What's going on with the L.A. Rams?
5-4. Wow. I mean, this team got figured out. They are struggling to win games. And they have a bunch of tough games left on the schedule.
I think Belichick figured them out and showed the rest of the league how to contain them. Plus I've always thought that Goff was vastly overrated as well.
I think it's interesting that neither of the two young coaching "geniuses", McVay or Nagy, have been able to adjust and respond to defenses learning how to play them.
@"SFVikingFan" said:I think it's interesting that neither of the two young coaching "geniuses", McVay or Nagy, have been able to adjust and respond to defenses learning how to play them.
Its a really good point. The media, of course, wanted to crown their asses as they do. If you have bad to very inconsistent QB play, you can't do shit in this league. I'll tell you, my favorite young coach is Kyle Shanahan: I think that is one smart dude. Innovative and unpredictable. The most underrated is John Harbaugh, by a mile. He's got something interesting going on over there in Baltimore.
I think their OL has gone to sh!t too. Goff doesn't have all day to throw, and their running game isn't scaring anyone. We know how well QBs and offenses work when there isn't anyone being blocked.
Living in LA, I can tell you that a lot of the Rams issues is about the offensive line. Andrew Whitworth got old real quick (he is now 37) -- he is playing poorly. Sullivan is gone (physically he was struggling last year but he still was the brains behind the line calls, etc.) The new starting center was injured yesterday. Starting guard Joe Noteboom was lost for the season a few weeks ago. By the end of yesterday's game, Coleman Shelton, an undrafted free agent from Washington, was playing because of injuries. Their offensive line is really, really poor right now. And Goff does not play well when under pressure -- that has always been known.
@"VikingOracle" said: Living in LA, I can tell you that a lot of the Rams issues is about the offensive line. Andrew Whitworth got old real quick (he is now 37) -- he is playing poorly. Sullivan is gone (physically he was struggling last year but he still was the brains behind the line calls, etc.) The new starting center was injured yesterday. Starting guard Joe Noteboom was lost for the season a few weeks ago. By the end of yesterday's game, Coleman Shelton, an undrafted free agent from Washington, was playing because of injuries. Their offensive line is really, really poor right now. And Goff does not play well when under pressure -- that has always been known.
Thanks for the insight, Oracle. I knew something had to be up.
I had heard that the Rams were giving Goff all the reads in the helmet and belicheat figured out that if you wait till the 15 second mark on the play clock when it turns off that he’s needing to make the reads himself.
IMO their secondary and Oline are suspect.
The Rams sent Peters packing and are trying to fix their secondary midseason, that usually doesn't work.
Gurleys chronic knee issues are affecting his game.
@"AGRforever" said: I had heard that the Rams were giving Goff all the reads in the helmet and belicheat figured out that if you wait till the 15 second mark on the play clock when it turns off that he’s needing to make the reads himself.
Zimmer did that back in 17 when we whooped them in Minnesota.
Also, as Oracle stated, their o-line is shambles and with Gurley not healthy, their offense doesn't scare people. That offense runs thru Gurley.
@"AGRforever" said: I had heard that the Rams were giving Goff all the reads in the helmet and belicheat figured out that if you wait till the 15 second mark on the play clock when it turns off that he’s needing to make the reads himself.
The mic in the helmet is a joke to begin with. What happened to letting the players play the game? Coaches trying to control every aspect of the game (in all sports) bleeds down to the lower levels and the kids never really learn how to figure it out for themselves.
Makes sense, OL, Lose Gurley, Belichek exposed em big time and Goff is over-rated
Rams, Brownies and Bears - biggest laugher/disappointments of the season so far.
@"VikingOracle" said: Living in LA, I can tell you that a lot of the Rams issues is about the offensive line. Andrew Whitworth got old real quick (he is now 37) -- he is playing poorly. Sullivan is gone (physically he was struggling last year but he still was the brains behind the line calls, etc.) The new starting center was injured yesterday. Starting guard Joe Noteboom was lost for the season a few weeks ago. By the end of yesterday's game, Coleman Shelton, an undrafted free agent from Washington, was playing because of injuries. Their offensive line is really, really poor right now. And Goff does not play well when under pressure -- that has always been known.
It really is their biggest issue... that and the fact that their running game is not anywhere as good as it was the past two seasons. Chris Simms was on ESPN radio yesterday and he pointed out that if you look at what the Rams were doing last year and the year before... everything was predicated off of Gurley. They would fake jet sweep motion and hand it off to Gurley... then they would do jet sweep motion and hand it off to one of their WRs... then they would fake the jet sweep motion and do a play-action pass with Gurley in the backfield... it was all mis-direction to exploit matchups and keep defenses worrying about whether it was a Gurley run, jet sweep with a WR, or play-action pass.
For as good an offensive mind as McVay is... he's struggling right now to figure out how to get them on track. The Rams offense looks terrible and Goff isn't good enough to carry that side of the ball when the running game isn't working.
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