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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.
As for the rest--yes it may be that McVay's questionable performance as a qb coach came as an over-reaction to the Miami and SF games. I have no opinion on that. I hope not though, since the reality is Goff put those games behind him and played well in several games in the 2nd half of the season, including the playoffs (while injured on the road).
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. That's why we need more than just access reporters, even if they happen to be good beat reporters in the process, as Rodrigue is (I don't do the thing where female reporters get first names while male reporters get last names...it's unintentionally dismissive to do that). So we also need actual reporter reporters like Thiry, who go beyond the party's own party line about itself and talk to many sources to get a much more complete picture.
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Goff did not always struggle against the 6-1. He struggled against teams that had the personnel to play that defense at a high level.
Not all teams gave him fits because they couldn't pull it off.
