as being one you should trust with this:
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I was wrong to think that Jared Goff was the most pro ready of the 2016 rookie quarterback class. I underestimated the difficulty of the transition from Cal’s Air Raid offense to the Rams’ West Coast system.
There is no way a person who has paid attention to the position for the last decade should make such an obvious error or oversight.
The musician analogy is as egregiously poorly conceived. The entire problem with Goff is that the rehearsal process for the NFL was his 3 seasons at Cal and if Waldman didn't have such a fundamental misunderstanding of that, and how his rehearsal for the pro's was tantamount to rehearsing for 3 years on a completely different instrument, not just a variation on the same instrument, it explains how he makes such fundamental errors as underestimating Goff's pro readiness sin the first place.
The trouble with assessing Goff all along was that while we could tell he played the instrument he learned in college and likely high school pretty well, we never learned or could know if he could play the instrument he would be asked to play in the NFL. We still don't know and have no reliable way of knowing. Maybe he will. Hopefully he does. But the team, with the full support of people like Waldman, rolled the dice in the biggest way imaginable on guy who was quite the ukulele player at Cal with the expectation he'd become a virtuoso saxophone player in the NFL.