re: Why the Rams aren't scary.

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Problem is half our ol is banged up and we may be missing Lattimore

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Ummmmm?? did he get hit by a or something?

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Contain Gurley
Defensively put LA down and distances that neutralize Gurley's impact
Dont turn the ball over
Their WRs arent enough on their own to dominate a game against the better teams in the NFL.

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Aside from the obvious injuries and turnovers changing the complexion of a game, a lot will be predicated on:

1) How the refs let them play. If the Rams secondary are allowed the same physical leeway as the Cowboys, we are in trouble. I would imagine Donald will be lined up over Peat most of the game and if Drew can't get the ball out quickly, I don't think Peat will hold up. Giving Drew time in the pocket helps, but he doesn't need it. It is when his WRs can't get separation is really when he struggles. Get early pressure AND have our WRs struggle TO GET separation is when we have games like the Cowboys.

2) Getting off the field on 3rd down. I am not so much worried about shutting down Gurley or Anderson. They can get yards and we will be fine; however generally speaking when a team is able to gash another team with the run, they sustain drives by picking up the thirds and short/medium. Yard totals for RBs are as important as getting stops on 3rd down.

If the game is called moderately to even, I like our chances. If we force the Rams to have to gun it to stay in the game, I like our chances. If we can't get separation AND have early pressure, our offense will struggle. If we can get off the field, particularly due to the Rams running game, we are in trouble.

Stats are great. Thanks for the info, but have you been watching the games? This is going to be a rough Sunday afternoon!

By the stats, we dominated the Eagles in the first half & were loosing.

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This was posted when people thought Lattimore got hurt against the Panthers.

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Well if last week's performance is how Lattimore plays when he's hurt, he needs to be hurt more often.

Plenty of smart national media folks have been picking NOLA to progress.

We gonna see.

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This was posted when people thought Lattimore got hurt against the Panthers.

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Oh nice. I just about shite my pants

Not scary but a worthy opponent.
We can’t expect this to be an easy one.
The idea of a field goal to win is stressful but makes it that much more magical

Where did I once say they suck or they aren't good?

I was simply pointing out that they made their rep by beating up crap teams (Chargers aside), and mostly earlier in the year when they had Kupp.

Yes they still won against some good teams, but it's clear the better the team the closer the score was. They weren't blowing out playoff caliber teams. They were blowing out the Cards and 9ers.

But we'll see Sunday who the better team is, and I firmly believe that is us, just like it was last Sunday.

They only beat the Cowboys by 8 at home while knowing exactly what their Dline was doing all game.

With how often the Cowboys use stunts, it left huge holes for the run all game (you can down block the guy trying to cut in and completely ignore the guy running the outside loop, basically leaving the back running into the secondary untouched unless the LB beats the Olineman's block), and also kept Goff from being pressured (one pressure all game).

With that huge advantage they should have won by a lot more, but despite not being pressured (outside of the one blitz by Smith) Goff had a shite game (15/28 for 53.6%, 186 yards, no TDs, and a 74.4 QB rating).

I mean Dak far outplayed him (20/32 for 62.5%, 266 yards, 1 TD, and a 99.2 QB rating), which should tell you how poorly that D played against the pass despite holding Elliot to 47 yards at 2.3 ypc and knowing Dallas needed to pass.

There were SOME things they did well against the Cowboys, but others they did extremely poorly, and that was with the huge advantage of knowing what Dallas' Dline was doing on over 90% of the plays.

We play Sunday and we'll see what bears fruit.