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La’Roi Glover, defensive tackle of the Saint Louis rams said “It’s time to get a win; It’s time to play four solid quarters of football. It’s time for our playmakers to show up. It’s time for all of that stuff to happen.”

Few expected the Rams to win their season opener last week in Philadelphia. But no one expected such an incompetent performance, least of all the players.

“Not in a million years,” offensive guard Jacob Bell said. “I honestly thought it’d be the other way around.”If you told me this was going to be the score, and what would happen in the game, I would’ve bet a million dollars on it (not happening),” cornerback Tye Hill said. “I didn’t think it was possible with the team that we had gathered here.”

But it happened. The Rams’ team has played 219 regular season and postseason games since the move to St. Louis in 1995. But if not the worst, last week’s 38-3 loss to the Eagles was among the worst five or six showings for the “St. Louis” Rams.

But the more alarming thing is the fact that seven months of preparation and hard training went into what happened last Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.

Torry Holt, Saint Louis wide receiver said: “Guys have worked hard to get to this point, we felt good early on in training camp. Preseason, there were some things that we needed to shore up; we felt we did that. And then to go up there and not to play well was shocking.”

The fans felt the same way. Overreaction is part of life in NFL for fans and the media. But rarely has a Rams defeat created such a negative reaction from a fan base not only numbed by last season’s 3-13 record, but also worried about the possible sale (and departure) of their hometown team.

“I hope the fans don’t read too much into some of the articles being written about our lack of enthusiasm,” wide receiver Dane Looker said. “That’s just commentators on the sideline making comments; that’s writers making comments. To me it’s a little presumptive for them to say that, because they don’t really know exactly how we feel. You look at the tape; we went out there and fought as hard as we could.”