At one point in the article she writes about how Goff still benefitted from defenses having to account for Gurley as a decoy last year but later in the article she writes about how defenses didn't bite on the play-action fakes (to Gurley). Seems like defenses then weren't concerned with Gurley so no benefit to Goff as a decoy last year. I'm just not a Lindsey Thiry fan.
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Lindsey Thiry
For his past three-plus seasons as starter, Goff has had the All-Pro Gurley to rely on -- whether it be as a dominant ball carrier or as decoy for defenses to focus on.
Their play-action -- Goff's bread-and-butter in his first two seasons under McVay -- suffered, as teams failed to bite on the Rams' run game.
