Lets be honest here though he has almost twice as many TD. Yes he's thrown some shit but he's also done thing we wish Jared could. If Jared threw another 10 TD there'd be less discussion about it. I'm as big of a Goff homer as there is but he earns his criticism.
My issue with this isn't that I'm defending Goff. It's that narratives persist in the face of facts. Warner suffers a broken thumb and was considered selfish and turnover prone as a result. Favre suffers the same injury, throws us 5 picks in a playoff game but elevates to warrior status.
Goff and Wilson both struggle like every QB if the protection fails, receivers drop passes, and the running game disappears. My issue is how Goff is blamed but Russell is excused.
The filter of perception is the problem. Aikman calls a game where Goff completes a pass to Woods but Robert has the ball stripped by the DB and Troy blasts Jared for not putting the ball further outside AS HE DOES TOO OFTEN. Drew Brees throws three picks in the first half yesterday (one dropped by the defender) and Troy looks for excuses. Yes, Brees is the better QB but the filter skews the context.
Jared Goff and the entire Rams team, defense included, sucked for three quarters last week. But Jared brought them back with a chance to win it and failed in his final drive. Guess what, so did the defense who allowed Gore to seal the game. Context.
Ben Rothlisberger has been pitiful lately. Should it cost him a gold jacket? Of course not. Jared Goff is the third winningest QB in the league over the last three years. Somehow, he's the QB that can't be trusted and we hear that ad nauseam.
I fear Jared Goff is today's Tony Romo. Romo earned 4 Pro Bowls and led the NFL in completion percentage in '14 but every Cowboys fan I know didn't like him as their QB. Every loss was his fault. I submit that in that time only a handful of QB's would have made that team better.