Rams Thread

[Sez.EJ]

Rams 17 browns 13. When you can't run block (and start a guy off the street) and you can't pass block, and you drop the few passes the qb has time to throw.. You lose. Not to mention Steven Jackson is healthy..Trust me it won't be the passing game of the Rams that beats us.. I think our offensive line will be our demise.. AGAIN

Sorry for the negative vibe..but if you can't block and tackle...not much else matters. Certainly not the play calling.. if you cannot execute a simple off tackle run or block long enough for a 3 step drop..it's pretty depressing. Oh.. This just in.. We can't stup the run very well either.

[Neo]

Originally Posted by Sez.EJ

Rams 17 browns 13. When you can't run block (and start a guy off the street) and you can't pass block, and you drop the few passes the qb has time to throw.. You lose. Not to mention Steven Jackson is healthy..Trust me it won't be the passing game of the Rams that beats us.. I think our offensive line will be our demise.. AGAIN

Sorry for the negative vibe..but if you can't block and tackle...not much else matters. Certainly not the play calling.. if you cannot execute a simple off tackle run or block long enough for a 3 step drop..it's pretty depressing. Oh.. This just in.. We can't stup the run very well either.

I agree with the score. This is probably the last game until the NFL puts it's foot on our head and pushes us under the surface of the water. I give credit where credit is DUE. Until the Browns show me something, I have to assume they can win against any team.

[hammertime]

After a fast and furious week of practices the Browns trade Cribbs for a 5th rounder and aquire an aging Ben Gay who tears up St.Louis for 3 td's and 200 combined yards.

Browns 31- Rams 34

[OzDawg]

I predict we win....27-13

[Jax Dawg]

If Shurmur doesn't install some new wrinkles to the offense this week we will lose again and I'll say he was the biggest mistake of the Mike Homgren era. I don't have a lot of confidence in Shurmur to do anything different so let me jsut call for his firing now. Shurmur is making us all cynical.

I'm started to think Golfer was on the money with his conspiracy theory - Shurmur blames verything on McCoy to get another year then looks just as awful next year until he finally gets fired.

[Greythan]

Browns 24, Rams 16

Defense holds the Rams to 1 TD on 4 red zone trips, Cribbs scores another TD, and just like I called for last week we get some type of gimmick TD (fake punt, pick 6, punt return, etc).

[Enigmatic Evil]

This game is going to be like the Seattle game, that's the vibe I get, except we should see (somewhat) better football. I'm going to say Browns 13 - Rams 10. We get a TD pass out of Colt (because our running game isn't going to do jack).

Then my gut tells me that the Rams are going to roll us, I really don't know. Like many, optimism is not in my blood with the Browns right now. I'd like to see some signs that things are turning around a bit and share the love with our plethora of 3rd string RB's because Ogbonnaya isn't going to surprise us. I don't expect him to.

The defense plays well, especially our secondary, maybe we get 2-3 sacks. I'd like to see us get a pick. Force a fumble, the aggressive kind of D that's been over looked all year.

[Brown Warrior]

Cribbs says they have lots of surprises coming (that include him). I'm intrigued. Love to see him used in an innovative way other than a 20-year project to turn him into a conventional WR.

Gee... all the running backs are out. How about that?

[Bandaid]

Things that I would like to see from our dismal offense:

1. Patricia Shurmur...Get your face from behind that damn cheat sheet!!!! No one is trying to read your lips attempting to steal your next play...THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT'S COMING!!!! Hell, the opposing defenses know your Pop Warner offense better than you or your players!!!

2.Try something...anything.. innovative on offense. The single wing ,the double wing, the bi-wing, the bi polar, the single bisexual cheerleader double reverse cowgirl fumble-rusque....ANYTHING!!! Maybe give the straight T a shot, three yards and a cloud of dust worked for Woody,hell, anything is better than the one yard and a whimper Weak Calamatious Offense we're used to seeing!!!

3.Split Armond Smith out wide and play catch me if you can....McCoy just heave the rock as far as you can and let Smith try to catch up with it. Who gives a shit whether it's complete or not or intercepted. Try it from the other side, try it from the slot, if nothing else it'll clear some of the cobwebs that have formed around Colt's rotator cuff and Smith might get some relief from the splinters taking root in his ass!

4. Greg Little...catch a fricking football,tuck said football into ones arm and run over someone!! You're a big boy now.... start playing like it!!

I've got some others but my mother is calling me up from the basement for cookies and milk.

[Neo]

Originally Posted by Brown Warrior

Cribbs says they have lots of surprises coming (that include him). I'm intrigued. Love to see him used in an innovative way other than a 20-year project to turn him into a conventional WR.

Gee... all the running backs are out. How about that?

Maybe they will try him a right tackle?

[Greythan]

Scary as hell:

Journalist Jim Thomas who covers the Rams:

Q: How was Shurmur viewed when he was with the Rams and what was the overall sentiment when he left to become head coach of the Browns?


A: “Well, I think ‘Joe fan’ was surprised that he became the head coach. If you remember the last game, the Rams were going into Seattle with a chance to win the AFC West if they win the game. [The Rams lost] 16-6, and they didn’t move the ball well. So I think if you would have taken a poll to see if Shurmur should be rehired, maybe the vast majority of the fans would have said the Rams probably should fire him. Then he ended up as head coach of the Browns. So that was the image and part of it was because of a lot of short passes and an offense that didn’t score a lot of points. But when you consider that he had a rookie quarterback [Sam Bradford], a rookie left tackle [Rodger Saffold], a right tackle in Jason Smith who’s basically a rookie and next to no wide receivers to work with, he did a pretty good job in St. Louis. They had averaged only 10.9 points a game [in 2009], and they scored a touchdown more a game [in Shurmur’s second season as offensive coordinator]. … One of the biggest criticisms from not just fans but some media and columnists was that they needed to take more downfield shots. But the West Coast offense is more of a timing thing, the Rams really didn’t have deep threats at receiver and I think he did it partly to protect Bradford. He did a good job in developing Bradford, and I think he got a lot out of the offense. There were some instances where philosophically he was hamstrung by [Rams coach Steve] Spagnuolo, I think, where Spagnuolo had a more conservative overall philosophy than maybe Shurmur would have liked.”

The underlined portion sure as hell isn't a rationale for the dink & dunk offense he oversees this year.

[Brown Warrior]

Let's be real: Browns lose at home to a 1-7 team with TONS of problems all over the field? Shit hits fan at accelerated pace. Human sacrifices ensue, players take to the Twitters to let you know it's everybody else's fault but them and Cribbs, etc.