Bright
lights! Big city! Monday night! As if I were summoning my best
impersonation of the Nature Boy Ric Flair.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>Unfortunately, as bad as that impersonation was, it wasn’t nearly as bad as the St. Louis Rams losing again 28-16 on Monday Night Football to the New York Giants earlier this week.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>The Rams rolled into Met Life Stadium with hopes of showing the pundits from here to Bristol, Connecticut that they are ready for the spotlight.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>Well, they are not ready yet.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>The most frustrating thing about the losses to the Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles was the Rams should have won both of those games easily. But they didn’t.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>The Rams had plenty of glorious opportunities to break the game wide open Monday night. They got a huge game from wideout Danario Alexander, who has three catches for 122 yards and a touchdown. But, that was about it from the Rams, who failed miserably to score inside the red zone.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>And that’s what makes this loss sting a little more than last week’s loss to the Eagles. At the same time it gave us a clear-cut answer to what we might expect from this team this season.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>This is one of the good things about having the schedule they have this season. Obviously, on paper when you see Eagles, Giants, and Ravens as your first three games, it’s easy to say the Rams don’t stand a chance. You play who is on the schedule. I get so sick and tired of listening to people shake and quiver about the schedule. Please, save that garbage for somebody else.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>Say what you want about injuries to the Rams’ opponents, the Rams have their share too. But, the Rams don’t have that killer instinct about themselves. These Rams look like a lioness giving the cubs a chance to make a kill, but the prey stumbles to its feet then run off while the cubs look bewildered with a mouth full of flies instead of dinner.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>In hindsight, the Rams’ schedule serves a purpose, people. The main reason they are 0-2 and not 2-0 is they’re not ready yet. No ifs ands or buts. That’s it. It’s nothing groundbreaking. Just the cold, hard facts. I would rather know now instead of watching another meltdown in the pressure cooker.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>The Rams should beat the Baltimore Ravens this Sunday. But, just because I believe they can beat the Ravens, that doesn’t mean it will transfer to the field on Sunday.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>On any given Sunday, one eats meat, the other swats flies.
“font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>Any questions or comment email me LivnLegend@hotmail.com “font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Verdana;”>.