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I am also concerned about Quinn. I am delighted that draft is deep there, but not delighted that the Rams don’t have a 1st round pick.
a healthy quinn graded out i think as the best 4-3 de in 2013. if quinn was healthy yeah. i wouldn’t be as worried. not gonna have an elite defense without an elite edge rusher. that’s a huge hit. you don’t just replace him even with a high first rounder. you draft someone and hope like hell you get lucky.
if it really all falls on goff, then you hope he’s that rare qb who can make his supporting cast look better. otherwise, you better hope these young guys figure it out.
at the very least you get a new coordinator. and i would even evaluate whether a new oline coach is needed. it’s important that they get that oline to even above average.
i have doubts about the future of this defense. quinn is not who he was. outside of donald, i think there are question marks on this defensive line. except for maybe brockers.
the secondary is also a big question mark. they haven’t been able to replace jj and mcleod adequately. maybe they’re able to develop some younger guys.
and ryan unlike goff has julio jones and an excellent offensive line. in retrospect perhaps the rams should have drafted matthews instead and left grob for the falcons. or maybe boudreau needs to go.
the rams are going to have to revamp that offensive line and get some real targets. or at least one legitimate superstar target for goff. OR. maybe gurley bounces back and becomes the superstar running back we thought he was. i’m hoping this was a sophomore slump, and he refocuses and gets back on track. a matt ryan caliber qb with a superstar running back would be hard to stop. but again you need a top offensive line. which the falcons have but the rams sorely lack.
the one thing. the only thing i can think of is fisher knows changes are coming. that’s just unavoidable. so he’s trying to tow a fine line between acknowledging he’s the one with final say and preparing to make changes in order to save his job.
and i wouldn’t put it past fisher to knock snead off a sinking ship to save himself. wouldn’t put it past any of them really.
it’s a game of thrones.
what i want.
well i don’t want fisher to be fired. i want him to succeed and for the rams to succeed. but i am not confident that can happen at this point.
what i think needs to happen.
i think fisher needs to be fired. i don’t think fisher can succeed under these circumstances. i think at some point things need to be changed. i know that’s not a popular opinion here, but i do think change for the sake of change can sometimes be good. i think things have become stagnant. i don’t think you can call it exactly this group had become comfortable with losing. i think that’s not accurate, but it’s hard for me to describe it any other way. maybe they’re too comfortable with jeff. i don’t know.
what i think will happen.
i think he’s gone. part of me thinks snead is safe. but i’m not sure. but it sounds like at least one of them is gone if not both. i’m nearly certain that they’re not both coming back. someone is getting thrown under the bus. it’s all very strange.
it’s a lot of reading tea leaves, yes.
i also happen to think the same thing. or rather it’s how i’m reading the tea leaves.
i don’t see fisher coming back. now is that right or wrong? that’s up for debate. i happen to think it’s the right decision.
but whether i wanted him back or not, that’s how i’m reading the situation.
Starters not getting it done
GRobThough, interestingly…not last game. Last game he graded out as their best offensive player.
on an offense that was only able to score 10 garbage points and couldn’t even crack 200 total yards. i believe they had 24 total yards in the first half.
i desperately wanted grob to come good. i wanted this offense to come good.
at this point i’m wondering if even gurley can become solid.
i have good feelings about goff but only because i’ve only seen 3 games.
i’d at least expect to see some improvement these next four games. if not then i don’t know what to think.
So now we judge one player based not on his actual play but the production of the offense as a whole?
GR played pretty well last game. That point stands regardless of other considerations.
in a sense yes. a player having a rare decent game on an offense that did absolutely nothing doesn’t really mean anything. especially given his history.
if it had been goff, well that’d be entirely different or even gurley. grob. really wanted to like him. loved the pick at the time. he was my guy the whole way all the way up until the rams picked him and was rooting for him.
it’s time to move on from him as a left tackle. it sucks that they blew the pick.
now would be a really good time to be absolutely wrong. i hope i’m wrong. this will be one of the times that i’ll be head over heels if i’m proven wrong and he turns it around.
It is not really a new system. It is still a Jeff Fisher offense. All it is, play calling. You just switch OCs, with Fisher’s type of coach, is just being masked. Unless he has an experienced OC like Norv Turner, per say, I’ll say it again, you are just masking it with a Fisher guy, and he is running Fisher’s plays.
It is a new system. How different it is from the previous system I can’t say, but it is new.
I could be wrong but I don’t think Fisher has an offensive system that he uses wherever he goes. He has a style. And regardless if the system in place is based on a WCO, Coryell, Erhardt, etc system, the playcalling and overall strategy will reflect his style – which is to use the run to set up play action.
well one question i have is did they change the run blocking scheme?
i remember all this talk about using the zbs last year. did they switch back to strictly man blocking?
It is logically inconsistent to say that all Stan cares about is making money, and he doesn’t care about winning. There is a direct correlation between the two. Yes, Stan has constructed his business so that he is going to make money even if the Rams lose – which in every quarter except Fandom is considered smart – but he will make a lot more if he wins.
He will sell more tickets, and sell them at higher prices. He will sell more merchandise, and the value of the franchise will go up.
yeah i agree with that.
the stuff about kroenke not wanting to win strikes me as off. he has to spend money in the nfl. it’s not like mlb. and he shelled out serious money to get fisher. why wouldn’t he expect to win?
he may be an asshole, but that’s something entirely different.
