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Florida_Ram
zn asked: How can you presumably read defenses better and yet have a vastly lower completion percentage (for far fewer yards per attempt). Against fewer pressures?
For me it was what my eyes witnessed. Goff was a seasoned 5th year NFL QB and looked more of the same if not worse than what he put on tape in 2019.
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I don't think the issue in 2020--when he was up and down (and where the OL was not
consistently the problem that it was in 2019)--was reading defenses. Not in the way some are saying, who said he could
not read defenses. I saw different things as the issue in the bad games. And I saw nothing from Wolford that indicated he was more advanced at that.
5th year qbs can have bad games FL. Stafford did. His 5th year was 2013. I will say that back then a bad game can include any with a qb rating below 70. By that criteria in year 5 MS had 4 such games. In those 4 games he threw 9 INTs, only 4 TDs, and fumbled 5 times (losing 1). He did not have a completion percentage above 60% in any of the 4, and in fact in one game was 40%. His avg. qb rating in those 4 games was 55.8. That was with an offense that had been ranked 6th for the year, with a defense ranked 16th so it was okay, although also they had a running game ranked 22nd. When this started near the end of the season they were 6-4 and then went 1-5 in the remaining games, a swatch that includes Stafford 4 bad games.
Stafford is more experienced and more savvy now, and has a been there, seen it all thing going for him. He will be better than Goff was in 2020 but on the other hand he is also better than Stafford was in 2013.
The 5th year is not magic. I have looked at plenty of good qbs who have 4-5 bad games in their 5th years.
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