"OK Jared, lesson number one. I want you to forget everything you were taught last year."
"Jared, I am going to teach you every detail about learning protections and how to read NFL defenses when they're disguised in various formations."
Jared Goff has a fan in new Rams quarterback coach Greg Olson
Olson — along with
McVay and offensive coordinator Matt
LaFleur —
is part of a triumvirate charged with turning Goff into a productive player, if not a star.
Olson will work directly with Goff.
Olson, who has coached in the NFL for 15 seasons, said Goff has “unbelievable arm talent; he’s had that since high school — a very talented player with a ton of potential.”
Olson evaluated Goff when he played at California, and has spent the last few weeks watching his Goff’s performances last season.
“Nothing that I have watched so far has deterred me from that evaluation,” Olson said.
Goff took first-team snaps in rookie camp last spring but was otherwise relegated to back-up status throughout organized-team activities and training camp.
He took first-team reps one day during the bye week but did not do so again until he was named the starter in Week 11.
“It wasn’t a great situation,” Olson said, adding that Goff will go into his second season with a year of experience and a full complement of starter’s reps during the spring and summer.
“There should be a huge jump from Year 1 to Year 2,” he said of Goff’s anticipated performance.
Much of the progress, he said, would come from Goff’s ability to process and communicate play-calls in the huddle, something he — and many other college quarterbacks — are not required to do in spread systems in college.
“A lot of things he was doing at Cal, he did it at the line of scrimmage with one-word codes,” Olson said. “There’s a little bit more to that in the NFL.”
This will be the third offensive system in three years for Goff.
“It’s going to be real critical that he has a chance to learn the system and get comfortable within that system,” Olson said. “And the more comfortable he gets with it, then certainly the more confidence he’ll be able to play with.
“And then you’ll be able to reach that potential.”
http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-coaching-staff-20170210-story.html