I listened to the presser that was posted yesterday on the official Rams site and I had a few interesting take aways, not specifically about Goff himself.
It was pretty evident that McVay was less than impressed with the offense as a whole this season. He brought up the lack of explosive plays and how that forced us to sustain long 10-15 play drives down the field. The margin for error on these types of drives is a lot lower than drives where you can get chunks of yards at a time; this makes a ton of sense from a statistical standpoint. He also said that our offense has historically shown that it is capable of producing those explosive plays and that he wasn't satisfied with essentially having to play a dink and dunk type of offense. Interesting.
Ok so what does that mean in the grand scheme of things? That's a pretty complex question to answer but I think that some of the things we heard throughout the season were pretty telling; specifically this part coming from Jourdan Rodrigue: "The Rams re-worked their offense this season to operate more efficiently. They wanted to minimize low-probability air-yards plays downfield, have lots of low concepts for high-efficiency plays and minimize turnovers. That's all they are asking for, is to not turn the ball over." Mind you this came during our game at Seattle where Goff threw that terrible interception. If the offense was reimagined to operate as Jourdan says above, then this seems to go against what McVay truly believes the offense is capable of. Why the disparity there? Again, I don't want to speculate because there are numerous factors that affect the offensive unit as a whole, QB aside.
I just found the whole thing odd and interesting at the same time. When you look at the season as a whole, primarily on the offensive side of the ball, and you couple that with McVay's recent comments you really can't blame people for thinking some crazy shit is going to happen this offseason.
