[Week 1] Arizona @ St. Louis

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[red33]

Rams win. Sjax huge game.

24-10 Rams.

 

[WalkMan]

Rams

 

[stevsta]

rams lead in the first half fall off in the second

final score 13-10

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

One of the few winnable games on the Rams schedule. This is not the Cards of the past two years.

Derek Anderson is not Kurt Warner.
Steve Breaston is not A. Boldin.
The O-Line has been reshuffled.
B. Berry retired, K. Dansby & A. Rolle are gone. That's three veteran defensive leaders, and 25% of the starting defense.

I think the Rams will win an ugly game, giving false hopes to fans moving forward, because as crazy as it sounds, they've been together longer, and the Cards are still figuring out how this team is going to settle in and gel.

19-10, Rams

 

[JMeist]

One of the few winnable games on the Rams schedule. This is not the Cards of the past two years.

Derek Anderson is not Kurt Warner.
Steve Breaston is not A. Boldin.
The O-Line has been reshuffled.
B. Berry retired, K. Dansby & A. Rolle are gone. That's three veteran defensive leaders, and 25% of the starting defense.

I think the Rams will win an ugly game, giving false hopes to fans moving forward, because as crazy as it sounds, they've been together longer, and the Cards are still figuring out how this team is going to settle in and gel.

19-10, Rams

Decent argument..But the Rams are one of the worst teams in the league with lots of holes. Honestly, if they can get pressure on Anderson I think they have a shot.

I think their defense will be fine it is going to be the offense that keeps them out of games -- but I don't think the Rams have the firepower to stop it.

24-17 Cards

 

[corbin]

One of the few winnable games on the Rams schedule. This is not the Cards of the past two years.

Derek Anderson is not Kurt Warner.
Steve Breaston is not A. Boldin.
The O-Line has been reshuffled.
B. Berry retired, K. Dansby & A. Rolle are gone. That's three veteran defensive leaders, and 25% of the starting defense.

I think the Rams will win an ugly game, giving false hopes to fans moving forward, because as crazy as it sounds, they've been together longer, and the Cards are still figuring out how this team is going to settle in and gel.

19-10, Rams

Derek Anderson does blow, he may lose the game single handily.

Steve Breaston puts up good numbers when Boldin is out and the team wins at a ridiculous rate when Boldin was injured, even in the playoffs.

O-Line is reshuffled but last year we didn't have much of a running game largely because of our line. With the additions of Hadnot and Faneca, our line has the potential to be better than last year. Not to mention Gandy really fell off and was more of a liability, glad he's gone.

The losses on defense are going to hurt, mainly Dansby. We did draft a linebacker who's been putting up monster games throughout the pre-season and impressing everyone. Not saying he will produce like Dansby but he should lighten the blow.

I still go with the Cardinals. Even though Derek Anderson is garbage, he is playing against a rookie in his first game. I can see both of them making their fair share of mistakes.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

If this game is in Arizona, I flip the score, 19-10 Arizona.

The Dome will have some juice for the first time in ages. I think if Bradford gets off to a good start with some short, easy to complete stuff, a little home field momentum can carry them for a quarter or so. If they establish Jackson early, they won't ask Bradford to do much.

The Rams defense will be a pleasant surprise this year. They are super young and will have plenty of ugly moments, but Atogwe, Long, and Laurinaitis are playmakers.

 

[jags224]

i think this game will be a low scoring boring game

 

[mcstl25]

Even though the Rams are winning with 8 minutes left, I can just feel the inevitable loss coming on. So many missed opportunities so far.

 

[SHOGUN]

Offense blew something terrible. Derek Anderson can't even get the ball to Fitz's general direction. Scary at how scattershot he is with the ball, even moreso when you know there are 15 more games to go.

Defense saved the day. I <3 Adrian Wilson and Steve Breaston.

First place!

 

[SHOGUN]

Also, Tim Hightower can eat a dick. The fumbling is ridiculous at this point. Completely unreliable.

 

[mcstl25]

Steve Breaston saved the day. When Rams DT Cliffton Ryan was running down the field you could just feel a fumble coming on. I was screaming at the TV for him to go down. It was basically over after that. So incredibly frustrating.

The Rams did actually look like a football team though, so that's a start. Good performance by Bradford, considering it was his first NFL game.

 

[Nukleopatra]

The 2nd interception killed us.

Rams are improving, and I finally have a reason to start watching the games again. But like I said, if a 1-15 record will get rid of Spags, I'll take it. The guy is a piece of shit.

Can we have Breaston? Thanks.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I knew I said I would give him a clean slate, and I did, but Spags is already back in the shithouse with me. The clock management on the final drive was high school level bad. It's funny how people would get on Martz for using too many timeouts, despite the fact no one can point to a single game where a lack of timeouts cost the Rams a win. Spags is the opposite, he simply won't use a timeout until it's too late. 0:20 left, still has two timeouts. They do you little good at that point from near midfield. Spags cost the Rams about :30 of valuable time. BE CONSISTANT STL, Spags better get ripped for this disturbing trend. Last yeat was his "rookie" year, he needs to know how to manage a clock by now, or put someone else in charge of it like Herm Edwards used to do with the Jets. Embarrassing.

And here we go again...went into the game with 4 WR's, and two got hurt. So we had Mark Clayton & Mardy Gillyard on the final drive, along with a limping Amendola, and Bradford is throwing 5 yard outs to TE Daniel Fells. Brandon Gibson would have come in handy, huh? Good thing that 6th DT was active, though.

And what kind of gameplan has a rookie in his first start throwing 55 times (in a close game)? Again, Martz would be ripped to shreds for this, Spags better get the same treatment. Where was SJax in the first half? He had 2 first Q carries.

Bradford played very well, the first INT was a bad throw, Wilson jumped all over that pass. The last INT means nothing, the second hurt, but again, he's just trying to make a play in a situation where he needs to.

The defense can be beat on the edge by the likes of Tim Hightower. Not good. Derek Anderson stinks, but give the DB's some credit, they are pretty good. Bartell had a bad year last year, but he was good in '08 and did a great job today. Atogwe is Atogwe, he's a stud.

The Ryan fumble was the difference. Very frustrating ending.

 

[red33]

i was impressed by bartell, the whole D actually. seemed more aggressive and stuff.

I thought going for it on 4th and 1 before the half was great, especially to call a PA pass there. But going for it on 4th and 10 down by 4 was retarded IMO. Rams still had 3 TOs and the D was holding AZ in check for most of the game.

Also Sjax was used enough OBV. I wonder if this game they wanted to try to speed up bradfords curve by putting the whole game on him.

 

[mcstl25]

I knew I said I would give him a clean slate, and I did, but Spags is already back in the shithouse with me. The clock management on the final drive was high school level bad. It's funny how people would get on Martz for using too many timeouts, despite the fact no one can point to a single game where a lack of timeouts cost the Rams a win. Spags is the opposite, he simply won't use a timeout until it's too late. 0:20 left, still has two timeouts. They do you little good at that point from near midfield. Spags cost the Rams about :30 of valuable time. BE CONSISTANT STL, Spags better get ripped for this disturbing trend. Last yeat was his "rookie" year, he needs to know how to manage a clock by now, or put someone else in charge of it like Herm Edwards used to do with the Jets. Embarrassing.

And here we go again...went into the game with 4 WR's, and two got hurt. So we had Mark Clayton & Mardy Gillyard on the final drive, along with a limping Amendola, and Bradford is throwing 5 yard outs to TE Daniel Fells. Brandon Gibson would have come in handy, huh? Good thing that 6th DT was active, though.

And what kind of gameplan has a rookie in his first start throwing 55 times (in a close game)? Again, Martz would be ripped to shreds for this, Spags better get the same treatment. Where was SJax in the first half? He had 2 first Q carries.

Bradford played very well, the first INT was a bad throw, Wilson jumped all over that pass. The last INT means nothing, the second hurt, but again, he's just trying to make a play in a situation where he needs to.

The defense can be beat on the edge by the likes of Tim Hightower. Not good. Derek Anderson stinks, but give the DB's some credit, they are pretty good. Bartell had a bad year last year, but he was good in '08 and did a great job today. Atogwe is Atogwe, he's a stud.

The Ryan fumble was the difference. Very frustrating ending.

Bottom line, if Ryan doesn't fumble, the Rams likely win.

The defense looked great, outside of the TD drive in the first half where the Cards ran the ball 6 or 7 times in a row and scored. Loved the blitz packages, and Chris Long looks like he's finally coming into his own. I feel good about the defense going forward.

One offense, I agree that the final drive was very poorly managed. Gotta call a timeout with :30 seconds left when you have two left. As for the rest of the game, Jackson could have been used more, but I liked how they didn't baby Bradford. Of course throwing the ball 55 times a game is wayyyy too much, but I thought he looked very good for his first start. The first interception was a bad read, but the other two were desperation passes on 4th down. He converted several big 3rd downs and, of course, the 4th and 1 at the end of the first half.

Also, Mark Clayton looks like a great pick up. It makes you realize how bad the Rams receivers are when a lifetime #3 receiver comes in and catches 9 or 10 passes with limited knowledge of the playbook (I'm assuming, since he's only been on the team for a week).

As frustrated as I was after the end of the game, I feel that things are turning for the better. After the last two years, it's hard not to improve though.