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“It’s a young quarterback”, Donald said on NFL Network after the win. We haven’t always put the best product on the field for them. They kept chanting “Keep Our Rams!” So that’s an important goal for us and not only just for me but for this organization.
The owner of the Rams, Stan Kroenke, wants to move the team to Los Angeles, and he has already gone to great lengths to make that happen, including purchasing a large parcel of land in that city and working with local authorities to build a football stadium on it. However, any move must be approved by a majority of NFL owners, and a pair of other teams, the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, are eyeing a similar plan.
The team announced 51,295 tickets had been distributed for the 66,000-capacity dome.
Jameis Winston took advantage of Rams who became conservative with two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter and finished with a career best 363, his first 300-yard effort for Tampa bay. They simply didn’t turn the ball over, which maybe was more about Case Keenum (234 yards, two touchdown passes) starting instead of Nick Foles, while Tavon Austin, who also had a receiving touchdown, added another one on the ground to keep on demonstrating his incredible versatility as an offensive playmaker.
As you know, we previously mentioned that Winston was a Rookie of the Year candidate.
“We were protecting good enough”. I have zero idea how much of this has to do with the physics of being enclosed in a dome, but this inconsequential Thursday night teams between non-playoff contenders, with tens of thousands of empty seats, felt about as loud as most games at Lambeau.
Mike Evans had nine receptions for 157 yards and topped 1,000 yards.
The Rams’ Bryce Hager, a rookie drafted in the seventh round last spring, recovered the onside kick and the Rams were able to run out the clock.
For his part, Winston did lead his team on a four-play, 98-yard touchdown drive at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but it was Tampa Bay’s next drive that ended in profound embarrassment and pointed to the level of inconsistency on Lovie Smith’s team.
Gurley also became the first Rams runner of any age to reach 1,000 rushing yards since Steven Jackson in 2012.
Keenum found Austin on the Rams’ first drive of the game for a 17-yard touchdown that gave St. Louis a quick lead that they would never relinquish. At halftime, Warner took off his sports jacket and tossed a pass to Bruce, who made the catch as he was running along the home team’s sideline and jogged into the end zone. Still, the St. Louis Rams want to see more.
“Even through the worst years, we have stayed loyal”, McDonough said. The Rams have been hard-hit by injuries and forced to lean heavily on youth, but the same combination has started the last three games and Keenum was sacked just once, when he was caught on a rollout.
Keenum lacks arm strength, but clicked on a 60-yard touchdown pass with Kenny Britt and has won both of his starts since coming off a concussion.
After winning twice in five days, players earned the weekend off. Some of them are planning to visit wide receiver Stedman Bailey, recuperating in a Miami-area hospital after getting shot twice in the head last month. “A couple of us are going to go visit our brother and show him some love”.