Scottemojo
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Sarlacc83":3do90sog said:The Rams straight up have our number. And it was even worse last night, because they had 2 reasons to play with fire. 1) Because everyone gives Seattle their best shot (and even mores o in the division) and 2) Everyone, but everyone, laughed at them for being second string to the Cardinals. I imagine they had the type of fire last night that a bad team gets once all season.
And they still lost.
Better informed fans know we don't match up well with the Rams, especially the front 7. I expected a game similar maybe to week 17 last year. THe simple truth is that even with Breno and Okung the Rams are a difficult match up for us, across the board, man for man. Add to that the fact that the Rams have been especially dominant vs zone block teams, and it was never going to be easy.
What I did not expect was a coaching staff that shrunk from the physical challenge being issued by that Rams defense. This was the first time this year that our coaching staff did not insist that our identity is physical run first. That concerns me. A coaching game plan based on "We can trick these guys" seems like a plan that could erode the physical identity of this offense.
I don't want to Greg Roman our offense. Harbaugh had to wrest back control of that team and use a physical run game to re-establish their identity when Roman fell in love with his shiny new Kaepernick toy, and I feel as if that type of adjustment could be coming for us this week.
This was clearly the worst coaching job we have seen this year from our offensive staff. They did not seem to have a clue how to counter the physical challenge.
Perhaps a 45 minute blackout would have been the thing we needed to change gameplans.