[Hacksaw]

I'll agree the body of work for all the starters wasn't there and some didn't play. The late depth was encouraging, but the early match-ups did not inspire.
Mariota looked good. Their entire team seemed larger, more focused, disciplined and playing harder that our boys. Perjaps Oxnard did LA good but the Rams not so much,, at least for this weekend.

[Elvis]

Based on last night's game The Rams really don't look good and The Titans really do.

We'll see how much that is or isn't true come the regular season.

Vegas has The Titans at 5 1/2 wins for the season and the Rams at 7 1/2...

[Hacksaw]

Vegas has The Titans at 5 1/2 wins for the season and the Rams at 7 1/2...

Still?

[Elvis]

Ad 5 Dimes this morning still Rams at 7.5 and Titans at 5.5. Minnesota who is an undefeated 7-0 in preseason games with Zimmer is at 8 wins for 2015...

[OldSchool]

Personally I think running backup QBs the last 23ish games has more to do with our record than our preseason performance.

[moklerman]

None of this relates to the w/l record in the preseason. It's the approach during preseason. The apparent "hiding" of what they're really going to be doing during the regular season as an example.

[Hacksaw]

Probably so, but I don't know if we are going to really fool anyone of have some new alignment or scheme that any good opposition coach couldn't figure out by half time of game one.

[Elvis]

I never bought much into the hiding your offense/defense argument.

Neither team is game planning or trying to win or create mismatches, like they do in the regular season. That's just not what's going on in preseason. But it applies to both teams, not just the Rams.

For example: If Brockers was out in a real game, Westbrooks woldn't take his place. Fairley would. But it's preseason and the Rams goal wasn't to put their best team on the field.

This doesn't mean everything is going to be great when the regular season rolls around. It just means you can't tell from preseason...

[snackdaddy]

True, you can't tell from preseason. Teams approach them differently than the regular season. All you have to go by is history. History shows the preseason ends up 1-3 and the regular season starts 1-3. On top of that, this year's starting offense so far looks worse than last year's starting offense. I'm not exactly ecstatic about the way things have transpired up to now. But its preseason. So I guess we can say our offense will be fine. No one can prove us wrong till Sept 13.

[TSFH Fan]

I get that W/L's don't mean a thing in the Pre-Season. Fish's '99 Titans were 1-3 in the Pre-Season.

I think the defense will be ok.

What concerns me is the offense -- not just the fact that it's looked bad, but it's looked bad with a first time NFL OC, with a new QB, a new Center, and with at least 2 Rookies starting on the OL. I just haven't seen anything (yet) to get me to believe that all these new pieces will work together.

And this is where I agree that Fish's Ex Season approach might use a bit of tweaking. Chemistry might be overrated, but I think familiarity can't be overrated. I think these new pieces could use more game time together -- not "going through the motions" type of game time, but something closer to regular season intensity/focus/preparation than what we've gotten so far.

But yeah, wins cure everything. If the Rams start 2-0, it will just reaffirm what everyone says -- pre-season means nothing.