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4) It's conclusive now that Goff struggles with processing - "Goff struggled to recognize coverage disguises and didn't consistently identify coverage post snap as the play developed. When a defense ran Cover Zero with no safeties deep, his decision-making process often didn't happen quickly enough to hit the big play." This verifies what so many fans were saying.
I think this is partly McVay's fault also. IMO, Goff, over time, started hesitating because of the turnovers and the wrath they brought from McVay. So he waited a big longer to make the throw which you can't do in the NFL.
I went back and watch some of the games from 2017 and 2018 (like the KC Thursday nighter). You can hardly believe it is Goff playing compared to the 2020 Goff. Seems to me as the relationship got rockier and rockier, neither responded well and it just spiraled down.
The thought that a kid who made the Pro Bowl twice in his first few years suddenly "struggled with processing" after getting more experience under his belt - ummmm... unlikely. What's much more evident is that McVay handled Goff
terribly - and Goff didn't respond well. Rather than make his QB better, McVay made him worse. Easy to say Goff should have been mentally tougher, but I imagine that having a head coach undermining you with your teammates and other colleagues can't be easy.
Fair t say McVay handles adversity poorly. (Imagine if they had ever had a LOSING season!) I'm glad Jared is out from under his thumb. Let's hope Stafford only succeeds so we don't have to see if McVay has learned anything; that if there are big bump Matt's extra years of experiences makes him relatively impervious to McVay's BS; or that McVay 2021+ is better than McVay 2020.
We'll see.
There could be some merit to the idea that Goff's processing struggles are partly on McVay. I can see the theory that he had lost confidence due to McVay's wrath from turnovers and overall micromanaging. But IMO that would only partly explain his regression.
The other part the article explains. Goff has struggled to recognize coverage disguises and was slow in decision-making his entire time in the NFL. Remember all the hoopla about McVay talking in his ear. McVay did that because of Goff's struggles. At the time, it made sense. Goff was a young QB and obviously still developing in reading defenses.
But after 5 years, you expect him to be better at that. And the league had caught up to them. Defenses knew to make last second adjustments where McVay couldn't help. The article mentions the Pats cracking the code and the QB being exposed. So it's not that Goff "suddenly struggled with processing," it's that he's never gotten good at that.
IMO, the biggest piece of the processing struggles is that it's a huge weakness for Goff apart from any McVay contribution.
