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ramBRO
I'm beginning to think that McVay completely outsmarted himself in addition to being outcoached by Belichek.
It isn't the first time he's done it so I would tend to agree. It happens to all of them so I guess it just has to be chalked up to experience but there's no good reason the Rams shouldn't have gone to the power run game against the Pats.
As Romo pointed out, the Patriots were going straight up the field so the Rams should have pounded it forward too. They don't have such a great d-line that the Rams couldn't have run it down their throats. Not finesse running like they were trying, mind you. More like the Dallas game.
Which, for the life of me, I don't understand why they quit using it. No one took that approach away. McVay just stopped going to it against the Saints and Patriots. As you say, outsmarted himself.
