Rams offensive failure

[Rayman70]

Bigger question might be, why keep him off the injury report and hide his condition,even after the game? What would the motive be? lol...I think I know. McVay was trying to make the Pats prepare for Gurley. He's holding to that til the bitter end. You watch...Gurley gonna have a "scope" in the next few days.

 

[JustChip]

McVay came out and admitted he got schooled by Belichick.

Not the first and won't be the last to have been.

 

[JustChip]

Jeff Fisher wasn't about that life as a Coach. He tried to coach up Goff but his style (old school) didn't work.
McVay has had training wheels on Goff all season long...Pats sending in 2 defensive play calls and not showing alignment till Goffs head set cut off at 15secs was to be expected.
It forced Goff to add a mental step in his drop back.. Usually McVay would tell him after seeing defense to look for for X or HB or Y which allowed Goff to get off quicker.

The added step allowed Dbs to close quicker

 

[Roadtrip635]

The numbers are ugly. Goff went 19-of-38 for 229 yards, no touchdowns and one putrid interception. His QBR for the game was 16.4 … out of 100. Somehow, his performance was even worse than the numbers suggest.
McVay was criticized after the game — and rightfully so — but his play-calling provided Goff with plenty of open receivers.
McVay’s play designs provided Goff with answers all night long; the 24-year-old just didn’t know the questions. It wasn’t just the things Goff missed after the snap, either. He wasn’t any better at diagnosing the blitzes the Patriots were sending at him.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/02/super-bowl-53-jared-goff-rams

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Those several penalty flags that gave the Patriots the 1st downs are always in every game .

 

[Daktozekecoop]

New England was as well prepared as I have ever seen a team. That was a comprehensive beating they gave the Rams. Brilliant.

 

[Daktozekecoop]

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.

I agree, Gurley has been injured for two months. He was clearly not healthy.

 

[G2]

That was my original thought too, but Gurley was not listed on the injury report going into the Super Bowl, and Gurley said after the game he was fine. In addition, McVay said afterward he did a poor job of getting Gurley involved, and Goff said afterward he would love to have got Gurley more involved, but that wasn’t his decision.

And, again, like you said, Anderson had played well, and it wasn't just against the Cowboys. He had some huge games when the Rams signed him at the end of the regular season. He didn't even join the Rams until the last 2 games of the regular season, and in those game he ran for 167 yards, and 132 yards, and then followed it up with 123 yards against Dallas in the playoffs.

None of it makes any sense to me. Gurley saying he was fine, McVay saying he didn't use him right, etc....
I mean, unless they fully expected Anderson to have another high yardage games, I just don't see NOT using Gurley. Not to mention in the pass game.
Gurley had 35 yards and Anderson had 22. The Patriots just stopped the run, but I find it hard to believe in 3 hours of football they couldn't figure out how to run Gurley more than 10 times. So weird.

 

[TNT]

Bigger question might be, why keep him off the injury report and hide his condition,even after the game? What would the motive be? lol...I think I know. McVay was trying to make the Pats prepare for Gurley. He's holding to that til the bitter end. You watch...Gurley gonna have a "scope" in the next few days.

The reason to continue to hide the injury, even after the game is for $$$. The team, GM and coach could all have separate fines for not reporting correctly.

 

[Rayman70]

None of it makes any sense to me. Gurley saying he was fine, McVay saying he didn't use him right, etc....
I mean, unless they fully expected Anderson to have another high yardage games, I just don't see NOT using Gurley. Not to mention in the pass game.
Gurley had 35 yards and Anderson had 22. The Patriots just stopped the run, but I find it hard to believe in 3 hours of football they couldn't figure out how to run Gurley more than 10 times. So weird.

because he was hurt,period. That's my opinion. Is there REALLY any other logic here? McVay ought to be canned NOW if he didn't play a healthy player of Todd Gurley's caliber. See my point? I smell a rat.

 

[Rayman70]

The reason to continue to hide the injury, even after the game is for $$$. The team, GM and coach could all have separate fines for not reporting correctly.

bingo! I was waiting for someone to say that. I wanted to..but didn't wanna go there.

 

[OmerV]

Then we are both making assumption since the run game was not producing anything. Fact is they threw the ball quite a bit as well on the season. Pats were winning the line of scrimmage and not giving the RB no where to run. Had they ran all night long and continue to fail I'm sure people would have asked why did you continue to do what was not working. You make this claim as if had they continue to run it would have been different and you don't know that. I think what was obvious was the fact Rams OL was getting beat on a lot of penetration by the Pats and it is hard to do much when that is happening

I understand I am making an assumption, but it's an assumption backed by the fact the Rams had the 3rd best running game in the NFL over the season, and have a RB that is arguably the best in the game (with Zeke the only other RB in the running). And, the point is, despite this fact, the Rams didn't even bother to find out if their running game could have a notable impact on the game. Instead, what little running they did was just a token run here and there scattered through the game.

 

[G2]

because he was hurt,period. That's my opinion. Is there REALLY any other logic here? McVay ought to be canned NOW if he didn't play a healthy player of Todd Gurley's caliber. See my point? I smell a rat.

I thought it was injury related too, but then why not just say that?

 

[OmerV]

because he was hurt,period. That's my opinion. Is there REALLY any other logic here? McVay ought to be canned NOW if he didn't play a healthy player of Todd Gurley's caliber. See my point? I smell a rat.

There is a hell of a lot of liability for a team if they don't list an injured player on the injury report, so why would they risk that? Further, what would the Rams and McVay have to gain by lying about an injury to Gurley? Why would McVay say after the game that he did a poor job of getting Gurley involved when he could have explained away his actions by saying Gurley was injured?

 

[Rayman70]

There is a hell of a lot of liability for a team if they don't list an injured player on the injury report, so why would they risk that? Further, what would the Rams and McVay have to gain by lying about an injury to Gurley? Why would McVay say after the game that he did a poor job of getting Gurley involved when he could have explained away his actions by saying Gurley was injured?

its called CYA. That's why.

 

[Rayman70]

I thought it was injury related too, but then why not just say that?

to out fox BB, that simple. Problem is, it didn't work.

 

[Doomsday101]

I understand I am making an assumption, but it's an assumption backed by the fact the Rams had the 3rd best running game in the NFL over the season, and have a RB that is arguably the best in the game (with Zeke the only other RB in the running). And, the point is, despite this fact, the Rams didn't even bother to find out if their running game could have a notable impact on the game. Instead, what little running they did was just a token run here and there scattered through the game.

I saw nothing to make me believe they would begin running the ball better nor did I see Pats backing off the LS. I think they had some option to get Gurley involved via the pass but never really tried to do it. Pats to me dominated the line and I think banging your head against a brick wall is foolish. I don't expect Dallas to keep running when they are not having any success doing it. I think it easy for any of us to say what they should have done after the fact but again the one thing that I saw was the Rams were not getting on their blocks and were losing at the line of scrimmage and there is no play in the playbook that works if you can't control the line

 

[OmerV]

its called CYA. That's why.

That doesn't explain why they would have lied about it to begin with, which is not only a huge no no with the NFL, but carries huge liability. If Gurley were hurt, and the Rams didn't reveal it, then he aggravated the injury in the game, the Rams would be open to a huge lawsuit. Suppose they didn't reveal a knee injury, then the knee got wrecked in the game and derailed his entire career ... that might require a massive cash settlement to Gurley, not to mention people with the Rams would lose their jobs, and the Rams would likely get large penalties from the NFL, possibly including the loss of draft picks. Why would they risk that?

 

[G2]

to out fox BB, that simple. Problem is, it didn't work.

That may be it, didn't want to show his hand. But at this point it doesn't matter. I would have just made a statement that "we didn't want to show our hand and just plain got beat.

 

[OmerV]

I saw nothing to make me believe they would begin running the ball better nor did I see Pats backing off the LS. I think they had some option to get Gurley involved via the pass but never really tried to do it. Pats to me dominated the line and I think banging your head against a brick wall is foolish. I don't expect Dallas to keep running when they are not having any success doing it. I think it easy for any of us to say what they should have done after the fact but again the one thing that I saw was the Rams were not getting on their blocks and were losing at the line of scrimmage and there is no play in the playbook that works if you can't control the line

Again, how many times have we not seen much to be positive about with the running game early on and found that Zeke or Emmitt ended up with a big game? How many times have the Rams seen the same thing with Gurley? It happens all the time with any team with a quality running back.

And, again, history has spoken clearly on the fact that you can't judge an entire game from how the early part of a game goes.