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And I'm not sure Warner ever played an NFL game. But Goff is still a project IMO. Other than him saying he would listen to Justin Beiber I've been more impressed than not.
I have to say that one of the things McVay benefits from is precisely the fact that Goff is NOT a rookie. He has the skill and mindset but we can't lose sight of was that yes, Goff was THAT far behind coming from Cal and that college system.
Matt Waldman:
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I underestimated the difficulty of the transition from Cal’s Air Raid offense to the Rams’ West Coast system....Jared Goff is learning an entirely new system. Will Hewlett–a quarterback coach and consultant to high school, college and professional passers–says the transition from the Air Raid system at Cal to a West Coast system with the Rams is like learning Chinese....Goff’s stats show that he’s not handling pressure well and he’s making critical errors but to conclude that he’s lost these skills or analysts were wrong for ever seeing them, glosses over the realities of learning a complex system....Goff is doing a lot more thinking than performing....If the Rams give Goff the time the Packers and Patriots gave to their starters–or even Washington inadvertently gave to Kirk Cousins while rushing the process with Robert Griffin III–Goff has the talent to thrive. His pocket presence, accuracy, and feel for the game hasn’t left. The new system is forcing him to think rather than play.
Polian on ESPNLA (my transcript);
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What are Goff’s skills, why did the Rams take him, how can the Rams best use those skills.
Polian: Good arm, accuracy, 3 was ability to [ ? didn;t hear the word? ] plays. [ I think it was basically extend plays]. But it was in an offense that was diametrically opposed to what occurs in the NFL....What people look for in qbs now is physical qualities. He had a conversation with Wade Philips about this a while back. Phillips said, here’s what we face. College quarterbacks do not call plays, they do not call protections, they’re never in a huddle, they never talk to their teammates because everything is signaled in from the sideline, and then they never take a snap from center and drop back and have to read a defense on the run. So that’s the story. Is it any wonder these kids struggle in the pros? There’s more to it than arm strength but a lot of times that’s all teams have to go on.
An anonymous NFL coordinator:
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“We did a lot of work on him when he and [Carson] Wentz came out, and I thought he had a chance,” a different offensive coordinator said. “I just knew that it was going to take a while.
Heck here's Polian from soon after they drafted him:
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In my humble opinion, if you forget how far behind Goff was coming out, then, you're not accessing the full story here. That's what all the evidence tells me.
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