We all know it is a team sport, momentum, Rams fourth road game in five weeks and they have lost both games on the second part of those road trips, SF was desperate, etc. but the defensive played passive and tackling is what is going to keep them from being elite (it is embarrassing to watch week after week men who make great money have no technique, take poor angles, and it is not improving where it is what they are; a soft team way too often against bruising teams).
I mean, what do they do in all those meetings and on-field practices and walk-thrus? Seriously? I only see Jalen Ramsey lay the wood. JJIII, Rapp, Hill, Williams, they are really bad at tackling WAY too much. Week after week after week.
But Jared Goff more often than not does not step up when they need him.
I love Goff; I want him to be the QB for a while and I am not suggesting he go away, etc., they are hitched to him for a while.
But the throws he missed with a decent pocket most of the time, the rush in which he throws it, against a terrible, beat up SF secondary lies at his feet. He speeds up his mechanics and looks flustered. This is his fifth year. He goes to off-season camps to purposely work on these things and it disappears way too much. He has started 67 NFL games now and he still looks "uncomposed" way too much.
He is the QB, he makes $33.5mm a year and needs to carry this team.
Deadpool is right IMO, he is Matthew Stafford and some other QB's, he just cannot carry a team to win a SB.
I am so disappointed in his play last night. I found it disturbing. I know they are 4-2, there are ten games left, but once again he failed to deliver when the D had a horrendous half, SF was desperate, and yeah Kupp should give his check to needy charities for his awful game, but the QB gets $33m a year for a reason, and McVay cannot try and cover for Goff all the time.
I know, recency bias and I am being hard on Goff and what kind of fan am I, but this is the NFL, you gotta win games when your team desperately needs you.
I am just not sure of Jared Goff, and I love him, but I am just not convinced he will ever lead them to a SB title.
