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stlramz
I think there were 24 yards separating the DB and Cooks at one point. As a former favorite poster of mine (LARAM) noted Cooks even raises his hand immediately upon seeing the blown coverage.
I'm sure their is some merit to zn's notion that a pissed off McVay ate into Goff's confidence resulting in the Goff we saw last year but going into SB53 after winning that epic in NOLA with the crowd noise and the adversity, Goff's confidence wasn't eroded at that point. It had to be sky high.
He just missed it. He didn't see it until way late and then Cooks didn't battle for the ball enough.
The sickening part, I was there, I saw Cooks literally by himself, I saw a SB title and then I felt like vomiting.
Cooks also dropped a nice pass by Goff later in the game, but the example before clearly was about processing speed and "seeing the field".
I have no ill will towards Goff, I just like Stafford much better.
Different opinion. That game was on Mcvay, who couldn't adjust his offense to what the Patz D was doing, and on the OL, which got itself beat the hell up. And all that's with the Rams D holding the Patz to 13 points, which has only happened to them in the post-season 2 other times since Brady was the starter.
Putting it all on one play to me is just not real analysis. And the way I saw it the "it was late" complaint is weak--as I see it that was a great play by the Patz DB.
Goff's confidence was fine in 2018 against Chicago, Detroit, and other teams that took advantage of an eroding interior OL and McVay's slowness in adjusting to certain defensive attacks.
In contrast Shanahan was able to beat the Rams twice with nothing at qb. Shanahan COULD blame the qb if he wanted and never does.
On the other side of the same coin, Mahomes in the last superbowl could do nothing with an OL that could not play. Just another example of an often neglected factor.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2021 09:38AM by zn.
