fearsomefour
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Hummel has been on the team for a couple of years.
If the Rams didn't like him he'd be gone.
Why isn’t Speights playing?
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If the Rams didn't like him he'd be gone.
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To not be rotated out with Roseboom or Reeder though? Like can’t you rotate that group? Try to find a perfect formula? We are lacking continuity it seems like. No consistency yet, but these issues are supposed to be ironed out by the start of the actual season. Pre season Hummels and Speights played against the Chargers number #1s and did damned good. But you also had Pleasant calling that game. So I don’t know.
fearsomefour
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Yeah, I agree with it all.
Coaches are strange animals.
McVay, for all of his greatness, has some irritating tendencies.
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I trust my own eyes. And the stat sheet says we have the worst run defense in the league. Could it be any worse if we put Speights in on a few obvious run downs?
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Well I’ll have to say I’m sort of embarrassed to say I don’t recall him much.That Tampa D’ ? That Super Bowl & there run was wasn’t into.
—I really liked Queen on that LSU team.
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Well Wade was big on rotation.Still not sure the numbers of AD99’s snap count throughout his career?
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If they were going to trade EJ they should have gotten a player in return instead of a pick for next season, IMO
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I’m sure McVay watches tape over and over. While this is only 2 plays it’s indicative of the consistently bad playing Rozeboom and the periodic ok play of Reeder. Together they are a deadly combo…against the Rams defensive prowess.
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Bend don't break must be the concern holding out rookies. But, I concur. Not sure how it can be worse.
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Ok, so preseason is extremely vanilla and offenses hardly do anything to trick or misdirect opponents. We saw Speights and Hummel go against bad players and against bad, predictable offensive play calling. What we saw really has nothing to do with anything because everything they do in practices and the scrimmages between preseason games are going to be what tells the coaches if they are ready or not. So McVay isn't blowing smoke, they clearly do not like what Speights/Hummel are doing in practices yet.
Having said that, McVay won't shy away from playing them if he thinks they are the best option. But he is a bit of a stickler when it comes to practice and installing things during the bye. If we had beat the Bears I think we'd see changes over the bye week. Since we're a bit desperate at the moment I wouldn't be surprised to see some changes now but who knows.
Having said that, McVay won't shy away from playing them if he thinks they are the best option. But he is a bit of a stickler when it comes to practice and installing things during the bye. If we had beat the Bears I think we'd see changes over the bye week. Since we're a bit desperate at the moment I wouldn't be surprised to see some changes now but who knows.
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Speights and Hummel also went against the Chargers number 1 OL and although the plays were vanilla, they still fought off blocks 1000 times better than what Reeder and Rozeboom have shown so far.
I have gotten to the point that I want Reeder or Rozeboom to get an ankle sprain that takes one of them out of the game so we can see if Speights or Hummel is better. I don't even care if it is only 10 plays that takes them out.
Let's see what Hummel or Speights can do for 10 plays. That's one drive.
We are already giving up a ton of points with Reeder/Rozeboom.
What's one drive going to do. Oh shoot - we gave up another TD with Speights/Hummel. Oh well. Reeder/Rozeboom would have given up the TD too.
McVay isn't going to say a player is getting replaced. I think we'll start to see less of Rozeboom on the field going forward. Who replaces him? Maybe a Safety. Maybe a mixture of Hummel and Speights.
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Reeder wears the green dot so while his play is bad he provides value. I'm ready to see Speights over Rozeboom though.
Side note: it's a shame that players who have the best names usually don't pan out. Rozeboom is a great name for a linebacker.
Side note: it's a shame that players who have the best names usually don't pan out. Rozeboom is a great name for a linebacker.
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Well, if offense does motion and Speights gets fooled and runs to the left when he should be going right and he's 15 yards from the play instead of the two steps behind Reeder usually is... is that better or worse? Reeder at least has a shot at making a play even though he usually doesn't where Speights has zero chance. It sucks, no one wants to see Speights get a shot more than me but if he's not getting assignments right in practice than the Packers are going to make him look like an idiot instead of just slow.
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That was the specific play I was referring to when I said Rozeboom cannot get off a block for the life of him and Reeder is almost just as bad.