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what injuries to the OL? Noteboom? So what, everyone deals with an injury to your ol unless you are the 2018 Rams. Heck the 9ers have been missing both starting OTs and it doesn't seem to be slowing them down. Allen's imjury today didn't change the trajectory of this game one iota. Did I spell iota correctly? I must have, wow.
Anyhow, I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to talk about this team and the direction its headed since the season is over with 1 more loss. Which I am guessing is this next weekend.
Context matters. Injuries to an OL are just simply not always "so what." You had this OL that had not played together, with young starters, that lacked coherence and continuity and had to go about establlishing it. If you subtract someone from that, you starting over with someone new. Now it's two guys since it's now Allen too.
And NO not everyone deals with the same kinds of injuries to the OL. That's an old old myth. If you take a coherent, established line and replace a guy, okay. Take a line that is not established yet and the injury impedes that process.
On a different note, I remember discussing the massive and extensive injuries that happened to the 2007 Rams OL, and some people would argue, well all teams have injuries. Well no they don't, in this sense--not all teams have massive extensive repeated OL injuries that essentially puts 7 or 8 different OL combos on the field in a season with multiple replacements (and with the replacements getting injured and needing to be replaced). (Barron was the only guy to play all 16 games.)
So it really depends on the situation. It's not a one size fits all thing.
That's in spite of the coach rhetoric which says "next guy up." Coaches have to say that. They also have to act like it's true. Regardless.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/10/2019 07:40PM by zn.
