Well shit, that wasn’t very positive
Here’s my take on it.
Toughness is one of the things that is routinely said about him by BOTH college and pro coaches and players who played with him.
I can think of a thousand things that account for the erratic plays GS describes before I would even consider (and then reject) toughness as one of them.
Cosell has typical limitations..
1 is, he never accounts for context and situation. He just looks at physical skills and execution.
2 is, he will often leap to conclusions about the player’s mindset. Often those are completely arbitrary.
So for example, we have this green qb who has to learn how to read defenses at the NFL level, and he predictably proves to be spotty at this. That’s on top of the fact that everyone he plays knowing the Rams do not have a running game. He also didn’t have, as a rookie, the ability to make effective pre-snap reads and do something constructive about them (audible, change protections, see where the likely hot read will be open). And GS concludes that it’s a mental issue (toughness). Based on what? His considerable mindreading powers? I just think it’s an especially green rookie under challenging circumstances.
When Cosell just sticks to describing execution and physical style of play, he’s always illuminating.
But sometimes he doesn’t stick to that. And more often than not, where he goes when he goes past his real skill set as an evaluator, is just not always that insightful or valid.
And that’s GRANTING that Goff the college Air Raid qb had a long ways to go to be NFL caliber.
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