Under Fisher, the Rams were regularly outcoached.
Coaching is more than scheming, although as McVay puts it, it’s his responsibility to put players in position to succeed. To his credit...in public he always criticizes himself and compliments everyone else, including the players for both teams, other coaches, the training staff, the fans, the league, and even the refs. BTW, this too is part of coaching.
Perhaps in the Vikings and Eagles games, losing two top corners will affect your defense? Maybe the other teams players (Russell Wilson, Carson Wentz, Case Keenum, Alvin Kamara, Fletcher Cox, Adam Theilan, J Clowney) make plays that defeat even good playcalls through remarkable talent and effort. Perhaps fumbles are part coaching and part luck of right place, right time.
In his coaches show, McVay explains that sometimes he makes bad calls and the players make it look good. He WONT SAY that sometimes he makes good calls but the players don’t properly execute them (though we all know this happens). On the Chris Long strip, Williams ran Long waaayyy past the QB. IMO, he did his job. Jared simply held the ball too long but McVay won’t throw him under the bus.
In every game, there are plays where you win and lose in terms of scheming. Only the Redskin and Viking games do I think there were more plays better schemed by the opponent’s coaches than plays by ours. But it would take a lot of counting and qualifyied analysis to determine if that’s true.
Riddle me this, what coach has elevated his team the most from last year to this? What aspects of “coaching” do fans have the hubris to suspect they could do better? Should I point to a handful of playcalls I disagree with while discounting dozens that worked and I don’t even know why? If Philly stacks the box w 8 as their base defense so McVay attacks the weakness and Gurley still averages over 7 yards a carry, should I be simple minded enough to assume McVay should have run the ball more? I hope not.
Anyway, threads like this drive me nuts.