Ben Solak

you have led these games both times.

It's the postseason.

Kill them, right?

Like, you know, you said of Broncos-Patriots yesterday, this is not like a step on their neck sort of a game.

This is a step on their neck sort of a game for the Rams.

Now, in terms of what changed for them offensive success-wise, in the first game, they had the big runs early, but Stafford had 4.6 yards per attempt.

In the second game, 9.6, right?

More than doubled.

If you look at success rate or if you look at completion percentage, it wasn't really that big of an improvement.

It's not like they, you know, oh, just like figure something out and they hit it reliably or Stafford was like hitting every one of his throws.

It's that they just, they were willing to be a lot more aggressive pushing the ball.

And Seattle's defense,

has the lowest air yards per attempt for opposing quarterbacks facing them.

Structurally, this defense tricks you, baits you, convinces you, you know, whether honorably or dishonorably, to throw the ball underneath, and then they rally up and they tackle unbelievably.

And one of the things about the Rams is that the Rams don't have actually a lot of, like, yards after the catch guys in those underneath target ranges, right?

Like, when they throw the ball to Tyler Higby on the flat or, like, Kyron Williams on the swing, they're not bad at all.

But then these are not like, you know, go create explosives, make six guys miss.

Their yards after the catch come when they get throws over the middle of the field, intermediate to deep, and they hit those guys on the run.

And so the Rams, I think, decided to kind of swim against the current and cut against the grain of the Seahawks' defense and say, we're going to push the football, right?

Stafford had one deep attempt in that first game.