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After gathering my thoughts and listening to McVay put it in reality, I'm rolling with him and his staff to know whats best for this team to make a deep playoff run.
I recall hearing Polian discuss his second year with the Colts in an interview some time back, how they argued in-house all week long about resting guys vs getting a higher seed (they actually did have a chance to get a higher seed depending on another team) and eventually elected to play their guys in the hopes things would go their way. What ended up happening is during the game they decided to pull their best pass rusher Bennett but he blew his knee out before they could get him pulled.
I love listening to Polian and he's mentioned that more than once as a huge regret, since he felt like that team might go all the way. Always stuck with me and that's not the only story I've heard of that nature. Every team has a handful of guys they cannot afford to lose, guys whose loss changes everything. Those are the guys you absolutely have to rest if you can. Off the top of my head our list is Big Whit, Goff, Gurley, and defensively AD and Tru. Usually it's a DE, but since our edge rush is weak AD is critical.
And if we lose and slide to 4th seed we have a chance of drawing the Eagles. Win-win IMO.
Meh just tell themthey beat a bunch of back ups ...enjoy getting ready for the draft we got a playoff game to winA player can get injured walking across the field.....It's all a crapshoot as to whether a player will get injured by playing or not. We are basically forfeiting a game to the Niners after I've told Niner friends that their collective asses are about to get kicked. They won't care that we are resting some starters....they will crow about this until 2018 no matter how well the Rams do in the playoffs.
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A player can get injured walking across the field.....It's all a crapshoot as to whether a player will get injured by playing or not. We are basically forfeiting a game to the Niners after I've told Niner friends that their collective asses are about to get kicked. They won't care that we are resting some starters....they will crow about this until 2018 no matter how well the Rams do in the playoffs.
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Thanks for this post Florida_Ram!! This is a very important "Must Hear Presser!" McVay makes it very clear what his approach is and why!!
I'd rather keep momentum going. Let them play half the game.
Every team has a handful of guys they cannot afford to lose, guys whose loss changes everything.
And if we lose and slide to 4th seed we have a chance of drawing the Eagles. Win-win IMO.