Rams tweets etc. … 10/23 – 10/25

Rams are tied for the fewest missed tackles in the league https://t.co/rZLyLCqrpa

— Wyatt Miller (@wymill07) October 23, 2025

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR
Leading up to Week 8, Rams’ Safeties Kam Curl and Kamren Kinchens both rank in the top-10 for overall defensive grade and tackling grade among NFL safeties (min 50% snaps played), according to
@PFF
.

Zooey wrote:

Rams are tied for the fewest missed tackles in the league

That was not the case last year. Last year according to PFR stats they were 26th, averaging 7 a game. This year they avg. 3.57 a game.

Interestingly, they’re tied with Atlanta.

Rodrigue basically said that Shula’s superpower is isolating then fixing problems. Rams have been poor tacklers for ages now, but evidently or obviously he addressed it this year.

Zooey wrote:

And yet… it really appears that when a coach emphasizes tackling, teams improve in that area. It’s just that… how did you make your varsity team in high school if you can’t get after the ball carrier.

Fundy mentals.

I know what you mean but I guess it just turns out that hoomens being hoomens we need to work on things.

When I see a lot of missed tackles, I don’t see flat out aims-but-misses complete fluffs, it’s more a matter of poor technique, or aiming at a big kill hit but not controlling it enough (which is just one version of poor technique). Technique has to be honed and re-emphasized and drilled.

In high school, when I did sports before quitting that for marijuana, I did wrestling and football. In football I was a slow and undersized ILB. But I could tackle, and earned a starting spot. I have big shoulders which is probably why they put me at LB, but that aside, tackling was all technique. We drilled it endlessly. In fact, there was only one thing in sports that was more satisfying than getting a right proper diabolically impactful hit-and-stop as a tackler (the only thing higher was a pin in wrestling).

Anyway. It’s scheme too I think.

I think Shula worked on a lot of things at once. Notice that this year, short passes are stopped sooner than they were last year. Last year, they were 26th in yards allowed per catch. Now they’re 4th. So both the scheme changed, and the tackling is more effective. It’s probably a combination of things.

Now, they are still a bend but don’t break defense, but there’s less “bend” in it than there was last year. I am no all-22 studying “analyst” type but I think Shula not only found his ILBs, he is using the safeties more effectively.

The NFL fined #Rams TE Tyler Higbee $14,491 for unsportsmanlike conduct (violent gesture) — the banned “nose wipe” celebration last week in London. pic.twitter.com/WwlJjvIdDl

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) October 25, 2025

from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/rams/2025/10/26/rams-pff-grades-through-bye-week-2025/86916911007/?taid=68fe723f2a327f0001db4a2a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

Overall PFF grades: Offense (min. 70 snaps)

Top 5

WR Puka Nacua – 92.6
WR Matthew Stafford – 91.0
WR Davante Adams – 80.5
RG Kevin Dotson – 78.1
LG Steve Avila – 76.

Overall PFF grades: Defense (min. 70 snaps)

Top 5

EDGE Jared Verse – 90.1
EDGE Byron Young – 84.9
DL Poona Ford – 84.1
CB Darious Williams – 75.2
S Quentin Lake – 73.6