Los Rams no pudieron con la primer mitad
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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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Postgame Quotes: Rams vs Falcons
Rams Head Coach Jeff Fisher
(Opening statement)
“You know in our preparation all week we knew we were going to play a very talented football team in all three phases as it has been obvious what they have done the last two years on offense. You know what’s disappointing for us is we got in a one dimensional game defensively and we just couldn’t handle it and come up with the plays when we needed them. We knew that once ‘Jack’ (Steven Jackson) went out what their run game was basically and got away from it and we just couldn’t make the plays. We did some good things at times and then we gave up two big plays on defense and then the interception return was really kind of the back breaker. I was proud of our guys and how they hung in there. We got way behind and nobody panicked and at the end we had a chance to win it and we didn’t. S Matt
Daniels has a fractured ankle/dislocated ankle, he will have to undergo surgery as quickly as we can do it. T Rodger Saffold did not return to the game with a knee injury. We will check him out.”
(What do you attribute the slow start to)
“Slow Start? We gave up a big play. That’s a good offense we couldn’t get off the field on third down and then we gave up the big play to Julio (Jones) which we shouldn’t that’s 14. The deflected passes, the interception returned for a touchdown that’s 21. We have had two of those and it’s nobody fault it just kind of happens they got the bounce and we didn’t.”
(CB Janoris Jenkins on touchdown to Julio Jones)
“It was an outside seam route he could have been a little bit deeper, but when their offense is reduced to #11 (Julio Jones) and #88 (Tony Gonzalez) you have to understand that and you have to make the plays and we just didn’t.”
(Production of play of QB Sam Bradford and the no huddle)
“Sam has a good understanding of that, he can run that, he does it in practice and it’s good to see. We got points, we got their defense tired and got it within 7 and thought we had a chance to get the ball back. We needed a key stop and we didn’t get it.”
(Play of Special Teams)
“We didn’t have it (penalties) last week and now we are talking about consistency. You had a special teams unit that played really well last week and didn’t hurt themselves and then we come up with three or four penalties this week. It was frustrating. It cost us probably 15 yards but when you get backed up
10 yards we have to start with that bad field position and it makes it hard especially when you are behind.
(On adjustments at halftime)
“It’s because we were down and you know that when you get down we knew we had to pick it up.
And midway through the third quarter we were going to have to come out and cut loose. After the score, we went to it. We still need to get the run game going to have balance on the offense.”
(What can you take away from the game even though it’s a loss)
“The team bounced back and practiced hard. We have respect for this opponent. This team was a completed pass away from going to the Super Bowl last year. So we are disappointed and would like to play them again tomorrow. We have to correct things and get back to work and just get ready for the Cowboys.”
Running Back Daryl Richardson
(On his take away from the team fighting back)
“I mean you have to take it game by game and week by week. You have to get better every day and try
to execute and correct your mistakes.”
(On the interception)
“I took my eye off of it. I was looking to run and I need to make sure I eye ball that ball and catch it.”
(On dropping the ball twice on big plays)
“Yes, you have to catch the ball first and then tuck it in, and then you can go run.”
Rams QB Sam Bradford
(On the team bouncing back)
“I think it says a lot about the guys we have in this locker-room. That’s two weeks in a row we found ourselves down. This game we were down pretty big early in the game and no one gave up. We knew all it was going to take was one play to get us going and everyone kept fighting. We made it somewhat of a game towards the end and unfortunately we just came up a little short.”
(On the difference running the no huddle made)
“I think it made a pretty big difference. It seemed to just put them on their heels a little bit. I don’t think they were expecting us to go to it that quickly. We put our guys in space and they did a great job creating separation and then running with the ball after the catch, too. It was positive to see us perform that way in our no huddle.”
(On running that offense for an entire game)
“That is tough to say. I think we put a lot of pressure on them and wear them down but at the same time to play that way for an entire game and those guys up front that is pretty tough on them to do that.
But you never know and next week maybe it’s something we’ll go to a little sooner if we’re struggling early.”
(On constraining their offences because of field position in the first half)
“I wouldn’t say it dramatically affected what we were trying to do, but there is no doubt that it affected us. It’s something that we were battling all first half and really just never seemed to quite get over the hump. We were doing a lot of things in that first half to just kind of shoot ourselves in the foot.”
(On performing well in the fourth quarter two weeks in a row)
“Like I just said, I think it’s great to see from the guys in this locker room that no one is going to quit, no matter what the score is. We are going to play the game until the final whistle blows. It would have been easy for us to call it a day when we were down 24-3, but everyone kept fighting, kept battling. It was a nice finish. In the future, we just can’t put ourselves in that type of a hole.”
Rams LT Jake Long
(On why they were more effective on offense in the second half)
“We just eliminated the mistakes. We had some penalties and mistakes in the first half. We just calmed down and started protecting Sam (Bradford). The receivers were doing a great job getting open and
Sam was flinging the ball around. It was a little too late. We have to correct those mistakes early and can’t spot them that many points.”
(Do you think that Sam and the offense respond better to the hurry-up no-huddle style)
“When we give Sam time we have great receivers that are fast and Sam can put the ball anywhere. It starts with us upfront and we were just running and fighting to protect Sam. We just have to do more of that.”
(On having tough field position most of the first half)
“Getting down that quick was tough. We had mistakes and penalties that we have to correct. We need to watch film and get better from that. We just can’t do that early in the game.”
Rams WR Tavon Austin
(On falling behind early)
“I could have had some big plays but didn’t so I blame myself some for that. At that same time I knew that we could make a comeback.”
(About the dropped passes)
“I will correct it. It is something that definitely will be corrected. I will be alright.”
(On his first touchdown reception)
“I’m definitely proud. The important thing is we lost. You can’t put your personal above that.”
Rams TE Jared Cook
(Did you think that they tried to key on you today and take away your chances)
“They definitely did some different things then the Cardinals did (last week). That just comes with the game. That’s part of it and no team will be the same week to week. We just need to watch the film and come back and correct it.”
(Is it over simplifying it to say that they were jamming you)
“They had a linebacker every time that I released and then had a safety up over the top . It just opened up opportunities for other guys to ball out.”
(Is there anything to the connection that once you went to the up-tempo style offense that you started scoring)
“I think that you just answered the question in a sense. Field position, penalties, special teams and not converting when we needed to caused our own woes as a team.”
Rams DE Robert Quinn
(On changes made at the halftime)
“We’re a team that never quits. We shot ourselves in the foot early. Now we need to make those big plays early. We’re still a great team. Just have to make a few more plays early and not shoot ourselves in the foot early.”
(On creating a pass rush in the second half)
“Our energy just picked up. We had a whole second half to play. We never believe that we are out of the game until the clock says zero. At the end, especially when the offense got rolling, they gave the defense a lot of energy. We fell, a play or two short today, and it happens like that.”
Rams DE Chris Long
(On making mistakes on the road)
“They (Falcons) are too good to make mistakes like that early. We gave them a few. It’s encouraging in a sense, because we know we have tough guys in this locker room who are mentally tough and were ready to battle back. We can play with these guys if we play a good football team. They (Falcons) are a very good football team and you can’t do that against good football teams.”
(On putting pressure on QB Matt Ryan in the second half)
“Just made him pat the ball a little longer, he is good at getting the ball out quick. We just kept at it. We got there a little bit but never got there enough. He gets the ball out quick and has a lot of weapons but we have to perfect that part of our game.”
Rams DB Cortland Finnegan
(On Matt Ryan in the first half)
“Other than that one big play, I think he earned everything he got, credit them (Falcons) for being a good football team – 13-3. They are a playoff team. We had our chances and we will learn from them.”
Rams LB James Laurinaitis
(On slowing the Falcons offense in the second half)
“We had to keep fighting and find a way to get them in third downs and just win third downs. In the first half, we didn’t win third down conversions. They were moving the ball pretty easy and making more plays then we were. We have to find a way to make those plays early in the game. Can’t spot a team 21 points on the road, it’s hard enough to win on the road, let alone spot a team 21 points.”
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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.
Head Coach Jeff Fisher – Press Conference 9/13/13
September 13, 2013
(On what he tells the young players about playing on the road)
“We follow basically the same routine at home, and they’ve been on the road twice now. They understand what we do and how we carry ourselves. It’s a business trip and you go play. You play every game the same. The young guys are ready. They’re excited. We’ve had a good week of practice.”
(On how DE Chris Long is)
“He did not practice today. He’ll be questionable for the ball game.”
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