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Classicalwit
Morris uses this scheme because of the physical and talent limitations of the players that the Rams currently have.
There is no other alternative with the roster in its present form.
FWIW. Morris hasn't been able to design a game plan that has stopped the whiners since he's been here and it didn't matter if we had good talent or not.
IMO, "soft zone" is NOT the way you want to play the whiners. In fact, it might be the WORST way to play them!
I get what you are saying Classical but the man NEVER deviates from that soft zone even when other teams are walking up and down the field at will!
He is not very good at "in game" adjustments and I am being very kind because as I said he NEVER seems to mix it up. I am ok with using the soft zone for the reasons you mention as well as the points that JY53 has pointed out but there is NO need to run the D#MN thing 100% of the team against EVERY team!
Never shortening the "cushion", never playing press man when a team is taking advantage of the soft zone is not a good recipe for success. Good coaches know when their "scheme" isn't working and who it doesn't work well against! Morris has tried this stupid soft zone crap now for how many years against the whiners and hasn't been able to stop them. How many more years will it take him to realize a "different" game plan against them MIGHT be a good idea???
#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