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March 2008
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November 2006 ArchivesI was asked in the off season how much better the Rams could be in 2006. I said if the Rams were still in the playoff chase when we hit December then Scott Linehan will have succeeded in improving the team in his first season. A Rams win Sunday against Arizona keeps them in wild card contention in the weak NFC. Did you catch Jim Haslett's mini-rant Monday? I loved it(the emotion, not necessarily the.message.) That's the kind of intensi... Remember the old dilemma that defensive coordinators had when the Rams were scoring 500 points per season? Do you focus your game plan on stopping the pass or on stopping the run? There was no right answer, usually just a wrong one. Well, a trend is developing in 2006. Two consecutive opponents have devoted their energy to stopping Steven Jackson. At Seattle, the Seahawks employed run blitzes designed to put guys in gaps to stop Jackson from g... So how many sacks does Carolina Defensive End Julius Peppers pick up Sunday? It's a reasonable question. The answer lies in how often the Rams assign a second body to Peppers on passing downs. He is a beast, a bigger version of Leonard Little. He and Wide Receiver Steve Smith are the two Panthers that can take over games. Scott Linehan is getting his first real taste of being second guessed. His fourth and one call at Seattle tells me ... Rams Linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski said it his week: the Seahawks don't respect the Rams. He should know. Until four weeks ago, he was a Seahawk. This isn't surprising really. I said before the first meeting in October that the Seahawks don't consider the Rams a threat and won't until they prove they can beat them. The Rams should have won that October game. They let a 21-7 lead slip away after playing a great first half. The NFC West... At the risk of sounding dramatic, I think Sunday's game has the potential to be a make or break game. A loss would be the Rams' third straight and drop them to 4-4 before a showdown at Seattle. A win gets them to 5-3 and gives them a boost heading west. Here's the problem---the Rams' weakness is the Chiefs' strength, the running game. Larry Johnson will pound away until the Rams prove they can stop him. The Chiefs don't do anything fa... |
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