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The more i see/hear of this team the less i like Fisher as a coach.
I just thought that team McV put together looks....like an NFL team.
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I have been bashing Fisher for a long time because, to me, coaching failure could be read in continued team failure. I know not everyone bought into that.
But what I have long believed was that it would take the experience of good coaching to bring into relief the degree to which our team failure was largely Fisher's failure.
And I think your one sentence says it brilliantly: we saw a team last night that was COACHED.
That depends. You are of course completely convinced by your argument so naturally you want to believe that with a new (and obviously quite good) coaching staff, others will soon see it your way.
I for one don't. I turn the tables on the "failing to see" thing and note this: if over the next 4 years the large majority of Rams games are played with both extensive OL injuries AND #2
caliber qbs, I don't think they will do as well as expected.
Looking at 2012-2015 (cause IMO 2016 was an entirely different animal) do you know how many Rams games were played with BOTH a relatively healthy OL and a #1 caliber qb? Well not counting Foles as a starting caliber qb---which I think he is still proving (no starting offers in a qb starved league)---the total of 64 games played under those conditions was 15.
15 of 64.
Btw I don't count Mannion as a #2 caliber qb, I think he's starting to prove he's at least an average starter in terms of his caliber.
So no not everyone sees all that the same way.
And that's nothing against the new coaching stuff, which I think is high quality (I already believed in Kromer and Phillips before the season), or the new team, which looks very good so far, to the point where it's easy to expect more of the same.
Of course one reason they looked so good last night is because they aren't relying on a #2 caliber qb (Keenum) to be a placeholder for one of the greenest qbs to ever play for a Rams team (Goff, from the Air Raid college spread).
I like this team and this staff. A lot, actually. But not everyone will ever agree that the last 5 years was JUST coaching. I for one hope that the new regime remains much more stable at qb and on the OL. That will be a considerable help.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2017 10:49AM by zn.
