Ironic Special Teams Story

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The date August 13, 2016.
The place Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Lifelong Rams fan here and my beloved team somehow, someway has moved back to Los Angeles (My heartfelt best to the city of St Louis and I'm sorry the way it ended).
My son and I are at the first game back, preseason game, Rams & Cowboys. Drew Barrymore was in the crowd, football is back in Los Angeles and
it's a spectacle to behold. The excitement is building every second as it gets closer to kickoff time. My head is buzzing, I'm having an almost "out of body" experience. This has to be a dream. The Rams are really back and I'm here with my son and it's a moment that is surely going to be one for the ages.
Coin toss. Cowboys win the coin toss. No big deal. A little water pistol squirt to the face for the excitement I'm feeling, but alright.
Rams are kicking off! The entire stadium is on it's feet, music pumping, people screaming, stomping, clapping. Complete euphoria!!!!!!
Rams kick off and the Cowboys run it back 101 yards for a touchdown. I can't make this up.
I turn to my son and say "Fucking Rams!!!"
 
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RamsSince1969 said:
The date August 13, 2016.
The place Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Lifelong Rams fan here and my beloved team somehow, someway has moved back to Los Angeles (My heartfelt best to the city of St Louis and I'm sorry the way it ended).
My son and I are at the first game back, preseason game, Rams & Cowboys. Drew Barrymore was in the crowd, football is back in Los Angeles and
it's a spectacle to behold. The excitement is building every second as it gets closer to kickoff time. My head is buzzing, I'm having an almost "out of body" experience. This has to be a dream. The Rams are really back and I'm here with my son and it's a moment that is surely going to be one for the ages.
Coin toss. Cowboys win the coin toss. No big deal. A little water pistol squirt to the face for the excitement I'm feeling, but alright.
Rams are kicking off! The entire stadium is on it's feet, music pumping, people screaming, stomping, clapping. Complete euphoria!!!!!!
Rams kick off and the Cowboys run it back 101 yards for a touchdown. I can't make this up.
I turn to my son and say "Fucking Rams!!!"
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I was driving back to the Sierras from the Central Coast and was just outside Fresno listening on my car radio.
I remember that opening kick off return TD.
I was by myself but I said out loud, "No one knows how to kill momentum like the Rams."
 
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So in 2017, we had the best special teams in the league. GZ, Hekker and Cooper (who had multiple return TDs AND big returns that year) were ALL first team all pro.

But then in the playoff game against Atlanta, Cooper turned the ball over twice. He was cut the year after, never really the same.

In 2018, GZ sent us to the Super Bowl with a 57 yard FG which, I know that I felt certain it was going in before he even kicked it. The year after? 24/33 FG attempts, including missing that game winner on the Thursday night game in Seattle which ultimately cost us a playoff spot.

Point is....well, two things:

Special teams deteriorated BEFORE Bones left the building.

And special teams is kind of random. We had a top kicker and he had an awful season, which happened to (IIRC) coincide with his contract being up. Gay has been hit and miss since he left (and when he did, he was made the highest paid kicker in the league).

I don't know what the fix is at this point, but I do think these players going from first team all pro to quite literally costing the team games, and that happening within McVay's first three years as a coach, probably fucked up his psyche a bit when it comes to special teams
 
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To me and stop me if I said this before McVay is just too damned focused on the offensive side of the ball and is not overseeing the other units like he needs to. I would like to see him get an accomplished OC give him the reins and just oversee the whole team, of course, this will never happen.
 
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