Rams offensive failure

[Avery]

Pats are just better than everyone at the chess game. Coaching matters.

 

[Rayman70]

Pats are just better than everyone at the chess game. Coaching matters.

agree 1000%. Pats would have won regardless of Gurley. Chess vs checkers.

 

[G2]

I see the Patriots doing the same thing to our offense as they do to all teams. Take your strength away. I don't see our running game doing anything different as LA as our running games are equally matched. Not this past season anyway.
And, as frustrating as it is most offenses don't have any choice but to try something else once the run game is controlled at the point of attack. Then the pressure comes on the QB making it extremely difficult to pass your way out of it.

 

[jrumann59]

Didn't watch the game but how did the Rams 12th Man do making all the adjustments at the line for his QB.

 

[cowboyblue22]

Pats are just better than everyone at the chess game. Coaching matters.

THIS TIMES 1000 big bill is a coach that can take his and beat yours and then take yours and beat his

 

[visionary]

McVay came out and admitted he got schooled by Belichick.

I think he said the same after the cowboys game

Something about learning wisdom from stupid people

 

[Rayman70]

Pats were 3 steps ahead of the Rams all game long. THATS COACHING.

 

[erod]

insanely stupid offensive game plan - NE isn't remotely that good on defense. NO would have been a better match-up, thanks refs.

You mean the same NE that held Mahomes and that offense scoreless by halftime in their own building?

 

[Jake]

McVay came out and admitted he got schooled by Belichick.

True but McVay then shouldn’t be so hard on himself. He had a good game plan. His players clearly let him down!

 

[sean10mm]

McVay spoon feeding reads to his QB over the radio didn't work very well, because the Patriots kept mixing up their alignments and coverages right before the snap. What they showed at 00:15 when the QB helmet radio cuts out was not what they showed at 00:05, and Goff couldn't make the reads or audible or set the right protections for the OL/backs/TEs. It's part of how their OL that had been good all year got comprehensively owned last night.

The Patriots also ran formations and coverages they didn't really use all year. Lots of 5-2/6-1 fronts and quarters zone coverage when they'd been a man team all year.

The Rams offense is great when there is a run threat, but once you get past the window dressing and motion it's all just fake the pass to run/fake the run to pass stuff that's football 101. Goff puts up good passing numbers but is not a guy who can sit back in shotgun and throw 50 times and beat you.

The Patriots shut down the run early and then when Goff tried to be a pocket passer instead of a guy doing lots of fakeouts/rollouts he got whipped.

 

[GroundZero1970]

Gurley is over rated

 

[Jake]

You mean the same NE that held Mahomes and that offense scoreless by halftime in their own building?

Then gave up 31 points in the second half? Yeah, that NE.

 

[ThrowuptheXDez88]

Glad the Patriots put this on film for every team in the league... I don't think it's gonna be so easy for Mr. McVay and the Rams any longer... He caught teams by storm his first 2 seasons, but things can change fast.

 

[sean10mm]

Goff needs to learn how to make his own reads and check into the right play. McVay using him like a puppet with the radio can only go so far with teams that can throw different looks at you on defense before the snap.

 

[CouchCoach]

The mistake McVay made was to not plan on Belichick taking his most potent weapon away, even trying to run was playing into his hands.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

insanely stupid offensive game plan - NE isn't remotely that good on defense. NO would have been a better match-up, thanks refs.

Yep, mainly because Kamara in space is a monster to cover unless you have the really fast LBs.

 

[OmerV]

rams could have ran all night and it was not going to change, they were getting nothing off the run, they were behind the chains most of the night and forced to punt. Goff had a couple of chances and blew it. Pats blew a coverage leaving wood wide open in the endzone, Goff sees him late and what should have been an easy TD ends up getting knocked away.

I don't think you can honestly claim to know that. That could have been the case, but it just as easily might not have been the case. Obviously history tells us that what happens a the first part of a game doesn't lock the entirety of the game into that same pattern. Even if it did, the passing game would have been in the same boat because it started off just as bad as the running game did. The best bet would have been to work hard to establish the things that got them to the Super Bowl in the first place - the things they do well - and utilize the weapons that made their offense work. That obviously includes the running game.

 

[Doomsday101]

I don't think you can honestly claim to know that. That could have been the case, but it just as easily might not have been the case. Obviously history tells us that what happens a the first part of a game doesn't lock the entirety of the game into that same pattern. Even if it did, the passing game would have been in the same boat because it started off just as bad as the running game did. The best bet would have been to work hard to establish the things that got them to the Super Bowl in the first place - the things they do well - and utilize the weapons that made their offense work. That obviously includes the running game.

Nor do you but what I saw was constant penetration into the backfield and Pats looking to stop the run and were doing so. Pass was a big part Goff was avg 35 passes a game put up 32 TD passes on the season. You say I don't know but you do know that had they continued to run they would have stopped punting the ball sending their defense right back out? They started the game running and got no where not even 1st downs.

 

[OmerV]

I don't buy it. Gurley could not have been right. Why would your HC,unless he is a complete moron, basically bench his bell cow stud rb...whom you've built the team around,and play the 2nd stringer? COME NOW...I think we are all smarter than that. YES...maybe Gurley should have played more..but it had to have been because of injury concerns.

If everyone involved says Gurley was fine to play - Gurley himself, the head coach and the QB - how can we question that? And why would nobody else that knew the situation shed any light? What would be the motivation for the team to lie about that, and to instruct the entire team and coaching staff to back up the lie? All lying about that does is make the team and McVay look worse, whereas if he was injured it would look better for them to say that.

 

[Rayman70]

mcvay came into the game as he always does...a bit smug, a little too over confident. This time, he underestimated the wrong opponent.