Gurley: "It looked like a middle-school offense out there,"

nittany ram wrote:

“I don’t care if we’re out the playoffs or not, I don’t care, just come up, show up and play,” said Gurley, who rushed for 61 yards and a touchdown in 16 carries. “That’s why we play this game. Show up and play.”

Does Gurley feel everyone has been doing that?

“I don’t. I really don’t,” he said. “Just going through the motions, I feel like everyone is just playing to get through.”

Link: http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-falcons-20161211-story.html

There;s a huge dispute as to what he meant by that. Naturally some took “high school offense” as meaning the scheme and playcalling.

But there’s this deep long tradition in the NFL according to which star players do not trash the coaches in public after a loss. I mean imagine Steven Jackson doing that, and he has been through worse seasons than this one.

My own view was he was talking about execution. In fact later in the same interview he directly says so.

(On if he thinks the losing falls on the coaches or players)

“No, the coaches aren’t out there playing. The coaches don’t have anything to do with it. This is us. We’re on the field.”

Here’s the entire interview:

First of all, Gurley didn’t say, “High school offense.”

He said, “Middle school offense.”

Believe me, as a guy whose high school just put a 57 -16 beatdown on Bakersfield Saturday night in the state semi-final game, and is on its way to the state championship for the second consecutive year (defending champs), I know what a high school offense looks like.

And the Rams are NOT at that level.

zn wrote:

He deliberately went out of his way to state that he WASN’T talking about the scheme. I know that given their view of things, some posters will want him to have said that. But he directly made it clear he WASN;T saying that.

Why do I care? Because I think better of him than that. Heck this is not the worst recent Rams season we have seen, and can you imagine Steven Jackson publicly blaming the coaches for a loss in 2011 etc? He had more class and sense than that. I like to think the same of Gurley.

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I tend to agree with you.

But it was an unfortunate thing to say. Cuz I don’t think it will turn the temperature down on the hot seat for his Coach.

Zooey wrote:

First of all, Gurley didn’t say, “High school offense.”

He said, “Middle school offense.”

Believe me, as a guy whose high school just put a 57 -16 beatdown on Bakersfield Saturday night in the state semi-final game, and is on its way to the state championship for the second consecutive year (defending champs), I know what a high school offense looks like.

And the Rams are NOT at that level.

Fisher is only in year 5 of his 7 year deal. Give him some time.

nittany ram wrote:

My main interest in the article was that Gurley implied there are players that aren’t trying. That is what concerns me.

Yeah Bruce said that in 97.

To me? It’s just a thing frustrated guys say.

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Yeah, he didn’t mean the coaches or scheme. It was pretty obvious he was just
disgusted with the players and the execution.

Having said that, the coaches and scheme might very well be part of the problem.
I dunno. But Gurley didnt say it.

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wv wrote:

Yeah, he didn’t mean the coaches or scheme. It was pretty obvious he was just
disgusted with the players and the execution.

Having said that, the coaches and scheme might very well be part of the problem.
I dunno. But Gurley didnt say it.

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yeah gurley didn’t say it. but not many players are going to say that.

but you look at team wide mental errors and lack of execution. the system isn’t working.

i just hope they don’t hire trump to coach the rams…

nyuk nyuk. sorry…