St. Louis Rams
Given a day to reflect and review his team’s performance against San Francisco on Sunday, Rams’ coach Mike Martz was disappointed with one facet of his team that has generally not been the target of anyone’s displeasure.
Sure Martz was frustrated by the performance of the special teams unit, but it was his offense that had him particularly perplexed.
“Offensively we had a lot of opportunities to make some plays, really we did, and just didn’t make them for whatever reason,” Martz said. “I think sometimes we over coach them in some respects. If they do this, you have to do that and all of that good stuff. A lot of that is playing a team that you don’t have a whole lot of history on in terms of their defense. I’m sure that’s probably some of it, but by and large we didn’t play very well offensively in that game. I’m not very happy with our offense whatsoever.”
Normally it would be difficult to be angry with a group that posted 405 yards of total offense, but when that unit fails to produce the points that would go along with that kind of offensive output, it’s easy to see where Martz’s frustration comes into play.
The Rams failed time and again to come away with more than a Jeff Wilkins’ field goal. By the time the clock showed all zeros the Rams were just one-of-five in the red zone and even that touchdown came on a fourth down play late in the fourth quarter.
“We just had lack of execution on a couple of things in particular,” Martz said. “We had some real nice things going on down there. We had a run that would have gone in from the 20 had it been blocked properly. Just some broken plays, some things where guys didn’t execute very well and I can do a better job. I probably had too much on our list in the red zone not really being sure what they were going to do with it.
“We just didn’t execute very well at all throughout the day offensively.”