The fraudulent record

[UK Rams Fan]

Let's break down the Rams W-L record to date shall we to see exactly how it has come about and how it could easily be deemed a fraud of a record here...

I've included each of our opponents W-L records as of close of business, Week 11

Wk1: Bears (4-7) - W
Wk2: Colts (5-5) - W
Wk3: Bucs (8-3) - W
Wk4: Cards (9-2) - L
Wk5: Haws (3-7) - W
Wk6: Giants (4-7) - W
Wk7: Lions (0-10-1) - W
Wk8: Texans (2-9) - W
Wk9: Titans (8-4) - L
Wk10: 49'rs (5-5) - L
Wk11: Packers (9-3) - L

So what do we deduce from this W-L pattern folks... Well, it's fairly clear to see.

Apart from our week 3 win over the Bucs, we have not had one single win over an opponent with a winning record.?? ALARMING!!

The first half of our schedule was bar far one of the easiest seen across the NFL given the current strength of opponent we faced during that period. (Weeks 5-8 could've been won by most teams 3rd stringers or practice squad players)

Here are two very concerning points coming up...

1)
Of the 6 remaining games in the regular season, only the Jags & Hawks look like teams we can beat on current form. The 49'rs have our number and I believe the Vikings are much better than their W-L record suggests. This would leave us with a reg-season ending W-L record of 9-8 with the distinct possibility that the 49'rs & Vikings overtake us in the race for the Playoffs. With that record, it's likely we might not actually make it.

2)
If by some miracle we do make the playoffs, on say a 10-7 record, we're guaranteed to play another team with not only a winning record, but one far superior to our own and obviously the WildCard game won't be at So-Fi Stadium either. And it's here that I'd like to draw peoples attention to the earlier fact about how many of the 11 teams we've played to date we have actually beaten where they have a winning record? Yep, it's just that 1 out of the 11. And that 1, realistically, we caught on one of their bad days!!

Worrying times ahead folks.
Time to start earning your money coach.

[RGtheFirst]

We have the Bucs number, SF and GB has ours…

[harkin]

If you play the Vikes you want them in your own crib.

We have to go to Minny.

But that’s not till after Christmas, BEAT THE JAGS!!

[UtahRam]

Woods is a great receiver but him being out is a poor excuse for the RAMS crappy play. I keep seeing people drop his name like he would make that much of a difference and it just ain't true. Akers too.

[Ramsfan08ny]

Nothing fraudulent about the record. they heat the teams that they are better than, and lost to the teams who are better than them. I'm just hoping that they are better than Jax.

[harkin]

Not and never was worried about playing the Vikings INSIDE. Now, if we had to go to Bloomington........

Cousins is nowhere near as good on the road.

[Yorkshire Ram]

This team was certainly a fraudulent SB contender, that's for sure.

We've now got to the point where we're an unstructured mix of a handful of elite players, a good number of below par players and some 'guns for hire' that look past their prime.

I don't think many of us are surprised about the effect a few injuries have had on this paper thin roster.

[ocram23]

If you took Woods and Akers out of the equation, you knew it would be a longshot to win it all. Not making excuses these are facts. Kind of like taking say, Evans and Fournette off the 2020 Bucs? Having said that, no excuses, we STILL have to win the Super Bowl.

everyone has injuries. GB was missing 3/5 of their OL in this game and 2 starters on defense and look what they did.
no excuses for this team

[malibu]

If you took Woods and Akers out of the equation, you knew it would be a longshot to win it all. Not making excuses these are facts. Kind of like taking say, Evans and Fournette off the 2020 Bucs? Having said that, no excuses, we STILL have to win the Super Bowl.

Not sure I agree. OBJ can replace Woods he had 85 yards and a TD against GB. Henderson and Michelle are fine we are down so quickly due to Stafford McVay loses patience with the run.

[crazy-legs]

Stafford is who he is. He only wins 1 out of every 9 games when he faces a team with a winning record. How many times a game does he throw off target? For every great throw he makes he makes 3 crappy ones...

Then there's poor coaching. Look at one play against GB. Ramsey was playing against Adams on the outside. GB put a receiver in motion and because of our scheme Ramsey shifted outside leaving Adams. Next thing you know Adams is catching the ball 30+ yards down the field. GB schemed Ramsey off the best receiver. If Morris had a brain in his skull he would never of taken Ramsey off of Adams yet he does...

That's what's wrong with the Rams. They aren't playing their best players against the other teams best players. They don't run the ball on a consistent basis. They have way too many empty backfields taking away play action. They have too many plays that take too long to develop. Teams are on to us. Our offense is so predictable it's pathetic. And then it doesn't seem like there is any game day adjustments. Last year with Staley we'd adjust on D. This year not so much if any. And on O we keep trying to jam a square peg into a round hole. No adjustment there either. It's crazy...

[Cornell29]

Record looks much better now. The team with the fraudulent record was Arizona.

[Raminec]

Let's break down the Rams W-L record to date shall we to see exactly how it has come about and how it could easily be deemed a fraud of a record here...

I've included each of our opponents W-L records as of close of business, Week 11

Wk1: Bears (4-7) - W
Wk2: Colts (5-5) - W
Wk3: Bucs (8-3) - W
Wk4: Cards (9-2) - L
Wk5: Haws (3-7) - W
Wk6: Giants (4-7) - W
Wk7: Lions (0-10-1) - W
Wk8: Texans (2-9) - W
Wk9: Titans (8-4) - L
Wk10: 49'rs (5-5) - L
Wk11: Packers (9-3) - L

So what do we deduce from this W-L pattern folks... Well, it's fairly clear to see.

Apart from our week 3 win over the Bucs, we have not had one single win over an opponent with a winning record.?? ALARMING!!

The first half of our schedule was bar far one of the easiest seen across the NFL given the current strength of opponent we faced during that period. (Weeks 5-8 could've been won by most teams 3rd stringers or practice squad players)

Here are two very concerning points coming up...

1)
Of the 6 remaining games in the regular season, only the Jags & Hawks look like teams we can beat on current form. The 49'rs have our number and I believe the Vikings are much better than their W-L record suggests. This would leave us with a reg-season ending W-L record of 9-8 with the distinct possibility that the 49'rs & Vikings overtake us in the race for the Playoffs. With that record, it's likely we might not actually make it.

2)
If by some miracle we do make the playoffs, on say a 10-7 record, we're guaranteed to play another team with not only a winning record, but one far superior to our own and obviously the WildCard game won't be at So-Fi Stadium either. And it's here that I'd like to draw peoples attention to the earlier fact about how many of the 11 teams we've played to date we have actually beaten where they have a winning record? Yep, it's just that 1 out of the 11. And that 1, realistically, we caught on one of their bad days!!

Worrying times ahead folks.
Time to start earning your money coach.

The sky is falling Chicken Little. What a LOSER Post!

[luckenbill56]

A win counts the same against everyone. 2 wins in a very tough week. I would say that is pretty good.

[RamPower]

A win counts the same against everyone. 2 wins in a very tough week. I would say that is pretty good.

Against playoff quality opponents - 4-0 in December?

And ya as you say, what they've gone thru the last two games? Teams have a hard enough time playing on the road after a Monday Night game, but after Tuesday night...again also after the covid obstacles...at Minn - who's currently fighting for their playoff lives obviously...

Well done Rams, Defense and special teams now gaining on our offense. Nothing soft about the current Rams

[UK Rams Fan]

Let's break down the Rams W-L record to date shall we to see exactly how it has come about and how it could easily be deemed a fraud of a record here...

I've included each of our opponents W-L records as of close of business, Week 11

Wk1: Bears (4-7) - W
Wk2: Colts (5-5) - W
Wk3: Bucs (8-3) - W
Wk4: Cards (9-2) - L
Wk5: Haws (3-7) - W
Wk6: Giants (4-7) - W
Wk7: Lions (0-10-1) - W
Wk8: Texans (2-9) - W
Wk9: Titans (8-4) - L
Wk10: 49'rs (5-5) - L
Wk11: Packers (9-3) - L

So what do we deduce from this W-L pattern folks... Well, it's fairly clear to see.

Apart from our week 3 win over the Bucs, we have not had one single win over an opponent with a winning record.?? ALARMING!!

The first half of our schedule was bar far one of the easiest seen across the NFL given the current strength of opponent we faced during that period. (Weeks 5-8 could've been won by most teams 3rd stringers or practice squad players)

Here are two very concerning points coming up...

1)
Of the 6 remaining games in the regular season, only the Jags & Hawks look like teams we can beat on current form. The 49'rs have our number and I believe the Vikings are much better than their W-L record suggests. This would leave us with a reg-season ending W-L record of 9-8 with the distinct possibility that the 49'rs & Vikings overtake us in the race for the Playoffs. With that record, it's likely we might not actually make it.

2)
If by some miracle we do make the playoffs, on say a 10-7 record, we're guaranteed to play another team with not only a winning record, but one far superior to our own and obviously the WildCard game won't be at So-Fi Stadium either. And it's here that I'd like to draw peoples attention to the earlier fact about how many of the 11 teams we've played to date we have actually beaten where they have a winning record? Yep, it's just that 1 out of the 11. And that 1, realistically, we caught on one of their bad days!!

Worrying times ahead folks.
Time to start earning your money coach.

The sky is falling Chicken Little. What a LOSER Post!

At the time Raminec, that post was very relevant given the situation we found ourselves in as the pattern was very clear and evident to see during the month of November. Unless you fell asleep during that period?

What you appear to have skim read is the very last comment in that post.. I shall quote it again below just for your benefit...

Time to start earning your money coach.

^ Now would you not agree with me that this is, in fact, true of our coaches in December, compared to November when we did in fact have trouble beating teams with winning records as I quite clearly highlighted to start that thread.

Since Nov our coaches have quite clearly demonstrated that they can (and have) make the right adjustments in the face of adversity and have corrected the errors of their ways since our 3 game losing streak.

Good luck in your further pursuit of calling people & posts out, purely for stating facts and stats at the time as part of their annoyance at how things were going downhill fast. I'm guessing you had absolutely nothing negative to say about the state of the team's affairs during Nov and didn't once make a single post to vent your frustrations? By the sounds of it, you were beyond the realms of positivity during that period?

[Raminec]

The sky is falling Chicken Little. What a LOSER Post!

At the time Raminec, that post was very relevant given the situation we found ourselves in as the pattern was very clear and evident to see during the month of November. Unless you fell asleep during that period?

What you appear to have skim read is the very last comment in that post.. I shall quote it again below just for your benefit...

Time to start earning your money coach.

^ Now would you not agree with me that this is, in fact, true of our coaches in December, compared to November when we did in fact have trouble beating teams with winning records as I quite clearly highlighted to start that thread.

Since Nov our coaches have quite clearly demonstrated that they can (and have) make the right adjustments in the face of adversity and have corrected the errors of their ways since our 3 game losing streak.

Good luck in your further pursuit of calling people & posts out, purely for stating facts and stats at the time as part of their annoyance at how things were going downhill fast. I'm guessing you had absolutely nothing negative to say about the state of the team's affairs during Nov and didn't once make a single post to vent your frustrations? By the sounds of it, you were beyond the realms of positivity during that period?

Sorry my remark stung you so much. I stand by it though. You created a long post to say how everything was going wrong based on your personal observations and your perceptions. Rams were in a tailspin. You diminished their accomplishments at that point based on your perception of their opponents.

Well we have found that almost all of the contenders have experienced similar stumbles and that some teams that were struggling early have proven to be pretty good teams while some teams that were considered strong were not so strong.

I try to measure my response and not get overly panicked when things go poorly and by the same token not get to comfortable with success.

You’re extensive article seemed to focus only on the negative from your perspective.

I just thought and still do that it was a the sky is falling post and still do.

No disrespect. Just an observation of the yo yo of perspectives that 2021 has brought.

[Yorkshire Ram]

This team was certainly a fraudulent SB contender, that's for sure.

We've now got to the point where we're an unstructured mix of a handful of elite players, a good number of below par players and some 'guns for hire' that look past their prime.

I don't think many of us are surprised about the effect a few injuries have had on this paper thin roster.

Seeing as we're revisiting this, I'm pretty ashamed of my take on this. Some pretty strong feelings at that point and I underestimated the topsy turvy nature of this season, the depth of the roster and the ability of our coaches.

We are a legit SB contender at this point.

[UK Rams Fan]

This team was certainly a fraudulent SB contender, that's for sure.

We've now got to the point where we're an unstructured mix of a handful of elite players, a good number of below par players and some 'guns for hire' that look past their prime.

I don't think many of us are surprised about the effect a few injuries have had on this paper thin roster.

Seeing as we're revisiting this, I'm pretty ashamed of my take on this. Some pretty strong feelings at that point and I underestimated the topsy turvy nature of this season, the depth of the roster and the ability of our coaches.

We are a legit SB contender at this point.

I agree mate, only thing is.. you don't get a 2nd chance to right the ship in the playoffs like we're demonstrating in the regular season. get it wrong in the PO's and you're done.

Last night wasn't the prettiest perf out of the last 3 wins and could very well have gone very differently had they had Cook and if our ST hadn't woken up from their 15-week slumber.

Stafford and the OL had a bad day where we got away with it yesterday against an average, at the time, 7-7 team. Michel & our ST bailed them out luckily.

[UK Rams Fan]

At the time Raminec, that post was very relevant given the situation we found ourselves in as the pattern was very clear and evident to see during the month of November. Unless you fell asleep during that period?

What you appear to have skim read is the very last comment in that post.. I shall quote it again below just for your benefit...
^ Now would you not agree with me that this is, in fact, true of our coaches in December, compared to November when we did in fact have trouble beating teams with winning records as I quite clearly highlighted to start that thread.

Since Nov our coaches have quite clearly demonstrated that they can (and have) make the right adjustments in the face of adversity and have corrected the errors of their ways since our 3 game losing streak.

Good luck in your further pursuit of calling people & posts out, purely for stating facts and stats at the time as part of their annoyance at how things were going downhill fast. I'm guessing you had absolutely nothing negative to say about the state of the team's affairs during Nov and didn't once make a single post to vent your frustrations? By the sounds of it, you were beyond the realms of positivity during that period?

Sorry my remark stung you so much. I stand by it though. You created a long post to say how everything was going wrong based on your personal observations and your perceptions. Rams were in a tailspin. You diminished their accomplishments at that point based on your perception of their opponents.

Well we have found that almost all of the contenders have experienced similar stumbles and that some teams that were struggling early have proven to be pretty good teams while some teams that were considered strong were not so strong.

I try to measure my response and not get overly panicked when things go poorly and by the same token not get to comfortable with success.

You’re extensive article seemed to focus only on the negative from your perspective.

I just thought and still do that it was a the sky is falling post and still do.

No disrespect. Just an observation of the yo yo of perspectives that 2021 has brought.

The perspective was from the trend of data gathered at the time, AKA The facts, nothing personal there.. I didn't make it up btw??
You seem to have singled out this particular post for some reason...Looking forward to seeing what you have to say to those folks calling for McVay and Morris to go during our 3 game slide?
The manner in which you called it out wasn't particularly constructive and in a way I would normally receive criticism from an adult if I'm honest. It was a post more befitting of a boy, juvenile or cleveland to be fair. Your subsequent reply to me was somewhat of an improvement though... So thanks for that at least.

Have a good day and Go Rams.