I don't believe I heard Clowney's name called once after the 1st quarter.
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They did a lot better, which was nice because he already had enough stats for a great game by the end of the first.
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I did notice Goff giving Hav the helmet bump after the 94 yard TD to Woods. Held up with Goff standing by the goal line.
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Didn't hear Havenstein's name called either after they said Clowney was obviously targeting him. I hate Wisconsin football but some neat things come out of that crap hole.
Dude... Why you gotta do this?
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We definitely got away with a hold. I was screaming at the TV but when it didnt get called I was celebrating
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I remember when some were calling Clowney a bust. Guess those days are over.
It's scary what that team could be once J.J. Watt, Whitney Mercilus, & Deshaun Watson come back. Plus, if Brian Cushing can stay off the PEDs and still perform.
It's scary what that team could be once J.J. Watt, Whitney Mercilus, & Deshaun Watson come back. Plus, if Brian Cushing can stay off the PEDs and still perform.
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And here is why you didn't. Sean McfuckingVay.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...vay-has-rams-resembling-greatest-show-on-turf
Sean McVay has Rams resembling 'Greatest Show on Turf'
LOS ANGELES -- Halfway through Sunday's home game against theHouston Texans, it was clear that the NFC West-leading L.A.Ramshad a problem: a 6-foot-5, 270-pound game-wrecker in an opposing uniform.
Thanks largely to the disruptive and destructive efforts ofTexanslinebackerJadeveon Clowney, theRams' high-flying offense had been grounded in the first two quarters of Sunday's game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Limited to a trio ofGreg Zuerleinfield goals, L.A. held a 9-7 lead as rookie coach Sean McVay and his players filed into the home locker room.
Suddenly, an offense being lauded as the second coming of "The Greatest Show on Turf" resembled the sludge stuck in an '80s-style drainage pipe emptying into the Pacific Ocean. And McVay, the 31-year-old, eternallyturnt upcoaching wunderkind, was determined to find a flow.
"Well guys, we can't play any worse -- and I can't put you in any worse positions -- and we're still up 9-7," McVay told his offensive players at halftime. "The good news is, if we don't piss down our legs we'll get it together and win this game. We're out of sync, and one guy in particular is killing us. So now let's find a way to fix it and go back to doing what we do."
TheRams' attack stayed stagnant for the first five-and-a-half minutes of the third quarter until -- on the second play of their second possession of the second half -- McVay dialed up a call that would break open the game, and second-year quarterbackJared Goffexecuted it to perfection.
With L.A. facing second-and-6 from its own six-yard-line, theTexanscame out in aquartersdefensive alignment leaving each of four Houston players responsible for a horizontal quadrant of the secondary. There was also a wrinkle: theTexansblitzed a cornerback off the weak side and dropped a linebacker into coverage to take his spot.
When he recognized the coverage, McVay began speaking excitedly into Goff's headset. "I couldn't wait for us to snap the ball," he said later.
The same went for his quarterback: As McVay called the play, Goff was already rushing to the line to take the snap. "We've got Robert here," McVay reminded him -- and the rest was pure artistry: Goff making a sweet play-fake to halfbackTodd Gurley, who slid to his left and picked up the blitzing Kevin Johnson; Woods running a pinpoint post pattern up the right seam.
The only issue, as usual, was Clowney, who beat right tackleRob Havensteinto the inside and bore down on Goff in the end zone as the quarterback prepared to throw. And then, just when it looked like the fourth-year pass rusher would wreck yet another opportunity, the 60,032 fans at the Coliseum witnessed a sublime sequence that summed up everything that has made the 2017Ramsdramatically different from their scoring-challenged 2016 forebears.
As Clowney said afterward, as he walked from the visitors' locker room toward theTexans' team buses, "Man, that s--- was crazy. I don't know how they did that."
Havenstein, in a desperate measure that offensive linemen refer to as a "backdoor" maneuver, lunged his hand in front of Clowney and diverted him while spinning toward the quarterback. Goff, meanwhile, hung tough and absorbed a hit from Clowney just after delivering a perfect pass to Woods, who caught it in stride at midfield, with veteran cornerbackJohnathan Josephin futile pursuit.
Seconds later Woods was celebrating a 94-yard touchdown catch, theRams' longest play from scrimmage since 1964 -- and theRamswere on their way to a 33-7 rout that reaffirmed their credentials as a legitimate, if totally surprising, contender.
"The greatest trait a quarterback can have is not fearing failure -- and that's how Jared's wired," McVay marveled Sunday night. "He had brass balls on that play, and he dropped a dime. And that was so big, 'cause it opened everything up, and after that we were off and running."
McVay had plenty to do with that, revising his gameplan to run plays away from Clowney throughout the second half, supplementing that strategy by sliding extra blockers toward the linebacker and favoring calls designed to allow Goff to release the ball quickly.
"We had a problem," veteran offensive line coach Aaron Kromer said, "and Sean solved it."
In the process, McVay also killed the suspense in a mid-November interconference clash whose marquee value had already been depleted, as theTexans(3-6) weremissing their own dynamic young quarterback-- rookieDeshaun Watson-- who'd suffered a season-ending ACL tear 10 days earlier.
Yet running their winning streak to four was momentous for theRams(7-2), who hold a one-game lead over theSeattle Seahawksin the NFC West and seem capable of outscoring anyone when they're operating at peak performance.
As with Goff's deep ball to Woods from his own end zone, almost nobody saw this coming.
Last year, theRamshad the league's least productive offense, mustering just 224 points en route to a 4-12 record. Goff, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 draft, struggled mightily after taking over as the team's starting quarterback in the 10th game of the season, and coach Jeff Fisher was fired with three games remaining in the dismal campaign.
After the season theRamshired McVay, Washington's promising offensive coordinator, who at the time was 30 years old -- making him the youngest head coach in modern NFL history. He and his 23-year-old quarterbackhave been lighting up the league since September, provoking comparisons to the 1999Rams, who rebounded from a 3-13 record the previous season andswept to a stunning Super Bowl championshipon the strength of futureHall of Famequarterback Kurt Warner and an explosive offense that commanded an iconic nickname.
Now comprehend this: The Greatest Show on Turf produced 526 points in the '99 regular season, while the currentRams-- the league's highest-scoring team in 2017 -- scored exactly half of that total (263) over their first eight games. Sunday's output kept L.A. on that pace (32.9 points per game) and allowed McVay and his players to feel a lot better upon entering the locker room after the game than they had at halftime.
"We needed to hit some adversity, because we hadn't hit any in a while," said veteran left tackleAndrew Whitworth, who has proven to be one of the league's best free-agent signees of the past several seasons. "All week long we talked about it -- what are we gonna do if we hit some adversity? Well, we found out.
"It's funny, because the week before that, I was talking about how we need to hit some shock plays. We'd been grinding it out and working our way up the field, but leaving those big plays on the table. Then, the last two weeks... boom. It's pretty impressive."
Goff (25 of 37, 355 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions) credited the stabilizing efforts of aRamsdefense that forced fourTexansturnovers. Like Whitworth, he also found value in having overcome Sunday's first-half futility.
"Well, yeah -- it's good because we won," Goff said. "As soon as we hit that big bomb, our intensity kind of went up a notch. You could feel that. And then we were rolling, and everyone got involved."
While Woods (eight catches, 171 yards, two touchdowns) enjoyed a career day, Goff also had key connections with receiverSammy Watkins(two catches, 41 yards, one TD) and Gurley (who had 68 receiving yards, matching his rushing total).And Goff and his former offseason roommate, rookie wideoutCooper Kupp, hooked up six times for 47 yards.
None of that success seemed likely after an opening quarter during which McVay's offense bore an unwelcome resemblance to the 2016Rams' anemic attack -- something that still bothered the coach hours after the game as he and several friends watched highlights on a large television screen at his home atop the San Fernando Valley.
"We had six yards of offense in the first quarter," McVay scoffed. "Sixyards! At that point, I thought we were well on our way to a 30-yard game. ... It was a total pukefest. I was ready to crawl into a hole."
Instead, he solved the problem and allowed theRamsto regain their stride in the second half. It's becoming a trend -- and the whole football world is starting to take notice.
Follow Michael Silver on Twitter@MikeSilver.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...vay-has-rams-resembling-greatest-show-on-turf
Sean McVay has Rams resembling 'Greatest Show on Turf'
LOS ANGELES -- Halfway through Sunday's home game against theHouston Texans, it was clear that the NFC West-leading L.A.Ramshad a problem: a 6-foot-5, 270-pound game-wrecker in an opposing uniform.
Thanks largely to the disruptive and destructive efforts ofTexanslinebackerJadeveon Clowney, theRams' high-flying offense had been grounded in the first two quarters of Sunday's game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Limited to a trio ofGreg Zuerleinfield goals, L.A. held a 9-7 lead as rookie coach Sean McVay and his players filed into the home locker room.
Suddenly, an offense being lauded as the second coming of "The Greatest Show on Turf" resembled the sludge stuck in an '80s-style drainage pipe emptying into the Pacific Ocean. And McVay, the 31-year-old, eternallyturnt upcoaching wunderkind, was determined to find a flow.
"Well guys, we can't play any worse -- and I can't put you in any worse positions -- and we're still up 9-7," McVay told his offensive players at halftime. "The good news is, if we don't piss down our legs we'll get it together and win this game. We're out of sync, and one guy in particular is killing us. So now let's find a way to fix it and go back to doing what we do."
TheRams' attack stayed stagnant for the first five-and-a-half minutes of the third quarter until -- on the second play of their second possession of the second half -- McVay dialed up a call that would break open the game, and second-year quarterbackJared Goffexecuted it to perfection.
With L.A. facing second-and-6 from its own six-yard-line, theTexanscame out in aquartersdefensive alignment leaving each of four Houston players responsible for a horizontal quadrant of the secondary. There was also a wrinkle: theTexansblitzed a cornerback off the weak side and dropped a linebacker into coverage to take his spot.
When he recognized the coverage, McVay began speaking excitedly into Goff's headset. "I couldn't wait for us to snap the ball," he said later.
The same went for his quarterback: As McVay called the play, Goff was already rushing to the line to take the snap. "We've got Robert here," McVay reminded him -- and the rest was pure artistry: Goff making a sweet play-fake to halfbackTodd Gurley, who slid to his left and picked up the blitzing Kevin Johnson; Woods running a pinpoint post pattern up the right seam.
The only issue, as usual, was Clowney, who beat right tackleRob Havensteinto the inside and bore down on Goff in the end zone as the quarterback prepared to throw. And then, just when it looked like the fourth-year pass rusher would wreck yet another opportunity, the 60,032 fans at the Coliseum witnessed a sublime sequence that summed up everything that has made the 2017Ramsdramatically different from their scoring-challenged 2016 forebears.
As Clowney said afterward, as he walked from the visitors' locker room toward theTexans' team buses, "Man, that s--- was crazy. I don't know how they did that."
Havenstein, in a desperate measure that offensive linemen refer to as a "backdoor" maneuver, lunged his hand in front of Clowney and diverted him while spinning toward the quarterback. Goff, meanwhile, hung tough and absorbed a hit from Clowney just after delivering a perfect pass to Woods, who caught it in stride at midfield, with veteran cornerbackJohnathan Josephin futile pursuit.
Seconds later Woods was celebrating a 94-yard touchdown catch, theRams' longest play from scrimmage since 1964 -- and theRamswere on their way to a 33-7 rout that reaffirmed their credentials as a legitimate, if totally surprising, contender.
"The greatest trait a quarterback can have is not fearing failure -- and that's how Jared's wired," McVay marveled Sunday night. "He had brass balls on that play, and he dropped a dime. And that was so big, 'cause it opened everything up, and after that we were off and running."
McVay had plenty to do with that, revising his gameplan to run plays away from Clowney throughout the second half, supplementing that strategy by sliding extra blockers toward the linebacker and favoring calls designed to allow Goff to release the ball quickly.
"We had a problem," veteran offensive line coach Aaron Kromer said, "and Sean solved it."
In the process, McVay also killed the suspense in a mid-November interconference clash whose marquee value had already been depleted, as theTexans(3-6) weremissing their own dynamic young quarterback-- rookieDeshaun Watson-- who'd suffered a season-ending ACL tear 10 days earlier.
Yet running their winning streak to four was momentous for theRams(7-2), who hold a one-game lead over theSeattle Seahawksin the NFC West and seem capable of outscoring anyone when they're operating at peak performance.
As with Goff's deep ball to Woods from his own end zone, almost nobody saw this coming.
Last year, theRamshad the league's least productive offense, mustering just 224 points en route to a 4-12 record. Goff, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 draft, struggled mightily after taking over as the team's starting quarterback in the 10th game of the season, and coach Jeff Fisher was fired with three games remaining in the dismal campaign.
After the season theRamshired McVay, Washington's promising offensive coordinator, who at the time was 30 years old -- making him the youngest head coach in modern NFL history. He and his 23-year-old quarterbackhave been lighting up the league since September, provoking comparisons to the 1999Rams, who rebounded from a 3-13 record the previous season andswept to a stunning Super Bowl championshipon the strength of futureHall of Famequarterback Kurt Warner and an explosive offense that commanded an iconic nickname.
Now comprehend this: The Greatest Show on Turf produced 526 points in the '99 regular season, while the currentRams-- the league's highest-scoring team in 2017 -- scored exactly half of that total (263) over their first eight games. Sunday's output kept L.A. on that pace (32.9 points per game) and allowed McVay and his players to feel a lot better upon entering the locker room after the game than they had at halftime.
"We needed to hit some adversity, because we hadn't hit any in a while," said veteran left tackleAndrew Whitworth, who has proven to be one of the league's best free-agent signees of the past several seasons. "All week long we talked about it -- what are we gonna do if we hit some adversity? Well, we found out.
"It's funny, because the week before that, I was talking about how we need to hit some shock plays. We'd been grinding it out and working our way up the field, but leaving those big plays on the table. Then, the last two weeks... boom. It's pretty impressive."
Goff (25 of 37, 355 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions) credited the stabilizing efforts of aRamsdefense that forced fourTexansturnovers. Like Whitworth, he also found value in having overcome Sunday's first-half futility.
"Well, yeah -- it's good because we won," Goff said. "As soon as we hit that big bomb, our intensity kind of went up a notch. You could feel that. And then we were rolling, and everyone got involved."
While Woods (eight catches, 171 yards, two touchdowns) enjoyed a career day, Goff also had key connections with receiverSammy Watkins(two catches, 41 yards, one TD) and Gurley (who had 68 receiving yards, matching his rushing total).And Goff and his former offseason roommate, rookie wideoutCooper Kupp, hooked up six times for 47 yards.
None of that success seemed likely after an opening quarter during which McVay's offense bore an unwelcome resemblance to the 2016Rams' anemic attack -- something that still bothered the coach hours after the game as he and several friends watched highlights on a large television screen at his home atop the San Fernando Valley.
"We had six yards of offense in the first quarter," McVay scoffed. "Sixyards! At that point, I thought we were well on our way to a 30-yard game. ... It was a total pukefest. I was ready to crawl into a hole."
Instead, he solved the problem and allowed theRamsto regain their stride in the second half. It's becoming a trend -- and the whole football world is starting to take notice.
Follow Michael Silver on Twitter@MikeSilver.
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I mentioned this in another thread, the guys needed to struggle to be able to change through the gears - it showed character AND showed that McVay totally understands the game on both sides, they nullified Clowney and played ball!
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The plays that Clowney made in the first half came while he was being blocked by Tyler Higbee and Cooper Kupp.