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I have seen Jared have several issues over his time in the NFL....Seen him play lights out and seen him do things that I say WTF was that.....All that said I have always thought he was a fighter, he has always done past what's needed to play hurt, he's taken big time abuse at times on the field with no flags thrown, he never got in the face of refs like many others do when that happens.
I bring these things up to state my opinion that he would not shrink away from a competition, he wouldn't sulk over it or try to cause division on the team. I think competition is what has been sorely lacking in his growth. Some things I don't ever think he'll get, but I see nothing in Jared that makes me think he would demand a trade or want a trade if he's has to go against Wolford, and IF Wolford won out Jared would help in his backup capacity, just as he did when Wolford came in this season.
If Jared did demand a trade with a competition in place straight up I'd try my best to get rid of him ASAP...don't think he's wired that way, I think as any athlete should it's all about competition, and it should improve them both along the way.
Roman I agree with most of what you are saying here about Goff.
I don't think Goff is worried about competing with Wolford. Or would shrink from competition with anybody.
But doesn't this feel like there is more to this than who is the best QB on our roster.
These are just strange comments coming from McVay and Snead
and now the open competition thing.
Anyway feels that way to me
Like some kind of tit for tat stuff is going on. Though we haven't heard a word from Goff?
So I don't see him scared of the comp but I could see him feeling disrespected enough to say
Enough's Enough you don't believe in me get me out of here.
It might just be the best thing for all parties involved at this point
This whole episode is just weird and unlike anything I've seen from this regime. It's not just an "open competition" thing, any more than starting Wolf against Seattle was about Jared's finger. It's beyond weird that McVay is acting differently than I ever thought he would. I've seen him ticked off at individual plays and players, and use generalities to express himself when he's been upset. But this is different. There is absolutely no protection of Goff's perspective or the perception of this in the media at all. Neither Sean or Snead seem to give a darn about the storm this is creating. Pretty much putting him on the block, and if it doesn't work out that way, open competition next year. I never, ever thought I'd hear that from the Rams in January - particularly after coming up short in the
playoffs. Cooler heads are not prevailing. Both McVay and Snead are both saying the exact same thing, and they are saying it now before the Super Bowl. That's crazy to me. I would think this is something they could have sat on, rather than flashing it out in the media for at least a month. You wanna talk? Then talk to other people. But running it up the media flagpole is not how they have ever operated, and it's just strange as heck to me.
And I guess that's what has really been bugging me. What happened? It has to be something, and something other than the play, or the missed reads or whatever in Jared's mechanics. I really felt that during the second half of the season McVay was just
done. I felt after Wolf stepped up and showed ... something, that it was less how "stellar" Wolford played, than how he was just finished with Goff and ready to move on. And when someone said McVay and Goff needed "marriage counseling", it was way past Jared's play and had devolved into the relationship between player and coach. But this is work. If an employee and I reach a point that someone would tell me "we need counseling" it would be like, "uh, no we don't". And we'd move on. Goff's going to be moving on, and it's not just his play that's moving this.
