3 Keys to a St. Louis Rams Victory Over the Seattle Seahawks
By Curt Popejoy
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
The 2015 NFL season finally kicks off for the St. Louis Rams as they welcome the defending NFC champion Seattle Seahawks to town for a Week 1 division showdown. Everyone understands why the Seahawks are good. They have a stifling defense, power run game, and efficient quarterback play.
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This formula sounds an awful lot like what the Rams head coach Jeff Fisher is trying to build in St. Louis. The defense is absolutely packed with talent, and just needs more consistent play from week to week in order to be discussed among the very elite in the league. St. Louis also brought in a quarterback in Nick Foles to run the offense, and drafted a power back in Todd Gurley to keep the offense humming.
Obviously, this plan is very much a work in progress and we probably won’t see this team at full strength until the middle of the year as Gurley gets healthy and the young offensive line gels. That doesn’t mean, however, that the Rams can’t pull off an opening weekend upset of the Seahawks.
Here are the three keys to a Rams victory.
Next: Establish the Run Game