THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Jared Goff will take the field with the Los Angeles Rams in his native Bay Area on Monday night for the first regular-season game of the No. 1 draft picks rookie year.And then Goff is almost certainly going to watch it in street clothes on the sidelines, clipboard in hand.Its not exactly the heroic homecoming many imagined for Goff when the Rams traded up to snag the California quarterback less than five months ago. Yet Goff and Rams coach Jeff Fisher both insist his current status as Los Angeles third-string quarterback is all part of a bigger, better plan.He wants to play, and I want him to play, Fisher said. But were not there yet.Case Keenum is the Rams starting quarterback when they open the season against the San Francisco 49ers, comfortably keeping the job he held when last season ended in St. Louis.Sean Mannion, another Bay Area native with only seven passes of NFL experience, is Keenums backup. Goff is expected to be inactive for the game, and punter Johnny Hekker is expected to be the Rams emergency third-string quarterback.The No. 1 pick is being diplomatic about the decision, although he doesnt exactly try to hide his competitive edge.I dont know if its for one thing in particular, but its just what they decided to do this week, Goff said. I know theres plan in place, and I know this is all a part of it. Theres a process. Youre just going to trust the process and know that its all going to work out.Goff also realizes hell be watching the Rams opener while Carson Wentz, the No. 2 pick last spring, starts for the Philadelphia Eagles, who have enough confidence in their rookie to trade Sam Bradford to Minnesota.We have the same agent, so we talked about it, Goff said. Im excited for him, excited to see what he can do.Keenum firmly kept hold of the Rams starting job throughout Goffs first offseason. Goff went just 22 for 49 in four preseason appearances, throwing two touchdown passes and two interceptions for the offense that finished 32nd in the NFL last season.While Goff has shown flashes of the game-breaking excellence that got him to the top of most teams draft boards, he clearly hasnt seized the job -- and he acknowledges he still has plenty to learn.Even taking snaps from center is a learning process for Goff, who spent his three-year Cal career almost exclusively in the shotgun. He even fumbled a shotgun snap in the Rams preseason finale at Minnesota, committing a turnover that led to a field goal.After being a starting quarterback throughout high school and college, Goff now must get used to life as a backup. Although the Rams are highly unlikely to neglect him, Goff acknowledges the challenge of trying to get better when two other quarterbacks are getting more attention and playing time in practice.My whole life, Ive been the starter, so Im used to taking those reps, Goff said. Through OTAs and through training camp, Ive learned to take mental reps and watch Case and Sean, and see what they do well and try to replicate that.Fisher also realizes the difficulties of learning a job without practice time, but the Rams are wedded to Goffs success through everything they gave up to get him. Goff still could become the Rams starter through injury or ineffectiveness by Keenum, who will be a free agent after this season.But that wont change Monday nights opener. Goff will have family and friends in the Santa Clara stands, but the Marin County product wont be able to show them anything just yet. He hides his disappointment behind a laugh.Ill play in San Francisco more than once, Goff said. 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No breakthroughs were forthcoming under lights but it was a licence for his pacemen to pounce on the second afternoon, when anticipation over Australias new-look line-up could have led to their undoing.Abbott took it on himself to feed the anxiety. He made the ball wobble like water in a glass on an airplane tray, when the flight finds itself momentarily traveling through turbulence. It ripples, a stray drop may leap up and plop back down, there could be a tiny wave but unless youre in a really bad spot, nothing actually spills.Matt Renshaw, with only 12 first-class games to this name, is unlikely to have faced such high-quality late seam movement before. He was beaten, twice, and then forced to play. The edge died on Dean Elgar at second slip but Renshaw was given out. If that ball hadnt got him, another one would have. The same could be said of David Warner, who does not have the patience to put up with someone like Abbotts nagging.Abbotts figures of 7-3-7-2 were a testament to his ability and his endurance. In the T20 age, spells of longer than five overs in Test cricket are lauded; those of seven overs are considered marathons. Abbott has already run three of them, having delivered a nine-over second spell in Hobart, followed by a seven-over one. He created pressure but South Africa needed to sustain it.****Usman Khawaja and Steven Smith challenged South Africas attack as their partnership built. Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada had not been able to support Abbott as well as they would have wanted to. Tabraiz Shamsi, picked because he was supposed to be difficult to read, had not worked any magic. JP Duminy was given the ball, perhaps to buy time, but he almost proved a trump card.Duminy offered some flight and Smith went on the drive but only got a thick outside edge. Hashim Amla seemed surprised when the ball came his way and parried it almost over his head, then turned and tried to catch it as he tumbled but fluffed that too.It was Amlas third ddrop of the series after he put down Khawaja in the first innings in Perth and Hazlewood in the second.dddddddddddd All of them have been with Amla at slip, all of them have required a fairly quick reaction time and all of them have left Amla looking startled. Add to that his contribution with the bat this series - 53 runs in four innings - and his average of 14.46 in South Africas last four away trips and you cant help but wonder if the Mighty Hash, as he known at home, is turning meek.His aggression has come from his verbal exchanges, to the media at the MCG and on Twitter after the Adelaide airport event, and they have seemed out of character for a usually reserved man. Amla appears to be under pressure and dropping Smith would only have added to it.**** It took Temba Bavumas run-out of Warner in Perth to spark South Africa and it was going to take something similar to lift them in Adelaide. It came from an unlikely source, though. Philander does not have Bavumas athleticism but he didnt need it. A mix-up between Smith and Khawaja gave Philander enough time to get a throw in to Quinton de Kock, who had helped cause some of the confusion.Smith played the ball to point, called yes and begun to run; de Kock, from behind the stumps, also called yes, presumably to prompt Philander to get the ball in but maybe to put Smith off because Khawaja seemed to have said no. By the time Smith saw Khawaja wasnt coming and started to run back for his ground, the bails had been dislodged and Khawaja was left to marshal the middle-order debutants. With a habit for implosion, it was up to Australia to stay strong.****Peter Handscomb had scored 41 assured runs before he leaned into a cover-drive off Philander, who had taken the second new ball an over before. He looked like a man who has played 61 first-class games and has an average of over 40. He did not necessarily look like a man who would play that shot again off the next ball. He definitely did not look like a man who would unleash a pull shot the ball after that to bring up a maiden Test fifty and put Australia in the lead.That trio of boundaries and the situation Australia were in meant that even if they had fallen apart immediately afterwards, they had already produced their best top-order batting performance of the series. So the onus had shifted back on to South Africa to search out the whitewash they said they so desperately wanted.Enter Abbott. The man who set things up in the beginning, finished off at the end in the same fashion. He seamed one in and found his way through the bat-pad gap Handscomb had been leaving open through his innings. He took out middle stump and transferred the pressure back on Australia.As night fell, South Africa were just about able to keep it there. Rabada took a wicket, Philander took a wicket and even though the lead crept up, Shamsi found some turn. The series is gone but this game is on. Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys China Jerseys Wholesale Cheap Jerseys Stitched Jerseys ' ' '