You and others keep banging the table with that and the ludicrous PFF stats, etc., while ignoring all the things McVay had to do to cover up our OL deficiencies, such as the frequent rollouts, his frequent surrenders on 3rd and long by calling WR screens which had no chance of a sack but also had no chance of getting a first down, etc. That number is skewed by those things, and doesn't tell anywhere near the full picture.
And you ignore the obvious, like our inability to convert multiple 3rd and shorts/goal on the ground which were further indications of our OL deficiencies. You also ignore our weakness at C and how Blythe frequently whiffed on blocks, denying Goff the time to throw, getting him sacked, and over the season, denying him confidence that he could sit in the pocket and survey the field on longer patterns. Goff made his share of unforced errors, but there were also several where he turned the ball over due to being hit on plays where he never had a chance, and that that is on the people that who are supposed to protect him.
In short, you act as if Goff is working with nearly the same situation as he did in 2018, minus the deep threat which you acknowledge wasn't there (and which I don't think is nearly as big an issue as the OL). Moreover, you don't acknowledge McVay's own shortcomings in playcalling, declining creativity, and predictability, all of which hurt our offense, including the play of the QB.
To pretend our OL consistently provided him adequate protection and that the McVay was still as innovative and creative in his schemes and playcalling as he was his first two years is just simply not the case, and all the PFF stuff and "average time to throw" stats won't change that. We know what we saw and we know our OL play was not up to par this year, and neither was the coaching of the offense. Yet Goff seems to be the only one held responsible for his shortcomings by some of you, the others getting a complete pass on theirs.
