Week 1 positives: Robert Quinn's three sacks made him NFC Defensive Player of the Week... Jared Cook had a massive 7-catch, 141-yard, 2-TD game in his Rams debut... Sam Bradford led a 4th-quarter rally to get the Rams out of a 24-13 hole... Third straight game Bradford wasn't sacked... Greg Zuerlein was a flawless 4-for-4 on FGs, with a 48-yarder to win the game in the final minute.
Week 1 negatives: Cortland Finnegan was by far the worst Ram on the field. Couldn't cover, couldn't tackle and committed stupid penalties... Speaking of which, seven penalties, 4 of them 15-yard personal fouls, all by veterans... Pass rush was almost non-existent outside of Quinn... That the Rams ever fell behind 24-13 in the first place to a team that went 1-7 on the road last season.
Week 2 positives: Fourth straight game Bradford wasn't sacked... Productive receiving games for Tavon Austin (2 TDs) and Austin Pettis (8-78)... Another sack for Quinn... Bad refereeing led directly to Atlanta's first TD... Brian Schottenheimer's got all these shiny, new weapons and doesn't seem to want to use them.
Week 2 negatives: Rams dug a big hole again, falling behind 24-3... Cook went from all-Pro to invisible man (1 catch, 10 yards)... The passing game was checkdown after checkdown... No running game... Janoris Jenkins' terrible coverage allowed an 81-yard Julio Jones TD bomb... Only two sacks... Special teams were penalty-crazy.
Week 2 irony: After nine years of battling for them without getting over the top, Steven Jackson scored a TD against his old team... and was injured on the play. He'll be out several weeks with a hamstring injury. Hey, didn't the same thing happen to Jackson two years ago? The Falcons might want to work him a little harder next summer so he gets that hamstring deal out of the way in training camp.
Rams of the Week: Week 1 - Quinn; Week 2 - Jake Long.
More catchup on the way.
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