Diante Lee
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You could tell, I mean, even as early as that fourth and one where they try to go with that kind of speed option, right?
between Kyle Juszczyk and Christian McCaffrey, my first instinct is to mock Kyle Shanahan.
And in a moment, I stopped thinking that.
I'm like, if I were him holding that play sheet, what the hell are you going to call that's going to gain you a yard against that defensive front?
There's probably nothing on the sheet right now, at least not on the ground.
And I think that you kind of illuminated that perfectly, the fact that they can stop the run
as physically and as dominantly as they showed today and that they can do it out of those split safety shelves, which mean you're not going to get the cheap play action passes.
You're not going to be able to set up those throws in the middle of the field the way that you would like to.
It just speaks so well to what Mike McDonald's been able to build in a short amount of time.
I don't know if I would call him this generation's big Fangio as much as like he might really be the defensive equivalent of Sean McVay.
And this might be, you know, hopefully it goes better than it did for the 2018 Rams for the Seahawks.
But this kind of feels very reminiscent to like that 2018 Rams run offensively just on the other side of the ball, where it just seems like they are doing something that the rest of the league just does not have an answer for.
It doesn't have a prayer of coming up with an answer for it.
Honestly, especially you think up front, DeMarcus Lawrence was not looked at as a guy that you absolutely had to have on the way out from Dallas.
Same with Leonard Williams.
You know, when he's leaving New York, nobody was like, oh, my gosh, you know, I can't believe Leonard Williams is switching teams.
And what is the league going to do now about Leonard Williams in Seattle?
He's been able to take these guys and mold them.
Ernest Jones, anyone could have had.
I mean, you look at the way that he started.