Monday, December 10, 2007

Rams vs Bengals

Like most of you this season it getting almost unbearable to watch. Not that the team isn't putting forth an effort. With the crazy amount of injuries I'm not that familiar with some of the players.

This game was almost like every game this season. The defense keeps the Rams in the game, offense play calling is vanilla, few mental errors on offense and special teams doom drives and the Rams coulda shoulda......

So team president John Shaw is interviewed by the St Louis Dispatch and concludes that Scott Linehan more than likely will return. Let's look at this. The great debate is very simplistic:

A) Linehan is a good head coach that simply had too many injuries to key players thus the reasoning for the poor record.

Or

B) Linehan has taken a once explosive offense and handcuffed them with safe play calling, and not signing the right free agents to compliment a once potent offense. Defensively he's lucky to have signed Jim Halsett.

I hate to be like John Shaw but I see the injury defense, but the inability to make plays even in the opener when most guys were healthy scares me.

I will let this season play out and be watching that this team still competes, and plays hard. If that changes I believe Linehan must go, because if you can't motivate guys who should never be in a starting role who can you motivate?

Ram On!

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