LA Rams: Did Jared Goff or Sean McVay hold the other back?

Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

The presumption that the LA Rams offense was blessed with head coach Sean McVay’s genius and cursed with Jared Goff‘s poor decisions is pretty much the consensus among NFL circles right now. In fact, even as the Rams traded a very successful starting quarterback Jared Goff plus three very valuable draft picks to the Detroit Lions for Matthew Stafford, many of the articles about the Goff transfer to the Lions roster were about how quickly the Lions could shed the worthless Goff.

In those articles, they seemed to mandate that the Lions draft an unproven rookie quarterback in order to have a better chance of success. That doesn’t seem right.…