Rams’ 2017 season is referendum on Jared Goff
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The Los Angeles Rams made a huge investment in quarterback Jared Goff last season, trading up to pick him with the first overall pick in the draft. A year in, they have yet to see the returns.Goff played just seven games last season. Case Keenum started 2016Rams’ 2017 season is referendum on Jared Goff
The Los Angeles Rams made a huge investment in quarterback Jared Goff last season, trading up to pick him with the first overall pick in the draft. A year in, they have yet to see the returns.Goff played just seven games last season. Case Keenum started 2016 as the starting quarterback. Goff and now ex-head coach Jeff Fisher should be under equal indictment for that. Keenum played horribly, but so did Goff once he got the chance.Thirty-four quarterbacks threw enough passes to qualify for DYAR and DVOA rankings, and Jared Goff was dead last in both by huge margins (-881 DYAR and a -74.8 percent DVOA). Brock Osweiler, who ranked 33rd in both categories, had -558 DYAR and -26.8 percent DVOA. In other words, Goff was so bad that his numbers seem like a typo. He consistently missed easy throws, didn’t seem to know what to do with his feet and was just all-around bad in every way.Faced with the possibility that they had gone all-in and landed a bust, the Rams decided that Goff’s supporting cast was actually the Read more