Los Angeles Rams Transcripts -
Defensive Coordinator Raheem Morris Wednesday, December 19, 2023
(On his reaction to Head Coach Sean McVay’s comments about coaching
to prevent explosive pass plays and the importance of having strong
communication between coaches and players on those moving forward)
“Well sometimes it's communication, sometimes you just get beat. The
communication ones are the ones that you can correct as a coaching staff and
when you get beat physically, you just have to win those battles as much as
you can and fight as hard as you can. You have to stay on that regardless.
That's just like every week no matter what the case may be, especially as the
stakes get higher you would like to eliminate those things to keep guys from
being able to fight their way back into games or to be able to jump into leads.
You have to fight your way through those things consistently and constantly
throughout the process when you are talking about preventing big plays. You
just have to let your technique and your opportunity and your trust and
everything that's happening, the communication being on point and being great.
And when you get beat physically, those are the ones we can deal with. Those
are the ones, gun fighters get shot, I usually say up here for the most part all
the time, but those are the ones you can deal with.”
(On if he expects to make more changes opposite of DB Ahkello
Witherspoon)
“It is a forever, who is practicing the best? It’s who is playing the best? Those
things will always happen. I do like the production that we’ve gotten from that
opposite corner. We just have to eliminate some of the big plays or some of the
mistakes, some of the miscues that you have which you can expect from young
players, but at this point in the season, you’d like those guys to mature and get
better and better and keep growing. I do like some of the bounce back from the
guys though as we had some of the mistakes, particularly (DB Derion Kendrick)
‘DK’s’ when you have some misfortune or (Cobie (Durant) for that matter,
whoever it’s been. Those guys keep fighting, keep battling. We just have to
keep finding ways to win.”
(On the challenges when Witherspoon was injured)
“It's not really challenges, it's just how we kind of move through our personnels.
We move different people into the boundary. You move people to the field, you
kind of move those guys out of position. You have to let those guys go out there
and play. You have to give (Commodes Jacoby Brissett some credit too.
He made some plays, stepped up in the pocket a couple times, avoided the
rush, made a couple really good throws. We jammed the receiver really good
one time. I think it was (Commodes WR Terry) McLaurin, jammed him really
good and then he just got all spun out of business and he throws a pass up and
catches it. I was really proud of the tackle at the one to go down there to get
those guys into that goal line situation for us to keep that thing fighting and
battling like we did in order to get that time to tick away. Would like to have kept
them out of the end zone there in that last fourth down, but we didn't.
Obviously, we did enough to win that game but you want to be in those
situations where you can win those games and be able to eliminate people
faster than we did.”
