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After getting beat by two consecutive teams who score 30+ against the Rams, the Rams have scored 30+ points against two consecutive opponents beginning last week against the Jags and continuing this week against the Texans. This was a total team effort in all phases of the game for a complete dominant performance that no one expected and the Rams took another step in the positive direction with a convincing win on the road which we have not done dating back to 2006 against the Raiders.
Overall, the offense, the defense, STS, and playing calling all performed great today and even though we had a couple of mental mistakes by isolated players, we overcame them all and completing ran over the Texans.
On Offense. The positives. We scored first in the early part of the first quarter after our first offensive series went three and out. Sammie had a pedestrian 12/16 for 117 yards, 3 RDS and no INTs (QB rating of 124.3) compared to Schaub who finished his day going 15/21 for 186 and Yates filling in for an injured Schaub going 11/15 for 110 yards and 2 INTs. The story of the day was Zac Stacey and the Oline blocking that emerged as the Rams finding the RB they have have been searching for and the fact that the running game opened up the passing game as we went deep three times that it paid off with opponent penalties. Stacey finished the day going 18 carries for 79 yards with help from Richardson and Cunningham. We had big plays in the run game and in the passing game as Quick, Cook, Givens, and Kendricks all redeemed themselves after making some mistakes that were obvious.
The negatives. Not too many here except for Chris Williams having a false start right before the half that may have cost us a TD and Wells screwing up late in the game with a miscue that did not matter at that time. Givens missed a nice deep ball from Sammie early on that he could have caught if he stretched it out. Other than this not much else.
On defense. WOW, is all that you can say. We had INTs by Jenkins and Olgetree, the latter returning his pick for six that I believe set a new return record for the Rams of 98 yards. There were two fumble recoveries, one on special teams that Bates returned for a TD and Laurinaitus returned his for 40 yards. Laurinaitus has been close for a while now and he finally got a return on a miscue. We had five sacks with Brockers getting 2, Jenkins, Long, and Quinn all getting 1 each. Just a badass defensive effort today with everyone having a great game except for Cudjo.
The negatives. Not many here except for two mental mistakes by Cudjo and the defense continues to give up big rushing yardage as Foster finished he day 20 carries for 141 yards.
On Special Teams. The positives. The big play of the day was rookie Darren Bates getting his first Pro TD on a fumble recovery on kick-off duty. That was sweet retribution for all the krap the STs have been producing the last couple of games. Zuerlein continues to amaze with nearly every kick-off put out of the endzone for no return and be was 1/1 in FGs. The other big story here was the STs had no penalties on punt returns because the defense kept shutting Houston's offense down with turnovers and we only punted twice ourselves.
The negatives. None here.
Onward we go to Carolina to take on a sporadic Panthers team. This game was very enjoyable for all of us and it was sweet in the sense of what SJ76 has been vehemently screaming about for a long time. Pound the Rock, defend well, don't do game-killing mistakes, do your job and execute, and the win will be there. We even got a great gamed called by Shottenheimer. The momentum continues next week and hopefully, this win will be the model we continue to fall back on as we continue through the season.
Overall, the offense, the defense, STS, and playing calling all performed great today and even though we had a couple of mental mistakes by isolated players, we overcame them all and completing ran over the Texans.
On Offense. The positives. We scored first in the early part of the first quarter after our first offensive series went three and out. Sammie had a pedestrian 12/16 for 117 yards, 3 RDS and no INTs (QB rating of 124.3) compared to Schaub who finished his day going 15/21 for 186 and Yates filling in for an injured Schaub going 11/15 for 110 yards and 2 INTs. The story of the day was Zac Stacey and the Oline blocking that emerged as the Rams finding the RB they have have been searching for and the fact that the running game opened up the passing game as we went deep three times that it paid off with opponent penalties. Stacey finished the day going 18 carries for 79 yards with help from Richardson and Cunningham. We had big plays in the run game and in the passing game as Quick, Cook, Givens, and Kendricks all redeemed themselves after making some mistakes that were obvious.
The negatives. Not too many here except for Chris Williams having a false start right before the half that may have cost us a TD and Wells screwing up late in the game with a miscue that did not matter at that time. Givens missed a nice deep ball from Sammie early on that he could have caught if he stretched it out. Other than this not much else.
On defense. WOW, is all that you can say. We had INTs by Jenkins and Olgetree, the latter returning his pick for six that I believe set a new return record for the Rams of 98 yards. There were two fumble recoveries, one on special teams that Bates returned for a TD and Laurinaitus returned his for 40 yards. Laurinaitus has been close for a while now and he finally got a return on a miscue. We had five sacks with Brockers getting 2, Jenkins, Long, and Quinn all getting 1 each. Just a badass defensive effort today with everyone having a great game except for Cudjo.
The negatives. Not many here except for two mental mistakes by Cudjo and the defense continues to give up big rushing yardage as Foster finished he day 20 carries for 141 yards.
On Special Teams. The positives. The big play of the day was rookie Darren Bates getting his first Pro TD on a fumble recovery on kick-off duty. That was sweet retribution for all the krap the STs have been producing the last couple of games. Zuerlein continues to amaze with nearly every kick-off put out of the endzone for no return and be was 1/1 in FGs. The other big story here was the STs had no penalties on punt returns because the defense kept shutting Houston's offense down with turnovers and we only punted twice ourselves.
The negatives. None here.
Onward we go to Carolina to take on a sporadic Panthers team. This game was very enjoyable for all of us and it was sweet in the sense of what SJ76 has been vehemently screaming about for a long time. Pound the Rock, defend well, don't do game-killing mistakes, do your job and execute, and the win will be there. We even got a great gamed called by Shottenheimer. The momentum continues next week and hopefully, this win will be the model we continue to fall back on as we continue through the season.