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Rams were awful in key situations and no not just the oline
Well they did look like they had not practiced but once in 2 weeks. And that that was not going to cut it against a top team (2nd on defense) that had the Rams in their sights as their statement game.
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Here's the thing about bad OL play.
Once you have that, it takes the qb with it.
There are rare exceptions, like Brady or Wilson, but there are still times when they have been knocked off their game too.
As a rule I don't accept criticisms of a qb who is playing behind a struggling OL unless the critic has lots and lots of examples of qbs who did well under those conditions. I consider this a "2+2=4" and/or "duh!" level point--if the OL struggles the qb will too. Timing is off, trust is broken, the qb can;t play his game.
So for me there is no such thing as "the OL was bad and the qb was too." It's usually--with the rare exceptions I mentioned--"the OL was bad and therefore the qb was too."
For me this kind of discussion goes back to 2007 when the Rams had the longest list of OL injuries they have ever had since I knew them, YET, there were some who were trying to argue the problem was Bulger. I am still flabbergasted by that. It's like the thing we were talking about had a bill, feathers, wings, webbed feet, waddled on land and paddled in water, and went "quack," yet some people were still saying "that's a hedgehog!"
I saw the Baldinger vid a couple of days ago and yes it's well worth watching and posting.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/16/2019 04:02AM by zn.
