RamView game blog: Packers 24, Rams 10

The Rams' schedule difficulty reaches its peak in a couple of hours when they take on the Packers at Lambeau, where the home team rarely loses and Aaron Rodgers seemingly never makes a mistake. The Rams save some of their best games for the best teams, though, and they have a shot at controlling the clock with Todd Gurley against the #21 run defense in the league, so maybe they can sound the upset alert before the day is through.

Don't forget the game is on CBS for some reason this week instead of Fox. Dan Fouts and Ian Eagle will have the call. No offense to Ian, but I wish it was Dan Fouts and Brent Musburger. Hopefully the Rams visualize and attack, don't hold anything back and knock the poop out of somebody. Brad Allen will be the referee. The Rams won both games he called last year, and not surprisingly, I voted him the best referee of last season.

Rams inactives: Mo Alexander is out, and surprisingly, so is Jo-Lonn Dunbar, who they just signed this week to fill in for Alec Ogletree. Ethan Westbrooks is also out and is a healthy scratch as far as I know. Eugene Sims is back to claim those reps, but I would have expected the Rams to get as many pass rushers on the field as possible this week.

The prediction: Packers win a closely-played game 28-20.

Also, best wishes and prayers to former Rams TE Daniel Fells, who has suffered an MRSA infection that has required multiple surgeries and put him in risk of losing his foot. Daniel deserves better karma than this for scoring the TD that allowed the Rams to avoid a winless season in 2009.

FIRST QUARTER
The Rams win the toss and surprise me by receiving. No chance of a return, they start from their 20. I-formation, good close by Julius Peppers holds Todd Gurley to 2. Foles gets a ton of time to throw out of pistol formation but has to throw it away. 3rd-8, guess what, Jared Cook can't make the catch. Ball gets into his body and bounces out while Micah Hyde defends. I'd tend to call that a drop, but the broadcast called it a pass breakup. Also, Cook was a yard short anyway. More quality play by Jared Cook. Poor punt by Johnny Hekker, under a lot of rush, has to roll to get 43 and Hyde gains 8 of that back.

Yeah, this is a great start, 3-and-out and start Aaron Rodgers near midfield. Eddie Lacy takes a pitchback for 3. Rodgers gets far too much time and goes deep for Ty Montgomery but Janoris Jenkins has coverage. Uncharacteristic poor throw for Rodgers there. Rodgers gets far too much time again on 3rd down and scrambles right up the middle for 18. It looks like a stunt on the left side but I'm guessing Michael Brockers was actually out of his assigned rush lane. That's right where Rodgers ran while James Laurinaitis had to peel off and cover a back. Will Hayes and Laurinaitis stuff Lacy on the edge for a loss. Rodgers throws a back-shoulder for Randall Cobb that Cobb wasn't expecting; incomplete. 3rd-11 this time. HARD COUNT PULLS NICK FAIRLEY OFFSIDE. PENALTY #1 Shouldn't the ex-Lion be more used to that than most of his teammates? Blitz does not get there AT ALL on 3rd-and-6, but the Rams do leave Montgomery WIDE FREAKING OPEN over the middle for an easy 31-yard TD. He motioned into a two-man stack and Trumaine Johnson and T.J. McDonald butchered it completely, both staying on the receiver breaking outside. Blitzing Barron and Laurinaitis to take everything out of the middle of the field not Gregg Williams' finest move here. Packers 7, Rams 0

Long day in progress. Benny Cunningham returns a bouncer to the 25 from the goal line. Another hole closes on Gurley when Mike Daniels gets off Jamon Brown's block. No gain. He powers for 3 off RT; would have been a lot more had Rob Havenstein kept Jayrone Elliott blocked. This is decidedly not 2nd-half Arizona game blocking so far. It's rest-of-the-season blocking. 3rd-7, the Rams apparently can't get the play off in time and have to blow a timeout less than five minutes into the game.

One team came to play today. One guess which team it is. Ooh, but look who makes a liar out of me... Brian Quick(!). Super leaping sideline grab gets 10. Good blitz pickup by Benny as well, though Rodger Saffold let Foles take a wallop. Play action to Gurley completely fools me, but not Letroy Guion, who beats Saffold and whacks Foles as he's throwing, along with Clay Matthews, who got a free run on him, basically saving a TD. Kenny Britt was open deep but Nick's throw was off. Gurley continues to get no running room at all. Greg Robinson slips off his down block and no one at all gets to the 2nd level. No freaking gain, 3rd-10. Green Bay leaves that big hole up the middle I talked about in last week's RamView preview, Foles gets plenty of time to hit Quick at the GB45, but the ball pops off his hands... and up and into diving Benny Cunningham's for a first down, depending on the flag. Illegal contact, Packers, nice play, Benny. And now here's a hole for Gurley, who charges off RT for 11. Great blocks by Havenstein and Lance Kendricks as the up-I-back. B.J. Raji sheds Tim Barnes and stuffs Gurley for 1. 2nd-9, a sack buries Foles at the GB40. Nick Perry beat Cory Harkey on a blitz and Matthews came in untouched from the back side. It looked like the line was trying to swing protection to the right but the blitzers came in from the left. I would call this  a scheme loss. Kenny Britt drops an extremely catchable quick slant to keep the Rams out of FG position on 3rd-16. The Rams are tied for 2nd in the NFL in dropped passes this season. The Rams take an intentional delay of game PENALTY #2 and Hekker brilliantly plonks it in the end zone anyway. Awesome 20-yard net on that one.

Bubble screen to James Starks gets 19 courtesy of Mark Barron's terrible whiff. So he's considered the starting LB today. Good thing Jo-Lonn Dunbar's in street clothes. Quick flare to Cobb incomplete. Hayes LINED UP IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE to turn Aaron Donald's run stuff into a 5-yard gain. PENALTY #3 Starks runs through McDonald on a 6-yard draw to midfield. Quick hitch to Montgomery for 6. McDonald grabs Lacey in the backfield but he still runs through him for 2. 3rd-2.

And HEY, what do you know, one of the more notable current streaks in sports has just ended. Barron blitzes and deflects Rodgers' pass, which Laurinaitis picks off with a diving play at the Ram 43. Rodgers hadn't been picked off in Lambeau in nearly three years.

Rams losing TOP right now roughly 9 minutes to 2. Gurley cuts back into a couple of uncut guys who didn't buy the fake end-around for 2. Saffold didn't get there on the pull. Rams go 4-wide, Packers blitz, Foles goes deep but Stedman Bailey isn't remotely open. 3rd-8 already. As Ian Eagles notes Robinson was limping after the last play, Julius Peppers steam-rolls him with a bull rush, rushes Foles' throw, and with Gurley falling down, it becomes an ugly-looking INT for Hyde at midfield.

The Rams got as big a gift as they're likely to get in Lambeau today and completely wasted it. Play-action dumpoff to Richard Rodgers, probably meant for Lacy, gets 4. Lacy runs over Barron for another 3 after an inside handoff. 3rd-3, excellent open-field tackle by McDonald holds TE Rodgers to 1 on a quick slant. A friendly spot makes it 4th-1, and the Packers are going for it without hesitation. It looked like they were only trying to get the Rams with the hard count, but they handed off to Lacy, who was undercut by McDonald's diving ankle tackle, and according to the TV indicators, most certainly did not make the first down. No part of his body or the ball were across the line when he was down. Good and correct spot by head linesman #120, and it's Rams ball! Give Michael Brockers some credit there for stacking up bodies at Lacy's feet.

Time to sustain some damn offense as the Rams take over at their 40. AND THE JACKASSES CAN'T EVEN GET THE FIRST PLAY OF THE DRIVE OFF. DELAY OF GAME. PENALTY #4 What do I think of the offense's execution today? I'm in favor of it! Tre Mason makes a cameo with a swing pass for 6. CBS replays a bunch of big hits Foles has already taken, with Dan Fouts blaming the Ram o-line. That may be true, but almost all of those guys were LBs coming in unblocked. I think the Rams are getting outschemed by Dom Capers more than they're failing to execute. Foles trips coming back from center and dumps the ball at Cook's feet with Tim Barnes' man coming at him completely unblocked.

On 3rd-9, my policy not to play defenses opposing the Rams in my fantasy league bites me hard in the ass as Foles throws a freaking pick-six. How did this play suck? Let me count the ways. First, Saffold's hurt again, and it's his shoulder again. He tried to block Mike Neal and went down like he was shot. That leaves Neal with a free run to Havenstein's inside shoulder; Havenstein escorts him right to Foles and never really blocks him, focused on the outside rusher. Foles has to rush another throw and throws to a spot... just as freaking Cook is freaking stopping his damn route. God forbid he get hit or anything trying to catch a ball!

It's a pick-six for Miami (Ohio) rookie Quinten Rollins, a 14-0 Packer lead, and this Rams team is at it YET AGAIN - following one of their best games of the season with a complete dog shit effort the next week. No, I wasn't expecting a win this week; I wasn't expecting complete garbage, either. Packers 14-0

Rams at their 20; will they cross the 30? Gurley off LT for 2; Garrett Reynolds now at RG. With GB showing blitz, the Rams collect THEIR THIRD DELAY OF GAME of the quarter (one was by the punt team). PENALTY #5 The Rams finish as bad a quarter as they've played all season, in every aspect. They're as crisp and bland today as a tub of mashed potatoes.


SECOND QUARTER
Tavon Austin's FIRST touch on a tricky swing pass gets 1 after Elliott is neither fooled nor blocked by Havenstein for a second. 3rd-12. Foles gets actual time to throw a bomb for Austin, but Sam Shields is with him step for step and breaks it up nicely. Another awesome possession by the Ram offense. Just a 42-yard punt by Hekker, the 100th Ram who didn't come to play today, though there was no return.

Rodgers from his 40. Laurinaitis wraps up Starks for a couple. Pressure by Donald forces Rodgers to break the pocket and scramble for 3. 3rd-5. Brockers and Eugene Sims collapse the pocket to force Rodgers to run again, and Laurinaitis brings him down a couple of yards short. Brockers was held, and Brad Allen, who was good about calling holding last year in Rams games, calls it here. The Rams decline, sending in the punt team. This punt appears to check up inside the 5 and get downed inside the 3.

Actually, if not for that one poor coverage breakdown, the Ram defense would be holding its own against Rodgers today; I owe them an apology so far.

Jeff Fisher makes the correct move to challenge the spot on the punt. Not only is there evidence the ball broke the plane of the goal line, more to the point, Jeff Janis' whole damn leg is in the end zone as he tries to make a sliding grab of the ball. This is actually an easy call the crew shouldn't have blown. Did this crew work Monday night's Seattle game? Brad Allen gets the do-over right; set the Rams up on the 20. Hell, this call was so easy, even Mike Carey in the CBS studio got it right!

The Rams are running left now with Saffold out, and Gurley pops for 11 off LT. Good blocks by Robinson and Kendricks. Jet sweep left for Austin, led out pretty well by Cook (!) for 7. Gurley goes left again off several mauling blocks for 6. Foles smells blitz and checks to a Gurley run off RT for 3. Super cutback wrap run right by Gurley for 6. Harkey, Havenstein, Reynolds all with strong blocks. Rams telegraph a QB sneak by motioning the backfield empty on 3rd-and-inches but get away with it as Foles lunges out for 2. Gurley for 3 off LT. Elliott may have saved a big gain by tracking him down from the backside. Play-action bomb for Cook is kept alive by Havenstein's scrambling block, and Hasean Clinton-Dix is called for DPI without really doing a whole lot. A little jersey tug? Set the Rams up at the GB11. Hyde saves a certain TD by tripping Gurley up at the 5. Robinson and Havenstein absolutely mauling right now.

From the 5, IT'S TRICKERATION TIME, about a 2-inch jet shovel pass to Austin that he cuts back inside for a TD! Packers 14, Rams 7 Austin got a pancake block, maybe a hold, from Brown and cut inside Robinson getting downfield well.

Looks like my reports of the Rams' death in Lambeau today have been greatly exaggerated?

The Rams have completely turned around TOP and are now winning it 14 minutes to 8. Rodgers at his 20 after the latest Greg Zuerlein touchback blast. Coverage is excellent as all 4 d-linemen eventually chase Rodgers out of bounds for 5. Donald and Fairley got the initial pressure.  A lob for Cobb, who Joyner has had blanketed so far today, is way long. 3rd-5, Rodgers calls timeout. I'm not sure what the Rams had going there. The Rams don't buy the hard count on 3rd-5, but Montgomery beats TruJo on a slant for 11. Robert Quinn nearly got there and Montgomery had to make a diving play. Fairley stops Starks for 7 on a bubble screen that looked much more promising. RG T.J. Lang comes out with a leg injury. Rodgers steps up for another 7 to midfield. The Rams have to consider going to more contain rushing instead of letting the DTs get caught upfield like Fairley did here. Quit stunting and inviting Rodgers to take the wide open middle. Hell, he's their leading rusher, I think. Joyner makes a nice tackle to hold a Lacy sweep to 2. Cobb beats Joyner for 9 with some shake and bake after a quick flare.

Well, this paragraph needed two major rewrite. TruJo made a super anticipation play to dive and pick off Rodgers for the second time on a quick hitch to the same part of the field as the last play. Replay and CBS made as if it would be overturned because the ball moved in TruJo's hands when it hit the ground, but it wasn't, TruJo's pick and return count, and the Rams will be at the GB33. Football's Great Spaghetti Monster made sure the deed did not go unpunished; Chris Long clunked knees with David Bakhtiari during the play and stayed down, but walked off with help.

Rodgers hadn't been picked off twice at home since 2010. Those are also his first two picks all season. Gurley up the middle for 2; no one blocked Neal, though Kendricks was lined up right in front of him. Gurley picks his way up the middle for another 3. 3rd-5, Benny picks up another blitz and Foles hits Bailey on a 5-yard out route. Perfect spot, too, he had it on forward progress. Mike McCarthy makes a late move to challenge the spot, but the call should stand. It does. Gurley cuts a sweep left inside and gains 4. Good blocks by Brown and Reynolds. Gurley just reads those better than the rest of the Ram RBs. Rams at the GB19 at the 2:00 warning.

FALSE START BROWN for PENALTY #6. Bailey gets 1 out of a disaster of an against-the-grain screen where Britt hurts his right hand trying to block. That costs the Rams a TO, and it's 3rd-10. Foles throws a jump ball for Quick, but Shields gets away with a grab and a lot of contact, duly noted by Fouts, but not by the referees, to "break up" the play. The Rams have to settle for a Zuerlein chip shot and leave Rodgers a lot of time on the clock. Packers 14-10

Rodgers from his 20 with 1:40 to go. And now THEY run out the play clock. 1st-15. The Rams give it back with PENALTY #7, holding on Akeem Ayers. Quick swing to Cobb for 7. TE Rodgers beats McDonald for 12 out to the GB38. Another pressure by Quinn flushes Rodgers; Donald holds him to 3. Starks bobbles away a screen pass that Rodgers didn't throw too well because Donald was, well, swimming at him. Quinn was coming again, too. The Rams rush 3 and blitz 3 on 3rd-7. McDonald nearly gets the sack. Rodgers hands off to Starks but Laurinaitis stops him short of the 1st to end the half.


HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS
Well, this could have been a hell of a lot worse, the way the Rams went down 14-0. Rodgers has been looking for a lot of deep stuff that hasn't been there. I would expect more short throws over the middle in the 2nd half and the Rams will have to adjust to it. Gregg Williams isn't just playing BBDB; he's blitzed and hasn't relied just on soft coverage. His secondary is really playing their butts off.

I hate to say it, but the Saffold injury feels like the turning point for the offense. It encouraged Cignetti to start running left more, which has been successful, and Reynolds has stepped in and done well. Also, it took too long to get Austin involved, but once it happened, I think the Packer D got back on its heels a little. Cignetti doesn't have a lot of choice in the 2nd half that I see. Keep feeding Gurley and set up play-action off that.

THIRD QUARTER
The Rams can't wait a single play for their first penalty of the half. PENALTY #8, Daren Bates offside on the kickoff. Packers start at their 25. Off play-action, Rodgers dumps off to Rodgers for 5. Four-man rush gives Rodgers about EIGHT seconds in the pocket to take off and run for another 5. Donald stuffs a stretch handoff to Lacy for no gain.

And, another Williams blitz gets burned by James Jones for a 65-yard TD. Joyner picked him up correctly out of a stack, but tripped just as the ball arrived, and Rodney McLeod took a terrible angle and couldn't bail him out. Middle of the field vacated by Laurinaitis, Barron and one more Ram blitzer, AND SOMEBODY HERE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THE PACKERS WORKING THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD. Williams has left it open all day. Packers 21-10 Jones was ruled down inside the 1 and McCarthy decides to challenge. The call's corrected on review.

Jeez, pay me the big bucks if Williams isn't going to earn his. Rams will need to answer from their 20. Wow, the bootleg TE pass works, to Kendricks for 12. Gurley runs through a couple of tackles for 3, getting a block from Kendricks. Play-action screen to Kendricks for 4. 3rd-3, Matthews doesn't get the sack but spins off of Benny AND Robinson to force Foles into a throwaway. Great, the Rams really needed to go back to brain-fart blocking right about now. Cody Davis BLOWS UP Hyde on the punt return to get Hekker a 51-yard net.

Packers at their 10. Illegal block in the back by TE Rodgers on a shovel pass backs them up to the 5. Another quick arrow route to Cobb gets 6. Starks gets a big hole for another 5, with a double-team moving Brockers. Hayes, though, flushes Rodgers on 3rd-4 and Starks can't come up with a bullet on the sideline. Good job by Brockers to extend Rodgers out to the sideline as well. Austin gets wrapped up immediately at the 35 on the punt.

Gurley around left end for 4; nice blocking by Cook (!) and Quick (!!). Quick's actually a very willing blocker at WR. Gurley breaks a tackle and goes up the middle for 4 more. Mason would have lost a yard on that. 3rd-2, a jet sweep left for Austin fails miserably. There are five Packers out there, and Cook, and he doesn't even block the one guy he could have. The Packers smelled that out as soon as Austin went into motion.

4th-2. I should have mentioned all the way back in the pregame that the CBS guys had info the Rams would try some trickery today. And it's a fake punt. But when Hekker goes to throw, his first target, Chase Reynolds, has been picked up nicely by the rookie Rollins. OMG THIS IS GOING TO BLOW UP IN THE RAMS' FACES. Hekker is running around, not knowing what to do, scrambling right and throwing a blind pass across his body.... AND CODY DAVIS IS UNDER IT AT THE GB38. Johnny Hekker is once again the Rams' most clutch QB. Talk about pulling one out of your, um, the fire. Replay shows Davis signalling to Hekker, pretty damn heads-up, I'd say.

The Rams are mauling again now as Gurley goes left for 7. Brown and Robinson are firing off the ball. Gurley gets stuffed by Latroy Guion. Harkey led but couldn't clear the big men out of the hole. 3rd-5, Matthews and Neal flush Foles into yet another throwaway. The main pressure came from Neal, who beat Havenstein pretty easily. Foles takes another whallop while Bailey and Austin argue with one another on the way off the field. Sounds like a blown blitz adjustment. And speaking of blown, Zuerlein's 50-yard FG attempt goes down like it's been shot, blocked at the line. I think that's his first miss of the season and doesn't come at a very good time. The Rams really are not a team that believes in momentum, are they?

Packers start at their 40. Lacy stumbles up the middle for 4. Rodgers nearly throws INT number THREE, dropped by Fairley. But the Rams bring the heat on 3rd down, again blitzing three and rushing three, and Quinn comes from behind Rodgers with the tomahawk CHOP to force a fumble that eventually squirts to Joyner!

It's a shame the Rams haven't done more today after making Aaron Rodgers look so mortal. But there's a blueprint for the rest of the league. Green Bay better be careful not to have the troubles Denver did last year after playing the Rams.

Rams at the GB41. Foles audibles to a stretch handoff to Gurley that gets 5 up the middle. Reynolds, Havenstein, Brown, all just mauling. I'm tellin' ya, Saffold's injury improved the line. Gurley bounces right and throws a mean stiffarm on Nate Palmer to get the first down off another good Havenstein block. Rams are back in FG range at the GB29. Zone blocking fail as Neal bounces past Robinson's outside shoulder to blow up Gurley in the backfield. Robinson ended up having to block two guys. And now Foles is getting sacked, as, in a Hall of Fame mismatch, Peppers steam-rolls Kendricks and I think strips Foles from behind. Mason recovers at the 35. The clockwork-efficient Rams now have to take a timeout to save YET ANOTHER delay of game on 3rd-16. Yeah, they're clockwork efficient like those clocks in the Dali painting. Foles misses Bailey wide open on a square out on 3rd-and-16. Zuerlein could have used those 6 yards; his 53-yard attempt tails left to make him 1-for-3 today. Odd-numbered quarters not treating the Rams well this week.

Lacy bounces off two of his interior blockers and gains 8. The Rams get help from a false start to end the quarter.

FOURTH QUARTER
Oh great, now Rodgers is firing lasers, 12 to Jones despite solid coverage by TruJo at the STL42. Lacy up the middle for 4; Rams never bring him down. Quinn pressure forces another dumpoff, but Lacy gets 8 out of it. TE Rodgers beats McDonald on a post route but lets him off the hook for a TD with a terrible drop. Rodgers-to-Rodgers works in the flat for 4. 3rd-6, the Rams don't buy the hard count, blitz, Sims flushes Rodgers and Brockers comes off the center to trip Rodgers up for the sack. TE Rodgers cost the Packers a TD a minute ago, and his illegal hands on the FG costs them three. The punt plonks in the end zone to keep the Rams on life support at their 20.

GURLEY EXPLODES FOR 55 off the right side to start this drive off in style. Key block by, guess who, Garrett Reynolds. That puts Gurley not just over 100 for the 2nd straight week, but 140. Perfect call next, end-around to Austin, who follows Kendricks out and down to the 10. Off a fake end-around, Mason trips and gets back up for just 2 and, um, WHERE'S GURLEY? OK, here he comes on 2nd-goal. Gurley swings outside but can only get 1; fine run support by Clinton-Dix there.

And, start the bus, Nick Foles. What a stupid play. He tries to force a throw to Kendricks even though the LB is obviously right there. LB gets both hands on it, tips it up, and Clinton-Dix intercepts it in the end zone. Someone will have to explain to me why Nick Foles thought this throw had ANY hope. That throw probably should have gone to Austin, who was open on a square-in around the 2. Kendricks taking the LB with him opened up a lane Foles should have thrown into.

Finding. Ways. To. Lose.

Dumpoff to Starks for 3, then Laurinaitis blows up a sweep for no gain. Rams blitz on 3rd-7 and Ayers misses a sack, but Barron breaks up a pass to Starks. A 3-and-out? Against Aaron Rodgers? The Ram offense really has BLOWN IT for the defense, which has made a terrific effort, today.

Rams at their 30, 7:30 left, as Gurley gets stuffed on 1st down. NG Mike Pennel just threw Barnes aside. Ian Eagle shows his lack of game prep by commenting with surprise that the Rams aren't moving with a whole lot of urgency on offense. Gurley off the right side for 12, with Brown clearing things out in front of him with a plowing block. Gurley cuts back for 3 inside a Robinson block. Stat of the day: Gurley has 159 yards rushing; Foles, 54 passing. Foles must have negative infinity for a QB rating. QUICK DROPS AN EASY PASS. As Fouts said, he jumped for no reason, then let the ball get into his body. That's the next Terrell Owens, folks. An actual nice catch by Cook gets 8 and a first down as Foles gets buried under a blitz. Nothing open off play-action on first down, and with Matthews coming at him unblocked for the millionth time, Foles has to throw another one away. And now Matthews jumps the snap count and SACKS Foles before he can even finish his drop. I assume that was Reynolds' block that was never made. Frank Cignetti has had absolutely no answer for Matthews today. Where did the max-protect from the 2nd half in Arizona go? Dumpoff to Benny, who's often good on these, gets 11 and leaves 4th-and-7 with about 3:30 left.

And now a Packer injury clearly gives Jeff Fisher too much time to think and he idiotically sends Zuerlein out for a 63-yard FG attempt, which to his credit, he barely misses. What the hell kind of stupid move was that? At 1-for-3 today, with two long misses already, I'd think the Rams' chances of converting 4th-and-7 were far better than the chance of a near-record-length FG.

Packers start at the STL47 after the miss. McDonald tackles Lacy for 3. Brockers and Hayes hold him to another 1 as the Rams use their final timeout. Rodgers salts it off with a play-action pass to, well, Rodgers for 18. Akeem Ayers bought the play-fake, leaving the TE wide open.

Mason Crosby tacks on a late FG, and it's all over but the shouting from there. Final: Packers 24, Rams 10

No, just when I think I can quit watching, Foles hits Stedman Bailey, burning Rollins out of a stack for a 70-yard play down to the GB5. Perfect throw by Foles more than doubled his yardage for the game, I believe. Clinton-Dix seemed to come from out of nowhere to save the TD. Foles spikes, then gets pounded again on 1st-goal and fires out the back of the end zone with 0:28 left.

Foles tops off a SHIT game with his FOURTH INT (WHY O WHY DID I NOT START THE PACKERS D IN FANTASY?!?!?!?!?), to Rollins, who I assume he never saw. Austin's in route took him behind Rollins, then Foles fired right to the Packer DB.

Jeff Fisher's approach to football is predicated on playing defense and running the ball. The Rams did both of those more than well enough to win this week, but their passing game, with no protection, no open receivers and dumb decisions by the QB, was a complete abomination and lost them the game. Two weeks to get it fixed, Cignetti.


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