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Goff has been working on reacting post-snap this offseasonIn his recent MMQB column for Sports Illustrated, Albert Breer broke down what exactly Goff has been working on during OTAs and minicamp. Breer writes that “the Rams spend their spring trying to master their own offense,” and that “the offensive calls going in this spring routinely put Goff and the offense in a spot where they have to react post-snap.”
This means Goff is focusing on improving at adapting to what the defense calls, and going through his progressions rapidly with little time to react to what he’s seeing.
It seems to be paying off so far, as Breer has been told that “Goff’s done a better job this spring in more quickly getting to his second read, then to his third read or checkdown.” Ever since Goff started to break out, his success has been diminished by detractors who credit McVay for most of the Rams’ success.
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All of which only supports the idea that he has indeed been working with training wheels. Which isn't a bad thing considering the quick turnaround and overall results. But it also confirms that the league figured out how to take away what had been so successful. While I'm glad they are addressing it, I'm not particularly thrilled that they have to focus on this after year 3 for Goff. As good as the gimmick was, IMO, it did retard his growth as an NFL QB. Hopefully it's all just part of McVay's plan and is on his schedule.
It;s not rare for a young back to encounter situations where the defensive looks and adjustments are new to him. I said at the time--after the Denver and Detroit games--that Goff was reacting like a young qb who had not seen everything yet and had encountered something new. So that is what I saw at the time, and said so. Plus of course McVay had trouble adjusting as well, in those few times when defenses got up on what they were doing (Lions, Bears, Patz). So that was far from just being Goff.
To prove it's all due to "training wheels" you would have to demonstrate that most good qbs were adept at doing that (adjusting on the fly to disguised defenses and unexpected defensive looks) in their 3rd year. I kinda doubt that's the case.
In Brady's 3rd year he had 8 games with a qb rating under 80...including games where it was 76, 75.4, 74.7, 68.5, 67.4, 57.6, 47.2, & 44. In those games he had 6 TDs and 9 Ints. His last 4 games of his 3rd year, his avg. qb rating was 57.7 and he had 2 TDs and 3 INTs.
Do you think Brady was prepared for every defensive look he saw in his third year? Does that mean they had him on training wheels up to then? He's a master at adjusting now...did that develop overnight?
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Thank you...been pointing these things out all offseason
Goff is a very young QB that has surpassed most of all of our expectations so far and is not immune from showing his age and experience from time to time. He will be back and better then ever in 2019!!! Like your old friend used to say "bank it"
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