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Atlantic Ram
I mean the niners are I think last in the league defensively (yardage) and despite the gift goose egg the Rams handed them they are still averaging giving up 22 points a game.
And I do believe that the Rams are throwing the ball down the field more. So I do think Boras is trying to be more successful. I credit him for that.
They were throwing the ball downfield last year, including games with Boras at OC and Keenum at qb. In fact the percentage of attempts on long passes is not that different from last year. So in terms of throwing the ball downfield, the SF game is one exception out of 9 Boras/Keenum games.
Here's what I think happened.
First, what SF did was not just crowd the box, they ran stunts and games and made the OL have to figure out on the fly who to block. With a relatively inexperienced OL in a new system they did not quite have down yet, that just caused a lot of confusion and hesitation.
As D'Marco Farr says---who is the one who spotted this and first talked about it---when the OL hesitates so does Gurley.I saw an offense out of sync. For a lot of reasons including what I just listed.
I think the 9ers pulled a number with their defensive attack and it worked, is what I think. In fact we did not see that attack last year with Boras/Keenum and this year we not only saw SF do it, we saw every defense since copy it.
And remember. This is not "they crowded the box." That's only PART of it. They were also mobile and shifted players through stunts etc. and made this OL figure out on the fly who they were supposed to block. The defense didn't help either. In fact we know the Rams changed the defense up after that game.
If SF could figure out the exact plays...which, with all due respect, I just doubt in the extreme...then why couldn't the next few teams. Especially Seattle and Arizona, who know the Rams and (in the case of Seattle) played the Keenum/Boras combo at the end of the year last year.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/08/2016 06:54PM by zn.
