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Speed_Kills
McVay regardless of what he had seen since the Lions game in 2018 continued to put the weight of this offense on Jared Goff. When Goff cannot be the center piece of this offense. There is no way the Rams should still be a team that likes to pretend to be a run team. They must be a run team first with Goff as the QB. MUST!! Just like the 49ers and Titans are run teams first and their passing games are compliments to their ability to run. The Rams pretend to be that but they really aren’t. The Falcons and Packers who also run the same offense are teams that rely more on their QBs but utilize a ton of play action. Goff is neither Ryan or obviously Rodgers.
The Rams don't have the personnel that those teams have to be a dominating run team. They are both built around powerful OLs that thrive in man power blocking schemes, on top of that, SF has a heck of a FB that would be hard to replicate and the Titans have a RB and FB all in one in Henry. And they both have TEs that can actually block.
When you think of the Rams offense, who are they? Think about that for a moment. Who are the Rams offensively? If the Rams offense goes as Jared Goff goes then don’t we all see that it’s a major problem? Regardless of the team, when your QB is bad, chances are you are losing.
Goff is not as good as I thought and I thought he was average. McVay clearly believed his scheme could cover for Goff... and he was wrong. Unfortunately it’s going to cost him and the team this year
I said this to you in a GTF a few months ago, I'm afraid he is a slow processor, the delay of games or burnt timeouts to avoid those DoGs, missing open WRs to bad decisions in the pocket...So yeah, I agree that McVay "fixed" him with his scheme. So I don't think Goff is regressing, I think teams are figuring out McVay.
And to be clear I really like McVay a ton but a lot of this is on him. He time and time again since Lions/Bears/SB thru 2019 and now 2020 put all his eggs in the Goff basket. And he didn’t have to do that.
This we agree on. But to be fair, I think McVay thought he could just continue to hide Goff's flaws and win. Problem with that is that defenses are afraid of the Rams run game, they are afraid of all the motion, afraid of the short and intermediate passing and their WRs, they are not afraid of Goff, So they take away the run game and take their chances with Goff. And Goff has not answered the bell. Because I don't think he can. And thats too bad.
Don't waste your time looking back, you're not going that way. - Ragnar Lothbrok
