Stafford may refresh McVay’s career, but not in a way you think

All-consuming

The drive to succeed is consuming. It’s a soft whisper that builds in volume and intensity over time until it becomes the only voice you can hear. Head coach Sean McVay is driven to succeed. So driven that the dynamics between himself and his one and only quarterback Jared Goff became less than optimal.

To grow, Goff needed to try and fail. Only by making mistakes, learning his own limits, can Jared Goff truly move to the next level. The best teams in the NFL face the best teams in the NFL. Winning gets tougher because the competition becomes stingier. And tougher competition did not just put more pressure on Goff, but more pressure on McVay to innovate his offensive innovations.

But that’s where the problem arose. Goff developed within an offensive system designed to prevent mistakes, so the message of ‘stay within the lines’ was hammered into him thanks to McVay’s offensive scheme. But from the moment John Wolford appeared on the scene, the lightbulb flashed for McVay. Wolford improvised. Suddenly, the predictable, simple, and finite offensive system became unpredictable, complex, and infinite in the hands of a quarterback who improvised.

So the solution is to find a quarterback who could improvise plays while giving the Rams a chance to play within the Rams’ offensive scheme. In short, the Rams created their own problem. In creating a failsafe offense for Goff. he never learned how to improvise. Stafford will change all of that in 2021.