The Facts: HC Sean told reporters on Tuesday that Goff is the team's No. 1 QB, but intimated that the door isn't closed to things playing out differently. "We're trying to win football games and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center," McVay said. "Jared has done a nice job getting better, but you always want to make sure that you're playing the guy that you feel like gives you the best ability to win football games, because we owe it to our coaches, to our players and to this organization to do that. I think what we've seen is good for those guys, but right now Jared's the starter and he's done a nice job commanding that role."
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As PFT suggests, that isn’t quite the optimistic, fully invested answer about Goff that you might expect to hear in May. That may just be because McVay chose to go with some well-honed coach speak about the merits of competition because the prospect of Goff as anything other than the team’s starter in 2017 is one that’s hard to fathom given how much they gave up to get him to L.A. In addition, with Sean Mannion behind Goff on the depth chart, there hasn’t been much talk about competition in Los Angeles because no one has imagined Goff won’t be starting come September.