HERES MY BLOG I LOST EARLIER, FROM NOV 29 2010:
Ok, so im back from the hospital after yesterdays game. Apparently my blood pressure bottomed out when the rams blew a 20 point lead in the fourth quarter. But in the ambulance my 'Football LIVE' app (youre welcome for the plug...) told me that we did in fact hold on to a three point victory. Ok, a vics a vic (just ask morris who exclaimed "we're the best in the NFC" after a 1 point comeback victory over a team 6-42 since 07') ok so the ambulance thing is fake, but my near heart attack wasnt. See Im best at home watching the game by myself or just my father (cuz he gets it). I have a little problem of screaming at my television and throwing of various rams laden clothing accessories. when an opposing drive happens in the final seconds that could change the game, i go downright bi-polar. I cant help it. I love this team so much and am so hellbent on winning i sacrifice my dignity at hand to show my support or disdain. I am a true FANatic.
But lets look at the awesomeness of this sundays game, aside from our 4th quarter defensive collapse.
1. Sam the Ram: Well the sexy pick of the 2010 draft is looking in fact like the brainiest one as well. This "rookie" is having a better season than half the veteren or young starter qbs could hope for within the next 5 years. He had a QB rating of about 112 on and threw for, i dunno what was it, 300 YARDS?! i guess thats an ok day on an NFL pitch....
2. Danario Alexander: DX!! Super Danario!! just a couple of the monikers the young Wideout from Mizzou has earned over his blinkinlgy short career. The only thing that kills me is that this kid would already be a bona fide star if it werent for his knee. But hey, we got him, and when hes healthy hes dangerous. 4 catches for 95 yards after just having surgery?! statement if i ever heard on. We keep this kid and amendola healthy, and we'll be having a double threat that'll be talked about in the same sentence and Bruce/Holt or Boldin/Fitzgerald.
3. Steven Jackson: now sir stevie is probably the nicest guy in Pro Football. Hre is an excellant athlete. Highly regarded as the best running back in the league but when i watch some of these other rbs from teams like, atlanta, Green bay, KC i cant help but wonder a few things. Now i highly doubt dancing classes were a pre requesite of the RB school of beatdown, but looks like stevie might have taken that elective. I cannot tell you the last time i saw that man put his head down and run full speed ahead. He ALWAYS cuts, bounces, skips, hops, and always ends up being swallowed. I have yet to see him bust off any tears for big yardage this year and this week against the LAST ranked team against the rush, he carried 17 times for 72 yards. Now i know saffold has this shoulder thing but comeon, this has been an issue for 3 years running. The last drive where all we did was run, we couldnt get 10 yards.....so Steven I love ya, but just lower it a goferit!!
4. Offense: 36 points, most in like 47 decades, since the young halfling found the elder scroll and pilgramed up the side of.... well nevermind. we got ANOTHER solid day out of bradford (is this kid ever gonna seriously disappoint?)
431 total yards
24 first downs
308 in the air and another
123 on the ground
take away that 20 point 4th quarter and things seem to be coming together.
Without bad there cannot be good so....
1. Defense: D,D,D,D. I love those guys. DO NOT get me wrong. You have the Hoss' of Chris Long and James Hall. King Laurenitis (ahh-OOOHHH!! its from the movie 300 chk it out). Pro bowler Oshiomogho atogwe and ron bartell. So how is it that with all of these awesome players and the coach who masterminded the great wall that held off the Patriots passing onslaught of 2007 get beat like the purdue drum over the middle time and time again. That was the only reason orton was able to formulate any sort of attack at all.
2. Injuries: Are we gonna catch a freaking break or a lack thereof (barum bum). Illinois Mike makes a badass TD run after catch then hes out for potentially the rest of the year with another high ankle sprain. Alexanfers back but with our luck hes just gonna go out next week and xxxSHUT YO' MOUTHxxx leaving him out again. so as long as well all stay a little healthyish, we can still make a run at this thing
3. The Hard, unforgiving road: well at least one thing we havent seen consistently IN st.Louis this year has been bad football, theve just been playing it everywhere else. okok, i know like everyone of our losses add up the point differential and its like 2 but still, we are having an UNBELIEVEABLE time getting it done on the road, yesterdays laurel de-crowning in the 4th quarter was not only humbling, it was down-right scary. Say we ACTUALLY do make the playoffs, which will only be off the strength of clinching the NFL's bitch division, we will get a home game, you REALLY want to leave st.louis fans who youve worked so HARD to impress and win back with a sour taste in their mouth of what coulda woulda had it not been for that fourth quarter collapse?!
So, in conclusion (my favorite 5th paragraph opening), the rams have given us something to hope for in the long run, but have also given us something to enjoy right now...... A football team that doesnt totally, unequivocally, completly, and ubiquitosly SUCK DONKEY BALLS. of course for you niners fans that subjects always open for debate, and likewise.
RAMS CHARGE!!
FIRST!!
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