Lack of help at safety made all the Rams CB's look bad until those positions were fixed. Keep the play in fromt of you, don't give up big plays was the mantra for an understaffed secondary - especially at the safety positions. Even Jalen Ramsey was made to look bad when a safety didn't arrive in time.
Williams probably could have made more picks, passes defensed, if he were playing closer to the LOS. It would have looked spectacular at times - but at the cost of escapees from pressing corners that got free deep for chunk plays and TD's?
Last year our CB's looked better becuse their safeties were picking up the slack - not because Morris all-of-a-sudden saw the light andstarted playing them closer to the LOS more often. Morris played the hand he was dealt, in terms of talent on the field and orders from the top.
I think Williams will be fine. It remains to be seen how much slack McVay will cut him in terms of defensive philosophy right down through gameday play-calling, and what Shula does with it. That, more than age, will affect how Williams plays.
