btw the final score should not make the coaching staff forget about the kicker situation

I don’t blame hoecht for getting burnt up in coverage because at this point, it’s raheem’s job to not put him in coverage. we all know what hoecht is (in)capable of. putting him in coverage is deliberately setting him up for failure.

amazing what you can do when you decide to actually play defense instead of sitting back and keeping your fingers crossed that they fuck things up themselves. bend don’t break philosophy has no place in this game.

you could have found the answer faster by googling it than making a post here

yes you are the only Rams fan who thinks perhaps the most criticized player on the entire defense is mid

we have a game before the cleveland game so why don’t we focus on what’s in front of us first? cuz this is exactly how we lose to the cardinals.

niners fans think they’re so cool with the bang bang niner gang

we are the bam bam ram fam

he had to sit out 6 weeks but he somehow played week 5?

mcvay’s been horrendous in clock management since year 1. after this many years, we just need to accept that he’ll never improve on that front.

further proof that PFF is trash since he should be 1st in both

is this like when players say they’re in the best shape of their lives?

bad HC doesn’t mean bad DC. it is concerning how much staley has shat the bed as HC, and seeing how the chargers’ defense is doing considering it’s “his side” of the game. but HC and DC are just totally different jobs. some people say he was carried by AD and ramsey. well we had AD and ramsey the year before too and didn’t perform as well. so yes we did have AD and ramsey, but going from wade to staley I think was a bigger factor. so that said, if you neutered every part of the game out of his job except for being DC, I think he’ll still do fine. he just seems in over his head being HC.

since the vikings are my #2 team, I’d rather the lions not make the playoffs

how so? nearly half the rookies are playing more than a quarter of the team’s snaps across the season. you call that sitting out?

mcvay not playing rookies and letting them sit is a misused trope that is actually not very true. McVay’s pattern of playing skill position rookies (on offense):

2017 - McVay’s first year

Everett : played all 16 games, about 30% of offensive snaps

Kupp : 15 games, 75% snaps

Reynolds : all 16 games, 30% snaps

2018 Kelly : didn’t amount to anything

2019 Henderson : 13 games but sparingly, only 10% snaps

2020 Akers : 13 games, 30% snaps

Jefferson : all 16 games, 25% snaps

Hopkins : didn’t amount to anything

2021 Atwell : didn’t amount to anything

Harris : didn’t amount to anything

Funk : didn’t amount to anything

Skowronek : 14 games, 20% snaps

2022 Williams : 10 games, 25% snaps (this one suggests that whenever he did play, he got the bulk of snaps)

2023 (9 games in) Bennett :

Nacua : 9 games, 90% snaps

Evans : not much going on yet

you can really easily tell that mcvay plays rookies plenty if they’re good enough to see the field. the pattern clearly is that those rookies who didn’t play their first year just weren’t good. I think playing 25% of snaps (not in a single game but across the entire season) is a good bar that they’re getting plenty of playing time as rookies. out of the 15 skill position players drafted in the mcvay era (not including bennett for reasons), 7 played 25% or more in their rookie years with skow just missing out. that’s basically half the rookies getting integrated right away. I really don’t know where this “mcvay sits rookies” idea came from.

trading AD or Kupp hits us with more dead cap than we have available cap space. so unless we additionally move around more pieces to make that cap space, it’s not possible to even give those guys away. I don’t think those big ticket guys are going anywhere.