3 reasons to love Rams extending Jared Goff before Week 1 of 2019 season

The Los Angeles Rams rewarded Jared Goff with a hefty four-year extension to keep their beloved quarterback around through the 2024 season.

After months of discussion over whether it would happen, the Los Angeles Rams rewarded Jared Goff with a hefty four-year, $134 million contract on Tuesday to make sure the California star would be around for the long run.

With Goff locked in with the Rams through the 2024 season, the offense will be in amazing shape for years to come, as expectations will be high once again in 2019 as this team looks to earn a trip to the playoffs for a third year in a row.

Football fans can criticize Los Angeles all they want over how ridiculous this kind of deal is for Goff since his disastrous rookie season in 2016 always comes to mind, but also the circumstances were completely different back then.

From a horrendous offensive line to work with along with a weak receiving corps consisting of players such as Kenny Britt and Tavon Austin, most young quarterbacks would have struggled the way Goff did as a rookie.

The good news for the Rams is what Goff dealt with during his rookie campaign helped make him the kind of quarterback he is today, and Los Angeles has every reason in the world to be thrilled over him sticking around for many more years.

Now that Goff’s deal is official, it’s time to take a closer look into how this all played out, and look into three reasons why Rams fans should love this decision by the organization while the team continues to prepare for Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers.

3. Goff, McVay will be together for long run as well

Earlier in the summer, the Rams made another easy decision to reward both McVay and Les Snead to keep the two around in Los Angeles through the 2023 season.

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Based off their success from the previous two seasons, one can only imagine how great the next couple of years are going to be for the Rams since the argument can be made that no one expected the kind of success from the last two years.

Originally when McVay was hired back in 2017, the plan in Los Angeles seemed to be a year or two would be needed for the team to adjust to their new head coach, which clearly wasn’t the case at all since the Rams have won back-to-back NFC West titles.

One of the main reasons behind the decision to hire McVay was due to his previous success of developing quarterbacks, and the potential to help bring out the best in Goff after the team heavily invested in the quarterback during the draft in 2016.

As exciting as the news was surrounding Goff’s extension, it’s even more exciting to take into consideration how he’s going to continue working with McVay for years to come to help keep the Rams serious contenders in the NFC.

2. Goff continues to get better with experience

As previously mentioned, it was unfair for any football fan to judge Goff for what he was capable of in the NFL based off his rookie campaign since the team didn’t exactly put him in the best position to succeed.

If anything, Goff’s critics should take a closer look at what the Rams quarterback has been able to accomplish over the last two seasons, and put that towards reasons as to why he was well worthy of that hefty extension from Los Angeles.

Even if some of the critics want to point out Goff’s disappointing performances this past winter in the NFC Championship and Super Bowl, it’s the overall numbers that should be taken into consideration the most to show what he’s done for this offense.

During Goff’s first year playing in McVay’s system, Los Angeles watched their beloved quarterback take a major leap forward compared to his rookie campaign by throwing for 3,804 yards to go along with 28 touchdown passes, and just seven interceptions.

One year later, Goff found a way to improve once again by finishing with 4,688 passing yards along with 32 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions.

Finding a way to top these numbers each year will be difficult for obvious reasons, but this isn’t going to stop Goff from at least trying.

While there are plenty of great takeaways from the previous two years, the one that stands out the most should be how Goff continues to improve his game with experience, and isn’t going to slow down anytime soon.

1. Potential future distractions eliminated

Since most of the key players for Los Angeles on offense were already locked up for the long run, it seemed like only a matter of time before the Rams did the same for Goff.

To put all that effort in locking up other stars such as Todd Gurley and Brandin Cooks only to make Goff wait it out seemed ridiculous to even think about, which is why most Rams fans felt confident enough in a deal getting done sooner rather than later.

By taking care of the situation before the Rams even kick off their first official game of 2019 against the Panthers, Los Angeles doesn’t have to worry about any potential distractions over the next few months since this happens all the time in sports.

Even if Goff continued to make it clear that he felt confident in a deal getting done, the topic still would have been brought up numerous times over the next couple of months.

Now, the Rams can focus on what matters the most for every member of the team, which is doing whatever it takes to earn another trip to the Super Bowl.

One can only imagine how tough the last few months have been for Goff and most of his teammates wondering what could have been last February, but also at least this can be used as motivation for better results this upcoming season.