Jax game reactions

Tough scrappy win against a great defense.

Defenses have figured out how to limit the Rams passing game.

Fortunately they don’t have to face the Seahawks’ and Jaguars’ defense every week.

goff got through a really rough stretch of 2 games and looked… ok.

keep telling myself gotta be patient…

Special teams; how many times can you count on your special teams to put up the points needed to win? Super happy that the Rams are 4-2 instead of 3-3, even if that felt like a Fisher era win. Hopefully the Rams passing game can get back on track soon.

Tough game, good win, credit offensive line, special teams, and the defense.

Aint watched it yet. I’ll watch it on replay. I saw the hi-lites and read the box score and it looks like yer basic tough road win against a tough defense.

This is what good teams do. They dont find ways to LOSE games like this.

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someone correct me if i’m wrong, but it seems like woods is becoming goff’s favorite target which would make sense. he’s a smart savvy veteran wr.

i’ll also say this. as bad as the offense played today, when they needed a long drive at the end to put the jags away, they grinded one out. i think they had a clutch third down conversion to kupp maybe?

anyway. that’s two times in a row goff finished a game with a strong drive. last week could have been a winning touchdown if kupp catches that ball. this week they ice the game with a field goal.

i don’t know exactly how to quantify that, but it showed me some composure from the now 23 year old.

actually that last drive was more a credit to the oline and gurley. he did make a third down conversion there though.

canadaram wrote:

Higbee keeps getting a fair share of targets as well.

yeah. i’m starting to think maybe he shouldn’t be getting targets. but with that secondary, maybe that’s what was available to goff.

zn wrote:

2006 I think you mean. Typo man. In 2008 they went 2-14. Which, admittedly, does have a 2 and a 4 in it.

Well, you didn’t specify the order in which the numbers had to appear.

I’m not a mind reader. Next time be more clear.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by nittany ram.

nittany ram wrote:

So, how have defenses been able to slow down Goff?

Are they taking away his primary target and he’s having trouble getting through his progressions?

Is he locking on?

Or is it mostly a matter of playing really good defenses?

i don’t know. i’d guess it’s a combination of having his usual options taken away and just playing really good defenses.

i’m guessing going through his progressions will speed up with repetition. just seeing how a defense lines up pre-snap. and then post-snap. seeing how defenses are dropping into coverage and reacting to that. all of that should speed up with repetitions i’m assuming.

again. i don’t know. i’m no expert, but reading other people’s posts, it seems he’s doing a better job of not locking onto receivers. looking safeties off. but i’d have to think that his processing speed is still not where it should be. making him more inclined to lock onto receivers or cause just a millisecond of hesitation which elite defenders are more likely to take advantage of.

his sense of pressure and his internal clock also seem to be getting better. but again. i gotta think this will get better the more he plays.

and finally i remember ag talking about adding different things to his game and how it takes time to just fully incorporate that into one’s game. lots of things to think about for goff. maybe he’ll make a breakthrough sometime during the second half of the season. it’s only his sixth game in the mcvay offense. and he still hasn’t gone through a full offseason where he can just totally immerse himself in the offense. i think it’ll be different once he can go into an offseason having played a full 16 game schedule in the offense. then he’ll be better prepared to play against the elite defenses of the league.

I watched it on replay, and i thought C.Barwin played well. He had a key block on the Cooper Kick Return.

They tried to go deep to Watkins three times. (once Goff held on to the ball, but he was looking deep) Jax had him covered well twice and Goff just missed on the one where Watkins had separation.

The OLine played very well. Big holes for Gurley and M.Brown.

Defense was workman-like. A good D OUGHT to shut down a mediocre QB like Bortles and they prettymuch did. The contrast between Bortles’ skill set and Goffs was apparent, i thought. Bortles just does everything slower than Goff.

4-Net is the best RB I’ve seen in a while.

4-2 is awesome.

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zn wrote:

In some categories the Rams offense came in higher than the Jax defense has allowed on average. So on average, with Jax the opposing qb’s qb rating is 60; Goff’s against them was 86.2 . Their YPA allowed is 4.5; Goff got 5.9 (against anyone else that would be considered bad). Jax gets 1.7 Ints a game; Rams threw none.

i understand all that and yet i think goff and the passing game could have done better. and that’s not even putting them down. that’s all while understanding that the jags have maybe the best pass defense in the league. i mean they just shut down roethlisberger and le’veon bell. although i grant that goff was largely protected by mcvay unlike ben who got exposed big time by the game plan.

but goff and that cast have not had much time together. the oline 2/5 of which have new teammates have only had 6 games to really gel. goff has 6 games in this new system and 13 overall – 5 and 12 going into the game. his 3 best receivers weren’t even on the team last year. a rookie tight end and a second year tight end. how could i not think they could be better?

so that’s also exciting to me. this does not give the feeling to me of that linehan team that went 4-2. that had an offense whose main stars at receiver were holt and bruce who were at or near the end of their careers. bulger i think was a qb who had pretty much peaked at that point. jackson was the one young star with potential.

on defense pretty much the same deal. mostly a veteran defense without any blue chip talent. guys who were near the end of their careers or young guys without the potential i believe these rams have.

i’m feeling pretty good about this team, but mostly i’m excited by the prospect of watching goff and this young offense develop. just hope that goff can stay healthy and that they can adequately replace whitworth when the time comes which will be no easy task.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by InvaderRam.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by InvaderRam.

zn wrote:

I get a little bit of a sense there that you think I am arguing with you on this, a bit.

no, not at all. a lot of it is just thinking out loud. but it’s kind of interesting to me, that even though they struggled. they can get better.

i mean i find that a little bit exciting.

and the jags defense shut down roethlisberger and bell the previous week. held them to no touchdowns. and contrast that to goff and gurley – an extremely young backfield and how they did. so while i’m concerned that they didn’t do that well, i also realize it was against a defense that basically shut down a backfield consisting of a qb that’s won multiple superbowls and a running back with hall of fame potential. not even mentioning arguably the best wide receiver in the game.

so the fact that they i think they could actually do better than what they did has me excited.