Thought this was a good write up on Goff from Bleacher Report

I initially tried to post this on my iPhone, but the article was getting truncated. Trying on my iPad, hope it works. The full article is 5 paragraphs long

Every week BR ranks the QB's. Here is this week's take on Goff:

Head coach Sean McVay didn't need Jared Goff to do too much against the Arizona Cardinals' depleted defense in the Los Angeles Rams' 33-0 win; the running game was working, and Cardinals quarterbacks Carson Palmer and Drew Stanton played like enemy agents. Goff's stats (22 completions in 37 attempts for 235 yards, one touchdown and one interception) weren't world-beating, but they were consistent with the overall mission to have Goff find more comfort and rhythm in his offense every week.

McVay put Goff on the efficiency game plan—he attempted just two deep passes in this game. The first fell incomplete on a miscommunication to Cooper Kupp in the first quarter, and the second was nearly intercepted by safety Antoine Bethea late in the second quarter as Goff tried to hit Sammy Watkins on a deep route up the numbers.

Mostly, Goff settled for short and intermediate completions on timing routes, extending drives on plays in which his early reads were schemed open. This has been McVay's plan for Goff all season, and it continues to work because the efforts of running back Todd Gurley and the Rams' outstanding defense mean Goff doesn't need to do much more.

Goff did run for a designed nine-yard touchdown at the end of the first half, which was an interesting wrinkle, and he hit Kupp for his lone touchdown pass of the day on a perfectly blocked receiver screen late in the fourth quarter. The interception wasn't entirely his fault; Gurley had motioned out wide left and ran an in-cut as part of a rub concept, and safety Tyvon Branch got away with bumping the running back out of his route, leading to Deone Bucannon catching the ball.

This is how you work with young quarterbacks: You expose them to different elements of your passing game over time and expand the playbook as things start to coalesce.

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BeachBoy



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