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9er8er
The word used in that was "plan." Fisher planned to have Goff start the opening game.
Fisher himself said that was the "goal." Plan and goal are synonymous here. So, if you believe Fisher should have known better about Goff's actual inability to be ready for the opening game, then it consistently follows that he should have had a different plan/goal for Goff than he did.
That said, of course the goal should have been that Goff should have been ready to play game one. If you sell the farm to take a "franchise QB" #1 overall, it had better be because you think that guy is better than somebody like Case Keenum almost the day he walks into the building. If you don't, then it's an embarrassing case of malpractice.
You're extracting one phrase from a context that qualifies it heavily and acting like your construction is what he said.
No it is not what he said.
All the statements you're glossing over or ignoring:
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We have always had the philosophy that we are going to play them when we think they are ready....so whenever that is you are going to see him under center.... when that happens, I don’t know....He may start the opener on Monday night, we don’t know...when he steps under center? I can’t tell you.”
The "goal" here simply means the "an aim or desired result." But then he qualifies that heavily by saying but he will not start before he is ready and we cannot tell you when that will be.
That;s all so obvious that taking it any other way amounts to a careless distortion.
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