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we became the rams of old. too much Kool aide passed around, and the reality is we are not going to a Superbowl this year. we will make the wildcard though.
 
WoodsideRam said:
Kyren does a lot of things well. I like him. But he is a fumbler. Fumbles are backbreakers. Can't have them. Only RB I've ever seen solve that problem is Tiki Barber. (remember that Toby Wright hit on Barber?)

Jimmy Johnson's solution to that problem on those great Cowboys teams was to cut the guy. He cut a guy on the plane once because he was a fumbler. That's harsh. But he understood why it's unacceptable. It was also a different game back then.
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Lawrence McCutcheon had a fumbling problem his first year as a starter with the Rams, so Knox started making him carry a football around everywhere. That's what McVay should do any time Kyren is in the facility and tell other around him to try to knock it out. Maybe Kyren can develop some muscle memory that will instinctively make him put two hands on the ball in traffic.

The thing about getting a reputation as a fumbler is that once it's established, opposing teams try even harder to make you fumble, and it becomes a viscous feedback loop. Cleveland Gary was a notorious fumbler, and with his reputation you would see teams try even harder to make him drop rock.

snackdaddy said:
Lets be real. The defense played poorly. Against a depleted offense with a subpar line. They were picked apart by a backup quarterback. He had all day the throw most times. Threw mostly underneath and the defense let them have it. The only surprise was they didn't score 35 points. The way the defense played teams like Detroit, Philly, GB, Wash, TB would score over 40. They were that bad.
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The defensive effort is on Shula and McVay. Shula for coming up with this gameplan and McVay for letting him and then not getting in his grill and telling him to adjust. And it's even more inexcusable for McVay because he's seen the 9ers beat us with this dink and dunk so many times and yet he lets his DCs still use this gameplan against them. We lost to the 9ers under Staley with this gameplan and lost to them under Raheem with this gameplan. Last year, when we beat the 9ers in Candlestick, we didn't give up that underneath shit and held them to two FGs. You'd think they'd learn from their failures and their successes but nope.

McVay is a good coach and will usually have the Rams in the playoffs, barring catastrophic injuries. But he's not a great coach, and it's because of things like the above that he could easily fix but chooses not to.

dieterbrock said:
Won a SB without him, and Dallas sent him packing too
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Since Bones got the boot from McVay (in what was an impulsive and stupid decision) our STs have never been as good as they were with Bones. Bones had our STs good even under Fisher. Meanwhile, McVay has cycled through three ST coordinators since then, none of whom have done as good a job as Bones did.

It's like all the shitty CEOs Apple cycled through after shitcanning Jobs in the 80s, only to need Jobs to come rescue the company when they were damn near bankrupt.
 
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I was worried with how the media was sucking us off all week that the Rams players would believe it. All that said, they put themselves in position to win the game a few times and still failed. McVay needs to self evaluate and start putting the most talented players on the field and coach around the fact that if they are not 100% up on all facets of the offense, they can still be useful.

Case in point, Parkinson should be traded for a bag of balls and give Ferguson his reps. That ball that went through his hands, Ferguson likley catches that. Move on from Parkinson, bring up Redmon to be TE4, and add new blood to the PS. Ferguson takes some of the workload off of Nacua and makes it tougher for defenses to focus so much on Puka.

Hunter should at least see some short yardage situations. They say he runs like a truck, well then utilize that skill set.
Hell, bring up AJ Green, he can't be worse than Williams and at least he brings size.

McVay needs to use the talent on the roster to it's fullest.
 
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0311rams said:
we became the rams of old. too much Kool aide passed around, and the reality is we are not going to a Superbowl this year. we will make the wildcard though.
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Season is young.

We have fixable things.

If we fixed our kicking issues we are 5-0.

Need a short yardage package and may need a DB trade late season.

I wouldn’t put it past us to go on another run.
 
thirteen28 said:
Since Bones got the boot from McVay (in what was an impulsive and stupid decision) our STs have never been as good as they were with Bones. Bones had our STs good even under Fisher. Meanwhile, McVay has cycled through three ST coordinators since then, none of whom have done as good a job as Bones did.

It's like all the shitty CEOs Apple cycled through after shitcanning Jobs in the 80s, only to need Jobs to come rescue the company when they were damn near bankrupt.
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I agree the ST havent been great but Bones became a problem, and became a similar problem in Dallas which is why he's now in Tennessee. Culture matters.
 
TXRams86 said:
Defense failed to adjust ylto the short game when the 49ers only had McCaffrey and a WR room of cast offs. Stupid gameplan by Shula. Offensively we couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Everything was there to win the game. Karty can't kick a FG with arch to avoid a block. We setup the Niners to win and they did. Loss is on McVay and the Defense.

We still win the division and super bowl. Fuck the Niners.
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They shouldn't need adjustment when SF comes to the party with the same exact game plan every fucking time. Weeee all know what they are going to kill us with. WTF
 
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dieterbrock said:
I agree the ST havent been great but Bones became a problem, and became a similar problem in Dallas which is why he's now in Tennessee. Culture matters.
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The big problem was the fake punt he ran without McVay's permission, and I certainly understand him being pissed. But I'm not sure shitcanning him was the answer in light of the fact that we have mostly sucked ass on STs since he's been gone.
 
Here's a breakdown of the coverages last night. Anyone see an issue? lol

  • Zone coverage (Cover-2 / Cover-3 / Quarters & other true zones): ~55%
    Rationale: 49ers attacked short/mid areas and the Rams appeared to defend primarily with zone shells more often than tight man in drive recaps.
  • Man / Press-man (Cover-1, man-under): ~25%
    Rationale: Rams will mix man on obvious passing downs and to try to bracket key targets; PFF notes some individual man coverage struggles.
  • Pattern-match / combination (match principles—e.g., quarters with robo-drops / match-coverage spots): ~15%
    Rationale: Modern defenses blend match concepts; you’ll often see hybrid looks that are neither pure zone nor pure man. cover-0 blitz drops, special packages): ~5%

Talk about predictable, Cover 3 (which the rams run the most) is easy to hit intermediate to short passes over the middle and the seam, which the 69ers did again and again, and instead of adjusting they kept running the same zone concepts.

Here's a man 2 man % breakdown per quarter...

  • 1st quarter: ~10–15% man
  • 2nd quarter: ~15–20% man
  • 3rd quarter: ~20–25% man
  • 4th quarter (incl. end-game shots): ~35–45% man ← highest (estimate)
  • Overtime (very small sample): ~50–70% man (small sample effect)

Weird, when we switched to man 2 man coverage our defense started to play better...

Fucking sigh.
 
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thirteen28 said:
The big problem was the fake punt he ran without McVay's permission, and I certainly understand him being pissed. But I'm not sure shitcanning him was the answer in light of the fact that we have mostly sucked ass on STs since he's been gone.
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He needed to go, he was a thorn in McVay's side.
Dallas let him walk too.
Could the Rams have hired a better ST coach? Apparently so but that doesnt mean you keep a rotten apple until you find the new one
Rams won a Superbowl without Bones
 
Stl2La said:

View: https://x.com/53_jim70721/status/1974147520902418763?s=46&t=gEUcKN5ugzpn7hhJJvpNKw


So Avila is healthy enough to be on special teams and fuck it up still? Wtf man
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Ok, So I want to point something out,

The Snapper, go watch another long snapper and let me know when you seem them fail to put out their arms to help hold the DT vs the RG/LG... That's on the LS not Avila.

You might not think an arm in there between him and Avila is going to make a difference but it does. Go watch the blocked kicks early this season, same.exact.situation.
 
dieterbrock said:
He needed to go, he was a thorn in McVay's side.
Dallas let him walk too.
Could the Rams have hired a better ST coach? Apparently so but that doesnt mean you keep a rotten apple until you find the new one
Rams won a Superbowl without Bones
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Dallas had a head coaching change. When he went to the Cowboys, they were shit on special teams and almost immediately he improved them to top-10 status, where they remained throughout his tenure there.

The only thing I know about him being a thorn in McVay's side was the fake punt issue. I don't think characterizing him as a rotten apple is fair, particularly when he did an excellent job with the Cowboys. I think his departure there was more the new HC wanting his own guy, which happens frequently even when the guy being replaced is good.
 
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