The funny thing is that Cardinals didnt come out flat, play sloppy or look unprepared.
Despite what their fans want to believe, we just outplayed them.
A damn good game. Damn good.
I think they played as well as could be expected. Feasting on lesser teams and not getting that the Rams are emerging as a powerhouse cost the fans.
I lost a little respect for both of those guys.
Just gave the Rams ZERO credit.....none.........
Dude, watching him throw his players under the bus like a little toddler tantrum...made me appreciate Fisher and Foles so much more. He just embarrassed himself and his players by not acknowledging that we beat them with talent and effort and they were in it to the end.
Fitz is all class. Love that dude. He should be a coach one day. Sharp and humble and kicks ass.
"from 20 to 20 we moved the football we just bogged down in the redzone." It AMAZES me that teams just can't grasp that it's intentional. I hope to god, all season, teams keep thinking they are good because they get yards and forget there are no points for yards. I LOVE that the Rams D is overlooked in the rankings because they give up yards and not points. LOVE it. Makes everyone underestimate them.
We just played a thoroughly mediocre team at home and lost.
No, you assumed we were mediocre and lost. Keep assuming, we love it!
It's a bitter pill to swallow and now I know how Seattle feels.
Yes you do. Yes you do. Wait till you come here! THAT will be bitter!
Bad thing is all we talked about was dominating the rams. Yea right. The cards are the one getting dominated.
Here's a fan who is realistic and realises they played well, just not well enough to beat the emerging Rams.
Double blow as it gives the Rams new life in the division.
It doesn't GIVE us anything, we TOOK the 2 best teams in the division and you ain't seen nothin' yet!
After last week, I thought we would at least be able to keep down the mediocre QBs of the league, but we got worked today despite being rested.
YES! I LOVE opposing fans that think Foles, who has set NFL records the almost retired Palmer couldn't dream of, is mediocre.
Foles was just on. He threw 2 perfectly thrown TD passes that had excellent coverage. Sometimes it's just not your day. He probably won't throw 2 better passes all year.
I bet he does asshat. I bet that was just a flash of what he can do when slightly protected. He isn't the holder of the best pass to INT ratio in NFL history for nothing.
There's no doubt that Cards are the better team.
No, actually, there IS doubt, just not among uninformed Cards fans. You are aware you lost in your own house, right?
3 times in the redzone on what like 4 yard line average and they couldn't score a TD??
Yes. The best redzone D in the NFL. Did I not mention that before the ban?
No way Foles can lead his team to a comeback win.
The Cards offense was not intimidated, those dudes were pressing hard all through the game and moving up and down the effing field almost at will. Their lack of TDs in the redzone was the story of the game because it bought time for the Rams to get enough offense together.
And this is what we will see all season. Rams are not trying to stop the dink and dunk and short runs between the 20s. They LET the small stuff. Why? I asked the same thing many times in my head. I've has many of my personalities screaming at each other.
I now have a working theory:
When the Rams defend against the long game, they make teams throw and run over and over and over. This multitude of plays creates turnover opportunities. Every play has risk, the more the better, then shut them down in the redzone. TOs and low scoring makes the Rams offense happy.
I haven't lost any respect for Arians or the Cards after watching that game. The opposite actually... They're a very complete team and over the course of 16 games I still think they'll win more games than our Rams because they're more consistent.
Man, you had me going. They are good. I LOVE them and hope they squat and shit on the Niners and Hawks. Win more games? I don't think you see that the Rams were inconsistent without a QB and, this season, without a line, WR1, RB1 and RB2. Gurley and Austin are going to have MONSTER games, IMHO, and the Rams will be in every game. Except Wash. That was the outlier.
Tomorrow is time for the Team to put some Fear into the Rams. So tired of the overblown Rams media hype. Oooo they beat Seattle at St. Louis to start the season therefore they just Must be the superior Team in the NFC West.
This would be so much better if we could match up the before and after comments for maximum beat down.
The Rams are simply a better team in the division, as they showed against Seattle in the season opener. --Gregg Rosenthal"
My new favorite prognosticator.
I like the comment that was made how a good reason the national outlook on our first three opponents, to paraphrase, is that they were somewhat weak, but to counter that myopic view is that we are the reason they're viewed that way!
Until you realise they have 1 win among them, and then reality sets in. They sucked and the Cards didn't make them suck.
The hype of the Rams D-line might just be because of its novelty in today's NFL.
Or because it's so damn badass. One or the other, you choose.
And it's not like it was an embarrassing loss. I think we out gained them by 100 yards. And that's with -3 in TOs.
Again, this is what we will hear all season because they just refuse to grasp we don't care about yards, we care about points and TOs.
The Cardinals gave up a ton of yards to
Todd Gurley, but almost all of them came on a handful of carries, when the defensive players lost discipline.
Poor poor Cardinals. They lost discipline against a RB that will destroy you. It's not you, it's me, I just need some space.
In the end, the Cardinals had plays to make, but they didn't make them. They outgained the Rams. They had the ball longer. But they turned the ball over, didn't create turnovers and were 2/11 on third down.
Yes, just as the Rams planned. Is it still a mystery to you?
I agree 100%
We got flat out played.
No excuses, they brought the pressure and energy and our players could not match it. Instead the Cards could not get in sinc To execute properly.
An informed fan says his piece. Good on you.
The Cards players were force fed a huge meal of some nasty tasting humble pie at home, in front of their fans.
I hope they never ever want to let that happen again.
Another.
eVEN Though the stats won’t bear this out, this line was built for running and we ran the ball better today that at any point this year.
Yes, I believe that could be true. Did they score?
In the second half Nick Foles + Todd Gurley beat Carson Palmer rushing his throws even when pressure wasn’t there because he was simply too unsettled by the end of the game.
"Unsettled" in football speak means complete panic mode hoping he survives the game.
The game plan was on point, unfortunately the players bought into their own hype, in fairness to them though it’s been a loooong time and it was pretty epic pummeling Frisco the way they did. Hopefully this game brought them back to earth.
Let's hop it did and let's hope you change Cardinals hype to Rams underappreciated before it's too late. Or don't.
