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PARAM said:
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun to watch. We can run. We can pass. And we have 4 TEs who can block and catch!!! Quite the conundrum for defenses. I think 12 is even more imposing than 13. Two TEs, a RB, Davante and Puka. Who you gonna cover? What are you gonna defend? Love Higbee, Allen and Parkinson but I'm waiting for Ferguson to explode.
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It's incredible how much improvement that room has had this season. The TE Coach has made his money. Because what drives the 13 sets is the players actually being able to do what they're doing. I don't think it would have looked like this last season, for example, had they tried it.

I mean everyone in the media thinks McVay loves 11. But really he only had one TE worth a shit in Higs. Now we have Allen blocking like a boss, and he's got good hands and can easily get overlooked due to that blocking ability. Plus Ferg who is a matchup nightmare for LBs or Edges, and who is always open vs most DBs. He just needs to get better at bodying the DBs, i.e. putting his body between them and the ball, and he's going to be a beast. And even Parkinson has stepped up and is easy to overlook.

When a TE can block defenses will buy that early snap fake block and that's how you end up with a TE running loose in your secondary. And Ferg has the juice to stretch seams, in the game yesterday SF had a LB on him and he fucking left that dude like he was standing still. It looked like the teenager being covered by his little brother. :laugh3:

Feels so good to have the TE position doing what it's doing. Been a long damn time coming for this organization.
 
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Merlin said:
1. Stafford is hyper focused this season. He has the same look he had during our playoff run. I think his form is the single greatest difference.

2. Weapon quality in the pass game. One thing about Stafford is when you give him better weapons you feel the difference. OBJ was a revelation during the title run. We're seeing the same difference with addition of Adams thus far as well as TE emergence with Allen and Ferg.

3. OL is better at this point than it was at this point last season. They still started slow, but we're seeing them round into form now.

4. Run defense is night and day. This defense can put teams into third and long and then tee off. Only weakness has been the corners, but we should be at our strongest as the December sched hits.

If you look at title metrics mid-season I think the best indicator of playoff success is a stingy defense. Generally a team that can finish sub 20ppg gives themselves a strong chance. Then the rare defenses are below 16ppg. Rams are currently at 15.9ppg, only Houston has been better and they have shit offense.

Rams look like a Super Bowl contender. They're a final four quality team no doubt about it.
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Yeah...when it comes to the Oline...the Rams were practically on crutches early on last year. They got healthier in the 2nd half of the season. Let's not forget how well they played at the Eagles. As someone said today "beating the Rams was the Eagles SB"!!!
 
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jrry32 said:
IMO, the two big differences:
1. Defense has continued to play to the level it did late in the season.
2. Adams has proved to be the redzone weapon we hoped he would be, curing some of our ills there.
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I'd add that Adams is another weapon to beat man coverage which stymied our offense a ton last year. His work on dagger alone is *chef's kiss*
 
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WestCoastRam said:
I'd add that Adams is another weapon to beat man coverage which stymied our offense a ton last year. His work on dagger alone is *chef's kiss*
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I'll add one other significant thing...the TEs are fully in the mix these last 2 weeks...and Fergie is a serious TE deep threat...so now, like Snow White, I'm now clapping my hands!!!


Happy Snow White GIF by Disney
 
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Karate61 said:
With all this good stuff going on this season, how'd they manage to screw up the special teams?
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Lately, the starting field position of the opposing team after we kick off has been a problem.
Guys are getting bunched up and are taking themselves out of the play, allowing for a longer return.
Yesterday, I think the whiners had excellent starting field position on both KO's and punts for most of the game.
ST's are, and have been a problem for the last several games, after being at least decent in previous ones.
 
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I really think this is a McVay problem. I hope we don't have to loose a playoff game cause of it for him to take it seriously.
 
The beauty is the Rams have 3-4 good pass catching TEs. So what may look like a running play turns into a passing play. They totally fooled the whiners with the final nail in the coffin for the whiners. :laugh3:
 
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Steve808 said:
The beauty is the Rams have 3-4 good pass catching TEs. So what may look like a running play turns into a passing play. They totally fooled the whiners with the final nail in the coffin for the whiners. :laugh3:
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And Ferguson hasn't truly arrived yet. Wait until he comes into his own. I gotta believe not only will we be more lethal passing out of that formation with one more guy for the defense to truly worry about, we'll be way more lethal running out of it.
 
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kmramsfan said:
Lately, the starting field position of the opposing team after we kick off has been a problem.
Guys are getting bunched up and are taking themselves out of the play, allowing for a longer return.
Yesterday, I think the whiners had excellent starting field position on both KO's and punts for most of the game.
ST's are, and have been a problem for the last several games, after being at least decent in previous ones.
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Yep. I think every kick off except one was into the end zone. The one that wasn’t got returned past the 35 if I recall. But you’re right. The gunners have been out of the play on punts and it’s the second or third level making the stops. We have to be ranked near the bottom on return defense.
 
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Health. Devante. Run Defense. Experience of the young core, Depth
13 personnel and a creative and flexible coaching staff
 
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Merlin said:
4. Run defense is night and day. This defense can put teams into third and long and then tee off. Only weakness has been the corners, but we should be at our strongest as the December sched hits.
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This should have been number one.
We kind of knew the rest of the team could do that when properly motivated.
 
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