Could Coach Mike Martz help besieged LA Rams QB Jared Goff?

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If time won’t increase for Goff, Goff must accelerate his progression read time

Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-toe. Let’s call the whole thing sauce. That’s pretty much where the LA Rams find themselves entering 2020.  Offensive line or regression, the result is the same thing. The Rams need to improve Goff’s ability to successfully throw to non-primary targets in passing routes.  So how to do that?  Well, former Rams head coach Mike Martz is a pretty good expert on the topic, and he has been giving seminars on the quarterback fundamentals for years.

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Better progression reads are a matter of training the feet to follow the eyes and a coach like Mike Martz could be the ideal coach to reset Goff once more. While he’d left coaching in 2011, he did agree to return as head coach of San Diego’s AAF team in 2018. The Alliance of American Football league only lasted one season, but it did mark the return of Martz to coaching once more.

Martz could make some sense

Mike Martz is an offensive-minded coach and has a lot of experience working with quarterbacks, wide receivers, and progression reads. While he does not fit the new youth movement of the LA Rams coaching staff, his wisdom could be just what is needed to help diagnose, game plan, and resolve the current funk of Rams quarterback Jared Goff.

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Of course, there is a small matter of that same Mike Martz unloading on the LA Rams after the team drafted Jared Goff, and then hired the youngest head coach in the NFL, Sean McVay. And while that story is nearly three years old, there have been no reports of any apologies nor reconciliation between Martz, the Rams, or Coach McVay since. Of course, the Rams have already given new offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell the primary responsibility of working with QB Jared Goff this season. And if the Rams fix the offensive line at the center position, the issue may fade away as quickly as it reappeared. It’s certainly something the Rams need to address this season.