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i didn't agree with the call to go for it on fourth and goal in the 4th quarter. It would have been an easy 3 points to avoid the shutout.. down 28 points with 2 minutes to go.. the game is over.. I am at loss for words being shutout by the seahawks. Another long year....
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
I totally agree. I am typically very aggressive with my armchair coordinating. I almost always prefer going for it on 4th down when there is under 4-5 minutes in the games, etc... but getting shut-out is embarrassing. I was OK with 3 points at that point.
Once again, we are the joke of the NFL. If not for a couple great years with the GSOT, we were battling the Bengals for like 20 years of being the worst.
It even feels like our current status as a joke is actually hurting our past. As if it becomes more and more of a fluke that we won, the more we lose.
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
We were playing for the rest of the season at that point. Kicking the figgie is something Linebaka would have done because it is cheap, easy, and the defeatist way out. Going for a TD is essentially a message from Spags to the team that we will not stop fighting at any point this year.
That said, why the draw play on 3rd down. I thought we shredded Saunders' playbook.Comment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
Totally disagree. 3 points more, 3 points less is not going to change anything, and it wouldn't be the first time we get shutdown in the last 3 seasons, we should get use to it.
Kick the FG would have been "pull a Linehan".
I'd rather go for 4th, but actually score a TD instead . . .Comment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
Amen to that. I'd rather go down fighting and try to score a TD rather than kick a meaningless FG that pretty much says "uncle".Originally posted by PeoriaRam View PostComment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
Look on the bright side, as far as wins/losses go, we are in 2nd place tie.Comment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
I don't agree. The kick would've given us three. Had we converted on 4th down for a touchdown, that would've motivated us to play a little harder.
Brown missed a field goal earlier in the game anyways...Comment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
Clearly a "damn if you do / damn if you don't" situation for Coach Spags. :o
But I feel that going for it on 4th down was far more meritorious than settling for a meaningless FG (other than the so-called "honor" of not being shut down). A 28-3 score is only relative in discrepancy with the way we ended losing yesterday.Comment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
A no brainer.
In that situation, you go for it. Do you really want the guys to kick a meaningless FG rather than show that you're still playing hard? So they didn't make it, they gave it their best shot, anything else was a sign of surrender, to me.Comment
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I feel like only scoring 3 points would be more embarrassing anyway. Dont really know why i feel like that but i do.Comment
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It would have been funny if the tried for it and Josh missed another one. Maybe they were saving the kicker for another day.sigpicComment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
Frankly, I think it would have also been funny if they tried for it and Josh made it good!Originally posted by UtterBlitz View Post
:ram: Redemption for Brown, maybe; but as a team it would have meant next to nothing at that point, i.e., 3 pointless points.Comment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
guy does shutout count as 2 loss in the loss columnComment
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good decision i didn't want them 3 points. at this point we need to get the offense started and end the red zone drought. oh well next game!Comment
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Re: We should have kicked the field goal to avoid a shutout
I find this as a really good discussion! (please ignore my team of choice as I am just looking at it from a football perspective!) At first I thought the FG to avoid the shutout would have been the best best choice, but now looking at it from the "never give up" theory I can more respect the going for it. I think Rams fans should embrace the never give up attitude that Spags is trying for and it should pay off in th end. I said it elsewhere that I expeced a pretty easy win this past week but it will be a serious dog fight in game 2 after wrinkles start getting ironed out in STL! It just takes a little time but I think STL will be back to 2nd in no time (ok that last part was homer!) ;)
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Should we have scored on the last drive? Was it really important to play it that safe for a win rather than punch the endzone with a couple of rushes. Of course that would have made the score 25-10. (more respectful inview of it should have been a blowout)
Benefits of scoring that TD:
1. Takin the redzone monkey off our back
2. Given our offense confidence
3. Made the fans happy
Benefits of not scoring that TD:
1. Showing NFL we won't run up the score on you
2. It was simply safe to secure win
3. Not risking injury
Should we have punched it in the endzone, allowed Wilkins to get record, or like we did knee it down?-09-11-2006, 12:04 PM -
But we look good at the half. like to see some more runs!!!-01-08-2005, 03:25 PM -
Thse are some of the reasons why we lost, and if a couple of these events hadnt happened, we'd be 1-1.
Fumbles. One occuring near the red-zone which wouldve resulted in a TD or at least a FG.
Horrible offensive line. 3 sacks allowed in 1st quarter.
Jackson inefective at big gaines.
Defense allowing Gore to run half the field for a TD. Our defense knows those runs are not exceptible.
Special teams.I think our ST did a bad job on returns on both sides of the ball. Hall muffing the return was unaxceptable. He's a veteren and knows that can't be allowed.
Sub-par red zone offense. 1 td and 4 fg's. Should have been at least one more touchdown and one less fg.
Spiking the ball on the last drive.
Not going for a first down on 4th and 3. Couldve made Wilkin's job a little easier. 56 yard fg is not easy.
I think we could've used our time outs a little better.
Wilkins missing the fg. We really should of gone for it on 4th.
If i've left anything out please tell.
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On a lighter note i think the offense performed much better this week. Bulger looked good and wasnt afraid to throw it more then 5 yards deep. We spread the ball around good and over all the offense looked good except in the red-zone, where it really counted. O-line needs to step up a little. I think the defense did a good job except for a few key plays. Special teams was bad but thats nothing new. Easily could've won this game, should've won this game, hopefully this will be another building block and we win a few games. Since 1974 teams that have gone 0-2 have a 1% chance of making the playoffs. Those are my kind of odd's.
GO RAMS!!!!Superbowl bound!!!
And lastly, I wish Frank Gores family the best. R.I.P.-09-16-2007, 01:47 PM -
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We were 4th and 1 with about 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter. We were down by 4 points. I really wanted to go for the 4th down conversion. I did not think there was enough time left in the game to punt and stop them.
Did you guys agree with Hazlett's decision at that time?-11-30-2008, 03:20 PM
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