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He’s doing it without the best RB in the NFL like he had in Gurley.
He is better now because he’s more experienced and has a better understanding of how an offense works.
Goff is not a freak athlete like Mahomes or Herbert, but when you give him a relatively clean pocket he can win games for you.
And even more, Goff will get better the next few years. I have little doubt that the Lions can go very far in the playoffs with Goff at QB. I think they’ll go further than Cousins ever took the Vikings. He’s better than Cousins.
More experienced, much better at reading and manipulating defenses, more trusted by his coaches... Like all QBs, he's better with a clean pocket. And while he's obviously not much of a scrambler, he's also gotten much better than buying time within the pocket, protecting the ball or throwing it away on time when the pocket collapses, and better at pre-snap diagnosis, which helps him find the defensive weak spot when pressure comes.
He's a top-10 QB now - very probably headed to his 4th Pro Bowl - and, yeah, he'll get better still on the years to come.
