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Same old excuses. Injuries.
Happen to every Team but the good ones overcome it.
Go Rams!!!!!!!!!!
I don't see injuries as an
excuse for our failures....they are a reality and
you're right good teams overcome and we are not good and have not overcome them like we would want.
But injuries are
reasons why some of our failures have happened.
No, it is demonstrably NOT true that all teams overcome ALL kinds of injuries, even good ones.
That's a myth. Worse, it's a slogan without anything real behind it.
When a crucial unit is overcome with multiple injuries teams do NOT overcome it.
So for example, tell me the Rams should expect the same kind of defensive production if they lost Quinn, Donald, and Hayes for the season. Anyone who then said "good teams overcome that" would just be wrong.
Same with EXTENSIVE, MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS OL injuries...as the Rams have demonstrated year after year, going back to 2007.
If you combine a mutliply injured OL with qb issues, you don't just "overcome that." Over the years I have said that, and continuously ask everyone, name me examples of teams that DID overcome that. There has never been a credible response. From anyone, across years. There's a reason for that.
Heck sometimes you don't even need the qb issues. It's a rare qb who can play effectively with extensively damaged OLs. Guys like Bulger, Flacco, Eli, and even Luck are taken down a peg or 2 or more when their OLs fall apart to that extent.
So remember---it's never just "injuries." It's MULTIPLE EXTENSIVE SIMULTANEOUS INJURIES TO A KEY UNIT, SUCH AS THE OL. That distinction is important.
And you're right, calling that "excuses" is just to evade the real issues.
Zack,
How do you explain the Rams O-line this year, then? By any objective measure, they have been relatively healthy. Not trying to disprove the injury theory, it's legitimate. But in this instance, I believe the talent level (as a whole) and offensive scheme (see Fisher) are the real culprits.
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