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Keyshawn with Shelley Smith talking Rams and Goff.
Go to the 27 min mark for Goff discussion....
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What Keyshawn is saying is that Fsiher never said he didn't want anything to do with Goff, rather Fisher didn't want to trade up for any QB that high. Fisher wanted to use the picks to keep building the team with WRs and more defense. Fisher felt he could get a QB later and win with a better supporting cast.
If true, this doesn't conflict with what Mike Silver said. Silver said Fisher wanted Goff. All that means to me is that Fisher preferred Goff to Wentz once he made the trade. Silver never said that Fisher preferred the trade in the first place.
This is plausible to me. It does fit Fisher's philosophy of defense first. It is similar to Belichick in that respect and I could never see Bill making that trade up either.
Good - Fisher didn't want to trade away so many picks
Bad - Kroenke may have meddled into football operations
Bad - Once forced into taking a QB at #1, Fisher chose Goff over Wentz
I just don't know what to believe or how to feel about all of these things. Seems like it all adds up to an overall negative.
Well, you have to cut Fisher some slack if he didn't want to trade away all the picks. That was the best move. I recall that Prescott was on their radar and imagine us having Prescott and all those picks.
The Goff - Wentz debate isn't over yet so we don't know for sure if the Goff choice was really worse than Wentz.
Should have added IMO. I was not for trading the picks but once we did, I was for Wentz over Goff. In the long run, they probably won't be too far different overall but in terms of which of them fits what i think the Rams need, Wentz was the easy choice.
Considering the Rams are currently scraping by with the worst QB in the league, I would have been much happier keeping all those picks and just giving Mannion his chance(if going out and getting someone wasn't an option). Unfortunately, I think we all realize that the personnel isn't really the issue. Wentz, Prescott, whoever...they wouldn't look the same, or as good IMO, if they were with the Rams.
Generally speaking, drafting has been a strength for this regime so I was against trading all those picks away for that reason alone. No QB is going to benefit from having a depleted surrounding cast. If I had to choose, as much as I don't really like Mannion, I'd rather have him and a first round WR. And not a gimmick/gadget WR like Tavon.
