CELEBRATE !! Celebration thread...shoot its a pheW

[kurtfaulk]

The punt return coverage needs to improve, or we'll be one and done in this year's playoffs. That and making field goals less than 50 yards.

Surely you don't run sideline to sideline towards the ball carrier until you know he's not gonna cut it outside. There was a horde of defenders in front of him. Why lose contain?

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[Steve808]

Surely you don't run sideline to sideline towards the ball carrier until you know he's not gonna cut it outside. There was a horde of defenders in front of him. Why lose contain?

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Yes, but 5 guys converged on the punt returner and did not tackle him.

 

[kurtfaulk]

Yes, but 5 guys converged on the punt returner and did not tackle him.

Yes, I just looked at it again. Horrible attempts at tackling. The outside guy probably thought there's no way he breaks free.

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[Londoner]

Horrible attempts at tackling

Something which has blighted both our special teams and defence for a number of years now. It really needs to be addressed from the top- McVay should run a Secure Tackling 101 course this week.

 

[RamWoodie]

They saw the same game. Joe was getting pushed around in pass protection. He had a few good run blocks but too often didn’t reach his blocks and hold them. Nothing has changed.

Maybe, like mentioned, the game ball was because he was playing with an injury, and hadn’t started in a long time and didn’t find out that he would until 3 hours before the game. He is still just a serviceable back up. I don’t want him starting if Jackson is available.

So you make my point for me, the guy was injured and played through it. Nothing I said was intended to start him over Jackson. I for one, think Jackson should be the LT next year.

As for Boom, they guy has been called on to play RT, LT, and G so far this year...that's his value. Now...he's considered overpaid...and I won't argue that...but it was management that gave him the contract, so Boom may be a goner after this year...but there's no denying how valuable the guy has been despite his injuries. I still think he played pretty well despite PFF's 57.0 they gave him grade against the Giants.

 

[AZRams]

Wonder if NY Giants fans still want to run Wink out of town after his defense did a lot of good things.View attachment 63474

Why not, this board has been ready to run Raheem out of town on a rail after a SB win and coaching up a shitty secondary this year...

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

So you make my point for me, the guy was injured and played through it. Nothing I said was intended to start him over Jackson. I for one, think Jackson should be the LT next year.

As for Boom, they guy has been called on to play RT, LT, and G so far this year...that's his value. Now...he's considered overpaid...and I won't argue that...but it was management that gave him the contract, so Boom may be a goner after this year...but there's no denying how valuable the guy has been despite his injuries. I still think he played pretty well despite PFF's 57.0 they gave him grade against the Giants.

Your point was that he played so well that he got a game ball.

 

[JimY53]

Spoon had him slowed a bit .... ball was well thrown ...



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[JimY53]

so is fair to say coverage outkicked and missed tackles, they had the runner
for 15-16 yard return ... then blew it


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[Merlin]

https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/01/02/rams-coach-sean-mcvay-retools-offensive-staff-makes-2023-nfl-playoffs

Sean McVay’s Changes to His Offensive Staff Pay Off for the Rams​

The Super Bowl-champion coach wasn’t afraid to inject new ideas into his scheme, and the moves have his team in the playoffs.

• ALBERT BREER
• 8 HOURS AGO

It’s Tuesday morning, and we have a lot to clean up heading into the last week of the 2023 regular season …

• The Los Angeles Rams are back in the playoffs, and we mentioned in the Ten Takeaways how remarkable it is that this was accomplished with the team carrying $75 million in dead money and, at points this year, 19 rookies on its 53-man roster.

Here’s the other thing: Sean McVay made some pretty significant changes to his offensive staff with the idea of injecting new ideas into the Rams’ scheme, and it’s worked.

McVay looked outside his comfort zone in the offseason to retool his offensive coaching staff.
Brad Penner/USA TODAY Sports

He brought in Mike LaFleur, who spent seven years under Kyle Shanahan with the Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers—after McVay and Shanahan parted ways. He hired Ryan Wendell, who played with the New England Patriots and coached for Brian Daboll with the Buffalo Bills, as the team’s line coach. Along those lines, the respect McVay has always had for Josh McDaniels’s scheme was reflected in the hire of McDaniels’s right-hand man, Nick Caley, as tight ends coach. And all of it showed a certain humility in McVay’s approach.

Despite all of the success he and the Rams have had with the Shanahan scheme, McVay sought out new ideas from outside his coaching tree.

“We really wanted to do our due diligence in finding the best coaches that were out there,” McVay told me over the summer. “And I have tremendous respect for the background of all of those guys knowing that, Hey man, I was so fortunate to be around really good people that taught me, and I had tremendous respect for. Whether it was Ryan Wendell’s background as a player under Dante Scarnecchia and Bill [Belichick] and learning from Josh [McDaniels], then being under Aaron Kromer in Buffalo, there is some familiarity with our background. And then Nick Caley, I mean, a lot of it, I trust his experience is there.

“I heard great stuff from Brian Daboll about them. And then Mike I’ve known forever, but I know how close he and Kyle were, how instrumental he was in a lot of the things that they were doing.”

The result? A run game that’s more diverse with more downhill, gap-scheme concepts, and a passing game that further leans into, and empowers, the expertise and experience of Matthew Stafford. A top-10 rushing attack behind Kyren Williams. And a renaissance season from Stafford, with a record-breaking rookie receiver (Puka Nacua) riding shotgun.

All because McVay was willing to go outside his comfort zone.

 

[JimY53]

so is fair to say coverage outkicked and missed tackles, they had the runner
for 15-16 yard return ... then blew it


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Rams everywhere .... #badtacklng

 

[JimY53]

Definitely.
Although, when you’re deep in your own territory, I would think you want to just let it rip and hope they can’t field it cleanly.

Evans did that on one ... bombed it ... and Taylor made shoestring tackle to save a big return... but kick was long and went over head of returner.

An offseason would do wonders for Evans in terms of control.

Evan’s isn’t JH, but we are blessed to have him.
Heck spoiled us.

Hack as good as there ever has been. Evans has talent to be great. I am glad Rams have him as well.

Since we’re talking ST.
I would love it if we could grab a return specialist in this next draft. We haven’t had a good one since Tony Horn.
I know it’s not a priority for McSnead, but I wish they would just take a chance on one

I would agree as well. Kickoffs not as important as in past, they are legislating them out .. but a guy who can return punts
and kicks would be super. And if he can cover kicks, too, that would be great as well. There have been guys who do both ... Horne was one of them. Josh Cribbs did that... Ivory Sully could return a kick if it was short ...

 

[JimY53]

Why not, this board has been ready to run Raheem out of town on a rail after a SB win and coaching up a shitty secondary this year...

Tell me about it. And they do it in the ugliest of terms. Not that they don't like the results (anyone can gripe) but they call him stupid, incompetent, retarded, a coward, lacks b@lls ...

They should look up 'projection'. Things you call other people is what you think of yourself.

 

[Tano]

Why not, this board has been ready to run Raheem out of town on a rail after a SB win and coaching up a shitty secondary this year...

I was wrong about Raheem and I stated it in another thread.

I was ready to run him out of town after the Tampa Arizona an NO games last year where his game plan basically lost them for us even with our shitty offenses.

However, seeing him this year being much more aggressive with even worst players this year than last year, I have decided that his soft zone shit last year was due to having crappy assistant coaches (or having them in the wrong positions) due to losing a lot of assistant coaches after winning the SB and he trying to cover for them.

However, I am still concerned with his approach with his defense once he gets a two or more TD lead. It's almost like I would rather we stay close and have him keep his original game plan in place.

 

[RamWoodie]

Your point was that he played so well that he got a game ball.

So you don't think he played well with his injury? That would be a matter if opinion because I think he did. He got the injury in the 1st qtr and went on to play through it.

 

[Merlin]

Foolio re: McVay returning in '24...


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[Merlin]

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[Merlin]

40shitters circlejerk with Peter King

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[Merlin]

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[Merlin]

NFL final week Rams game preview

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feq4JPAW170