Mr.TaterSalad

Nah, if I wanted him run out of town I would have done it after his first year and a half here, which was awful. When we passed on Fields and picked Sewell I didn't go crazy and was in-fact more than fine with the pick.

I spent years trying to run Matt Stafford out of town. I bitched that he couldn't beat good defenses and struggled to get it done against teams with winning records. I bitched that he never one a playoff game. I bitched that we didn't score a single TD after the first quarter in the Dallas game in 2014 and that we didn't get in the end zone at all against Seattle. I bitched that he didn't make the receivers around him significantly better. I bitched about his mechanics and throwing off his back foot. I bitched about him being reckless with the football. I wanted this franchise to trade him and start over. Well they did and what we got out of it has been phenomenal. A ton of talent with four first round draft picks. A really good starting QB of our own in Jared Goff. Two playoffs wins and a freaking NFC Championship Game appearance that we damn near almost won. I will not spend years trying to run Jared Goff out of town. In-fact, just the opposite. I want this franchise to extend Jared Goff and get the deal done this offseason. Jared Goff has turned his career around playing for Dan Campbell and Ben Johnson. He's proven he's good enough to take a team to the NFC Championship game and win two playoff games. Something Stafford never did here and something Hendon Hooker likely won't do either. This year alone Goff was 407-605 with a 67.9% completion%. He threw for 4,575 yards with 30 TDs and only 12 INTs. He had a 97.9 passer rating and a 603 QBR. He was also only sacked 4.7% of the time he attempted to pass, one of the lowest of his career. Meaning he's stepping up in the pocket and/or getting the ball out quick. I'm not getting rid of Goff and running him out of town playing the way he currently is, with stats like these. I'm not risking all the progress we made and throwing it away for someone else. Not for Hendon Hooker, not for a more mobile QB, not for a rookie QB on a cheaper wage scale, not for anyone. I'm paying the man and keeping him here as our starting QB for the next several seasons. No, I don't want him to get $55 million a season and $219 million in guaranteed money like Joe Burrow is getting, nor do I think he will get that. I think 3-4 years at $45-$47/million with $125 million or so fully guaranteed isn't unrealistic and isn't something I'd be against. They can also front load the cap hit so they have more money available to pay their own guys in years 3 and 4 of Goff's contract and keep a good team around him. Jared Goff will be and should be our starting QB for years to come.

They had TJ Lang on this morning on Stoney & Jansen on 97.1. Lang, who is the sideline reporter for the radio broadcasts, did say he would have kicked both field goals, but especially the one to go up 17. He said having a 3 score cushion changes the way a defense plays and how tightly they press against the offense. I know what analytics say, but analytics don't account for momentum and the way an opposing team responds to a situation in a game. I would think an opposing team would almost certainly respond differently, at least in some way, being down 3 scores versus only 2.

This is how I feel. I'm very happy where he has gotten this team. He's the reason we are here. Any other coach we've had would have never gotten us this far. It was a great season and Campbell is a big reason why it was great. I love MCDC and I love this season. In my mind though, his decisions not to take at least one of the two field goals, along with the Gibbs fumble, really hurt us. I can't help but blame Campbell here.

This really stings. This was a great season, but those coaching decision sting.

We'd be down one score assuming we kicked one of the two field goal opportunities and made them.

I can't believe we're going to have to talk about coaching. Jesus ****ing Christ!

Campbell it's blowing this.

That was huge, now you have score.

I don't want to lose because of that 4th down decision to go for it.

Holy **** this isn't happening

Now we find out who they really are!

Let's stop them here.

Ugh, I would have kicked it.

Holding them to only 3 is big, nice job by the defense.

He had him there.

Wooot!

Nice run by Gibbs. He shook the defender there.

Damn McCaffrey is good.

Can't try to tackle him like that haha

**** yeah!!!!!! Great drive.

WOW, he missed it!!!

Thankfully Todd Monken isn't our OC.

Lamar is choking again in the playoffs.