As I mentioned I saw only the last 3/4 of the second half. That's all I can go by as of now... I'm definitely going to watch the entire game.
I saw improvement everywhere. That isn't to say I saw good football. I have nothing to say about the starting OL, apparently the 'low' spot of the game, I didn't see the starters, much. The team just looked different to me, noticeably different.. top to bottom. Everything was quicker paced. The "D" quite remarkable in this regard but the offense quicker as well.
I'm thinking, comparing, 1st preseason game last year vs this year. The Ram's are a different team.
Expectations... when I think of big improvement in W's for any given year I don't think in terms of sudden and eye-opening efficiency. I think that may be different than a lot of you who do see big improvement in that way... sudden, immediate. Most of the posts I'm reading after this game seem to be comparing what the Ram's did yesterday to that 'immediate' hope. As positive as I am about this year I didn't expect a whole lot of 'sudden'... yet the overall pace, mostly the coherence of play, approached that quick level of 'improvement' to me despite a lot of bad plays.
As I watched I truly believe I saw a cohesiveness quite extraordinarily different compared to last year. They looked more in sync. Sloppy, a lot, but almost without fail 'on the same page'.
I came to the board expecting to see others who noticed that as well.... but didn't. Hmmm. I was, in all honestly, somewhat surprised by that. The score tally took precedence? I don't know perhaps. The fumbles blinding anything else that might have occurred in the game? Maybe.
As the game ended I had been convinced that this is a very different team. Better? We'll see.... but while not 100% sure I'm 90% sure that the McVay/Wade era DID begin. Lot of ways to be bad, lot of ways to be good... whichever turns out to be the case change has come. - JamesJM
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