i think bradford’s good. i think keeping him at the time was the better choice. but at this point i think i take goff instead.

i still want to see how he does this season, but as of now. yeah i like goff. that doesn’t mean i didn’t like bradford at the time. i just get this feeling that goff has more in his toolset. that’s really just a feeling though. not based on anything rational. probably just the homer in me talking.

i think he could get 60-70 catches this season.

and i think going forward he could easily get 100 catches a season in the coming years.

can’t wait until this sunday. washington should be a much better test than indy.

i expect some regression. just hope it’s not too much of one.

i don’t know how much this has to do with a debate of who is a better passer. i think it plays a part.

but i was looking at yards per attempt. goff’s ypa yesterday was 10.55.

do you know how many times bradford has thrown for double digit ypa?

and there’s a lot of things that probably go into that. like the system you play in and stuff. talent level of your receivers. but i found this interesting.

bradford has 2 games with double digit ypa. TWO. i looked it up. looked at every single gamelog of his. and that includes THIS game that he just played.

and goff did it in just his eighth game.

i think bradford might have him beat in arm strength. just pure arm strength. and so he can throw it on a rope. but goff’s instincts as a passer. like zn said. throwing with enough loft to get it over defenders. but with enough velocity to get there in a hurry. and the touch to throw a catchable ball. he’s thrown some beauties already. not just that td pass. but yeah. even last year. that pass to tavon. he’s thrown one to everett. a couple to woods.

even that late pass to kupp. where he just threw it up there. but i swear. i think he purposely threw it behind the defender so kupp could reach back and snag it behind the defender. i think it’s those types of instincts combined with ability that bradford lacked.

now i don’t know how good goff can become. there’s more to being a qb than just throwing the football. we still don’t know how goff will do when he’s under duress. when he’s playing from behind or in a close game. we don’t know about his leadership abilities. or his ability to read defenses. go through progressions and such.

i would put it like this i guess. jeff george. they said he threw some of the prettiest balls you could ever imagine. it was just everything else he sucked at.

goff throws a pretty ball. we just don’t know how good he is at the other things.

Herzog wrote:

I can tell you who it wasn’t….It wasn’t bradford

i’ll say this. goff, as mcvay himself has said, is a pure natural thrower. i don’t know how to describe it. but he’s got abilities as a passer that i don’t think bradford has. i don’t know about reading defenses and going through progressions. ya know. but as far as getting a football from his point a to point b, goff is better at doing that than bradford. accuracy, arm strength, ball placement, touch, timing, mechanics… bradford maybe has him beat in some areas. but overall. i think i’d take goff.

it’s only been 8 games so far. so a lot is left to be learned. but wow. maybe i’m just so blinded by that last game. but yeah. just throwing a football. goff is better.

joemad wrote:

The touch pass to Everett that set up Gurley’s TD was pretty impressive too….

yeah that was another one.

and what’s most impressive is his ypa which was 10.55.

dude was getting yards in big chunks. it helps when you don’t have to get yards in little chunks and try to string together a drive. they were getting downfield in a hurry.

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he’s been exemplary. i was worried about that secondary going into the offseason but the secondary has been a strength since otas. i think a lot of that has been trujo. i wouldn’t be disappointed if they could find a way to bring him back.

Herzog wrote:

Second, I think it’s time we think about extending Wade Phillips contract. Give that man a raise.

yes. whatever it takes. and then he can groom his replacement for whenever he decides to retire.

i just want to add that i’m really excited about sammy watkins. he’s been here for for only a month while the other receivers have been here for 4 months or longer. still he caught all five targets for 58 yards. a 11.6 average.

and you figure he’s going to get better as he learns the offense and develops a little more chemistry with goff.

the rams need him and kupp here for a long time. if this offense can be consistent and just get better every game. there’s no reason watkins shouldn’t want to stay here. especially being a young guy in the second biggest media market in the nation.

to be fair. his team got cold-cocked so hard he probably had no idea where he was.

haha

63 yard rushing on 33 carries too. he did it without much of a rushing game.

ok so i’m expecting the buffalo running game combined with the washington passing game…

seriously though. if they lose this game, it will be a colossal disaster. colossal.

watkins, gurley, kupp, austin should shred this defense. and the defense should be able to contain a toothless offense. anything else will be total failure.

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i just want to see progress in goff. that’s it. that’s all i ask.

and i want to see gurley be the gurley of his first four games.

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awesome. welcome back, aaron!

i expect to see goff make strides this year. as in he won’t look completely clueless like he did last year.

i expect there to be a 1000 yard receiver on offense. which receiver that is i don’t know yet.

i expect to see gurley run for 1000 yards this season.

i expect donald to be back before the first half of the season ends.

i expect to see a healthier quinn this year. how effective i don’t know.