I more think of it as a symptom as to how passer rating is calculated combined with the defense being trash until the last 3 games. The latter goes without saying but the former actually is a rather interesting test case of why high volume passing teams tend to have lower ratings.
Basically yards per attempt, completion rate, and touchdown percentage (as an example you need almost 12% of your throws to be TDs to have a perfect rating), all make it so that if you are mixing runs and passes you will have a higher rating.
Also because Lamar isn’t throwing INTs it’s basically only those stats that can lower his passer rating. That kind of means that you have basically cut off the offense’s ability to “take over” being they were doing that Lamar would consequently have a higher passer rating. He isn’t Goff throwing 5 INTs in a game after all.
As for the defense it should be noted over the past 3 weeks they average out to a top 5 unit. Can’t really ask them to do more especially considering it hasn’t exactly been against scrub teams that they suddenly look good again.
