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JamesJM
I was stuck speechless with how inept the offense was... and that was when they were winning, (starting in game two). That first game.. lets not rehash it for sanities sake... I consider the worst performance I have ever witnessed in the NFL, period. NOT just the Rams.
Now please allow me to repeat that... because I'm not exaggerating here: "STRUCK SPEECHLESS".. it was beyond belief. I had no idea that level of ineptness was attainable.
I had no idea what to think, what to post on the board, couldn't come up with words to express it. Words like 'pitiful' didn't come close to expressing the failure of the O. Using the analogy of a D4 cellar dweller High School team being able to trounce them, (offensively), did not seem outrageous to me. I wondered if they could have scored had there been no defense on the field opposing them.
Now as the season wore on I found my voice.... even when the losing began they rose above 'worst ever'. But I still consider the start, first two games at least... the worst I have ever witnessed.... and they were .500 in those first two games. (Seattle that day looked like they were trying to strip the Rams of the worst ever title).
I once saw a meteorite hit the ground. True story.... how many have seen that? None of you. I actually saw it... in 10000 lifetimes most won't see something like that... yet that's pretty close to how I explain the Rams opening 2016 season. IT CAN NOT HAPPEN AGAIN, not in my lifetime or the next 10,000 generations.
That the Rams will be improved this year is a given, to me. Can't be anything other than that. If it is - then mermaids exist, LOTR is true history, and Kim Kardashian is the most talented human on earth. - JamesJM
I just saw those first 2 games as them being out of sync. They looked the same in the opening games in 2011 after switching systems to MCD's offense without an off-season because of the lockout. In 2016, they learned a new offense (basically) from a first-time coordinator during a move. They just did not know the offense. Either in 2011 or 2016. The next 4 games in fact they picked up the pace, except for Gurley, who never got untracked all year (for lots of different reasons, including Gurley). Extrapolating is only meant to give people a comparative idea and outside of that it's not real, but if you took the next 4 games and ranked the output against league-wide 16 game totals, the Rams at that point were
7th in passing yards, 12th in TD passes, 12th in sacks allowed, and 1st in 3rd down conversion percentage.However at that point the defense was starting to unravel a bit too.
So if you look at the offense in stages, in the 1st 2 games they are numbed and don't have the offense down, in the next 4 they are actually doing okay especially if you consider the fact they can't run the ball (except the Tampa game).
Then they enter different stages, where because of injuries the defense falls even further apart, and by then they are starting a rookie qb.
I always say not just one thing caused 2016 and IMO that's true. Add to it the fact that 2016 itself was not just one thing.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/2017 08:25PM by zn.