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Jackie Lee
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The people trying to blame this one on Goff are missing the bigger picture.

Sure, he didn't have a good game and threw a bunch of picks.  But in reality, both of the INTs at the end of each half were because they were pressing because they were losing by so much, which was in large part because they couldn't stop anyone on defense.

You score 31 points in a playoff game and you win that game 7 times out of 10. 

Hard to stop the other team when you were as hurt as the Lions were on defense this year, their injury situation was next level type of bad.  If they had even a halfway decent defense right now, Goff isn't pressing as much and it's a totally different game.

Having said that, yea he was bad this game, but it's not all on him.

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2 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

The people trying to blame this one on Goff are missing the bigger picture.

Sure, he didn't have a good game and threw a bunch of picks.  But in reality, both of the INTs at the end of each half were because they were pressing because they were losing by so much, which was in large part because they couldn't stop anyone on defense.

You score 31 points in a playoff game and you win that game 7 times out of 10. 

Hard to stop the other team when you were as hurt as the Lions were on defense this year, their injury situation was next level type of bad.  If they had even a halfway decent defense right now, Goff isn't pressing as much and it's a totally different game.

Having said that, yea he was bad this game, but it's not all on him.

It's always been on him. The defense has been letting up points due to injuries, so it was always going to be on the offense to outscore people.

The biggest picture you are missing is that this is always what Jared Goff has done. Look at every playoff loss in his career and the flaws are obvious. It's not a fixable thing. It's between his ears.

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