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You are winning by 4 points in the 4th quarter and the Eagles don’t have Wentz, you are the QB and you just need to NOT lose the game to Nick Foles.
So what do you do? You turn the ball over at the worst possible time. A clutch player doesn’t do that, I don’t care what the coach does to make your job riskier.
Goff is not ready for prime time yet.
The big question is will Goff ever be special or will he just be another Andy Dalton. The jury is still out on him.
I know it’s very early, but I believe you show those clutch traits early and Goff was not noted for being great in big moments in college. That was one of the knocks on him by his detractors going into the draft.
There is plenty of blame to go around at the end of this game. The play calling was not good, the time management was poor, the defense couldn’t get a stop against Foles. But it was blatantly obvious that Goff did not play big in a big moment, he failed.
Gurley loses 3 yards on first down. On second down your broken OT gets whooped by Long and he gets stripped sacked.
When you are 2nd and 13 and must drive the field you cannot have a DE come clean like that. That situation is 8 tiers down the consideration process. Nobody was open. No time to even tuck it.
Long just straight knocked it out. Unless you want your qb to sense pressure and assume that he will not get any help and sack himself then the options are slim. If you sack yourself then you are 3rd and 18. So what do you do? You stand strong and trust your mates. What happened was worst case scenario.
