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dzrams
I didn't really follow what you're saying is not correct. All I said was that Brady hasn't been kept perfectly clean and that in general we do know how he performs under pressure. No one was narrowing that to injury depleted OLs.
As I have stressed, my focus is beyond injury broken up OLs. And for what it's worth, I don't believe Goff is playing any longer under an injury broken up OL. His new OL is performing much better than his old one.
I daresay your focus is not the only one that can shed light on the Rams situation. To me, as I have said, reducing it to "qbs under pressure" ignores the very different and much more unusual situation of dealing with subpar/broken OLs, which is its entirely own dynamic.
I didn't just say injured OL, in accounting for the Rams situation I also want to factor in the fact that they began the season with an out of sync OL that was the product of (a) both tackles regressing, and (b) playing 2 newbies on a line that included regressing OTs. Accounting for that is why I keep saying "subpar."
You said "We do know over a decade plus that he has done very well under pressure." That ignores the fact that he had one year at least with a broken OL and that is very pertinent to the Rams situation. Either way it did catch up with him--and yet Brady is one of the 2 exceptions I list when I say that the majority of the time, and I mean vast majority of the time, you field a subpar and/or broken OL, and the qb goes down with it. Because, again, that situation involves a lot more than simply "being under pressure."
We agree about the new OL. In terms of that new OL, it is just plain wonderful luck that the Rams happened to be rebuilding the OL for 2020 at the same time they had 3 OL injuries. Normally a team with multiple OL injuries does not have luck like that. Most teams simply do not have the depth to field 3 capable replacements. Not unless they drafted 5 linemen in 2 years and then traded for a 6th...something which is rarely done, but which the Rams did do, all in a bid to update the line in 2020. Then 2019 came calling and the process was sped up.
But as you would expect from a line with 3 inexperienced starters (2 rookies and 1 complete newbie 2nd year guy), so far anyway, when they have faced a tougher defense they were stymied in at least one game (Baltimore is not only 10th on defense, they lead the league in blitzing). (Chicago was missing Hicks, which made them not the same as they were in 2018, but they were still ranked 5th on D.)
Maybe it will gel going forward and stand up to SF and Dallas (9th on defense). If so that is a huge gift. But even if it doesn't, the 2020 OL will not only be rebuilt, but now some of the key components, while young, will have had valuable game experience in the system.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2019 06:07PM by zn.
