This is why most 3rd down passes go to Puka. That doesn't happen. Plus over the middle Devante is hearing steps. If Stafford doesn't hit him in the numbers it is 50/50 he is dropping them.It was a true veteran performance. All the greats have these. A bit off and facing a defense on their game.
You have to have a level of patience in not forcing stuff. Cut your losses and trust the defense a bit.
Darnold was the Antithesis today to Stafford's approach. Darnold forced stuff.
The only thing that really bothered me about our pass game was the last incompletion to Davante where we could of sealed it. How on God's green earth does a play get called (in such a critical situation) and the QB and WR are not on the same page. I understand choice routes and all that but it reminded me of when Kupp and Stafford would be on two different pages.
I put this one Mcvay. Call a damn play that you have practiced 100 times and QB and WR know where the ball is going.
It's not rocket science. Or maybe it is.
Stafford would have needed more than 2.5 seconds for it to matter. This Oline still needs to improve.Maybe Tutu would have made a difference.
The refs let teams that press manhandle receivers. Especially if they are known to do it. They get away with contact past the 5 yards and tic tac PIs like what happened to Forbes don't get called. It is also why I have said many times over the years, that the Rams need to have bigger stronger DBs.
We're a better team with Adams than we were last year. But like I keep saying he seems to me to be so defensive about contact that it affects his ability to bring balls in. He's had quite a few drops that a true top end wideout would not have made.
All of those points are valid and made it more difficult for Stafford. But the bar is pretty high for him, since he's one of the best there's ever been at the position, and I dare anyone to tell me otherwise. With the difficult circumstance of losing OBJ in the Super Bowl (with gameplan centered around him), and having the Bengals play D like they knew what we were doing, Stafford does stuff like hitting Kupp on a no-look critical pass when he's the only guy getting the ball.
You think so? I think Ferguson would be a guy I would want running 40% WR routes and 60% underneath. He's got great hands and he's pretty damn quick.
Agreed. And more importantly I would expect McVay to desire that as well, seeing how he never drafts high enough to find a true X wideout. And it just so happens multiple big X type wideouts look capable of slotting in the first 20 or so picks of the first round. There's some who should slot second round as well, but teams are gonna want them as they're a supply/demand role similar to LT and big CB1 types.
That’s what I saw, too.
