Goff on the You Never Know Podcast

DaSilva sez: The entire conversation between Stud and Goff is worth listening to, which you can do below. (Warning: video contains explicit language)

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Jared Goff explains what sets Sean McVay apart as a coach

Jared Goff explains what sets Sean McVay apart as a coach

Jared Goff has had two full seasons with Sean McVay thus far, and not surprisingly, they’ve been the two best years of his career. They’ve both helped turn the Los Angeles Rams around far quicker than anyone expected, taking them from being 4-12 in 2016 to playing in the Super Bowl this past February.

When it comes to coach and quarterback tandems in the NFL right now, Goff and McVay are right up there with some of the best. Their youth and inexperience is unmatched by any others in the league at the moment, yet it works so undeniably well.

McVay deservingly gets more of the credit for the Rams’ rebuild, but it’s difficult to pin down exactly what makes him such a great coach. Goff attempted to answer that question on Mike Stud’s “You Neva Know” podcast recently.

“People ask me, what’s his best trait? And I say he’s the best listener I’ve ever met. Listener and communication. It’s amazing,” Goff said. “And he’s obviously so smart and he knows football and he’s a great play caller and all that – it’s just innate in him. But the way he listens and the way he takes input from everyone, and takes it and either uses it, or takes it and explains to you why, ‘Eh, I don’t agree with that.’ It’s just an open dialogue and communication and it leaves no room for doubt. He says a lot, where communication lacks, negativity fills. So just keep an open dialogue and you’ll always know what each other are thinking and that’s kind of what he preaches and he’s a great listener and it trickles down through the whole organization.”

McVay is a unique coach. Not only is he the youngest in the NFL, but his ideas are so often viewed as unconventional. No team used 11 personnel more than the Rams last season. Few teams, if any, utilized more pre-snap motion than McVay in 2018. And when it comes to planning and preparation, he took playing it safe in the preseason to another level the last two years and many coaches have followed suit.

His willingness to push the boundaries is what Goff says sets McVay apart from other coaches.

“I think a part of it is how smart he is, it’s just innate, he has a gift, he’s just got it. Good play caller. I think what really set him apart early on – and again, I don’t think he was trying to do this – is that he didn’t care what anyone else thought,” Goff continued. “It was like, ‘We’re doing this this way. I don’t care if it’s not normal, typical. I don’t care if everyone else isn’t doing it. This is going to work for us, I believe this is going to work. We’re going to do it this way.’”

“I think that’s kind of another thing that sets him apart and a lot of coaches are starting to lean that way. I mean, arguably the best to ever do it, (Bill) Belichick, he don’t care what anyone thinks. He does it his way. Sean’s doing it his way, as well, and for a player, you can’t ask for more.”

Goff hopes to be paired with McVay for a long, long time, much like the way Tom Brady has stayed with Belichick, and Drew Brees with Sean Payton. McVay is under contract through 2023, so he’ll be around for a while, but Goff has yet to receive an extension.

It’s a matter of when, not if, so don’t expect to see Goff playing for another coach anytime soon – and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Jared Goff was on the You Never Know Podcast the other day and there is a lot of really cool information in it. I listened to it on the way to and from work today, lots of great stuff.

Some of the stuff he talks about:

Little about college football, talks about his mindset, basically how he’s even keeled. After his interception in the NFCCG apparently Goff basically didn’t react at all, like it didn’t even matter, didn’t let it change his game or mindset. Talk about ice in his veins, people talking about Goff like he doesn’t have that trait have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about.

Goes into the draft process a bit, talks about the Rams trading up for him (he was in Philly and couldn’t fall asleep after hearing about the Rams trading up for him because he wanted to get drafted by LA but didn’t think he’d fall to 15 to us), talks about the actual draft, media, etc.

Goes into what it was like with Hard Knocks, you can tell he’s not happy with how they portrayed him, something Fisher alluded to as well recently), also talks about how the same crews were around for All or Nothing, so basically from the draft to the end of his rookie season he was being filmed. Mentioned how it was harder as well because they were struggling.

Talks a little about McVay, the last two seasons, talks a bit about the MNF game against the chiefs, stuff like that.

Goes into a his relationship a little bit, talks about his girlfriend and his family, the routine, etc.

They get into some really good stuff in the second half as well, they cover the Super Bowl, Goff talks about his mindset after the game, takes responsibility for the loss, says he didn’t play well, basically if you’re totally honest with yourself that’s how you learn. This was probably the most impressive part of the interview (which really just sounds like two guys shooting the crap, easy listen), he talks about how McVay is the same way, they’re basically of the same mindset, take onus on what you did wrong, take responsibility, don’t look for excuses (like the Saints did for example) just look at yourself, and what you did, be honest and learn from it. Says that McVay doing that makes it easier for him to do it, which makes it easier for other players and it trickles down. If you think about it, we’ve seen examples of that before with Gurley after the NFCCG and Marcus Peters after the first Saints game. Both of them were unhappy with their play and were point blank about it, said they played like crap.

Goff mentions how he knows the media doesn’t like it when they do that because it doesn’t give them a story and that’s what they want.

Talks about him and McVay’s relationship has been evolving and how much they have left to grow still. Says he’s starting to get to the point where he has a good understanding of what is going on and is usually able to figure out the play call before McVay gives it to him (this is huge in my opinion, means that Goff is starting to see the field like McVay does, and we know how good he see’s it), talks about how he and McVay want to stay together their entire careers. Talks a little about what makes McVay so amazing, says he’s the best listener he’s ever seen, so there’s always an open dialog. If he or other players have an idea or see something a certain way they can tell him and he will either agree with you and look to expand or go with it, or he’ll disagree and explain to you why that is so at the end of it everyone is on the same page. McVay has touched a little on this in previous interviews as well, talks about how Goff came to him in the NFCCG and said he wanted to try a specific play against a look because he thought it would work, and later on when the opportunity arose they got a timely completion to Cooks for a first down.

Talks a little about what he does to wind down as well, says that he wants to have a family some day but right now he doesn’t have any desire to travel or anything because all he wants to do is win a Super Bowl. Between that and how he talks about the previous Super Bowl, you can tell that our boy is real hungry.

All in all a great interview. I was just going off the top of my head, so things are in different orders and there is stuff I’m missing for sure, but I was impressed.

We’re in really good hands, the interview really impressed me. I wish the media would sit down and give it a listen because they’d probably change their minds on Goff really soon. People who don’t think he has the potential to be a top 3 QB or even the best QB in the NFL should listen to it so they can understand why they’re wrong.