Actually, the offense has been stopped in all of our losses. The 2nd half performances have been pathetic. It was also stopped in 2007.
LOL Offenses are generally stopped in losses. In all of our losses the defense also failed to make stops. This stuff is borderline genius level analysis...:ugh: BTW it was stopped once in 18 games in 2007. And even then the defense failed to stop an opponent with under 3 minutes remaining in a game. A clear indication it's scheme also sucked...as did both coordinators...and the poor players who were in position to make plays to end the game multiple times were just victims of a lousy scheme...
You keep repeating that it's some sort of mythical 4-man rush that beats this team, because you don't credit the folly of the scheme itself, and how the scheme causes protection problems because it's used too much/predictably.
It's not mythical and it's worse since it's 3 as well as 4 man rushes up the middle collapsing the pocket that are allowing even opponents without great edge rushers to beat this team's offense (although MENTAL ERRORS and erratic execution by young players on defense certainly exacerbated the outcome on Monday). It's really rough to argue with someone who doesn't even know what scheme entails...and who persists in ignoring the significance of execution within any scheme.
If you were a 2001 Rams fan you would be blaming the 2001 choke job on the Pats' elite linebackers, instead of on Mike Martz.
No, if I were a Rams fan I'd probably still be blaming the same thing Marshall Faulk and Kurt Warner are because that's a lot easier than looking in the freakin' mirror and admitting you got *****slapped by an inferior talent who executed an ingenious game plan flawlessly for three and a half quarters and then played conservative but heady football on offense for 1:21 to replace your arrogance driven dreams of a dynasty with a dream of their own. Heck, even BB said to Ernie on their way off the field - can you believe we won with this team???!!!
The funniest part of all of this is how many of you were Maroney defenders earlier using the specific argument that Maroney's run blocking is bad for him, because the defense knows that when he is in the game he is definitely running, and the defense hits those run gaps harder/earlier. If you can understand this concept, then it's only a complete irrational bias to defend the passing game, that stops you from understanding why 75% of all season passing attempts from shotgun is a bad idea.
