I guess the key is "pressure". If you can get pressure on the QB chances are whatever you are running is going to work better on the back end. That I think we all agree on.
Having said that, Allen got the ball out in 2.4 seconds. How many teams can get pressure in UNDER 2.4 seconds?
Since the ball was coming out so fast, doesn't it make sense to play some "man" or play closer to the LOS to at least slow down the WR and maybe knock him off his route just enough for that pressure to get there or cause an int or incompletion?
It looked like we never really adjusted to having our DB's playing 8 yards off the LOS. Not sure how much it would have helped but I would have like to have seen us jamming those WR's a little more to make Allen hold the ball a bit longer and give our our D more time to get that pressure.
I blame this loss more on the offense than the D. The D got us 3 turnovers and the offense didn't do a thing with them. I am not saying the D didn't contribute to the loss because they did.
Neither the offense OR Defense seemed to make good adjustments to what was going on in real time IMO.
We're on to the Falcons...and i think we see a different more prepared team this week!
#HelmetHornsMatter
“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood