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Due to Fisher's incompetence in setting up his offensive talent
I'll repeat something. The number of games from 2012-15 where the Rams had both a starting caliber qb AND a relatively healthy and/or at least experienced OL was...15 out of 64. (2016 was a whole different animal....).
I will buy all these routines about how bad the offense was once someone tells me examples of teams doing well under those kinds of conditions. Heck even with a starting caliber qb in 2011, because of massive injuries all over the offense, McDaniels unit was 31st in the league. That was after being able to get something out of Denver with Orton and Tebow at qb. Linehan could get nothing out of the 2007 offense with 10 OL injuries and a badly banged up Bulger, but look at him in Detroit and Dallas.
Since really there are no examples of people doing well across a whole season with a double issue like that, I will just assume--based on logic alone---that if the Rams had a starting caliber qb AND a relatively healthy OL a majority of the time, they would have done better. I dont know how much better, but, 15 games out of 64 is a lot to ask of any coach.
And IMO a good observer can tell when talent is there even if it is young on a struggling team. So, guys who showed something before this year so you know why they stuck around include Goff, Gurley, Saffold, Brown, Hav, and Tavon. Yes even Goff, who in 2016 was about as green as any qb we have seen, showed some stuff--and I was among the people saying that in the off-season.
This "worst coach ever, no context" stuff, IMO, leads to a lot of weak analysis (again IMO).
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2017 02:39PM by zn.
