Stop it with McVay

[bwdenverram]

I don't think we need a new coach, however, I do think he has had a hard time adapting to what others have done to our offense. Meaning, at times they seem to run too many of the same plays or what is obvious. Now, that said, execution this year has been a real problem. Mainly because or OL hasn't blocked anyone. So it's hard to be successful when you have all of 2.5 seconds to run a play. The really hard part is going to be figuring out how we shore up an offense line with so much money put into 3-4 players and Ramsey about to get paid too. Demoff is going to have to work his magic on the salary cap again if we want to keep the core we have and still bring in talent.
Good news is I do believe in Sean and he has a year to go back to the lab and show he's still the brilliant young mind he is. We aren't as good this year but that doesn't mean we can't get back there quickly with the right moves.

 

[Rmfnlt]

I'm not giving up on the playoffs yet... but that vision of them is getting blurry now.

Either way, another off season to identify weaknesses and shore them up. Like a lot of fans here, I think the Oline is the #1 priority.

I'd like to see a couple grizzled vets (like Whit and Sullivan) come in and help teach and solidify that line.

Unfortunately, I don't think the Rams have a lot of options when it comes to Gurley. They got boxed in on that one. But, I'm pretty sure he'll never be the same player, which makes him dispensable. Love the guy... thank the guy... but I believe his best days are behind him now.

The defense isn't in bad shape at all... forget last night... I have.

Keep the WR corps in place... keep the TEs and shore up that line. McVay will need to go back to the playbook and come up with some new wrinkles. The league has caught up with him.

Last night was tough... but got to keep it in perspective: The Ravens are on fire right now. Nobody's beating them, including the Whiners Sunday!

No matter how you slice it or dice it: this is still light years better than anything Jeff Fisher trotted out there.

Now... if there is continued deterioration next year? All bets are off.

 

[Ram65]

Not so long ago criticism of McVay was frowned upon. His redzone offense had trouble with the Rams and with the Skins. However, the offense was moving the ball in chunks, scoring and winning it was mostly overlooked. Now, the offense has fallen apart.

I get that the Rams have the offensive line injuries. I think the Rams need to become more physical all around. The mentality should change. It was obvious against the Ravens. He has to clean up the sloppy play as well including wasting time outs and bad challenges.

I'm not saying get rid of McVay as he just got a big extension. I do hope he can change and get the personnel to make it happen. He inherited a roster that had many holes and changed the defense at the same time. Too much to fix for the long haul as he and Snead are just plugging holes. The renting of veterans sometimes at high cost is not the answer for the long haul. Regroup with Snead and get to work on changing the roster. I wasn't a fan of getting Ramsey at a high cost of a new contract and draft picks. They need to set things up for 2021.

 

[Mojo Ram]

1. McVay is going to get to work and address the shortfalls. He is a top competitor and this will make him better.

He will for sure, but not this season. Thing is, i do fault him for not getting ahead of this in the offseason after late last season and the Super Bowl loss. It had already started to break down and i can honestly say i expected him to get ahead of the curve and come in week 1 with some major tweaks in terms of formations, philosophy and attack. But there really wasn't any changes made. 11 personnel play action. Again. Maybe that's inexperience or ego. I can't say, but the time to evolve was last March...not week 6.

2. Goff is going to work to improve and will emerge from this season wiser and more capable. Let everyone take a dump all over him now. One of his best traits is resilience and that will keep him from suffering battered QB syndrome.

Yeah the dude is tough and no one ever talks about that, even after his rookie season he showed us he can take a beating and get right back up. Similar thing going on this year.

I don't know man, his mechanics have fallen off a cliff from day 1 this year...despite the poor pass pro. That release is molasses. I think he's missing some of that one on one QB coaching he received in 2017-18.

It is what it is. None of this will get fixed this season.

 

[Mojo Ram]

Just want to commend some of the football talk in threads like these. Constructive thinking and armchair football minds having conversation. Good stuff.......minus the knee jerk fire McV posts of course. That's just crazy talk.

 

[Flint]

McVay’s lost a lot of assistants maybe this brain drain is having an effect on the offense.

 

[-X-]

If they don't put out a winner then I won't watch or care anymore. I've had it with the years of incompetence.

And that’s okay too.

Full disclosure, I’m kinda almost there - in a sense. I went through some shit last year that changed my perspective about a lot of things, and rearranged my priorities. This team has my allegiance, and I’ll always be a fan, but if they don’t entertain me (which is their only job AFAIC), then oh well. They certainly don’t get to ruin my day. If they win a bunch and succeed, well great. I’ll enjoy that. But that’s their accomplishment, not mine. I don’t get anything for it.

So, entertain me boys!

Or don’t.

Either way.

 

[SWAdude]

Really I don't have a problem with the game plan. I have a problem with the execution.

Money may be our real problem right now for the future.

Not every year you can be a SB team. Except the Patriots. Give that some pause.

I don't really know the solution as some may seem to be certain.

All I do know is what is known.

We are cash short with what could be the solution right now.

That could be fixable with cooperation.

I ain't giving up my 110 mil for the HOF or fans.

And that there lays the problem.

 

[payote75]

No new coach. I stick with McVay.
Keep Goff, Gurley, and don't trade Donald either.
A lot of talk about that now.
We've taken a gamble by sacrificing our OL and it hasn't paid off.

Some players and staff will be for the chopping block judging by the aggressive trades this organisation has been known to make.
I don't think we see Wade next season.

I just don't understand how a gm or an organization in the nfldoesnt know that you never ever sacrifice the offensive line and defensive line but even more so the o-line. Especially when your trying to get your quarterback up a level each season. That's the one place you never cut corners on. So how is it possible most of us know that since the game was invented lol the offensive line needs to be strong. The saying you win the game in the trenches is football 101!!!!

 

[raised_fisT]

McVay in the post game presser...
"Whatever we did tonight, has nothing to do with what we're going to do moving forward".

 

[raised_fisT]

^^^^^
Just like shitting the bed in the Super Bowl had nothing to do with how you prepped for this upcoming season? You can look back at our previous losses and it's always the same shit.. every. time. Definition of insanity. I swear we are stuck in a time loop. How many times do you have to "look at yourself critically" and "move forward" before you actually make some actual fuckn changes? smh. Honestly need someone up top to smack this guy in the face and let him know this is not acceptable. Some of the ininitiated folks may buy into this rhetoric he keeps spewing week after week... but it's getting old.

 

[Pancake]

And that’s okay too.

Full disclosure, I’m kinda almost there - in a sense. I went through some shit last year that changed my perspective about a lot of things, and rearranged my priorities. This team has my allegiance, and I’ll always be a fan, but if they don’t entertain me (which is their only job AFAIC), then oh well. They certainly don’t get to ruin my day. If they win a bunch and succeed, well great. I’ll enjoy that. But that’s their accomplishment, not mine. I don’t get anything for it.

So, entertain me boys!

Or don’t.

Either way.

Hope whatever those problems were got worked out for the best bro.

 

[badnews]

I remember some of y'all from when we were 2-14 and then the seven and nineties....

If y'all are still here, but considering giving up now - and you're not just being salty over a tough loss - then its probably not really a Rams problem.

 

[-X-]

Honestly need someone up top to smack this guy in the face and let him know this is not acceptable.

Who’s gonna do that? Kevin?

Yeah, that’s not how it works. Unless of course your superiors at work do the same to you anytime you fail to meet expectations. And no, I don’t need to know how you’re awesome at your job or how the business of the NFL is scaled way above what you do and therefore doesn’t apply. Just refrain from saying that stupid shit here, yeah?

 

[-X-]

I remember some of y'all from when we were 2-14 and then the seven and nineties....

Sure felt like we were going 7-90 back then.

 

[sjm1582002]

Please remember this was first game under McVay which the Rams were literally "blown out of the water" by the opposing team's offense and defense.

So, I would not read too much into one miserable Damn overall performance.

The days of reckoning will come during this off-season and I expect plenty of changes in personnel and the coaching staff.

 

[tomas]

People do realize that it took the league 3 years to figure out the Greatest Show on Turf. And now the league has figured out McVay's offense in 2 years, plus the o-line has been pure trash this season. Yet we are still a 6-5 team with a chance to finish above .500.


So for all you spoiled never watched the Rams during the fisher, spags years please stop with the fire McVay. I've watched the Greatest Show on Turf and i watched the years we were the laughing stock of the league. McVay Goff and Gurley will be fine. Its just not our year plain and simple.

Time for McVay to go back to the drawing board maybe include some I-formation with a lead blocking FB to help Gurley. But please believe this team will be back.

The Rams are 3-5 the last 8 games with a good chance they will finish 6-10. The implosion of the O-Line eventually infected the D-Unit and they quit on McVay-Wade. They can right the ship if they fix the O-Line- (top 5 NFL unit) Goff needs a perfect pocket.

 

[Ellard80]

^^^^^
Just like shitting the bed in the Super Bowl had nothing to do with how you prepped for this upcoming season? You can look back at our previous losses and it's always the same shit.. every. time. Definition of insanity. I swear we are stuck in a time loop. How many times do you have to "look at yourself critically" and "move forward" before you actually make some actual fuckn changes? smh. Honestly need someone up top to smack this guy in the face and let him know this is not acceptable. Some of the ininitiated folks may buy into this rhetoric he keeps spewing week after week... but it's getting old.

I posted this somewhere else....

If you are getting mad about what coaches say in their post game pressers you're wasting your time.

I'll give you a little secret - 90% of what they say has shit to do with what's really going on.

It's called coach speak for a reason - I thought people were comedy when they were so proud about what McVay said in his pressers when he was winning and how he took the blame ect ect. It's also comedy now when he is losing and basically says the same shit and now "its unacceptable."

 

[-X-]

I posted this somewhere else....

If you are getting mad about what coaches say in their post game pressers you're wasting your time.

I'll give you a little secret - 90% of what they say has shit to do with what's really going on.

It's called coach speak for a reason - I thought people were comedy when they were so proud about what McVay said in his pressers when he was winning and how he took the blame ect ect. It's also comedy now when he is losing and basically says the same shit and now "its unacceptable."

lol. True. They're called "canned responses" for a reason.
When you go off-script, you get this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYKIcnj1MJY


*cue the inevitable response ("I wIsH mCvAy WoUlD dO tHaT! IT wOuLd ShOw hE cArEs!)

 

[raised_fisT]

Who’s gonna do that? Kevin?

Yeah, that’s not how it works. Unless of course your superiors at work do the same to you anytime you fail to meet expectations. And no, I don’t need to know how you’re awesome at your job or how the business of the NFL is scaled way above what you do and therefore doesn’t apply. Just refrain from saying that stupid shit here, yeah?

Yes, I REALLY expect someone to actually slap him. I'm exaggerating obviously. Relax