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Rams43
Kudos for raising the topic again, UK.
Look, I’m a far cry from anything even resembling an NFL coach. There are many far better X’s and O’s guys on this board, alone.
But even to me, this much seems obvious if one wanted to design a gameplan to attack the Ram D.
Run the danged ball. Run it early and run it often. Running teams often gain 175-200 yards on the ground vs the Rams. And as a bonus one wins the TOP battle which keeps the ball out of the hands of Goff, Gurley, et al.
Use one’s TE heavily in passing game. Rams are terrible defending this.
After 13 games these two holes have not been fixed. Draw your own conclusions.
Running the ball takes time; it's not a way to score quickly so if that is your strategy you CAN'T fall behind.
Which means your team must also have a good enough defense to stop the Rams from scoring a lot of points. If the Rams get ahead in the 1st quarter, as is customary, your running and heavy TE usage strategy gets tossed out the nearest window.
See it's like this: Mike Tyson said 'everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth!" We tend to punch teams in the mouth before they punch us.
For all you worry warts, the reality is, there are not that many complete teams in the NFL. This is why there have only been 2 so far - really only 1 in Chicago - who could execute this strategy.
IOW, it's not a formula that easily repeatable. That's good news!!!!
