I agree. All of the other stuff is acceptable. Even the greatest QB's have receivers make some bail out catches for them. I wouldn't expect any QB to place every ball perfectly. There are far too many variables for that.

As you say, it's the decision making. There are plays where Stafford is presented with a choice to force something or live for another down and he is too often choosing the former. It's just so unnecessary. This offense is designed to have options to avoid those things and when a QB, be it Goff, Wolford, Stafford or anyone else chooses to force something in lieu of a positive play, they deserve criticism.

And I'm not talking about when a QB just doesn't see an open receiver. You can't see everything every time. But Stafford, IMO, needs to balance the aggression and the designed element of the play. There were a couple of times yesterday where he rolled out and had a receiver that the play was designed to go to but he waited and waited hoping the HR ball was open deep. Then, when it was almost too late, he begrudgingly threw it to Higbee who had no room left on the sideline and the defender was by then on top of him.

Just take those easy 8 yards and move on to the next play. Instead, they are 4 yards and present the offense a whole different set of circumstances to deal with. That is what Stafford needs to learn, to look at the big picture instead of just the one play. That 8 yard gain on first down will open up a 2nd and short that will give him the opportunity to run play action and maybe have that deep shot that he so covets. Not every play is going to have the defense set up for that open deep shot though. Sometimes those receivers running deep routes aren't actually trying to get open, they are drawing the defense away from the other routes for positive gains.

If OBJ is drawing 3 defenders deep, you cannot tell me that there isn't someone underneath that's wide open. Stafford should not have to be being told this.