Rams News Recap: Dec. 15

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  • December 16, 2014 at 1:53 am #13955
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    http://www.rams-news.com/rams-can-still-win-with-schottenheimer-karraker/%5D Rams Can Still Win with Schottenheimer –Karraker
    I received a tweet from a guy wondering what I’ve seen from Rams offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to make me think the Rams can win with him. I pointed out that, despite losing their top receiver in Brian Quick, their left tackle Jake Long and quarterback Sam Bradford, the Rams were seventeenth in the NFL in points scored.

    http://www.rams-news.com/texans-sign-keenum-off-rams-practice-squad-pd/%5D Texans Sign Keenum off Rams’ Practice Squad –PD
    There was a time early in the NFL season when quarterback Case Keenum appeared to be a part of the Rams’ quarterback puzzle going forward.

    http://www.rams-news.com/jim-thomas-rams-report-audio/%5D Jim Thomas Rams Report –Audio

    http://www.rams-news.com/rams-losing-qb-case-keenum-to-texans-wagoner/%5D Rams Losing QB Case Keenum to Texans –Wagoner
    Quarterback Case Keenum never really got much of an opportunity with the St. Louis Rams.

    http://www.rams-news.com/whats-left-for-the-st-louis-rams-in-2014-wagoner/%5D What’s Left for the St. Louis Rams in 2014 –Wagoner
    With their 12-6 defeat to the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday night, the St. Louis Rams lost more than just a game.

    http://www.rams-news.com/rams-rookie-review-week-15-wagoner/%5D Rams Rookie Review: Week 15 –Wagoner
    A look at playing time and production of the St. Louis Rams’ rookie class in Thursday’s 12-6 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

    http://www.rams-news.com/morning-ram-blings-qb-options-wagoner-2/%5D Morning Ram-blings: QB Options –Wagoner
    I didn’t get a chance to write about it last week because of the short week and all that was going on in preparation for the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals game on Thursday night but wanted to circle back to something colleague Field Yates wrote.

    http://www.rams-news.com/how-are-the-rams-prepping-for-the-giants-audio/%5D How are the Rams prepping for the Giants? –Audio

    http://www.rams-news.com/nfl-draft-no-1-pick-is-wide-open-video/%5D NFL Draft: No. 1 Pick is Wide Open –Video

    http://www.rams-news.com/rams-offense-seeks-short-yardage-improvement-wagoner/%5D Rams’ Offense Seeks Short-Yardage Improvement –Wagoner
    Before the season started, the St. Louis Rams set out to be a physical, grind-it-out type of team capable of lining up, powering up and running right at opponents.

    http://www.rams-news.com/aaron-donald-making-run-at-defensive-rookie-of-the-year-pd/%5D Aaron Donald Making run at Defensive Rookie of the Year –PD
    As Rams defensive line coach Mike Waufle tells the story, you had to see it to believe it when watching tape of Aaron Donald in college and at the Senior Bowl.

    http://www.rams-news.com/rams-legends-the-greatest-players-to-wear-the-horns-video/%5D Rams Legends –The Greatest Players To Wear the Horns –Video

    December 16, 2014 at 8:37 am #13958
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    I thot the Randy-K article
    was pretty sensible.

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    December 16, 2014 at 10:18 am #13963
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    wv wrote:

    I thot the Randy-K article was pretty sensible.

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    Rams Can Still Win with Schottenheimer

    By Randy Karraker

    http://www.101sports.com/2014/12/14/rams-need-can-still-win-schottenheimer/

    I received a tweet from a guy wondering what I’ve seen from Rams offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to make me think the Rams can win with him. … I asked what, specifically, he wanted to see from an offensive coordinator, he replied that he DIDN’T want to see a pass in an obvious running situation.

    You know, to be honest, I am kind of getting tired of this kind of thing.

    I know there will be complaints about coordinators, and that all around the NFL, fans go after the OC when a team loses. The OC is the default setting scapegoat.

    But then there’s the type who comes across as pretending to be this playcalling genius while exposing that they have no idea what the Rams offense is ever even doing.

    Here are some things to consider.

    1. The Rams RARELY run on 3rd and 4th and short this year, and are not successful when they DO. That means, to me, that the OC is compensating for poor line play in power situations. AND interestingly if you look up which qbs excel throwing in that situation (3rd/4th short) HILL IS TIED FOR 1ST AMONG ALL QBS. In that situation he has an 85%+ completion percentage. What does that tell you. They know they can’t run effectively a high percentage of the time in that situation, so they have worked on being good at passing in that situation.

    And then not all the plays work so we have some playcalling genius declaring that according to the Dogmatic Book of Things Fans Know and Coaches Don’t, those are RUNNING SITUATIONS so if they don’t run it;s bad. Jeesh.

    2. This is part of Schott’s approach to football and has been since 2012. He will often put run-first personnel on the field and then throws from that. Think of all the big plays from Harkey and Kendricks over the years, where they are so wide open it’s impossible to miss them. That means Schott will run and run, and throw ball control passes, and then BANG set up play action from running situations with run personnel. It’s a thing. Always has been.

    But the Dogmatic Book says you’re supposed to run in those situations so we get tweets to Karraker from the School of Playcalling Dogma.

    —

    My motto.

    Look at what’s THERE.

    Don’t apply a freaking dogma.

    Look at what they actually DO.

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