Will it be the teacher(s) or the pupil? "No Excuses in 2017"

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laram

Olson, LaFluer and McVay certainly have their work cutout for them working with young Jared Goff who will be in his third offense in as many years.

From an Air Raid attack - to whatever that was last season - to a McVay/LaFluer offense with totally different tenets and verbiage. He's gotta learn all over again how to call a play, get in and out of the huddle and understand what they're trying to accomplish on each play.

The mechanics, what are the problems with it, and with no experience at the center position, he'll probably have to make the line calls as well.

That is a ton of pressure on essentially a rookie qb, and potentially going into the season with inexperience at the center position is doubling down on trouble.

Will the Rams have to scramble last minute to sign a veteran center to take some pressure off of Goff?

Is it the teacher(s) or the pupil? (was it the young Jedi or the Jedi Masters?)

These have been concerns of mine as well even after the hiring of all the quarterback gurus McVay and company brought on board.

Memorizing playbook verbiage, knowing/recognizing protections, ball security, slow to process information which led to him on too many occasions failing to throw the ball away and being the result of him taking brutal needless sacks.

Goff for many of us was easily 50% of the blame (some even a higher %) for not translating what he learned from his playbook, inside the film room, to the practice field and then the live bullets on the game day field.

When things often broke down JG never looked like he knew where to go with the ball way more often than not.

As you said, he's essentially behind the 8-ball starting all over again. (3 offensive systems in 3 years) He's almost going to be considered a rookie again to a small degree but I give him no excuses going into his second season, even with all the new better and superior qualified teachers.

You know laram, I'm as big of a believer as anyone that thinks he's going to succeed but no way do I blame most of 2016 on the teachers from last year for the pupils personal failures.

Goff failed enough on his own and it was down right frustrating to watch. I don't use the coaching, O-Line, WR's/TE's as the easy scapegoat for all his transgressions.

On a variety of levels, I don't think he fully ever believed in himself, his coaches, or the surrounding talent on offense and therefore he often crumbled like a fearing Luke Skywalker in the swamp from "Return of the Jedi"

I can only hope that McVay, LaFluer and Olson are the Yoda that the young Goff needed to bring out his natural God given talents.

If they're not the Jedi Masters to teach him the ways, clearly Goff will be the only one responsible and he will fall to the "Air Raid Dark Side" and won't be the young Jedi starting QB for the Rams in the coming future years.