Let's talk about the Rams

[Hammock Parties]

How hard are we going to pound these losers?

Kupp on IR, Stafford banged up....it's time for our yearly beatdown at Arrowhead. Smells like a 44-9 game.

[New World Order]

Just want to get through this game without any injuries

Don’t really care if we win 10-9 type game

[Hammock Parties]

Alternate Total: Rams-Chiefs Over 40.5 Points (-142)

The game with the largest spread this week is the Rams as a 15.5-point underdog in Kansas City. Let’s just say Bryce Perkins vs. Patrick Mahomes won’t produce a 54-51 score like the last game between these teams did in 2018’s instant classic. Those were much fonder days for the Rams, who are without Matthew Stafford (concussion) and Cooper Kupp (ankle) possibly for the rest of the season.

But Sean McVay is supposed to be an offensive genius, right? He has to figure something out here with Perkins’ mobility, something he’s never had at the position before with five seasons split between Jared Goff and Stafford.

The Rams have just played in games with 44 and 47 points the last two weeks despite their struggles on offense and Stafford leaving last week’s game. Then there is the fact that you have Mahomes and Andy Reid cooking up things at home after another big win over the Chargers. The Chiefs are always a threat to drop 30 or 40 points.

But with a total of 42 points, this is the lowest total in any Mahomes start in the NFL. The previous low was a 43-point total in 2019 against the Broncos, which ended up being a 23-3 win by the Chiefs.

But the 2019 defense was much better for the Chiefs, who have allowed at least 17 points in 15 straight games, including one home game to the Titans led by rookie quarterback Malik Willis. The Rams do not have Derrick Henry, but they have the ability to score 13-to-17 points in this one to go along with the usual 27-plus from Mahomes and the Chiefs.

Let’s tease the total down to 40.5 and take the over.

Feels like a 31-10 game

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Haven't seen anyone mention it on this board, but Joe Thuney missed practice. Anybody know what's up?

[Hammock Parties]

he sprained his ankle on that fall last week i think

[Gary Cooper]

Originally Posted by Bl00dyBizkitz

Haven't seen anyone mention it on this board, but Joe Thuney missed practice. Anybody know what's up?

That sucks. I'd rather not see Allegretti blocking Aaron Donald anytime soon.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Lol, LAR forum isn't even talking about the game. They're already on to the offseason and the draft.

Do they even have a fan base? Not even trying to make fun, it just seems like a lot of their fans in STL might have abandoned them and not sure LA embraced them outside of supporting them in their SB win.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by staylor26

Lol you guys thinking this is a close game are way off.

The Rams offense is absolute dogshit, and their defense is just Donald and Ramsey.

The Chiefs are due for a blowout win.

This is the easiest game left on the schedule.

This is why a game like this can be dangerous. KC is clearly the better team but at times they have this maddening ability to play down to opponents. It’s why they can dominate good teams and struggle vs lesser teams. If they play like they are capable the game is over by half and Mahomes is resting by Q4.

[KChiefs1]

NFLN is replaying the wild MNF game from November 19, 2018 on Saturday morning.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by tredadda

This is why a game like this can be dangerous. KC is clearly the better team but at times they have this maddening ability to play down to opponents. It’s why they can dominate good teams and struggle vs lesser teams. If they play like they are capable the game is over by half and Mahomes is resting by Q4.

Exactly this.

You take a look at the Indy game, and the end of the first half against Jacksonville, and we've seen this team play some inexcusably poor football at times.

It cost us in Indy, and we tried our best to let the Jags cut the lead in half before the break, but they were simply too inept to take advantage.

As said, if we come in and take the Rams as a serious opponent, we should blow their doors off. But there's gonna be a chance that some guys see this game as a mini bye and that's when shit goes sideways.

Even the shittiest teams are looking to put a notch in their belt and say that while the season was bad, they still beat the big bad Chiefs.

We get everyone's absolute best, so if we come out flat we could be playing from behind again.

[alpha_omega]

Kelly Stafford: Matthew Stafford struggles to jell with young Rams

The Los Angeles Rams' roster has experienced massive turnover in the two years since the team won Super Bowl LVI, and the influx of youth has quarterback Matthew Stafford finding it hard to connect with his teammates, according to his wife, Kelly.

"It's kind of crazy. So, Matthew's been in the league a long time. He's like, 'The difference in the locker room has changed so significantly.' They have a lot of rookies on their team, they're very young. But he's like, 'I feel like I can't connect,'" Kelly Stafford said on her podcast, "The Morning After With Kelly Stafford," last week.

"In the old days you'd come out of practice, you'd shower, and people would be playing cards, interacting. Who knows what they're doing, but they're doing something together. Playing pingpong, they have a tournament going on. They'd at least be talking. But now they get out of practice, and meetings during training camp, and they go straight to their phones. No one looks up from their phones. Matthew's like, 'I don't know ... am I the dad? Do I take their phones? What do I do here?' He's like, 'I want them to see me not as a coach.'"

Matthew Stafford, 35, is entering his 15th NFL season and third with the Rams. The Rams enjoyed roster stability in his first two seasons, but several high-profile players left in free agency or were traded this year. The turnover on defense is such that defensive lineman Aaron Donald and middle linebacker Ernest Jones are the only defenders who started the team's Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. The team also selected 14 players in the 2023 NFL draft.

Now Kelly Stafford says her husband is struggling to have his new teammates see him as an equal.

"They say 'sir' to him and s---," she said. "He's like, 'No, we're on the same level here, we're both playing in the league. Let me get to know you.' He said it's so different and so hard to get to know these guys. He had a book printed out. He had the equipment guy get a book printed of all their faces, and all their names, 'cause he's like, 'I need to know their names.' We need to talk, so I'm gonna find their names and I'm gonna say, 'Hey so-and-so, how was your weekend?' So, they know I know them and maybe we should get to know each other so there's chemistry on the field.'

"But I think nowadays, it's really hard to develop that because all these young kids, they don't care. Or it's not that they don't care, but they're so used to going straight to their phones instead of having some fun with some guys in the locker room. It's different. It's kind of sad."

Kelly Stafford said she and her husband planned to host a team party, but those plans were scrapped when their house flooded because of the aftereffects of Tropical Storm Hilary. She said if they hosted the team at a dinner, most of the guys would attend but then suggest going "to the club" and not talking at the dinner. She said when they were with the Detroit Lions, the franchise was good about hosting events, and she suggested the Rams follow suit.

"I would set it up so that the players have a box that they can all go to this [Messi] game so that they can hang out," she said. "The Lions always had events and were good at that. So, when you lose or you win, it feels like it doesn't mean as much because your team isn't connected like they used to be.

"I think Matthew feels it the most because he's so old and like a leader on the team. But he's like, 'I don't know how to lead people I have no connection with. I have to somehow find a way to connect with them.'"

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ell-young-rams

[AdolfOliverBush]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Kelly Stafford: Matthew Stafford struggles to jell with young Rams

The Los Angeles Rams' roster has experienced massive turnover in the two years since the team won Super Bowl LVI, and the influx of youth has quarterback Matthew Stafford finding it hard to connect with his teammates, according to his wife, Kelly.

"It's kind of crazy. So, Matthew's been in the league a long time. He's like, 'The difference in the locker room has changed so significantly.' They have a lot of rookies on their team, they're very young. But he's like, 'I feel like I can't connect,'" Kelly Stafford said on her podcast, "The Morning After With Kelly Stafford," last week.

"In the old days you'd come out of practice, you'd shower, and people would be playing cards, interacting. Who knows what they're doing, but they're doing something together. Playing pingpong, they have a tournament going on. They'd at least be talking. But now they get out of practice, and meetings during training camp, and they go straight to their phones. No one looks up from their phones. Matthew's like, 'I don't know ... am I the dad? Do I take their phones? What do I do here?' He's like, 'I want them to see me not as a coach.'"

Matthew Stafford, 35, is entering his 15th NFL season and third with the Rams. The Rams enjoyed roster stability in his first two seasons, but several high-profile players left in free agency or were traded this year. The turnover on defense is such that defensive lineman Aaron Donald and middle linebacker Ernest Jones are the only defenders who started the team's Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. The team also selected 14 players in the 2023 NFL draft.

Now Kelly Stafford says her husband is struggling to have his new teammates see him as an equal.

"They say 'sir' to him and s---," she said. "He's like, 'No, we're on the same level here, we're both playing in the league. Let me get to know you.' He said it's so different and so hard to get to know these guys. He had a book printed out. He had the equipment guy get a book printed of all their faces, and all their names, 'cause he's like, 'I need to know their names.' We need to talk, so I'm gonna find their names and I'm gonna say, 'Hey so-and-so, how was your weekend?' So, they know I know them and maybe we should get to know each other so there's chemistry on the field.'

"But I think nowadays, it's really hard to develop that because all these young kids, they don't care. Or it's not that they don't care, but they're so used to going straight to their phones instead of having some fun with some guys in the locker room. It's different. It's kind of sad."

Kelly Stafford said she and her husband planned to host a team party, but those plans were scrapped when their house flooded because of the aftereffects of Tropical Storm Hilary. She said if they hosted the team at a dinner, most of the guys would attend but then suggest going "to the club" and not talking at the dinner. She said when they were with the Detroit Lions, the franchise was good about hosting events, and she suggested the Rams follow suit.

"I would set it up so that the players have a box that they can all go to this [Messi] game so that they can hang out," she said. "The Lions always had events and were good at that. So, when you lose or you win, it feels like it doesn't mean as much because your team isn't connected like they used to be.

"I think Matthew feels it the most because he's so old and like a leader on the team. But he's like, 'I don't know how to lead people I have no connection with. I have to somehow find a way to connect with them.'"

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ell-young-rams

Matthew needs to connect with his teammates, right after he tells his wife to shut the **** up.

[ThyKingdomCome15]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Kelly Stafford: Matthew Stafford struggles to jell with young Rams

The Los Angeles Rams' roster has experienced massive turnover in the two years since the team won Super Bowl LVI, and the influx of youth has quarterback Matthew Stafford finding it hard to connect with his teammates, according to his wife, Kelly.

"It's kind of crazy. So, Matthew's been in the league a long time. He's like, 'The difference in the locker room has changed so significantly.' They have a lot of rookies on their team, they're very young. But he's like, 'I feel like I can't connect,'" Kelly Stafford said on her podcast, "The Morning After With Kelly Stafford," last week.

"In the old days you'd come out of practice, you'd shower, and people would be playing cards, interacting. Who knows what they're doing, but they're doing something together. Playing pingpong, they have a tournament going on. They'd at least be talking. But now they get out of practice, and meetings during training camp, and they go straight to their phones. No one looks up from their phones. Matthew's like, 'I don't know ... am I the dad? Do I take their phones? What do I do here?' He's like, 'I want them to see me not as a coach.'"

Matthew Stafford, 35, is entering his 15th NFL season and third with the Rams. The Rams enjoyed roster stability in his first two seasons, but several high-profile players left in free agency or were traded this year. The turnover on defense is such that defensive lineman Aaron Donald and middle linebacker Ernest Jones are the only defenders who started the team's Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. The team also selected 14 players in the 2023 NFL draft.

Now Kelly Stafford says her husband is struggling to have his new teammates see him as an equal.

"They say 'sir' to him and s---," she said. "He's like, 'No, we're on the same level here, we're both playing in the league. Let me get to know you.' He said it's so different and so hard to get to know these guys. He had a book printed out. He had the equipment guy get a book printed of all their faces, and all their names, 'cause he's like, 'I need to know their names.' We need to talk, so I'm gonna find their names and I'm gonna say, 'Hey so-and-so, how was your weekend?' So, they know I know them and maybe we should get to know each other so there's chemistry on the field.'

"But I think nowadays, it's really hard to develop that because all these young kids, they don't care. Or it's not that they don't care, but they're so used to going straight to their phones instead of having some fun with some guys in the locker room. It's different. It's kind of sad."

Kelly Stafford said she and her husband planned to host a team party, but those plans were scrapped when their house flooded because of the aftereffects of Tropical Storm Hilary. She said if they hosted the team at a dinner, most of the guys would attend but then suggest going "to the club" and not talking at the dinner. She said when they were with the Detroit Lions, the franchise was good about hosting events, and she suggested the Rams follow suit.

"I would set it up so that the players have a box that they can all go to this [Messi] game so that they can hang out," she said. "The Lions always had events and were good at that. So, when you lose or you win, it feels like it doesn't mean as much because your team isn't connected like they used to be.

"I think Matthew feels it the most because he's so old and like a leader on the team. But he's like, 'I don't know how to lead people I have no connection with. I have to somehow find a way to connect with them.'"

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ell-young-rams

-McVay considered leaving not long ago. That by itself is telling.

--As for Stafford as already know he's struggling to stay on the field physically. Sounds like he's struggling mentally as well.

-Will we be seeing many pics of a half filled stadium this year? As a heartbroken STL Ram fan at one time, it will bring a grin to my face.

-I loooove the Kansas City Chiefs!!!