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But 2016 happened.
yeah. normally you wouldn’t worry. bell and johnson, maybe the 2 best backs in the game, had atrocious game ones. but they didn’t have the kind of season gurley did last year.
as herzog mentioned before, bettis is an example of a guy who showed promise as a rookie but then struggled early on in his career. and then came out gangbusters his fourth year on his way to hall of fame career. interestingly… the two years he struggled also came as his team was making a transition to a new city…
his first three years (41 games started). 3.9 ypc. 3091 yards. 13 tds.
the next three years (42 games started). 4.2 ypc. 4281 yards. 21 tds.
ok. a little better.
todd gurley through 2 years and 1 game (29 games started). 3.9 ypc. 2031 yards. 17 tds.
he still has most of his third season left to play… i guess we’ll see.
interestingly. another former ram… marshall faulk.
his first three years (45 games started) he had 3.7 ypc. 2947 yards. 29 tds. he struggled through foot injuries though which obviously had to affect his production.
his next three years (47 game started). 4.5 ypc. 3754 yards. 20 tds.
i should also say those second three years doesn’t include a couple of the best years of his career.
seventh and eight years (28 games started). 5.3 ypc. 2741 yards. 30 tds.
ummm… so i guess there’s a small chance he can still turn this around.
a big game from him today and a win would make a big announcement to the rest of the league.
Speed_Kills wrote:
I hear two people who clearly aren’t invested in the Rams… that are still learning a lot about this team
They expect the Rams to be bad. Its clear in how the report on them. To me it sounds like they don’t know a ton about the Rams. I listened to the whole thing and afterwards I said hmmm that was a bad listen. They even made comments about Gurley and talked about how some don’t see what the big deal is with him because he hasn’t flashed since the Rams moved to LA. I get that take but I think its shallow. Why not talk about what McV plans are to get him going? Go get that story. They just aren’t invested yet
By the way I’m not talking about being a homer although some of that comes from being invested in your hometown team… the Rams don’t have that yet. I just think there was way too much personal banter (If I have to hear about Gary’s wife one more time) and not enough hard stuff and inside stuff regarding the Rams
Just my take
well apparently gary didn’t even know donald was back at the rams facility until lindsey informed him. and she heard it from her boyfriend who saw it on the ticker watching college football. i don’t think they have any inside info to share to be honest.
i like them though. i think lindsey’s actually pretty funny. they’re coming from the perspective of an la fan who wasn’t around when the rams were here 23 years ago. so i understand why they would make that comment about gurley.
well quinn looked a little like the old quinn. the secondary has been lights out since maybe the minicamps. they’re coming off a dominant performance the previous week, and they’re getting arguably the best defensive player in the game back. i don’t think the defense will be a problem.
on offense, mcvay will be motivated. i’m sure he’s got some tricks up his sleeve. some wrinkles to keep his old team off balance. i think there’s two questions that need answering. first, who is the real gurley? if he can be the gurley i hope he can be that’s one question answered. the second question is how much progress has goff really made? i think he’s going to have less time to throw. the windows will be just a little bit tighter. can he still make good decisions under those circumstances?
if just one of those two can provide the answer we desire the rams have a chance. if both can step up, oh my. it’ll be something to behold. if neither can, well. everything will come crashing back to earth.
i’m nervous.
he is throwing lasers today. but yeah. i agree with herzog. i remember early in bradford’s career. he had a hard timing putting touch on his throws. sometimes he wouldn’t put the right loft on it. i remember in particular he had a hard time throwing a fade.
i don’t think goff has those problems. he can throw a fade. he can throw with loft. he can throw on a rope. he can throw at a moving target. all with good accuracy. i’m not sure bradford can do all that. maybe now. but not when he was younger. goff already has that in his toolset.
i think for him it’s not the mechanics of throwing a football. it’s really just learning how to read defenses. going through progressions. learning a pro style offense. but just throwing a football. i trust mcvay when he says how good he is as a pure thrower.
The touch pass to Everett that set up Gurley’s TD was pretty impressive too….
yeah that was another one.
and what’s most impressive is his ypa which was 10.55.
dude was getting yards in big chunks. it helps when you don’t have to get yards in little chunks and try to string together a drive. they were getting downfield in a hurry.
this is why i feel better about this win than other wins in the past. in the last several years we’d see this team get some impressive wins. they’d even string together some pretty impressive runs. but then the inevitable letdown would happen, and the team couldn’t sustain it over a full season to make a run at the playoffs.
but yesterday. i saw several incredible throws from goff that i hadn’t seen previously from other rams qbs, and that’s what makes me think this time is different. was goff perfect? no. but at the same time, i’ve seen flashes and it gives me hope that this time will be different.
it just increases the margin for error so that in games where it isn’t a blowout. his ability to throw strikes will give this team the edge it didn’t have before.
