Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
The Rams are -0.18EPA/play on early-down runs, and -0.11EPA/play on early-down passes (No. 32). OC Liam Coen today said on specifically early-down runs, “if you end up going negative or 0 (on the down), it’s just tough to gain confidence running it. If you run it on first down…
then you’re now second and 10, as a play-caller and as an offense sometimes you’re like, ‘well, we could’ve just thrown it and gotten the same down and distance.’ You go back and forth on some of this, are you gonna hand it off or are you gonna throw it? … In the flow of the
game, you have to go with what’s working. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. That sounds pretty simple; it’s definitely something we want to continue to work on but we’re not gonna bang our heads against the wall and run for 0 (yards).”
Rams WRs coach Eric Yarber always brings the energy with his group. But with higher stakes, and without the player he calls “Super Cooper”, Yarber visibly (and audibly) dialed the intensity up at practice today. Objectively very fun watching him coach.