Vent thread - Rams vs 9ers

[Alaskan Ram]

I am only ashamed of myself. OP is being a little bitch. Just like I was watching the game. Pull yourself up man, and snap the fuck out of it.

One team went a week early to a acclimate; with starters who knocked some of the rust off in preseason. The other team didn’t. The 9ers added a hell of a player in Mike Evans as well.

I, as a fan, came into this game with an entitled attitude, believing my team was unbeatable. I waited the whole off season, and was not primed to deal with a loss to the team I hate most in the world.

I was a complete dick at my house watching the game. The Rams were rusty, tired mentally, and tired physically. And I too, during the game thought they should be ashamed of themselves. Fuck that. I am ashamed for the bad vibe I presented to my wife and children watching this game. I was mean to the dog too. Football has always been about the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Instead, this dad acted like a fucking bitch in front of his children.

I love my team. I hate the 9ers.

Football is back.

Am I man enough to watch it? It's a long season. Time to get the head right. It might be special if I set back and enjoy the ride.

 

[Fire Ants]

Average starting field position from kick returns:

Rams - 24.8
49ers - 40

Nice sample size.
...and a team that was ready vs a team that wasn't.

 

[Faceplant]

Why even open a vent thread if you are going to whine about people venting over one of the worst Ram performances of the last 10 years??

These players and coaches get paid a FUCK ton to do a job. They essentially work for US as it truly is our $$ that pays their salary. I would hold my employees to a higher standard than what we saw on Thursday. That was just unacceptable.

 

[RamsTheirWife]

Who knows. I thought this was a rare, balanced place to talk Rams. I'm on chill now from a few. I guess some just accept what happened.

 

[lilshapta]

I'm so glad we have young athletic rookies to help us out this season! Oh wait, our first and second round picks are useless/inactive. One is a backup QB and the other is TE#5. Would have been nice to have an athletic LB or a WR#3. Did Snead and McKay forget how putrid landman and speights were against both the pass and run last year?

 

[RamsSince1969]

I am only ashamed of myself. OP is being a little bitch. Just like I was watching the game. Pull yourself up man, and snap the fuck out of it.

One team went a week early to a acclimate; with starters who knocked some of the rust off in preseason. The other team didn’t. The 9ers added a hell of a player in Mike Evans as well.

I, as a fan, came into this game with an entitled attitude, believing my team was unbeatable. I waited the whole off season, and was not primed to deal with a loss to the team I hate most in the world.

I was a complete dick at my house watching the game. The Rams were rusty, tired mentally, and tired physically. And I too, during the game thought they should be ashamed of themselves. Fuck that. I am ashamed for the bad vibe I presented to my wife and children watching this game. I was mean to the dog too. Football has always been about the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Instead, this dad acted like a fucking bitch in front of his children.

I love my team. I hate the 9ers.

Football is back.

Am I man enough to watch it? It's a long season. Time to get the head right. It might be special if I set back and enjoy the ride.

It's Saturday and I feel a little better, but I don't like how a loss can affect me for an entire couple of days. Thank goodness for the vent thread and that "Name for the Defense" thread for some much needed heartbreak and comic relief. I also had such great expectations for this first game and to see the hated ones dink, dunk and Shula look like a deer in the headlights was shocking. Also shocking was how loaded the 49's team is. This version of the 49's is as good or better than the NFC Champ game 20-17 team IMHO. Cowherd pointed out 49's, last 5 years or so, always have a crazy winning record in September. 49's worst month of losses=January because they are all injured. Rams saw a rare fully healthy loaded 49's team that is a powerhouse. Trent Williams made MG look less than average. How is that even possible? The 49's might have the Avengers team that nobody here saw coming. I'm going to move on starting here with this post. Thanks Alaskan Ram for the use of the words "entitled attitude" and "unbeatable" because that described me perfectly. I'm flushing this game and here's to a new day. GO RAMS!!!!!!!

 

[OntarioRam]

Biggest issue for me is that our LBers are still awful. And they are going to be worse with Landman hurt now. It's hard to have an elite defence with 1 unit that is really bad because NFL level coaches can exploit that with the talent at their disposal at this level. LBer is a bit of an odd position IMO in that other positions are more impactful, but yet, to have a gaping weakness somewhere on defence, LBer would not be my first choice. There are much easier positional weakness to hide IMO. A weakness in the middle of the field that you can attack in 2 seconds or less with very quick passes that need almost no drop back from the QB is a problem. Good luck with your pass rush ever getting home. No surprise the 49ers cooked us yet again. Other teams will try to do it too. They won't be able to do it as effectively as Shanny. That's his bread and butter and he's an elite offensive play designer. But the Rams need a counter punch to this blue print and I am not sure they have it.

I cannot see all DCs we have had failing to see this. This is a Snead/McVay roster construction issue IMO. They don't seem to value the position. We finally had some LBer prowess with Ernest Jones and seemed content to lose him for nothing in his youth/prime which was bizarre.

I don't think the game was as one-sided as the score says. If the Rams score on the QB sneak it's a 3 point game. Sometimes games turn on a single play. This was one of them to my eye. The 49ers grabbed all momentum and never looked back.

Travel plans were ridiculous and I think did play a factor but cannot be blamed entirely on their own. I don't care what your experts say, or what you did in Europe. Australia is an entirely new ball game. Arriving that close to kick off simply doesn't pass the common sense test. The entire team looked to be lacking energy.

On to week 2.

EDIT - a fully healthy 49ers team, as sick as it makes me to say it, is as good as any roster in the NFL and should have as good odds at Super Bowl as anyone. Look at what they did last year with scrubs and a backup QB with half their roster on IR. Unfortunately for us, we got them week 1, when teams are generally at their healthiest. Fortunately, they are too old and brittle to stay healthy. They'll be way less dangerous when it matters. They already lost some players in our contest!

 

[Ramstien]

Oh, for the days of Hacksaw Reynolds.

 

[CGI_Ram]

It's Saturday and I feel a little better, but I don't like how a loss can affect me for an entire couple of days. Thank goodness for the vent thread

We got to lock this thread and move on later today, but the extra time makes sense to keep the rest of the board sane.

We will all feel better once we beat the Giants.

 

[RamFan503]

We got to lock this thread and move on later today, but the extra time makes sense to keep the rest of the board sane.

We will all feel better once we beat the Giants.

Locked it before I saw this. Sorry but IMO we really don't need to allow extra time. Let's all move on.

Now... To everyone on the board. Just because there is no longer a vent thread open, do NOT try to fill the void with vent threads disguised as your favorite peeve.