While Jared Goff got the most national attention on the Rams for his year-over-year performance downfall, it is really LA’s rushing offense that took the biggest hit from where they were as a Super Bowl team to one that was on the outside looking in for the postseason. That’s something that I noticed as I was browsing Pro-Football-Reference today and seeing that while the Rams finished first in EPA (expected points added) by rushing in 2018 (65.94), they fell all the way to 27th last season.
And over at FootballOutsiders, the Rams dropped from first in rushing DVOA (21.