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9er8er
The word used in that was "plan." Fisher planned to have Goff start the opening game.
Fisher himself said that was the "goal." Plan and goal are synonymous here. So, if you believe Fisher should have known better about Goff's actual inability to be ready for the opening game, then it consistently follows that he should have had a different plan/goal for Goff than he did.
That said, of course the goal should have been that Goff should have been ready to play game one. If you sell the farm to take a "franchise QB" #1 overall, it had better be because you think that guy than somebody like Case Keenum almost the day he walks into the building. If you don't, then it's an embarrassing case of malpractice.
I agree that you don't trade away all those picks for a guy you're not confident will help you the year you draft him. The Rams said repeatedly that they knew that "winning" the PR game wasn't enough, they had to win on the field.
At this point the Rams have got very little if anything in terms of contribution from this years draft and when you consider it also includes next years 1st and 3rd round picks that makes it even more egregious.
So to interpret what Fisher said and meant really misses the salient point. Why did they use all that draft capital on a guy who they weren't sure could help them this year? I mean, he can't even get on the field. He can't even help the marketing department. When has that ever been done before in the history of the NFL? I can't remember it ever happening.