OC Brian Schottenheimer – Press Conference 9/19/13
September 19, 2013
(On Cowboys DE DeMarcus Ware)
“They do a great job. Obviously, he’s one of the best of all time, elite pass rusher. But again, they’ve got (DE Anthony) Spencer on the other side, really good inside. I think their Mike linebacker is one of the better Mike linebackers in the league. He does not get enough credit and then the secondary is talented, especially out on the edges. Playing them there is always tough, very talented team and it will be a good challenge.”
(On if they move Ware around)
“They do. If you had to pinpoint him on a certain play, he’s going to be to our left more than anything, but they move him around so you can’t find him.”
(On if the Dallas defense will try to take advantage of T Rodger Saffold being out)
“Well, I think they’re going to move him around all the time, just try to get different match-ups at different times. Again, a player like that, they’d be crazy not to move him around.”
(On if short passes are becoming an extension of the run game)
“I think that’s certainly things you talk about, even during the week game plan wise. Can a quick slant or something make me six or seven yards, where a great run makes me four or five yards? Again, I know the thing we want to do is be balanced. That’s a big part of it. Games come down to the fourth quarter and sometimes you’re going to have to try to throw it like we did last week and try to come from behind. Other times, you’re going to have to run the football in four-minute and try to put people away. If you have a quarterback like Sam (Bradford) with the ability to throw the ball as accurately as he does, certainly you should hit a high percentage of those short routes. But, nothing replaces the ability to run the football when the opponent knows you’re going to have to run it.”
(On how to be more productive)
“In the running game, I think there’s plenty of room for improvement. I think it just comes down – we’ve got young backs. We put ourselves in some positions where we haven’t had favorable numbers, whether it was the score board or just some heavy boxes and stuff trying to run against. It just comes down to execution. I think we’ve kind of tightened things down a little bit this week in the plan, and we know what we’re good at. They do a lot of ‘two-Tampa’ and some things like that, so try to get back just to a real simple plan rule, core group of plays that we want to try to feature and hopefully that helps.”
(On RB Daryl Richardson making improvements as a pass catcher)
“Absolutely. You see it out here every day in practice. He’s made a lot more plays this year than he’s missed opportunities, so, I don’t have a problem with it. That was a tough play – the ball was on him fast and again, another fortunate thing. But, I’m proud of the guys, they moved on and tried to fight back.”
(On if Bradford’s interceptions this year were flukes)
“They’re kind of flukes. The one, the defensive tackle makes a great play, and then, of course, last week the ball gets on Daryl fast, hits him in the facemask and it just so happens they’re in a ‘fire zone’ (coverage) and (Falcons DE) Osi’s (Umenyiora) dropping off into coverage. The biggest problem is just where the ball’s been caught. On the one, it was right back on our goal line and the other one, it was caught out in space where we had nobody around to try to make the plays. We all know Sam’s extremely accurate. Those are some flukes and you’re going to have a few during the course of the year and hopefully we’ve used up our allotment for the while.”
(On the young receivers)
“Doing good. Mentally, I’m very, very pleased. I think Tavon last week had a couple drops but bounced back. Again, we’re working along. Another good day today working third down, working some things with blitz pickup and stuff like that, but very pleased with all of them.”
(On TE Jared Cook)
“We knew that Atlanta obviously would pay a lot attention to him after his first game. Our big thing is try to move him around, put him in different spots and if they’re taking care of him, then other guys are going to have big games like (WR) Chris (Givens) stepped up last week. Chris kind of got shut out a little bit in the first game against Arizona and came back last week with a big performance. Who knows who it will be this week. But, we have a bunch of guys that are selfless and just want to move the ball, make plays, help us win and they don’t really care who’s getting the credit.”
(On his confidence level in T Joe Barksdale)
“Very high. Go back to last year, I mean his first start, I think ever in the league if I’m not mistaken, was against (Packers LB) Clay Matthews, and he goes out and basically pitches a shutout. Tremendous talent, we have all the confidence in the world. He’s played in a lot of football games for us. I think he’ll do a great job.”
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Los Rams no pudieron con la primer mitad
(AP Photo/John Bazemore)
El domingo pasado los Rams se enfrentaron al nuevo equipo de su vieja estrella, Steven Jackson, los Atlanta Falcons y fueron derrotados en el Georgia Dome por 24-31 en una actuación aceptable para el equipo de St. Louis.
Sabemos que los Falcons es un equipo muy bien armado y que tienen grandes chances de llegar al Super Bowl, su ofensiva tiene varios jugadores de grueso calibre que le permitieron mover las cadena con tranquilidad, este era un juego en que la mayoría opinábamos que los Falcons se llevaría la victoria.
La diferencia para que los Rams pierdan este juego fue una mala primer mitad, una falta de Chris Long permitió que los Falcons pudieran cerrar una marcha para un touchdown por medio de Steven Jackson, un momento importante a favor de los Falcons fue la intecepción para anotación en los primeros minutos del segundo cuarto, los Rams terminaban la primer mitad con una desventaja de 21 puntos. Los Falcons supieron utilizar en varias oportunidades a su jugador válvula y combinaron con algunas pantallas que dejaron a los Rams mal parados.
La segunda mitad con la guía de Sam Bradford mostró que podían dar batalla, con gran ayuda de la defensa que detuvo la ofensiva de Atlanta permitió que la ofensiva pudiera hacer su trabajo, y llegar a estar a 7 puntos sobre el final de último cuarto.
Podemos decir que Bradford tuvo un gran juego, y podría ser uno de sus mejores juegos de su carrera en la NFL, completo 32 de 55 pases para 352 yardas para 3 touchdowns y una intercepción, a el hay que sumar la buena actusación de Chris Givens quien lideró en yardas por pases a los Rams con 105 yardas, seguido por Austin Pettis liderando en recepciones con ocho para 78 yardas y un touchdown y con el novato Tavon Austin quien atrapó dos pases de Bradford para touchdown con 6 recepciones y 47 yardas.
La atención estuvo sobre los hombros de Jared Cook como era de esperarse lo que abrio el juego para Givens, Austin y Pettis.
Por el momento Tavon Austin no ha mostrado toda su explosividad pero ha tenido un buen desempeño hasta el momento y creo que con el tiempo encontrará la forma de mostrar lo que puede hacer.
Robert Quinn sumo otra captura para su lista y la defensa pudo controlar bastante la corrida de los Falcons pero no tan así los envíos de Matt Ryan que termino con 374 yardas, mientras que Julio Jones tuvo una noche para el recuerdo con 11 recepciones para 182 yardas.
Los que no tuvieron una feliz noticia fueron Steven Jackson que luego de su touchdown tuvo que dejar el emparrillado y Rodger Saffold quien también tuvo que salir con una lesión.
El equipo de St. Louis mejoró significativamente en dos ítems con respecto a las estadísticas de la semana 1, terminó como 4to equipo con yardas por pase con 325,5 yardas y en el 6to lugar en defensa en yardas permitidas por acarreo con 61 yardas, lo que los Rams deben cuidar es la cobertura en pases ya que fueron el 27mo equipo en yardas permitidas por pases con 330,5 yardas.
Head Coach Jeff Fisher – Press Conference 9/16/13
September 16, 2013
(On penalties hurting their field position)
“I’m not concerned about the penalties. We were penalized seven times in the game. In my opinion, we should have been penalized twice. I was upset after the ballgame but looking at the tape, those are incorrect calls. With that being said, we’ve got balls on the 16 (-yard line) instead of the 8 (-yard line) or the 10 (-yard line) instead of the 5 (-yard line) because the kicks are good. The penalties weren’t necessarily the big issue, it was the kicks. It was the placement of the kicks and the coverage unit, so that’s just kind of how the flow of the game goes. But the penalties, there were seven and in my opinion, five of them were incorrect calls. That would include the first defensive offsides – that was a false start. It was not a defensive offsides, it’s like ‘false start 101.’ You’ve got a third-and-12 and we’re called for offsides, so we now have a third-and-7 and they convert. If it’s called correctly, you have a third-and-17. Third-and-17s are hard to convert. We would most likely have a three-and-out and get the ball back. Instead, they go down and score on their first drive. Looking at the tape, it’s different than it would appear. We felt last night, I thought I was disappointed in the special teams’ performance, but looking at the tape they got better than they did last week and they were pretty good last week because those penalties should not be called. It’s just kind of how the game went. There were some other incidences where there should have been some things called against our opponent that were not called that could have created some situations for us. The intentional grounding was missed. There were a couple other things that were missed. But, again we had chances, we need to make plays. By no means am I placing blame. I have great respect for the officiating department and the officials. We work very close with them and we move on. We had chances in that ballgame. We had chances to get off the field, chances to make plays – didn’t make them.”
(On if he doesn’t think the special teams penalties should have been called)
“In my opinion, yes, they should not have been called.”
(On how the officials made the wrong call against DE Chris Long’s offsides penalty)
“It’s the human element in the game. There are calls that are going to be missed every week, that’s part of it. Our department’s doing the best job they can. They’re under great leadership in (NFL Vice President of Officiating) Dean (Blandino) and I think we’re clearly going in the right direction with the department, but there’s a mistake every once in a while.”
(On how young players bounce back from penalties called on them that should not have been called)
“I talked to them this morning, showed it to them. That’s why on the sideline you have to be careful unless you see it, unless I see the act… For example a couple weeks ago, we had a taunting or we had a late hit where you can actually see it. If you don’t see it, you just have to roll with the punches and move on and wait until you see the tape.”
(On how a penalty keeping a drive alive can set the tone for the game)
“Again it remains to be seen. We think it’s significant. Now, granted we’ve got to get a third-and-17 stop, but you get a third-and-17 stop, should you give up a 10-yard pass, you get off the field and get the ball back. You’re also talking about field position and a young punt returner that’s not backed up with his heels on the 8-yard line who’s got a chance to put his hands on the ball. You can look at every single play in the game and say, ‘What if?’ But, the bottom line is that we fell behind, we’ve had two interceptions in two weeks returned for touchdowns and regardless of the situational circumstance, certainly can’t blame it on the quarterback, but it happened. It’s hard to win games when you give up defensive scores.”
(On which two penalties he thought were correct)
“We agree with (C) Scott’s (Wells) holding, and then we had an illegal motion false start – which you talk about a young team in a loud environment, and have no line of scrimmage infractions with the exception of the motion. I was pleased with that. In addition to 55 pass attempts…when your gross passing yards are the same as your net passing yards, you’re doing a good job protecting your quarterback.”
(On his thoughts of running a no-huddle offense more often)
“No. We did it because we got behind. We have done it, obviously, early in the ball game. But, you do it early in the ball game against a guy like Matt Ryan and go three-and-out you’ve got problems. You’re putting him back on the field all the time. You look at Sam’s 300-plus yards passing games over his career, they’ve won two. We have the ability to do it and there’s a time do to it and a time not to do it. If you put a long drive together, you’ve got the defense tired, and you go back on the field you want to continue to fatigue the defense through it. But, we had plenty of time. All we had to do was get a defensive stop, and we had plenty of time to tie the ball game up.”
(On no-huddle and hurry-up)
“There’s a difference between a no-huddle and a hurry-up. Typical your hurry-up is the end of the half or the end of the game where you’re in a hurry to try to – it’s a two-minute offense. The no-huddle’s a little bit different as we perceive it. We went strictly to the hurry-up yesterday because we knew we weren’t going to have the possessions. In normal offense administration, we wouldn’t have the number of possessions to catch up.”
(On how much play clock you use in the no-huddle/hurry-up)
“Teams are going to no-huddle, get up on the ball and snap the ball like Matt did with five seconds left to go on the play clock. In the hurry-up, you’re snapping it with 15-20 seconds.”
(On RT Rodger Saffold’s status)
“We’ll have more information on Wednesday. Right now he’s day-to-day. (S) Matt’s (Daniels) going to require season-ending surgery at some point this week. Difficult for Matt, having worked so hard to come off the ACL (surgery) and to have this thing happen is difficult for him, but he’ll bounce back. He’s a tough young man.”
(On the Rams’ pass coverage against the Falcons)
“Could be better. We had breakdowns, which we talked about yesterday. We could be better on third down. We got our hands on some balls. There were some positives there. I thought (LB) Alec (Ogletree) did a nice job on a very, very talented tight end (Tony Gonzalez), made a play, broke a pass up the second play of the game against (Steven) ‘Jack’ (Jackson) on a crossing route. We did some good things, but we’ve got to get better.”
(On if he’s getting enough out of the running game)
“Yeah. We didn’t have a chance to do much of it because we got behind. I think the running game needs to get better, but as it was the first couple weeks, yeah.”
(On WR Austin Pettis’ game against Atlanta)
“He does those things on the practice field. Like we talked about last week, (TE Jared) ‘Cookie’ (Cook) has a big day, so all of a sudden attention goes to him. So, other people have to step up as did Austin and (WR) Chris (Givens). They got their opportunities.”
(On if felt any different about Cook’s performance after watching film of the game)
“No.”
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Notas del Juego: Rams vs Falcons
– Los Rams cayeron ante los Falcons 24 31. Este juego marcó la reunión número 76 de todos los tiempos entre los dos equipos. Los Rams continúan manteniendo una ventaja de 47-27-2 en la serie.
– El QB Sam Bradford lanzó para 352 yardas y completó 32 de 55 pases con tres touchdowns. Marcando el séptimo juego de la carrera de Bradford, con más de 300 yardas y cuarto juego con tres touchdowns.
– El juego de hoy fue el cuarto partido consecutivo sin una captura de Bradford. La última vez que los Rams tuvieron cuatro partidos consecutivos sin una captura fue en la temporada 1973 con el mariscal de campo John Hadl.
– Bradford corrió para una ganancia de 23 yardas para poner a los Rams en posición de anotar en el último cuarto. La jugada establece una nueva marca en la carrera de Bradford.
– El WR Chris Givens atrapó cinco pases para 105 yardas, incluyendo el mas largo de 47 yardas. Marca el segundo juego en la carrera de Givens con al menos 100 yardas. Anteriormente registró 115 yardas frente a Arizona (11/25/12).
– El novato WR Tavon Austin ganó su primer inicio en la NFL. Registró su primer touchdown en la NFL con un pase de 6 yardas de Bradford, y añadió un segundo touchdown en un robo de 10 yardas. Él terminó con seis recepciones para 47 yardas.
– El WR Austin Pettis registró una recepción de touchdown de 3 yardas de Bradford. Marcando el primer touchdown de la temporada y el quinto en la carrera de Pettis. Terminó el partido como líderes en recepciones, con ocho recepciones para 78 yardas, ambas marcas establecen nuevas marcas personales.
– El RB Daryl Richardson corrió 10 veces para 35 yardas y atrapó cinco pases para 45 yardas para darle 80 yardas totales desde la línea de golpeo.
– El DE Robert Quinn anotó una captura sobre el QB Matt Ryan de los Falcons para una pérdida de 10 yardas. Marcó su cuarta captura de la temporada, 19,5 de su carrera.
– Después de lograr tres capturas en la Semana 1, la actuación del domingo marcó la quinta vez en la carrera de Quinn que ha publicado juegos de back-to-back con al menos una captura en una sola temporada. Se remonta a la Semana 17 de la temporada 2012, el rendimiento del domingo marcó tres partidos consecutivos con una captura de Quinn.
– El DE Eugene Sims registró su primera captura de la temporada 2013 sobre Ryan para una pérdida de siete yardas. Marcó su cuarta captura de su carrera.
– Como entrenador Fisher desde que se ha hecho cargo de los Rams, la defensa se ha apuntado al menos una captura con 17 de 18 juegos.
– El K Greg Zuerlein convirtió un gol de campo de 29 yardas. Convirtió cinco de cinco en los intentos de gol de campo en esta temporada.
– El P Johnny Hekker pateó seis veces para 298 yardas, incluyendo el mas largo de 63 yardas. Promedio de Hekker fue de 49.7 yardas, 49.0 yardas netas.
OC Brian Schottenheimer – Press Conference 9/12/13
September 12, 2013
(On the Atlanta Falcons)
“It’ll be fun going against them. (Defensive Coordinator) Mike Nolan does a great job. Obviously, I know (Head) Coach (Mike) Smith is real involved as well. Going down there for their home opener, it’ll be loud. It’ll be fun.”
(On the how the game against the Cardinals went overall)
“I thought it went good. We started fast, did a really good job. Kind of had a little bit of a lull there, we get the sudden change there to start the second half. Should’ve been able to punch that in, but didn’t, but I’m real proud of the guys. Young guys, nobody lost their composure, stayed real poised, calm. (QB) Sam’s (Bradford) kind of made that his deal. He can bring us back when we’re down, and I thought there were just some great plays. (TE) Jared Cook, what can you say about him? Kind of what we thought would happen, and certainly Atlanta will be looking at him this week. We’ve got other guys if they take care of him that will show up.”
(On WR Tavon Austin’s first NFL game)
“I thought he did a good job. We move him in a lot of spots. He’s got a big burden, and I thought he did a very, very good job. He got some catches, and again it doesn’t take much for him to catch a ball and get loose. I think that will continue to show up throughout the course of the season.”
(On if there was a reason WR Stedman Bailey didn’t record any plays from scrimmage against the Cardinals)
“No, it’s hard to get five guys going. Again, those guys are in great shape. They’re ready to roll, but Sted’s had a good couple weeks of practice, and when called upon he’ll be ready to go.”
(On taking advantages of sudden change opportunities to score)
“Well, again we just got a good look from them. First down the ball got batted, had a chance maybe to hit a completion to (RB) Daryl (Richardson). A guy jumped and tipped it, made a nice play. Second down they got us with a blitz, just a really good blitz. We didn’t have much of an answer. Sam left the run on. Then, third down they kind of bluffed us and fooled us. Just execution – we’ve got good plays down there. We’ve been good down there working all spring and training camp. It just comes down to execution, taking one play at a time.”
(On if Bradford has the option to audible on the goal line)
“Yeah, absolutely, but there really wasn’t many good things for him to go to in the formation we were kind of in. So, kind of thought maybe the ball would have a chance to squirt through, which sometimes it does. Give them credit. They did a nice job stopping us.”
(On if the interception return for a touchdown was a fluke play against Arizona)
“It was. We brought ‘Cookie’ (Cook) over to try to protect the edge. Sam snapped it a little bit early, so ‘Cookie’ kind of slipped and stumbled. The guy came up the field, got on Sam a little fast. He has to try to beat that guy, and of course, the ball gets batted up in there air. You don’t think a 340-pound defensive lineman is going to catch it and score. Again, came off the field, nobody lost their composure, just talked about the issue. That’s kind of a fluke deal and let’s bounce back.”
(On what Arizona did to limit WR Chris Givens last week and how much it helped to distribute the ball to other players)
“It did. Obviously they matched (CB) Patrick Peterson on him, and again it’s not one of those things where we were going to try to stay away from him. It’s just that he did a good job. Got him early in the game on the shallow cross, kind of ran through some traffic, Chris. He made a nice cut and made Patrick miss, but again when you do that and you isolate on one guy trying to stop him, they certainly saw the big plays Chris was making in the preseason. That opens up the window for ‘Cookie’ to have the kind of day he did, and Tavon to have the six or seven catches that he did.”
(On if the Arizona defense was playing a ‘soft’ coverage)
“Yeah, they mix it in. Everybody in the league is going to have different packages and stuff. Like we try to adjust offensively, they try to adjust. When we hit a couple of the big plays to ‘Cookie’ they started trying to soften things up. But, I thought Sam did a great job of taking what was there.”
(On how the offense’s yards after catch last week is encouraging)
“Well, I think obviously when you upgrade the speed like we did I think you expect that. Again, it’s important, the hidden yards that show up. You can through a shallow cross to Chris for what should be a three or four-yard completion. He makes a guy miss and makes 18 (yards). You get ‘Cookie’ down the middle on a play and he’s hard to catch. So, it’s something we talk a lot about, and again because of our speed, we’ve been able to upgrade it. But, we’ve got to continue to do that and then certainly secure the ball running with it.”
(On the challenges that Atlanta’s defense presents)
“One-gap penetrators, fast run-and-hit linebackers, good tacklers. They do a great job with trying to strip the ball out. Then, obviously on third down Mike Nolan does a great job mixing things up and trying to confuse you. It’ll be a good challenge for us. The thing for us, hopefully we start fast, but it’ll be a great challenge going down there. I guess they’ll get (CB) Asante (Samuel) back this week. That helps them because they’re pretty young in the secondary. We’ve faced these guys quite a bit – just the people, Asante, Mike Nolan, guys like that – and it will be a tremendous challenge.”
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