Vent Thread Rams at Bengals

[Ellard80]

This reminded me of the Tennessee game two years ago where McVay failed to run the ball again. Does he not learn from his past failures? This is a critical part of leadership.

mcvay does have an issue.. he sees the players messing up their assignments and then concludes that the play call was actually correct.

While this may be true... he also needs to realize that if certain players keep failing their assignments its bad coaching to keep calling the same thing - even if the defense is giving you the right look.

 

[Tumak61]

Redzone issues were the main reason we lost. I don't mean the Atwell play either. We had a first down at the 3. Need to score a TD there. The offense was awful inside the 20.

 

[RamWoodie]

My fellow Ram Fans...ev

I'M STILL ANGRY...PRIMARILY WITH McVAY!!!

He simply made poor calls for the offense, and though they lost Jackson and Boom...he still didn't run enough...and knowing the pressure coming at Stafford, he never really called enough rollout to get him away from the rush!!!

The defense did well but the offensive calls were terribble!!

 

[99Balloons]

Rams need another LT and RG in next year’s draft.
The OL needs run maulers to open the holes for the running game because the offense is too predictable and one dimensional.
The lost is entirely on McVay with bad game calling and planning.

 

[Spider2YB]

Redzone issues were the main reason we lost. I don't mean the Atwell play either. We had a first down at the 3. Need to score a TD there. The offense was awful inside the 20.

Yep. That first drive, Stafford takes a sack—which can’t happen there. Then we don’t execute the screen on the next play, which looked open. Like there were definitely plays to be made where we didn’t execute, but I agree with what Louis Riddick said repeatedly on the broadcast—that McVay would make things a lot easier on the offense by running the ball in the RZ.

We had the ball in the back of the endzone that *just* went off Atwells fingertips. We had another drop by Williams that woulda had us first and goal. Which reminds me, why is there such poor chemistry in the passing game between Stafford and Williams? They rarely seem to connect even though Stafford has tried to get him the ball several times. A few have just been straight drops but several times it seems like they just aren’t on the same page.

 

[snackdaddy]

Last night was the team all the pundits thought we would have this year. The Bengals were not that good last night. We were worse. Is this the start of it? Or do they get up off the floor and do something about it? We will see on Sunday.

 

[Tano]

IMO it was too obvious where the bias on the officiating crew was. They went out of their way to be ticky tacky. A horsecollar tackle that they decided wasn't can be added to that list. Just like how they allowed the 49ers to false start and align illegally the entire game. The bias is in plain view and they can't justify it. Too much gambling money on these games. If the money is on the Rams they would get the benefit of non-calls etc. A guy I know has been tracking it for two years and it's only getting worse. It's why the media went bonkers when McVay kicked a FG against the 49ers to cover the spread. Even McVay knows it and it was his way of giving them the finger.

You might be right at this about McVay - he is getting pissed that the referees are calling close calls almost always against the Rams

And that FG against the 49ers surprised me because the only thing it did was not allow the 49ers to cover the spread.

 

[Ramstien]

That game was so difficult to watch that I had to turn if off halfway through the 3rd quarter.

 

[Londoner]

he is getting pissed that the referees are calling close calls almost always against the Rams

It would be great if, when he finally quits coaching, he calls out the bent officiating for what it is.

 

[AZRams]

What in the literal fuck...

 

[AZRams]

Was the gameplan to force Burrow into a shootout? Somebody tell McVay we aren’t the Dolphins.

I don’t feel the refs were bad. Interception didn’t hit the ground, but i also dont think tutu was out of bounds.

Also some growing pains from a young football team. Our line needs to learn from this game. Kyren needs to study the tape today.

And the ONE bengal on my fantasy team was Higgins and he laid a damn egg.

Fuuuuuuuck.

I don't think Tutu went out and if overturning a call requires clear evidence how in the literal hell did they justify that ruling after the review?

 

[Ramstien]

The Rams got screwed on those calls but it would not have mattered if McVay would have managed the game better. This loss is squarely on his tiny shoulders.

 

[GoodBadUgly]

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That Atwell play happened in the first quarter and we had the ball at the 3 with a first down. Good teams shrug off the bad call and just punch it in and score anyway. Not running the ball there is just plain stupid.

I agree with this. There's no way that call should've been overturned, but when the ruling came down, I was 100% sure we'd punch it in.

I mean, we've been MONEY in the red zone this season running the ball, right? Why not give it 3 or 4 times to Williams (with maybe one other being the pass play to Tutu used on that last TD)? No way they stop us. McVay should have been charged with malpractice after that drive.

Something else to consider: If you watched the presser afterward, McVay kept emphasizing his coaching staff was not surprised by what the D was doing and needs to really hammer in the details so the team executes the plan. This implies Stafford optioned out of many run calls and was fooled by run-heavy looks that switched to taking away passing options when ball was snapped.

I don't know if we'll ever really know the truth on this, but we'd better fix it fast or we will be competing for Caleb.

 

[Selassie I]

Taking that Tutu TD away cannot ever be justified to me. The replays showed that his foot did NOT touch the white sideline. You cannot reverse a call without irrefutable evidence. But... the league just provided another example of just how stupid they believe their paying customers are.

The Monday Night Backup Booth Crew knew it was complete BS... but they moved past it with such a quickness that it is obvious that they have been instructed NOT TO CRITICIZE BLATANTLY WRONG CALLS. That wasn't just another missed Holding call... that was a game changing robbery (Total Fix Job) that deserved to be called out emphatically by the so-called experts in the booth. It is so obvious that the blowhards have choker collars on and are nothing more than league cheerleaders and damage control clerks.

That was so egregious that I still cannot believe it happened.

 

[AZRams]

I agree with this. There's no way that call should've been overturned, but when the ruling came down, I was 100% sure we'd punch it in.
I mean, we've been MONEY in the red zone this season running the ball, right? Why not give it 3 or 4 times (with maybe one other being the pass play to Tutu used on that last TD)? No way they stop us. McVay should have been charged with malpractice after that drive.

Something else to consider: If you watched the presser afterward, McVay kept emphasizing his coaching staff was not surprised by what the D was doing and needs to really hammer in the details so the team executes the plan. This implies Stafford optioned out of many run calls and was fooled by run-heavy looks that switched to taking away passing options when ball was snapped.

I don't know if we'll ever really know the truth on this, but we'd better fix it fast or we will be competing for Caleb

There is no way in hell any team that doesn't play in Chicago will be picking first in April.

 

[Psycho_X]

PFF was not kind to the oline. Didn't think 0 was even possible yet we have two with it and it wasn't even Thomas that got one.


View: https://twitter.com/bgrisakTST/status/1706699651536060710?s=20

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

The last layer was how lame our onside kick attempt was.

 

[GoodBadUgly]

The last layer was how lame our onside kick attempt was.

Don't get me started on the onsite kicking. Dumbest thing on a long list of dumb things that a mega-billion $$$ NFL has no business doing.

You want to avoid injuries? You want to add excitement to the final minute/seconds of a game? Then let's have the teams run at each other with literally NO CHANCE of the kicking team getting the ball!

Why not implement some of the suggestions out there. Like you have to use a timeout (making clock management important during the damn game), then you get the ball at the 10 or 20 but are not allowed to get a first down. So basically 4 plays to get a TD or FG (if that helps).

Way more exciting.

 

[Rams8821]

Time to lock this and move onto Indy.

 

[RamDino]

Time to lock this and move onto Indy.

I'm afraid the entire week is gonna be one long vent thread.