The term rock bottom is the only way to describe where the Los Angeles Rams find themselves after the 42-14 at home against the Atlanta Falcons Week 14.

On Monday, the team announced that head coach Jeff Fisher has been fired. It’s a move that’s simultaneously perplexing and overdue, and while most fans agree that it was definitely time to move on, Fisher leaves frustration and humiliation in his wake.

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The Rams may not have the worst record in the NFL, but 4-9 is still unacceptable for a team that has been “rebuilding” for five seasons now.

Struggling rookie quarterback Jared Goff echoed everyone’s sentiments when he shared how the team feels since he earned his starting job in Week 11.

Jared Goff: "We're not having fun. We're not enjoying this." — Ryan Kartje (@Ryan_Kartje) December 12, 2016

As the first overall pick in the 2016 draft, Goff understandably bears a huge burden.

When a team drafts a quarterback with the first pick, it’s because they expect an NFL-caliber start almost immediately, but it’s obvious that Goff is not equipped to be a franchise quarterback yet.

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Here are Goff’s stats across his four games as a starter:

Completion Pct: 55.1

Yard per Game: 186

TD-INT: 4-5

Passer Rating: 65.3

If he stays at this pace for the final three games, he’ll have the sixth worst passer rating of any rookie quarterback to start seven or more games since 2006 — right on par with Mark Sanchez and Blaine Gabbert.

Statistics aside, there are still concerns in determining Goff’s ceiling. For one, his mechanics are more reminiscent of someone like Blake Bortles than a high-end talent like Andrew Luck.

Goff's throwing mechanics are god awful pic.twitter.com/BesF5pZAwm — Derrik Klassen (@QBKlass) December 12, 2016

No one who is supposed to be the building block of a franchise should be throwing the ball like that.

There are reasons to remain optimistic about Goff though, despite all of his aforementioned shortcomings.

Detroit Lions’ quarterback Matthew Stafford finished his abysmal rookie season with 13 touchdowns, 20 interceptions and completing 53.3 percent of his passes for a 61.0 passer rating.

Stafford is now one of the most prolific passers in the league for Detroit.

In fact, the 2016 Rams have a lot in common with the 2009 Lions. That roster had flashes of brilliance with players like Stafford, Calvin Johnson, Cliff Avril and Louis Delmas — but the organization was in disarray.

The front office was a mess and Jim Schwartz was on the front end of an inexcusably bad five-year stint as the head coach.

The rhetoric surrounding his continued employment in Detroit through the 2013 season was similar to the way people talked about Fisher. Schwartz’s record with the Lions was 29-51; Fisher was 31-45-1 with the Rams.

Like Stafford, Goff was plucked out of college and asked to be the immediate savior for a team that needs more help that he can give. He clearly has work to do before he can be relied upon to win.

Still, it’s hard to evaluate any rookie when he is surrounded by as much incompetence as Goff has been.