Rams-Cardinals Fourth Quarter: Bulger Picked For A Score
As the game reached garbage time, the Rams had a chance to work on some things that could help down the road.
One was the kick return work of Derek Stanley, who is making a case to handle the job next season. He had a 34-yard kickoff return and a 33-yard punt return that nearly went the distance.
Another good thing was more extensive use of Torry Holt in the second half. Maybe the Rams don’t have to move him after the year after all.
Tight end Daniel Fells made his case for further employment, making a big nice catch to move the chains. Why can’t Joe Klopfenstein play like this?
With the game out of reach, Josh Brown crushed a 51-yard field goal wiht 10 yards to spare. Great.
Receiver Dane Looker made a strong catch in heavy traffic to keep a late drive going.
Wait a minute — Klopfenstein made a 14-yard reception. And then he made a 23-yard catch right after that. No, seriously, he did.
Might this outburst save the lad’s career?
Alas, things got ugly when Marc Bulger got picked off by Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie at the goal line . . . and ‘Nique ran it back 100 yards for a touchdown. That pushed Arizona’s lead to 34-10.
Wow.
Yes, the Rams still need to move Holt - he gets all his yards in garbage time. Did you notice haslett giving Holt sh_t about running out of bounds 1/2 yard short of a 1st down? Holt is gutless and is going through the motions when it counts. Get his lazy, bad attitude out of here!
Again kick a field goal while way behind in the 4th quarter. I cannot believe an NFL team can just get thier rear-ends kicked early and then laugh about something on the sideline (check the game video). Holt can be a very good receiver for a couple more years, not only as a player but a leader (maybe). Bulger is toast with this team. again Bulger is toast with this team. barely anybody picks him up after a sack, and he does not call out plyers in the game to let them know they screwed up. It is not about showing proffessional courtesy anymore it is time to let them know you will not accept this anymore. Great, maybe just good quarterbacks will let his players know when they screw up. Be vocal Marc, show us that you are a leader, or show us that a tequlia sunrise in jamaica is better.
At the beginning of the season there were dozens of posts following each of Jeff’s updates. I think the trickle of posts demonstrates the complete loss of interest of most Rams fans.
This franchise is in BIG trouble.
Wow, it was Sunday wasn’t it?
Seriously, I just pray that the Lions can scratch out a couple of wins so that we can get a top 3 pick in the upcoming draft.
Trade some “talent” for some additional picks and just start from scratch.
I really hate the thought of losing Holt because of all the great numbers and memories that he has brought St Louis, but whatever is necessary to help this franchise move forward needs to be done.
Cut Bulger and take the cap hit, trade Holt, trade Jackson to a team that does not mind a part time RB (that holdout worked wonders for the old conditioning eh?), and for God sakes invest heavily into the o-line and d-line for a change with quality players.
I really don’t care anymore. I’ll enjoy the Holiday season and forget about the Rams.
Mike
The only way the front ofice might pay attention is if most of the fans stay away from the stadium. Empty seats are good (not really, but who really cares anymore?) for the …
Whatever. Time for some other St. Louis sport. Is hockey still around here?
Would everyone just get off my case? Hey, I am trying’ here but I don’t want to mess up my hair and crack a nail. You know I do have talent… I can play “Here comes Santa Claus” with my champagne burps. I bet most of you thought the green dot on my helmet is for play calling… NOPE, I am listening to Boy George’s Greatest Hits Vol.3. Man, he can sing!
Can we please run ANOTHER good QB out of town?
From a STL fan not located in STL. Do you fans STILL not realize the Qb isn’t the problem. The reaction to Bulger right now is the EXACT type of reaction to Warner when he was winding up his STL career.
STL just made the EXACT same mistake KC made when they signed Larry Johnson to a big contract. You don’t sign RB’s to big contracts. Plain and simple.
Bulger, in all honesty isn’t on the same level talent wise as Kurt Warner, but STL would be foolish to let him go. He isn’t the problem.
There are a lot of things wrong with the Rams.
The problem is the players. Not the coaches.
They have talent. They lack effort. They lack desire.
Personnel mistakes continue to be made.
How did Madison Hedgecock go from being cut to all pro in the same season?
Draft picks are continually wasted. Carriker? Leonard? Klopfenstein?
Carriker & Long should be playing end. Leonard? A fullback? Give me a break. When will we get a decent middle linebacker? A run stopper?
Fans are more concerned with effort than wins.
Dick Vermeil took nobodies that were hungry & made them champions.
They never gave up. No matter what. They played hard all the time.
Bulger gave up a long time ago. Jackson spends too much time running his mouth. Incognito is a liability on & off the field. Dump Alex Barron.
Get blue collar guys. Guys that don’t give up.
Get guys off the waiver wire. We couldn’t do any worse.
All of you who have the “dump everyone” mantra sound like the idiots from every other NFL city that loses. it’s amazing how little you really know about football if you think that you can dump everyone and EXPECT wins, football is based on 1- following assignments 2- talent/guts 3- injuries and 4- luck.
So your idea that a team full of rookies that have never played together can win against 30 year olds that have played together? HA what a joke. Look at KC this year.
You seriously do not understand economics if you think you can dump the entire payroll and take the cap hits.
You seriously do not understand Free Agency if you think you can lure big time Free Agents to this organization.
So why don’t all you idiots go back to your Madden video franchise and let the big boys throw out real suggestions on how to fix this.
Here’s the list of Free Agents next year
http://www.footballsfuture.com/freeagents.html
You tell me which ones you would be happy with AND who would also consider coming to a team that currently has 2 wins.
Remember before the Rams won the SuperBowl what they did, they got a QB (Green- who was to be the savior), traded for Faulk, Drafted Holt to compliment Bruce and an super bowl winning OL from Green Bay. Three of the four moves panned out and nobody knew that Warner could do what he did (then you idiots ran him out of town because of fumbles and his wife’s mouth)
This time you have to
1-get an OT in the first round,
2-leave Jackson to be Jackson (get a 2nd tier back-up for the games he’ll miss each season)
3-draft DE and LB
4-try your best to lure a younger than Green QB to give Bulger something to fight for, I think we can all agree that Bulger is playing scared, and as Bernie has said “He will sit if it continues” so the Rams are not scared to eventually sit him.
I like Haslet but he better get himself back to the cocky, smiling, Im a bad@ss, football self or he can go.
I know these are not earth shaking changes, but they are realistic.
Anyone else have any other REAL ideas instead of grabbing our pitchforks and torches and hunting down the team like village idiots.