LocimusPrime
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Yes. And the same defense that got blown out by the colts and had zero sacks on Andrew Luck.the same defense that stuffed the #1 rushing offense just a week ago?
Absolutely.
Yes. And the same defense that got blown out by the colts and had zero sacks on Andrew Luck.the same defense that stuffed the #1 rushing offense just a week ago?
my question is if the deception slowed the defense down by a step, which may be all that is necessary to win the LOS.
I actually think it was just the opposite. We were not really watching or reading. We were focused on getting upfield. I think that we thought that the Rams were going to try and throw the ball on us early. I think we were trying to hit there QB early and often because he is not the same guy when he gets hit. I don't believe we ever thought that Gurley or Anderson could run on us. As a result, we spent the who game watching guys rush upfield and take themselves out of plays. We were always in the wrong spot to make tackles, that entire game. They saw it and exploited it and that's why you saw 270 plus in the run game. We never adjusted and they continued to exploit it. They really didn't want to make us slow down. They wanted us to continue to over extend, to react quickly and to take ourselves out of plays.
That's what I saw, at least.
Pushed back like little girls
Yes. And the same defense that got blown out by the colts and had zero sacks on Andrew Luck.
Absolutely.
I actually think it was just the opposite. We were not really watching or reading. We were focused on getting upfield. I think that we thought that the Rams were going to try and throw the ball on us early. I think we were trying to hit there QB early and often because he is not the same guy when he gets hit. I don't believe we ever thought that Gurley or Anderson could run on us. As a result, we spent the who game watching guys rush upfield and take themselves out of plays. We were always in the wrong spot to make tackles, that entire game. They saw it and exploited it and that's why you saw 270 plus in the run game. We never adjusted and they continued to exploit it. They really didn't want to make us slow down. They wanted us to continue to over extend, to react quickly and to take ourselves out of plays.
That's what I saw, at least.
Pushed back like little girls
This could have been a case (sometimes) of the Rams self-scouting and changing a play based on how they ran it in their last game. If they faked the run and threw out of a specific formation with specific motion etc. the previous game, they might have run the same play but just run the ball instead when they played the Cowboys to cross them up.
Yeah, they also just got whipped on a lot of plays in that game too.
Also holy crap my last post was full of typos, makes it look like I was day drinking when I posted that haha
wait, so were they allowed to penetrate or beaten down and pushed back?
is the rams line that much better than everyone's line or was the design superior causing players to become useless?
Today's modern football is the same as today's workout fitness programs.
Most of these concepts were already used and developed along time ago but now they seem fresh.
Crossfit is pretty much a timed superset. Back in the day we would combine 2-4 different exercises and do them consecutively without rest - superset
Now there's a fit 40 or whatever where you try to keep your cardio level and intensity up - circuit training.
All old stuff with new twist. Football is the same
Watch it again. Most of the damage in the run game was up the middle and not to the edge.
,,,er,,,without drawing penalty flags,yer' correct.I believe their Oline just simply overpowered and out muscled our Dline.
Sometimes you can't scheme being physically dominated
So much this.You can't really separate how they run from how they pass. Part of the Rams success is making it hard to separate the pass and the run before the ball is snapped. It's beneficial for runs should look like passes and your passes should look like runs. If you always run out of the I and pass out of the shotgun you're just giving the defense an easier day at the office - the less they have to think the faster and more decisively they have to act. None of this is particularly new, the Rams just put more effort into their play design and how they mix up what they do so the defense has to keep thinking instead of just reacting to obvious tells.
Then if they diagnose the pass or run correctly, there is often another layer of deception built into the play - who gets the handoff (RB? FB? WR on a sweep/reverse/etc.? QB keeper?) or the pass (where receivers run overlapping routes to create legal rubs and line up in various bunches to get DBs stuck in traffic)? By themselves none of these things are magic, but the idea is you just pile up uncertainty on the defense so they either a) hesitate and get whipped, or b) guess wrong and give up the easy chunk play.
It's not that Dallas literally never runs a jet sweep or whatever, it's that they treat any kind of misdirection as an oddball trick play instead of a basic part of running an NFL offense. Good playcalling is making the defense's job harder than just lining up and whacking the nearest guy on the other side.
Physical power bro. Physical powerwait, so were they allowed to penetrate or beaten down and pushed back?
is the rams line that much better than everyone's line or was the design superior causing players to become useless?
some of us have been pushing for the jet-sweep motion type rushing attack that has a lot of deception.
yes, the same one that got our defense so confused all game
what would be needed to implement such an offense besides hiring mcvay?
a new OC?
zeke should be fine?
cooper fast enough, austin fast enough?
on the one jet sweet austin ran, it was stuff for a big loss.
what is the rams scheme doing right that cowboys coaches cannot figure out???
The Cowboys didn't register a sack for the first time all season against the Colts, with the defensive line unable to get off blocks and push up the field.losing to the colts felt nothing like what the rams did to the defense
Sacks and stopping the run are two different thingsYes. And the same defense that got blown out by the colts and had zero sacks on Andrew Luck.
Absolutely.
Absolutely they are they had problems with both. Sacks and stoppping the runSacks and stopping the run are two different things