When you look at just how awful the situation was for Goff; coaching, dysfunctional system, lack of weapons, butterfingered WRs who couldn't consistently get open, and a pretty bad Oline, it is a miracle that he wasn't injured or have that deer in the headlights look by the end of last year.

Cousins will be nowhere in the picture; and Goff doesn't have to set the world on fire to eliminate that talk. He just has to show solid growth along a solid upward trend line.