NFL Week 13: Time to wallow in the Mirer

You've obviously never been to a game in St. Louis then. It has to be one of the least-intimidating venues for road teams, no matter the opponent.

 

I've been there many, many times when they were good (Warner Era) and when they were bad.

No matter how bad one of the teams is, the Rams seem to save their best performances of the season for when they're playing the Niners.

It doesn't excuse the Niners for losing a game they should have won, but the Rams played very well yesterday, especially on defense. Fisher is a very good coach and the Rams have improved tremendously from a year ago.

 

I agree. I was kind of shocked when they kept both vets after preseason as opposed to the Johnson kid. It didn't make much sense to me at the time. I only sided with left which because he was younger but there is no other reason. I would take batch Over leftwhich on virtually any other quarterbacking criteria. Turns put left which isn't any less fragile. So
Maybe they lucked out with this hoyer thing. He seems to be the type
Of guy who you can trust as the backup. But I would love to keep Batch on the coaching staff somehow. He's been a model teammate and mentor to Ben.

 

Oh, I agree the Rams are getting better very quickly, and Fisher is a big reason why.

I was just commenting on the mistakes Kaepernick made in what is hardly an intimidating place to play for opposing players. Would you expect him to not make those mistakes if he's playing as a visiting QB at Lambeau in January, or in Chicago, or Atlanta? Or even at home against those teams in the playoffs? Maybe he's a quick learner, but that's a pretty big gamble for Harbaugh to be ready to make.

 

Strasburgians in the audience -- any chance for the Skins tonight? Would be a lot of fun to see three teams within a game in the East with the other two holding a leg up on the Giants in the tiebreaker.

Plus then the people of Washington could care again about their football team. Which they totally don't yet.

 

If the Skins win tonight, they'll put themselves and Dallas a game behind the Giants with four games left. If the Giants fall apart (not likely) and the Skins-Cowboys hold serve with each other that'll set up a Final Week showdown in Washington for the NFC East title between Dallas and Washington.

Not gonna happen for obvious reasons, but it'd be compelling to say the least.

 

Hope that comes to pass.

Watching Dallas shit the bed on the road against an NFC East team to crush their playoff hopes in Week 17 never gets old.

 

Just glanced at the schedule and I think Green Bay ends up with a bye. The Giants have a brutal closing, with the Skins tonight, the Saints, then they're at Atlanta and at Baltimore before ending with Philly. I can't believe they win all of those games.

The 49ers have to go to Seattle and to New England.

Green Bay has the Lions and Titans at home and road games with Minnesota and Chicago. Chicago is the tricky one, but if the Packers win out they would only need the Giants and 49ers to each lose once to get the bye. I don't know if GB has the ability to beat either of those teams head-to-head, but they can't ask for a better set-up than that. Their only potential road game would be Atlanta, who is probably their best matchup of the playoff teams, oddly enough.

 

They probably won't, but they're better than every one of those teams.

 

Even when he fumbles Robert Griffin makes things happen.

 

I hate you.