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Good observations all around. Perhaps there was wind Sunday? Did not seem like it but maybe someone there could attest.
And Brees was awful. Rams could EASILY have won by 30.
Brees usually struggles against the Rams. Or since 2011 anyway. Rams pressure messes with his game. In their last 4 games against one another, going back to 2011, Rams won 3 of those and it was (to a great extent) because the pressure got to Brees. 3 sacks might not sound like much but it's more than he has been sacked all year. Saints were at the top of the league on offense in sack percentage before this game, with 2.8%, which is exceptional. This game it was 9.3%. So before this game they allowed on avg. less than a sack a game but the Rams got to him 3 times, which isn't counting hits and hurries.
They sacked him just 2 times in 2016, and that's the one they lost. That year the most Brees was sacked in a game was 3 times. The previous 2 games, 2011 and 2013, Rams had Feeley then Clemens at qb and still won, because they got to Brees in those game 10 times, for a sack percentage of 10% (both games combined) which is awful in Saints terms and a very high percentage for the Rams to get.
Starting in 2011, the Rams get to Brees almost as much as they get to Wilson, the difference being, Wilson hangs in there and Brees unravels. Again that goes back to 2011...3 out of those 4 games Brees struggled far more than he usually does. Rams are Brees killers.
BTW on offense the Rams allowed more pressure than normal Sunday (4 sacks, 9%, which is high) BUT unlike Brees, Goff kept his composure and accuracy in the middle of it.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/2017 03:27AM by zn.
