09.21.2008 5:26 pm
Rams-Seahawks Fourth Quarter
The Seahawks keep moving. Even a holding penalty can’t slow them down. Seattle just keeps pounding away.
Duckett rumbles for 30 yards with the Rams in Total Capitulation Mode. Embarrassing. Duckett finishes off the drive himself and Seattle is up 34-13.
Bulger hangs up an interception to make the humiliation complete. He throws every pass off his back foot.
Seattle will grind it out from here, pushing the Rams defensive front around while eating up the remaining clock. Another Mare field field goal makes it 37-13.
Scott Linehan and Al Saunders finally decide to break out the no-huddle offense and it generated some belated life. Torry actually catches a 22-yard pass.
Where was this earlier in the game?


Just keep moving the chains.
Rams “defense,” you SUCK.
Oh, yeah; don’t forget to pickup your game checks, boys.
And moving. And moving and moving and moving and moving……
Unbelievable weekend of football. Can’t watch the number 5 team in the country on TV yesterday, but get to see both the KC and STL juggernauts today.
Serious question: Is Mark Bulger not allowed to audible out of a bad play? Or does he not know the Saunders offense well enough? Or is he just football stupid? The Seahawks stacked the line on that third and one. We don’t have the best O-Line to start. Why not audible to a quick-out passing play or anything other than a run behind the stellar Leckey-Goldberg combo?
Who would of guessed that the defense wouldn’t make a stand?
Here’s where the Rams’ D just gives up and allows unanswered TDs.
Final score: Seattle 48, Rams 13
You watch. The Defense will now lay down.
To be honest the Rams have done better than I expected. It’s a really sad situation with no real answers at this point in the season.
A coaching change will not change the results for this season, but it would give the fans a sign that management cares.
Linehan was never head coach material, but that’s history. I don’t know who’s out there that is both better and the Rams can afford. Probably only second or third rate people like we have now.
Very frustrated.
“The defense will NOW lay down”?
I guess giving up 34 points in three-and-a-half quarter is not laying down, eh?
“You watch. The Defense will now lay down.”
Hard to lay down when you were never standing.
The defense has no heart.
BLOWOUT AFTER BLOWOUT and Linehan survives. Hard working folks buy season tickets and sports merchandise for this type of quality. The RAMS should be ashamed. At least fight but their fight is the point of least resistance. Hope Seattle can break the 50 point barrier so that the Linehan can say nothing but honorably “I RESIGN!”
Surprise, surprise Bulger plays catch with the Seahawks secondary.
You have to put Green in now, don’t you?
Last year it seemed the defense had some spark, at least occasionally. Now they are clearly worse than the offense and that’s saying alot. Whoever said this team is not competitive is completely right. If Seattle wins by another TD or two, I think a shake up happens very soon. If the Rams make it closer, the status quo may continue for awhile. Haslett may be the first to get canned.
When I say ‘lay down’, I mean REALLY lay down. Even more so now that the game is out of reach and Seattle picked it. One play, one pass, Seattle TD.
Scott Linehandusanotherloss will never resign.
Our highly paid veteran QB makes a rookie mistake with the INT. Pia has been loafing all day at LB without any pursuit at all. Sit the players down that don’t want to hustle! I miss London Fletcher! Jackson - stop trying to dance around tackles - run through them!!
Nothing to say but they have to burn this thing to the ground and start over. There is ZERO leadership or accountability at any level of this organization.
I don’t blame Chip for this embarrassment… yet. But I think he needs to be aware of the politicking for jobs going on in the front office. I always believed Zygmunt was more of a problem than Martz ever was… now I know I was right. Not that Martz should have been allowed to blow up the team, but he at least knew football. Shaw is a ghost, and there are no obvious choices to clean up this mess within the present hierarchy at Rams HQ. Vermeil seems disinterested. Faulk wants back into the business; why not bring him on board as a consultant and ask who he thinks might be a good mid-season replacement? Because Shaw and Zygmunt are completely incapable of caring or doing the right thing any more. And at this point, who are the choices, besides Marty Schottenheimer, who would be fine for 2/3 of a season, but I’m not game on him long-term?
Buffalo next week. Not the greatest team, but neither is Seattle. The bye and then Washington and Dallas, LOL. The game against Dallas, man, maybe the Rams should forfeit that one.
What in the world is the Rams D doing? I want blowout city. Still 4 minutes left so Seattle can still get a TD to make it 44-13. Can’t believe I am throwing the Rams under the bus but this is what it takes to fire Linehan and clean house.
Oh my God!!! They just threw to Holt. 3 catches for 15 yards…what a sad commentary on play calling and coaching.
sooo…someone get Bill Cowher on the line, give him whatever he wants to come and start tomorrow. Don’t even wait for the bye.
Manning is driving the field for another come from behind win. Hope the Rams’ coaches watch THIS game film…..
What’s Marty Shottenhiemer (sp?) doing these days?
Can’t wait for this post game interview.. I bet old scotty actually starts crying this time.. tough way for new owners to get started as the laughing stock
Yet another no effort game.
Good game, kept them under 40 points. Impressive showing. Keep it up.
Yet another soul crushing defeat.
3 games into the season and the Rams are already starring into the abyss of a yet another lost season.
Shame it’s over. They were just hitting their stride.
It breaks my freaking heart to see Holt wasted. Granted Bulger cant’t accuratley throw a pass further than 15 yards but you can see the frustration in his face.
okay, enough is enough…i live in buffalo bills country and im telling you we are on an 0-4 start for sure…that team finds ways to win and plays with heart….get rid of the whole staff NOW!!!!!!!
Good finish for Bulger, just managed to squeak out a 70 passer rating with less than a minute left. Way to earn that paycheck! I hear there’s a scrimmage with the St. Louis Rams and the middle school football all stars from the St. Louis area, the Rams are a two touchdown underdog! If Linehan and the rest of the bozos ruining the team, still have a job tomorrow, I’ll be pissed!
With any luck Michael Corleone will have a car waiting to drive the coaching staff to the airport.
this game should be enough to start the bums rush…
i have one question..if your defense cannot stop the run, why do you draft a 262 lb defensive end who will spend the majority of the year being driven all over the yard by 300 lb offensive tackles?
Okay, so who’s worst….Chiefs/Rams?????? I’M TAKIN BETS.
Can any one say Chrisy (Jim) Everett!
Bulger has become a guy shy shell of his former self. The rams saw the same thing with Everett after getting brutally handled by the beaqrs everett never recovered. Sit Bulger, give Green a shot and kiss this team good bye.. We are stuck with Jackson now, So draft five or six more lineman higher the Broncos line coach and rebuild. See you in 2012 when we might have a chance at being good again.
By the way, Why in the BLEEP! are we not firing Haslett. Go find a high school coach in th earea and give him the dream of a life time. Haslett’s Defense BLEEPPOS!
I remember hiring him we thought we would finally gain an edge of toughness. Must by the ST. Louis Water because that is the most none cometitive defense I have seen in Twenty years of watching football.
Who was that offensive coordinator for the Raiders in Art Shell’s only year when he came back?? He’d be better coaching material than what we got!
bulger needs to take a seat!sure the o line isnt protecting him worth a crap but even with time hes shaky anymore!trent green knows this offense better thananyone so put his ass in there!!!
The team that hired him had gone six consecutive seasons without a winning record or playoff appearance before he was hired. Over his final three years, his team won two divisional titles and had a 35-13 record that was third-best in the league. The coach was fired in 2007 after completing a 14-2 season. This former coach is an unemployed analyst who should be the Rams next coach….who is he?
I am not surprised by the lack of enthusiasm in this forum. The wind seems to have already left the sails of those who follow this franchise, and with good reason given the level of play demonstrated thus far.
Haterz should bear in mind that at least two of the three teams who’ve faced the Liedownahans so far are playoff caliber, with the jury still out on Seattle. The Liedownahans face a hard 2008 schedule given their record last year. One really has to ask what happened to the NFL’s supposed commitment to parity when a 3-13 team plays the defending Super Bowl champion and two other playoff teams to begin the season.
Let’s be clear: St. Louis will probably lose the Liedownahans to Los Angeles, which has been the thorn in the paw of the NFL lion (rubbed in well when Georgia told off Tagliabue as he presented her with the Lombardi trophy in January 2000). As such, whatever happens this season or next is a prelude to the rebirth of the NFL a city that already has perhaps the best college football program in the nation.
So it’s probably futile to get too excited about this team and its prospects, not just for this year but for however many years they have left under the Arch.
Last night on C-SPAN, George Will relayed a story about the owner of the Cubs taking out full-page newspaper advertisements 100 years ago that thanked the citizens of his city for supporting his ballclub and apologized for the losing ways. Currently, it is routine for those in Hollywood to pull an ad in Variety to thank fans, co-workers and supporters after an awards win or a public relations implosion.
Chip Rosenbloom should similarly take out an ad in the Post-Dispatch to (1) thank those who will still put down greenbacks and show for the Lamest Show on Turf, (2) thank the larger St. Louis community for their continued support and (3) convey his intention that some form of change — any change — is gonna come soon. It would be nice to have a clear public assurance that the ownership has higher expectations than what’s been shown on the field and in post-game press conferences.
The history of his franchise, coupled with gentle Midwestern manners and solid comportment, deserves at least that much.
Why should the owners care? The get their cut of the NFL-TV pie. They have a great deal in St. Louis. we’re locked in by the PSL fee. they will eventually move and say St. Louis won’t support pro football.
Get a life you slobs.