In some ways, watching game film of the Rams vs the 49ers is an absolute joy, to see a team execute its gameplan to perfection. In others, that same film is agony to watch. Most of the latter moments came on defense, which had a very uneven performance and put our offense behind the 8-ball throughout the second half.
We'll write up examples of things the Rams did well in a related article. But this feature focuses on three examples of plays that the Rams failed to defend time and time again. These aren't individual effort plays, like missed tackles or dumb penalties; these are repeated problems that would appear to be coachable and fixable.
In this game, they flat-out cost us a win.
1. An inability to defend the crossing pattern
This happened multiple times in the game, but few were more critical than this 3rd-and-15 in the second quarter on what would be Alex Smith's only scoring drive of the day.
As we mentioned in our QB comparison, the 49er...
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PLAYERS:
Alex Smith,
Michael Crabtree,
Frank Gore,
Vernon Davis,
Bradley Fletcher,
Jo-Lonn Dunbar,
Trumaine Johnson,
Craig Dahl,
Cortland Finnegan,
Colin Kaepernick,
Robert Quinn,
James Laurinaitis,
Steve Spagnuolo,
Gregg Williams
TEAMS: San Francisco 49ers, St. Louis Rams
TEAMS: San Francisco 49ers, St. Louis Rams
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