Los Angeles Rams: Sean McVay is relying too heavily on Jared Goff

The Los Angeles Rams lost for the second time in a row on Sunday Night Football, this time at home at the hands of the struggling Philadelphia Eagles.

Last week, the Los Angeles Rams were embarrassed by the Chicago Bears on primetime. However, the Rams got somewhat of a past due to the team being on the road and having to play in the extremely tough cold weather of Chicago in December.

After such a loss, everyone expected the Rams, who looked like an unstoppable machine earlier in the year, to respond the next week. Los Angeles was heading home to square off with a struggling Philadelphia Eagles team that was without its star quarterback, Carson Wentz.

That was not the case. For the second consecutive week, the Los Angeles Rams dropped games on Sunday Night Football. This time with a score of 30 to 23.

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Now, you could make the case that the Rams probably should have won this game. Los Angeles drove down the field, stopped the Eagles offense and forced the team to punt with just over three minutes left.

The Rams would have had great field position to tie the game but that was not the case. JoJo Natson fumbled the ball while trying to juke the Eagles’ special teams unit. And while the Rams got the ball back after a missed field goal, the team was still unable to get the job done.

We could go on and on about Natson’s drop, but that was not the biggest underlying story of the game. Instead, after two consecutive losses and poor games, it is evident that head coach Sean McVay is relying too heavily on quarterback Jared Goff.

McVay has shifted from an offensive that would ride the waves of Todd Gurley to an offensive that is trying to force things to happen with Jared Goff. Gurley, who is probably the best back in the game, is second in the league in rushing yards and rushing attempts.

However, over the last three games, the Rams have not turned to Gurley much, if at all. Gurley has 46 carries the last two weeks, with 23 combined carries the last two games. If you look at all three games that the Rams have lost, all three of which are games in which Gurley carried the ball 13 times or fewer.

The Rams are going against the grain of what they were doing to be successful earlier in the season. Los Angeles ranks 19th in percentage of plays that are passing plays. However, over the last three weeks, the Rams have thrown the ball 68.5 percent of the time, the third-highest mark in the league in that time.

Goff has been pretty bad in that stretch as well. The third-year quarterback has one touchdown opposed to seven interceptions while completing just under 55 percent of his passes.

That is not something you see often out of a team with an elite running back and results have shown. The Rams have lost two in a row and looked awful in the team’s last win over the Detroit Lions. While they pulled it away late, that game was much closer than it needed to be.

I understand wanting to get confidence in your quarterback and trying to establish a playoff-like workload but as my father always told me about sports, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

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The Los Angeles Rams can win playoff games by relying heavily on Todd Gurley. It is time to stop relying so heavily on Jared Goff.

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