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Why, Mcvay Why

Fire Chase or get him some help.

Rams cant make kicks and can't block on the special teams unit

Special teams blocking has got to be addressed.

McVay is pals with this dipshit. He never holds his staff accountable. According to McVay, they always do a “fantastic” job

GlendoraRam wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2025, 2:59 pm McVay is pals with this dipshit. He never holds his staff accountable. According to McVay, they always do a “fantastic” job

Except for Bones, which was a big mistake

i have had it with STs. Fire Blackbirn it didnt hurt us in this game but could hurt us in the playoffs or better team like Seattle 2x, SF, Det, TB + playoffs.

Perfect timing to try someone else.

Even Evans the holder is screwing up. When there are this many holes on Special Teams, the coach needs to go.

It's laughably bad. Embarrassing. It basically has to be fourth and double digits inside the 20 for McVay to consider a FG...and I don't blame him after watching today. Karty trying to time his kick so he kicks BEHIND the unblocked end who is flying by... wow.

As has been pointed out, this will bite us hard if it's not addressed.

Cornell29 wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2025, 2:27 pm Why, Mcvay Why

Fire Chase or get him some help.

Rams cant make kicks and can't block on the special teams unit

Did Mcvay say anything about special teams post game?

Idaho_Ram wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2025, 5:28 pm It's laughably bad. Embarrassing. It basically has to be fourth and double digits inside the 20 for McVay to consider a FG...and I don't blame him after watching today. Karty trying to time his kick so he kicks BEHIND the unblocked end who is flying by... wow.

As has been pointed out, this will bite us hard if it's not addressed.

I get your point, but from a fans point of view, it is FAR from laughable. Embarrassing? Yes. Laughable? No.

McVay at today’s post game presser. We have heard this before. I do think he is sincere and Blackburn may finally be shown the door.
“I know you guys are going to ask me,” he said in his opening statement. “It’s gotta get better. We’re going to figure out how to be able to fix this, but it can’t continue like this. Not going to get into blaming anybody specifically. Ultimately, it’s my responsibility. It’s gone on for too long and we’ve got to be able to fix it. I don’t want to be negative after there were so many positives from our group as a whole. That was obviously not ideal. We’ve leaned into it and there’s some instances where it’s not getting better so we’ve got to be able to figure it out.”

This does not make me very hapoy

Hey Chase- sorry man, but it's now November. You're out.

Trade deadline - lets go get a kicker off a bad team -Nick Folk from the Jets is 17 - 17 with a long of 58, Matt Gay is in Washington

Cornell29 wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2025, 6:02 pm

^^^^^^THIS

Exactly it. No other post, news story, nothing... this is ALL that needs to be said. So Sean, you best start cooking, because once you have ANY unit in, that is a momentum killer... you know what needs to be done sir.

Simdaddy wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2025, 11:01 am Trade deadline - lets go get a kicker off a bad team -Nick Folk from the Jets is 17 - 17 with a long of 58, Matt Gay is in Washington

Sure- but can these guys kick with no protection from the blocking unit? And our ST coach will find a way to mush them too. I will say again- I think it's a big futile exercise to replace Karty and keep the ST coach and "hope" he will fix the unit. I can't believe he's still there. Hope Sean just gets real here and brings in someone else.

Did you guys also notice how McVay really had some internal battles when we easily could have kicked FG's yesterday? Going for it on 4th and whatever in our own territory where we could have kicked?.

Sean knows this wont fly when we get in the playoff hunt NOR in the playoffs. ST squad should really be the LAST of our concerns at that point.

Amazing, how we are still dealing w this crap this far into the season. The Karty Party has left the building... laces out, or in.. who cares... this is professional football, not some small league where this craps continue to happen.

I will be SHOCKED if nothing changes on ST this week

Does this sound familiar?
“The Chiefs found a weakness in the Broncos' front on a previous kick in the game and over-loaded the left side of the line. Multiple Kansas City defenders then pushed Alex Forsyth over and linebacker Leo Chenal blocked Lutz's 35-yard attempt to end the game.”

The following day Payton said it was not simply Forsyth's fault, that "this isn't on one player ... this is on all of us. This is on us as coaches.''

Rams special teams assistant Ben Kotwica was the Broncos ST’s coach. Payton fired him.

GlendoraRam wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2025, 11:31 am Does this sound familiar?
“The Chiefs found a weakness in the Broncos' front on a previous kick in the game and over-loaded the left side of the line. Multiple Kansas City defenders then pushed Alex Forsyth over and linebacker Leo Chenal blocked Lutz's 35-yard attempt to end the game.”

The following day Payton said it was not simply Forsyth's fault, that "this isn't on one player ... this is on all of us. This is on us as coaches.''

Rams special teams assistant Ben Kotwica was the Broncos ST’s coach. Payton fired him.

Now thats a nugget of a find... very interesting

Until Chase gets fired, we will just settle for scoring either 6, 8 or 2 points. no 3s or 7s.

https://www.therams.com/team/coaches-roster/ben-kotwica

Ben Kotwica’s bio…

Broncos podcast from 9 months ago…

DelMar wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2025, 11:20 am Did you guys also notice how McVay really had some internal battles when we easily could have kicked FG's yesterday? Going for it on 4th and whatever in our own territory where we could have kicked?.

Sean knows this wont fly when we get in the playoff hunt NOR in the playoffs. ST squad should really be the LAST of our concerns at that point.

Amazing, how we are still dealing w this crap this far into the season. The Karty Party has left the building... laces out, or in.. who cares... this is professional football, not some small league where this craps continue to happen.

I will be SHOCKED if nothing changes on ST this week

I don't think anything is going to change. Chase should of been let go after his first season. It was clear then he was in over his head. After the game McVay acknowledged we had an issue and that it's already cost us games. I thought for sure he was ready to make a move. Then he said today he's pleased with Chase and Kotwica. At best Karty would get replaced. However if it really is alignments and not reading the defense then replacing Karty won't make a difference...

I took some time this morning and watched film on Karty and the kicking operation. Karty is making a huge mistake; he is trying to aim his kicks away from the weak spots and the oncoming rushers.
BIG MISTAKE. That is not his job. He needs to simply focus on his job - aim, head down, boom the kick high.
The others need to take care of their assignments!
His head must be spinning trying to tweak these kicks.

“ Protection was an issue on the field goal miss Sunday, as it was early in the season when the Rams had four kicks blocked in three games. A rusher came off almost untouched off the right side, and Karty appeared to alter his kick to avoid another potential block. Offensive lineman D.J. Humphries got a right hand on the rusher, but had to shift his attention to pressure coming through the gap inside him.”

This is not Karty’s fault.

GlendoraRam wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2025, 3:51 pm This is not Karty’s fault.

HOLY DAMN . This idiot took forever to start running to kick the ball . I think this is ON HIM ! ENTIRELY ! IT took him 1-2 extra seconds and that is the only reason the rusher was able to get there . I don't think you need to COACH the kicker something that is so BASIC like this .