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Aikman repeatedly claimed that because of Goff McVay was always trying to be too perfect.
Here is a possibility of fans reading less into things than what is really happening. Many of us made the deduction that McVay began using roll outs to get Goff away from the interior pass rush. If you recall the Niners did the same thing with Kaepernick. But the reason. Was to simplify the offense by giving him only half the field to read. What is that was part of the reason McVay did it with Goff. I recall after ne loss McVay saying to the press that our quarterback has to see the field better, or he’s not seeing the field well.Goff did have open receivers that were not thrown to often this season.
Then we here that McVay is excited to get Stafford and it means he can really open the playbook. So Goff apparently was limiting the playbook, not just the Oline play like many thought. So if McVay adds plays will he really be adding them or will he just be using more of what he wished he could have with Goff?
Then there is the other issue of Goff not being able to adjust well when defenses would change to a different look before the snap, which is another thing Goff struggled with and Stafford is supposedly good at....improvising.
As others have stated, Aikman did not like how Goff played and would put him down any chance he gets. Even when Goff did something extremely well, Aikman would downplay it.
So whatever Aikman says I take with a grain of salt.
Was Aikman one of those many people who called Goff a bust after 2016 and could never get over the fact that Goff played at a Pro Bowl level 2017 and 2018.
I also take with a grain of salt about Goff not being able to read defenses.
I have seen Goff throw excellent passes time after time when he has time.
In the Seattle game, (I keep going back to this), there were only three plays that I recall that Goff should have read the play better. No one else was open in that game except for who he eventually went to. He made the right call each and every time.
I think the main reason McVay had to change the play calls so much is that the OL would not allow for long developing plays especially since Goff's mobility is so poor. And that's probably why he wants Stafford so much because Stafford is a much more mobile QB that will allow McVay to go back to calling plays the way he wants to. Stafford is a mobile Goff without quite the accuracy that Goff has but with a better arm that can make throws that only a few QBs can make.
So yes getting Stafford will be an upgrade for McVay and it is best to move on from Goff since McVay clearly wants a mobile QB. Look at how excited he was about Wolford when Wolford only got us 9 points against the Cardinals when Goff moved up and down the field all day against the Cardinals. Wolford did well and twice we couldn't score in the red zone but McVay was just gushing about the mobility.
