Truth is..... We don't know.

[RamWoodie]

I'll say my worry is more about McVay at this point. We all should know by now he's not good with in-game adjustments...and at times he outsmart himself.

Haa any of that changed???

 

[OnceARam]

I remember the dark years when all I wanted was for our team to be competitive (i.e., 8-8).

Now I'm just hoping we play to win, rather than to not lose by too much.

This year is about the unknown future while enjoying the nostalgia of our SB victory.

Rather than focusing on wins and losses, I'll be looking at player development with an eye on our next dynastic team.

 

[WestCoastRam]

I'll say my worry is more about McVay at this point. We all should know by now he's not good with in-game adjustments...and at times he outsmart himself.

Haa any of that changed???

We haven't been good with in game adjustments since LaFleur left...

 

[Merlin]

We know some things.

We know we are not a contender. This is not the team who is going to run the division and win a high seed. This is the team that prays they can make the playoffs. It's pretty clear actually. So if you are thinking Super Bowl right now you're simply setting yourself up for disappointment and you will probably be one of the rage-filled posters in the vent threads this year.

But that doesn't mean we should throw in the towel. We're gonna win some games. Maybe the offense can carry us a bit further than we expect. We just are very dependent on the offense to produce at a high level consistently, and we are also dependent on health. We have very little depth at some spots and it's gonna hurt if we get into that depth.

Problem is everything has to be extremes nowadays. It's either "season over" defeatist thinking, to which I will never subscribe I don't care how dismal it looks, or having way too high expectations which end up causing a lot of anger during the season when the team doesn't live up to it.

Rams are somewhere in the middle I think. Where in the middle I have no idea but hopefully more towards the 7-9 win range. Fish would be proud.

 

[Ramstien]

I remember the dark years when all I wanted was for our team to be competitive (i.e., 8-8).

Now I'm just hoping we play to win, rather than to not lose by too much.

This year is about the unknown future while enjoying the nostalgia of our SB victory.

Rather than focusing on wins and losses, I'll be looking at player development with an eye on our next dynastic team.

I feel the exact same way.

 

[Ramstien]

It appears we are back to the old days Merlin, when we watched the Rams to see one or two good plays by the offense and a couple of big hits on defense.

 

[snackdaddy]

We know some things.

We know we are not a contender. This is not the team who is going to run the division and win a high seed. This is the team that prays they can make the playoffs. It's pretty clear actually. So if you are thinking Super Bowl right now you're simply setting yourself up for disappointment and you will probably be one of the rage-filled posters in the vent threads this year.

But that doesn't mean we should throw in the towel. We're gonna win some games. Maybe the offense can carry us a bit further than we expect. We just are very dependent on the offense to produce at a high level consistently, and we are also dependent on health. We have very little depth at some spots and it's gonna hurt if we get into that depth.

Problem is everything has to be extremes nowadays. It's either "season over" defeatist thinking, to which I will never subscribe I don't care how dismal it looks, or having way too high expectations which end up causing a lot of anger during the season when the team doesn't live up to it.

Rams are somewhere in the middle I think. Where in the middle I have no idea but hopefully more towards the 7-9 win range. Fish would be proud.

I feel like thinking this is a playoff team would be setting us up for disappointment. We have too many question marks. We don't have much that we know will be good enough. Mostly what we hope will be good enough.

 

[BriansRams]

Sigh.
You know what is gonna bug me. When we're in this year's super bowl and NO ONE gives me oodles and oodles of credit for calling it way before it happened.

 

[XXXIVwin]

But but but...I do know at this point!
Have you not seen the thread I started where I guarantee a superbowl appearance?
And I'm not even kidding. It's guaranteed.

Your powers of prognostication are deeply suspect my man @BriansRams. Perhaps you will soon write a post like this one you wrote a couple years ago:

"Here I am, showing up like a man to eat tons of crow.
I was wrong. I said [Whitworth would] probably not play again this season. I said at the very most he'd come back and try in the playoffs and play for only 1 half a game at the most. I was wrong. I admit it. (I'm so glad I was wrong because he helped a lot today, even though it was overly obvious he was no where near 100%)

The crow I am a eatin."

Remember that one?

Sorry to pick on ya and dredge up old posts of yours...!

Stick to PLAYING football, ya still got moves for an old guy. (I remember your highlight reel post). But PREDICTING things? Not so much.

Just razzing ya, buddy...

 

[Merlin]

It appears we are back to the old days Merlin, when we watched the Rams to see one or two good plays by the offense and a couple of big hits on defense.

Yes but the good thing is this time there's a light at the end of the tunnel not a train.

Sigh.
You know what is gonna bug me. When we're in this year's super bowl and NO ONE gives me oodles and oodles of credit for calling it way before it happened.

If and when you take that victory lap I will be glad to cheer you on.

 

[BriansRams]

Your powers of prognostication are deeply suspect my man @BriansRams. Perhaps you will soon write a post like this one you wrote a couple years ago:

"Here I am, showing up like a man to eat tons of crow.
I was wrong. I said [Whitworth would] probably not play again this season. I said at the very most he'd come back and try in the playoffs and play for only 1 half a game at the most. I was wrong. I admit it. (I'm so glad I was wrong because he helped a lot today, even though it was overly obvious he was no where near 100%)

The crow I am a eatin."

Remember that one?

Sorry to pick on ya and dredge up old posts of yours...!

Stick to PLAYING football, ya still got moves for an old guy. (I remember your highlight reel post). But PREDICTING things? Not so much.

Just razzing ya, buddy...

LOL. Good stuff sir. I have respect for your "razzing" of me, and am not too full of myself to take offense. It's all in good fun. But I'm telling you. I just feel it. This year we go to the superbowl. It's gonna happen.

 

[Loyal]

You bring up a good point

Tomlinson I think will be our nickle back and Raheem plays a ton of nickle back IIRC

As to the safeties, I could see Johnson as the Strong Safety and Fuller as the Free Safety and Lake/Yeast being the 3rd safety.

Get them some experience while keeping them fresh for the entire season.

Plus there will always be injuries.

Here's @den-the-coach Nickelback....

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiay8I5IPB8

 

[Loyal]

The truth is, I KNOW I am tired of Preseason and Training Camp. I look back and remember the agony of 6 preseason games. I want to see consequential NFL games with the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.

The Victory part is more fun.....

 

[WestCoastRam]

What I know:

- I'm excited to see our new running game
- I'm stoked for a healthy Stafford
- I think our offense could be good with a high level of health

- I fear we'll have 3-5 teams put up 30+ points on us
- I fear that our Dline will be pretty poor
- I think the 6.5 line is exactly right

 

[BriansRams]

Stick to PLAYING football, ya still got moves for an old guy. (I remember your highlight reel post). But PREDICTING things? Not so much.

Just razzing ya, buddy...

Also, funny you should mention me playing football. I still enjoy it. I'm 56 years old now so I've lost a step (well, 4 steps) but here's recent video of me.
Can I get your approval on this throw?

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View: https://youtu.be/7A5zWUkzUaU

 

[XXXIVwin]

Also, funny you should mention me playing football. I still enjoy it. I'm 56 years old now so I've lost a step (well, 4 steps) but here's recent video of me.
Can I get your approval on this throw?

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View: https://youtu.be/7A5zWUkzUaU

Dude, nice throw! But I gotta admit I was truly impressed by that highlight run you posted a couple years ago... impressive agility for a guy in his 50's!

I'm 53 now, and still play in a weekend pick-up soccer game. It's about 90% 20-somethings, and 10% old farts like me. I can still trap and pass accurately, but man, my speed and quickness just don't compare anymore.

Anyway, keep it going dude!

 

[XXXIVwin]

LOL. Good stuff sir. I have respect for your "razzing" of me, and am not too full of myself to take offense. It's all in good fun. But I'm telling you. I just feel it. This year we go to the superbowl. It's gonna happen.

Glad to hear you are taking my post in the good spirit it was intended. Yeah, I think the offense has a chance to be good again... sounds like Stafford is killing it in practices this year. But our defense is just so young and inexperienced.... hard for me to imagine a bunch of UDFA's and 6-th rounders can be dominant right away.

But yeah, if by some miracle the Rams make the Super Bowl this year I'll be happy to join @Merlin and start a thread in your honor. *

*But it ain't gonna happen...

 

[El Chapo Jr]

I'm not seeing that. We have Donald (10th yr), Johnson and Witherspoon (7th), Fuller, Murchison and Copeland (4th), Jones, B. Brown, J. Williams and Rochell (3rd season). We're young at CB and Edge. But with guys like Durant, Kendrick and Tomlinson, there's talent to be tapped. Edge is extremely young though.

Gaines didn't see a lot of snaps and then he was a force. Same with Nick Scott.

And you can call it depth, despite the inexperience. By midseason that will change and our depth may be a positive.

Gonna take longer than midseason for our depth to get better. This is a try out year for a lot of youngsters to see if they are Rams beyond this year. With all the cap space opening up next year, you can bet if a certain position isn't up to snuff, they'll be replaced in some sense. Witherspoon isn't a savior at CB and my concern with him is he's been super injury prone, Fuller hasn't proven reliable either, Johnson severly underperformed recently so he's got a lot to prove. The fact that you listed Kendrick as someone that possibly has talent to be tapped is laughable as that guy needs to show he won't get burned first before I take him serious as nothing more than a JAG. There is other young talent around the defense that can come thru and hopefully does, but man are you banking on young pups to get with the program sooner than is usually done. I will root for them to get there, but that is an extremely tall ask.

 

[dang]

Keeping in the mode of “positive” thinking. I’m positive the Rams won’t sniff a run in the playoffs this year. I’m also positive the Rams will be well positioned to win the NFCCG next year.

 

[Mojo Ram]

We know some things.

We know we are not a contender. This is not the team who is going to run the division and win a high seed. This is the team that prays they can make the playoffs. It's pretty clear actually. So if you are thinking Super Bowl right now you're simply setting yourself up for disappointment and you will probably be one of the rage-filled posters in the vent threads this year.

But that doesn't mean we should throw in the towel. We're gonna win some games. Maybe the offense can carry us a bit further than we expect. We just are very dependent on the offense to produce at a high level consistently, and we are also dependent on health. We have very little depth at some spots and it's gonna hurt if we get into that depth.

Problem is everything has to be extremes nowadays. It's either "season over" defeatist thinking, to which I will never subscribe I don't care how dismal it looks, or having way too high expectations which end up causing a lot of anger during the season when the team doesn't live up to it.

Rams are somewhere in the middle I think. Where in the middle I have no idea but hopefully more towards the 7-9 win range. Fish would be proud.