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Caveat I would add is while they played some bad teams early on, in 4 of their first 5 games they played good to very good defensive front sevens. And they've played good to very good front sevens in each of the past 3 games, too.
Games 1-5:
71.7% completions, 8 TD, 3 INT, 108.8 QB Rating, 9.0 YPA, 7 sacks
Games 6-8:
58.3% completions, 5 TD, 3 INT, 78.3 QB Rating, 5.9 YPA, 3 sacks
It actually breaks down this way:
Games 1-5 +7 (game 7, Chicago, includes 69.7% completions, 2 TDs, 108.1 qb rating).
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Games 6 & 8
Then you ask, what do the teams in games 6 and 8 have in common.
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If I'm reading you right, you're saying when we play a team with good pass defense - gets pressure and has good coverage - then we should run a lot. Don't ask Goff to do much in those games.
Sadly, it seems that's where we are.
Almost, but not really though.
You have a young team that has issues with protections, and a qb who can (but does not always) struggle with the combination of pressure and very effective coverage (which means the receivers struggle with that too btw).
When you play a team that can both pressure and cover--and they are not that common--bloody account for it at the gameplan level.
And they've done it. Washington's defense is ranked 4th overall, is 1st in passing yards allowed and 6th in pressure percentage--they sacked Wentz 8 times for example. But the Rams ran the ball on them 35 times.
Sure Washington's offense is a dud but then
Miami’s offense gained exactly 1 less yard against the Rams defense than Washington’s did.
And in the Washington game Goff was 21 of 30 for 309 yards, with 2 TDs and a qb rating of 111.7.
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Ok, I get the nuance and see the commonality in our perspective and the difference.
We both are in strong agreement that they've got to account for this type of team at the gameplan level. It's why I put most of the results on McVay. It doesn't look like he was calling a Washington type gameplan.
The difference is, you seem to be spreading more of the responsibility of why we struggle to the whole team. OL and RBs in the protections and WRs struggling to get open are part of the problem. I see that perspective but I put more responsibility on the QB. Those other position groups are not making bad decisions that directly result in turnovers and it's the turnovers that kill us.
Example: RB misses a blitz pickup doesn't directly result in a TO because the QB can still get the ball to his hot read OR throw it away OR take the sack. But when the QB messes up or makes a bad decision you have a TO.
