The Rams MASTERPLAN to Victory...

This is the key to victory for the Los Angeles Rams to beat the Washington Commanders on Sunday. We're breaking down some strengths, some weaknesses from both teams, how both teams may approach this game and how the Rams need to approach this game in order to win and go into this game or come out of this game. Five and four, we're breaking that all down for you, all that and more. All along today's episode of the Rams Digest, I'm your host, Josh Raheel, and before we get too far into today's video, I want to let you guys know today's video is brought to you by Kalshi. On Kalshi, you're trading directly against other users, not the house like traditional sports books. You're trading yes or no contracts on the outcome of events across sports, politics, or even the weather. As always, we're going to talk about a Rams specific example for you. Like right now, if you say, Josh, I really believe the Rams are going to beat. 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All right, how will the Rams win their matchup versus the Washington Commanders? I almost said New Orleans Saints for a second thinking about that Browns game. Overall, I think the Rams have multiple ways to win this game. I think most people would probably say the Rams are favored in this game. We saw what the numbers were looking like on Calshi. She writes 67% saying, yes, the Rams will win this game. So I think that's how most people feel. I think Rams fans are pretty confident about this football game. There are some things to worry about and be concerned about. But the number one thing I think the Rams need to do going into this football game is to continue to put their foot on the gas when it comes down to the running game. And it's not just because I really love Kyron Williams and I really love Blake Corum. I love both these guys. I think they are both very effective runners. I think the Rams need to run the football a lot more. I saw a post or someone in the comments recently on our live stream said, Sean McPass, he's passing the ball so much. But remember, it actually has become an issue. Matthew Stafford is struggling. His elbow is hurting. He's dealing with soreness from throwing the football so much this year. I don't have the exact number off the top of my head of how many passes he's thrown this year. But genuinely, Stafford needs a little bit of a break. The Rams need to use their running backs because they are very good. They can be very effective, but also give your quarterback a break. He's been dealing with an arm soreness. He was actually questionable this week going into this matchup versus the Washington Commanders. He seems like he's okay, but again, your quarterback is 38 years old. You've got to lay off the gas, pass in the football a little bit, Sean McVay, and let your running backs carry a little bit of the load. And when we're talking about... This Washington Commanders pass or rush defense. They are actually struggling, right? You're talking about Deron Payne and Javon Kinlaw. You remember those names? Because Javon Kinlaw played for the Niners and Deron Payne is just a monster and a beast. He has been for years with the Washington Commanders. Well, guess what? Neither of those guys are playing in this football game. And with... Those guys even playing, I mean, of course, you know, never rooting for injuries. Unfortunately, these guys won't be there to be here for that matchup. But when we're talking about the Commanders, they're a team that this season ranked 31st in the NFL in terms of rushing success allowed, rushing success rate allowed. And that is with Deron Payne and with Javon Kinlaw, their best interior defensive lineman. They are not going to have those guys probably for the remainder of the season. Unfortunate for them, but also the Rams. You can't tell me that you don't want to attack this rushing defense when they were already one of the worst in the league and lost some of their best players on the interior. Yes, we know this defense. We'll talk about Dan Quinn and what they can do to you, generally speaking, but the Rams need to at least start to try to take advantage of it early in this football game to make sure that... Uh, you know, you capitalize on what is a weakness of the Washington commanders. That's the number one thing I want the Rams to kind of do. Take a little bit of a load off of the arm and the shoulder of, of, uh, Matthew Stafford. We know he's an amazing quarterback. We know he can throw the football. We get it. He can actually win a game for you by himself. It seems like. But allow for him to not necessarily have to throw you into this game. Not have to throw the ball to win this football game. Show that you can be dominant in the run game. The offensive line wants to block for your runners. Let them block for your runners. Let them be dominant in this football game. Let Kyron Williams and Sean McVay, a strength of this team. Sean McVay. Kyron Williams and Blake Corum, a strength of this team. Sean McVay. Let them be dominant in this game. Let them be the ones to carry you to victory. Of course, Stafford can throw for 20 to 25 passing attempts. That's fine. Around 20 and 25, not 38, not 40, not 45 passing attempts. You shouldn't need that in this matchup. That's definitely a route I want the Rams to take. Another route I think the Rams need to consider is, of course, this offense, again, in general, Stafford and Puka attacking, especially in the red zone. Again, I'm not saying throw the ball 45 times, feed Puka all day, every day, but you have the tight ends there. Even with the guys that are hurt, you still can trust Tyler Higby and Davis Allen to carry the workload there. You have Puka Nakua as well. You have some of these other guys who can still. Catch the ball out of the slot, 2-2 Atwell and the Jordan Whittingtons and the Kyron DMfields. Get them a little bit more involved for sure. Find ways, creative ways to get those guys open, but especially in the red zone. You are pretty efficient, pretty decent, pretty good, getting better at being a good offensive team in the red zone even without Davante Adams being on the team right now, being healthy right now. And so continue to see that success in the red zone because, again, talking about specifically, what can you expect? What you can exploit, excuse me, in terms of the Washington Commanders, almost like there's a broken record for a second. You want to go ahead and make sure you go out and attack a weakness of the Commanders. Right now, they have basically allowed any team in the NFL to score points against them. They're ranking near the bottom of the league, 30th in points allowed. They suffer from a league-worst 49.7% defensive success rate on first down. Often forcing them into soft coverage schemes that give up easy 15 to 20 yard chunks to guys like Puka Nakua. So the Commanders are struggling in terms of red zone. Their efficiency, they are struggling in terms of allowing points to other teams. They are struggling in terms of first down conversion rate. So those things are things you need to take advantage of. Get those chunk plays. Get those opportunities deep down the field at times. So make sure your offense is just kind of foot on the gas throughout this football game. I think that's kind of the goal. Don't slow down. Don't just run the ball three times straight. Get out of three and out. Have your defense on the field a bunch. Let's just kind of get the offense rolling. Put up 35, 40 points on this defense. They're not the worst defense in the league, but again, I think you can go out and score against this team. Your defense should be able to handle Jaden Daniels and what they have bringing to the table in this matchup, and you should have a decent matchup against this game, and you should be able to win this game pretty easily. Now, talking about the other side of things, if you're talking about the Commanders' perspective, what they're going to bring to the table, how they're going to attack this Rams team. I think Dan Quinn, one thing to note is he is a pretty good defensive mind in the NFL. We've seen him turn around defenses at times in the past. His defense is allowing a lot of points, dealing with a lot of injuries. This Commanders team, it's not very good. We'll note that for one. But two, the biggest thing is he will come out and he'll send pressure to your quarterback. Your quarterback, who again, is 38 years old, who was questionable going into the week. He's going to try to make sure Stafford is a little bit uncomfortable getting the ball quickly. I mean, you send double coverage to Puka and all of a sudden Stafford doesn't have that many options. You're just sending guys like Javon Kinlaw, I mean Javon Kinlaw, you're sending guys like Caleb Onchaseon, you're sending guys like Oweh out to Matthew Stafford. Those guys have seen a little bit of success this year, especially in terms of blitzing. One thing to note for sure is they are the second highest blitzing team in terms of the rate that they blitz in the NFL, the second highest rate in the NFL in terms of blitzing rate. So that is one thing to note. Caleb Onchaseon 22 pressures on the year. Odafe Oweh as well, effective at disrupting the throwing windows of the other team. And so that's one thing to note. Stafford will have a little bit of pressure on him. This offensive line needs to hold up. Stafford got to get the ball quickly. And McVay has to drop those plays to make sure he is getting the ball as quick as possible, those are a couple of things you need to make sure that, you know, don't get to Stafford, right? Stafford has kind of had a little bit of a turnover issue as of late, intercepting the throwing some interceptions a little bit higher than a normal rate than you want to see from him lately. So make sure you kind of clean that up and allow yourself to give him time to see down the field, not make bad decisions throwing the football deep down the field. For the offense side of things, for the Commanders, Jayden Daniels, right? Jayden Daniels is kind of the end-all, be-all of his offense. Him in the pocket, him out of the pocket, him rushing the ball. He is a very mobile quarterback. We talked about this already. Can Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald show themselves as a dominant force in the NFL the first time they're going to come together in this football game? How much will Myles Garrett play? We're going to have to wait and see that. And can he hold up and slow down a mobile quarterback like Jaden Daniels? That is going to be the question. Can you get to the quarterback? Last time we saw Myles Garrett, he put up a big donut. Donut, you don't want to see him put a book. Put up a big donut in this matchup. Everyone's going to keep talking about it. The media pressure is going to be there. Let's see Myles Garrett get his first sack before the Los Angeles Rams on Jayden Daniels. And just get to him and bother him. Put some pressure on him. Jayden Daniels dealt with some injuries this year. His left elbow, I think, dislocations. His second dislocation of his career, I believe, is a very early NFL career. But he's also thrown zero interceptions this year. Gets the quarterback. Put some pressure on him and bother him a little bit. The Rams right now, the Rams right now, I always had a little cough attack here. Rams are now secondary is really depleted. They're very hurt right now. So that's going to be hard for the Rams to put pressure and get forced turnovers in terms of interceptions through the air for Jayden Daniels. Cause. He doesn't throw many interceptions. He hasn't done any all year long. Can the Rams survive with Myles Garrett and no Trent McDuffie and no Jalen Watson? Can Emmanuel Forbes make a play? Can Josh Wallace make a play? Can Quentin Lake make a play? Those are the guys you need to see step up in this matchup. That's what I want to see from the Los Angeles Rams. In terms of who I think will win this football game, I think when it's all said and done, the Rams will win this football game. We'll take a look here from the NFL's YouTube channel. Here are some of their professional expert picks. And you never really like to see this. You don't like to be the... The guy who, the team, I should say, who sweeps a board like this. But the Rams are that team to sweep a board like this. So you can look at it one of two ways. One, you can say it's bad luck. It's bad karma. It's bad juju to sweep a board like this in terms of game preview predictions. But I think at the end of the day, the Rams should win this football game. And they kind of need to win this football game again. You know, the Rams are 4-4. They finally got to 500. You could finally breathe a little bit. But you want to go into the bye week 6-4. You have that record, a winning record going into the bye week. Coming out of the bye week, 6-4 feels a lot better than 5-5. And so the Rams got to win this game. They obviously take on next week versus the Arizona Cardinals and beat them too. So I think the Rams will win this game kind of easily. I think they'll come out to a hot start. I think it'll be like a good like 14-0, 14-3 type of score early in this game. The Rams will keep their foot on the gas hopefully in the second half and win this football game something like 28, let's say 34. The Rams put up 34-21. The Commanders will get a couple points up toward the end of the game. James Daniels, again, a capable, talented quarterback. My prediction is the Rams will win 34 to 21. Let me know your score predictions down below in the comments section. Will the Rams win this game? Will the Commanders steal this one away? What is your score prediction for this game? Put the thoughts down below in the comments section before you guys go. I want to make sure I note I will not be there for the live stream tomorrow. I have some work obligations. I will not be able to be here for the live stream. But if you guys want to watch the live stream, make sure you guys subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any. Future watch-along videos, Joshua Feinherst will be there to live stream the game and watch along with you all. So if you guys want to watch with Joshua Feinherst, make sure you guys are here for that. And last but not least, thank you to Kalshi for sponsoring today's video. If you want to download Kalshi today, link is down below in the description and the pinned comment. Use code DIGESTNFL when you create your account. That way you get $55 instantly added to your account when you trade your first $25 on Kalshi. Thank you to Kalshi for sponsoring today's video, and thank you all. For downloading Kalshi today. Other than that, that's going to do it for me on today's episode of the Rams Digest. I'm your host, Joshua Hidon, and I'm out.