Cooks’ nightmare

I would not either drops. 

1st TD, Goff saw him wide open late, THEN threw the worst wounded duck of a ball you'd ever seen, allowing the defender to close the distance while Cooks sat in the end zone wide open for all of eternity. Cooks still had to jump out of the stadium to get to the ball, so he was also hanging in air. Defender made a great play to rip Cooks arms apart after the slowest pass in all of humanity got there. ( legitimately raged at how poorly Goff read and delivered that play)

2nd TD was clear PI on the replay, defender had his left arm, pulled it down and prevented him from getting two hands on the ball. One arm catching that ball would of gone down in history as an all time great Superbowl play, up there with helmet ball and others. 

INT, Goff threw off his back foot in the face of pressure and under threw the ball by at least 15 yards. Cooks had back to the ball and just made his break to get up field and run his corner route while Gilmore, whom was very deep on the play, hadn't swiveled his hips, Gilmore had all the advantage, it was as if Goff was throwing to him. Cooks saw the under throw too late and had to stop from a full sprint. There isn't a WR in the league that was likely getting back to break that up given the situation. 

But I will say it is probably a nightmare situation for Cooks with so many blown opportunities in this game and their offense being otherwise completely inept. Rams maybe should of spent some of their big cash on the OL instead of just DL. 

SI’s interpretation.

www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/04/super-bowl-new-england-patriots-los-angeles-rams-jared-goff-brandin-cooks-deep-ball

And 8 catches for 120 yards is nothing to sneeze at.

He probably will blame himself, so agree those events will give him nightmares. But I don't know what he does differently to change the outcome of those plays.

Goff fulfilled all the expectations I had for him yesterday after watching him at Cal.  

Why am I not surprised at this at all. 

Just wrong assessment. First pass, late, high and maybe out of the end zone if he comes up with it. Not to mention the defender hitting him as he tried to catch it.

Second pass, Gilmore pulled back on his left arm and the safety timed the hit to make a one-handed catch almost impossible.

Brandin is a tremendous weapon and caught 8 balls for 120 yards in that game against the top-rated corner in football. He has great hands generally, but occasionally will fall into letting the ball get to his pads rather than going out to get it with his hands. That was NOT the case on either of those plays.

As for breaking up the pick, when a receiver is beating a guy over the top and the ball gets underthrown, that’s pretty tough for him to get back and do anything about it.

Goff sucked under the pressure. The second probable TD was a pretty ball that was just played perfectly and craftily by New England.

Brandin wasn’t perfect, and sometimes the elite make those plays. While not quite elite, he’s very close. He knows he’s got to make those plays even when they are nearly impossible because nobody else was and he’s capable, but your post insinuates that he messed up, and that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Pretty much. Calvin Johnson (4.35 40 at the combine, 6'5" and 230) and Julio Jones (4.40 6'3" 220) types don't exactly grow on trees! Unicorn WR types, which is why they were the 2nd and 6th picks of their respective drafts. 

Generally speaking, unless you are a freak like these guys, if you are blazing fast, you aren't overly bulky. Randy Moss was stupid fast and very tall... but he wasn't exactly known for muscling people about.