All estimates? Who the fuck takes one opponent and extrapolates that to another opponent in this way? You apparently.
And this is really the first time you’ve heard the term “soul taker, soul steeler, or soul snatcher”? And you wonder why people question how much you actually watch and pay attention to this team?
JAG? Wow! Barkley would almost certainly own ED’s rushing title if the beagles didn’t hold him out of the final game last year. A record that has stood for 40 freaking years.
You have to be intentionally ignoring what has been said here in an attempt to somehow prove a point. No one is saying you give up as many plays as possible. Just that you’re ok with giving up maybe some more plays rather than giving up big scoring plays and quick TDs and more points. There is obviously a greater chance for an offense to make mistakes and/or turnovers if they run more plays. Yeah you may give up some more first downs. But the obvious thought is that you “don’t break” and give up TDs.
Our offense is built to be able to do both score quickly and grind it out. If working correctly, your defense makes their offense work long periods to score fewer points than we do. Obviously that doesn’t always work out. But it has certainly worked more than it hasn’t as McVay has always had his DCs run that kind of defense.
I think I’ll take his football smarts over yours.
Every successful team in the history of the NFL has run defenses their talent level allows them to run. Talk about Captain Obvious.
Teams try to build units around their philosophies, but that’s not always possible. Few teams have great offenses AND great defenses at the same time in the salary cap era. There are always holes and even most very good teams have holes on both sides that they need to design around.
This Rams team decided to put more emphasis on the front 7 than the back four so we could control the run and prevent long developing big plays. That’s the guiding philosophy as to how they prioritized their roster and that’s how we ended up with the talent we have.
Sometimes you’re going to go against bad matchups. But in most years, I’m thinking 12-5 wins the division. I’m also thinking we have been pretty damn successful with this very philosophy for several years now.
1. Someone else posted Soul Taker.... and the other you posted are just as corny. I'm just mocking.
2. Someone posted by leaving the defense out longer on the field increases a chance for a TO..... Absolutely ridiculous.
3. McVay philosophy is to pass the football first. The running game has never been a philosophy for McVay and never will.
4. The Ram defense bend but don't break is not by design, but by necessity, due to the lack of talent. And still they give up big plays.
5. The Ram run defense is good and the opposing coaches know that, which is why you are seeing teams pass against us more frequently, finally exposing one of the Rams weak points (pass defense and ST coverages).
6. Stating a block punt was a blessing in disguise (though it resulted in a TD) because it allowed the Rams to get the ball back quicker probably gets the dumb dumb award.
7. Our offense is not a grind it out offense, and never will be, and is not supposed to be, which is why when McVay tries to grind out games when we have leads we lose leads. I can point out all the games (if you like).... three of them which we lost due to the "grind it out" philosophy.
8. The Rams spending philosophy is directed at things that generate points. In our case it's the offense which is why the Rams don't stress over paying someone $10 mil to ride pine. Although they are under paying Stafford and Nacua at the moment.
9. Success in todays NFL, NBA and MLB is judged by championships which is why you are seeing coaches being canned by knee jerk owners. And from the fan side of it (for example) many Dodger fans had been calling for Dave Roberts head because all he could do is win division titles.... which is / was ridiculous.
"Pretty Damn Successful"
Rams have been pretty successful over the last 7 years, but one Super Bowl in nine seasons is on the borderline of how success is defined and in todays sports world viewed as mediocre (unfairly), and if McVay doesn't at least get to the Super Bowl this season I think the clock starts ticking.
As an example Dave Roberts has three Chips in 10 years of coaching.
McVay has one Chip in 9 seasons "pretty damn successful" for what the Rams were, but how is that viewed in LA???? I think you get the point.... Maybe if we were the Bakersfield Rams of California, maybe one championship in 9 years would be something to hang your hat on.... But not in LA.
