Raheem Morris looks good to me

[Cornell29]

[brasilrams]

Never been a fan of morris . but I MUST admit what he is doing this season with this group , is pretty impressive so far . Like I said , the defense has its issues here and there but they are playing with more consistency than the offense .

[EastBayRamsFan]

I agree the jury is still out RM but the body of work looks really good so far.

This is trending the right way and coupled with the fact our DB’s are pressing at the line is a positive sign.

He deserves some credit given the youth he is working with.

[Cornell29]

[brasilrams]

these damn refs are on a mission to hurt us this season ..... unbelievable

[Cornell29]

[Rampager66]

Did they look like a top 10 D in the last 20 minutes of regulation time at Indy against a below average offense with a rookie QB. That sequence of 23 points and 231 yards allowed actually brought the Colts Offensive ranking up a few positions from last week...
Did Raheem and his D look good there?

[brasilrams]

Did they look like a top 10 D in the last 20 minutes of regulation time at Indy against a below average offense with a rookie QB. That sequence of 23 points and 231 yards allowed actually brought the Colts Offensive ranking up a few positions from last week...
Did Raheem and his D look good there?

IMO , They are doing better than our offense bro , with LESS TALENT . I still think we can upgrade DC position but Morris - this season - is doing a good job overall with a bunch of jags and rookies. They kept us in the game all night against the bengals . You said it yourself , they stopped the colts twice but the drive was extended by suspicious / bogus calls , like always the zebras were trying to hurt us big time .

[brasilrams]

As I have said, I have been Morris’s biggest critic. The difference is the Rams are playing more press coverage. In addition, they are mixing it up more. They will line up in press and drop back, and the opposite. It’s a nice change and there will be times when we give up big plays, but that is better than having teams dink us and move down the field have 15 play drives, thus keeping the ball away from the offense.
Morris’s defense is a surprise so far, and being a critic of his scheme, I also have to give credit where credit is due, so far, he deserves allot of credit.

[Hacksaw]

these damn refs are on a mission to hurt us this season ..... unbelievable

They seem to be on a mission to wreck the NFL games period. They are way to present and overly involved. .

[Rampager66]

Did they look like a top 10 D in the last 20 minutes of regulation time at Indy against a below average offense with a rookie QB. That sequence of 23 points and 231 yards allowed actually brought the Colts Offensive ranking up a few positions from last week...
Did Raheem and his D look good there?

IMO , They are doing better than our offense bro , with LESS TALENT . I still think we can upgrade DC position but Morris - this season - is doing a good job overall with a bunch of jags and rookies. They kept us in the game all night against the bengals . You said it yourself , they stopped the colts twice but the drive was extended by suspicious / bogus calls , like always the zebras were trying to hurt us big time .

Unlike the O, they do have most of their pieces in place but that's never been the issue with me.. it's scheme... Lets revisit this after we see how they do against the Iggles... because they give it up against the good teams like they did vs SF... the lack of aggression on D has us near the bottom of the league in creating TO's and TO's is why we lost to SF and Cin. After 4 games we're losing the TO battle 5-2.
We should be going after them like we've seen from the Hags last night and then there's Dallas, 7 picks, 3 Fumble recoveries, 10 TO's in 4 weeks and 4 Defensive scores already... They given it up only once..5th in the league with 14 sacks, Rams are tied for 27th with 7
The Cowboys only loss, they lost the TO battle to the Cards 1-0..
Can't remember the last time the Rams had had a Defensive TD.

[Hacksaw]

Even turtles don't like soft shells..

[Cornell29]

[Cornell29]

Did they look like a top 10 D in the last 20 minutes of regulation time at Indy against a below average offense with a rookie QB. That sequence of 23 points and 231 yards allowed actually brought the Colts Offensive ranking up a few positions from last week...
Did Raheem and his D look good there?

No but, they were supposed to be a bottom 5 defense and they are no where close.

Robinson put together a highlight real on some of those plays. Sometimes the opposing team just makes great plays.

The D did make a key stop late 4th.

The D moved on from Ramsey, Wagner, Floyd, Gaines, and A Shawn and replaced them with rookies, and players signed to the minimal and still the D is playing solid football.

[Rampager66]

Did they look like a top 10 D in the last 20 minutes of regulation time at Indy against a below average offense with a rookie QB. That sequence of 23 points and 231 yards allowed actually brought the Colts Offensive ranking up a few positions from last week...
Did Raheem and his D look good there?

No but, they were supposed to be a bottom 5 defense and they are no where close.

Robinson put together a highlight real on some of those plays. Sometimes the opposing team just makes great plays.

The D did make a key stop late 4th.

The D moved on from Ramsey, Wagner, Floyd, Gaines, and A Shawn and replaced them with rookies, and players signed to the minimal and still the D is playing solid football.

I won't deny that they have played pretty decent so far, my fear is more of what we seen in the 2nd half of the Indy game.. Teams have film now and will develop an attack scheme and imo, countering that is where RM comes up short. Hope I'm wrong but I still believe they will be the reason why the season is a success or failure... and I'm not feeling it with Raheem... never have

[DelMar]

Cornell busy getting us all excited that this defense is going to hold the line...

Hmmmmm. So far so good... but I still dont trust Morris. Hes done this before. time will tell

[Cornell29]

Cornell busy getting us all excited that this defense is going to hold the line...

Hmmmmm. So far so good... but I still dont trust Morris. Hes done this before. time will tell

Wait a minute now. I'm not saying this is going to last. If I believed that I would give the rams a few more wins.
I'm just providing updates week to week and pointing out why I am saying, sa far so good.

In all honesty, I don't see the talent on the field to make me think this will hold up. This isn't a "I told you so" thread. I'm surprised myself

[brasilrams]

IMO , They are doing better than our offense bro , with LESS TALENT . I still think we can upgrade DC position but Morris - this season - is doing a good job overall with a bunch of jags and rookies. They kept us in the game all night against the bengals . You said it yourself , they stopped the colts twice but the drive was extended by suspicious / bogus calls , like always the zebras were trying to hurt us big time .

Unlike the O, they do have most of their pieces in place but that's never been the issue with me.. it's scheme... Lets revisit this after we see how they do against the Iggles... because they give it up against the good teams like they did vs SF... the lack of aggression on D has us near the bottom of the league in creating TO's and TO's is why we lost to SF and Cin. After 4 games we're losing the TO battle 5-2.
We should be going after them like we've seen from the Hags last night and then there's Dallas, 7 picks, 3 Fumble recoveries, 10 TO's in 4 weeks and 4 Defensive scores already... They given it up only once..5th in the league with 14 sacks, Rams are tied for 27th with 7
The Cowboys only loss, they lost the TO battle to the Cards 1-0..
Can't remember the last time the Rams had had a Defensive TD.

I agree with all that . The lack of Tos is concerning although it seems at least we are starting to create it . We should have 3 so far , the bogus call on pittman negated the AD strip sack . We would be 3-5 which is still bad BUT let's remember 5 TOS for the offense in 4 games is what is really hurting this RATIO . All in all I am just saying the defense is doing decently well with the limited talent they have. Hell they are doing better than last year when they were LOADED with talent .

[DelMar]

Cornell busy getting us all excited that this defense is going to hold the line...

Hmmmmm. So far so good... but I still dont trust Morris. Hes done this before. time will tell

Wait a minute now. I'm not saying this is going to last. If I believed that I would give the rams a few more wins.
I'm just providing updates week to week and pointing out why I am saying, sa far so good.

In all honesty, I don't see the talent on the field to make me think this will hold up. This isn't a "I told you so" thread. I'm surprised myself

I know you are not my friend, but you sure are teasing it. Even if NOT intended. Im sure there are tweets (or whatever it's called now, X) that post Morris's downsides too, right? Where are those? LOL. jk.

Ill give Morris a fair shake and say hes done ok this season overall.. lets hope it holds from a coaching standpoint. I mean the guy has literally taken a bunch go JAG's and made us an above par D. Not bad...

[Cornell29]

Wait a minute now. I'm not saying this is going to last. If I believed that I would give the rams a few more wins.
I'm just providing updates week to week and pointing out why I am saying, sa far so good.

In all honesty, I don't see the talent on the field to make me think this will hold up. This isn't a "I told you so" thread. I'm surprised myself

I know you are not my friend, but you sure are teasing it. Even if NOT intended. Im sure there are tweets (or whatever it's called now, X) that post Morris's downsides too, right? Where are those? LOL. jk.

Ill give Morris a fair shake and say hes done ok this season overall.. lets hope it holds from a coaching standpoint. I mean the guy has literally taken a bunch go JAG's and made us an above par D. Not bad...

Morris definitely has issues which I pointed out in previous threads during
the offseason

Morris excels as a man who motivates players, they play hard for him. Morris is a average X and O guy. This is why the Weddle pickup during the SB run was so important. Weddle made the D adjustments when needed and helped Morris. The Rams D played top notch football that playoff run with Weddle.

I have made numerous posts during tbe offseason, about the rams needing a vet guy in the secondary. Fuller is a smart guy but the biggest gain was the rams signing Pleasent as the secondary coach. He is Morris version of Weddle. Aubrey has the secondary playing up and aggressive. He brings the X and Os to the secondary that Morris lacks.

[Rampager66]

Unlike the O, they do have most of their pieces in place but that's never been the issue with me.. it's scheme... Lets revisit this after we see how they do against the Iggles... because they give it up against the good teams like they did vs SF... the lack of aggression on D has us near the bottom of the league in creating TO's and TO's is why we lost to SF and Cin. After 4 games we're losing the TO battle 5-2.
We should be going after them like we've seen from the Hags last night and then there's Dallas, 7 picks, 3 Fumble recoveries, 10 TO's in 4 weeks and 4 Defensive scores already... They given it up only once..5th in the league with 14 sacks, Rams are tied for 27th with 7
The Cowboys only loss, they lost the TO battle to the Cards 1-0..
Can't remember the last time the Rams had had a Defensive TD.

I agree with all that . The lack of Tos is concerning although it seems at least we are starting to create it . We should have 3 so far , the bogus call on pittman negated the AD strip sack . We would be 3-5 which is still bad BUT let's remember 5 TOS for the offense in 4 games is what is really hurting this RATIO . All in all I am just saying the defense is doing decently well with the limited talent they have. Hell they are doing better than last year when they were LOADED with talent .

Agreed. The young guy hasn't been paid yet and is more hungry for it... That's what I think we are seeing.
Ramsey, Peters, Floyd... guaranteed contracts, it becomes more about avoiding injury almost instead of winning, surviving so you can collect ?? M$ a year for as many years.. guys like that would slack and at times get bit.. Hope the Youngsters can keep it up. I'll bet for example, the Hags will have a "better" approach on offense and towards our vanilla Defense in our next meeting.

[DelMar]

I know you are not my friend, but you sure are teasing it. Even if NOT intended. Im sure there are tweets (or whatever it's called now, X) that post Morris's downsides too, right? Where are those? LOL. jk.

Ill give Morris a fair shake and say hes done ok this season overall.. lets hope it holds from a coaching standpoint. I mean the guy has literally taken a bunch go JAG's and made us an above par D. Not bad...

Morris definitely has issues which I pointed out in previous threads during
the offseason

Morris excels as a man who motivates players, they play hard for him. Morris is a average X and O guy. This is why the Weddle pickup during the SB run was so important. Weddle made the D adjustments when needed and helped Morris. The Rams D played top notch football that playoff run with Weddle.

I have made numerous posts during tbe offseason, about the rams needing a vet guy in the secondary. Fuller is a smart guy but tbe biggest gain was the rams signing Pleasent as the secondary coach. He is Morris version of Weddle. Aubrey has the secondary playing up and aggressive. He brings the X and Os to the secondary that Morris lacks.

IMHO.... I truly believe we prob would not have won the SB if Weddle was not with us.

The 2 biggest voids I feel today we are missing ... Weddle and Big Whit.

[FelixTheStonerCat]

Yeah, I've been probably one of his harsher critics, but I can't deny what he's doing this year. He's taking a team of nobody's on defense besides EJ and AD, and is playing them into the top 10. That's pretty impressive to be honest and hope gets at it.

[NorCal RF]

Did they look like a top 10 D in the last 20 minutes of regulation time at Indy against a below average offense with a rookie QB. That sequence of 23 points and 231 yards allowed actually brought the Colts Offensive ranking up a few positions from last week...
Did Raheem and his D look good there?

Perfection with any team FYI not possible…….

D got tired last quarter. Was obvious. They played Monday night, traveled home, traveled back on a short week, and then chased a running QB for 4 quarters……..

[Rampager66]

Did they look like a top 10 D in the last 20 minutes of regulation time at Indy against a below average offense with a rookie QB. That sequence of 23 points and 231 yards allowed actually brought the Colts Offensive ranking up a few positions from last week...
Did Raheem and his D look good there?

Perfection with any team FYI not possible…….

D got tired last quarter. Was obvious. They played Monday night, traveled home, traveled back on a short week, and then chased a running QB for 4 quarters……..

Sorry bro but that sounds like an excuse to me... later in the season I might grant that fatigue played into it but not from the 3rd youngest team in the league in week 4.
They were not in the same scheme once it became 23-0. The Colts went to shotgun/no huddle and we had few answers.... until we got a stop after the game was tied and they were no longer in hurry up..
6 teams held their opponent under 10 points this week, 3 of those were just a FG... They didn't get tired or imo go prevent....

[Cornell29]

Perfection with any team FYI not possible…….

D got tired last quarter. Was obvious. They played Monday night, traveled home, traveled back on a short week, and then chased a running QB for 4 quarters……..

Sorry bro but that sounds like an excuse to me... later in the season I might grant that fatigue played into it but not from the 3rd youngest team in the league in week 4.
They were not in the same scheme once it became 23-0. The Colts went to shotgun/no huddle and we had few answers.... until we got a stop after the game was tied and they were no longer in hurry up..
6 teams held their opponent under 10 points this week, 3 of those were just a FG... They didn't get tired or imo go prevent....

My opinion is youth, Robinson making some highlight real plays, lack of talent on defense and momentum.

[Rampager66]

Sorry bro but that sounds like an excuse to me... later in the season I might grant that fatigue played into it but not from the 3rd youngest team in the league in week 4.
They were not in the same scheme once it became 23-0. The Colts went to shotgun/no huddle and we had few answers.... until we got a stop after the game was tied and they were no longer in hurry up..
6 teams held their opponent under 10 points this week, 3 of those were just a FG... They didn't get tired or imo go prevent....

My opinion is youth, Robinson making some highlight real plays, lack of talent on defense and momentum.

I don't disagree with that but... You don't think approach with a 23-0 lead in the 2nd half had anything to do with it...?

[Cornell29]

My opinion is youth, Robinson making some highlight real plays, lack of talent on defense and momentum.

I don't disagree with that but... You don't think approach with a 23-0 lead in the 2nd half had anything to do with it...?

Yeah it could have been a factor too. Much like the offense, after building the big lead, Morris may have let his foot off the gas.

Similar to when the niners scored before the half

[brasilrams]

Sorry bro but that sounds like an excuse to me... later in the season I might grant that fatigue played into it but not from the 3rd youngest team in the league in week 4.
They were not in the same scheme once it became 23-0. The Colts went to shotgun/no huddle and we had few answers.... until we got a stop after the game was tied and they were no longer in hurry up..
6 teams held their opponent under 10 points this week, 3 of those were just a FG... They didn't get tired or imo go prevent....

My opinion is youth, Robinson making some highlight real plays, lack of talent on defense and momentum.

let's not forget also that during the 23-0 comeback , the D got 2 stops on third down if I am not mistaken, but of course suspicious calls gave the colts a new first down both times.

[Rampager66]

My opinion is youth, Robinson making some highlight real plays, lack of talent on defense and momentum.

let's not forget also that during the 23-0 comeback , the D got 2 stops on third down if I am not mistaken, but of course suspicious calls gave the colts a new first down both times.

The PI or holding call against Tomlinson was one of them.. Replay clearly shows all he did was chuck him once like your allowed inside or near the 5 yards and release. Auto 1st down... they would have went for it on 4th down I'll bet... who knows how that could have gone..