Martz would have put up 30 points or more. McVay reminded me of Fisher. Badly game planned runs for losses, turnovers, dropped passes, poor passes and happy feet with Goff, and special teams break down by Zeurlein at a critical point in the game. It was exactly how the Rams looked last year!
I think that's pretty insulting when you look at the game realistically. It was a bad day for us, but we still put up 380+ yards of offense and should have scored 30 points against a top defense. We made a lot of errors today. That cost us 20 points. That's on the team and McVay. However, this was not a Jeff Fisher performance. If this were a Jeff Fisher-led Rams team with 5 turnovers, we would have lost by four TDs.
I also did not see anything approaching happy feet from Goff. He stood tall in the pocket all game long, and the OL actually blocked well except for the Clark strip-sack.
This was far from how the Rams looked last year. Today, I saw a good team play a bad game. Last year, I saw a bad team play a lot of bad games.
Reality is that we're not the New England Patriots. We can't expect a dominant team every week. We're going to have some bad games. Goff will have some bad games. But the key for us will be having enough good games to allow us to make the playoffs.
And at the end of the day, we had a bad game and still had the game-winning TD in the two hands of a sure-handed WR who couldn't pull it down. If we can do that on a day where we play like shit against a playoff team, we can go far this year.