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Odds are great that a toxic environment was disallowed by the Washington head coach.
Plus the qb coach in Washington was a veteran, Matt Cavanaugh.
The Thiry article points out that things between Goff and McVay became more toxic when there was no longer a serious qb coach with LA and McVay began to intervene more in qb coaching.
Odds are great that Gruden and Cavanaugh would never have stood for that.
And notice that Goff's performance declined after 2 things happened. (1) the once very good Rams OL from 2017-18 fell apart and struggled in 2019, and (2) McVay started intervening more directly in qb coaching. According to the quoted sources, McVay only knew how to tear the qb down, he did not know how to coach him up. He had no Cavanaugh, or Greg Olson, or Zac Taylor to act as a go-between. Not starting in 2019.
That never happened with Cousins because both Gruden and Cavanaugh are experienced offensive coordinators and certainly Gruden would have set the tone and agenda.
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Two things.
The toxicity seems to strictly be between McVay and Goff. The way you described the ‘toxicity’ above kinda implied that McVay established a general toxic environment when nothing could be further from the truth.
The other thing is that McVay seems to have a stellar track record in communicating with everybody other than Goff for the past 4 years. And even Goff thrived under McVay in ‘17 and ‘18. So, what does that tell us? I think the answer is obvious.
I’ve worked under some very demanding manager types with extremely high standards in my time. They could be blunt, to say the least. But those are the very ones that helped me the most in my business career and whom I respect the most. Goff needs to grow up a little bit here. Be more situationally aware. If McVay is in his face on football matters, there’s a damned good reason. As Rock said, this ain’t high school anymore.