{"id":460246,"date":"2025-12-20T15:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460246\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:20:16","slug":"letters-no-defense-for-the-rams-or-bill-plaschkes-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460246\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: No defense for the Rams, or Bill Plaschke’s prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> <\/p>\n

Once again, Bill Plaschke has literally jinxed another Southern California sports team with his proclamation questions<\/a> regarding the Rams:<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s going to beat them? <\/p>\n

Who\u2019s going to stop the unstoppable offense? <\/p>\n

Who\u2019s going to score on the persistent defense?<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s going to outwit the coaching genius? <\/p>\n

I have the answers, and it\u2019s not just Seattle<\/a>. It\u2019s their special teams, their defensive backs and it\u2019s coach Sean McVay\u2019s play-calling. Well, maybe the referees \u2026 but that\u2019s for another day.<\/p>\n

Thanks again for the poison-pen article, Bill.<\/p>\n

Gary Grayson
Ventura<\/p>\n

Just four days after Bill Plaschke promised that the Rams would win the Super Bowl, the team blew a big lead and lost in a stinker to the Seahawks. Like my mother told me when I was a kid: Be honest, respect others, and bet against Plaschke \u2014 you\u2019ll win every time!<\/p>\n

Jack Wolf
Westwood<\/p>\n

Can we quit the Rams praise now? They can\u2019t tackle anyone that gets past the line of scrimmage. Coach Sean McKay and defensive coordinator Chris Shula went into a shell as the Rams lost the game to the Seahawks and any chance of a long playoff run.<\/p>\n

Russell Hosaka
Torrance<\/p>\n

How many more times do we need to see Emmanuel Forbes chasing a receiver because of a blown coverage or missing an assignment and giving up a big play. The secondary is the weak link in the Rams defense and he\u2019s absolutely a broken link. Chris Shula, please put someone else back there. The mascot Rampage would be a better choice than Forbes.<\/p>\n

Doug Vikser
Manhattan Beach<\/p>\n

Bill Plaschke writes of the Rams<\/a>: \u201cWho\u2019s going to score on the persistent defense?\u201d Maybe the Lions with 34 points?<\/p>\n

William P. Bekkala
West Hollywood<\/p>\n

Bill Plaschke\u2019s Rams encomium is puzzling. During the course of the game I watched, Detroit moved through the Rams defense like Sherman through Georgia. This was, at best, park football. The first team that exploits the Rams defense as the Lions did and consistently moves the ball on offense will defeat the Rams.<\/p>\n

Skip Nevell
Eugene, Ore.<\/p>\n

Just when the Rams thought that they solved their kicking situation, they lost another game because of a missed field goal. After the game, they must have been kicking themselves.<\/p>\n

Jeff Hershow
Woodland Hills<\/p>\n

It looks like the Bills are going to win the Super Bowl, because Plaschke wrote, \u201cThe Bills? Not ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vaughn Hardenberg
Westwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Once again, Bill Plaschke has literally jinxed another Southern California sports team with his proclamation questions…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[167851,1582,276,72011,262,210175,86810,1910,2961,8604,19945,224,2444,5337,12546,90726,7138,2087,3007,6620],"class_list":{"0":"post-460246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-bill-plaschke","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-coach-sean-mcvay","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-defensive-coordinator-chris-shula","14":"tag-emmanuel-forbes","15":"tag-game","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-lakers","18":"tag-letter","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-prediction","23":"tag-ram","24":"tag-rams","25":"tag-seahawks","26":"tag-team","27":"tag-time"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115752575168203463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}