Seems to me that was a lot of soft packaging, as we are want to do as fans, that effectively obscures a few uncomfortable truths.
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When did the conventional wisdom change from when it is ALWAYS best to give a rookie QB at least 1 year holding a clipboard, and usually longer?
I don't think that's always the conventional wisdom. I think it's the conventional wisdom that when a team trades a significant chunk of its future away in exchange for drafting a QB roundly billed as NFL ready at #1 overall, he should be quickly better at playing QB in an NFL game than holding a clipboard in one.
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The Rams have a mature, mid-career QB who has started in the NFL.
That's one way of putting it I suppose. A more candid way of putting it is the Rams have a journeyman NFL backup who's been cut twice already in his four year career, including the same regime that now finds him a better option than the QB they just gave up the farm for and drafted #1 overall.
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Goff came from a fairly typical college system. He didn't take snaps from the Center and it was a heavy passing offense that ran from the shotgun exclusively.
Not really. He came from a somewhat a-typical, even for the rinky-dink college offenses of today, air-raid system. There has never been a QB to come from this specific college system that has gone on to significant NFL success. The failures started with Tim Couch and continued unabated since. And there are a couple notable current examples that haven't exactly flourished with this Rams system, Case Keenum and Nick Foles. If Goff succeeds, he will be the first. Yet, those who supported the move the Rams made to get him did so under the premise that he, as mentioned above, was the most NFL ready of them all.
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We have all watched what happens to rookie QBs with great promise when they are forced to start when they aren't ready. It is truly tragic.
What we've seen is what happens to QB's that aren't good enough, despite their "promise", fail in the NFL. Whether they are rushed or not. Whether it's Matt Leinart, Josh Freeman, Christian Ponder, Blaine Gabbert, Brandon Weeden, EJ Manuel, David Carr or Akili Smith. Not good enough. There are others, like Matt Stafford, Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco and Blake Bortles as a few current examples, that were thrown in early and took their lumps and managed to avoid career tragedy. They were good enough, though maybe the jury is still out on Bortles, though he appears to be on the come.
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Goff is going to be a good one and have a greater chance to succeed.
That's the hope, but the hope and early indications in this case are on apparent divergent paths.
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My hope is that Goff will more or less go the route of Aaron Rogers who had time to learn.
That would be fantastic, but keep in mind that Aaron Rogers was a better NFL QB than Case Keenum the day he stepped foot in Green Bay and would have never sat behind a journeyman backup type. Not in this lifetime.
