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I agree with this statement. Goff struggled mightily against teams that had the right personnel to run the 6-1 defensive alignment. It is something that Mcvay did everything he could to help Goff suceed. After the Miami, Frisco and Jet games, Mcvay had enough.
I don't agree with this at all. For one thing McVay himself said that Tampa ran a lot of the same things Miami did but the Rams and Goff ate it up.
Goff graded out pretty well against the blitz actually. That includes against Tampa. In fact he had a better qb rating against the blitz than Stafford did in 2020 (101.0 v. 86.point-something).
The 6-1 messed with the run game and it is THAT aspect that McVay needed to figure out.
Here's McVay on the Tampa game.
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McVay also noted that the Bucs’ defense “did some similar things” as Miami did three weeks earlier — meaning the types of pressures and blitzes — which the Rams knew would happen
What exactly is your disagreement? Are you disagreeing that McVay got fed up due to the Miami and Frisco games? Or are you disagreeing that McVay had a good reason to be fed up after those games?
If it's the former, Jourdan, who you've described as an access reporter with knowledge of internal Rams thinking, has already said that the Miami and Frisco games were critical in McVay's thinking of wanting to move on.
I am disagreeing with what I quote. Namely, that Goff always struggled against that defensive attack. He didn't. That was my only point.
Access reporters are not very useful on getting a complete picture because you lose access if you become too critical. The result is that you just end up being a parrot for the regime...
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Gotcha. Yeah, I agree that the 6-1 defensive alignment wasn't really a big issue in 2020. I think that was largely solved in 2019. The struggles in the Miami game were due to Goff not handling the zero blitz correctly and not because of the defensive alignment. They worked on it and got it corrected to the point he did well in the TB game.
The access reporter thing is an aside...but my point in mentioning that Jourdan is one is that, if you want to know the internal thinking of the team, it doesn't get better than an access reporter. I wasn't trying to talk about a complete picture; I was emphasizing the 'what's the team/McVay thinking' picture.
Agreed on Miami v. Tampa.
I don;t believe we always learn the internal thinking of the team via access reporting. I think what we often learn instead is the team's own PR take on itself, which is not the same thing. IE it's doctored for public consumption and often functions as tacit PR.
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