Gurley has Keenum and foles his rookie season in which he had a breakout season. Same with the coach is Jeff fisher and offensive coordinator Rob Boras according to pro football research. I think what hindered gurley his second season was that Goff was not an nfl ready QB and was given the keys when the season was lost.
To say one is better than the other at this point in their careers is almost impossible. They’ve played 3 years in the nfl and each have had outstanding MVP type seasons. Both are every down backs that can catch and run. Maybe in another 2-3 seasons we can actually say one is definitively better than the other. Just my 2 cents I guess
Gurley has Keenum and foles his rookie season in which he had a breakout season. Same with the coach is Jeff fisher and offensive coordinator Rob Boras according to pro football research. I think what hindered gurley his second season was that Goff was not an nfl ready QB and was given the keys when the season was lost.
To say one is better than the other at this point in their careers is almost impossible. They’ve played 3 years in the nfl and each have had outstanding MVP type seasons. Both are every down backs that can catch and run. Maybe in another 2-3 seasons we can actually say one is definitively better than the other. Just my 2 cents I guess
A few things...Although Rob Boras was our OC (he was horrifically bad) for 2015 and 2016, teams had the offseason to see how to stop Gurley, This was possible because our two WR's were Kenny Britt and Brian Quick. Britt was almost the only WR, and hence his 1000 yard season, but was a locker room cancer. Quick was a 2nd round bust.
Gurley had virtually no holes opened for him in 2016 by one of the worst Olines in the NFL. The Oline had no push and Gurley was hit behind the LOS, regularly. With the one dimensional game plan, which Fisher preferred, the Rams won the few games they did in 2016 with its defense and Greg Zeurline (kicker). The opposing defense might have had 11 in the box, come to think of it...This was all done with Case Keenum at QB for the first 10 games of the season. Again, Case at QB wasn't the reason why Gurley was effective in 2015. It was the surprise of Gurley as a rookie and opposing teams answer to him and the Rams one-dimensional offense in 2016, which resulted in the Gurley's poor year.
Gurley blossomed with a much improved Oline (played together all season in 2017), anchored by old stud Whittworth at LT. Whitworth-Saffold-Sullivan-Brown-Havenstein gave Gurley the holes in which he needed to run. McVay had new WR's Kupp, Woods, and Watkins (and Gurley) as multiple weapons. Gurley was a threat in the passing and running game. McVay groomed Goff in the new system in 2017, and Goff excelled, along with the whole team. In the last 7 games of the 2016 season, Goff was fed to the wolves and Fisher was fired with 3 games left in the season. So it wasn't Goff's fault for the dumpster fire of the Fisher/Boras offensive game plan, and Goff/Gurley burned in the hell of it.
So it wasn't simply that Gurley had Case Keenum in 2015 and sucked by himself in 2016, because the context says differently.
