Re: Both...but only one of them evolved...

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Goff had a bad year with the deep shots, but if you go back to compare both from 2017-2020
Goff had the better deep ball stats every year but 2020, usually by far

I'm of the belief, as is McVay, that Goff is not the same QB he was in 2017/2018. The league caught up to him.

So for me, those years are no longer relevant.

Did they catch up to him or McVay?

Not a big believer in this being all on Goff

also, there really was no deep threat on this team in 2020 and read what PFF said about 2019

Bucky Brooks had a good article a month or so ago about all the other stuff going on that contributed to the decline of this offense

They caught on to Goff's weaknesses and McVay's scheme.

But McVay has evolved and is changing up his scheme and realized he's going to have to do that every year.

Jourdan reported that McVay feels that Goff was not keeping up with him, he was not evolving. That's a big reason McVay concluded he would have to trade him.

Everyone has favorite quotations. Whether they actually describe reality or not. One used to be that Goff never played well under pressure, except if you look at the numbers, he actually did play well under pressure in several games--so that particular mantra dried up. It was never as categorical or absolute as some tried to say it was.

Yours is that we can ignore OL issues in 2019 and other issues in 2020 and what we have is a qb who spent 2 years "not evolving."

I think that's all deeply questionable. And if the McVay camp is trying to sell that take to reporters (well actually it's just one reporter) then it's one of the few times I have little respect for something he did.

Look at Stafford's 5th year. Had he "evolved" into a top qb yet? In a measure which says a bad game in 2013 means a qb rating of less than 70, that year--his 5th year--MS had 4 bad games. In those 4 games he also threw 9 INTs and had an avg. qb rating of 55.8.

Whatever the reason, with the 2020 Rams, there was a disconnect between the qb and the head coach, only this time, the head coach was in the fortunate position where he could actually trade a younger qb for a top veteran. That's one big equalizer. Rams have never had a qb like Stafford. Which is why virtually no one among Rams fans objected to the trade (though there was some pile-on nonsense for a couple of people who pretended to themselves that some did object to it...typical flame post style motives taunting stuff, nothing much above that, but still.)


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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/13/2021 04:31AM by zn.