Can anyone trust these LA Rams with their Jeckyl/Hyde flips in Week 12?

The hope that was closely held by the fans of the LA Rams was for the team to show up and establish the run with a long time-consuming touchdown scoring drive. Of course, that didn’t happen. The other hope was that the Rams defense could get the Green Bay Packers into third-and-long down-and-distance situations, and force the Packers to punt.

Well, that didn’t happen either. Well, not until the Packers drove the football 56 yards, and converted on two third-downs and one fourth-down.  The result of the two opening offensive drives was the Rams taking over after a punt at their own 15-yard line. After a decent five-yard run by running back Darrell Henderson, the Rams went with an empty backfield, and of course, invited complete disaster.

The result was a strip-sack that resulted in a fumble recovered by the Packers. First and goal from the Rams six-yard line. Sound familiar?

Yes, the Packers did score quickly. Then the LA Rams got the ball back and gained just nine yards on four downs. But yep, the chants of ‘Fire Raheem Morris’ have already begun. Lol.

Jeckle/Hyde

I suppose I’m seeing a different version of the game than anyone else. I see an offense that has rushed six times for 21 yards, passed four times, completed two times for nine yards, but suffered a sack for a nine-yard loss and a fumble.  Thanks to a critical third-down sack by defensive lineman Greg Gaines, the Rams held the Packers to just a field goal.  But as has been the same ole song and dance in the past two games, the Rams open the game down by two scores.

So far the Packers have run with the football 10 times for just 20 yards (a 2.0 yards per rush average) and Aaron Rodgers has completed eight of ten passes for 45 yards (a 4.5 yards per pass average).  The Packers have started with the football at their own six-yard line, the LA Rams six-yard line, and the LA Rams 29-yard line. The Packers scored a touchdown from the Rams six-yard line. The Packers scored a field goal from the Rams’ 29-yard line.

But the LA Rams came back onto the football field, now their third consecutive game down by 10 or more points in the first quarter. It only took 47 seconds for the LA Rams to answer back with an 81-yard touchdown, capped off by a 79 touchdown pass to Van Jefferson.

The Packers came back with a field goal

With 9 minutes remaining in Q2

Can these LA Rams be trusted? The defense appears to be capable of winning this one, as long as the Rams stop giving them the football deep in their own territory. If the Rams’ offense can start playing well, the Rams have some momentum building. Here we go.