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Is not Fisher's blunder as much as being content to field an offensive on the premis he could sort of plug and play anyone around Todd Gurley. He also gambled the future of the franchise to the tutelage of understudies and not the grand direction of an offensive mastermind.
Those are undeniable and hard to classify as mere speculation. Being ready never conotates success only that the rudimentary skills and awareness are evident. Being coached expertly and having sound gameplan and scheme built around your strengths is the only true leverage for success a coach can wield in my opinion.
I doubt a more capable coach would have been content with what Jeff quickly settled on before making the huge investment we made.
With all due respect, and so on. (Lots of people today are getting into absolutist board warring and I want to avoid that. Reasonable people can legitimately differ on a lot of these things.) So...no that's not speculation. But it is precisely just opinion. And as such it is always counterable and even deniable.
What's not deniable is that the Rams belong to the NFL and play in Los Angeles.
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not NOT deniable is the long list of things you put there as your opinion. From a different perspective, a different way of looking at it, you have not produced irrefutable facts, but like what I am about to write, an opinion.
And it's of course not crazy opinion. It;s not based on ludicrous things, or any of that. But it is still opinion.
Would the offense be better if it were coordinated by an offensive mastermind? Well depends on who counts as that and how many there are. Do you think there's a long list of unemployed Norv Turners just waiting for a call? Or maybe you just mean a more experienced coordinator. It is true that this is the first time Boras has every installed a new offense, and he had to do it after a team move (teams VERY rarely win after moving). But then 3 veteran coordinators have been fired so far this season, and all 3 were anywhere from respected to very respected---Olson, Roman, Trestman. So maybe the veteran coordinator thing isn't that surefire.
We always want to watch out for strawman ways of putting things and hyperbole---and I doubt anyone genuinely believes Fisher could just put ANYONE around Todd Gurley. In fact he traded up to the 1st pick in the draft to get his qb. That's not just "anyone." And so forth.
Actually in many ways the offense has been doing well, though it has been stalled in other ways at the same time. For example if you see them as improving after the 1st 2 games, and look only at the numbers from the last 5 games, they have not been this good on 3rd down conversions since 2003 (and 3rd down conversions is just one of several things it turns out they are pretty good at).
So something is working.
The questions that remain I think are 2.
First, can they fix the running game.
Second, can the defense stay at the level it was against the Giants (as opposed to the breakdown v. Detroit).
If those 2 things happen, they have enough other things going right for the offense to play well enough for wins.
So yeah since what you offered is an opinion everything you say is deniable from the point of view of another opinion (which is all that I offer here, just another, different opinion).
BUT none of this matters IMO unless the 2 things I describe happen. Continuing good defense, no inconsistent breakdowns. Find the running game. If they do that, they have more on offense than IMO some people are giving them credit for. I personally think that if those 2 things happen, you might have a different opinion.