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There is a lot to like about Goff but I don't think anyone's forgotten that he "can" do good. They're questioning why he is currently struggling to do the things he was so recently showing that he could do.
Why has the early morning studying not been translating to good decision making on game day? The dedication and work ethic need to start leading to on field production.
We need to get TMZ on the case. We need to get the real dirt on why Goff is currently struggling. I heard those idiots on ESPNLA say something may have happened with Goff and Halle Berry during the BYE. Maybe he isn’t getting enough sleep. Geesh.
My turn.
Why is Goff struggling? Because (IMO) all qbs go through stretches where they struggle. That includes all the greats (if memory serves). The bad ones are never that good in the first place so it's hard to say they did really well and then struggled...more often than not they struggle all along. Heck for that matter JG already went though and came out of a slump in 2017
(he had a stretch of 3 games last year--Seattle, Jagz, ARZ--where his avg. qb rating was 70 and he threw just 2 TDs and 3 INTs....his avg. completion percentage in those 3 games was 52.3%).You don't do the good things Goff did this year if you are not a good qb. It's that simple. And good young qbs have slumps.
Just to offer a good example, here is Brees in his 4th year, his real take off year. In 2004 he completed 65% of his passes, with 27 TDs, 7 INTs, and an avg. qb rating of 104.8 (which ranked 3rd that year).
And that year he also had these games:
SDG NYJ L 28-34 -- 42.11%, 146 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT, qb rating of 47.1
SDG @ DEN L 13-23 -- 48.28%, 121 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT, qb rating of 59.7
SDG DEN W 20-17 -- 51.85%, 106 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT, qb rating of 46.2
So in those games he averaged 48% completions, threw 1 TD and 3 INTs, and his avg. qb rating was 51.0. In 2004 for the season, 48% completions would have ranked 34th (out of 34), and a qb rating of 51.0 would have ranked 34th (out of 34).
That's Brees in year 4. Goff is in year 3. A BAD qb does not play the way he did against the Chargers, Vikings, and Chiefs. All 3 are winning teams and 2 have top 6 defenses. BUT a good young qb will . slump some games, as Brees did in his 4th year.
Unless someone can think of a qb who never went through this? Having bad "off" stretches as a young qb? I can't think of one but then again I am not a living memory bank.
You want to know how many "off" games Brady had in his third year? I am counting every game where he has a qb rating below 70 (which is a pretty generous cut-off number). It's 5. In those 5 games he has 3 TDs and 7 Ints. His avg completion percentage in those 5 games is just under 54.0 % and he has 1 game where it's in the high 40s. .
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/20/2018 02:36AM by zn.
