Evolving Offenses

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RockRam

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To me, this move signals even more of schematic shift in 2022. We saw pieces of this last season, including the movement away from sweeps and play-action passes and the increased usage of pure dropback concepts and empty sets.

Fair enough.

But if memory serves me, wasn't the Rams mid-season slump primarily the result of poor QB play from Stafford? And wasn't he operating in that very drop-back scheme at the time?

And wasn't it only AFTER McVay reverted back to more of a play-action scheme with Sony Michel that the offense regained its footing?

The point of my comments aren't to suggest that McVay's offense shouldn't evolve. We all understand that it does (and those who show they can't evolve with it, like Jared Goff, will be shown the door).

But I never got the impression that Woods, when healthy, wasn't allowing the offense to evolve. Again, it was either the drop-back offense or the way that Stafford was operating it at the time, that led to our mid-season offensive struggles.

With that said, I have four questions:

1) Did anyone notice a drop-off in Woods' performance (i.e. had he "lost a step" pre-injury?

2) Has anyone seen any information indicating that Woods won't regain his pre-injury performance for the 2022 season?

3) What are Robinson's skills that are supposed to unlock in the evolved drop-back offense? Does it call for more 50-50 balls being chunked up by Stafford?

4) And why didn't these perceived skills seem to translate into immediate, stronger offers for Robinson's services from teams that might be considered more WR-needy?

Even the slightest pause when answering 1 or 2 will be enough for me.

I'm just concerned, though, that a narrative has been created to counter what appears to have been a "panic purchase" of an unneeded player in light of Von Miller's unexpected departure.