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I'm not here to say the sky is falling, Goff is a Bust, McVay has been figured out, Wade is over the Hill, and both Lines have major deficiencies. Ok well the last one is very true... but, I think the Rams are in for some major changes this coming off-season. Not just on the roster but in the coaching room as well. Lets start with the Defense...
I like Wade, I think he's a good coach and has a great resume, but I feel the game has somewhat passed him by and he's being not flexible enough to adapt to what the NFL is throwing at him. Lets take yesterdays game for example. Dak threw for only 212 yards and 2 TD's but they ran for 263 yards. Yeah 263 yards, that's not a typo. Yet Reader was only on the field about 50% of the time yesterday. Why would I have a LB on the sideline with a run heavy offense? They clearly saw they could run on us and didn't get away from it. Why would we play Nickle defense 60% of the time yesterday when all they did was run the ball??? Why is Ramsey in zone when you brought him here to play against the other teams best WR m2m??? Why is Ramsey dropping off coverage when Cooper was going into the slot??? It's so confusing to me. Are in-game adjustments a thing of the past? Or am I just crazy?
I think this pretty much sums it up for Wade. That will make 4 blowouts this season, on a defense with players like Donald, Ramsey, Weddle, Brockers, Fowler, Littleton, and Mathews. Not to mention Rapp and Hill have been pretty good this season as well. It's really unacceptable with the talent and 5 first round players we have on this defense. Someone has to answer for it and I think it's time for Wade to hang it up.
With the players, I can see it's scheme and consistency, they do some things well and other things they don't. We lack mass at Dline and LB. We lack Discipline at OLB with Mathews and Fowler. With those glaring deficiencies teams are going to take notice and exploit it when they can. And it's exactly what we saw yesterday.
To add insult to injury we are going to be strapped for $$$ and draft picks for the next two seasons. Giving Goff, donald, gurely, and now Ramsey (coming soon) their bloated contracts it's not going to leave much for guys like LIttleton and Fowler (who I'd like to keep). So it's going to be tricky. Even if we retain Littleton and Fowler we would still have to fill the holes around them. If the Rams stick with the 3-4 scheme, they need a big body in the middle of that D. We'd have to dump players like Brockers and Smart, and hope we can find someone to play stopgap until we draft a suitable replacement. Mathews, is still a great pass rusher but the guy is very undisciplined and often hurts the Rams more than he helps. His play yesterday demonstrated that to the fullest extent.
And I feel Littleton is playing out of position, He's not a pure MLB more of a hybrid type of player. If anything he should be playing WILB or playing Rapps role when he's down in the box. He's a great cover LB but not so great against downhill runners.
The Rams are going to have their work cut out for them this offseason, With a tight cap, players contracts due, declining DC, and possible departures it's going to take all hands on deck to get this handled. That's not even taking into consideration if Wade hangs it up, do we stick with the 3-4 defense??? That's a whole other issue.
You guys still with me??? lol
Now lets talk offense.
Lets start with the Coach. It's obvious to myself and some others that McVay needs some help. This is the NFL and boy genius can't do it all on his own. Lets take a look into the past when he was first hired in 2017. The guy had a great ...no, he had a fantastic coaching staff on his side of the ball. Matt LaFleur, Greg Olson, Arron Kromer, Shane Waldorn, Skip Peete, and so on.
The guy had two OC's on his team helping coach up his young QB and offense and the rest is history. The Rams took the NFL by storm for the next two seasons and were being compared to the GSOT. However, that's where the fairy tail story ends. In the upcoming seasons he lost both of his OC's, QB coach, and assistants to other teams and replaced them with unproven assistants. The proof is in the pudding as they say, since then we have become one dimensional, predicable, and schematically inept.
In my opinion the only way the Rams get back to former glory or close to it is by hiring needed help in that coaches room. McVay is obviously having a hard time scheming with the help he has now. Again, lets look at yesterdays game for further analysis.
11-Personnel - McVay thought it would be a good idea to go back to what worked for him against Dallas last year by running a 3WR 2TE 1RB grouping for most of the game. Why on earth would you run this grouping with all the Injuries up front on Dallas's Defense??? With Recent success running different groupings of 12 or 22 personnel the Rams had success running the ball which opened up everything else. Somehow McVay thought he knew better...
Unless McVay brings in needed coaching help things will not change, they will actually get worse.
Players, can be tricky. I think we have some deficiencies on our Offensive Line but honestly I don't think it's as bad as some think. Again it's scheme, and not adjusting to what the other team is doing. Dallas attacked our Guard bubble which we have been running for the last month with success, and we saw nothing to counter that. No sweeps, No power running, No reverses, no Jet sweeps, and very little outside zone. So what gives??? If it's not working why are you still beating your head against the damn wall? It's frustrating to say the least.
Getting back to the players...Blythe is limited at Center, Edwards and Evans are both young but promising, Corbett looks pretty good so far, and Whit will probably retire after this season because I doubt he'll stay thru a partial rebuild of the offense.
Gurely, I dunno with him. Sure he looks good at times, and then other times it seems like his head is in the clouds. Dropping passes, running lazy routes, acting like he doesn't give a damn. Is he aware or something we are not? Is his time in a Rams uniform limited? Maybe we'll finally get some type of answer this off season and I hope the Rams make the right decision for the team, not for the player because he got paid enough to live his life anyway he wants to.
And Mr. Goff needs to step up. Plain and simple, the dude got lazy with all the early success. He was so used to WR's being open and having so much time to throw the ball he never learned to read a damn defense. Now he just throws it up hoping his guy will catch it without checking safety and LB positioning. It's frustrating to watch because he's done it in almost EVERY game this year. Even against Cincinnati in the 2nd half he threw what would been 2 bad INT's, because the Bengals knew exactly where he was going with the ball. Two words, Scheme and Goff. Good thing for the Rams the Bengals have paws for hands and dropped both of them. I only used the Bengals for reference, but look for yourself most of Goffs INT's have come in the 2nd half of games.
Look, I'm not calling Goff a bust, and I'm not calling for McVays job but these guys need to change their approach both in coaching and preparing for the games. Only way that's gonna happen is if they hire outside help to get some fresh eyes on these problems. It's a bummer because nothing was really done from last year when it came to our late season issues that has plagued us this year as well. Hopefully this is a learning experience for McVay and he makes the right decisions going forward.
I like Wade, I think he's a good coach and has a great resume, but I feel the game has somewhat passed him by and he's being not flexible enough to adapt to what the NFL is throwing at him. Lets take yesterdays game for example. Dak threw for only 212 yards and 2 TD's but they ran for 263 yards. Yeah 263 yards, that's not a typo. Yet Reader was only on the field about 50% of the time yesterday. Why would I have a LB on the sideline with a run heavy offense? They clearly saw they could run on us and didn't get away from it. Why would we play Nickle defense 60% of the time yesterday when all they did was run the ball??? Why is Ramsey in zone when you brought him here to play against the other teams best WR m2m??? Why is Ramsey dropping off coverage when Cooper was going into the slot??? It's so confusing to me. Are in-game adjustments a thing of the past? Or am I just crazy?
I think this pretty much sums it up for Wade. That will make 4 blowouts this season, on a defense with players like Donald, Ramsey, Weddle, Brockers, Fowler, Littleton, and Mathews. Not to mention Rapp and Hill have been pretty good this season as well. It's really unacceptable with the talent and 5 first round players we have on this defense. Someone has to answer for it and I think it's time for Wade to hang it up.
With the players, I can see it's scheme and consistency, they do some things well and other things they don't. We lack mass at Dline and LB. We lack Discipline at OLB with Mathews and Fowler. With those glaring deficiencies teams are going to take notice and exploit it when they can. And it's exactly what we saw yesterday.
To add insult to injury we are going to be strapped for $$$ and draft picks for the next two seasons. Giving Goff, donald, gurely, and now Ramsey (coming soon) their bloated contracts it's not going to leave much for guys like LIttleton and Fowler (who I'd like to keep). So it's going to be tricky. Even if we retain Littleton and Fowler we would still have to fill the holes around them. If the Rams stick with the 3-4 scheme, they need a big body in the middle of that D. We'd have to dump players like Brockers and Smart, and hope we can find someone to play stopgap until we draft a suitable replacement. Mathews, is still a great pass rusher but the guy is very undisciplined and often hurts the Rams more than he helps. His play yesterday demonstrated that to the fullest extent.
And I feel Littleton is playing out of position, He's not a pure MLB more of a hybrid type of player. If anything he should be playing WILB or playing Rapps role when he's down in the box. He's a great cover LB but not so great against downhill runners.
The Rams are going to have their work cut out for them this offseason, With a tight cap, players contracts due, declining DC, and possible departures it's going to take all hands on deck to get this handled. That's not even taking into consideration if Wade hangs it up, do we stick with the 3-4 defense??? That's a whole other issue.
You guys still with me??? lol
Now lets talk offense.
Lets start with the Coach. It's obvious to myself and some others that McVay needs some help. This is the NFL and boy genius can't do it all on his own. Lets take a look into the past when he was first hired in 2017. The guy had a great ...no, he had a fantastic coaching staff on his side of the ball. Matt LaFleur, Greg Olson, Arron Kromer, Shane Waldorn, Skip Peete, and so on.
The guy had two OC's on his team helping coach up his young QB and offense and the rest is history. The Rams took the NFL by storm for the next two seasons and were being compared to the GSOT. However, that's where the fairy tail story ends. In the upcoming seasons he lost both of his OC's, QB coach, and assistants to other teams and replaced them with unproven assistants. The proof is in the pudding as they say, since then we have become one dimensional, predicable, and schematically inept.
In my opinion the only way the Rams get back to former glory or close to it is by hiring needed help in that coaches room. McVay is obviously having a hard time scheming with the help he has now. Again, lets look at yesterdays game for further analysis.
11-Personnel - McVay thought it would be a good idea to go back to what worked for him against Dallas last year by running a 3WR 2TE 1RB grouping for most of the game. Why on earth would you run this grouping with all the Injuries up front on Dallas's Defense??? With Recent success running different groupings of 12 or 22 personnel the Rams had success running the ball which opened up everything else. Somehow McVay thought he knew better...
Unless McVay brings in needed coaching help things will not change, they will actually get worse.
Players, can be tricky. I think we have some deficiencies on our Offensive Line but honestly I don't think it's as bad as some think. Again it's scheme, and not adjusting to what the other team is doing. Dallas attacked our Guard bubble which we have been running for the last month with success, and we saw nothing to counter that. No sweeps, No power running, No reverses, no Jet sweeps, and very little outside zone. So what gives??? If it's not working why are you still beating your head against the damn wall? It's frustrating to say the least.
Getting back to the players...Blythe is limited at Center, Edwards and Evans are both young but promising, Corbett looks pretty good so far, and Whit will probably retire after this season because I doubt he'll stay thru a partial rebuild of the offense.
Gurely, I dunno with him. Sure he looks good at times, and then other times it seems like his head is in the clouds. Dropping passes, running lazy routes, acting like he doesn't give a damn. Is he aware or something we are not? Is his time in a Rams uniform limited? Maybe we'll finally get some type of answer this off season and I hope the Rams make the right decision for the team, not for the player because he got paid enough to live his life anyway he wants to.
And Mr. Goff needs to step up. Plain and simple, the dude got lazy with all the early success. He was so used to WR's being open and having so much time to throw the ball he never learned to read a damn defense. Now he just throws it up hoping his guy will catch it without checking safety and LB positioning. It's frustrating to watch because he's done it in almost EVERY game this year. Even against Cincinnati in the 2nd half he threw what would been 2 bad INT's, because the Bengals knew exactly where he was going with the ball. Two words, Scheme and Goff. Good thing for the Rams the Bengals have paws for hands and dropped both of them. I only used the Bengals for reference, but look for yourself most of Goffs INT's have come in the 2nd half of games.
Look, I'm not calling Goff a bust, and I'm not calling for McVays job but these guys need to change their approach both in coaching and preparing for the games. Only way that's gonna happen is if they hire outside help to get some fresh eyes on these problems. It's a bummer because nothing was really done from last year when it came to our late season issues that has plagued us this year as well. Hopefully this is a learning experience for McVay and he makes the right decisions going forward.