Chris Shula

[Shuie3225]

 

[Steve808]

McVay certainly takes some blame with the defense as well... undoubtedly his hand is in it.

I'll still take McVay. We're all sick about losing to those fucks again. But look at last season. We lost to the whiners in the first game. Then the Rams recovered and became formidable. But IMO, they "peaked" too early. Their non "peak" was still good enough to win the SB, but regarding last night, it's only one game. The Shit hawks lost on opening night to the whiners last season.

Re: the defense. Yes, it wasn't good. But the offense gave them no help and gave up turnovers and special teams gave up a long return on the opening 2nd half kickoff, which didn't help.

Not saying it's rigged, but do the Rams ever win a coin toss against the whiners?

 

[CGI_Ram]

Interesting Sean McDermott was in Rams camp this preseason.

He ran Carolina’s defense for six seasons, 2011 through 2016, before taking the Bills job. That Panthers defense was top ten for four straight years.

But I think he’s eye’ing a HC job, next.

 

[baconandbread]

Thats another thing, on almost every replay of Evans making a catch, he shoves off the defender just before it (shoved to the face on at least 1 occassion which is another penalty also). I guess that's ok since he's a future HOF player? Think they wouldn't flag Puka for that exact same action? There is a penalty called Offensive pass interference for a reason.

Evans has done this his whole career and gotten away with it almost all the time.

 

[OntarioRam]

Interesting Sean McDermott was in Rams camp this preseason.

He ran Carolina’s defense for six seasons, 2011 through 2016, before taking the Bills job. That Panthers defense was top ten for four straight years.

But I think he’s eye’ing a HC job, next.

Bills run defence has been awful for years. So it is no surprise to me McVay brought him in. Zero way this many DCs under McVay and Snead somehow all are content to completely neglect the LBer position completely. It's a roster construction issue. If Shula goes, I can see them going after McDermott. They will want someone aligned with their defensive philosophy with respect to resource allocation.

 

[snackdaddy]

If Shula is going to continue using the soft zone there's no reason to trade for a guy who's best asset is man coverage. The soft zone allows quarterbacks to get rid of the ball quicker with the shorter underneath stuff. And negates the pass rush. The bend don't break defense plays right into the 49ers strength. I'm sure that won't be lost on other opponents during the season. Trading for McDuffie and signing Watson will be a waste if that is our base defense.

 

[Spider2YB]

Bills run defence has been awful for years. So it is no surprise to me McVay brought him in. Zero way this many DCs under McVay and Snead somehow all are content to completely neglect the LBer position completely. It's a roster construction issue. If Shula goes, I can see them going after McDermott. They will want someone aligned with their defensive philosophy with respect to resource allocation.

McDermott went to several camps this summer. He wasn’t brought in by the Rams for any kind of consulting. He wanted to watch McVay and see how he ran practices. This is common for fired head coaches…they’ll tour successful coaching staffs around the league to try and learn so hopefully their next tenure goes better. It’s no deeper than that.

 

[RamFan503]

Come on guys. We're all over the place here and this is NOT a constructive thread about the Shula defense. I'm locking it as it is just another form of vent thread. Move on. It's a GAME - and only one game in a long season at that. If someone wants to address the Rams defense with some kind of analysis, then I'll give it a look. But I'm just not interested in a vent thread off shoot.