Game Thread: Week 3, Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Los Angeles Rams, SoFi Stadium, Sunday, 09/26/21, 1:30 PM PDT

[Retroram52]

Personally, I hate watching a Defense run the Morris Philosophy. I would much rather watch the Staley Defense because it is so cerebral and it magnifies the talent level of the athlete and trusts him to make the right decisions on every play!

 

[BigKen]

Yea BigKen: One of the reasons Arians went out and signed Richard Sherman. The pass D for the Bucs is horrendous.

And Jones picked on him continuously. He's living on his past and is nothing more than an empty threat to receivers. Your WRs have nothing to fear with him. Our WRs pretty much sucked until Sunday. The Bucs made them look really good. Even N'Keal Harry caught a first down pass..

 

[Retroram52]

Spot on BigKen. The lineage of Defenses as well as Offenses is always fascinating to me. Buddy Ryan, dating way back to the Snooperbowl with the Jets in 1969 quietly formulated the 46 Defense which used the aggregate principle to its fullest. It was the perfect D to confuse the hell out of the biggest offenses of its time embodied by the Baltimore Colts. Then Ryan did it twice more with the 1985 Bears and later with the Eagles.

 

[SJ76]

All the Rams have to do is watch the Patriots game against the Bucs last week.

Rookie QB threw for more yards and more TDs than the GOAT. Two 4th downs that should have been attempted were FG kicks and the last one missed. Otherwise you'd be facing a 2-2 Bucs team.

Bucs pass defense is horrendous. Mac Jones set an NFL record last week with 19 straight completions against the Bucs. Stafford should put it up 60 times and will probably complete 50 for 600+ yards. Patriots ran for -1 yards and almost beat the invincible Bucs. The Rams are better and should be able to crush them.

Wasn’t it also raining? You seem a bit salty

 

[Vitamike]

Yea the Cards game was bad. It was also one game

I hope you are right Junkie, I'm nearly as nervous tonight vs the Hags as I was for that "Game 7" Wild Card game yesterday between the 107 Win Dodgers and the 90 Win Cardinals last night!

 

[SJ76]

I hope you are right Junkie, I'm nearly as nervous tonight vs the Hags as I was for that "Game 7" Wild Card game yesterday between the 107 Win Dodgers and the 90 Win Cardinals last night!

Ha! That was a good baseball game. First game I’ve watched all year.


Don’t be nervous have faith my man. Is what it is. We’ve got a good team, it’s early October, and we just need to adjust and stay healthy. Cards are good and they were overdue. But we also didn’t have the energy like we did against Tampa.

I don’t expect us to shutout Seattle and hold Russ and their running game to next to nothing. But I also don’t want to see big plays and would like to see us hit Seattle in the mouth on 3rd down

 

[BigKen]

Wasn’t it also raining? You seem a bit salty

Yeah. It was raining on both teams. So what's your point? Football shouldn't be played in the rain??

Or is Tom Brady now at a disadvantage if the sun isn't shining??

As far as salty goes, I was raised in Maine. Had my own lobster traps when I was 10 and my own 14 foot metal lifeboat. I captained a 65 foot trawler from South Portland to Georges Bank and back when I was 12. I guess I'm about as salty as you can get.

 

[SJ76]

Yeah. It was raining on both teams. So what's your point? Football shouldn't be played in the rain??

Or is Tom Brady now at a disadvantage if the sun isn't shining??

As far as salty goes, I was raised in Maine. Had my own lobster traps when I was 10 and my own 14 foot metal lifeboat. I captained a 65 foot trawler from South Portland to Georges Bank and back when I was 12. I guess I'm about as salty as you can get.

Lobster is good. You be a salty dog