Seeing Keenum being introduced by Elway (after Denver signed him) got me to thinkin':
What could McVay have done with Case as starting QB? I know. I know. It's all moot. Goff is the starter and his crazy, awesome, wicked, amazing leap from year one to year two tells us he's got
big time upside and is heading for a Pro-Bowl career. I'm happy the Rams have him. But I still wish they had those draft picks too.
Anyway, Keenum was really good with the Vikes last year, showed consistently excellent pocket awareness, quick feet, a quick release, excellent accuracy, excellent decision-making . . . . and he didn't do that with the Rams. He flashed those things. But there wasn't any consistency, and it actually seemed like his arm was weaker with the Rams than it was with the Vikings . . . which is perhaps the strangest change of all. I'd bet he would have been even better under McVay's tutelage.
Of course, a big fat wrench in the above is this: Keenum as QB might have dissuaded McVay from actually wanting to be the Rams head coach, as he would only have seen him under Fisher's sway. I'm guessing young Goff was a big draw for McVay in the first place. So it's a double-moot.
Regardless . . . just playin' around with the thought-experiment. I'm impressed so much by McVay and his staff, I'm just better Keenum would have done very well last year under the same circumstances. Here's hoping McVay sticks with the Rams for Goff's entire career.
