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Fewer penalties on the starters. That was an improvement.
The O, even with no running game, clicked well on the TD drive. It was nice to see playmakers stepping up.
Starters didn’t have any turnovers. That’s always a good thing.
Pead = ACL tear. Done. Per twitter. My opinion: injury settlement and cut him. I know it’s tough to cut a second rounder, but he has shown nothing.
Rodgers is ridiculous. If he had stayed in the game, he would have put up 40.
Just fwiw:
Fisher: (On the running game)
“We were hoping for more. Again, they’re very stout up front. We didn’t do a lot of game-planning, so I’m not too concerned about that, but we’ll get that thing going. But it was a little frustrating at times just because of the penetration. There was so much penetration. Again, I think the coaches will take that responsibility just because we just didn’t really do an awful lot of game-planning. We just called things and talked about the adjustments if this happens. So, I would expect everybody to, obviously, improve.(On if the lack of blitzing on the starting quarterbacks was an indication of how vanilla it was for both teams)
“We had a couple pressures. We had a couple of single pressures with Aaron (Rodgers). Our philosophy was to just line up and play and not rely on the pressure. We pressured a little bit last week and not allowing the pressure, of course. We’re holding a lot of stuff for our regular season as well.”————
Chris Long
(On how much he has learned from the two preseason games)
“The guys in those locker rooms and in the film room and on the team learn a lot, but often times the people outside the building don’t learn as much because it’s hard to decipher what’s real and what’s not. That’s the way preseason is, it’s not always indicative of how things are going to go on the field. For us it’s just about continuing to work on the little things and the result will become more important in a couple of weeks.”
———–Joy-ner
(On the touchdown pass that was committed to him)
“I’ve just got to work on the scrambling technique. Quarterback gets out the pocket, you have to plaster your guy, and I had a mental error. That something we can correct Monday. No hard feelings.”
—————-Aaron Rogers
(On if this game says something about the value of practice)
“I think practice is always important, but these opportunities are important to get the tempo. You’re playing against another team. They played very vanilla on defense, they didn’t bring any pressure really than maybe one snap when we were out there. They didn’t have (DT Michael) Brockers playing, they didn’t have (LB James) Laurinaitis playing, so it felt good for us to run some plays against another team but it’s preseason.”It really seemed to my friend and me, watching from row MM, that the defense was almost deliberately being handicapped. It’s one thing to mostly stay in base defense and not use much in the way of blitzes, trickery, etc. But the Rams D just stayed STOCK STILL. There was no motion, no checking into other alignments in response to O-shifts. Just, “see if you can stop them from this formation” test, again and again.
Fisher was doing something. Maybe testing the secondary, maybe something else. But that WAS NOT the style of defense they will field for the regular games. It just wasn’t. And no Laurinaitis, I think that’s a factor. He’s a pretty good field general for the defense, didn’t see anyone really filling that role for the Rams this game.
Doesn’t excuse missed tackles when guys had the chance, but it does explain some of the giant holes.
Yeah, and against an elite QB and veteran offense, that kind of approach is going to get a defense
carved up. But it will also give the D coaches a lot of plays to look at 🙂
And it gives the secondary players some plays and experience against a great QB.
I think they wanted to see some one-on-one stuff.I dunno, cause i’m no expert, but it seemed to me that Joy-ner
did ok for a rookie. The game does not seem to big for him, imho.
He reminded me a bit of last years version of Ogletree — a bit confused
but you can see the talent.What else did you see from the M&M row?
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vOne other thing: On the Pead injury. That guy should have just hit the hole and carried the ball deep into GB territory. Instead, he did these sudden, jerky cuts that led to the injury that will likely end his career. Shame he did that, but it kind of fit into what I saw of him as a ball carrier. Never too sure of himself, a little clumsy in space, and not ready to be a serious NFL contributor.
After two games, I get the distinct impression that opposing defenses are going to make the Rams throw.
This fits something I have been focused on. I’ve said for a while now, if you look at the games under Fisher, Bradford has played well on avg. when he has had BOTH a relatively healthy OL (ie. no more than a couple of usual replacements) AND a running threat. I never said “running game,” I said “threat,” because if you concentrate resources on taking away the Rams running game, it leaves things open for the pass.
That was true of the Carolina game. They stopped Stacy but Bradford threw all over them. That was also true of the GB game. I saw that they were playing the run against the Rams, and Fisher said so too–they were pulling up a guy.
The time that didn’t work was when Richardson was the RB. He was not a threat defenses had to worry about. You can defend the run against Richardson just with normal resources, so after teams saw that, they concentrated on taking away the big passing play, and there were no receivers who could beat that. Not last year anyway.
So what you say will happen, HAS happened, IMO…we’ve seen it. When even a top defense like Carolina thinks run defense and limits rushing yards, they leave a crack open in pass defense, and even without a top namebrand receiver, Bradford could exploit it.
I think this picture of them will hold up this season.
What the Rams then did, of course, was intensify their investment in the run game by drafting Robinson. I think their goal is to pull people up, get them to think run threat, pass on them, PLUS run on them ANYWAY.
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