audio: Marc Bulger on playing with such good WRs & taking over from Kurt

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I watched Martz, “meat grinder offense” grind up Warner and Bulger.
They went down hard on every pass play.
Such a shame to see Bulger’s talent wasted. Few had a quicker release.
I’ve never seen a QB take a beating the way he did. I became very hard to watch week in and week out.
I was cheering during his record setting Pro Bowl performance.

I hope it doesn’t go down that way for Goff.
Someone asked Bulger if he loved being involved in such an all out passing attack.
He said, “You know, I wouldn’t mind handing it off once in a while”
That will be Goff’s savior. He’ll be handing it off a lot. Plus most of Fisher’s offense develops close to or behind the line of scrimmage.
If that doesn’t change he will be alright.

wv wrote:

When did he play with a broken leg?

Its a must listen, btw.

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v

I agree, must listen.

He didn’t realize he was playing on a broken leg in his final game of 2009, the ARZ game. He knew his leg was bad during the game but then they found out afterward it was broken.

11/24/2009

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Rams quarterback Marc Bulger (FSY) will be sidelined 3-6 weeks with a fractured left leg sustained in Sunday’s loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

Bulger underwent two MRIs on Monday, one on his groin and hamstring and a second for what the team believed was a swollen knee. He also was to be tested for concussion-related symptoms Tuesday after a physically demanding loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

As I said it wasn’t until after the game they found out it was broken. It was a tibial plateau fracture. They thought at first it was a knee sprain.

Notice that because of the same game he was also tested for a concussion.

The wiki on those kinds of fractures:

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A tibial plateau fracture is a bone fracture or break in the continuity of the bone occurring in the proximal part of the tibia or shinbone called the tibial plateau; affecting the knee joint, stability and motion.

wv wrote:

Lucky for Marc he had such a great OLine
those last two years

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I keep being surprised at how that issue gets overlooked.

The Rams had a string of OL injuries from 2007-9 that was like nothing any of us have seen. (The injury epidemic stopped in 2010 and then got going again in 2011, with a vengeance.)

And it’s obvious that the ineffective OLs took Bulger down with him. Not just in terms of injuries, but also in terms of his overall play.

And…no complaints from him.

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wv wrote:

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Lucky for Marc he had such a great OLine
those last two years

w
v

I keep being surprised at how that issue gets overlooked.

The Rams had a string of OL injuries from 2007-9 that was like nothing any of us have seen. (The injury epidemic stopped in 2010 and then got going again in 2011, with a vengeance.)

And it’s obvious that the ineffective OLs took Bulger down with him. Not just in terms of injuries, but also in terms of his overall play.

And…no complaints from him.

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I’ve decided this will be on your tombstone:

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The Rams had a string of OL injuries from 2007-9 that was like nothing any of us have seen. (The injury epidemic stopped in 2010 and then got going again in 2011, with a vengeance.)
And it’s obvious that the ineffective OLs took Bulger down with him. Not just in terms of injuries, but also in terms of his overall play.
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w
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But answer me this.

Why is it so many people don’t “get” the broken OL issue.

I mean, you need a special qb with specific skills to play with a broken OL (Brady’ quick reads and quick passes, Wilson’s ability to run yet focus downfield).

But them guys is rare.

Most of the good to very good to elite qbs can’t play under those conditions. That includes Kurt, as he proved in NY in 2004. It even got to Luck in 2015 (and their OL was just mediocre, not broken and dreadful).

So.

Speculate.

Why don’t people get that.

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