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Florida_Ram
The game film shows his ceiling peaked.
Those are not facts. That's an interpretation. The facts allow for different interpretations. So here's a different interpretation of the same facts.
In his 5th year, Stafford had as many poor games as Goff did in 2020. That suggests that with Stafford, that in year 5 he was not sufficiently advanced enough as a veteran qb to be consistent. Yet obviously that was not his ceiling. There are many qbs where you cannot say bad games in year 5 means they have reached their ceiling.
And you do not lack mastery of the playbook OR have a fixed ceiling if you play like Goff did in Tampa or in Seattle in the playoffs. This is not Ponder, Gabbert, Locker, Weedon, Manuel, Bortles, Mariota, Winston, or Trubisky we're talking about. Goff has yet to show what his ceiling is--same as Stafford after his 5th year.
Why is Goff gone? What we do know is that the qb and coach had a bad disconnect and communication issues. Somewhere in there is the most likely reason.
Am I complaining? No--Stafford is a good acquisition, and whatever happened between a young head coach and his young qb is far far less likely to happen with the Stafford/McVay duo.
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