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Originally Posted by smitheRAM
The D stats sucked last year. They were not good.You cannot blame the O. "IF" a few things had gone different it might have changed but guess what it didn't. No excuses. We don't know how good they will be this yr because we they weren't good last and people usually don't have breakout yrs following injuries. Has the team brought in some game breaker that I might not know about? We "HOPE" there is improvement where there should be from the people who have showed some promise but I don't think the team has done anything great to improve anything. Just hope for some improvement.
Does anyone know what our D gave up in third down conversions rate as compared to other teams? It seemed very high last yr.
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Well, I have to disagree with you in a few of your points. The defense did a terrible job but a lot of it can be laid on the offense for not being able to sustain a drive long enough to give the defense time to recover and refresh. Proof is in the fact that we were able to stay in games in the first half of most games only to be pulverized in the second half. Look at the scoring. We were totally obliterated in the second half. And while I am not a Haslett fan by any means, the offense inability to score points and eat clock meant that our D was on the field way too much. I wont even address how terrible our special teams coverages were and the lousy position they put our D in.
I agree with you that we didn't bring in any blockbuster players, but I am optimistic that if we can stay healthy as a team, the Rams can be competitive and an 8-8 or 9-7 season is not unreasonable to expect.
I have been on record before that the Ram rebuilding project is a 2-3 year process but if we do things right, the Rams can be on top again in that time. IMO anyone expecting more than that may be disappointed.