Goff vs. Open-Air Stadiums

Will the fact that Levi's Stadium is not an enclosed venue make a difference?

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00:00 Will the fact that the 49ers Levi's Stadium is an open air stadium have a major impact on Jared Goff?

00:08 Now the statistics say maybe. The Lions have scored more than 11 points per game more on dome stadiums

00:16 than they have in open air stadiums this season. Now it's a kind of a small sample size of the open

00:22 air stadiums, only five games, and one of them was against the Ravens who have an outstanding defense.

00:27 So that tilts things one way and the fact that teams typically play better at home and

00:35 the Lions home games of course are in a dome stadium so that's a factor as well. But the stats

00:42 are what the stats are and so there's somewhat of a feeling that maybe Goff won't play as well

00:49 when the conditions are not perfect as they are in an indoor stadium. Now the 49ers defense will

00:56 probably have a lot more influence on Goff's performance than whether he's playing outdoors

01:01 or indoors but it's still an issue I think. Whether it's enough to make a difference whether

01:09 in the outcome, whether the Lions can't win in an open air stadium against a team as good as the 49ers,

01:16 I don't know. I don't know. We'll just have to see.