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Jourdan was mentioning how the new fading NFL defenses isn't the Fangio/Staley system per season but the mentality of 2 deep safety keeping everything in front of you. This mindset has been the bane of all the explosive offenses. To be honest it might explain the regression of the Bills and Chiefs. The point was the defense forces the opposition to be patient, take short gains run the ball. Most offensive minded coaches won't (didn't say can't on purpose) do it. For a while when McVay did something dumb I would compare him to Martz but the issues I have with the both of them are shared with many geniuses of offense. It appears the cure to this defensive game plan is easy, take what the defense gives you but many offensive minded teams seemed determined to find an aggressive way to do it, to failing results.
And me from 2 days go:
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And this is also bothering Mahomes and KC, and the Bills and San Diego as well.
what is it that's bothering them? These cover 2 shells that alot of the league is running. And why is it bothering teams? esp teams like the Chiefs and Rams? Because they like explosive plays. Mahomes and Stafford want explosive plays. OCs want explosive plays.
The titans literally dared the Rams to run the ball and throw it underneath and McVay and/or Stafford refused. I guarantee you if they did, the Titans make adjustments and that would have opened the deep part of the field. But McVay and Stafford refused to kill the titans by a thousand paper cuts, the titans kept the pressure up and then it was too late and they had no choice.
Good coaches and OCs take what defenses give you. Stop forcing what isn't there.
it's what makes Manning and Brady elite. they take what defenses gave them. they rarely forced anything.
I don't care how fast you are, if you are running deep with double coverage or singled up in zone with deep safety help, you aren't catching anything. you need to force those safeties up. short passing and running the football. So no, this isn't on the wrs or their lack of speed.
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In the first quarter before the 2 crippling TDs, the Rams were running the ball and running well.
Hendo had 8 carries for 48 yards. It would have been 9 for 53, but Jefferson was called for holding on a 5 yard run on first down. Even taking his 14 yard run, that's still 7 for 34 or a shade under 5 per run. that's excellent.
After the 2 ints. and 14 points, do you wanna guess how much the Rams ran the ball? Hendo had 3 carries the rest of the game, Michel had 7 and Woods 1. so 11 carries the rest of the way. And it was 14-3 still early in the second.
McVay turned the Rams into a 1 dimensional team and that just made it easier for Tenn to handle the Rams offense.
Why did the Rams stop running? I think McVay panicked a bit. There was plenty of time to run the ball.
As far as a soft offense. I get your point as far as not having a bruiser style back, or the fact that the Rams run mostly a outside/inside zone blocking scheme instead of a man power scheme, and they never use a FB (neither do roughly 27 other teams) but the Rams wrs are required to block and Akers can be a bruiser when needed. Its a "tougher" offense than what the GSOT was.
I wished they would add a FB as well, so when push comes to shove, the Rams can push. And it adds an extra blocker. So I'm with you on tougher. At least in the run game.
I should have used the word "impatient" instead of panicked. And jourdan is right, its more than just McVay being impatient. If it was just McVay, you wouldn't be seeing so many of these 2 deep looks from DCs. They know that these young OCs all get impatient when they have to dink and dunk all day. They want explosives. KC, Buffalo, McVay, the entire McVay tree. Arizona as well. Even Seattle gets away from the run and wants to push the ball down the field. Mostly because thats what Wilson wants to do.
Why do you think Morris runs a split safety cover 2 shell at least part of time? its designed to force offenses to dink and dunk. I know it drives the fans mad, because I read the board. The bend no break mentality. These DCs are counting on a QB eventually making an incompletion or a mistake or an OC getting impatient and then its really feeding into Morris' hands.
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