Mina – “…the god damn rams”
To be fair, though, they actually cover the game–albeit entirely from a Seattle perspective–at 36:00 in. Mina points out that the Rams rattled Darnold with interior pressure while also playing dime, which means they were stopping the run in dime, and that throws things way off for the Seahawks.
And that, my friends, is Poona Ford and Nate Landman (+ development and coaching, ofc).
The Rams would have lost this game last year.
Yeah if they were stopping the run in dime, that means that there was no way for Seattle to either slow the pass rush or get the extra DBs off the field. Seattle had 135 yards rushing but that’s on 35 carries, which is less than 4 yards per carry (3.85 to be exact). (Plus that number is inflated by Walker’s run of 25 yards, which means on the other 34 rush attempts they were averaging 3.2 a carry). Basically the Rams just said run all you want, we’re still playing 6 DBs–Darnold has to throw against pressure into dime sets.
According to snap counts, Landman played on 96% of the Rams defensive snaps.