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merlin
I do think you made excuses in your mind for Goff way too long. We have had that conversation. But you are not someone who carries the torch for him still even to the point where you take a negative look at Stafford.
But I also think they are out there, it is a clear correlation and it spans every Rams board. There are multiple fans on every board who were upset with moving Goff and not happy with adding a guy who they felt was basically the same QB. And in fact it has led to a rather subdued take on what Stafford is going to do for us in 2021.
In the end though none of this matters. Once fans see what this offense looks like with an experienced decision maker who can elevate the scheme they are going to be fully behind #9. No doubt of that in my mind. We're just in silly season.
My take on Goff is that people are confusing a qb whose qb coach burned his confidence down (that being, the last 2 years, McVay). I think people are misperceiving that as regression. There are people who know the team who say the say thing. He had 4 bad games (so did Stafford in his 5th year), but mixed in with all that there were games they won last year solely because of him.
But it also does not matter because as I said, if you have a disconnect between qb and coach, it won't be the winning coach who goes.
Anyway that's history. I have a weakness for discussing history. I will debate people today who I think judge Bulger too harshly. Or who still argue that Martz was not Vermeil's hire but Shaw's (it was Vermeil not Shaw).
As for the present.
I am just glad they got a qb who is not only a veteran, but one the coach will actually listen to and learn from. IMO that is going to be as big a plus as anything else that will come from this.
I don't see the people you see who are presumably down on Stafford because of Goff. To me that's motives hunting. This is the voice of motives hunting:
"because we don't agree you must have dubious motives, or you would see the truth I so clearly see." As opposed to this, which is better:
"we don't agree."Anyway none of this is personal on my part. I've had a lot of discussions with you and IMO you are a fair guy who knows how and when to agree to disagree. So I am not expressing "problems" with you. Just yacking.
So carry on.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/24/2021 11:09AM by zn.