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JoeMad
neither did Vince Ferragamo.....
Bradford did pretty well considering he was on some bad Rams teams with less than good coaching.... 62% pass completions for his career....
Vince never completed > 60% in a season his entire career on some great Rams teams....
I would say that the issue was far more injuries.
2011: The OL was just wiped out. Only one played all 16 games. Brown was benched and then had to start anyway at guard. Bradford himself was injured (high ankle sprain). They had Lloyd and Gibson for 10 and 9 games respectively. Three linemen lost interest in football for lots of different personal reasons---Brown, Bell, and Smith. As mentioned, according to Football Outsiders, this was the most injured offense in the NFL going back to 2002. They did have Jackson for most of the season.
2012: The OL was wiped out but recovered in the 2nd half of the season. They had up to 10 different OL replacements. They did have Amendola for 8 games and they did have Jackson.
2013: Relatively healthy OL for most of the season but then started out in a spread that did not work cause no WRs and no running game. That DOES go to coaching--they had no business running that spread, especially since Pead and Richardson combined to give them the worst run game production in consecutive games I have ever seen or heard of with the Rams since I started following them in the 70s. But they DID fix it. When they finally ditched that for a play action offense and started Stacy, they did very well--but then SB got hurt.
As a rule I find that many critiques of Rams losing seasons tend to go to coach blame very quickly and exclusively without accounting for unit-crippling injury epidemics especially to the OL. Rams have had some just horrific OL injury epidemics. Knock on wood cause we want that to be over.
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Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2018 10:23AM by zn.
