Walk the Plank- Rams

[Defense5599]

Walk the Plank to Jordan Howard for letting Cooper Kupp get past him to set up the winning field goal!!! That piece of shit needs to be cut immediately!!!

Honorable Mention to our four eyed fat fuck head coach for not having the team ready in the first half and to referee Shawn Hochuli for his bullshit calls!!! Him and his father, Ed both have a deep hatred for Brady and he needs to get the shit kicked outta him!!!

[uscbucsfan]

You mean Winfield?

[Cheb]

A zero blitz in the final 43 seconds of a tied playoff game.

Honestly.

Worst defensive playcall I've ever seen? Not quite, but definitely top 3.

[Redrum]

Yeah Bowles had a horrendous game. The tackling was poor. The WRs couldn't get open or catch. Execution was poor. Donavon Smith was whooped.

[King Bootz]

SMB. Tom Brady. Oline.

[nybf]

Fuck Todd Bowles

[Leon Phelps]

Fuck Todd Bowles

It's okay to get your head out of Brady's ass and blame the offense for 3 Qtrs of inept play.

[Nobody]

* Bowles. Like it or not, its your job to make sure your players are ready to go. We had a gameplan that featured soft coverage (A lot of 2 Zone and Off...that kind of coverage that a player like Kupp and an offense like the Rams will feast on) on the backend, multiple miscommunications in the secondary, Kupp not doubled in so many different situations, and...honestly...one of the worst defensive calls I've ever seen in my life. Its about process. You could instantiate that communication-intensive, hurry-up-offense situation a million times and never would calling an NCB blitz...off the most prolific WR in the NFL...with a bailing FS somehow supposed to cover him...a FS that didn't actually get the call apparently because its a communication-intensive, hurry-up-offense situation that is vulnerable to not getting calls conveyed. I mean, its just difficult to fathom how that call could happen then...against a team and QB that had diced up the blitz all year. 2 Man with a flat-out double cover on Kupp wasn't on the table? Drop 8 and 3 Man with a flat-out double cover on Kupp? Keep the ball in bounds and out of Kupp's hands?

* SMB. Roasted all game long and at the end. Missed tackles. He's just never going to be the player they dreamed him to be when they reached on him years back. He makes a random play every 180 snaps, is solid for 20 others, and people forget the other deluge of snaps where he was below NFL-average. CB isn't a position where you can be below NFL-average for that % of snaps.

* Wirfs' ankle.

* Donovan Smith. After a career year, he looked like his absolute worst version of himself. Just an awful football game. The Offensive Tackle position just crippled our offense this game.

* Tyler Johnson. So many routes either not run well, throttled down, cut off. Big plays where a catch needed to be made and he just couldn't make the play.

* The offensive gameplan/Leftwich. We put our OL on islands against this pass rush on so...so...so many plays. And so many key plays. And, predictably, they got absolutely abused. Just crushed. This looked like us against KC last year. The amount of pressure on Brady (because we were unwilling to constantly play heavy personnel + chip/max protect and just playaction off of that...send 3 guys out...flood one side with a concept and Brady will find leverage to fit in a throw more often than not) when we knew that would be the issue if we didn't scheme around it? Just inexplicable.



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Given that this was very likely the last hurrah for this group, this was an incredibly bad showing for the coaching staff + amazingly terrible timing for SMB and DSmith to go into the phone booth and change into Clark Kent. Forced Fumbles in the running game or in the open field aren't a product of coaching or calls. They're a product of great effort by individual players and they're an_utter_fluke to get them in bunches (like we did). Strip Sacks due to great pass rush and/or overload blitzes that work? Different story. An abundance of (fluky) Forced Fumbles in the run game/open field + Brady and Mike making a play aren't the product of coaching staff (and that is the only thing that went right in this game). When we needed a great and sensible gameplan (see the NFC Championship and Super Bowl last year on defense), the coaching staff didn't do their part.

It should have been Banjo coverage all day on defense (switching picks/rubs), 2 or 3 Deep w/ Man Under and Kupp getting roughed up and having a Safety sit on him all game long. It should have been heavy personnel and run game and play action and only put your Tackles on islands a scant few times in the game (we did the inverse...it was islands galore).

I just can't believe that this was the effort put forth for the last consequential game for this regime.

[nybf]

Fuck Todd Bowles

It's okay to get your head out of Brady's ass and blame the offense for 3 Qtrs of inept play.

Whose burner is this? Register in September and wait until today to post?

[Snake]

* Bowles. Like it or not, its your job to make sure your players are ready to go. We had a gameplan that featured soft coverage (A lot of 2 Zone and Off...that kind of coverage that a player like Kupp and an offense like the Rams will feast on) on the backend, multiple miscommunications in the secondary, Kupp not doubled in so many different situations, and...honestly...one of the worst defensive calls I've ever seen in my life. Its about process. You could instantiate that communication-intensive, hurry-up-offense situation a million times and never would calling an NCB blitz...off the most prolific WR in the NFL...with a bailing FS somehow supposed to cover him...a FS that didn't actually get the call apparently because its a communication-intensive, hurry-up-offense situation that is vulnerable to not getting calls conveyed. I mean, its just difficult to fathom how that call could happen then...against a team and QB that had diced up the blitz all year. 2 Man with a flat-out double cover on Kupp wasn't on the table? Drop 8 and 3 Man with a flat-out double cover on Kupp? Keep the ball in bounds and out of Kupp's hands?

* SMB. Roasted all game long and at the end. Missed tackles. He's just never going to be the player they dreamed him to be when they reached on him years back. He makes a random play every 180 snaps, is solid for 20 others, and people forget the other deluge of snaps where he was below NFL-average. CB isn't a position where you can be below NFL-average for that % of snaps.

* Wirfs' ankle.

* Donovan Smith. After a career year, he looked like his absolute worst version of himself. Just an awful football game. The Offensive Tackle position just crippled our offense this game.

* Tyler Johnson. So many routes either not run well, throttled down, cut off. Big plays where a catch needed to be made and he just couldn't make the play.

* The offensive gameplan/Leftwich. We put our OL on islands against this pass rush on so...so...so many plays. And so many key plays. And, predictably, they got absolutely abused. Just crushed. This looked like us against KC last year. The amount of pressure on Brady (because we were unwilling to constantly play heavy personnel + chip/max protect and just playaction off of that...send 3 guys out...flood one side with a concept and Brady will find leverage to fit in a throw more often than not) when we knew that would be the issue if we didn't scheme around it? Just inexplicable.



++++++++++++++

Given that this was very likely the last hurrah for this group, this was an incredibly bad showing for the coaching staff + amazingly terrible timing for SMB and DSmith to go into the phone booth and change into Clark Kent. Forced Fumbles in the running game or in the open field aren't a product of coaching or calls. They're a product of great effort by individual players and they're an_utter_fluke to get them in bunches (like we did). Strip Sacks due to great pass rush and/or overload blitzes that work? Different story. An abundance of (fluky) Forced Fumbles in the run game/open field + Brady and Mike making a play aren't the product of coaching staff (and that is the only thing that went right in this game). When we needed a great and sensible gameplan (see the NFC Championship and Super Bowl last year on defense), the coaching staff didn't do their part.

It should have been Banjo coverage all day on defense (switching picks/rubs), 2 or 3 Deep w/ Man Under and Kupp getting roughed up and having a Safety sit on him all game long. It should have been heavy personnel and run game and play action and only put your Tackles on islands a scant few times in the game (we did the inverse...it was islands galore).

I just can't believe that this was the effort put forth for the last consequential game for this regime.

Well said, particularly the part about fumbles being fluky.

The scheming was awful. Should’ve gone heavy. The run was working. But no, Arians hates it.

[Nobody]

Oh, I forgot to put 2 other people on the list:

* White for abandoning his Man Coverage assignment in RZT and giving up a TD.

* Edwards giving up the early TD in 2 Deep Zone on 3rd and 20, but he was in a tough spot against the Seam and boundary Vert call that pressures the deep half Safety in 2 Zone (really...I hate that call on 3rd and 20...play Tampa 2 if you're going 2 Zone or Match Quarters or 2 Man Under or 3 Cloud).