Sure, the end result is the same statistically. It goes deeper than that though. A typical successful Rams scoring drive looks like Stafford’s arm and Puka acrobatics moving the chains 80 yards to paydirt and Kyren punching it in 2 yards out.
A lot can go wrong with that model. More to the point, that’s a lot of pressure on the QB and playcaller to sustain these long drives with almost no threat of your RB, TE or WR taking one of those 10 or 12 plays to the house so your 38 yr old QB can go sit down.
As to your question, these playmakers are available nearly every year. Draft, FA, traded. The Rams since ‘22 have appeared to value other football traits much higher than pure playmaking. That strategy has worked in terms of rebuilding the roster quickly with solid players. My point is that as of today, it’s time to pivot a bit from that and inject traits that this offense simply doesn’t have.
Im not sure how half of the fanbase doesn’t see that. I assume they watch other games and offenses. This is a slowish, deliberate offense that is so reliant on Stafford and Puka to make plays and score. Besides Puka there are no players on offense who can regularly win one on one or strike fear into a defense. It wins with execution, solid players and an elite QB but it’s flawed.
McVay and his coaches have done an incredible job here.
Maybe step back and look at it objectively.
I don’t hate the Simpson player at all. I watched almost 4 hrs of material on him last night before bedtime. Including the QB school episode with Gruden. Simpson was impressive. He needs more coaching and he’ll get it.
I don’t like the pick at 13 in this draft, this year.
