Week 6 supplies a little bit of a reprieve for Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay and the crew as they’re on bye.
The Rams dropped their Week 5 matchup in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers and now sit at 1-4.
With hopes of a playoff spot shortly dwindling, the bye week will supply McVay and the gamers an opportunity to reset and extra importantly, get wholesome.
McVay acknowledged that the bye got here at a superb time, although can be utilizing the day without work to evalute how the crew can enhance. “Yeah. I believe that I can higher reply that primarily based on the provision of men and what that actually means, however sure,” McVay stated.
“What I believe it does function a superb time is after 5 video games the place we’re clearly not the place we wish to be, how can we have a look at ourselves critically? How can we determine a few of the issues that we have to do with the 12 video games remaining to have the ability to play extra high quality soccer that’s extra in alignment with what we’re able to and what we’ve seen once we’re working at our greatest right here.”
When requested about his mindset throughout the bye week in comparison with final 12 months, McVay broke down the variations between the 2 conditions and reiterated he’s trying ahead to some much-needed relaxation for the gamers.
“Properly, I believe we performed persistently nicely. We did get some guys again from damage final 12 months. There have been 9 video games that we had performed at that time as very nicely. There have been some good experiences of… we had much more experiences. We had much more well being simply typically the place we had a youthful group. We knew we have been going to be a a lot youthful crew, however we have been in a position to work with the identical group of men aside from Cooper getting banged up and missed the primary 4 video games, however then he began to get again into the lineup, after which we missed Matthew for the second half of the Dallas sport and for the Inexperienced Bay sport going into the bye so getting him again was an enormous deal. There are some ‘comps’ after which there’s additionally some distinctive variations simply primarily based on the quantity of accidents that we on that we took on all through coaching camp after which throughout the first couple weeks of the season.
“Regardless, what we’ve to do is use this bye as a chance to get refreshed, rejuvenated, and we’ve to reassess what we are able to do as a training workers to ensure that we’re doing every thing in our energy to attempt to put these gamers in the most effective spots that they are often in to persistently attempt to play high quality soccer. We’re going to urgently and intently work on that, proceed to pour into this group, and I’m hopeful that we’ll see some enchancment and good issues forward.”
McVay has earned the good thing about the doubt through the years, so anticipate the Rams to come back out lookin a lot sharper in Week 7.
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