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9er8er
That's why they mortgaged the farm to get him, after all, isn't it?
We should also be guard against keeping expectations too low for a QB that was the first overall pick and costs a bunch of additional premium picks to boot. He's supposed to be capable of more and sooner than your typical prospect.
It really highlights the problem with investing so much in a project like Goff at the most difficult position to play in sports. By the time he's ready to put the team on his shoulders and win games, he's about to be a free agent or already is on some other team's roster. You risk getting all his "learning" years and somebody else getting all the benefit of it.
I just don't see Goff as a "first pick level qb."
I see him more as this: if you pick lower in the draft and want a franchise qb, the only way you get the one you want in the first round is to trade up for him.
It's that time in the NFL---qbs are such a premium that that's what you have to do.
What I expect of Goff is that he will slowly and visibly emerge as a viable franchise qb in spite of starting out as an especially green prospect from as Air Raid variant system---a system that has never before produced a viable continuing NFL starter.
So he was greener than most and yet IMO worth the price because his raw talents are appreciable.
He is not a Luck or Newton and the "he was picked first" label is kind of misplaced.
It's more like, if you want a guy and you don't have a high 1st round pick, the way the qb draft market works, you better trade up.
Same thing happened in the draft this year. You have to overpay. Doesn't mean that measured in the abstract the guy is a top 5 or top 10 pick.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2017 05:27PM by zn.
