Jared Goff is an old school pocket quarterback who effectiveness require a good O-line and a deep threat. Coming into the season, Les Snead did not fill in those missing pieces. Jared Goff style is similar to that of Peyton Manning than Tom Brady so our offense work best when he is throwing bombs. That doesn't work when you don't have single deep threat after letting go of Cooks (which was the right decision).
Our O-line, the same one that collapses in the Superbowl became worst after losing Saffold did not get address. We came into this season with an O-line that overperformed but rear its ugly head into the playoff one way or another.
We have one of the slowest receiving cores in the entire league, and drafting Van Jefferson did not make sense when we already have Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp. We are literally just making an entire team full of possession receivers and that makes us one dimensional. Look at the makeup of the Bills team, they have one possession receiver in Beasley, a deep threat in John Brown, and an elite #1 wide receiver in Diggs. If you want to go further, look at the Chiefs receiving core, they have THREE deep threat with one being an elite #1 wide receiver in Hill, a #2 in Watkins, and a young physical burner in Hardman. Oh and they also have an elite tight end as well.
Goff has struggled this year (mightily at time) but we didn't give him the tools to succeed. We didn't build around our 34 million dollars quarterback. We just bandaged a few units together and hoped for the best. Our O-line can't block and our receivers get can't separation consistenly enough for Goff to get into any kind of rhythm.
We can win with Jared Goff and he doesn't need to have everything perfect to win but the team best units (O-line in SB, Defense last night) can't lay an egg and our best wide receiver can't be out. We have ZERO elite receiver and we have not had a single one throughout Goff's entire tenure with the Rams. Patrick Mahomes has two right off the bat and even Tom Brady had Gronk.
