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3 seasons ago, you could say the same for someone like hopkins
Disagree with this completely. I think this is a complete disaster in the works. I'd sell Gurley if I had him...
Has that on staff already with Wade, who was a crucial hire for such a young coach.
Nice point you raised and he's already been denied trying to interview Dolphins OL coach for OC gig. I actually thought you could only deny a coach wanting to make a lateral move, but as you pointed out and we just saw with the Dolphins coach not the case.
Not sure how it could be much more of a disaster from this year. While I have no clue what McVay will be able to do it really can't be worse than what Fisher did and with that Gurley still had RB2 value in PPRs.
But he's being valued as a top 3 rb. He needs a huge improvement to justify the price and the situation is still really bad for the foreseeable future. They need 5 lineman, 2 wrs and a qb. Plus I expect a McDaniels type flameout for a way too young coach. And having Wade Phillips, who was horrible as a head coach, won't help.dkp993 said:
Not sure about top 3, Zeke, DJ and Bell are valued higher than him in the leagues I see. That next wave, who would you take over him in a dynasty?
Some people have him over Bell with the drugs. Rb is a wasteland so it's hard to say where to rank him. But I've seen him valued as a top 10 startup and worth 3 solid first round picks. I think that's crazy given last year and the bad situation he's in.
Some people who rank him over Bell are on drugs.
Yea is it an interesting stat, mainly just how it shows how bad the Rams offense was, I mean 700 yards away from second worst. I noticed the same worst two teams this year were the same worst two teams last year, San Fran and LA.
The jump the Cardinals made included some free agent offensive linemen that along with Palmer were key to turning that offense around.
It's an interesting comparison because the Rams' backup RBs had a lot more success in 2016 than they did in 2015. In 2015 Mason/Cunningham barely cracked 3ypc on over 100 carries and Gurley was still able to find success behind that line. In 2016 Cunningham averaged 4.8ypc (albeit on a much smaller sample size).Alex P Keaton said:
And, I assume, running out of shotgun in passing situations much of the time. That's like free yardage.
Maybe.Andrew74 said:
I've said this earlier in this thread I believe, but maybe elsewhere. Either way, I have watched every Rams snap over the last few years and have been watching football intently my entire adult life (41 now). I've never seen anything like a saw last year from our O-line. Play after play after play Gurley would get handed the ball take 1 step and get hit by 2 or 3 dudes. It was unreal. I believe his prior to contact yardage was like 1.4 or something god awful like that. Now I will also say that the last 3 or 4 games of the year it was clear as day he was frustrated and tired of running into walls. His effort didn't look the same and lots of holes were missed, so it's not 100% on the line but its a massive percentage.
I'm somewhat glad to hear that because I didn't see much of Gurley but watched one of those games near the end and thought he looked absolutely horrid. Not a lot of running room but when there was he didn't take advantage of it at all.
While you don't like to hear about a player giving up, or not giving their all, I appreciate your perspective about that, and it is a pretty human reaction to get frustrated, go on tilt and not do as well as you would normally, or have before.
I felt like I saw the same thing, only earlier than last 3 or 4 games and I was a little disappointed when they axed Fisher he still seemed uninspired. I would describe it almost as running looking to get tackled instead of running to gain yards.
I'm hoping it's more of a one-year fluke thing but I can't answer that definitively. I'm massively disappointed in how he reacted to the struggles and would've like to seen more maturity and effort to cosign on the one-year fluke deal. But with that said I do think the coaching change could infuse a bunch of life into the offense as a whole and with the starting point being so low there really is nowhere to go but up.Biabreakable said:
Agree completely. I said it time and time again accountability was Fisher's biggest downfall. He was a players coach to the extreme and the team was the most penalized team year after year. The lack of discipline was astounding and it's entirely possible, likely probable, that a player like Gurley needs someone to push and challenge him to bring out his best.menobrown said:
I think the answer is in the last statement of the post above you.
I like that they brought in the line coach from Buffalo as well. its a shame they could not get the centre too LA too
Yeah they took a lot of steps, they also added a very good veteran LT also in Whitworth, so really there aren't many excuses left. There was a big focus on how antiquated/conservative Fisher required his former OC's to be, and it really handcuffed them, so it limited who was willing to go work for him and they didn't get any true coaching talent as a result.
Trent Richardson in the NFL never looked close to as awesome as Gurley did in 2015.
