BRINGING BACK SOME CRITICISM

We’ve been relatively optimistic regarding the “Bold New Era” of Rams football and I for one, am sick of it. I know everyone is going to say, “It takes time” or “Temper your expectations,” but I’m not trying to hear that noise, son. We just got beat by an FCS team. And no, I don’t care that they were FCS Champs last year. There is a reason they have divisions in college football. CSU is supposed to be better, but we make the same stupid plays we’ve always made. Watching the Rams play against NDSU reminded me of past Ram teams, like the ones that went 9-27, and as a result gave me a mild drinking problem. Here’s a list of things that annoyed me the most in NDSU game.

I hope Coach Mac learned a lesson when he called a deep handoff play from inside his own end zone, which resulted in a safety. This isn’t Alabama and our players are not that good yet. CSU loves them some safeties.

A safety, by the way, is the most embarrassing play in all of sports. Think about it. You get crushed in your end zone and your opponent gets a measly, but meaningful 2 points. Then you have to punt it back to them. Even the refs’ hand signal is awkward. It’s the equivalent of a kick in the Jimmy. The Rams got kicked in the Jimmy.

We still, cannot get off the field on third down. NDSU demoralized us with 9 minute long scoring drives that tired our defense and broke our will. I’m not going to say anyone quit playing, but I quit paying attention. “Inglorious Bastards” was on TNT and I am a big Tarantino fan. We gave up 22 unanswered points and looked, and probably smelled, like garbage.

“Two steps forward and two steps back.” While I love Paula Abdul, what I don’t love is beating archrival CU, (no matter how awful they are), and then losing the very next week; and to a supposed “cupcake” like NDSU. I know, I know, NDSU is really good, but I don’t care. (See paragraph #1). It’s a lose-lose situation for CSU and the guy that scheduled this should be fired. Oh wait…

I read that some CSU players were still reveling in their Showdown victory. Well, from what we watched this week, CU is not good and should be swimming in the PAC-12 toilet for years to come. Beating them shouldn’t be a surprise. Sacramento State just stomped the Buffs at Folsom and NDSU embarrassed us at Hughes. Par for the course for our beloved Rams.

The Rams play next at San Jose St against a team than narrowly lost to Stanford two weeks ago and crushed Big Sky barnacle, UC Davis yesterday. (Yeah, that's Stanford. And don’t say, “Andrew Luck is gone so they’re not that good.”) Stanford is way better than CSU, so in theory, the Spartans should mount our horns in the town square. This remains to be seen, but if the Rams play like they did against NDSU, they should skip the trip and mail it in.

Go Rams.