I think it was just jet lag?
No I do not.

But jet lag is my story
and I'm sticking with it!

 

[Soul Surfer]

The Myles Garrett injury has me very concerned about this season and beyond. If that knee is bad, this could derail the Rams for more than just this season. Currently, that is my only concern. BTW if that was an issue, Garret should have be clean about that prior to the trade.

I want to know how we missed a knee injury on a crazy ginormous contract.

 

[den-the-coach]

I want to know how we missed a knee injury on a crazy ginormous contract.

Rams did not sign him, he had a contract prior to joining Los Angeles. Now, there should have been a physical and I have confidence in the medical staff, but before he came to Los Angeles, Garrett had never missed time and now this. That is why I am very concerned because if this injury is something that needs to be corrected, we might not see either Garrett or Donald for that matter for the rest of this season.

 

[Faceplant]

Why does anyone think the knee was an issue PRIOR to Garret joining the team. I thought I saw him tweak it pulling up to not hit Stafford in a practice clip.

 

[Coliseum Ram]

Rams did not sign him, he had a contract prior to joining Los Angeles. Now, there should have been a physical and I have confidence in the medical staff, but before he came to Los Angeles, Garrett had never missed time and now this. That is why I am very concerned because if this injury is something that needs to be corrected, we might not see either Garrett or Donald for that matter for the rest of this season.

Dosent matter if its a sign or trade. A complete and total physical takes place under either condition, as it took place with this one. Garrett doesn't have a "bum knee," just started experiencing it this Camp. Cleveland was not looking to deal this guy.

 

[Soul Surfer]

Kind of a gay looking stare goin' on there.

"Kind of gay" !?!
Heres how I remember "The Catch".

This bobblehead looks like somebody offering up their booty.

 

[den-the-coach]

Dosent matter if its a sign or trade. A complete and total physical takes place under either condition, as it took place with this one. Garrett doesn't have a "bum knee," just started experiencing it this Camp. Cleveland was not looking to deal this guy.

Well, obviously I hope Garrett is fine, however, last season when the 49ers played the Browns, they sacked Purdy like a dozen times and Garrett had several pressures and sacks. Now Williams was not playing, but I just have a bad feeling about this, hopefully, it's nothing and we will get to see the HOF player we acquired from Cleveland.

 

[Coliseum Ram]

Well, obviously I hope Garrett is fine, however, last season when the 49ers played the Browns, they sacked Purdy like a dozen times and Garrett had several pressures and sacks. Now Williams was not playing, but I just have a bad feeling about this, hopefully, it's nothing and we will get to see the HOF player we acquired from Cleveland.

Everyone should read this. Garrett still had Elite "get-off" in this game. Nothing wrong with him, whole team had "blah's" from the trip. This game will be remembered as a "popcorn-fart" when we are playing late January.

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This was the fourth time in Garrett’s career that he recorded no tackles and no sacks, but it doesn’t mean that he was sluggish. In fact, Garrett recorded a get-off of 0.59 seconds, per Next Gen Stats, which isn’t just “elite”.

It’s more elite than elite.

Garrett, the NFL’s top pass rusher, had a get-off of .70 seconds in 2025. This was significantly quicker than that. Likely one of the best marks of his career for a single game.