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Ekern55
I think we need to pan farther out from the McVay/Goff dynamic.
If there’s substance to reports that it’s more than just McVay who’ve lost confidence in Goff, i.e., Goff’s teammates, then McVay runs the risk of losing the team if he continues in the coddle mode.
No one can claim McVay has done nothing other than support Goff up until a few weeks ago. For crying out loud, people call him McPlatitude on some boards.
So, before we continue this theme of McVay being immature and emotionally out of control and frustrated, maybe his approach is what he needs to do to keep the respect of his team.
Most of us have played some type of organized sports and it doesn’t matter how low level pee wee football it is that’s been played. When you see a player fail at his task and the coach keeps on buttering him up, you start to question what’s more important to the coach: is it the team? Or is it the player?
That's all pure conjecture, right?
And show me where McVay has been "buttering up" Goff all season. In fact to be honest I think that claim is way too counter-factual.
Besides, why would you even assume that the team was down on Goff? Out of 17 games this year he had 10 with a qb rating of 90 or above. He had 4 bad games and he was not alone in being bad in those games. He had 7 turnovers in 2 of those games. Since then he has had 3 TOs in 6 games. So why would the team see him as "bad"? They would know he eliminated those kinds of bad mult-turnover games.
People project. So you're down on Goff and to you, then, the team must be too.
And even if your story WERE true--ie. Goff actually is seen badly by his team AND McV is seen as not talking about it in public--a team knows darn well when a coach is just keeping things out of the public and behind closed doors. They know when he gives sugar-coated answers to the public to keep the real issues among the team only. They don't resent that, teams appreciate that.
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