please…

goff, gurley, and watkins could all take this city by storm.

that watkins catch last week was phenomenal. mays-esque they said. yeah. that’s got star written all over it. he’s young. he’s got preternatural abilities. but it’s not just the artistry. he’s also as strong as he is fast. he breaks tackles. that last touchdown of his when he ran through two people to get into the endzone. he’ll run by people. and he really didn’t have much of an offseason to really learn this offense. i read that buffalo’s offense was a little similar in terminology to this offense. but it’s not the same thing as being in practice and having goff throw to you all day. but you can see him getting comfortable.

well hopefully this is just a launching off point for the rest of his career.

outside of his first 100 yard rushing game in who knows how long, i think i’m most excited by his use on all three downs. and not just running and catching the ball but blocking too. it just makes it that much harder for the defense to figure out what the offense is doing. hopefully gurley just keeps expanding his game and finds different ways to attack the defense like marshall used to do.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by InvaderRam.

if i could fault fisher, it’d be mainly 2 things.

1. he never found that left tackle to anchor the offensive line. i was on board with the grob pick. and if he could have lived up to his potential, wow. that woulda been a homerun. in retrospect, lewan was probably the guy to draft.

2. he never could get that number one receiver. and that was a problem. a big problem. instead, he had that numbskull britt.

zn wrote:

Plus as you said he inherited 3 key players. At least 3.

oh yeah. i forgot. he also signed in 2012 the greatest punter the world has ever known. johnny hekker.

football outsiders actually ranks la over dallas in overall team efficiency. unbelievably la actually ranks third behind only kansas city and pittsburgh. i don’t know that i buy that but that’s what they come up with.

additionally they rank la ahead of dallas both offensively and defensively. overall team efficiency is calculated using both those stats.

take that for what it’s worth.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by InvaderRam.

zn wrote:

As he tends to do, Goff buffers in the pocket. His processing speed doesn’t allow him to recognize his opportunity to release the ball. Doing this against a five-man rush should result in a sack. But Goff’s line holds up so he has time to go through his progression, miss all the receivers, then drop backwards. Everything about this play to that point is bad for the quarterback.

well i’m hoping this is just a matter of getting reps.

and the processing speed should get quicker.

with sean mcvay as washington’s offensive coordinator, they went a combined 1-3 from 2015 to 2016 against dallas. he’s gotta be very familiar with that team although i don’t know how much their defensive personnel has changed.

cousins did well. he had a passer rating over 100 in 3 of the 4 games.

zn wrote:

This year, to me, is about a talented qb getting seasoning and experience and maturing. I won’t take the highs as exclusive evidence of where he’s at any more than I will take any lows as “final evidence” of anything. I won’t be disappointed by 8-8 or proclaim that he is a mature veteran qb if they go 9-7. So while Goff HAS shown he has a tremendous amount of raw talent, this is still year 2 of a qb who started out far greener than most. Given all that if he ends up with more TDs than INTs and a qb rating in the 90s that will be better than anyone expected before the season. And frankly I think that’s what will happen.

i think i’m kinda thinking the same thing.

i’m not too concerned with the outcome of the game itself. i think the defense is what it is. the cowboys offense will be too much. i think the defense is going to need a bit of an overhaul next offseason.

i’m more interested in seeing how goff does this game as well as going forward. we should have a pretty good idea where goff is by the bye week. that should be a large enough sample size, so the next four games will be telling.

and then that’s where it gets even more interesting. goff will hopefully continue to play out the last nine games and get much needed experience. defenses will adjust and he’ll have to adjust to them. but also most important is that he’ll go into his second offseason with mcvay and first full offseason as well with some of his teammates such as (hopefully!) sammy watkins as well as the rookies. i expect big strides to be made then. as he’ll have one season under his belt in the new system and will have a list of things that he and his teammates can really focus in on and improve.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by InvaderRam.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by InvaderRam.

i wasn’t totally paying attention, but it seemed like they got most of their pressure later in the game when arizona pretty much gave up running the ball. and it was still a close game at that point. it just wasn’t going anywhere. and at least a couple of the sacks. i think they were doing it with a 3 man rush.

dallas right now is ranked second in sacks.

arizona defense just broke. wow. rams are gonna have a tough time stopping this offense.

arizona looks good. i thought they were in trouble without johnson. defense doing a good job on dallas so far.

Zooey wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

either way i hope they wear each other the crap out.

no serious injuries but i hope they’re both just exhausted at the end. let arizona soften them up for the rams.

Define “serious injury.”

Would a high ankle sprain for Prescott be a problem?

no that’s fine. just nothing involving the brain or that would require major surgery.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by InvaderRam.

so then what’s the problem? is it the linebackers? i’m really wishing right now that the veterans had played a little more during the preseason to iron this out.

either way i hope they wear each other the crap out.

no serious injuries but i hope they’re both just exhausted at the end. let arizona soften them up for the rams.