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Some however either made bad picks or signings
Or saw the OL wiped out by the kind of extensive injuries you don't just shrug off.
Or both.
No one--not Vermeil, not Martz, not Linehan, not Spags, not Fisher--DIDN'T understand the significance of the OL.
Sometimes though it just did not work. For the reasons listed.
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For whatever reason(s), the Ram OL has not been a part of the solution since Fisher came on board.
To be fair, it's hard to remember a strong Ram OL since the playoff days of yesteryear, isn't it?
But I think that McVay is all over it now, and we will see at least decent OL results in the immediate future.
HC's (and all execs) get what they demand from their charges. Just the way it is.
That;s not accurate 43. First the Rams OL was a wreck from 2006 on. There are some exceptions. It made it through the season relatively healthy and intact in 2010, and that year played okay. Decent. In the first half of 2012 it was an injured mess, but then was relatively healthy and played well from the 2nd half of 2012 through most of 2013. 2014 the big story was multiple injuries, and in 2015 it was being inexperienced (which came from replacing an extensively injured line with a very inexperienced line) and of top of it was ALSO massively injured.
Sorry but this is just not a "Fisher war" type of topic. It doesn't lend itself to that. Rams OL issues go way back, injuries are a HUGE part of that long story, and the truth is that whenever in the post-2011 era the Rams had a decently veteran OL that was also relatively healthy, it was effective.
Rams OL issues going back to 2006 and span 4 head coaches, 3 GMs, and 3 owners.
Putting it all on one coach is just not possible. Doing that just simply does not account for the facts. In fact Fisher OLs had more decent series of consecutive games than all Linehan and Spags OLs combined.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/18/2017 04:16PM by zn.
