Once in a blue moon a person will say something in one sentence that is self-effacing and self-aggrandizing in the same sentence.
Goff managed it here.
First, if anybody ever said he was being sent off to die I missed it. I thought he was going to a team that all-of-a-sudden needed a quarterback and was resurging from a decades-long nightmare of bad management, with a new GM and a new head coach who knew him and wanted to rebuild around a young quarterback who had a future ahead of him. The "I am a victim" empty accusation about others saying he was sent off to die is both self-serving and hollow.
Second, 'I wasn't going to let that happen" rings of assumed heroism which others are supposed to admire - again, both self-serving and hollow.
Where is the sense of quiet confidence I want to hear in all that? Where is the humility?
McVay gave Jared every opportunity to measure up - extra coaching, dumbed-down playbook. But McVay couldn't make the decisions on the field for him.
Unfortunately for Jared, the McVay offense in any form relies heavily on timing - anticipation - which is hard to coach; some QB's have it innately more than others. Stafford and Warner have it. Jared's self admitted difficulty to "layer it in," to hit the intermediate routes in a crowded field, is closely related to the anticipation/timing issue. Try as he might he couldn't measure up to the higher demands of McVay's system.
That's why the Rams let him go.
Nobody - nobody - on the Rams sent him off to die.
The Campbell offense asks less of what he can't do, and utilizes more fully what he can do. Even at that, look at his stat line vs. Stafford's in the playoff game.
Bottom line, I don't hold any ill will toward Goff and am happy for him, really, that he revitalized his career in a diffent setting.
