oh i’d argue the Lions caught up and passed the Rams in terms of talent and it’s the Rams now catching up.
Goff’s year last year had everything to do with his weapons around him. 2 1k rushers, all pro WR, all pro TE, and me of the best play callers in the NFL who did exactly for him what McVay did in 2017 and 2018.
Goff is awesome when everything is awesome around him. The issue for him has always been when things aren’t great. When he doesn’t have a run game and thus the play action that he thrives off of. The announcers say it constantly that the Lions aren’t a drop back and pass team. That is a weakness for them. their passing game is built around their ability to run and play action. And that was true when he had Gurley in LA too.
Is he good enough to win them a SB? Well I guess we will find out but my hunch is they will also need a great defense, and unlike Stafford in the 2021 season he cannot play behind an average oline or worst and elevate it to win a championship.
Stafford led a game winning drive to win the SB with no run game and down to only Cooper Kupp. Could Goff have done that? Does Goff throw that no like pass to Kupp on 3rd down getting the ball deep into the Bengals territory?
the two QB are not the same regardless of the stats
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I see that statistically they appear to be even but Stafford has played 8 or 9 fewer games due to injury (2022 and 2023) and missing the SF game last year
Stafford appears to be even with Goff but has played fewer games… If we projected his stats out over those missed games it’s not really close at all is it?
Goff
12,258 yds
66.5% com
78 tds
27 int
96.2 rating
Stafford
10,938 yds
65.9% com
75 tds
36 int
94.3 rating
I think the one thing I would add in fairness is that Goff put up better stats with a rookie OC and an offense that was by far inferior to the RAMS (although they are catching up). That said, I agree with those that said this was a win/win for everyone. I also learned that it is absolutely important that the H/C and or O/C and the QB are a fit for one another. Clearly, Goff and McVay did not fit...I don't know what it was but it was never going to work (and we can disagree on this but I put that on McVay). It is also interesting to note that when Goff first went to Detroit they had an O/C (and don't know what his name is) that was also a bad fit and Goff was terrible for like the first 7 games until they fired this guy. That's when rookie O/C Ben Johnson took over, said he relied heavily on Goff, and even with the worst offensive personnel in the NFL I believe Goff was the #1 rated QB the last 9 games of the season. I don't know how you determine fit between player and coach but it is apparently very important (I even remember things with Rodgers weren't great when LaFleur first went to GB but they got it worked out).
