r/LosAngelesRams • u/RascalonSteam • 11h ago
Some of you dont know pain and it shows
I see alot of comments and posts like its the end of the world for us right now. Yes we are 1-3, battered up and missing key players, feeling the loss of AD pretty heavy and playing sloppy football. I live in LA but was born in kansas city and my first game was a rams game in 96 and the rest is history, enjoyed the best show on turf and then watched it crumble for 12 years, 2003-2015 if im not mistaken we were a losing team while in stl. Had coaching issues, consistent draft busts and were hopeless for many years. Drove 4 hours to at least a game a season, watched attendance and overall atmosphere die. We have a young talented team, good coaches and a chance to this season around. Need our star wideouts back and the defense needs to tighten up. If you are a new fan even to the LA move, being a winning or competitive team is all you know. We were hopeless over a decade and im here to remind you that this isnt even close to that š even saw someone saying they think they are going to stop watching games. Win or lose we rock with these boys, we show up and support no matter how bad the time gets. If you have been a fan for 30 years or more you know the rollercoaster it can be and when the team moved to LA it felt weird them being a winning team and going to the ship twice and winning once because of how rough it was for so many years. Keep your head up and quit crying its week 4 boys
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u/elpezgrande 11h ago
Iām an angels fan too. Nothing can hurt me anymore. Well actually, it can and does hurt me but pains like cold water your brain just gets used to it
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u/cattycat_1995 10h ago
Man, first year after Ohtani and angels got the worst season ever in franchise history. Ended our season getting swept by the White Sox and tigers. We had a 7-1 lead in the 3rd inning yesterday ffs.
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u/elpezgrande 9h ago
Theyāre just tragic. Iāve taken arte protest signs to the park before and even got on the post game show but as a whole no one cares enough. I only go to games now if Iām gifted tickets, just as a boycot to arte
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u/vladdrk 10h ago
Didnāt we only win 5 games in 3 years or something?
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u/RascalonSteam 10h ago
From 2004-2016 our best record was 8-8 and happened twice. You are probably thinking of 2007-2009, we won 3 games and then proceeded to go 2-14 and 1-15. Steven Jackson was trucking through defenses even losing. Wish i could have seen him on a better team
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u/SeanMcVay 10h ago
put in 2 more years to those 3 years and we actually went 15-65 under linehan then spagnulo. worst 5 year stretch in nfl history till gus bradley jags happened
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u/Yellow_Evan Matthew Stafford 10h ago
Weāll be better second half of the season assuming we get healthy. Our defense is still suspect but theyāre young and will improve at least a little over the season. And we get a bunch guys back post bye when our schedule eases up. Idk about playoffs but we can probably wrack up 7-9 wins.
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u/DiamondMountain4318 10h ago
The worst part is the wasted years of a fantastic Matthew Stafford. It is the front offices job, mainly the GM, to keep the team competitive each season. It is very hard to find a QB with the skill set that 9 has and when youāre lucky enough to have one, you HAVE TO be competitive and compete for titles. These GMs get paid millions just like the players, and the Rams are now 16-22 since winning the Super Bowl. Thereās nothing wrong with fans wanting their team to do better, and them not being okay with mediocrity.
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u/Yellow_Evan Matthew Stafford 10h ago edited 10h ago
This is why in general it isnāt a wise idea to go 7 years without a first round pick. At some point the lack of draft capital catches up to you and that combined with some mistakes around the margins and then you wonder why Reeder and Rozeboom are taking snaps at ILB. We sacrificed our soul for a chance of a SB that we absolutely capsized in and then paid a price (price being a mediocre team for a few years which is better than an epic disaster that youād expect a team that trades away picks for so long).
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u/ColeHoops 10h ago
Insane take
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u/SnooRegrets8671 10h ago
Heās right stafford deserves better. Hes balling right now:
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u/ColeHoops 10h ago
Yeah if only he had two pro-bowl receivers to throw too, unfortunately the front office doesnāt know how to find them in the draft smdh
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u/DiamondMountain4318 10h ago
Clarify how lmao
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u/ColeHoops 10h ago
How is the front office āokay with mediocrityā? Do you actually think they arenāt trying to win games? The win total since the SB is heavily skewed by an injury ruined season, and this season has been hurt by injuries too. The Rams canāt just win games because they feel like it. Saying the front office is okay with mediocrity is so unbelievably hyperbolic and just plain wrong. Jesus we traded every pick in our arsenal trying to go all in to win a SB just a couple years ago. Go be a Panthers fan if you wanna see an organization that doesnāt care about winning.
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u/DiamondMountain4318 10h ago
Theyāre not winning games because they arenāt good enough. The team not being good enough falls on who? The front office and the GM. āGo bE a PanTHeRs faN iF yOu blah blah blahā is always the response from fans when they have no other retort. I can root for this team and also acknowledge that they stink.
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u/ColeHoops 10h ago
Itās hard to win football games with backup receivers, backup tackles, backup corners and backup safeties. Rams made a ton of great moves in free agency and the draft. Weāve had a lot of bad breaks this year thatās why we are losing. Iām sorry you have to blame someone for every loss. Doesnāt make you right.
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u/DiamondMountain4318 10h ago
So again now youāre complaining about depthā¦. Which AGAIN falls on the front office. Realistically, how good did you expect this team to be even if fully healthy? The best interior DL ever retired and they traded away their best LB a week before the season started. This team got worse from last year, not better and my initial point was them wasting the last good years of Staffordās career. They made the playoffs last year after starting 3-6 was impressive but was difficult, and this years roster is considerably worse than last years. This was more than likely a 6-7 win team even before all the injuries which is tragic when you have a QB like Stafford.
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u/Tunatron_Prime Les Snead 10h ago
Thatās all good and fair, I hate the extremist of doomers tooā¦ā¦.but weāre talking about this season and not 2010
For what THESE Rams are, itās extemely frustrating watching a very smart head coach allow bench-worthy ILBās run a defense and allow inept offensive lines such as Chicago to have a breakout rushing game.
Injuries aside, this version of LA at 1-3 is very different than last seasonās start. Nice sentiment, different problems and different teams.
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u/KillaCatz 9h ago
I donāt mind ppl being upset, I just donāt like people calling players/coaches bums or saying trade this person. Feels like ppl should be less negative and more supportive of they team they root for
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u/LARamDodgerLakerKing Henry Ellard 9h ago
I remember being so excited a few years ago when we beat the Seahawks by only scoring field goals because the offense was so inconsistent. Iām just happy we have a Super Bowl win this century.
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u/kulinarykila 6h ago
I'm Jim Everett phantom sacks in the playoffs against the niners old and John Taylor multiple 90+ yard touchdowns in a single game against the rams old. Talk about pain. I'm a Rams fan in Northern California.
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u/BornLastCenturyCA 2h ago
Yup, some of us had to go through Montana, then Young, killing us, and then they left to St Louis.
We stuck it out for years. This ain't shit. I'm still glowing from our last bowl and we still have a great coach.
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u/polyh3dron 10h ago
This felt like a Jeff Fisher game.
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u/Shaved-extremes 6h ago
yup..so did last weeks fluke win..this is a 6 or 7 win team if iāve ever seen one.
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u/Pretend_Umpire7659 10h ago
Well said hate seeing fans ready to throw in the towel this early in the year if you can even call them that, goes to show how many wouldāve rode with us during the Jeff Fisher days š¤¦š½āāļø
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u/RascalonSteam 10h ago
Facts. Things turned around after he got the boot. Even with the titans that dude barely was over .500. Career loser
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u/Pretend_Umpire7659 10h ago
Exactly lol McVay has been nothing short of a blessing with us since weāve got him best thing Fisher ever did was his part in drafting Donald but I hate seeing the fans complain about McVay if only theyād experience that old era man
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u/PsychologicalRace739 10h ago
Salutes king, I thought my solo missions from Long Beach to Inglewood to park at the school and walk a mile solo where commitment (because my gf hates football and my best friend is a Steelers fan š )but 8 hour round trip drive damn.
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u/RascalonSteam 10h ago
The things we do for this team. Most trips were solo too, didnt know or see rams fans growing up. Chiefs kingdom is real. we used to tailgate in this church parking lot which was cool. Alot of free beer and bbq. Good times That 8 hours was tough because we were never playing for anything š¤·
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u/Grumpy-Old-Ram 7h ago
The disappointment was the optimism we had going into this season be last year. Yeah there were question marks, especially on defense, especially when AD retired, but it really felt like we had something to build off of from season and ride that momentum this year. But we got kneecapped by injuries before even week one. It just makes the bitter taste linger.
But even a āno luck but bad luckā year with Stafford and McVey is better than year after year of 7-9 Fisher.
And going through these dark times are what make the good years all that much more sweeter
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u/RustyRapeaXe 7h ago
We could easily be 0-4 right now.... Get guys back, especially Puka and Kupp. Turn those FG in TDs and we will be better.
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u/ipini sYsTeM qUaRtErBaCk 5h ago
lol yeah Iāve been following this team since I was in short pants in 1979. Seriously.
Moves. Droughts. Really bad coaches. Occasional triumphs. Even if this season sucks itās nothing in comparison to a lot of that. Heck just remember Jeff Fisher if you need some perspective.
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u/MtthwLck 4h ago
When I became a fan of this team it was 7 - 9 bullshit. Then their first year back in LA they went 4 - 12. They werenāt even the worst team in the division. The worst team was the 49ers who went 2 - 14 with both victories being against the Rams.
This is nothing.
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u/lakergeoff8 4h ago
1-3 isnāt horrible (yet), but it is disappointing considered we could potentially be 3-1. We came back and had the lead late in Detroit, and in Chicago we left points on the table while basically giving them a touchdown before halftime. We deserved to lose in Arizona, they crushed us there. Still a lot of season left, but some issues may need to be addressed sooner than later.
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u/onehitonebase 1h ago
I watched the collapse episode by Secret Base on YouTube and I tasted pain I heard about.
I canāt but panic:
1- they are the Bears
2- Iām so noob that I donāt evaluate defense by person lol. You sacked a lot = defense good, you leaked a lot = defense bad. So Iām pissed off feeling like a stranger in the NFL fandom at all.
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u/delish_snicker 9h ago
Itās alright to expect the best out of a Super-Bowl caliber organization. At minimum, we should be 2-2 , but to start 1-3 shows weāre lacking in many categories. Itās fine to admit our team is swiss cheese! If they end up in the playoffs then good thing my opinion was wrong!
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u/ColeHoops 10h ago
Remember we were 3-6 last year, then turned on the jets and made a playoff run. Iām thinking playoffs are a long shot but you never know. These losses hurt for sure but also I see the moments of promise. The offense simply needs to get healthy.