A team on edge. Where do we fall?

[Khaki Lackey]

if we blow out the next three teams and head into san francisco at 5-3 this place will be erupting with good feels.

Man, it would be awesome if we went to SF at 5-3 and kicked Colin Humperdinck in the penis with the whole nation tuning in to watch Cam fail.

(The thought of rolling in there at 2-6 and getting embarrassed is way more likely though.)

[Vampire the buffet slayer]

Have faith my sons for Ron the Baptist has cometh.

[thunderraiden]

Get fuging pumped, its been 5 long years since we've had a top of the NFL team. I'm not saying we do, I'm saying we have the talent, the coaching? I dunno. And I blamed drops, turnovers, and early missed opportunities for our losses and a yes, a lack of balls against Buffalo. I see no reason we can't blow out the next 3 teams. Do I have faith... hell to the fuging no... but can we? Yes. We have a team that can blow these teams out if we force the other team into early mistakes and our Offense gets some early momentum and they open up the entire balanced attack playbook.

[teeray]

As I start researching the Rams, the more this game scares me. I finally have a computer but I basically just took two broken computers and mishmashed a bunch of hardware from each together to create a barely functioning computer.

Point being I can't get NFL Rewind to work so I haven't seen the Rams actually play except the 9ers game which was clearly their worst game.

So all I have is on paper, and they look better than I originally thought.

This game is scary.

Some one sooth my fear.

[TheRed]

As I start researching the Rams, the more this game scares me. I finally have a computer but I basically just took two broken computers and mishmashed a bunch of hardware from each together to create a barely functioning computer.

Point being I can't get NFL Rewind to work so I haven't seen the Rams actually play except the 9ers game which was clearly their worst game.

So all I have is on paper, and they look better than I originally thought.

This game is scary.

Some one sooth my fear.

[Vampire the buffet slayer]

As I start researching the Rams, the more this game scares me. I finally have a computer but I basically just took two broken computers and mishmashed a bunch of hardware from each together to create a barely functioning computer.

Point being I can't get NFL Rewind to work so I haven't seen the Rams actually play except the 9ers game which was clearly their worst game.

So all I have is on paper, and they look better than I originally thought.

This game is scary.

Some one sooth my fear.

Steve Smith scares their fugin fan base bro.

X-clown for life.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

i remember reading the same poo after the bye right before we basically got shut down by the fuging cardinals

 

i dont trust ron at all

[Marguide]

The Rams don't scare me. No team in the NFL scares me except Denver. We have the ability to beat damn near everyone.

The problem is, we don't. We're more in the lovable loser category until proven otherwise. We are just as capable of losing to the Rams as we are beating the Pats.

I guess when all is said and done, the team that scares me the most is our very own squad.

[Kuech the Sneak]

The Rams don't scare me. No team in the NFL scares me except Denver. We have the ability to beat damn near everyone.

The problem is, we don't. We're more in the lovable loser category until proven otherwise. We are just as capable of losing to the Rams as we are beating the Pats.

I guess when all is said and done, the team that scares me the most is our very own squad.

I just think we're gonna struggle against top defenses, just using the Arizona and Seattle games as examples. Only 7 and 6 points respectively, and in Arizona had way too many turnovers that put our D in tough situations

[SIGCHI222]

Ok, lets get real here. Ron was a pussy. Notice I say was. There's a reason for that, you see recently Ol' Ron started doing something he hasn't done before, grab his balls and say "fug it, YEAH, Man up and take this poo." And he didn't just do it half-assed to appease; no, he had timeouts called before each decision and still went with his call. That is not appeasement, appeasement is something John Fox would do and then used the "unfortunate" false-start-avoidance-timeout as an excuse in his post-game presser after he lost or won the game via the pussy decision earlier. There is a reason Bronco's fans have taken the reigns from the Panthers's fans on the issue of proliferation of the term "Foxball."

 

Oh, right, balls! We were talking about balls, particularly the ones that just dropped on our dear Ron Rivera. Right, and in week 3 we saw the utter domination of the New York Giants, whose soulless husk have been seen wondering the football fields of other stadiums after we slaughtered them and trapped their soul at the BoA. This domination was possible thanks to Rivera for the first time taking life by the horns and calling a play that warranted balls: confronted with 4th and 2 at the opposing 3 yard line (going off memory because fug you) at a tie ball game against a bad team that had playing for its lives up to that point, Ol' Ron gave his horse sized QB, Cam Newton, and Human Bowling Ball RB/FB Mike Tolbert a chance to convert and -- what do you know -- they did. Some 50 minutes later, goose egg, blowout. Our team would go for it on 4th and short three more times in the following weeks with Donald LaFell the target of one conversion pass that literally could not be thrown more into the middle of anyone's hands better on forth and 2. Ofcourse, LaFell dropped the pass because, why would you look in such a worthless pass into your hands? You have to get yards after the catch on 4th down, there is no other thing more important in a game situation than getting yards on 4th down... God Dammit Donald. Needless to say, the Panthers loss this game against a far inferior opponent due to wanting to give the rest of the conference a fair shot at making the playoffs.

 

The 4th and 1 conversions against the Vikings are well documented, and they drive home a point. This Rivera has balls and is ready to show them to the world. He is 2 and 3 which marks his best record at this point in a season ever so there is already marked improvement. Do I have faith in him? fug no. There are 30 better coaches on or off the field right now, but this team is so talented that even a 18 year old Madden pro with the alias xX420Swag#naratoXx would have a difficult time bringing this team down if they play on all cylinders.

 

So, if Rivera really has learned, maybe even moving up those coaching rankings, we have a shot at blowing out the next 3 teams and putting this impotent league on notice. Or, if he comes out slap boxing with limp wrist, look for close games against inferior teams which hang around til the 4th quarter who have shown they win the vast majority of the time.

TL;DR: But seriously doe, if we blow out the next 3 teams how many bandwagoners should we expect?

 

Very nice.  Very nice, indeed.  Nice post.

 

[teeray]

The Rams don't scare me. No team in the NFL scares me except Denver. We have the ability to beat damn near everyone.

The problem is, we don't. We're more in the lovable loser category until proven otherwise. We are just as capable of losing to the Rams as we are beating the Pats.

I guess when all is said and done, the team that scares me the most is our very own squad.

We are lovable losers... except for the small issue that everyone hates us.

[Marguide]

We are lovable losers... except for the small issue that everyone hates us.

 

They hate Cam and Smitty, no doubt.

 

But we have guys like Jordan Gross and Kalil that fit the lovable loser stereotype as well.

[Achilles]

Going for it on 4th and 1 deep in your opponents territory a few times a season is not a coaching philosophy.  It's just taking the chances that are presented.  It could be that 5 games go by without us facing that down and distance situation.  Do we have to convert on 4th downs in order to win games?  There shouldn't be such a strong correlation there.

 

The fact is that we won those 2 games because our defense was nasty and our offense got on track.  Yes, the 2 4th down conversions on that one drive set the tone and demoralized Minn.  But it is a two-edged sword.  I would argue that LaFell's drop on 4th down vs. AZ was equally demoralizing.  We didn't even sniff the red zone after that drive.  You live by it and you die by it.  That's no way to go about setting your team up to win.  Granted, we should always run in that situation (passing is just too risky; even though LaFell was wide open, the play was a bust), but I don't think going for it on 4th down can be the only identity of this team and coach.  What do you fail to convert?  An automatic loss?  No...we must be more proficient on 3rd down on those kinds of drives to have long term success.

 

My point is:  we have to be able to win games even when Ron doesn't have to make this call.  We have to be able to win games even when we don't blow a team out of the water.

[2jakefansinva]

I just think we're gonna struggle against top defenses, just using the Arizona and Seattle games as examples. Only 7 and 6 points respectively, and in Arizona had way too many turnovers that put our D in tough situations

 

those low scoring numbers were because of self-inflicted wounds..........not because of top defenses.