... Goff is the next-best thing to a rookie this year. Last year was just an introduction to being beaten up and hung out to dry. This year ... he is actually being taught things. Hey ... I'm a fan of the kid. On record as being so. My issue was how this string was presented in the first place.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Like some of us poor schmucks *didn't* get it before? That McVay knows how to approach modern offensive football? That McVay helped his young quarterback get comfortable and have a successful outing? I thought that's why he was hired. Falls a little short of splitting the atom, doesn't it? Finally ... Ross Tucker and Greg Cosell? Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Let's hope it continues. Just goes to show what putting bona-fide ... and potential ... playmakers on the field can do. I know Goff didn't play well last year ... but at least some of that has to relate to having Cheech and Chong out there at wide-out. I also know it's early ... and I know a lot of people like having Snead as their whipping boy ... but the dude may well have rebuilt the lby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
How about 'second-guessed?' Anyway ... Goff took a deep(er) shot and it didn't work out. Maybe Everett was open. All-22 would tell. All in all, though, I have no problems with the kid looking for the big play..by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... you never really know how a play breaks until you see the All-22. It may see as though Everett was clear ... but Also ... it's kind of ironic that, a week ago, Goff and McVay were being leaned on because of all the short and intermediate stuff that was run against Dallas. This week ... Goff's getting heat because he looked deep and went for the deep ball to Watkins, who had the one-on-by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
The sea was angry that day my friends.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... a play or two before that in which it appeared Jessie had scored ... but they marked it at about the half yard-line? Bad, bad memories. Living in the upper Midwest only made them worse ... since I was surrounded by Vikings' fans.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
I'm not real good at math ... but Goff was born in October 1994; McVay in January 1986. That works out to eight years and ten months. Besides ... chronological age is a lot difference than some general level of maturity. Seems to me McVay is about a 45-year-old soul trapped in a 31-year-old body.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
One of his most glaring weaknesses was in not recognizing that players weren't interchangeable. I think, and history has made fairly clear, he thought he could plug *any* quarterback in his system and have him succeed. Which also led to him hanging his QBs out to dry - empty backfields; limited protection schemes - and them getting so beat-up. And, yes ... he plugged certain journeymen intoby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... the son of a guy who coached with and under Martz in St. Louis. This guy said that his dad truly felt that Martz was, indeed, a little unhinged. He used that special word - 'nuts.' Not sure if he was talking about his personality or in some deeper, psychological manner. But he made it clear that Martz simply wasn't like the other boys who held similar jobs in the NFL. He certainly didn'by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... McVay and Goff have been playing whiffle ball next door and they keep hitting it into Martz' yard. What an odd character he is. The best ... very best ... description I have ever heard / read about Martz came from Les ... where is he lately, btw? He called Martz the Buddy Ryan of offensive football. He's right. Both of them were ahead of their times in many, many ways ... but nby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... that the Eagles 'over-paid' for Carson Wentz?by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
I assume you're asking that rhetorically.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... if I think he will break-through and become a Pro Bowl-caliber QB? Yeah. I do. But just imagine the response I would have gotten from ... some folks ... had I typed those words. Yep! Saturday night proved Jared Goff is a star! Just ... imagine. In fact, I have been touting the reality that no one is going to know if Goff is the answer or not until probably sometime around Thankby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Mariotta in Tennessee? Wentz in Philly? On and on and on and on ... How do you suppose Bill Walsh handled Joe Montana in 1979 and '80? Dude sat behind Steve DeBerg for TWO YEARS before taking over the reins. In fact, the ONLY 'young' quarterback in recent memory that I can recall being handed the whole playbook and being told to master it was Kurt Warner ... and he was 28 when it hapby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Because everybody knows Belichick immediately threw the playbook open to Brady way back when and sat back and let it happen. Jeez. Like I've said hundreds of times, it seems ... Goff likely got NEXT TO NOTHING out of last year under Fisher, Boras and Weinke. He's probably learned more about playing the position in the pro game the last six months than he did all of last year. I also nby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... but Goff has probably learned more in his first camp with McVay and Co. than he did the entire year with the previous staff. ***The third down and short tells me a lot where he hits (WR) Sammy Watkins on the crossing route because he gets choppy at the top of his drop – we had a little bit of push from the pocket from the right side, he shortened up his fourth and fifth steps, stepped up,by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
One of the toughest football players of all-time. Wanted the Rams to draft him the year he came out, but they picked A.C. Slater's jacked up twin brother instead. Classy comments by Warner about his former teammate: "Anquan on the field, was one of the greatest professionals and competitors I ever had the pleasure of playing with ... With all the great players I shared a field with, Q isby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... if, at season's end, there's a failure to recognize certain pre-snap reads or make certain throws ... that's a lot different than pulling one, single play from one game and saying, 'The sky is falling.' I'll never forget the audio from Super Bowl 14 of one of the Rams' offensive coaches radioing down to Ray Malavasi after Vince Ferragamo threw the INT in the fourth quarter that all but iceby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
If you cut up *any* quarterback's tape ... from frigging Pop Warner to the NFL ... you're gonna find a few of these. I understand constructive criticism ... but there's a difference between something that's habitual and a one-off. I think it's also fair to assume this play, no matter if your take on 8ers' is correct, will be addressed during positional meetings. Dontcha think?by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Last night will *only* be valuable if it serves as another single step in what we all ... or most of us ... hope is a surge forward. I am heartened by what Goff did last night. I want to see more of it, though.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... I would issue an immediate press release or tweet in which he distances himself from me. The association will only harm his good standing.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
But Jay Novacek was Troy Aikman's true 'security blanket.' Why? Novacek worked the underneath areas, inside the hash marks, for Aikman. THAT is where a great passing game begins - inside the hash marks. Doesn't mean Watkins won't be a huge player in this offense - since he is also a guy who is fearless working those routes. Just means that, at this point, it seems as though Goff haby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
I spent a lot of my youth watching the 49ers chew up defenses in the same way. Not many wow plays. Just efficiency that, as a whole, was 'wow.' There just aren't going to *be* a lot of 'wow' plays, I don't think, with this offense. It's not how it's being built.. This isn't going to be the Greatest Show On Turf, Vol. 2. This offense, I think, is going to be based on what Bill Walsh did -by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Goff went 16-of-20 against a Raiders' defense *obviously* distracted by the upcoming eclipse. They didn't have their heads in the game at all. He's awful. No arm talent. No moxie. No toughness. No middle name. Blah ... Blah, blah, blah ... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah-blah-blah ... Blah.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
***Why don't you name an analyst you think is good who has said recently that he thinks Goff looks good.*** I assume you wrote this before last night. Additionally .. what were all those great analysts basing that on? Last year? Seven snaps against Dallas in the first preseason game? Please! It's gonna be fricking Thanksgiving before anyone ... anyone ... will be able to sayby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
... would have been Dak Prescott playing for the Rams in 2016 instead of the Cowboys? Really? Let's get real here. Prescott had a great year ... but a lot of what he did occurred while he lay in a figurative hammock in Dallas. Look at the Cowboys' roster from last year. Look at their offensive coaching staff. Now ... look at the Rams' roster from last year. Look at their offensive coby The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Sorry, dude. My first post was ... uh ... edited ... so I wanted to make sure I was all PC and such. Sorry for the confusion.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com
Wouldn't expect him to be too intimidated by much of anything related to his first pro camp.by The_Bad_Guy - RamsFootballFans.com