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Coy Bacon
Zn, I disagree with you here. You're using the weakness of our OLine as an excuse for all of Goff's mistakes. Granted our OLine was weak last season but Fitz at Miami had a worse line and performed better.
Where was Fitgerald better than Goff under the same conditions?
Fitzgerald: 62% completions, 4% TD percentage, 2.6% INT percentage, 6.7 YPA, avg. qb rating 85.5, winning percentage as starter: 38.5%.
Goff.........: 62.9% completions, 3.5% TD percentage, 2.6% INT percentage, 7.4 YPA, avg. qb rating 86.5, winning percentage as starter: 56.25%.
Fitzgerald would have performed better with a relatively healthy and stable OL too.
Also it mischaracterizes my point to say I blame the OL for Goff's mistakes. (Also I don't use the "e" word--an "excuse" is just a
reason one is dismissing.) My take is that broken OL play has an effect on qb play and RARELY DOESN'T. That means that whatever issues that qb has, they get accentuated.
I;ve seen that my entire history watching the game of football.
I know many people want to put it all on the qb and then write off badly out of sync OL play and/or multiple OL injuries (to the point where the OL Is not stable) because they have this idea that "good" qb rise above that...but there are never examples of good qbs rising above that (I named 2 exceptions, Brady and Wilson, but it even caught up with both of them too). To me it's just plain not realistic analysis to not factor all that in properly.
And so listing all of those sources (all of which I have read before ) that IGNORE OL play in their analysis? Well--
they're just ignoring it, they repeat the same problem.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2020 06:42PM by zn.
