Rams fans love to point the finger of blame at the officials and I'm over it. It happened after the Broncos games and it's happing again after the Cardinals game. The penalty at the end did not lose the game for the Rams yesterday. Stop making excuses to make yourself feel better. The Rams were at home, against a 12.5 point underdog. The game was lost in the 59 minutes leading up to that call, not the call itself. The Cardinals had scoring drives of 8 plays, 4:04 time of possession. 10 plays, 4:18 time of possession. 12 plays, 4:34 time of possession. 15 plays, 8:35 time of possession. 14 plays, 8:11 time of possession. 5 plays. :47 time of possession. The only time they could get off the field was in the red zone (and thank god they did or the Rams would have been blown out.) Their offense struggled all day with the Cardinals pressure. They had no answer for it, except a screen game that wasn't working. Their offense turned it over on downs twice and fumbled it another time, all inside the 30. After their only FG of the day, their woeful special teams gave up another big return (40 yards) to set the Cardinals up at their 47. This team was talked about as a Super Bowl or bust contender who went all in again (reminder, they traded SEVEN picks to bring Garrett and McDuffie in.) Stop making excuses to aid in your cope that they are not living up to their hype after 6 games of a 17 game season.