“Best quarterback performance I’ve seen in my seven years in the league in person.”@KirkCousins8 to @JaredGoff16 after Goff’s 465 yards and 5 TD on #TNF @nflnetwork.

11:20 AM – Oct 5, 2018

that’s awesome. hopefully he’s not the last qb to say that.

i’m not too bothered by it.

although i wonder how he’d do in the mcvay offense.

what has me impressed too is the ypa.

his intermediate passing is beautiful to watch.

i gotta say i am just baffled how far he’s come.

when he was drafted, i was a wentz guy. i just thought he fit a fisher team more than goff did. maybe i’m completely off base, but fisher wins more by toughness and grit than precision and brains. and i thought that was more in wentz’s wheelhouse.

but damn if goff isn’t the perfect fit for mcvay. not only is he precise and accurate. but he’s got some balls on him with some of those throws he makes. and sometimes it doesn’t work out like with that throw to everett. but so far. more often than not. it works to spectacular success.

and when he makes the rare mistake, he seemingly just shrugs it off and goes right back at it. and again. that’s a reflection of his attitude which borders on arrogance. just the guts to place balls where most qbs would think twice about. i mean can you see a fisher offense doing that? sure he’d take shots downfield, but not like this rams offense is doing. mcvay puts goff and the offense in position to exploit holes and mismatches in the opposing defense, and goff goes for the freaking jugular. it’s been amazing to watch. and who knows if they can even keep it up.

like i said goff started out hot last year and tapered off during the middle portion of the season before picking it back up. but he seems different this season so far. more confident. stronger. this should be a tough but interesting 8 game stretch before getting to the last quarter of the season.

i would also add that havenstein is the sixth rated tackle according to pff.

i don’t know if that’s just among right tackles or all tackles but impressive either way.

Zooey wrote:

I can’t see how Ogbo is going to matter this year. He is a rookie who missed all of camp.

i wouldn’t expect him to start. but if he could even just contribute in passing downs, that’d be a success. it’s not like he’s got much competition in front of him.

football outsiders has him ranked #1 according to their metrics.

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/qb

also espn’s total qbr has him rated #2 behind mahomes.

just checked pff. he is now the number one rated qb according to their metrics.

if i’m not mistaken. after this game goff will become the nfl leader in passer rating at the quarter mark.

zn wrote:

Rich Eisen@richeisen
And Earl Thomas is down and getting carted off with a cast. Exactly why he wanted to get paid. And why no one — NO ONE — should criticize a player wanting to get his when he can.

exactly. sticks in my craw when people criticize players for holding out.

zn wrote:

Deal?

aaron donald is back to being rated the number one dlineman according to pff.

next up is seattle. and you know he loves playing seattle! i hope he goes off!

i keep saying it. but i think donald is the one true transcendent player on this rams team. there are some other candidates. but i feel like this guy has already proven it to be true in the short time he’s played. he’s that good. i don’t know if i’ve seen a dlineman with his combination of strength, speed, and explosion. and it’s not just strength. like his legs are strong. or his chest. or his arms. and he is strong in those areas. but even his fingers are strong. insanely strong. if he gets his hands on you it’s over. you’re done. easily the best dlineman i’ve seen on the rams. but my fandom only goes back to 95.

but that’s also the reason why i want to see the defense do so well. moreso than the offense. it’s not just enough. for me at least. for donald to be merely a great player on a great team. i want donald to be on a great team with a great defense. or he could be like a reggie white. a team known for its offense with him being a singular larger than life figure on defense. but really. i want him to be on a defense that people write about decades from now.

anyway. i’m rambling…

on good morning football they said goff is the only player in nfl history to pass for more than 300 yards while maintaining a completion percentage of 75% for three straight games. a little arbitrary but still impressive.

also. on his perfect passer rating. it’s the 70th in the history of the nfl. also among those perfect passer ratings it’s number one in completions (tied), attempts, and passing yards.

that’s impressive. to maintain it over that many attempts which no one else has done. and every one of those plays was crucial for the rams to win. the vikings defense is struggling but it was rated number one last year.

i guess i didn’t realize just how impressive that rating was when put in context. although this is also with the new rules in place that protect qbs and wrs so there’s that to consider as well.

here’s the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_quarterbacks_who_have_posted_a_perfect_passer_rating

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what i’m interested in is how much collaboration is involved in these plays?

goff and mcvay chest bumped on one of the tds. but how much input did other coaches have? for that matter how much input did goff have? or was it all mcvay?