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Whenever you add something new to your game, a different technique, a different skill, you take a performance hit. You don’t get the improvement until you can integrate it seamlessly. Or, it isn’t enough to know it, you have to be able to use it without having to think about it. imo
Agamemnonit doesn’t account for the fact that this slide goes back to last year. the running game has been stuttering since last year.
boras was oc since last year. boudreau has been here for awhile. if they did indeed change blocking schemes they need to evaluate if they are playing to their players’ strengths.
boras has had time to evaluate players for part of last season as well as the offseason. no significant additions to that side of the field currently playing.
adding some new schemes or techniques does not by itself explain how extremely horrible this run offense has looked. i do not buy it.
it doesn’t account for the fact that this slide goes back to last year. the running game has been stuttering since last year.
Well that’s a good point, but to be absolutely precise, in his last 4 starts, Gurley had different outcomes game by game. He wasn’t sputtering in every game.
Stats = Attempts Yards Y/A TDs
Either way, IMO these guys are simply not going to put in schemes that do not conform to the players’s strengths. They’re not going to make a mistake like that. That’s the kind of mistake you expect from an entirely new staff.
It’s just more likely that the entire offense—not just the OL, not just Gurley, not just the qb—started the season out sputtering and misfiring.
In fact before last Sunday Keenum and Austin were misfiring on passes, where it wasn’t even clear who was doing the wrong thing. Then, last Sunday, bang, it clicked. That just sounds to me like guys who are half a page off in relation to one another. Just classic out of sync-ness.
And they didn’t just add new techniques. They changed the entire offense (Keenum spoke about this) DURING a move year. That means an offense that is still thinking not playing and doing that after a move–and right now being 3-2, the Rams are the only OTHER team in the history of football who were winning 5 games in after a move. Outside of that, move years are one long history of losing.
it doesn’t account for the fact that this slide goes back to last year. the running game has been stuttering since last year.
Well that’s a good point, but to be absolutely precise, in his last 4 starts, Gurley had different outcomes game by game. He wasn’t sputtering in every game.
Stats = Attempts Yards Y/A TDs
Either way, IMO these guys are simply not going to put in schemes that do not conform to the players’s strengths. They’re not going to make a mistake like that. That’s the kind of mistake you expect from an entirely new staff.
It’s just more likely that the entire offense—not just the OL, not just Gurley, not just the qb—started the season out sputtering and misfiring.
In fact before last Sunday Keenum and Austin were misfiring on passes, where it wasn’t even clear who was doing the wrong thing. Then, last Sunday, bang, it clicked. That just sounds to me like guys who are half a page off in relation to one another.
i don’t deny that part of it is due to being out of sync. and i do notice that they are using austin more as a traditional wr than last year.
so i acknowledge that part of it is being out of sync especially with offseason rules being so strict in how much times players can see the field.
however. case in point. why use austin more as a traditional wr? is this trying to force something that isn’t there? i don’t know. maybe injuries have played a part. spruce and coop being sidelined haven’t helped things.
but my bigger concern is the run game. they gotta scheme gurley to be more productive.
i remember watching faulk in the preseason. he’d have no room running. rams used basic schemes and we all heard that once the regular season got going and they game planned opponents he’d be more productive. sure enough he looked like a different player.
are the coaching staff doing a good job of identifying the opponents’ weaknesses and attacking them? are they identifying their players’ strengths and accentuating them. i guess we’ll find out.
I thought the running game looked just fine in the first half. Havent watched the second half.
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vOkay. But. Do we have ourselves a theory? Yes? No? Thotz?
Also…Jack called you out in a post below. It’s high noon. Time to face the music. When the going gets tough, the tough use tenderizer.
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Well I’m sticking to the lone gunman theory.
…I think its pretty obvious they were un-gelled at the beginning of the year,
and now they are getting in sync. I think the offense will be fine. They are healthy and improving. And this is with a backup QB. Seems encouraging to me.You already know what i think of the D — Without Quinn and Tru, its gonna be a struggle.
GW is gonna have to create pressure somehow and thats gonna lead to big running lanes.Brockers and Hayes looked terrible to me, btw. I dont think they should have even played.
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