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Gurley loses 3 yards on first down. On second down your broken OT gets whooped by Long and he gets stripped sacked.

When you are 2nd and 13 and must drive the field you cannot have a DE come clean like that. That situation is 8 tiers down the consideration process. Nobody was open. No time to even tuck it.

Long just straight knocked it out. Unless you want your qb to sense pressure and assume that he will not get any help and sack himself then the options are slim. If you sack yourself then you are 3rd and 18. So what do you do? You stand strong and trust your mates. What happened was worst case scenario.

I don't blame Goff for the fumble...it was probably a bad call by McVay when you have a new RT in the game, It was, however, max protect, and only 2 receivers went out in the pattern, Watkins was on a deep post and I think that's who Goff wanted and he was open if Goff had just a split second more time

But the short pattern was open, too. I don't think that's where Goff wanted to go, but it was there.



And if they wanted to run a deep route, then they could have slid the protection to the right and made sure the TE was there to chip the DE...to take some pressure off the new RT

But, McVay is young and things maybe got away from him a little bit in a pressure situation




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2017 07:50PM by Blue and Gold.