The change in playcalling and getting Decker back after the bye didn’t just improve Goffs performance
“In two of Lynn’s last three games calling plays, the Lions squeezed out just 36 rushing yards in a blowout loss against Cincinnati, then just 57 more in a blowout loss against Philadelphia. They were averaging 93.1 rushing yards per game at the time.
Then Campbell took over the playcalling, and Detroit immediately ran over Pittsburgh for 229 rushing yards in a 16-all tie in the rain. D’Andre Swift ran a career-high 130 yards all by himself, then topped it the following week with another career-high 136 yards against Cleveland. Swift became the first Lions running back to hit triple-digits in back-to-back games in nearly two decades.
Detroit averaged 126.8 rushing yards per game overall after the change at playcaller, a spike of 36.2%”
Of course a QB is going to play better when the offense is more balanced, a rookie emerges as a playmaker, a familiar veteran WR joins, the Oline improves and the run game hits its stride. Suddenly you have WRs who can run the right routes and LBers cheating to account for the run. Suddenly play action opens up space
And to be fair ‘lack of a run game’ was the go to excuse for most of Staffords poor play here….
I think the difference is how McVey went about it. The reports from the team is McVey would yell at Goff in front of team mates, then personally ignore him and refuse to talk to him.
That’s the opposite of true coaching. That’s not just saying one of your players needs to step up, to inspire another level. That’s a coach scapegoating his deficiencies on a young player and tossing him aside.
We all know Campbell would never do that in a million years
I agree, I do think Goffs confidence had been rattled. It looked like he was finding it toward the end of the yr. The comeback game winning drive vs Minny, he looked confident. Hoping to see that Goff all yr this yr.
Need to know: Who coined this term? Its hilarious.
How many Gofflings are there here? All Gofflings raise your hand!
And what are you if you hope Stafford wins three more SuperBowls in a row? At the expense of the Lions? I’ve seen Stafford slappy, but we need a more compact term. Staffite? Staffgander? Staffian?
The narrative being that his first year out of Detroit he wins a Super Bowl? Because that’s reality, not just a narrative.
And it sucks for us. It makes us look like and validates what we have been for decades: an inept franchise.
My hope has been that Stafford’s success lights a FIRE under an organization that has been ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL SINCE 1957.
Now, a nauseating narrative would be this suggestion in the forum that Goff is among the top 20 QBs in NFL history.
A nauseating narrative would be not holding this team and franchise accountable for being literally the worst in the history of professional sports (again, this isn’t rhetoric, it’s literally true).
I think Holmes and Dan are onto something. While I’m skeptical of Goff, it appears they’re doing things the right way, even if I don’t always understand their methodology.
If they can make waves in 2022 and 23 the way most here think they can, the Stafford stuff largely goes away.
It’s up to the Lions to change the narrative. Not the fans.
I don’t want to argue with Pulitzer prize winning news site The Namal? But let me link back to three glorious days from July of 2018. Wait, three years before Goff got traded?
I’ll wait for The Namal to respond to these and the countless other fake quotes attributed to NFL players from an Instagram account titled sarcasticnfl.
