McVay looks to 'changes' as Rams sputter again

TAMPA, Fla. -- Los Angeles Rams manager Sean McVay said "changes person to beryllium made" aft his squad scored lone 13 points successful Sunday's nonaccomplishment to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

"Adjustments person to beryllium made," McVay said. "We can't proceed to spell connected similar this. And what that looks like, I don't needfully person the nonstop answers close now."

McVay wanted to marque it wide that helium wasn't pointing fingers astatine others and not including himself, saying, "I'm a large portion of this. I person to bash better."

"We're gonna enactment connected passim this," McVay said. "But we bash person to beryllium capable to look inward and fig retired what are immoderate of the solutions, changes, adjustments, antithetic things that we person to bash to beryllium capable to get antithetic results and antithetic accumulation from our offense."

The 3-5 Rams, successful 3rd spot successful the NFC West, person scored 131 points this season. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, astatine this constituent past season, Los Angeles had scored 245 points. The 131 points are tied for the second-fewest by a defending champion successful the Super Bowl era.

McVay said helium thinks "everything's got to beryllium up for debate."

"As coaches we're liable for identifying the problems and trying to supply solutions, and past the player's occupation to beryllium capable to spell execute and beryllium capable to get it done," McVay said. "I person to beryllium capable to bash my portion archetypal and foremost for them to beryllium capable to bash theirs. And that's wherever you ever look at. You privation to look inward first."

Rams receiver Cooper Kupp, who had 8 catches for 127 yards and a touchdown Sunday, said helium agreed with McVay's assessment.

"I'm not going to beryllium present and accidental I've got the answers, but I agree," Kupp said. "The explanation of insanity is doing the aforesaid happening implicit and implicit again. We got to find a mode to alteration up and manufacture points. Just find a mode to enactment points up connected the board. The defence has done specified a large occupation and we fto them down.

"We support saying 'come backmost and spell to work.' And it's not a shortage of effort, but astatine immoderate constituent however overmuch much effort tin you give? You've got to alteration something. You've got to find a mode to beryllium businesslike and people points."

Despite scoring lone 13 points, the Rams were successful a presumption to triumph the game, up by 4 with little than 2 minutes near connected the clock. Los Angeles couldn't get a archetypal down and was forced to punt, giving Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady the shot with 44 seconds remaining. Brady threw a touchdown walk to instrumentality the pb with 13 seconds near successful the game.

"That is precise frustrating," Kupp said. "It makes you benignant of sick to your stomach. Knowing that the guys connected defense, what they've done. The preparation, each the enactment that goes into it. You get an accidental to triumph 3 plays, mean 3 and a 3rd yards. And we weren't capable to marque thing happen."

The Rams are the eighth defending Super Bowl champion to beryllium nether .500 done 8 games, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. None of the anterior 7 teams rebounded to marque the playoffs.

"We request to play better," backmost Matthew Stafford said. "I deliberation from a player's perspective, that's what you tin do. Just amusement up each azygous day, effort to beryllium amended than you were the time earlier and proceed to stack those days. And I deliberation that's the lone mode to attack it. If you beryllium determination and commencement looking astir trying to drawback straws and doing each that benignant of worldly to fig thing out, I don't cognize if that's the close approach.

"I deliberation the close attack is looking inward, trying to fig retired however each idiosyncratic individual tin beryllium better. And if you bash that, past bully things volition happen."