I scarcely recognize my Rams team anymore…

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Rams43

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Let’s see…

First of all, Jourdan wrote a gem of an article about this game. It’s pointless to post excerpts because the whole damned article is an elite piece of work. If you haven’t yet subscribed then it’s your loss and you don’t even know what you’re missing.

Who is this imposter imitating Matthew Stafford? 4 interceptions in 2 games (2 of which were pick 6’s)? Overthrowing or throwing behind receivers constantly? Spotting opponents big leads in the first quarter? I want the REAL Stafford back, dammit!

McVay critics certainly have a target rich environment, don’t they? Only 9 called running plays when both Hendo and Michel were averaging over 5 yards a pop? Played right into Shanny’s hands. Yep, McVay panics too early and bails on a productive running game. Never seems to learn, either. Blows my mind.

I read that there were at least 6 dropped passes by various receivers. And just when Stafford needed all the extra help he could get with Woods out. Sigh…

Our ST are league bottom feeders with the exception of Matt Gay. And was that fake FG embarrassing, or what? 49ers were all over that. That’s superior coaching.

Speaking of coaching, I’ve tried my best to give Morris the benefit of the doubt lately but I now feel that he’s in over his head. Defending the deep pass when Shanny is running the ball down our throats? Uselessly blitzing Ramsey while Samuels or Kittle are eating us alive? Continued sloppy tackling. DaSilva had a nice piece describing how Shanny attacked the middle of the field mercilessly because of our weakness there. Morris is looking like a bad hire.

49ers had over 39 minutes TOP? How in the world can Rams win by spotting 49ers 2 turnovers including a pick-6, a 14 point lead, and a 2-1 TOP advantage? Unreal. Plenty of blame for both Ram O and D for this embarrassing stat.

Time to admit the obvious. Shanny owns McVay and proves it by having his 3-5 team just pound the Rams all night long in every way imaginable. I had feared (and posted) that Shanny would use the Titan blueprint against McVay and did he ever! Gotta be stinging McVay something fierce this morning.

Not gonna critique the newbies Miller and OBJ because they’ve hardly had a chance to learn where their locker is much less absorb their respective systems. But it is fair to say that neither overwhelmed me last night.

Speaking of last night, why do the Rams have to pick PrimeTime games to humiliate themselves? Arrrrrgh…

Well, after watching these last 2 debacles I can only imagine what the Packers might do to us. Gulp…

Rams do have a lot of very talented players on both sides of the ball. But you know what? They’re not playing well as a team, have too many lapses of execution, and frankly I believe that they’re being hampered by some slipshod coaching on both sides of the ball. IOW, Rams are their own worst enemies and the Titans and 49ers have exposed them for all to see.

Know what upsets me the most in losses? It’s when I see our Rams underperform. That’s what upsets me most of all.
 

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Great post, Rams43, I agree with most of your points. I will say though that it's far more likely that the Titans borrowed the Shanahan blue print on how to crush the Rams than the other way around.

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Great post, Rams43, I agree with most of your points. I will say though that it's far more likely that the Titans borrowed the Shanahan blue print on how to crush the Rams than the other way around.

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not really though.. the Titans ran for 67 yards and averaged 2.9 yards to a carry....

Rams shot themselves in the foot on offense in both games.
 

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As I stated before, we need a dominant running back like we had in Gurley where the defense can't just key on the passing game. Henderson and Michel ain't cutting it.
 

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Great post, Rams43, I agree with most of your points. I will say though that it's far more likely that the Titans borrowed the Shanahan blue print on how to crush the Rams than the other way around.

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The Titans game was like the Dolphins game last year. In both cases, the opposing offense did little; both were held to under 200 yards of total offense. In both games, the opposing defense was able to bring the heat on our QB and our QB responded with huge mistakes that put us in a hole. And in both games, the run game was there for the taking, and would have done wonders to settle down the offense, blunt some of their pass rush, set up the play-action, and force the opposing defense to adjust. But the opposing D never had to, because the McVay again abandoned the run and played right into their hands.
 

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As I stated before, we need a dominant running back like we had in Gurley where the defense can't just key on the passing game. Henderson and Michel ain't cutting it.

How can you say that when the team has averaged over 5 yards a carry in each of the last two games?

And how can you say that when we ran 11 times last week and only 8 times this week?

Hendo and Michel aren't the ones who decided to abandon the run.

Make no mistake, I'd love to have prime Gurley back or someone of that caliber, but those guys are hard to find and most teams have to make do with backs like the ones we have. The backs the 49ers have are nowhere near Gurley's talent level and yet they did just fine because their coach stuck with the run and took what the D was giving them.
 

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As I stated before, we need a dominant running back like we had in Gurley where the defense can't just key on the passing game. Henderson and Michel ain't cutting it.

I don't think we need a dominant RB. The 9ers are proof of that.
When the Rams RBS are averaging 5 yards a carry every game and they barely touch the ball is inexcusable. The Rams beat themselves more often than not. Mcvay seems to get carried away with passing the ball and forgets defenses will key in on what they're doing and not doing. When you only have to defend the pass and not worry about the run it really helps out your defense. Look at it this way, when the Rams are up big it makes it easy for the Rams to pile up sacks. Why? Because those Dline men can pin their ears back and just rush the passer. The Rams are essentially playing like they're down from the start of the game. Always going 5 wide, empty sets, and telling the defense hey we're gonna pass it. I think mcVay has gotten away from your typical WCO where you feed off the playaction and make LBs think. He's overthinking it and you can tell.
 

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I don't think we need a dominant RB. The 9ers are proof of that.
When the Rams RBS are averaging 5 yards a carry every game and they barely touch the ball is inexcusable. The Rams beat themselves more often than not. Mcvay seems to get carried away with passing the ball and forgets defenses will key in on what they're doing and not doing. When you only have to defend the pass and not worry about the run it really helps out your defense. Look at it this way, when the Rams are up big it makes it easy for the Rams to pile up sacks. Why? Because those Dline men can pin their ears back and just rush the passer. The Rams are essentially playing like they're down from the start of the game. Always going 5 wide, empty sets, and telling the defense hey we're gonna pass it. I think mcVay has gotten away from your typical WCO where you feed off the playaction and make LBs think. He's overthinking it and you can tell.
Yup.
Fallen in love with "5 wide" and just "putting the ball in Mattew's hands"...

Time to put some meat into that offensive game plan again.
 

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Agree with all OP. That was some kind of embarassing. They failed to execute in all three phases. Haven't seen that since 2016.
 

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I hope people don't get to upset by this, honestly.
But it feels like McVay is growing into the anti-Belichick.. or something like another Martz.

BB crafts game plans specific to the team they're playing, I just don't feel like McVay does that, at all. The Rams "do what they do" and hope the other team can't adjust.
 

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Know what upsets me the most in losses? It’s when I see our Rams underperform. That’s what upsets me most of all.

Agree. I don’t mind my team losing if they have been prepared well, follow the game plan and execute their skills to the best of their ability. If they do that and lose, then so be it , beaten by the better team on the day.

This was not the case yesterday. We were not competitive and the team gave us fans very little to be proud of.
 

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What pissed me off most about this game was not putting the best CB in the league on the best WR in the league. Ramsey was on Samuel just one time.

McVay and his DC are overthinking so much they have become absolutly fucking stupid.
 

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What pissed me off most about this game was not putting the best CB in the league on the best WR in the league. Ramsey was on Samuel just one time.

McVay and his DC are overthinking so much they have become absolutly fucking stupid.
This is true. 100%
 

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Yup.
Fallen in love with "5 wide" and just "putting the ball in Mattew's hands"...

Time to put some meat into that offensive game plan again.
When we had Gurley not only did we have an elite back, balance, and play action, we had deception baked into the offense as a whole. Remember when defenses couldn't tell whether we were going to run or pass?

Now everyone in the stadium knows we're basically going to pass the ball.
 

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BB crafts game plans specific to the team they're playing, I just don't feel like McVay does that, at all. The Rams "do what they do" and hope the other team can't adjust.

I had been thinking the same thing.
 

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5 years in to his reign and he isn't surprising anyone anymore nor is our offense evolving much. We are getting chased down from behind and not always beating teams we are better than while usually losing to teams our equal
 

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I don't need an article from a paid subscription site to know what I saw...its the usual 49'er superbowl....they hear all week about not winning a home game for over a year and are just coming off an embarrassing loss....we're 7-3...disappointed yes....worried, no...
 

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it seems like McVay is still trying to figure out what his new Transformer (Stafford) toy can and cant do .

The play action worked great last night the few times they ran it, and the receiver didn't drop the ball.

you gotta gotta gotta establish the run game
 

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Funny how different a QB can look when the D gets after his ass, sorta like the last couple of games