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Why not keep selling it? Fact is we do not know what the real issues were. You zero'd in on Goffs overall performance focusing on nuances and forgetting this is a new new nuance to the offense and Jared is young and being strictly trained and then retrained. Is he catching on slow perhaps depending on what he was previousluy coached. McVay is struggling with his transition of his offense as well. That impacts a QB. If things go bad as Jared has experienced the coaches reaction and approach also seeming to have changed impacts a QB and their confidence I have been told and I truly believe that makes since. If Jared has changed for the worse I will only say that McVay has definitely changed fundamentally and emotionally and you can be in agreement with his changes but you have no way to prove they are for the better or will reap any better results.
I can agree with most of this, but here is the rub, (and I don't think we will truly know if its the chicken or the egg) is McVay struggling with his transition to his new offense or is his QB struggling with McVays offense and that makes it look like McVay is struggling? The reason we may never know is because both have played or coached at high levels in the past, so who is underperforming now?
McVay has done his share of head scratchers in my mind, but it truly seems like McVay is frustrated with Goff this year, which leads me to believe that McVay (or in McVay's mind at least) thinks Goff is holding back his offense to some level. Is McVay right? IDK. Am I even remotely close with this line of thinking? maybe, maybe not. Its just my opinion Bum.
Jared Goff has shown plenty of ability in the older iteration of our offense during the 1st 2 years of McVay and Goff has thrived under one approach and philosophy. Our WRs have been exposed as McVay has used our most talented WRs to run extremely shallow routes and function as RB/TE at a high percentage of plays calls. They ar undersized and take a beating and have showed that the impact had taken a toll thru the season.
Unfortunately for McVay, Woods, Kupp and esp. Goff, that 99% 11 personnel offense is gone and is not coming back. DCs are figuring this out and its why they shifted away from running it exclusively.
Watching the NFC Championship has clearly made this point for us. Watching these teams protect their QBs and watching those QBs take shots downfield and their WRs go up and get balls clarifies that we do it differently and we can get better. I truly believe Goff would excell in either offense and have no doubt that either of those teams without Brady or Rogers would prefer Goff over Wolford or Menshew in this Championship game.
I think after being called out publicly about the turnovers have to stop really rattled Goff and he decided to go ultra conservative to fix the issue, so I do think some of this is on McVay for sure, the problem is, throwing windows in the NFL are tight. And if your QB loses that mental edge that he needs to keep throwing into those windows (deep or short) then that QB is toast. Can Goff reset and regain that confidence? Sure he can. Will he? IDK. Will the Rams keep him around for another year to try and get him back to that place? I think he gets another season. After that, its any mans guess.
Don't waste your time looking back, you're not going that way. - Ragnar Lothbrok