Rams vs Browns - First Half Drive Killers.

[TexasRam]

Below is my review of every single offensive snap for the Rams in the Browns game.

This is not a group of visuals like Merlins Excellent work with the still photos.

This is a complete play by play review of each snap in the first half with a total count of who or what was the Culprit for Killing drives in the first Half in which we scored only 3 pts.


FIRST HALF DRIVE KILLER TOTALS:
Demby 5
Noteboom 2
Whitworth 2
Goff 1
Mcvay play call 1
Crowd Noise/Helmet Communication 1
Kupp 1
Woods 1
Allen 1
Browns good coverage 1


Play By Play Details:

Possession 1
1st and 10 - Gurley run for 1 yard - Allen and Whitworth beat.
2nd and 9 - Kupp - 5 yard completion - Perfect pass.
3rd and 4 - Woods stumbles coming out of route. Pass thrown behind him. Looked like a slant/out route that Woods commonly runs, but Woods due to the stumble threw the timing off, Woods never cuts back towards the sideline where the ball was thrown. This appears to be on Woods in my book.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Bad run blocking (Allen and Whit)
WR (Woods) stumble throws timing off


Possession 2
1st and 10 - Perfect PA pass to Cooks for 18 yards.

1st and 10 - Gurley left side for 3 yards. Whit gets rub on DE then try's to block LB but whiffs on the block. LB slows Gurley then Kupps DB and NoteBooms DT come and finish off Gurley.
2nd and 7 - Pass to Woods near right sideline, ball hits Woods perfectly in the hands but Woods drops the ball.
3rd and 7 - Good protection - Goff hits Cooks "On the Money" on the sideline. Perfect pass. 16 yard gain.

1st and 10 - PA pass. Good protection. Pass to Cooks on sideline. Pass hits Cooks in his hands and he cant bring it down. Announcers say off his fingertips but still shots show Cooks arms are not 100 percent extended. Sorry, Hit you in the hands, catch the dam ball.
2nd and 10 - Inside handoff to Gurley on a delay. Demby and Havenstein block down well, Everett clears out LB and Safety has to come make the tackle. Nice Blocking. Gain of 5 yards.
3rd and 5 - Mcvay takes time out. Goff to Kupp on a WR screen for 5 yards, first down.

1st and 10 - Gurley run up the middle. Allen pushed back a yard, Demby pushes DT then tries to block LB but is too late. LB and Allen's man stop Gurley for 1 yard.
2nd and 9 - PA screen to Everett. Setup nice. Everett takes wrong lane to run in. Gain of 4.
3rd and 5 - Quick WR screen to Kupp on right side. Same play just ran last 3rd and 5. No gain. Bad play call in my opinion. Yes it worked last time but now they have seen it. Goff says to Mcvay " Cant hear you", so this may be a play Mcvay didn't call and Goff just called because time was running out on the play clock.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Bad play call (Mcvay) on third and 5 or possible communication issue due to headset or crowd noise.


Possession 3
1st and 10 - Pitch left to Gurley. Whit kicks out and seals the safety to the sideline. Kupp tries to block LB but gets a little overpowered. Reynolds disregards the CB #38 and goes farther out for the deep safety. Is this by design? Looks like Reynolds missed his block on #38. Noteboom also looses the battle with LB #53 who also destroys the run for NO GAIN.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun. Decent protection vs 4 man rush. Goff throws perfect pass to Woods on the right sideline for 9 yards.
3rd and 1 - PA pass. Perfect pass to wide open Kupp on drag route for 22 yards.

1st and 10 - PA pass. Free Runner LB on an inside move on Whit. Goff steps away from rush perfectly and resets. Goff overthrows Woods under some pressure, good coverage on the play. Goff should have probably dumped down to Kupp on the play if he was a little more patient.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun. Quick pass to Kupp on the right side for 13 yards. Kupp drops the pass, it was a little behind him but catchable. Goff a little rushed by Dembys man who was just about to sack Goff. Kupps only drop the entire game.
3rd and 10 - Shotgun. Browns bringing 7 on an A gap blitz. Excellent Idea pressuring the interior young Olineman. The Disguise was good because the outside defenders eventually drop back in coverage while Noteboom and Demby were confused who to block. Allen blocks his man but the two A gap blitzers Go straight through the Line and Gurley can only block one. Goff spins to his left perfectly but the man Gurley blocked breaks away and forces Goff to get rid of it immediately to Cooks who was blanketed by #35 who breaks it up and nearly forced an interception on the deflection. This is about where people start asking what is wrong with Goff? Nothing. Go back and read this series of downs. We had Goff pressured immediately on two plays and having to throw to Cooks who was covered both times. Both times Goff avoiding Rush but not having the target open. We also had Kupp drop a catchable ball.


DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Dropped pass (Kupp).
Oline pass pro breakdowns (Whit, Demby and Boom)
Great coverage by the Browns.
Goff a little impatient under pressure


Possession 4
1st and 10 - End around to Woods to the left side. Kupp seals off CB perfectly. Whitworth seals LB Vernon well, Notboom cant get out quick enough to put a block on LB #53 who blows up the play. Whits man Vernon comes back in and finsihes Woods. gain of 1 yard.
2nd and 9 - PA pass. Goff Perfect pass to Everett down the middle for 15 yards. Everett dances around losing 4 yards. Gain of 11.

1st and 10 - Goff threads a bullet to Woods for 18 yards. Nice catch by Woods!

1st and 10 - PA student body left, roll to the right, perfect throw to wide open Kupp for 7 yards. Route Higbee usually runs.
2nd and 3 - Goff drops back is sacked almost immediately by #65. Oline breakdown between Allen and Demby. Allen blocks 65 (Ogunjobi) for a second expecting Demby to take over. Demby is standing around with no dance partner wondering what happened. This is where Blythe is missed. Blythe is not as stout as other guards but is almost always assignment sound at least slowing down the defender by being in the right spot.
3rd and 11 - Mcvay goes to the safe WR screen yet again. That same play that you know, didnt work on 3rd and 5 back on possession 2. Cooks goes no where. Whit and Kupp block their man perfectly. Noteboom needs work on these. Boom's man number 98 blows it up. Kupps man disengages to clean it up as well. Plus no one blocking the safety.


DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Oline Breakdown (Demby)
Bad Play Call (Mcvay)
Oline missed block (Noteboom)


Possession 5
(2 minute offense at end of first half)
1st and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Kupp left side for 6 yards. Perfect pass.
2nd and 4 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Cooks left side for 6 yards. Perfect pass.

1st and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Woods right side for 13 yards. Perfect pass.

1st and 10 - Shotgun - 18 yard route to Woods on right side incomplete. Pass Hurried. Demby blocks his man for a second then for some unknown reason leaves his man to go block Allens man, this leaves Dembys man on a free rush to hurry Goff. Goff hit as he throws by Dembys free rusher.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to the middle to Kupp for 5 yards.
3rd and 5 - Shotgun - Demby false start.
3rd and 10 - Shotgun - (28 seconds left, Rams on their own 36 yard line need a long developing pass to get into FG range) defender # 95 Garrett twists around Demby to knock ball out of Goff hands and force a fumble right as he is throwing it.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Demby blocks wrong guy
Demby false start
Demby beat by Garrett

 

[Bootleg]

Yeah I rewatched the game last night and the thing I came away with was that Goff was not as bad as I originally thought.

In fact, I thought he was really unlucky with dropped passes by Kupp and Cooks, false starts, an interception that was a trap, bad play calls, a hostile environment, and a complete lack of run support. He was zipping the ball around with authority most of the time and with a few breaks here or there he could have had over 300 yards passing. He looked much better than Mayfield, that's for sure.

 

[KayJay]

Everybody and their mama needs to read this. Excellent breakdown Texas Ram. That's the reason why I'm not as concerned. We can move the damn ball, there are just a lot of inconsistencies at the moment.

Goff was off the first two games, back to his sharp self but made a couple of bad decisions. Receivers and Goff were out of sync the first two games; then dropped catchable balls in the first half of the Browns game. The line has some new starters the first two games, then one of those starters gets hurt and doesn't play. McVay is seeing the same defensive concept game after game; and finally finding wrinkles against it.

Context is everything. I think that Browns game is actually the best we've looked as an offense. We killed our own drives several times, and Goff made some bad QB errors. It happens. It's whatever, the panic button can kiss my ass for now until we lose badly.

 

[badnews]

Below is my review of every single offensive snap for the Rams in the Browns game.

This is not a group of visuals like Merlins Excellent work with the still photos.

This is a complete play by play review of each snap in the first half with a total count of who or what was the Culprit for Killing drives in the first Half in which we scored only 3 pts.


FIRST HALF DRIVE KILLER TOTALS:
Demby 5
Noteboom 2
Whitworth 2
Goff 1
Mcvay play call 1
Crowd Noise/Helmet Communication 1
Kupp 1
Woods 1
Allen 1
Browns good coverage 1


Play By Play Details:

Possession 1
1st and 10 - Gurley run for 1 yard - Allen and Whitworth beat.
2nd and 9 - Kupp - 5 yard completion - Perfect pass.
3rd and 4 - Woods stumbles coming out of route. Pass thrown behind him. Looked like a slant/out route that Woods commonly runs, but Woods due to the stumble threw the timing off, Woods never cuts back towards the sideline where the ball was thrown. This appears to be on Woods in my book.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Bad run blocking (Allen and Whit)
WR (Woods) stumble throws timing off


Possession 2
1st and 10 - Perfect PA pass to Cooks for 18 yards.

1st and 10 - Gurley left side for 3 yards. Whit gets rub on DE then try's to block LB but whiffs on the block. LB slows Gurley then Kupps DB and NoteBooms DT come and finish off Gurley.
2nd and 7 - Pass to Woods near right sideline, ball hits Woods perfectly in the hands but Woods drops the ball.
3rd and 7 - Good protection - Goff hits Cooks "On the Money" on the sideline. Perfect pass. 16 yard gain.

1st and 10 - PA pass. Good protection. Pass to Cooks on sideline. Pass hits Cooks in his hands and he cant bring it down. Announcers say off his fingertips but still shots show Cooks arms are not 100 percent extended. Sorry, Hit you in the hands, catch the dam ball.
2nd and 10 - Inside handoff to Gurley on a delay. Demby and Havenstein block down well, Everett clears out LB and Safety has to come make the tackle. Nice Blocking. Gain of 5 yards.
3rd and 5 - Mcvay takes time out. Goff to Kupp on a WR screen for 5 yards, first down.

1st and 10 - Gurley run up the middle. Allen pushed back a yard, Demby pushes DT then tries to block LB but is too late. LB and Allen's man stop Gurley for 1 yard.
2nd and 9 - PA screen to Everett. Setup nice. Everett takes wrong lane to run in. Gain of 4.
3rd and 5 - Quick WR screen to Kupp on right side. Same play just ran last 3rd and 5. No gain. Bad play call in my opinion. Yes it worked last time but now they have seen it. Goff says to Mcvay " Cant hear you", so this may be a play Mcvay didn't call and Goff just called because time was running out on the play clock.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Bad play call (Mcvay) on third and 5 or possible communication issue due to headset or crowd noise.


Possession 3
1st and 10 - Pitch left to Gurley. Whit kicks out and seals the safety to the sideline. Kupp tries to block LB but gets a little overpowered. Reynolds disregards the CB #38 and goes farther out for the deep safety. Is this by design? Looks like Reynolds missed his block on #38. Noteboom also looses the battle with LB #53 who also destroys the run for NO GAIN.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun. Decent protection vs 4 man rush. Goff throws perfect pass to Woods on the right sideline for 9 yards.
3rd and 1 - PA pass. Perfect pass to wide open Kupp on drag route for 22 yards.

1st and 10 - PA pass. Free Runner LB on an inside move on Whit. Goff steps away from rush perfectly and resets. Goff overthrows Woods under some pressure, good coverage on the play. Goff should have probably dumped down to Kupp on the play if he was a little more patient.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun. Quick pass to Kupp on the right side for 13 yards. Kupp drops the pass, it was a little behind him but catchable. Goff a little rushed by Dembys man who was just about to sack Goff. Kupps only drop the entire game.
3rd and 10 - Shotgun. Browns bringing 7 on an A gap blitz. Excellent Idea pressuring the interior young Olineman. The Disguise was good because the outside defenders eventually drop back in coverage while Noteboom and Demby were confused who to block. Allen blocks his man but the two A gap blitzers Go straight through the Line and Gurley can only block one. Goff spins to his left perfectly but the man Gurley blocked breaks away and forces Goff to get rid of it immediately to Cooks who was blanketed by #35 who breaks it up and nearly forced an interception on the deflection. This is about where people start asking what is wrong with Goff? Nothing. Go back and read this series of downs. We had Goff pressured immediately on two plays and having to throw to Cooks who was covered both times. Both times Goff avoiding Rush but not having the target open. We also had Kupp drop a catchable ball.


DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Dropped pass (Kupp).
Oline pass pro breakdowns (Whit, Demby and Boom)
Great coverage by the Browns.
Goff a little impatient under pressure


Possession 4
1st and 10 - End around to Woods to the left side. Kupp seals off CB perfectly. Whitworth seals LB Vernon well, Notboom cant get out quick enough to put a block on LB #53 who blows up the play. Whits man Vernon comes back in and finsihes Woods. gain of 1 yard.
2nd and 9 - PA pass. Goff Perfect pass to Everett down the middle for 15 yards. Everett dances around losing 4 yards. Gain of 11.

1st and 10 - Goff threads a bullet to Woods for 18 yards. Nice catch by Woods!

1st and 10 - PA student body left, roll to the right, perfect throw to wide open Kupp for 7 yards. Route Higbee usually runs.
2nd and 3 - Goff drops back is sacked almost immediately by #65. Oline breakdown between Allen and Demby. Allen blocks 65 (Ogunjobi) for a second expecting Demby to take over. Demby is standing around with no dance partner wondering what happened. This is where Blythe is missed. Blythe is not as stout as other guards but is almost always assignment sound at least slowing down the defender by being in the right spot.
3rd and 11 - Mcvay goes to the safe WR screen yet again. That same play that you know, didnt work on 3rd and 5 back on possession 2. Cooks goes no where. Whit and Kupp block their man perfectly. Noteboom needs work on these. Boom's man number 98 blows it up. Kupps man disengages to clean it up as well. Plus no one blocking the safety.


DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Oline Breakdown (Demby)
Bad Play Call (Mcvay)
Oline missed block (Noteboom)


Possession 5
(2 minute offense at end of first half)
1st and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Kupp left side for 6 yards. Perfect pass.
2nd and 4 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Cooks left side for 6 yards. Perfect pass.

1st and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Woods right side for 13 yards. Perfect pass.

1st and 10 - Shotgun - 18 yard route to Woods on right side incomplete. Pass Hurried. Demby blocks his man for a second then for some unknown reason leaves his man to go block Allens man, this leaves Dembys man on a free rush to hurry Goff. Goff hit as he throws by Dembys free rusher.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to the middle to Kupp for 5 yards.
3rd and 5 - Shotgun - Demby false start.
3rd and 10 - Shotgun - (28 seconds left, Rams on their own 36 yard line need a long developing pass to get into FG range) defender # 95 Garrett twists around Demby to knock ball out of Goff hands and force a fumble right as he is throwing it.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Demby blocks wrong guy
Demby false start
Demby beat by Garrett

Good stuff! Thanks for this.
Would love to see a breakdown of the second half too....

 

[fearsomefour]

Below is my review of every single offensive snap for the Rams in the Browns game.

This is not a group of visuals like Merlins Excellent work with the still photos.

This is a complete play by play review of each snap in the first half with a total count of who or what was the Culprit for Killing drives in the first Half in which we scored only 3 pts.


FIRST HALF DRIVE KILLER TOTALS:
Demby 5
Noteboom 2
Whitworth 2
Goff 1
Mcvay play call 1
Crowd Noise/Helmet Communication 1
Kupp 1
Woods 1
Allen 1
Browns good coverage 1


Play By Play Details:

Possession 1
1st and 10 - Gurley run for 1 yard - Allen and Whitworth beat.
2nd and 9 - Kupp - 5 yard completion - Perfect pass.
3rd and 4 - Woods stumbles coming out of route. Pass thrown behind him. Looked like a slant/out route that Woods commonly runs, but Woods due to the stumble threw the timing off, Woods never cuts back towards the sideline where the ball was thrown. This appears to be on Woods in my book.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Bad run blocking (Allen and Whit)
WR (Woods) stumble throws timing off


Possession 2
1st and 10 - Perfect PA pass to Cooks for 18 yards.

1st and 10 - Gurley left side for 3 yards. Whit gets rub on DE then try's to block LB but whiffs on the block. LB slows Gurley then Kupps DB and NoteBooms DT come and finish off Gurley.
2nd and 7 - Pass to Woods near right sideline, ball hits Woods perfectly in the hands but Woods drops the ball.
3rd and 7 - Good protection - Goff hits Cooks "On the Money" on the sideline. Perfect pass. 16 yard gain.

1st and 10 - PA pass. Good protection. Pass to Cooks on sideline. Pass hits Cooks in his hands and he cant bring it down. Announcers say off his fingertips but still shots show Cooks arms are not 100 percent extended. Sorry, Hit you in the hands, catch the dam ball.
2nd and 10 - Inside handoff to Gurley on a delay. Demby and Havenstein block down well, Everett clears out LB and Safety has to come make the tackle. Nice Blocking. Gain of 5 yards.
3rd and 5 - Mcvay takes time out. Goff to Kupp on a WR screen for 5 yards, first down.

1st and 10 - Gurley run up the middle. Allen pushed back a yard, Demby pushes DT then tries to block LB but is too late. LB and Allen's man stop Gurley for 1 yard.
2nd and 9 - PA screen to Everett. Setup nice. Everett takes wrong lane to run in. Gain of 4.
3rd and 5 - Quick WR screen to Kupp on right side. Same play just ran last 3rd and 5. No gain. Bad play call in my opinion. Yes it worked last time but now they have seen it. Goff says to Mcvay " Cant hear you", so this may be a play Mcvay didn't call and Goff just called because time was running out on the play clock.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Bad play call (Mcvay) on third and 5 or possible communication issue due to headset or crowd noise.


Possession 3
1st and 10 - Pitch left to Gurley. Whit kicks out and seals the safety to the sideline. Kupp tries to block LB but gets a little overpowered. Reynolds disregards the CB #38 and goes farther out for the deep safety. Is this by design? Looks like Reynolds missed his block on #38. Noteboom also looses the battle with LB #53 who also destroys the run for NO GAIN.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun. Decent protection vs 4 man rush. Goff throws perfect pass to Woods on the right sideline for 9 yards.
3rd and 1 - PA pass. Perfect pass to wide open Kupp on drag route for 22 yards.

1st and 10 - PA pass. Free Runner LB on an inside move on Whit. Goff steps away from rush perfectly and resets. Goff overthrows Woods under some pressure, good coverage on the play. Goff should have probably dumped down to Kupp on the play if he was a little more patient.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun. Quick pass to Kupp on the right side for 13 yards. Kupp drops the pass, it was a little behind him but catchable. Goff a little rushed by Dembys man who was just about to sack Goff. Kupps only drop the entire game.
3rd and 10 - Shotgun. Browns bringing 7 on an A gap blitz. Excellent Idea pressuring the interior young Olineman. The Disguise was good because the outside defenders eventually drop back in coverage while Noteboom and Demby were confused who to block. Allen blocks his man but the two A gap blitzers Go straight through the Line and Gurley can only block one. Goff spins to his left perfectly but the man Gurley blocked breaks away and forces Goff to get rid of it immediately to Cooks who was blanketed by #35 who breaks it up and nearly forced an interception on the deflection. This is about where people start asking what is wrong with Goff? Nothing. Go back and read this series of downs. We had Goff pressured immediately on two plays and having to throw to Cooks who was covered both times. Both times Goff avoiding Rush but not having the target open. We also had Kupp drop a catchable ball.


DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Dropped pass (Kupp).
Oline pass pro breakdowns (Whit, Demby and Boom)
Great coverage by the Browns.
Goff a little impatient under pressure


Possession 4
1st and 10 - End around to Woods to the left side. Kupp seals off CB perfectly. Whitworth seals LB Vernon well, Notboom cant get out quick enough to put a block on LB #53 who blows up the play. Whits man Vernon comes back in and finsihes Woods. gain of 1 yard.
2nd and 9 - PA pass. Goff Perfect pass to Everett down the middle for 15 yards. Everett dances around losing 4 yards. Gain of 11.

1st and 10 - Goff threads a bullet to Woods for 18 yards. Nice catch by Woods!

1st and 10 - PA student body left, roll to the right, perfect throw to wide open Kupp for 7 yards. Route Higbee usually runs.
2nd and 3 - Goff drops back is sacked almost immediately by #65. Oline breakdown between Allen and Demby. Allen blocks 65 (Ogunjobi) for a second expecting Demby to take over. Demby is standing around with no dance partner wondering what happened. This is where Blythe is missed. Blythe is not as stout as other guards but is almost always assignment sound at least slowing down the defender by being in the right spot.
3rd and 11 - Mcvay goes to the safe WR screen yet again. That same play that you know, didnt work on 3rd and 5 back on possession 2. Cooks goes no where. Whit and Kupp block their man perfectly. Noteboom needs work on these. Boom's man number 98 blows it up. Kupps man disengages to clean it up as well. Plus no one blocking the safety.


DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Oline Breakdown (Demby)
Bad Play Call (Mcvay)
Oline missed block (Noteboom)


Possession 5
(2 minute offense at end of first half)
1st and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Kupp left side for 6 yards. Perfect pass.
2nd and 4 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Cooks left side for 6 yards. Perfect pass.

1st and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to Woods right side for 13 yards. Perfect pass.

1st and 10 - Shotgun - 18 yard route to Woods on right side incomplete. Pass Hurried. Demby blocks his man for a second then for some unknown reason leaves his man to go block Allens man, this leaves Dembys man on a free rush to hurry Goff. Goff hit as he throws by Dembys free rusher.
2nd and 10 - Shotgun - Quick pass to the middle to Kupp for 5 yards.
3rd and 5 - Shotgun - Demby false start.
3rd and 10 - Shotgun - (28 seconds left, Rams on their own 36 yard line need a long developing pass to get into FG range) defender # 95 Garrett twists around Demby to knock ball out of Goff hands and force a fumble right as he is throwing it.

DRIVE KILL CULPRITS:
Demby blocks wrong guy
Demby false start
Demby beat by Garrett

Excellent.

 

[LesBaker]

Great work @TexasRam

 

[thirteen28]

Great breakdown. Looks like there is a lot of on-field sloppiness that needs to be cleaned up, with a bit of sloppiness in the playcalling as well.

 

[Merlin]

FIRST HALF DRIVE KILLER TOTALS:
Demby 5
Noteboom 2
Whitworth 2
Goff 1
Mcvay play call 1
Crowd Noise/Helmet Communication 1
Kupp 1
Woods 1
Allen 1
Browns good coverage 1

Great read thanks for putting it up Texas. And that looks about right. Makes me think what I thought last week: that the Rams' offense is overdue for a quick start. Still can't believe it didn't happen in this game, those drops though sigh.

With any luck this next game Demby will be safely on the sideline. It's hard for a unit to put slow starts behind them when guys are worrying about execution up front.

 

[LARams_1963]

WELL DONE @TexasRam !!! I was trying to say some of this yesterday, but lack the concise skills to do so

Folks really need to read this and relax a bit on the chicken little the sky is falling Goff scenario.

 

[Ellard80]

Everybody and their mama needs to read this. Excellent breakdown Texas Ram. That's the reason why I'm not as concerned. We can move the damn ball, there are just a lot of inconsistencies at the moment.

Goff was off the first two games, back to his sharp self but made a couple of bad decisions. Receivers and Goff were out of sync the first two games; then dropped catchable balls in the first half of the Browns game. The line has some new starters the first two games, then one of those starters gets hurt and doesn't play. McVay is seeing the same defensive concept game after game; and finally finding wrinkles against it.

Context is everything. I think that Browns game is actually the best we've looked as an offense. We killed our own drives several times, and Goff made some bad QB errors. It happens. It's whatever, the panic button can kiss my ass for now until we lose badly.

This was a nice breakdown, and the lackluster showing on offense was definatly a team effort.
But we don't know everything that goes into a game plan, who was wide open, where the ball should have gone, if someone ran the wrong route.

This is a nice write up.. but it's not everything.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Great read @TexasRam excellent, actually.

That’s a great way to “take it all in” as it moves fast watching it.

 

[ramsince62]

Everybody and their mama needs to read this. Excellent breakdown Texas Ram. That's the reason why I'm not as concerned. We can move the damn ball, there are just a lot of inconsistencies at the moment.

Goff was off the first two games, back to his sharp self but made a couple of bad decisions. Receivers and Goff were out of sync the first two games; then dropped catchable balls in the first half of the Browns game. The line has some new starters the first two games, then one of those starters gets hurt and doesn't play. McVay is seeing the same defensive concept game after game; and finally finding wrinkles against it.

Context is everything. I think that Browns game is actually the best we've looked as an offense. We killed our own drives several times, and Goff made some bad QB errors. It happens. It's whatever, the panic button can kiss my ass for now until we lose badly.

Please explain Goff's 38.2 QBR for the first 3 games...

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

Please explain Goff's 38.2 QBR for the first 3 games...

Dak is #1 in QBR; their OL is also considered the best so far.

 

[SanAnRam]

@TexasRam


Nice!

 

[Dxmissile]

Hope y’all see and say the same thing about Gurley too. From the lack off opportunity to the lack of run blocking and play calling. This line is looking a lot like his sophomore year

 

[tklongball]

Please explain Goff's 38.2 QBR for the first 3 games...

QBR is a crap Stat.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

One thing that I noticed is the second level blocking of Noteboom, Allen, and Demby is not good.

Early in the game the Rams needed five yards. On an inside screen to Kupp, Allen, Demby and Havenstein are out in front. Rob hits his guy. Demby is running straight ahead looking for a guy to hit while he should look right and pickup a possible tackler, and Allen runs right past Shobert who makes the tackle. The result was a first down and a five yard gain. If Allen blocks Shobert it’s easily a ten or more yard Gain. Little details like that make a difference in the shorter gains we see these year and more of the longer gains we saw last year. Noteboom is having the same problem.

This may be the reason we are not seeing many screens in general. We don’t have Saffold and as bad as Sullivan was in Pass pro he still was good at pulling and finding someone to block down field.

I’ll say it again: hopefully these young players learn and improve quickly. Their performance will be key in defeating tougher opponents with longer sustained drives, more yards gained when downfield blocking is required, and a broader playbook by mastering second level blocks in general.

 

[1maGoh]

Please explain Goff's 38.2 QBR for the first 3 games...

Directly from ESPN:

"Using a secret and proprietary formula, we use educated guesswork to make shit up for ratings. This is also known as the "eye ball test", "it factor", "tractor/trailer analogy", and "swag" evaluation techniques. As long as it makes a big enough fan base tune in from outrage or fanboyism, we'll say whatever we want."

Based on that I'd say the reason for the QBR is that they think they can make us watch the shows because we're angry.

 

[OC--LeftCoast]

QBR is a crap Stat.

Sorta pathetic take ( not yours tho, the one you commented on)

Your take was perfect

 

[TexasRam]

Please explain Goff's 38.2 QBR for the first 3 games...

Scroll up. I just explained it. Literally play by play in this post.

It's a team game. The difference between a perfect rating for a QB and a bad rating has alot to do with WR's catching balls right in their hands, Olineman not allowing free rushers, Olineman sustaining blocks to open up the run game, play calls, Wr's blocking in the run game and many other things out of the QB's hands.

Not that I go by QBR, which is an ESPN joke.