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Not the Wild Card game......the season.

What a year. What a performance. What an improvement. With key additions including Andrew Whitworth, Robert Woods, Sammy Watkins, John Sullivan and Cooper Kupp as well as improvements from Jared Goff and Todd Gurley, Sean McVay with his offensive philosophy and leadership, made the Rams offensive improvement one of the best ever.

Here's the final score.

The offense finished 2nd in offensive PPG (27.2). They were 10th in yards per game (361.5). They were 9th in 3rd down % (41%) and 10th in turnover ratio (+7).

Jared Goff finished 5th in TDs (28), 5th in QB rating (100.5), 10th in yards per game (253.6), 2nd in yds/att (8.0), 1st in yds per comp (12.9), 4th in TD% (5.9) and 4th in Int% (1.5). His QB rating on 3rd down was 106.9.

Todd Gurley finish 2nd in rushing yards, 1st in rushing TDs (13), 1st in total TDs (19), 8th in yds/att (4.7), 1st in yds from scrimmage (2093), 31st in receptions (64), 36th in receiving yards (788) and 26th in receiving TDs (6).

Cooper Kupp finished 37th in receptions (62), 24th in receiving yards (869) and 37th in TDs (5).
Robert Woods finished 57th in receptions (56), 38th in receiving yards (781) and 37th in TDs (5)
Sammy Watkins finished 101st in receptions (39), 63rd in receiving yards (593) and 9th in TDs (8).

Individually, they aren't astounding numbers but taken collectively, they show the efficiency by which the offense functioned. They spread the ball around. When you have 3 guys among the top 60 players in receptions, that only leaves 57 for the other 31 teams. When you have 3 guys among the top 38 players in reception yards that only leaves 35 for the other 31 teams. These guys were a terrific unit thanks to the protection of the 5 guys up front and the scheme/design of the offense. When you have a QB ranked in the top 10 and a running back second to none, it makes for a lethal unit.

Now the trick is improving it. So how do they do that?

Can we do it again?

Hacksaw wrote:Can we do it again?

If they franchise Watkins like expected, the offense will return almost intact. Hope they can bring back Sullivan. Do that and the starting lineup will all return. Then you have a couple others like Everett and Reynolds that should get better in year two.

As long as McVay doesn't think he can rest on his laurels, they should be a force again. I don't see him being satisfied. He's always looking to improve on his coaching. I gotta think chances are good this team will be at least as good, if not better.

McVay seems as driven as they come. I'd be more concerned about burnout than anything else, but I'm not really worried about that, either. They guy is a leader of men and studies leaders in other fields to become even better at his craft.

As for the topic, making the defense more stout would give the offense more opportunities to burn clock, drive up stats and score points. Would like to see a top 5 defense or better.

PARAM, thanks for collecting all the stats. Some impressive numbers for year 1. Would have loved for them to get to round 2.

I still prefer that they were #1 in scoring

db is spot on.

Still I think we could have matched up well with Phil in the conditions tonight.

Fowlcons failed again. To bad they got over on us. !

yeah hacksaw... woulda , shoulda coulda...

i watch these playoffs and cannot see anyone so far that we could not roll...

a blown opportunity by our squad to be sure...

sigh...

next year...

im all in

go rams

slo

One way that I expect the offense to improve is for Everrett to improve to the point that McVay trusts him to start and they go with more two tight end sets and change up from their nearly constant eleven personnel.

Everrett is a physical match up problem, but something kept him on the sideline. I am guessing it was getting comfortable with the scheme and learning how to block. I hope that was it at least. The Rams need a good tight end.

sloramfan wrote:yeah hacksaw... woulda , shoulda coulda...

i watch these playoffs and cannot see anyone so far that we could not roll...

a blown opportunity by our squad to be sure...

sigh...

next year...

im all in

go rams

slo

I’m seeing it the same way.
Rams beat that Falcons team 9 out of 10. Roll em in fact.
Just played a poor game when the Falcons got lucky breaks.
Ugh.
Next year, Super Bowl is the goal, the expectation