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Sure, they’ve improved slightly every year
despite the static record.They used to have lots of holes.
Now we are down to two —
interior of the Oline,
and QB.IF, Snisher can solve those
two issues, they should get
to the ten-win range next year.
(barring injuries, etc)That will ‘still’ leave my own
major question unanswered. I
know Fisher can turn them into “winners”.
I know he can get them into the playoffs.But can he go all the way and win a Ring?
I have my doubts.
Granted, its a tough job.w
vReally though, I wouldn’t be that surprised if Fisher started Jones. I am reading Fisher’s mind……
I cant imagine that. I think Jones would get kilt.
Better to start the one-armed Wells.I think BS should keep
everyone in to pass-block
and just have Hill throw the ball
up to Britt now and then.w
vMerry Christmas everyone!
Do you people know the amount of hours I spend with you helpless Rams addicts every year?
I’ve lost track. But it’s time well spent.
So, you are a dog person,
i take it.w
v“.. linebacker C.J. Mosley, the only other rookie defender to make the Pro Bowl. Dallas offensive lineman Zack Martin is the third and final rookie to earn the honor. Coincidentally, those are the three players the Rams had the most interest in with the pick they ultimately used on Donald.”
I guess that sez something
about Snead.Course we dont know how many
‘busts’ he had ranked highly.It would be nice if someone
broke into rams park and stole
the last three draft boards
soze we could all look at them.I wonder if the season would have gone
differently if the rams had gotten
Z. Martin last year along with the
players they drafted?
w
vWell, if you take all that “obsession” vs “balance”
thing seriously, i would ‘think’
that means Snead is going to be obsessed
with putting a dominant OLINE on the field
next year. The QB situation is out of his control
in some respects but the OLine situation isnt.If the Rams just eliminated the big soul-crushing
Turnovers this year, they would have had a winning record.
So how do you avoid turnovers? — you avoid pressure
on your QB. How do you do that? — Dominant Oline.Seems to me, Snead will probably find the best, healthiest,
free agent OLineman on the market and sign him. And then
spend two of the top three picks in the draft on OLinemen.w
vwv wrote:
As far as GW, i dunno. I do think his
schemes are high risk – high reward,
and i do wonder if he should stick to
a ‘safer’ ‘sounder’ scheme — but then at times,…
i think to myself IF the players ever really
learn the system, its possible it will be
awesome.w
vBut, see, I disagree that he plays high risk defense. “Unsound” does not necessarily mean “high risk.”
He does all sorts of blitzing. But he backs that up with passive, soft coverage. Mike F is great on this point.
Why do you play off the ball? You do so because you don’t trust your secondary–or your scheme–to avoid the long play. It’s a passive, soft, timid deployment. And it’s what Williams does all the time.
Of course, we get burned deep anyway, because his fiddling with defenders’ roles puts us in weak positions. That’s a matter of incompetence, not high-risk deployments.
And, see, here’s the pattern I have been bitching about since the preseason. Because of his futzing, we suffer from 2 key weaknesses:
1. We give up running lanes to RBs.
2. We can’t get off the field because QBs hit quick routes that get to 3rd and short or convert on 3rd and long.And it’s that 2nd point that has killed us all year. The theory of playing off coverage is that it takes more plays to score and somewhere along the way you’ll get a stop. But since the pre-season, we have been vulnerable to the long drive that we can’t stop. Think of how often this year we have felt that sickening sense that we aren’t going to get the stop we need. At least half a dozen of our losses this year have featured that debilitating habit of not being able to get stops. Even some of our wins have featured it.
We can’t get stops because, for all that blitzing, the soft coverage negates our pass rush and keeps us on the field. Even if we don’t give up the big play, we give up enough 1st downs to pile points on the board against us.
This is the trend I have been whingeing about since the pre-season. It’s a pervasive pattern in most wins and losses, against good and bad offenses.
And the clincher is the DEN game. Williams did not call a Williams game that day. He challenged Manning all day. The “high risk” turned out to be far more effective. As it always does when you have talent.
If anyone wants to see what I am talking about, watch the AZ game. Watch what that AZ DC does. Honestly. He blitzes as much or more than Williams does. But is it high risk?
Nope. Because he challenges the offense all over the field. There is nothing there … and then his pass rush gets there. Really. Watch that game, what AZ is doing. That is the RIGHT way to blitz. That guy is streets ahead of Williams, and not because he doesn’t blitz.
And now for the question of continuity. It is so tempting, so attractive to think that “another year in the system” will pay off.
But is that what we have seen this year? Think about it. The 1st half sucked. OK, you could say that the guys were learning the system. I don’t buy that, but it would be a plausible read.
Then what happens. The light goes on and we play like heroes for a month. And THEN …
Then we give up the run to a lousy AZ offense. And we crater against Peyton’s less talented brother.
IF the problem was the team learning the system, how could it flip so quickly from excellence to suddenly forgetting how the system works? Guys who were making the system hum for a quarter of the season suddenly can’t figure out how to run it? Does that really make any sense?
Well, what the hell do I know? Fisher will last and keep Williams and we’ll watch him try to run this unit again next year. I have very lousy expectations. My only consolation?
When we’re 6-9 again next year, no one will be able to say, “they need another year in the system.”
I wouldn’t think …
Well, i dunno, RFL. You may be right, i have no idea.
But i do know, that GW’s system worked not that long
ago in New Orleans — they won a Ring with him.
And that Defense, as i recall gave up a lot of yards
and big plays, but they also got a ton of turnovers.But of course, they were paired with a very potent Offense.
Btw…If the Rams do just one thing next year — if they eliminate
all the Pick-6’s and Fumbles-for-TDs — they should
have a winning record. And i think those bad-plays
can be eliminated IF they make good personnel decisions
on the OLINE. We’ll see if Snisher can fix the Oline.w
v
Well to me, OBJ is just defending himself.
Ogletree is hitting him OUT OF BOUNDS.
Why ‘wouldnt’ OBJ grab Ogletree’s facemask at THAT point?I mean, where is the FIRST infraction? — Ogletree continuing
to hit OBJ out of bounds.Its irrelevant that Ogletree ‘started’ to hit OBJ
inbounds — the problem was Ogletree CONTINUED
to hit OBJ out of bounds.w
vI understand what RFL is saying.
Trust is something that one can have or not have in someone based on experience, past performance and using that to reasonable predict he near future. It’s not a feeling. To me, it’s really the same as saying Bradford can be good when healthy, RFL and I just don’t see him ever being healthy enough to have a snowball’s chance of playing without getting hurt again. He cannot run, he cannot evade rushers, he is a one-legged athlete.
For Fischer and Snead NOT to acknowledge that relying on Bradford to be the starter next year and any length of time beyond that would demonstrate to me that they are ignoring the evidence in front of them and they are making an emotional decision to stick with Sam based on – feelings or wishful thinking.
Adrian Peterson came back from a horrific knee injury, maybe Sam can too. History tells us he most likely will not and the Rams need to recognize that.
I have no idea what 2 ACL surgeries portend,
but i thot it was interesting that Fisher said
the knee is not more likely to be injured if its had
a second surgery. I think i heard him say that this week.
Maybe i hallucinated it.Sure would be a great story if Sam ‘could’ come back
and start sixteen games. Who knows. Maybe he’ll
come off the bench next year in the second half of the year
to lead the team to the playoffs. Or maybe he
plays and blows out the knee a THIRD time. So many possible
scenarios.
It will be a weird offseason.w
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