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* 2024
*Darnold threw 3 INTs in the JAX game. They won with 4 FGs.
The Rams offensive and defensive line dominated the 2nd half of the season. Stafford was bailed out multiple times. You could literally put 20 NFL Starting QBs on LAR sometime in the 2nd half and they would all reach facing PHI. Btw other QBs don't deserve excuses for playing so bad because of "injuries." When most people would still crucify Kyler if he had an 11 QBR even if his offense was made up of ASU players.
The question becomes, if we are in similar games we lost by single digits in 2024, but in the 2nd half of 2025, is our defensive improved talent enough to make up for Kyler playing the exact same way?
Based on the attitude of this forum, I would assume the answer is we win zero more games in 2025 even if Kyler duplicates these types of performances. That the fact the 2nd half of 2023 and 2024 has included many winnable games that may not have been losses if we had more DEFENSIVE talent, means absolutely nothing. And the 7-10 record Kyler has in the 2nd half of the Gannon era, despite having one of the worst defenses in the league in 2023 and a below average defense last year, is not an improvement and we should just dwell on the SEA games, and the W/L record as proof nothing has changed. Did I project the attitudes of the negative nancies correctly?
It doesn't matter that Stafford got bailed out by an improved defense, that won't happen here. Even though it happened before in 2021.
Oh and BTW, we clearly had the worst QB in the 2nd half of the season in the NFC West. That is now indisputable based on those game logs.
It should be noted that I didn't even need to include any rush stats to prove this point or make Kyler's game logs look better. It seems to be a more viable trend that NFC West defenses often play better towards the end of the season. Compare our 2nd half of season defense vs 1st half defense. They still had bad games, but they played alot better. (2nd half started with CHI)
Remember that finishing 4-5 after starting 2-4 or even 4-4 is a collapse. And the only way to view the 2024 season is thru the prism of when we were 6-4. No other time period makes sense. We were playing like a playoff team back then you know winning 3 games by a FG in the last minute! Dominating the Bears and the Jets was a clear sign we were the best team in the NFC West. Especially the miracle win vs MIA. That wasn't fortunate at all, Kyler plays like that in his sleep.
Gannon says you should be more process driven than results oriented. Especially when the results were so unpredictably close.
At the very least in 2025, we will have more of an idea of who our team is early on because the results should be much more consistent.
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*Darnold threw 3 INTs in the JAX game. They won with 4 FGs.
The Rams offensive and defensive line dominated the 2nd half of the season. Stafford was bailed out multiple times. You could literally put 20 NFL Starting QBs on LAR sometime in the 2nd half and they would all reach facing PHI. Btw other QBs don't deserve excuses for playing so bad because of "injuries." When most people would still crucify Kyler if he had an 11 QBR even if his offense was made up of ASU players.
The question becomes, if we are in similar games we lost by single digits in 2024, but in the 2nd half of 2025, is our defensive improved talent enough to make up for Kyler playing the exact same way?
Based on the attitude of this forum, I would assume the answer is we win zero more games in 2025 even if Kyler duplicates these types of performances. That the fact the 2nd half of 2023 and 2024 has included many winnable games that may not have been losses if we had more DEFENSIVE talent, means absolutely nothing. And the 7-10 record Kyler has in the 2nd half of the Gannon era, despite having one of the worst defenses in the league in 2023 and a below average defense last year, is not an improvement and we should just dwell on the SEA games, and the W/L record as proof nothing has changed. Did I project the attitudes of the negative nancies correctly?
It doesn't matter that Stafford got bailed out by an improved defense, that won't happen here. Even though it happened before in 2021.
Oh and BTW, we clearly had the worst QB in the 2nd half of the season in the NFC West. That is now indisputable based on those game logs.
It should be noted that I didn't even need to include any rush stats to prove this point or make Kyler's game logs look better. It seems to be a more viable trend that NFC West defenses often play better towards the end of the season. Compare our 2nd half of season defense vs 1st half defense. They still had bad games, but they played alot better. (2nd half started with CHI)
Remember that finishing 4-5 after starting 2-4 or even 4-4 is a collapse. And the only way to view the 2024 season is thru the prism of when we were 6-4. No other time period makes sense. We were playing like a playoff team back then you know winning 3 games by a FG in the last minute! Dominating the Bears and the Jets was a clear sign we were the best team in the NFC West. Especially the miracle win vs MIA. That wasn't fortunate at all, Kyler plays like that in his sleep.
Gannon says you should be more process driven than results oriented. Especially when the results were so unpredictably close.
At the very least in 2025, we will have more of an idea of who our team is early on because the results should be much more consistent.
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