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By: Cameron DaSilva | 5 hours ago
Eric Weddle has been in the NFL for more than a decade. He’s played on a lot of good teams and made the playoffs five times. Yet, despite all the success he’s had, he has also lost a lot of games in his career.
Sunday against the Buccaneers was the latest defeat for Weddle, but it’s not one he’s stressing over. Yes, the Rams gave up 55 points and were beaten by 15 points at home by a team they were 10.5-point favorites against. And yes, there are causes for concern on both offense and defense.
But Weddle says this game an outlier and a performance like that won’t happen again in 2019.
“That’s an anomaly,” Weddle told Greg Beacham of the Associated Press. “We won’t play like that the rest of the year, so I’m not even stressed about what happened.”
Weddle was one of the few Rams who actually played relatively well on Sunday, leading the team with 15 tackles and two pass breakups. Of course, an effort like that in a loss won’t be remembered by many players, and the frequency with which he had to make tackles says a lot about how the front seven played.
The Rams won’t have much time to sit and think about the loss because they’ll face the Seahawks on the road Thursday night – a matchup between two 3-1 NFC West teams. Sean McVay sees the quick turnaround as a “blessing,” as he called it Sunday,” and hopes the team can use this chance to bounce back.
“I think you’ve got to believe that it’s a great opportunity for us to really just go compete again. I don’t necessarily know if it’s stress, but as much as just a great opportunity to go compete and have some urgency about trying to face some of the things that we didn’t do, fix them and let’s move forward accordingly with a mentally tough mindset and mentality,” McVay said at his press conference Tuesday. “I think it’s just got to be real. One of the things about these players is we’ve got a bunch of great guys in this locker room that do an excellent job of really responding on their own. I think they feel if it’s real, if its authentic and genuine, I think that our players would feel that it’s like that from our coaches.”
The Rams have the right guys in the building to respond to this loss, led by McVay, Weddle, Michael Brockers, Andrew Whitworth and Jared Goff, among others. It’s just a matter of making it happen and beating the Seahawks this week.
Eric Weddle on loss to Bucs: 'We won't play like that the rest of the year'
Eric Weddle called Sunday’s loss “an anomaly” and says the Rams won’t play like that again this year.
theramswire.usatoday.com
