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roman18
and win games. Last season IMO he showed that ability but Coop dropped the ball in the endzone. The year before he was behind every game he played, but he did not have the horses to help him and he had a very poor OC and the coaches around him were terrible. No one, not Brady, Manning, Staubach, Warner etc...could have come from behind to win a game with Fishers game plan. So there went his 1st 7 games.....

But for a guy to also win game from behind he needs a D that can also win from ahead.....He has a team around him that will enable him to do what you, and all of us want to see. He has the ability to do it, but as stated by others I hope he doesn't need to do it often.

Not Brady or Manning? Well except for the ones who did. (The Fisher Rams did have comeback wins.) But we all, for different reasons, don;t count 2016 against Goff. My main reason is that it is rare for a qb from an Air Raid system to do well in the NFL (for a long time they were all busts). The handful who eventually did establish themselves sure did not start out fast--they all have bad first years (we don't know yet about Mahomes). The Air Raid puts qbs behinder than most when they become pros. There were a lot of other factors in 2016 too, not just coaching and not just an especially green qb and not just the move. Either way many of us don't count the 2016 struggles against Goff, and a lot of us never doubted him during 2016 either and stuck by him when "bust" talk flew around in the national media.

So anyway 2016 aside.

Fact is though last year, Goff showed he needs to develop in that area. Here's an interesting stat: %Passes Completed, Late & Close. With that, in 2017 Goff was was 45.3% which ranked 31st. To be fair that covers just 53 of his 477 passes but still. ( That stat is here btw: [stats.washingtonpost.com] ).

Comeback wins or not, the team as a whole, including Goff, needs to play better against playoff caliber teams that have both good offenses and top 10 defenses. They played 5 games that meet that definition last year--Jagz, Vikes, Saints, Eagles, and Falcons. They went 2-3 in those games, and arguably Goff played consistently well in one of them (Saints) (Against the Eagles he played well much of the game but along with the rest of the team faded at the end when they had a chance to win it).

He is credited with a comeback win against the Titans. They began the 4th quarter down by three and the game winning drive put them ahead by 4. They also of course turned the Dallas game around though strictly speaking that wasn't a 4th quarter comeback. Both the Titans and Cowboys ended up being 9-7 teams with some issues on offense, so I would not put them in the same rank as the other 5 teams I named.

Anyway, in the 5 games I named, they weren't consistently good. Goff was part of that but then it wasn't all on Goff, either. Regardless, just looking at Goff's part of it, I REALLY doubt that's "who Goff IS." I think he has the internal wiring to be much more consistent and effective in games like that. I think that will be part of his development.