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An Ass Kicking Coming on SNF?

oldnotdead
The Niners have enough talent left to keep the game close going against a bend not break type of defense. This means as it will be all season, the pressure will be on the Ram offense to put the game out of reach. This is the problem I have with Staley's conservative approach. As long as the Rams play a clean game, no crucial penalties, no turnovers they can beat any team on their schedule. That said it's asking a lot, especially when the Ram offense has a habit of going to sleep in the middle of the game. Where is the killer mentality where the foot never comes off the gas pedal not only on offense but especially on defense?

We saw in Buffalo what happens when you combine a soft defense, with lapses in execution and crucial penalties. We also saw in Buffalo how good this offense can be if they simply execute and McVay doesn't outcoach himself. Until Staley learns to dial up the heat on the offense of his opponent and keep it going for the entire game it will come down to not making mistakes on both sides of the ball to win. Staley's scheme doesn't allow for much margin of error.

The run to the Super Bowl starts Sunday night with every game important. This is especially true since only the top team gets the first round bye.
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Opposing View: 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan talks Rams running back rotation

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Opposing View: 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan talks Rams running back rotation

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Opposing View: 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan talks Rams running back rotation

Making an appearance on the Helliepod podcast with Dan Hellie this summer, Rams head coach Sean McVay was asked by the sports broadcaster about how he planned to approach the running back position.

With Todd Gurley no longer on the roster, did McVay need a dominant, No. 1 guy like Gurley handling the carries, or would the workload would be divvied up between two or three backs?

McVay believed the rotation would "naturally work itself out," then brought up the 49ers success' utilizing a committee approach last season under head coach Kyle Shanahan, in a way hinting he would be adopting a similar strategy.

Five games into the 2020 season, Shanahan has seen the Rams successfully employ the approach.

"I mean, just anytime you have a good running scheme, you block well, and whether you have one good running back or three good running backs, it's going to lead to running the ball well, and they do a very good job schematically," Shanahan said on a conference call with Rams beat writers Wednesday afternoon. "They have three guys who all are running hard, hitting the right holes and not messing around."

The Rams' run game this season looks different compared to when the two teams met for the first time and at the exact same point last season.

Through the first five weeks of the 2019 campaign, Gurley had handled 64 of the team's 91 running back carries (70.3 percent). Brown had the second-most with 26, while Henderson had received only one. In contrast, the distribution through the first five weeks of 2020 looks like this: 58 of the 137 rushing attempts belong to Henderson, 53 to Brown and 26 to rookie Cam Akers.

Whereas Gurley led the way with 270 rushing yards and Brown added 114 through Week 5 of 2019, in 2020 Henderson (260) and Brown (213) are much closer. Henderson did not have any rushing yards at this same juncture last season as a rookie; Akers is at 113 after rushing for 61 in his return from injury last week, giving Los Angeles three running backs with more than 100 rushing yards entering Week 6 this year after just two entering Week 6 last year.

Collectively, the three-man rotation of Akers, Brown and Henderson – in conjunction with a confident offensive line – has helped the Rams own the No. 7 rushing offense in the NFL ahead of Sunday night's game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. L.A.'s 139.6 rushing yards per game this year is 43.4 more than they were averaging at the same stage last year.

"I think they're all similar to me," Shanahan said. "I mean, they all could do things in the pass game and they're all good runners. So, it's not like they're doing different things when they come in, they've got three choices and that's similar to how we do it, too. We feel we have three good running backs, or even more than three, but that's how it always works out."

Last season, Shanahan utilized three different running backs to power San Francisco to the No. 2 rushing offense in the NFL.

Knowing the effectiveness of that strategy first-hand, it's not far-fetched to think he'll be equally preparing for Henderson, Brown and Akers.

"It really doesn't matter which one's in there, because they're all very good runners and they know what they're doing from a schematic standpoint, and the O-line is doing a good job of keeping everybody in the line of scrimmage," Shanahan said.
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Juju Hughes signed to active roster

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Ram65 said:
Is he a smaller Rapp? Tackles low like Rapp. He shoulder tackles a lot without wrapping up. Let's see how he does with that in the NFL. He does attack downhill though.


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Looks decent in coverage. Good instincts. Areas Rapp needs to work on.
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Chris Simms on Rams at Washington

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Merlin said:
They do make a valid point re: Wash electing that the run game wasn't going to beat them. Reminds me of the days of yore when I would look at the stat line and pick out good things like "oh hey nobody has run for 100+ yards on us in X weeks."

Rams had a patient approach and played field position and built that lead like it was a playoff game. They're a nicely tuned team for how early we are in the season IMO. :beer2: :cool: (y)
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Rams place Jordan Fuller on IR (3 week) with shoulder injury

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FarNorth said:
Fuller was as ready out of the box as any rookie I can remember not named AD. It is amazing how good he is, and how much the Rams' secondary already depends on him. It will suck to have him miss three games but he will be good for the stretch run.
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Agree - was never sold on Tyler Rapp. A big reason The Rams lost to Bills & beat Philly. -Fuller has been excellent playing FS. Burton though is not who was drafted before him.

The question was about injuries though from young players.Tyler Rapp was hurt as well before the season.
If you count OBO & Noteboom then what about Tyler Rapp & of course Fuller. Lewis ?? Still waiting for Robinson to get on the field.
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Snap Counts vs. WFT

Ram65


AD's percentage was down 6% from his high and 4% from the previous week. That's not a lot but still down plus as you stated less defensive snaps.
Aaron Donald60
83%		60
85%		54
87%		58
85%		44
81%		276

Brockers played his second-lowest snap percentage 57% which followed his lowest 51% the previous week. That's 17, 8, and 9 % decreases from the first three weeks which is significant.

Michael Brockers53
74%		47
66%		40
65%		35
51%		31
57%		206


As far as the DBs goes. I only mentioned Long getting what appears to be some of Hills snaps. Long matched his totals from the first 4 games this past week. Considering Hills dealing with an injury issue it makes sense. Noteables were Rapp going back to low 20's% and Burgess back to 0% of snaps.


David Long0
0%		6
8%		7
11%		2
3%		15
28%		30

Troy Hill70
97%		71
100%		61
98%		66
97%		38
70%		306


While typing this out I just checked on Obo and Fuller injury updates which were bad news. In my original post here and others I thought it was a good idea to get the inexperienced backups some snaps. Over the past two games many did get more snaps. Obo was showing good signs of making plays. Got run.
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