Game Thread: Week 3, The San Francisco Forty-Niners @ The Los Angeles Rams, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, 09/22/2024, 1:30 PM, PDT.

[Retroram52]

They sign Witherspoon, play White instead, and wonder why their Secondary is so bad.

 

[Battlelyon]

Braden Fiske had 6 pressures yesterday.

That's tied for the 2nd-most in a single game among interior defensive linemen this season, in the company of greats like Chris Jones, Dexter Lawrence and others.

 

[Battlelyon]

McVay said Xavier Smith has earned the punt returnman job

 

[shopson67]

Then the move itself was pretty stupid, you don't sign a near 30 yr old corner with an achilles issue, when there were better players out there. Sorry but I'm stuck on Gilmore, maybe we need a press corner to help disrupt timing so we don't allow random ass wr's to have career days against us.

Maybe, but that just doesn't seem to be the way the Rams have coached defense in LA (and even before). Way too much of DBs playing 7-10 yards off the line at the snap, that kind of thing. Ramsey was a notable difference, but he was an exception that you couldn't argue against (other than maybe cost) as he was in his prime.

As far as open receivers, that's as much on the pass rushers as the DBs IMO. Rams need a vet to help stabilize these kids. Reddick comes to mind (if they can sort out his salary demands).

 

[shopson67]

McVay said Xavier Smith has earned the punt returnman job

I would hope so with that clutch return Sunday.

 

[Retroram52]

Maybe, but that just doesn't seem to be the way the Rams have coached defense in LA (and even before). Way too much of DBs playing 7-10 yards off the line at the snap, that kind of thing. Ramsey was a notable difference, but he was an exception that you couldn't argue against (other than maybe cost) as he was in his prime.

As far as open receivers, that's as much on the pass rushers as the DBs IMO. Rams need a vet to help stabilize these kids. Reddick comes to mind (if they can sort out his salary demands).

Is that not the strategy the Rams had in mind when they signed Gallimore and Curl?

 

[shopson67]

Is that not the strategy the Rams had in mind when they signed Gallimore and Curl?

Not sure what you mean? That's a S and a DT?

 

[LongtimeRamsFan42]

Thanks dude. Sometimes my streaming gets awfully fuzzy.

I just saw what happened to Bruss, if you look at his left hand after that first play he went out, a couple fingers were going the wrong way! Pretty gross

 

[Retroram52]

Not sure what you mean? That's a S and a DT?

Typical. Read your original post and figure it out, dude.

 

[Retroram52]

Gilmore is a press coverage guy, something the Rams don't seem to want to play much. He signed for $4.7M, they got Witherspoon for just over $1M. Gilmore would've taken just about all their available space at that price.

Noooo. Not if they didn't overpay for Jackson. They would easily have had enough money to sign Gilmore and still have plenty of cash left to sign Simmons.

 

[shopson67]

Typical. Read your original post and figure it out, dude.

I was talking about press coverage and pass rush. You mentioned a box safety and a run stuffing DT. Apples and oranges...

 

[shopson67]

Noooo. Not if they didn't overpay for Jackson. They would easily have had enough money to sign Gilmore and still have plenty of cash left to sign Simmons.

Sure. Jackson was signed so early that it likely wasn't part of the later secondary decisions, but yes that would've freed up more money.

I'm not on out on Jackson just because he's injured. He finished the game after the injury, so I think they're erring on the side of caution to get him back 100% (seems to be a thing with the Rams of late). This OL should be stout when he and Avila return.