Understood, so then in the Ram’s offense the Center is responsible for making the Mike Point call and determining which way protection is sliding. Stafford handles the actual play call but doesn’t make the Mike point ID or determine the protection slide?
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It’s more complicated than that but yeah it’s the center’s responsibility to call protections in most NFL offenses.
Teams really do not want the QB doing this if they can help it because the QB needs to concentrate on reading the entire defense and making play adjustments and formation adjustments. It’s hard to do and call out protections on top of that.
That’s why you always see centers pointing. It’s all about the protections.
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I saw some chatter out of Philadelphia that they have some concern about this with Travis Kelce no longer being there. They’re worried about how much of the protection game Kelce used to handle & possibly having to transfer some of this to Hurt’s plate this season
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Gotcha. Yeah, we’re definitely on the same page.
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They have 15 rookies on the roster??? Holy shit
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Didn’t they have even more than that last year. And yet they played great in week 1. 
Google says 14 last year… That’s just nuts… Kudos to them for being able to field a playoff team with that much youth.
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I think the Rams will run the ball with Corum and Williams to keep our offense on the sidelines. If we don’t stop the run it may be a looooong night.
Reading their fan board, they are most scared about the lions running over their light and fast front 7… .
The lions definitely have the beef to 3 yards and a cloud of dust the game to victory if they wanted to. Manu and Skipper playing as extra lineman…
From what I’ve seen in watching some of the local Rams coverage is that if Jackson gets hurt (which they feel is likely) it’s easier to have the backup center come in over moving Avila around? Ideally wanted to have Jackson switch to center a few weeks ago but his injury slowed everything down.
They also feel like Jonah is more used to Ford Field noise……which him playing on offense for Detroit doesn’t make much sense to me.
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It is a lot… The Lions aint far behind either though…think we have 10 or 11. Was surprised how many udfa’s we kept. Rookie kicker…rookie long snapper to boot.
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Video in tweet, from nick b
My fears out loud:
Rams - 31
Lions - 27
Stafford smugly smiles as he slithers off the field after lighting up the Lions’ “vastly improved” secondary.
CD missed a lot of camp. Arnold and Rakestraw are rookies. Branch is playing an entirely new position and missed a lot of camp as well.
There’s nothing a vet QB loves more than rookie CB’s.
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Good point. I sure hope ur wrong. But valid. Can the rookies be worse than Vildor and Sutton though? Is that even possible?
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Easiest position to learn quickly in football out of the all 22=CB. Are you an athlete, great go out there and cover that guy.
Now if you aren’t an athlete, you’re F-Ed and and will be exposed quickly
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If ur playing man…ur right. My college team used to recruit the track stars every season… And a few did work out… Then again run support on tosses and pitches…they were terrified
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Lions have 8… It’s technically Bates’ 2nd year, he was on the Texans roster last preseason… For 12 days 
I’m skeptical of Jackson’s ability right of the bat to snap and anchor against Reader’s power or Alim’s speed and power. I think they’ll have to regularly double that spot in pass sets. Do they double hutch too and then almost always keep Williams, Corum or a TE blocking to make the math work?
I get that he’s still an unknown but the stage really is set here for an eye opening Levi performance.
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