API made the case last week that the Rams were quietly in the mix for the most disappointing team in the league.
That was written before another desultory home loss at the hands of the Redskins. It’s tiring to hear this blamed on the schedule. St. Louis’ opponents so far are 6-6 in games not against the Rams. It hasn’t been that tough a schedule and the Rams haven’t been competitive.
The city of St. Louis, distracted by the Cardinals, have already started to tune out their football team. For two straight weeks, the Rams’ TV ratings were lower than any game during Sam Bradford’s rookie season.
Overall, the television ratings in St. Louis are down 17% this year. We can’t imagine that will improve until the Rams win a game or two.
It felt like this organization was past the three-year, six win stretch, but this all feels too familiar.
“St. Louis is already tuning out the Rams”
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on October 4, 2011, 4:08 PM EDT
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They’re turning them out? So they can move back to L.A. then, right?
you hear worst to first as the nfl park ave mantra. the truth is it is done the old way. good drafting, level headed free agent aquisations and solid front office. the rams will be good, it just takes time for christsakes! the packers, the pats, the saints as of late….etc. chill out ram fans, the pieces are coming.
You should learn how to use words in sentances. Desultory – lacking in consistency.
That was written before another lacking for consistancy home loss at the hands of the Redskins.
Well since they have not been winning they have been consitant.
Desultory – digressing from the main subject.
That was written before another digressing from the main subject home loss at the hands of the Redskins. Now read that and do you need me to explain.
Please stay to using small words. That works better for you.
St. Louis has always been a baseball city. But when the Cardinals get dominated by the Phils in the next two games they’ll have to watch something. And I know it won’t be the Blues…
Looks like they’ll be in a good position to draft another overrated defensive end or left tackle in the top ten.
Umm, with no bye weeks yet each of their opponents has played 3 other games. 3*4 = 12. 6+5 = 11.
I feel bad for the fans of St.Louis. The games aren’t blacked out, but they are forced to watch one of the worst football teams in recent memory over the last 5 years. That city will support good, even average football. I just wonder if they will get the chance to with the threat of L.A…..
There are also tons of Blues tickets available for prime games this season. I wanted to find some Blackhawks tickets, and they were damn near impossible to come by at the United Center. On the same day, there were hundreds of seats available for every Blues/Blackhawks game at Scottrade Center.
Here’s the thing. St. Louis is not a town filled with great sports fans, it is filled with great baseball fans. Annoying baseball fans, but still great baseball fans.
They will have to tune back in soon when the Cards go out in the first round.
That’s ok. 7-9 will win that division again.
Bradford was all ESPN hype, he averages five yards an attempt, waaaaay over hyped as a rookie, he could still be good but he needs to wing it.
@nebster21:
“You should learn how to use words in sentances.”
You should really learn not to chide others for their grammar if you’re going to spell “sentences” and “consistency” with an “a.”
@ stephenjr311…. ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the American education system.
nebster21 says: Oct 4, 2011 4:17 PM
You should learn how to use words in sentances.
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I’m all for constructive criticism, especially towards the writers on this site that often overlook simple mistakes. However, can you at least spell the word “sentence” correctly before bashing someone on their use of SAT level vocab words? It isn’t like your finger slipped off the e and hit a either.
Anyway, it seems as though the Rams whiffed badly on two OL in the draft and Bradford isn’t getting any help from his receivers. Outside of his awful awareness on punt returns, Austin Pettis looked pretty good. He was a beast at BSU. No reason those skills can’t translate to McDaniels’ system. Losing Amendola also hurts big time.
creese76 says:
Oct 4, 2011 4:29 PM
That’s ok. 7-9 will win that division again.
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I doubt that, i think the niners are good for at least 5 more wins out of the next 12 games. that would put them at 8-8 .. minimum.
I hope the Eagles are in negotiations with St Louis for sending a draft pick for Spagnoulo as a DC as it would be a win-win. Rams get a draft pick for a head coach who was gonna be fired anyway and the Eagles get a guy who has coached a defense before.
You should learn how to use words in sentances. Desultory – lacking in consistency.
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As someone already clearly pointed out – perhaps YOU should learn how to spell correctly, and work on your own grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors, before deriding other people. Got that?
escoboltsfan says: Oct 4, 2011 4:32 PM
“Bradford was all ESPN hype, he averages five yards an attempt, waaaaay over hyped as a rookie, he could still be good but he needs to wing it.”
Bradford is the least of the this teams worries. Their problems are the receivers drop everything and he gets no time the o – line has taken a step back.
@nebster,21, desultory: marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose, as in a dragged-out ordeal. Used correctly and precisely by GR. Also, they have things around now called “spell checkers” although I don’t use them and typo a lot myself.
The decision to hire McDaniels was the epitome of insanity. Fire him now.
St. Louis is a baseball town, end of story. I’m not going to claim I have first hand experience with every teams fan base, but I’ve been to games in 8 Midwest cities and st. Louis is by far most apathetic and dispassionate of my sampling. Not the dumbest though, that would be Cincinnati.
Josh McDaniels sucks like an Electrolux.
escoboltsfan, that’s McDaniels’ handiwork you’re seeing. Bradford’s trying to do what a destructive lunatic is telling him to do.
The LA Rams…sounds good, yes?
Just keep saying that 7-9 will win the division Rams fans. The Niners will have it locked up by the 2nd game in December.
McDaniels was a bad hire, a coach killer really. Spags will pay the price for what McDaniels has done to that offense. Fire McDaniels today; while I can’t stand the Rams they were on the right path last year and McDaniels is killing it. It could take 3-5 years to recovery from it when you consider players not wanting to sign there, coordinators turning down jobs, etc. Those of us that are fans of perennially bad teams have seen this video far too often…
@4t9er says:
Oct 4, 2011 4:35 PM
@ stephenjr311…. ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the American education system.
If you are trying to say I’m the stupid one here I would like to point out that he has since edited the article to make it 6-6. He originally had their opponents win/loss at 6-5.
Irresponsible reporting here. You say all this but neglect to mention that the every Rams game this year got better ratings than every Cardinal playoff game. The ratings are down but they’re still drawing more TVs than any other sport in town.
Get the kid some receivers
I guess the “Ram Rules” aren’t helping.
I remember when the Chiefs went there last year. At least half of the crowd was wearing red.
Yeah and Missouri is suitable for the SEC……Let’s just call it what it is.
St Louis = ALL BASEBALL (been there and it’s the best baseball city in the US)
Mizzou= B-ball > F-ball
Annnnnd . . . here we go:
St. Louis fans are terrible. They don’t support their team through thick and thin, like real fans do. It’s just not a football town.
After all, they’ve already lost one team, and now they’re demonstrating that they won’t support this one.
St. Louis doesn’t deserve an NFL team.
How’m I doin?
polishkingski says: Oct 4, 2011 4:17 PM
you hear worst to first as the nfl park ave mantra. the truth is it is done the old way. good drafting, level headed free agent aquisations and solid front office. the rams will be good, it just takes time for christsakes! the packers, the pats, the saints as of late….etc. chill out ram fans, the pieces are coming.
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No. They’ve taken a step back. What the Packers, Lions, Bucs and Raiders (to name a few) have done is build steadily and make solid moves.
The Rams had done that, and have gone back to being the 1-15/2-14 team they were, while successfully wasting Steven Jackson’s entire productive football playing career. Amazing.
We’reFineThere says: Oct 4, 2011 4:42 PM
I hope the Eagles are in negotiations with St Louis for sending a draft pick for Spagnoulo as a DC as it would be a win-win. Rams get a draft pick for a head coach who was gonna be fired anyway and the Eagles get a guy who has coached a defense before.
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He’d be more inclined to come back where he’s actually won something, as opposed to going and wasting another decade someplace where he knows he’ll never win a Super Bowl.
Didn’t the Rams leave LA once?
Anyway, I would think any city that had a baseball team in the playoffs, and a winless football team would be watching the baseball team. It’s hardly unique to St Louis….except Dallas. Do they even know about the Rangers?
Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, and LA.
A West division that makes sense.
LA morons: sorry to disappoint but whatever team you may or may not attract to the stadiums you may or may not build won’t come down to attendance, ok? It’ll have all to do with building new stadiums or not. Vikings are first up on that list.
indianaviking says:
Oct 4, 2011 4:53 PM
St. Louis is a baseball town, end of story. I’m not going to claim I have first hand experience with every teams fan base, but I’ve been to games in 8 Midwest cities and st. Louis is by far most apathetic and dispassionate of my sampling. Not the dumbest though, that would be Cincinnati.
haha how apathetic was it in january 2000 when Rams smoked the vikings on the way to SB34?
I’m pretty sure vikings haven’t won in St Louis since then and most of the times it was a full house of rowdy people?
Maybe STL should get Bradford some weapons. They haven’t had a WR since Torry Holt eons ago. Amendola? No wonder they can’t win in Goodell’s arena football league.
Rams fans look forward to 2012 draft grab a solid #1 receiver and a veteran one also and Bradford will be good then you’ll be greatest show on turf again and the Jean short bandwagoneers will flock in bunches
Rosenthal, please don’t ever use the word desultory again!
Unfortunately, a bad speller was the first to criticize your use of the word.
Anyone who thinks the word desultory belongs in a post about football, was probably upset when Dennis Miller was kicked off MNF.
All the “experts ” picked this team to win the division and proclaimed that bradford had “arrived”?Just goes to show you the nfl every year is wide open.
Rams to L.A.:
“Take me back, Baby…I swear I’ve changed!”
@ nebster21 ur one of the first blogs, what was that all about? Forget the syntax errors, fous on the story..the Rams sucks butthole…don’t be mad just accept it..Poindexter
They should fire the coach, and bring back the equipment manager that he ran out of town.
jwh8541
Oct 4, 2011 6:43 PM EDT
haha how apathetic was it in january 2000 when Rams smoked the vikings on the way to SB34?
I’m pretty sure vikings haven’t won in St Louis since then and most of the times it was a full house of rowdy people?
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Went in 2003 for a Vikings-rams game, rams demolished us… inside the dome it was loud…but it’s a dome, those are always loud. The fans before the game had little to no interest in tailgating and were not knowledgable about football at all. One fan I spoke to said “yeah, we just aren’t good at the football atmosphere”. All the tailgaters were Vikings fans.
Went again in 2009, which the Vikings won by the way, and the “scene” had deteriorated to abysmal levels. We showed up at 10am to tailgate (thinking we were running late) and got a parking spot 2 blocks from the stadium.
After the game we stepped into a bar about 1 or 2 blocks from our car, and the people saw our Vikings garb and asked if there was a football game today. Thought they were joking. They were not.
I saw more passion and dedication in Detroit the year after the 0-16 disaster.
Where can I get my official Rams bags for my head?
I can’t wait till a team moves to L.A. so we can stop trying to guess who will move there!! Anyway I’m gonna guess that the Jaguars move there. There fans are a joke.
I’m not sure why anyone thought they’d have a good record this year – the first half of their schedule is brutal and then they had injuries on top of that.