informal poll: what's wrong with the offense, can it pick up?

The Coaching. Get rid of Fisher, and Boras, and hire a real head Coach and OC and we will be in business

wv wrote:

I have no idea if something that looks this bad, can bee quick-fixed.

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Well certainly nothing is going to get fixed this year. But I think the offense could be markedly better next year if….

-Goff takes the next step forward in his development.

-Gurley commits to getting his game back.

-The o-line improves. I think the o-line can go from among the worst to at least an average group over the offseason. It’s a possibility. I mean, they were kinda sorta average the year before and it’s the same group of guys so if they can go from middlin’ to terrible they ought to be able to go from terrible to middlin’. Plus, they are certainly going to address the o-line in Free Agency so the personnel should get a little better anyway.

Fix those three things while the defense remains at its current level and we’ll be talking playoffs again.

Note: I’m not saying any of the above will happen or is even likely too, although I do have a good feeling about Goff. I’m only saying that it could happen and if it did that would be enough to get to 10-6.

wv wrote:

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Well the Oline is the story of the year. The mystery story.

I predicted about ten wins and a playoff berth in large part because i expected the Oline to be a team strength. What a disaster.

I am an oline skeptic at this point. An oline denier. I am afraid…that i just think…they are not good players.

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I expect they will be picking some OL. Probably more mediocre WRs. A LB.

Anyway. I’m not in the mood for draft talk.

But I fear that the players just aren’t good, too. How can they have gone 12 games without opening a hole for Gurley? Like…ever? Unless they just lose every battle? Because I have to think they know their blocking assignments. I don’t understand it. It’s not like they have faced the Purple People Eaters every week.

Goff is where most of us will pin the majority of our hopes for improvement, and as of now, that looks like a pretty good place for them. And I hope the OL pulls its head out, and grows into mediocrity.

And I hope they run Austin more, and throw more screens to Gurley, and I think I have a Norv Turner fantasy abrew.

Lots of ways to look at this but I decided on the easiest. Every week Zn posts PFF grades for the highest performers for both O and D….go back and take a look at who is consistently showing up and who is absent when talking O-line.

Starters not getting it done
GRob
Barnes
Brown
Guys getting it done
Hav
Saffold – Barely – showed up the last couple of weeks prior to injury
Wichman

In a nutshell I think that is our biggest issue…the Joes just aren’t getting it done. The line is vulnerable up the middle and like in baseball you have to sound up the middle…where do the Rams run the ball? Between the tackles and they just can’t get any push.

Hav isn’t performing as well as he did last year…did he regress? I don’t think so…I think he may still be hurting a little from the injury that sidelined him all OTA’s and pre-season. He’s gonna be just fine.

I think they can be better next year but I think the 2 biggest areas that need to be addressed are Center and LT. Grob has a few games left to fight for his LT job IMO.

zn wrote:

sanbagger wrote:

Starters not getting it done
GRob

Though, interestingly…not last game. Last game he graded out as their best offensive player.

Yea, I thought about mentioning that but decided not to because it could be the DE he was matched up with isn’t that good. Sheard has 3 1/2 sacks all year and I feel GRob struggles with the speed guys.

I’m hoping he shows up again this week matched up against Jackson who has 0 sacks this season and 9 for his career…so hopefully he posts another 70+ rating.

zn wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

zn wrote:

sanbagger wrote:

Starters not getting it done
GRob

Though, interestingly…not last game. Last game he graded out as their best offensive player.

on an offense that was only able to score 10 garbage points and couldn’t even crack 200 total yards. i believe they had 24 total yards in the first half.

i desperately wanted grob to come good. i wanted this offense to come good.

at this point i’m wondering if even gurley can become solid.

i have good feelings about goff but only because i’ve only seen 3 games.

i’d at least expect to see some improvement these next four games. if not then i don’t know what to think.

So now we judge one player based not on his actual play but the production of the offense as a whole?

GR played pretty well last game. That point stands regardless of other considerations.

in a sense yes. a player having a rare decent game on an offense that did absolutely nothing doesn’t really mean anything. especially given his history.

if it had been goff, well that’d be entirely different or even gurley. grob. really wanted to like him. loved the pick at the time. he was my guy the whole way all the way up until the rams picked him and was rooting for him.

it’s time to move on from him as a left tackle. it sucks that they blew the pick.

now would be a really good time to be absolutely wrong. i hope i’m wrong. this will be one of the times that i’ll be head over heels if i’m proven wrong and he turns it around.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by InvaderRam.

zn wrote:

AND GR progressing is good news cause since you have to expect the others will rebound from the Patz game to at least be okay again…then GR being improved will be useful.

Your optimism is depressing beyond all measure.

1. Coaching. Fisher doesn’t know offense so he has poor ability to monitor the OC.
2. O-line. My pet peeve for over the last 10 years. Our new HC must know how to develop an O-line, as well as his OC and OL coaches.
3. Defense. I’m not sure what is wrong. But to have such a roller coaster isn’t right.