reactions to the super bowl game

i hate the patriots.

i hate brady.

i hate belichick.

but damn they outcoached the rams.

Agamemnon wrote:

I blame McVay. He got a coaching lesson. imo
I still like him, but he will be a better coach next year.

yeah. still proud of him, but he got schooled.

proud of the whole team. but they gotta learn from this. now i gotta wonder if whit comes back.

I’m reading folks say this was a matter of coaching. That McVay was out-coached by B.

Not my take at all.

I put this on the players. On their total lack of execution. I think the O-line was atrocious, failed to open holes (with few exceptions) for the backs, and let the Pats overwhelm Goff. Goff, for his part, played terribly too, IMO. A reversion to his rookie year. He was off on most of his throws, and made too few good throws to matter.

The D? They played really well, and Peters really surprised me. Of course, when the offense punts the first nine or ten times, that means the D is on the field too long — waaay too long. So it eventually gave up key plays. But 13 points? To Brady? Sheebus but that should be more than enough to win for the Rams.

My take? The offense was horrifically bad, on the field. I don’t pin this one on the coaches. The players lost this, in my view.

All of that said, I see the Rams as only getting better. There is no reason why they can’t make it to the Super Bowl next season. They just need to match their regular season play in the post season.

I don’t know how to tell what’s on the coach. The Rams OL got overwhelmed all game long, and that’s that.

And Cooks lost two TD passes.

If you had told me the Patriots would score only 13 points before the game, I would have taken that happily. The Rams defense really played well.

i don’t know billy. you might be right.

you might be right.

if the rams could have gotten the run game going, totally different game.

Zooey wrote:

I don’t know how to tell what’s on the coach. The Rams OL got overwhelmed all game long, and that’s that.

And Cooks lost two TD passes.

If you had told me the Patriots would score only 13 points before the game, I would have taken that happily. The Rams defense really played well.

Yeah, it’s pretty difficult to suss that out. How do we know if it’s a lousy play call, or a lousy game-plan, versus just a failure to execute, one way or another?

We’ve all seen what appear to be rotten calls end up as TDs, cuz some player makes a great play . . . and we’ve seen what appear to be good calls fail. All things in between that, etcetera.

Yeats and his how to tell the dancer from the dance.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43293/among-school-children

I have no clue. Which is probably the case in too many, well, um, cases.

But my first impression is that the Rams offense, on the field, just didn’t have it, and I don’t understand that. They weren’t the same team I watched from September until, basically, the Saints game.

I don’t get it. I don’t get how an offense can be so dominant for 95% of the season and then play like that in the Super Bowl. It baffles me. It’s not as if the Pats were world-beaters on D during the regular season. They weren’t.

I’m beyond puzzled.

Great defensive game. More rushing attempts by the Rams would’ve been nice to see. I hope the Rams make it to another Super Bowl while I’m still on the green side.

canadaram wrote:

Great defensive game.

yeah. i thought it was a great defensive game.

rams did a good job on d.

belichick did a helluva job on defense, and their players executed.

Agamemnon wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

I’m reading folks say this was a matter of coaching. That McVay was out-coached by B.

Not my take at all.

You mean me. We disagree, but that is no biggy.

No. Wasn’t trying to be coy, etc. I’ve seen it on other sites. That seems to be an early . . . I don’t know, consensus, so far. The quick read this evening at least among a lot of folks.

Zn,

Could it be both/and?

Out-coached and out-played?

Chicken and egg follows, etc.

There were cases, as Romo pointed out, that Goff had opens looks and went elsewhere for incompletions. This tells me, at least on those plays, it wasn’t the call, it was the execution. Cooks dropped a couple too. A huge shame, cuz on those passes, Goff actually was on target.

So when Goff was on, a receiver was off. When receivers were open, Goff looked elsewhere. When Goff dropped back, he rarely had enough time. Is that suddenly about coaching, in that moment, or is that a failure to hold one’s block?

These are highly paid professionals, playing in the game of games. They obviously know how to block. They obviously know the plays. But in too many cases today, in this game, they didn’t get the job done.

Yeah, some of that is gonna be on McVay and company. But they could come up with the most perfect playcall in the universe, and if the players don’t do their part, it dies.

Both/and? Either/or? I go with the former, with the emphasis on the players.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Billy_T.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Billy_T.

We should have run more.

We should have run Gurley more.

A few toss sweeps or a couple more jet sweeps might have helped.

Kupp, if healthy, changes this game.

Defense played phenomenal.

Cooks missed catches were tough catches. Would have been good if he’d been able to come down with one of them.

Oline was enh.

Goff played like the youngest QB to ever play in the super bowl. Still could see the talent.

I’m glad they played in this game. I hope they get the chance to play it again next year or in the next couple.

Strange game.

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Wade’s defense really showed up during the playoffs. Thirteen points for Brady, in the Super Bowl — are you kidding me?

Ah well.

They need to have Kupp healthy next year. They need to have Gurley healthy next year. And they need to get some depth on the OLine. Thats about it.

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