Re: See, this is the kind of thing I don't get.
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RockRam
You talk about "blind spots" as though you or others can see things McVay doesn't. We have no knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes and why certain decisions are made as they are, and there is no way that Coaches just tell the media everything they know or why they did what they did.
Sure, our Kicking has been abysmal. I hate it. You think McVay doesn't know that? The issue is what is the best solution? Our solution is always to fire the current Kicker and just pick up some guy sitting at home assuming he'll be better. Everyone goes crazy because they didn't keep Mason Crosby, but then he goes out and misses the game winning FG as well as an extra point.
There's a reason the top Kickers get paid as they do, and why a bunch of guys are sitting at home.
And there are reasons why McVay calls games as he does. This is sports. You have an opponent, and they don't always co-operate with your plans. These are humans. They have good games and less than good games. This is why computers will never be able to pick winners any better than smart football guys, and even then there is no accounting for the human factor.
I guess I just feel like as fans there is sometimes a thought pattern that we know more than McVay and Snead do.
Here sits the Rams, in the playoffs, with a winning record when by all rights they shouldn't be here. And we gripe? I'll never get it, I guess.
Well said. No coach bats a thousand. No coach is a genius when he gets his roster wrong (in conjunction with the GM) in the offseason. On gamedays he gets criticized for too many passes, but when the runs get stuffed it was too predictable and what was he thinking. Which honestly is something we all do. But to me it's important to keep in mind the quality of the HC here even when you're doing that and the group as a whole can easily go over the cliff building on each other. And that result irritates me to no end.
I think there's a bit of an art to being a fan. Where you can get the most from your time invested in the team and suffer less frustration, and it starts with not expecting perfection. Understanding there's going to be series where your offense doesn't get first downs, or your defense or teams gives up big plays. I wasn't always like that, personally. And we're all gonna freak out time to time but at least philosophically having a note in your head in that regard helps a ton. At least in my experience as I am a bit of a hothead to say the least.
We are blessed as fans right now and have the right leader in place and it sure feels great doesn't it.
