Rams Are Not The Offensive Powerhouse People Think They Are
The Eagles are set to take on the Rams this Sunday at 3 pm. Once the matchup was set, we heard a lot about how the Rams dynamic offense would test the Eagles’ defense. They have a future Hall Of Fame QB, two great WRs, and a solid run game. Surely they are a dangerous offensive team worthy of fear… but are they really?
Yes on paper the talent is all there. But we had a 17-game season. We don’t need to go off paper anymore. There are real results we can judge a team by. Those results show the Rams are not an elite offense. The Rams are 20th in the league in points per game with 21.6.
Now I know what your response is, they had injuries, Puka Nacua was out for several games, and so was Cooper Kupp. Fine, let’s just go off the games Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp played in. In the 10 games they both played, the Rams averaged 22.8 points per game. From the 20th most points per game to the 17th.
Even that is inflated. They had 1 great game on offense where they scored 44 against the Bills. So are they capable of putting up big points? Sure. But how often do we see it?
Their median score is 20.5. We have very rarely seen this Rams offense put up big points.
Ricky Bo Breaks Down The Rams Struggles
On The Best Show Ever this week, Ricky Bo responded to the claims that the Rams have some dangerous offense. Here is what he had to say.
“I think there’s a misconception here. I think when people look at the Rams, they think, wow, a high-powered offense. They did not score a lot of points.
If you think about when they got good, they were 5-6. When they met the Eagles, they lost that game. They were 5-7. Then they scored 21 against the Saints. Terrible team at that point. They scored 44 against the Bills. That will be the only game that would impress. 12, 19, 13 against the Cardinals. This is not a team that is scoring a lot of points.
If you’re not turning it up a notch offensively against an Eagles team you’re in deep trouble, and it’s going to show… The Rams may score 14 at best. I don’t see a path especially them coming in from warm weather coming into cold weather, on a short week, and a long flight… They cannot come in here and conquer a game against the Eagles. They just can’t.“
Those were not world-beater defenses containing this Rams offense down the stretch. The Saints, Jets, Niners, Cardinals. So where is this high-powered offense teams are supposed to fear? Will it show up any time this year?
Even in the win over the Vikings, the Rams offense had under 300 yards and were 2 for 10 on 3rd down. The team scored 27, but the offense scored 20.
Could they have a big game? Sure. The talent is there. But The Eagles have even more talent. And while the Eagles offense has also had some inconsistencies, and they have had just as many injuries at WR, with both Brown and Smith missing time.
But they were way more productive than the Rams. The Eagles average over 30 points per game in games that AJ Brown plays. The Eagles’ low score since the Bye Week is what the Rams average. The Eagles, with all their issues, are the offense you should fear.
So no, the Rams offense, while talented on paper, is not something to fear. The results just aren’t there. The results are there however for the Eagles defense, who already handled this exact Rams offense this season, as well as the Ravens offense, and the Packers offense. The Eagles defense should scare the Rams offense, not the other way around.
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7 Postive Numbers From The Eagles Big Win Over The Packers
15
This is not a stat from this game, but rather one from a previous Eagles playoff game. Back in 2018, the Eagles played the Falcons in their first game of the playoffs. They scored just 15 points. There was similar panic that Nick Foles and the Eagles offense were not going to be able to put up the big numbers they would need to keep winning.
They scored 79 points in the next 2 games. Turns out you can have 1 bad game, and then bounce back from it. And this game was no where near as tense or as bad for the offense as that one was. It is just a reminder that you can bounce back from 1 off game. And in this off game they scored 22, and could have scored more had Saquon not taken a knee and scored that final TD.
