And had his dad spoon feeding him NFL concepts since he was born, I get it. This wasn’t as much a knock on McVay as it was praise (ugh) for Kyle’s offensive scheme and how he can stick any half decent QB back there and put up points. They don’t ask Jimmy to do much yet they have a lot of success, imagine that. Meanwhile we have people consistently shitting on Goff for not being able to elevate his team’s play (a la Brady). Goff is good but maybe the offense needs to be adjusted a bit for his deficiencies - take the load off a bit per se.
I think this is a fair assessment of Goff. He’s a middle of the pack QB who can make all the throws and, on occasion, look like one of the elites. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t know who we could replace him with tomorrow or in the off-season even if we could. He’s demonstrated that he can run McVay’s system but you have to start questioning if he needs an elite supporting cast around him to get you to the top of the mountain.
I alluded to this in one of my other posts. Not necessarily the benching but in the obvious situations where Jimmy is struggling with passing. He stops calling pass plays and has Jimmy hand the ball off play after play. He’s exceptionally good when it comes to identifying things that aren’t working and changing things up. When things get completely out of hand we’ve seen that he isn’t afraid of benching the kid. Those decisions are always going to draw a ton of differing opinions but those are the tough decisions he has to make as the head coach and offensive coordinator.
I think if Goff continues to turnover the football and not being able to make plays when nothing is working, the Rams will move on.
