Skins

Well my friends. We have a great opportunity in less than 10 hours. I am at work once again comtemplating how I am going to watch this. Tje mimimum was paid last week to watch the Rams, but they have told me that it will be disconnected if the rest was not paid by Nov 26. It is Nov 26 right now, and I may have to pay up again tomorrow. Anyways, the skins are not as bad as their record indicates, so we have to be careful not to take this game for granted. if we play with the same focus and defensive intensity as we did last week, we should cream the skins. Good luck.

What the fuck did I say?

We assaulted the lambs. This is the best I have seen our defense play in a long time. If our defense plays like this, I don't know who is going to stop us. At one point late in the first half, the Rams had less yards on offense than the yards they lost giving up sacks. The defense pitched a shutout. They had a team record 7 sacks, and Pep got none of them. It was great. I may have underestimated our linebackers. They were all over the field. Richard Marshall started in place of injured Ken Lucas, and he played like a probowl corner. Saint Louis came into that game with a dominant offense and they were held to less than 200 yards on offense. What a performance by the defense. The D out there on Sunday reminded me of our Del Rio's D from 2002. They were flying to the ball, and there were hardly any missed tackles.

Of course with a defense playing like that, the offense just paced themselves. Offense finally found a running game. It may have come against one of the worst run Ds, but it was great. We had over 200 yards rushing. Deshaun Foster may be out for the season again, but in my opinion we have upgraded that position with DeAngelo Williams. Deshaun is always looking for the homerun, because he hesitates a lot looking for blocks to develop. Like the commentators said, our O-line is not that good, so we need a back that is explosive the moment he touches the ball. D-will may be the answer to our running game as he ran for 100+ yards for the first time in his career. And What can I say about Smitty! We have the best player in the NFL hands down. Honestly, most of the time Jake's throws are so terrible, and Smitty bails him out with great catches.

We did great in special teams as well, but there were so many penalties. We need to cut down on that. We got the redskins next week. We should handle them as well, but you never know. All I know is I don't like that team. They are in our way and they need to lose.

Lambs coming into town

We play the Rams in about 9 hours. I am at work just contemplating how I am going to watch the game. My DirecTV has followed the steps of my cellphone as it is cut as well. I get off work at 7.30am. I have to kill some time between 7.30am and 10.00am. I have picked Stick & Stein's sports bar in El Segundo. I am going to go there and see of they have the game. There is a lotta Ram fans in LA since they used to play here, so I may be walking into the lion's den.

I expect us to win, and win big. I also hope that our running game improves. If we do not establish a running game soon, we are going to find it hard to get into the playoffs and eventually get to the big dance. Steve Smith can't do everything like last year. And we saw what happened against Seattle last year when Smitty was covered.

The picture above in my opinion captured the greatest moment in Panthers history, which happened to be against the Rams three years ago. I think that game officially changed us from the NFL laughing stock to a solid team that will do some damage this decade, and hopefully more decades :-). Why not? We have the talent! Anyways, Smitty just took a simple pass on 3rd on 14 in double overtime to the house to stun the whole crowd in St. Louis. That took us back to the NFC championship for only the second time in Franchise history. That was the double OT stunner that was dubbed 'Silence of the Lambs by the NFL network. I don't expect that kind of drama. I think we will kill them easily. If we lose, I will come back in here and eat my words.

Can't think of a title

Well, it's been hectic, so I did not write about our win over Tampa last Monday night. All I know is we needed to win and we delivered. I still like to see more from our running game. Our offense seems to have woken up in the second half. It was a redeeming win too, because we embarassed ourselved in front of the nation two weeks ago. We redeemed ourselves in front of possibly a bigger audience. That was that.