are far worse than they were. The last time they got together
in Tampa Bay
for a playoff game that saw the Buccaneers erase a 2:33 deficit,
only to have the Rams, pull it out because of a
all-out blitz. That was beaten by a throw from Matthew
Stafford. To Cooper cop, the field goal, ended the game. The
Rams went on to win the Super Bowl. The Buccaneers went on to
have Tom Brady retire and unretire and now Tom Brady's
back
the Buccaneers with three point favorites
Tom Brady as a member of the Buccaneers has
Never beaten the Rams,
42 and a half point over under
both teams need this, we talked about this on PFT lie, both
teams need it and arguably the Rams need it more do the Bucks,
finally get that win, and end their three-game losing streak.
You know, I think they do,
I'm going to ride with the Bucks in this one,
I have more concerns with the Rams and I do the Bucks,
you know. I think you know usually in this matchup
and it again, it's not that it doesn't hold true here that
I always kind of worried about Brady verse the past. Should
the Rams and
they've had their issues there and I think again that's that's
going to be a problem. It's not going to be easy certainly for
the bucks to block that group up there. Wonderful Woods,
playing pretty good. Aaron Donald still Aaron Donald
but I think the thing that changes my thought as compared
to years past here is it's the Rams off as a line that I'm
really worried about Hakeem. Hicks is going to be back,
the Bucks, got some extra time. The way they played in the last
game against the Ravens, well that was embarrassing. II just
I can see them, steamrolling, this Rams offensive line.
I mean, really the Rams are when they get points on
a drive. It's only because of like, oh my gosh, Matt Stafford
made two or three unbelievable, throws that make it happen.
I mean last week in the 49ers game, that's all it was. It was,
you know, protect your life because you're gonna get
crushed and then hey when you just have an extra half
a second can you make an unreal
can throw and maybe help us there
and that's what he's done.
That's all they're relying on, it's all they're capable of.
So that's where I just don't see the Rams offense being able
to do anything in this one and if you're going to make me one
team Back Against The Wall, tough got to figure out a way
to win.
Yeah I'm gonna go with the bucks at home with this one
with a little bit of extra time and I'm going to have them
pulling it off. 2420 here.
I think there's something to be said for what? Sean McVeigh has
been able to do against Todd Bowles defense. Yeah, and I'm
not going to overlook that.
Reality and Todd, Bowles has to have it somewhere in his head,
the defense. He called that resulted in the Rams winning
that game and they were asking Todd Bowles about it this week
and you know,
about the matchup. But we just trying to win a game like he
wants a gloss over the fact that Sean McVeigh owns, Todd
Bowles the way col Shanahan. Oh Sean McVeigh own Sean McVeigh
and that stuff happens around and around.
There are wrinkles like that. In the NFL
that said, I like the Bucks. By 1.24 23, I'm splitting
the baby, I'm threading, the needle. Take the Rams to cover
the Bucks to win,
by the way, by the way, we must issue a correction. So that we
are always
accurate and transparent
in everything. We say,
the lions were the first team to sweep Rookie of the Year.
They're not the only team as Pete pointed out. Even though
I have told him as politely as I could to scoff in the sheets,
he is being persistent the Saints in 2017. Alvin Kamara,
Marshawn, Lattimore offensive. And Defensive Rookie of
the Year. So,
it's happened twice.
It can happen Thrice
this year with the Seahawks.
But, anyway, you got any more to say about this? I guess.
This is the game of the afternoon. We still have Titans
Chiefs on Sunday Night Football but the game of the afternoon
is Rams box because of how desperate both teams. Yeah,
I mean again,
I look at the Rams and, you know, you kind of said it,
I think on, on Tuesday or maybe it was Wednesday morning.
I think it was a blessing in disguise that none of these
trades worked out that they got them.
I don't think this is a year
that one guy pushed him over the top or one guy makes them
all the sudden a real threat in the NFC.
They got the trade they wanted. I would go. No,
well, maybe now they can be the 7 seed in the NFC playoffs.
I see less that makes me confident about the Rams
turning this around. Then I do the Bucks. The box I have seen
moments of being close. I've seen a few moments of some good
football.
I've seen you know the defense be dominant here and there
I don't know there's just there's a part of me there
where I just feel like there's a little more potential for
the bucks to turn things around. Then the Rams where
I just think the Rams are going to have to gut it out every
week. I think it's gonna be one of those years where they're
going to scratch and Claw to be
Seven and ten some way, miraculously, the more and
more. I watch them.
One thing about the Rams and this is kind of funny because
someone reached out to me, who knows exactly what happened.
The Rams are putting out this work because they have to get
Cam Akers back in the in the fold.
Yeah, they have no choice. We're going to trade him,
right. And now and now they're trying to get back in his good
graces and what they did they leaked to NFL media, the false
notion
that they turned down offers
for cam Akers, so because obviously nice, Always had, we
could have traded you. We decided not to, we decided we
want you back in the trust tree. We want you
back, we want you happy, we could have traded. Um, we need,
I'm told that they were desperately
trying to get anyone to take this guy
and they were making offers, the teams were saying we're not
doing it. We're not doing it, we're not doing it, it wasn't
the other way around. It wasn't the Rams saying no thanks. It
was other teams that the Rams were desperately trying to get
to take cam Akers.
Saying No, thank you to those offers Sookie.
Keep that in mind as they go through this clumsy period because
I'll talk, this is a distraction on top of
everything else. Whatever is going on with Cam Akers in
the Rams is a distraction to what they're trying to do, which is
focused on beating the Buccaneers. Yeah, no, it mean,
it's an issue. It's been weird ever
since week one when we did the Buffalo Bills game,
just it's he's in the doghouse
and again, I don't know exactly what he did or what happened,
you know, when I even when I heard that early in the year,
I was like, oh so what he's going to carry the ball and he's in
the show, he's the better. Me back are the best running back.
They got a team and they'll go well, you're out of
the doghouse,
but they can't even open up holes for anybody at running back.
And, you know, they need some semblance of that because
Matthew Stafford is getting. Absolutely can killed back
there, playing quarterback for them. Right now, that's where
I feel bad for him, so we'll see. Maybe this is the week. They
turn it around. I'm not betting on it.
Hey, one person explained it to me weeks ago and I don't know
what's true or not. I just know what people who are connected
in League circles are telling me
that Acres,
Had got to the point where it had enough, Sean McVeigh shtick
and he may not be the only one and I'm just I'm just telling
you what I'm hearing. So
be advised, Sean McVeigh, if you need to change your
approach and it sounds like some of the things he was
saying yesterday. He's gotten to that point where he knows he
needs to do something to rebuild this bridge will see if
he can't. Let's take
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