As someone who had no expectations heading into this game...

[Ricky Spanish]

I'm optimistic moving forward and surprised at how whiny you all sound. 

I had this game penciled in as a loss from the get go and the team as a whole played much better than I originally anticipated. 

• Turnovers are what killed us.
• Shaq looked DAMN good in his new expanded role as ILB next to Luke.
• Bradberry looked DAMN good covering out there and had a great pick.
• KK Short looked really good and disruptive
• The entire D was getting pressure on the QB, they were just getting the ball out super quick. I saw pressure on 3 man rushes yesterday. Can't say I remember seeing that last year.
• We forced a bunch of fumbles they just bounced back into the Rams hands. 
• CMC is the truth. He kneed a dude in the head and then later power rushed for a TD from 2 yards out. Where's KaseKlosed at?
• Receivers were getting open, Cam missed them a few times. It will improve with more reps.

Everyone bitched about Ron saying "Missed Opportunities" but that is 100% the truth and defined yesterday. We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't capitalize on them. Cam missed some wide open targets, we turned the ball over 3 times, and the Rams capitalized on the short fields we gave them. 

Everything that went wrong yesterday is 100% fixable and shouldn't require a lot of effort to do so. Defense was honestly solid. Offense was solid outside the turnovers, Cam just needs to knock the rust off. Special teams played great and I think Chase Blackburn is severely underrated as a coach. Best ST coach I can remember us having in a long time.

There is 0 reason to panic yet. I full anticipate a curb stomping of the Cucks on Thursday. If we come out flat Thursday, then panic. As of right now, there's too much to be optimistic about right now. 

[DeAngelo Beason]

People like to blame the coach when the quarterback can't hit a receiver who has his man beat by 7 yards.

[g5jamz]

11 minutes ago, Cracka McNasty said:

I'm optimistic moving forward and surprised at how whinny you all sound. 

I had this game penciled in as a loss from the get go and the team as a whole played much better than I originally anticipated. 

• Turnovers are what killed us.
• Shaq looked DAMN good in his new expanded role as ILB next to Luke.
• Bradberry looked DAMN good covering out there and had a great pick.
• KK Short looked really good and disruptive
• The entire D was getting pressure on the QB, they were just getting the ball out super quick. I saw pressure on 3 man rushes yesterday. Can't say I remember seeing that last year.
• We forced a bunch of fumbles they just bounced back into the Rams hands. 
• CMC is the truth. He kneed a dude in the head and then later power rushed for a TD from 2 yards out. Where's KaseKlosed at?
• Receivers were getting open, Cam missed them a few times. It will improve with more reps.

Everyone bitched about Ron saying "Missed Opportunities" but that is 100% the truth and defined yesterday. We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't capitalize on them. Cam missed some wide open targets, we turned the ball over 3 times, and the Rams capitalized on the short fields we gave them. 

Everything that went wrong yesterday is 100% fixable and shouldn't require a lot of effort to do so. Defense was honestly solid. Offense was solid outside the turnovers, Cam just needs to knock the rust off. Special teams played great and I think Chase Blackburn is severely underrated as a coach. Best ST coach I can remember us having in a long time.

There is 0 reason to panic yet. I full anticipate a curb stomping of the Cucks on Thursday. If we come out flat Thursday, then panic. As of right now, there's too much to be optimistic about right now. 

Agree.  The game felt like we were just losing by a lot the entire time, even though we weren't.  Defense and CMC kept us in the game despite turnovers and Cam's accuracy woes.  

[countryboi]

I want to be really upset over yesterday game...we turned the ball over 3 times, shot ourselves in the foot many many times and still I thought we looked better than they did.

[Seoul_Panther]

44 minutes ago, Cracka McNasty said:

I'm optimistic moving forward and surprised at how whinny you all sound. 

I had this game penciled in as a loss from the get go and the team as a whole played much better than I originally anticipated. 

• Turnovers are what killed us.
• Shaq looked DAMN good in his new expanded role as ILB next to Luke.
• Bradberry looked DAMN good covering out there and had a great pick.
• KK Short looked really good and disruptive
• The entire D was getting pressure on the QB, they were just getting the ball out super quick. I saw pressure on 3 man rushes yesterday. Can't say I remember seeing that last year.
• We forced a bunch of fumbles they just bounced back into the Rams hands. 
• CMC is the truth. He kneed a dude in the head and then later power rushed for a TD from 2 yards out. Where's KaseKlosed at?
• Receivers were getting open, Cam missed them a few times. It will improve with more reps.

Everyone bitched about Ron saying "Missed Opportunities" but that is 100% the truth and defined yesterday. We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't capitalize on them. Cam missed some wide open targets, we turned the ball over 3 times, and the Rams capitalized on the short fields we gave them. 

Everything that went wrong yesterday is 100% fixable and shouldn't require a lot of effort to do so. Defense was honestly solid. Offense was solid outside the turnovers, Cam just needs to knock the rust off. Special teams played great and I think Chase Blackburn is severely underrated as a coach. Best ST coach I can remember us having in a long time.

There is 0 reason to panic yet. I full anticipate a curb stomping of the Cucks on Thursday. If we come out flat Thursday, then panic. As of right now, there's too much to be optimistic about right now. 

 I am not a Shaq fan but he really showed up yesterday. I still think he's rubbish at tackling in the open field but that's probably my bias speaking.

  My unheralded hero is Matt Paradis. Awesome effort sealing off Arron Donald, case in point the CMC wildcat TD Great news after an up and down preseason from our IOL  Considering the dogging he sometimes gets from @MHS831 Van Roten also had a good game.

[Icege]

I'm honestly surprised by how close everything was. I expected a lot of frustration, but outside of the officials letting KK get held all game and that awful, awful challenge explanation, it seemed to be better than expected. Cam worried me, but I can give the man until Thursday before I start sweating his situation. He has more than earned that.

We got great play out of our two most underappreciated defensive players in Shaq and Bradberry who have only done their job since being here, and done it well at that. We have an elite RB in CMC. We've got a promising young K in Slye. The defense was getting constant pressure and there were so many "close" moments. I can't count how many times I saw Burns being a breath from slapping that ball out of Goff's hand. ST had the same, and they turned it into a block that left the offense with no choice but to punch it in and give the team a shot.

Offense has always been behind defenses early on, and as the season progresses I think they'll gel.

So we've got a promising looking defense, a promising looking special teams, and a concerning offense that despite its issues is still being ran by the 2015 NFL MVP, one of the best RBs in the sport today, one of the best TEs to have ever played, two young and exciting WRs, and an OL of big uglies with all of the tools to succeed.

idk, something about this game didn't frustrate/demotivate me nearly as last season nor the season before. If anything, I came away from it with an, "Ok, we've got some things that need to be corrected. Let's see if we can get some of them taken care of by Thursday," as opposed to the usual, "Lawd... how are we still having the same problems that we always have."

[CBDellinger]

I expect this roster to earn a playoff spot.  Yesterday just reinforced that notion.  

There a lot of new parts out there and once they gel this team should be really good. 

Excited for Thursday, a Bucs team off a West Coast road trip, playing on a short week... Panthers should be licking their chops. 

No excuse to do anything but win!  Time to dominate!!  LFG!!!

 

 

[Captain Morgan]

two turnovers and we lost by 3.

I bought fell out of my chair when Bradberry caught that INT.  He's a keeper.  Gonna have to pay him.

[SetfreexX]

Even as BAD as the game FELT... 

• Cam was 25/38, 65%, for 239 yards and the INT
• The offensive line IMO played their asses off -- paved way for 100+ yards on the ground, and also held Aaron Donlad to ONE TACKLE for an ENTIRE game
• Clay Matthews ''sack'' was on a botched run hand off
• Fowler Jr. got left 1v1 on CMC in a mismatch, and the other seemed like a missed assignment, all in all I'm happy / excited about the OL as they keep playing together

Watch the media members selling a narrative as though he is this vastly inaccurate QB, yes he missed some receivers; BUT every QB this week missed wide open guys. 

Once we clean up the sloppy play and continue to get our guys involved (Hogan / Wright) behind our starters I think we have a chance to be really good. The defense was lights out early, and if we'd gone up in the game, and forced LAR to play from behind I think we'd have seen more sack production, but LAR was able to control and dictate the pace as they played with a two possession lead most of the game. 

Offense - C+ (C-, without CMC's day, and the OL overall)

Defense - B- (all the snaps IMO finally caught up. but overall they played well)

ST's - B (UDFA K missing from 50+ I can't be THAT upset, but I wanna see better, McCloud looked solid, coverage was excellent)

[philit99]

My only complaint about yesterday’s game was the substitution issues where the Rams caught us 5 times in the wrong package, which lead to two timeouts 1 in the second half. The tempo seemed off all day, we didn’t have any momentum until it was too late, right after DJ Moore’s fumble. I am really getting annoyed at the NFL referees and their Bullshit calls. A complete pass but no fumble, so it’s incomplete. What horse manure.

[hepcat]

It's not that team looked horrible by any means, it's just this same old thing keeps happening. "Missed Opportunities" lost the Panthers 7 games in a row last year, and they didn't look horrible in those games either. If it weren't for the Saints collectively opening up their buttholes to tank the Panthers draft position, they would be on a 9 game losing streak right now.

This game was a mirror image of the second half of last year. These mistakes that cause "Missed Opportunities" keep happening so it's not something that is "easily fixable". I believe Rivera is too relaxed and player friendly. His message is not working anymore. It happens to longer tenured head coaches. Do you think Bill Belichick would have kept DJ Moore on the field after that fumble? Absolutely not. 

[Carl Spackler]

Bradberry made a fantastic INT but he got his ass owned by Gurley twice in the fourth. Granted, most RB-on-CB battles go to the RB.

[JawnyBlaze]

I’m no Shaq fan, but that hit he laid on Gurley was a thing of beauty 

[twylyght]

We have all the tools in place to be a contender this year.  For fug's sake get the play calls in for our packages so we don't have to keep needlessly burning timeouts.

Can't do anything about the officiating except take it out of their hands.  The best way to do that is to man up and overpower the one-one-one match-ups in the trenches.  D-Line looks like we can do that in spades where the QB has to drop back.  O-Line looks like we'll have to scheme a fair amount against some teams.  Yesterday was very promising on that front.

Aside from that, Cam needs to work the mechanics to get the damn ball down.  You've got a freakin' stud opening up the PA in CMC with all kinds of outlet passes finding their way open in the flat.  Do your job, continue to make those throws and we'll come out with plenty of wins.