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QB ratings playing under Fisher:
Sam Bradford- 85.3
Case Keenum- 79.5
Jared Goff- 63.6

After leaving Fisher:
Sam Bradford- 94.6
Case Keenum- 94.4
Jared Goff- 112.2

Another variable. What happens when you run the same numbers with the same people and compare with and without a running game.

I wonder who should be blamed for Fisher lacking a running game?

Hint: That was a rhetorical question.

Exactly 43, exactly. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.

In 2016? It was a lot of things. One of them being Gurley himself.

A lot went wrong in 2016. Those who try to reduce it to just one or two things always strike me as being way too reductive.

But here's a hint for you. They had a decent running game for 5 years. When it was Keenum and Gurley in 2015, this was Keenum's avg. qb rating in the last 4 games: 90.8.

Here's Keenum's avg. qb rating in 2016, when he never had a running game: 76.4

Here's another one, the qb's first 4 games of 2013 when there was no running game: 75.75. In the next 3 games of 2013, same qb, but at that point they were starting Stacy and pounded out a decent running game: 110.9.

Again, as for the run game in 2016, there are so many causes that it;s a long list. It's not reducible to just one cause. One of the causes was Gurley himself. He doesn't take the full reductive blame for it though because as I said it was more than one thing.

Things are rarely as simple as people want them to be when they want them to be simple.


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You know what? Nobody has said "it was just one thing." Of course many factors go into how a season unfolds; nobody denies that. What people are saying is that the difference in coaching between Fisher and his staff vs. McVay and his staff is undeniable. Can we just leave it at that?

I agree with that to this extent---McVay and his staff are better than MOST coaching staffs.

Who would you trade for McVay right now? I wouldn't trade anyone for him, not even BB because I think he's a creepy cheater.

And yes people try to reduce 2016 to one thing. It's normal practice in fact. You see it all the time. I find myself kind of at a loss with that because it really was many things. That to me is just objectively, analytically true. For example I don't exempt Gurley from criticism for his performance in 2016. It wasn't just him but he contributed. It was also other things like (to pick just one) Boras as a first time coordinator installing basically a new offense during a move. That combination of things sure didn't help.

So look how things are just not that simple. Like I said compare Keenum in the last 4 games when he had a running game to 2016 when he didn't. That doesn't reduce to Keenum playing poorly with the Rams to playing better with the Vikings. It's just plain not that simple. Things seldom are that simple.



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