Last season, the Los Angeles Rams shook the NFL world when they traded multiple first-round picks and Jared Goff to the Detroit Lions for quarterback Matthew Stafford. Outside of a Week 4 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, the first eight weeks of the McVay-Stafford era were all sunshine and rainbows.
During those first eight weeks, McVay was simply able to spam the easy button with Stafford. The Rams lined up in empty, spread teams out on defense, and let Stafford use the arm that they traded for. That was their bread-and-butter.
Through the first eight weeks of 2021, the Rams had the best offense in EPA per play and it wasn’t really close.