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RockRam
What happens if Goff plays pretty good (not great, just Andy Dalton adequate), and the team goes 7 - 10, and is sitting out of the money in the draft for a top tier QB coming out? Do they believe that if they increase O talent around him, Goff is enough? Do they re-up Goff and hope to gosh they're right for the next several years? Do they put a bunch of picks together and move up in the draft? It's the classic NFL dilemma and it's why QB is the most difficult position to evaluate and to fill. And it's why what the Rams did is probably the best move they could have made. A Stafford that is a known high level quantity that only plays as well for the Rams as he did for Detroit creates a top level NFC offense.
In your scenario I think and hope that Holmes is smart enough to trade up for a top tier QB.
The absolute worst QB position to hold in the NFL is to have a tier 2/3 QB that you are paying $30M plus. I ran some numbers several months ago on the QB situation of teams that made it to the final 4 (conference championship game) and this scenario was the most rare. I believe a final 4 contender had this QB situation only around 10% of the time. The other 90% was either having a true top tier albeit highly paid QB or a QB on an inexpensive rookie contract.
