If you watched all of the St. Louis Rams' 26-0 loss to the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, you're lying to me. Right here on SLM Daily, in front of everybody. But if you watched most of the St. Louis Rams' 26-0 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, you learned a few things. You learned that Steven Jackson can't always carry the team and that Josh McDaniels, for whatever reason, doesn't want him to anyway. You learned that A.J. Feeley isn't very good at football, and that even a defense that plays well—Chris Long now has 12 sacks, in case you were wondering—can allow 26 points when the offense refuses to play more than three downs at a time.
You learned, at the moment you turned it off to watch something that wasn't so crushingly boring, that the Rams need Sam Bradford, whether he's as good as we'd hoped or not.
Without Sam Bradford to follow—hoping for optimistic signs, looking for a play that resembles the Josh McDaniels we were expecting, turning every reception into a sign he's found a permanent and valuable connection with Brandon Lloyd, Brandon Gibson, Danario Alexander, anybody—the Rams in 2011 have become a complete disaster, a team that's bad and boring at once. There's nothing left to watch for, now that Bradford and the Rams have disappointed, but signs that Bradford will not disappoint in 2012.
The good news is that he was a game-time decision, and we're likely to see him play next week. The bad news is everything else you watched on Sunday. Well, kind of watched.
