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Washington Redskins rumors: Several NFL experts predict win over LA Rams - youtube screen capture / NFL

#Washington Redskins rumors predict a tough game against the #Los Angeles Rams on Sunday (Sept. 17), but there are a few #NFL experts who feel that the Redskins are going to win this one. In the Week 2 NFL picks and predictions by ESPN, Matt Bowen, Mike Golic, and Dan Graziano are going with the Redskins over the Rams. In their Week 1 predictions, Bowen was 10-5, Golic was 7-8, and Graziano was 9-6.

Game time is 1:25 p.m. PT on Sunday, with an over/under of 45 points and the Rams currently favored by 2.5 points. In their Week 1 game, the Los Angeles Rams beat the Indianapolis Colts 46-9 behind a career-high 306 passing yards by quarterback Jared Goff.


The Washington Redskins came up short against the Philadelphia Eagles, losing 30-17 in the home opener.

Injury report for Redskins vs. Rams game
Washington Redskins receiver Josh Doctson is on the Week 2 injury report and currently listed as questionable for the game against the Rams. Doctson had already missed two of the first three preseason games for the Redskins due to a hamstring injury that has not gone away. It limited him in the season-opener and forced coach Jay Gruden to limit his involvement in practices this week.

Gruden hasn’t decided to rule out Doctson for the Rams game but will provide an injury update on the situation this weekend. The first-round pick of the 2016 NFL Draft has been injured quite a bit since joining the Redskins, missing 14 games last year due to Achilles’ issues.


The Washington Redskins’ injury report also has several other players on it, including running back Chris Thompson (back), receiver Jamison Crowder (hip), and tackle Morgan Moses (angle), but they should all be good to go by game time.

Week 2 keys to victory for Redskins
There are a lot of Washington Redskins rumors that focus on the running game and the team has to establish the run early in this game against the Los Angeles Rams. That will allow quarterback Kirk Cousins more freedom in the passing game, giving him a chance to show that his Week 1 performance against the Philadelphia Eagles was a fluke. It’s also important for the defense to rush the decision-making process for Rams quarterback Jared Goff and force him into some early mistakes.

There are a number of other great games on the Week 2 NFL schedule, including the Green Bay Packers trying to prove themselves against the Atlanta Falcons. Meanwhile, some possibly good news for Washington Redskins fans is that many experts are predicting that the Dallas Cowboys won’t win the NFC East this year [VIDEO].

We don't get many chances to take legit shots at the Patriots... ...might as well overreact a little from week one. Here goes...

Edelman is out for the season.

Amendola is out this week, and notoriously injury prone. Is he their best WR right now?

Can the Pats keep plugging in no-names at WR and get the job done?

What about their defense? They looked like a hot mess week one. Not good.

Brady is getting old.

Rumors are flying Gronk has lost burst.

Is this team in trouble?

Rams Add Donald, Peterson to Active Roster
Posted 1 hour ago@MylesASimmons
In advance of Sunday’s game against Washington, the Rams have officially added defensive tackle Aaron Donald to their active roster from the exempt list. Additionally, Los Angeles has signed cornerback Keven Peterson to the active roster from its practice squad.


Head coach Sean McVay announced on Friday that Donald will start on Sunday after a strong week of practice. Donald reported to the club last Saturday.

“He was doing everything he could while not being here to make sure that when this opportunity presented itself, he would be ready to go, and help his teammates out, and try to be a positive thing that helps us win football games,” McVay said. “And that’s certainly what he’s done this week. Looking forward to seeing him get out there and compete with his teammates on Sunday.”

Originally an undrafted free agent in the 2016 rookie class, Peterson signed with the Rams on a futures contract at the beginning of the calendar year. Peterson was signed to the practice squad after clearing waivers earlier this month. With cornerback Kayvon Webster listed as questionable with a shoulder injury, Peterson could provide depth for Sunday’s game.

As a corresponding roster move, the Rams have waived offensive lineman Aaron Neary.

The Rams' roster now stands at 53 players. Tomorrow’s matchup against Washington will kick off at the Coliseum at 1:25 p.m. The game will be televised on Fox.


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You guys can sleep well now tonight.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/12818794

How did the Week 1 demolition of the Indianapolis Colts effect your view of the Rams Head Coach?
by Sean Wilkinson@Papa_Lurch Sep 15, 2017, 10:20am CDT TWEET


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Sean McVay couldn’t have asked for a better start to his head coaching career. Heading into the season, fans expressed optimism about the Rookie head coach, with a whopping 98% expressing either a neutral or positive view of McVay.


McVay affirmed that support as his Rams absolutely destroyed the Colts in Week 1 at the Coliseum, 46-9. The offense, defense, and special teams all played magnificently and showed that the Rams may not be the SOSAR of old.


In addition to having his team prepared for the Colts, McVay also played a part in ending the holdout of star DT Aaron Donald - whose impact is impossible to overstate for this Rams team.

Personally, I’ve been impressed by the 31 year old McVay. He is living up to the ‘genius’ moniker that many experts have placed on him and has shown the ability to maintain his composure - and his team’s focus - through controversy.

But my opinion doesn’t matter here... your’s does. What do you think Rams fans? How is the Rookie doing?

Poll
On a Scale of 1 (Bad) to 5 (Good), how would you grade McVay through the first week of the season?

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  1 - Horrible!
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• 2%
  3 - Meh
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• 49%
  4
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  5 - Is it too early for an extension?
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569 votes total


https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2017/...ts-recap-sean-mcvay-approval-poll-week-2-2017

It's not the players.

Not that this team is not blessed with many good to great players. They certainly are.

Heck, if the Rams have a winning season, they might wind up with as many as 5-6 Pro Bowlers.

Whitworth
Watkins
Kupp
Donald
Quinn
TruJo

All real possibilities, imo.

But the real strength of this team is now it's coaching.

McVay is getting the best out of his players. His O players are growing right before our eyes and his play calling is keeping opponents off balance. He adjusts from series to series, much less at halftime. It's a night and day difference from the previous regime. One gets the feeling that McVay's O players are headed toward being all that they can be.

What more can be said about Wade Phillips? Mr Top 5 D? It appears that he's always one step ahead of the opposing O, huh? What a warm and fuzzy feeling that gives a Ram fan. Every week Wade will have tweaked his scheme to maximize mismatch advantages. And he has so many marvelous and football smart chess pieces to work with, too.

Both of these coaches have outstanding assistants to aid them.

I know that there will be ups and downs this season, including inevitable injuries and bad bounces. But I also feel certain that this coaching staff will handle them as they come along. And handle them very well, at that.

And that the result will be a winning season. The first winning season in... Seems like forever, doesn't it?

Here's to our coaching staff! The most valuable pieces on our team!

Ok folks..have an old (7-8years) HP laptop. Both wife and I use it. In the last few days whenever she tries to log on, the damn thing freezes up and have to restart it. But it works fine when I use it.

Tried to add another user and tells me user can't be found. Should I just delete her "accounts and start from the beginning?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20719238/los-angeles-rams-announce-aaron-donald-start-sunday

Aaron Donald will be on 'pitch count' in first Rams start since holdout
Alden GonzalezESPN Staff Writer

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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay announced Friday what had been expected all week: Aaron Donald will start the Week 2 home game against the Washington Redskins, despite taking part in only three practices with the team.

"He had a good week of practice," McVay said. "As far as how we approach that game, that's something that we'll figure out in the next 48 hours. But he's going to go unless something changes between [now and] then. The snap count and how many plays he plays is yet to be determined."

Rams defensive coordinator Wade Phillips said Thursday that Donald would be on a "pitch count" Sunday, considering he did not end his holdout until this past Saturday and didn't take part in his first full practice with the team until Wednesday.

Donald, widely considered the game's best interior lineman, spent the entire summer working out at his alma mater of Pittsburgh while using what little leverage he has to turn the remaining two years of his rookie contract into a lucrative extension.

The three-time Pro Bowler, still without a deal, said Wednesday that he "worked out a lot" and is in "great shape," but added: "There's a difference from running around and then having to be on the football field."

To his teammates, Donald looked like his usual, disruptive self in pads.

"He looked pretty good, being that he hasn't been here all summer," Rams inside linebacker Alec Ogletree said. "I know he definitely wanted to stay in shape through the whole process. He came back and has been working like the rest of us, and he's been doing well."

Donald will start alongside nose tackle Michael Brockers and, presumably, defensive end Ethan Westbrooks. With Tyrunn Walker and Tanzel Smart playing in Donald's place against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 1, the Rams returned two interceptions for touchdowns, recovered a fumble, caused a safety and generated four sacks in a 46-9 win.

Donald didn't attend that game but rejoined his teammates for film work and light conditioning Monday. In practice throughout the week, McVay said Donald "looks good, looks fresh, looks like the Aaron Donald that you guys are accustomed to seeing. And that's kind of what I expected because you know he's a guy who's going to take great care of himself when he's away."

But this years Mob Squad has an opportunity at greatness.

This Wade Phillips led defense is loaded with talent. If they can continue to build on their week one performance the sky's the limit.

While I am excited about our new found passing game it's the D that's got me ecstatic.

If anyone wants my Tix 60.00 ea I have 3 150.00 face value. I can not go and do not have time to look around to sell. I will upload them to you
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Jared Goff the the Rams made their long anticipated week 1 debut under rookie head coach Sean McVay and they did not disappoint! The Mob Squad blew out the Luck-less Indianapolis Colts 46-9. Regardless of the caliber team you consider Indy to be, that's a good sign for the Rams. The guys discuss the game, the return of Aaron Donald as well as preview this Sunday's game against Washington. It's great to have football back!

I'm wondering, am I the ONLY Ram fan who hates our 90% white uniforms at home games?

Yeah I know, and I agree, that winning is the important thing. But do we have to let visiting teams wear their colors in our house? (rented apartment)

The mostly white uniforms are pretty terrible looking.

Make him eat his words JG and McVay!!

http://m.therams.com/news-and-event...shington/48b76b40-e928-4caf-893c-6934fb1798da

Hope Kayvon is OK.

I guess the team isn't satisfied with McRoberts on the PS.

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Jared Goff, NFL disruptor? Rams QB may be the blueprint for transition from spread
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By Adam KilgoreSeptember 15 at 10:01 AM

Rams quarterback Jared Goff had a promising season opener. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

Tony Franklin happened to be in the Los Angeles area, on a recruiting trip, so he attended the first Los Angeles Rams practice Jared Goff had under new Coach Sean McVay. Franklin was Goff’s offensive coordinator at Cal, and he held two steadfast beliefs: His former pupil could thrive in the NFL if the league didn’t let him down, and the league had plenty of coaches capable of letting him down.

Franklin, now the offensive coordinator at Middle Tennessee State, felt relief as he watched McVay work. The practice moved at a rapid tempo. McVay focused less on a predetermined system than on actions Goff performed well. The prior season had been different, Franklin believed, and set up Goff for failure. Franklin left the practice convinced Goff would excel under his new coach.

“The big thing in the NFL is getting lucky with getting a coach that actually knows what they’re doing,” Franklin said. “He got fortunate they hired McVay.”

The Rams selected Goff with the first overall pick in hopes he could lift their franchise, both in a new city and a league bereft of quality quarterbacks. The future of the NFL may depend on the ability of evaluators and coaches to translate the skills of passers who, like Goff, played their whole lives in spread offenses, the dominant system in college and every level beneath the NFL. The league so far has flailed with mixed success in turning prolific spread passers into capable NFL quarterbacks. Goff will be another data point, and perhaps the best illustration yet of the role coaching plays.

In his rookie season under Coach Jeff Fisher, Goff averaged a paltry 5.3 yards per attempt, completed 55 percent of his passes and threw seven interceptions against five touchdowns. The Rams lost all seven of his starts, and many around the league doubted any chance at future success despite the fact he was just 22 years old.

[Analysis: The NFL has an offensive line crisis]

Goff has played only one game under McVay, against a dreadful Colts team that may be the worst in the NFL. But the difference was drastic. Goff completed 21 of 29 passes for 306 yards and a touchdown without throwing an interception, finishing the week as the league’s third-highest rated quarterback.

“I think you see him get more and more comfortable, just like anyone else would,” McVay said. “It just might be a different philosophical approach. It’s really been about over the last handful of months, figuring out what he’s comfortable with and what fits our players.”

In recent years, NFL coaches and executives have lamented the difficulty in evaluating and training spread quarterbacks. The league has borrowed concepts from the spread, but two primary features — spacing of players and quarterback runs — can be smothered by fast, sophisticated NFL defenses.

Still, the success of the spread in college ensures it is not going away any time soon. NFL teams, then, do not need to find better quarterbacks. They need to find coaches who have creativity and a feel for what the next generation of quarterbacks can do well.

“When you look around the league and you see people, they constantly make excuses,” Franklin said. “It gets really old. ‘He played in this; he played in that.’ I think 99 percent of the time, they have no idea what they’re talking about, no clue. They talk about our offense and say, ‘He never went through a read progression.’ That’s all we do. That’s all Jared did from the time he got” to Cal.


Goff will take on the Washington Redskins’ defense in Week 2. (Alex Gallardo/AP)


Goff, having transitioned from the spread to running an NFL team, chafes at the idea that spread quarterbacks have to learn a completely different game. Learning how to take a snap from under center, for example, was a painless process. Dak Prescottcame from Mississippi State, where plays demanded he decipher only half the field, and led the Cowboys to 13 victories as a rookie.

“It can be a bit overblown,” Goff said. “The main thing that teams should understand is, if you approach it the right way, you can teach anyone anything. A lot of times, people don’t think of it that way. They try to fit something that doesn’t work. By no means was that the case with me, but you see it happen all the time.”

Redskins backup quarterback Colt McCoy, who played in the spread and has spent eight years in the NFL, was asked how NFL teams can better acclimate spread quarterbacks.

“Good coaches,” McCoy replied, shrugging.

Franklin pointed to the case of New England quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, who played in the Baylor offensive system under Dino Babers at Eastern Illinois, “truly as far away from an NFL offense as it could be,” Franklin said.

“The guys that don’t do it are the guys that are going to die as dinosaurs,” Franklin said. Patriots Coach Bill Belichick “just goes and learns; that’s why he goes on to win every year. All these other guys just kind of switch jobs and continue to lose every year.”

[Remember when the future appeared so bright for Andrew Luck and the Colts?]

Last year under Fisher, Franklin said, Goff played in “a true, old-school, NFL-style offense. Everything is slow. There is no rhythm changes. Everything is about not losing a game rather than winning a game. Incredibly conservative.”

In Week 1, Franklin saw McVay use tempo to prevent the Colts from substituting and allow Goff to call plays at the line, based on what the defense showed. McVay employed play-action passes that simplified Goff’s decisions. He encouraged Goff to throw deep. Most of all, he designed an attack meant to emphasize Goff’s strengths rather than stifle his weaknesses.

“It seems to be there’s this group of people that sell the NFL where they want to think this brand they have is so much better, and the only people who can play in it are the most incredibly gifted, intelligent people, and the game is so complicated that unless you’re a genius, you can’t understand it,” Franklin said. “That’s the exact opposite of what I believe a teacher does.

“A teacher takes something that could be incredibly complex, and they try to make it simple to the brain of the student. That’s what we did. Jared and I have talked. The concepts they run are somewhat similar. They may call it something different. They may have a way of verbalizing it differently. It doesn’t mean one is better than another. They’re just a different way of saying the same thing.”

Rams Coach Sean McVay, left, talks with quarterback Jared Goff during the second half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Jae C. Hong/AP)

McVay, a charismatic and creative 31-year-old, may use Goff as an example of how to integrate spread quarterbacks into the NFL. But teams still will need to sift through what is applicable, and what is not, when drafting quarterbacks playing in systems designed to work against slower defenses, on fields with hashmarks that, crucially, make the wide side of the field more spacious.

“These offenses they run in college are so different than what’s actually ran in the NFL,” Redskins left tackle Trent Williamssaid. “You really can’t expect players who never even took a snap under center, who never took a seven-step drop, who never had to throw a ball into a tight window, never had a three- or four-read progression on a pass play, it’s hard for them to expect them to come in and do that at an elite level. I know it’s extremely hard on teams picking quarterbacks.”

NFL teams, though, have no choice but to adjust. They must improve at untangling which skills will translate. The Cowboys selected Prescott in the fourth round last year, in part, because offensive coordinator Scott Linehan was impressed with his aptitude and leadership when he coached him in Senior Bowl practice.

“What’s important as far as working that transition to the NFL is doing a great job with the evaluation of the person, to see how those skills would translate,” McVay said. “How do they process information? Are they able to make quick, good decision with the football?”

The speed of NFL defenders will prevent some spread concepts, such as offensive linemen spaced out further apart, from ever immigrating to the NFL.

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“You give Aaron Donald a three-foot split and see how long he makes your day,” Williams said.

It also mitigates how much teams can subject their quarterback to contact.

“These college offenses that expose the quarterback to hits, when they step up a level, the pro game can’t change to the college game, because quarterbacks would get killed,” one NFL executive said. “Then that becomes a business decision as well.”

The NFL cannot fully mimic how college offenses operate, but they borrow enough concepts to maximize a spread quarterback’s talent. Goff has many more weeks to prove his 2017 debut wasn’t a fluke, but he and McVay may be providing the latest template for how to turn a college quarterback into an NFL success.

“They know what they’re doing,” Franklin said. “They know how to do it. They know how to play to his strengths. I think he’s going to be a really good football player, because he’s got a really good coaching staff.”

Hey guys I am in Las Vegas and will be driving to LA in a bit, but here is the podcast I was somehow able to record on my trip. Enjoy!

https://www.spreaker.com/user/downtownrams/previewing-rams-redskins-with-joe-curley

They (turfshowtimes.com) do a great job with this that includes the offense . The blowout win skews the numbers but, gave the Rams a chance to get the backups a chance to get some PT early in the year. The Rams only had about 50 defensive snaps due to the poor Colts offense. Ogletree, Barron and Johnson saw the most snaps last year at 100%, 99.72% and 87.43 (TJ McDonald 98.7% last year). As noted in the article Quinn came out in nickle defense which would seem to be a pass down. For those that are wondering Aaron Donald played in 76.06% of plays last year. Forecast is in the mid 70's and partly cloudy so not as bad as the opener at around 90. I was NOT impressed with the early pressure the Rams put on the QB last week. Box score said 4 sacks but, in the first half Tolzien had time to throw. It will be interesting to see how more snaps Quinn gets and how many Donald gets against a much better Redskins offensive line. Donald taking some snaps away from the other defensive tackles could give them an improve chance for creating pressure. Hopefully, Phillips comes up with some pressure schemes to get Cousins off his mark and game. Should be interesting.

Thoughts.
https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2017/...olts-recap-snap-counts-playing-time-breakdown

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/ram/2016-snap-counts.htm