0 comments by Will on 3/11/2015
With Sam Bradford gone, it’s all up for grabs. Whether or not they’re better (that’s an argument for the next several months), suddenly this is a different Rams team. This is a different team that Saint Louis and Los Angeles are fighting over. This is a different team that enters the 2015 draft. It’s a new start, that’s for sure.
0 comments by Will Horton on 8/14/2014
Tuesday afternoon gave us clear blue skies with the sun waning and temperatures under 80 degrees as the Rams players and hopefuls ran out onto a gorgeous green field. It was easy — surreally easy — to forget that riot police and angry protestors were staking out lines for another battle just ten miles away.
0 comments by Will Horton on 5/16/2014
The same thing that makes a donut a donut can also make an offensive line into a complete disaster: a hole in the middle. I went back through some old posts and found one from Week 12, when the Rams’ offense was finally hitting its stride. Zac Stacy had cemented his role as a workhorse […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 5/13/2014
A friend of mine from high school came out shortly after graduation, and my first thought was “you lied.” This was twenty years ago, I was a teenager and a girl that I loved had loved him, you see. Her anger and confusion boiled up with my own, and I probably said and did some […]
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— RamsHerd (@RamsHerd) May 9, 2014
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0 comments by Will Horton on 5/9/2014
The St Louis Rams are done with smokescreens, done with questions about Sam Bradford, done with months of speculation. They made a statement with their first two picks of the 2014 NFL Draft. Loosely translated, that statement reads something like “Come at me, bro.”
Auburn’s freakishly talented Greg Robinson re-anchors the offensive line, and John Randle-sized defensive tackle Aaron Donald adds yet another wave of pass-rush ability to the game’s most complete defensive line. With these picks, the Rams are preparing to win the trench warfare that defines the new NFC West. Both picks are earning acclaim from nationwide pundits, but what do the RamsHerd writers think? Read on.
0 comments by Will Horton on 3/13/2014
It was a Wednesday evening in early March and I was spending it like any obsessed Rams fan would be: on Twitter, searching for updates on free agent guard Travelle Wharton, because he might be thinking about retirement, but for gods' sake would be a better option than Davin Joseph, who the Rams were wining […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 12/23/2013
As Robert Quinn closes in on opposing quarterbacks, there is always an uncertainty. Is there a hot read? Is the rush coming equally hot from Chris Long or Will Hayes on the opposite side? Does this quarterback have the ability or tendency to shift around in the pocket, or bail out entirely and go on […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 12/22/2013
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers arrive in St Louis this weekend as a more dangerous team than their 4-10 record might suggest. All four of those wins have come in the last six weeks of the season, and despite being written off nationally, the team has been playing very well for embattled coach Greg Schiano in […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 12/16/2013
Two years ago, AJ Feely and a hangdog Rams team playing for little but pride pulled off one of the great upsets of that year. The victims were the New Orleans Saints, then as now putative contenders for a deep playoff run. That unlikely win created a blueprint for pulling off the Big Upset. Two […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 12/13/2013
On one hand, the St Louis Rams have to be relieved to be playing anyone not in their own division, after the disappointing beatdowns of the past two weeks against the Cardinals and 49ers. On the other hand, they will be facing a New Orleans Saints team that is charging toward the season's finish line […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 12/2/2013
To say that football is a "man's game" is to tacitly acknowledge its ugliness. There will be nut-punches. There will be tears. There will be bullying and cheap shots and profanity and carrying on as befits a kindergarten playground. And, barring some truly exceptional circumstance, the game will be won by the men that are […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/28/2013
As the Rams prepare to face the San Francisco 49ers in the first of their divisional rematches, it's a good time to look at how different this team is now. Not just in personnel, but in attitude and in play. One need look only at the scoreboard over the last two weeks for the easiest […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/24/2013
It's safe to say that the Rams have found a new identity in their two-game winning streak. Perhaps better said, they've found an old one. After opening the season without a known commodity starting at running back, the Rams invested heavily on the perimeter to prepare for an aerial assault helmed by an efficient Sam […]
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What does Sam Bradford have to do with playing defense? Or more importantly, what does the absence of Sam Bradford have to do with the sudden improvement in the Rams' ability to shut down opposing quarterbacks? Anything? Nothing? In one of the more unusual stories of the season, the Rams have seemingly played better overall […]
