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QB Jared Goff, DET (2 Viewers)

Question was asked in Dan Campbell's thrice weekly presser:

At what point do we stop calling Jared Goff's production a heater, and just say he's a great QB?

"He's playing at a high level. He's a damn good quarterback," Dan Campbell said. "When it's crunch time, his heart rate just levels out."


One thing you hear over and over again about Goff from all the players is he is always the same on game day. Steady, level headed, has command of the huddle, doesn't get up or down. On the sidelines he is constantly showing the receivers what his keys are, how he is reading looks, so they'll see the same thing.

Calming presence. That locker room has a ton of energy guys, another element of savvy veterans (Campbell calls them "The Old Guard"), obviously lots of young guys who love ball and are having fun. JG is the one that holds everyone to the standard. If you don't hit your landmarks, the balls not coming your way. If you didn't ace the rep in practice you probably aren't getting the target in the game. But when he has your trust - and it can be instantaneous, like it was for ARSB, LaPorta and this year, Tim Patrick - then he knows he can trust you when it's the four minute offense and you gotta have it. Took Jamo a while to develop his craft and earn his place, but he's in the circle of trust.

Jared's dad was a backup minor league catcher for 12 years, never made a team out of TC, got called up 6 times. That'll teach you genuine gratitude and humility. Finished his degree at Cal after he hung up the spikes. He's a calm, in control kind of guy; the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Goff has a bit of iceberg to his story. You think you know what he is, and then you realize there's a lot more there. This year is his visionquest. Everything they have built the last four years was for this team right here. They can win games a lot of different ways, and they never get flustered when things don't go their way. Big part of that is Jared and his steady eddie demeanor. Gotta admit it took me awhile to appreciate what great leadership he provides.
 
BobbyLayne said:
Question was asked in Dan Campbell's thrice weekly presser:

At what point do we stop calling Jared Goff's production a heater, and just say he's a great QB?

"He's playing at a high level. He's a damn good quarterback," Dan Campbell said. "When it's crunch time, his heart rate just levels out."


One thing you hear over and over again about Goff from all the players is he is always the same on game day. Steady, level headed, has command of the huddle, doesn't get up or down. On the sidelines he is constantly showing the receivers what his keys are, how he is reading looks, so they'll see the same thing.

Calming presence. That locker room has a ton of energy guys, another element of savvy veterans (Campbell calls them "The Old Guard"), obviously lots of young guys who love ball and are having fun. JG is the one that holds everyone to the standard. If you don't hit your landmarks, the balls not coming your way. If you didn't ace the rep in practice you probably aren't getting the target in the game. But when he has your trust - and it can be instantaneous, like it was for ARSB, LaPorta and this year, Tim Patrick - then he knows he can trust you when it's the four minute offense and you gotta have it. Took Jamo a while to develop his craft and earn his place, but he's in the circle of trust.

Jared's dad was a backup minor league catcher for 12 years, never made a team out of TC, got called up 6 times. That'll teach you genuine gratitude and humility. Finished his degree at Cal after he hung up the spikes. He's a calm, in control kind of guy; the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Goff has a bit of iceberg to his story. You think you know what he is, and then you realize there's a lot more there. This year is his visionquest. Everything they have built the last four years was for this team right here. They can win games a lot of different ways, and they never get flustered when things don't go their way. Big part of that is Jared and his steady eddie demeanor. Gotta admit it took me awhile to appreciate what great leadership he provides.
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Your happiness (I have another term for it but not gonna use it here) is contagious.

If It was possible to actually switch team loyalties, and I really really wish it was, but it's not, I would be 100% a Lion's Fan.

I enjoyed the hell out of watching them during the Barry years, and I've been a big fan since Dan took over.

This Raider fan is all aboard the Lion's train... But will still be rooting for the Raiders to crush you in the Super Bowl.
 
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Chaka said:
BobbyLayne said:
Question was asked in Dan Campbell's thrice weekly presser:

At what point do we stop calling Jared Goff's production a heater, and just say he's a great QB?

"He's playing at a high level. He's a damn good quarterback," Dan Campbell said. "When it's crunch time, his heart rate just levels out."


One thing you hear over and over again about Goff from all the players is he is always the same on game day. Steady, level headed, has command of the huddle, doesn't get up or down. On the sidelines he is constantly showing the receivers what his keys are, how he is reading looks, so they'll see the same thing.

Calming presence. That locker room has a ton of energy guys, another element of savvy veterans (Campbell calls them "The Old Guard"), obviously lots of young guys who love ball and are having fun. JG is the one that holds everyone to the standard. If you don't hit your landmarks, the balls not coming your way. If you didn't ace the rep in practice you probably aren't getting the target in the game. But when he has your trust - and it can be instantaneous, like it was for ARSB, LaPorta and this year, Tim Patrick - then he knows he can trust you when it's the four minute offense and you gotta have it. Took Jamo a while to develop his craft and earn his place, but he's in the circle of trust.

Jared's dad was a backup minor league catcher for 12 years, never made a team out of TC, got called up 6 times. That'll teach you genuine gratitude and humility. Finished his degree at Cal after he hung up the spikes. He's a calm, in control kind of guy; the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Goff has a bit of iceberg to his story. You think you know what he is, and then you realize there's a lot more there. This year is his visionquest. Everything they have built the last four years was for this team right here. They can win games a lot of different ways, and they never get flustered when things don't go their way. Big part of that is Jared and his steady eddie demeanor. Gotta admit it took me awhile to appreciate what great leadership he provides.
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Your happiness (I have another term for it but not gonna use it here) is contagious.

If It was possible to actually switch team loyalties, and I really really wish it was, but it's not, I would be 100% a Lion's Fan.

I enjoyed that hella out of watching them during the Barry years, and I've been a big fan since Dan took over.

This Raider fan is all aboard the Lion's train... But will still be rooting for the Raiders to crush you in the Super Bowl.
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I always admired the old school Raiders - the Mad Bomber + Old Man Blanca, Biletnikoff, Hubbard, then that whole decade of amazing drafts when Madden coached them.

At various times I looked at the pre-Staubach Cowboys (“never wins the big game”), the Rooney’s 40 years of futility, the Pats first four decades…that could be my team one day. #justonceb4Idie

But I’m with you on “If It was possible“ because for parochial fans it’s not. I infamously started a thread here announcing after 2013 I just couldn’t take it anymore - dumb bastards were 6-3, the other 3 NFC North teams QBs were on IR…and those MFers pissed it away.

Stayed away for most of the year, Caldwell brought them back to one and done WC status. But 1991 was a fluky year, team wasn’t on the same level as the NFL elite. 11 freaking playoff losses without a win, 8 straight WC games where we almost always got blown out (except Dallas 2014.)

This thing that Sheila Hamp, Holmes and Campbell have built…I have to pinch myself. We’ve never, ever had competent executives or a HC who could build a great staff. Stacking up good drafts 4x in a row, never once making a big splashy FA signing.

Love their aggressive style in all three phases, this is exactly the kind of team Parcels used to craft. MCDC spent 8 of his 11 seasons as a player and 5 years as Assistant HC under Sean Payton, and his DNA is all over this. They did it the right way with men who have character. It’s like something out of the late 60s early 70s, when Schramm & Landry did things unlike anyone else in the game.

I always dreamed we would have a season like this. Losing Hutch was not great, but these guys are so tight, incredibly single minded - they’re gonna overcome it.

109 days (15 weeks, 4 days) until New Orleans. I don’t know how exactly just yet l, but I have to be there.
 
BobbyLayne said:
Chaka said:
BobbyLayne said:
Question was asked in Dan Campbell's thrice weekly presser:

At what point do we stop calling Jared Goff's production a heater, and just say he's a great QB?

"He's playing at a high level. He's a damn good quarterback," Dan Campbell said. "When it's crunch time, his heart rate just levels out."


One thing you hear over and over again about Goff from all the players is he is always the same on game day. Steady, level headed, has command of the huddle, doesn't get up or down. On the sidelines he is constantly showing the receivers what his keys are, how he is reading looks, so they'll see the same thing.

Calming presence. That locker room has a ton of energy guys, another element of savvy veterans (Campbell calls them "The Old Guard"), obviously lots of young guys who love ball and are having fun. JG is the one that holds everyone to the standard. If you don't hit your landmarks, the balls not coming your way. If you didn't ace the rep in practice you probably aren't getting the target in the game. But when he has your trust - and it can be instantaneous, like it was for ARSB, LaPorta and this year, Tim Patrick - then he knows he can trust you when it's the four minute offense and you gotta have it. Took Jamo a while to develop his craft and earn his place, but he's in the circle of trust.

Jared's dad was a backup minor league catcher for 12 years, never made a team out of TC, got called up 6 times. That'll teach you genuine gratitude and humility. Finished his degree at Cal after he hung up the spikes. He's a calm, in control kind of guy; the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Goff has a bit of iceberg to his story. You think you know what he is, and then you realize there's a lot more there. This year is his visionquest. Everything they have built the last four years was for this team right here. They can win games a lot of different ways, and they never get flustered when things don't go their way. Big part of that is Jared and his steady eddie demeanor. Gotta admit it took me awhile to appreciate what great leadership he provides.
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Your happiness (I have another term for it but not gonna use it here) is contagious.

If It was possible to actually switch team loyalties, and I really really wish it was, but it's not, I would be 100% a Lion's Fan.

I enjoyed that hella out of watching them during the Barry years, and I've been a big fan since Dan took over.

This Raider fan is all aboard the Lion's train... But will still be rooting for the Raiders to crush you in the Super Bowl.
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I always admired the old school Raiders - the Mad Bomber + Old Man Blanca, Biletnikoff, Hubbard, then that whole decade of amazing drafts when Madden coached them.

At various times I looked at the pre-Staubach Cowboys (“never wins the big game”), the Rooney’s 40 years of futility, the Pats first four decades…that could be my team one day. #justonceb4Idie

But I’m with you on “If It was possible“ because for parochial fans it’s not. I infamously started a thread here announcing after 2013 I just couldn’t take it anymore - dumb bastards were 6-3, the other 3 NFC North teams QBs were on IR…and those MFers pissed it away.

Stayed away for most of the year, Caldwell brought them back to one and done WC status. But 1991 was a fluky year, team wasn’t on the same level as the NFL elite. 11 freaking playoff losses without a win, 8 straight WC games where we almost always got blown out (except Dallas 2014.)

This thing that Sheila Hamp, Holmes and Campbell have built…I have to pinch myself. We’ve never, ever had competent executives or a HC who could build a great staff. Stacking up good drafts 4x in a row, never once making a big splashy FA signing.

Love their aggressive style in all three phases, this is exactly the kind of team Parcels used to craft. MCDC spent 8 of his 11 seasons as a player and 5 years as Assistant HC under Sean Payton, and his DNS is all over this. They did it the right way with men who have character. It’s like something out of the late 60s early 70s, when Schramm & Landry did things unlike anyone else in the game.

I always dreamed we would have a season like this. Losing Hutch was not great, but these guys are so tight, incredibly single minded - they’re gonna overcome it.

109 days (15 weeks, 4 days) until New Orleans. I don’t know how exactly just yet l, but I have to be there.
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I sincerely hope it pays off for you, brother. I truly do.
 
BobbyLayne said:
stat I heard todaythat made me laugh out loud:
  • in the last 4 games / 5 weeks, Goff has 16 incompletions
  • in the last 4 games, the Lions offense has 18 touchdowns
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to be clear here....

Detroit is the first team since realignment to have a 4-game span with more TDs than incompletions.

Jared Goff is the only Quarterback since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to do that.

Last 4 games:
  • 144.8
  • 87.2 adjusted completion %
    (eliminates batted balls, spikes, throwaways, i.e., thrown balls that left the pocket with the intention to be completed)
  • 50 passing first downs
  • 81/98 1137 yards 10 TDs 1 INT
It's the best 4-game performance by a QB over the last 55 seasons.

That's what one of one looks like.


Jared Goff is not in the MVP conversation.

He plays the most important position on the most complete team in the NFL after Week 7.

There is no argument to be made using today's MVP criteria that could deny, based on what we have seen so far, he is not the 2024 MVP.

He is the MVP front runner, full stop.
 
Controversial but I’d rather be Detroit than the Rams these days. Continuous success and a true foundational identity vs a one year blip. Even if it means a Super Bowl, we all have short memories. It’s all about today in the NFL
 
I can’t believe at one point there was a serious debate as to whether Goff or Wentz was the better QB. It’s pretty amazing to see the trajectory of both guys career after Wentz’s MVP caliber season.
 
Uncle Leo said:
BobbyLayne said:
85 yards passing ain’t what winning the MVP looks like

:sarcasm:
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I was a bit hurt due to him being my starting QB. However, he is absolutely a MVP candidate.
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my QB literally got hurt (Love)

could have used that extra 8.76 in a tight game lol

figured with Jordan going up against the team surrendering the most FF pts to QB I’d leave him on the bench

at least LaPorta woke up
 
Teams puts up 1/2 a hundred and he only posts 15.5 points. Detriot is going to need to score 75 points to make him startable.
 
In October, Lions QB Jared Goff completed 52-of-65 passes (80.0%) for 680 yards, 8 TDs and 0 INTs while posting a 149.8 passer rating & leading the Lions to a 3-0 record.

This marks the highest passer rating any QB has ever posted in the month of October in NFL history.
 
Would be interesting to see the W/L records for anytime a QB started and played most of the game and threw for 85 yards
 
jrt103 said:
Would be interesting to see the W/L records for anytime a QB started and played most of the game and threw for 85 yards
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Well this is the 16th instance someone passed for 85 yards or less and had 3 TDs. Those players teams are now 15-1.

By year:
  • 1942 - 1
  • 1944 - 2
  • 1946 - 1
  • 1948 - 2 (only loss occurred)
  • 1950 - 1
  • 1951 - 1
  • 1952 - 1
  • 1956 - 1 George Blanda 6/6 65 3-0 151.4
  • 1958 - 1
  • 1959 - 1

12 of those games occurred before 1960, the year in which the NFL began expansion.

The NFL granted Dallas and Minnesota franchises - the latter to begin in 1961 - and a rival league, the AFL, played its first season with 8 teams. They would expand to 10, and the modern era was born.

1960 is also the same year the last two-way player, Chuck Bednarik, played. It's also the year the NFL chose Pete Rozelle as commissioner.

It was a watershed year for rpo football.

Since then, it's happened four more times:
  • 1967 - Larry Rakestraw, CHI 7/16 75 3-0 97.7
  • 1972 - Mike Livingston, KC 10/18 81 3-1 74.3
  • 1976 - Steve Grogan, NE 10/21 83 3-1 78.0
  • 2024 - Jared Goff, DET 12/15 85 3-0 129.9
 
Jared Goff now has four consecutive games with a passer rating =>129.9.

This ties Ryan Tannehill for the most consecutive games with a passer rating =>129.9.

There has been one other instance of a player accomplishing this in 3 consecutive games (Rodgers, 2020).

The record (which I just invented) for the # of games =>129.9 in a season is 6, held by:
  • Aaron Rodgers 2011
  • Tony Romo 2014
  • Russell Wilson 2019
  • Ryan Tannehill 2019 (in the final 7 games, the shortest span of any of the record holders)
  • Aaron Rodgers 2020
  • Brock Purdy 2023
Goff now has 4 games with a passer rating of =>129.9 on the season; since the 1970 merger, there have been 45 QB seasons with 4 or more games.

Multiple seasons with 4 or more games =>129.9:
  • Aaron Rodgers - 5 | 1 season with 3
  • Phillip Rivers - 3 | 1 season with 3
  • Matt Ryan - 3
  • Peyton Manning - 2 | 7 seasons with 3
  • Drew Brees - 2 | 6 seasons with 3
  • Tom Brady - 2 | 3 seasons with 3
  • Russell Wilson - 2 | 2 seasons with 3
  • Kurt Warner - 2 | 1 season with 3
  • Brett Favre - 2
  • *Patrick Mahomes - 1 | 1 season with 3
  • Josh Allen - 1
  • Jared Goff - 1
*0-2 lifetime versus Goff H2H
 
pollardsvision said:
If Goff isn't an MVP candidate, then neither is Mahomes.

The low yardage yesterday was a product of outstanding special teams and game script.
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Lions took over the ball 6 times inside Titans 30. 2 long punt returns, a long kickoff return and Titan turnovers deep, then Gibbys 70 run on first down. Never had to move the ball far.
 
Da Guru said:
Lions took over the ball 6 times inside Titans 30. 2 long punt returns, a long kickoff return and Titan turnovers deep, then Gibbys 70 run on first down. Never had to move the ball far.
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They didn't need to and it was great to see them go 5 for 5 in the red zone.
 
Da Guru said:
pollardsvision said:
If Goff isn't an MVP candidate, then neither is Mahomes.

The low yardage yesterday was a product of outstanding special teams and game script.
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Lions took over the ball 6 times inside Titans 30. 2 long punt returns, a long kickoff return and Titan turnovers deep, then Gibbys 70 run on first down. Never had to move the ball far.
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Was one of the worst special teams performances by the Titans in a long time.

Overall, I'd be embarrassed if I were the Titans defense and special teams. Offense was just ok...Rudolph turns the ball over but Ridley and a few others showed up.

Overall, the Lions just look like a highly motivated buzzsaw that is bitter over last year and think they will beat anyone (except maybe the Chiefs.)

Looking like a Philly Detroit collision course right now.
 
NFL

Jared Goff is a survivor, an outlier and maybe the NFL’s next MVP​

Eight years after he was taken with the top overall pick, Jared Goff has ascended to the top of the NFL, turning the Detroit Lions into an offensive juggernaut.

By Adam Kilgore

November 2, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Jared Goff leads the NFL in completion percentage, yards per passing attempt and misperceptions. He has been mistakenly defined over a sinusoidal career as a draft bust, a Super Bowl failure, an inadequate franchise quarterback and a trade throw-in for a rebuilding franchise that surely would dismiss him. Even now that he has broken out as a full-fledged MVP candidate, the football public still misses his central quality.

What explains Goff is not how he plays. It is how he kept scraping himself off the ground.

“The thing people never understood about him — and maybe they still don’t — is that he is a guy that has this toughness that he doesn’t get the credit for,” said Tony Franklin, Goff’s college offensive coordinator at California. “Because he doesn’t physically look it. You don’t look at his body and go, ‘Oh, my God, this is the toughest guy.’ If you watch him in the pocket, he doesn’t flinch. He can get brutalized, beaten. He doesn’t point fingers, he doesn’t blame, and he doesn’t flinch.”

At 30, eight years after the Los Angeles Rams selected him with the first pick, Goff has ascended to the top of the NFL. As they enter Sunday’s NFC North showdown against the Green Bay Packers, the Detroit Lions he quarterbacks have become a juggernaut. They lead the NFL’s toughest division at 6-1 and own the league’s best point differential. His stunning statistical profile combined with his team’s superiority have vaulted Goff into strange territory: the thick of the MVP race.

Goff has approached the idea of winning the league’s top individual award with nonchalance. Among those closest to him, MVP is a term that does not get broached. “Never,” Jerry Goff, Goff’s father, said this week. “Not a word. Nope. That doesn’t motivate us."

“Typically, the guys on the best teams in the league that happens to,” Goff said. “A whole bunch of guys on this team could be in that [MVP] talk. We’re just going to try to keep winning games.”

For Detroit’s abundance of excellent skill players, Goff is not just part of Detroit’s dominance. He is driving it. For the past month, Goff has flirted with perfection. In his past five games, he has completed 88 of 106 attempts (83 percent) for 1,171 yards (11 per attempt) and 12 touchdowns with just one interception. During that stretch, the Lions have scored more touchdowns than Goff has thrown incompletions. To keep his passes off the turf any less, he would have to fill the football with helium.

The Lions extol Goff for his attitude as much as for his performance. On a team loaded with talent, he has become an unquestioned leader. After a blowout victory over the Dallas Cowboys, Goff spoke to the team in the locker room and handed the game ball Coach Dan Campbell had just presented him back to Campbell.

“The guy’s got arm talent, there’s no question,” Campbell said after the Lions beat the Minnesota Vikings on a last-minute drive. “But it’s what he’s got here” — Campbell pointed to his head — “and what he’s got here” — Campbell pointed to his chest — “that’s what makes him a dangerous player, and it’s what makes him one of these guys you can build around.”

Goff’s understated approach is part of the overlooked toughness Franklin described. Goff may be a skinny, laid-back, blond guy from California, but he’s also a competitive badass. As a 24-year-old, facing a 13-0 deficit in the NFC championship game inside the erupting Superdome, Goff screamed at bickering teammates to “shut the f--- up” in the huddle before leading a comeback.

When Rams Coach Sean McVay benched Goff for a playoff game in 2021 and then traded him along with multiple draft picks for Matthew Stafford, Goff still never doubted himself. When the Lions started 0-10-1 while Stafford was leading Goff’s old team to a Super Bowl in the first season after the trade, Goff maintained faith in his ability. Even as others viewed him as a lost cause, he never stopped viewing himself as the player whose talent got him picked first overall.

“If you don’t have that belief in yourself, nobody else is going to believe in you,” Jerry Goff said. “He’s having a great year. He’s got a bunch of folks around him that’s making that happen. It’s never easy. It’s never going to be all roses, and he’s been through some dark times. But I don’t think he ever wavered in his belief in himself.

“It’s what you make of yourself when things aren’t going the way you want them to,” he added. “The folks that come out the other end of that are the ones that are built a little bit different.”

A drill, renamed​

In the NFL of 2024, Goff’s traditional playing style makes him an outlier among top quarterbacks. The passers alongside Goff in the MVP discussion — Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes — play with an improvisational athleticism that coaches wouldn’t teach even if they could. Goff matches their efficiency with conventional, disciplined technique. They create magic. Goff finds slivers of space and hits the open man, over and over.

To Franklin, the on-field key to Goff’s ascent lies in imperceptible movement. At Cal, Franklin would put Goff through footwork training he called the Manning Drill, after Peyton Manning. After the last step of a dropback, the quarterback would shuffle his feet, never bouncing or hopping but chopping laterally, like fingers over a typewriter. Franklin would instruct quarterbacks to move right or left. When he clapped, the quarterbacks threw.

While moving, Goff always kept his feet shoulder-width apart, allowing for a consistent, six-inch stride into his throw. If his feet came together while he moved, he would have to take a longer stride to pass, which wrecks accuracy.

“You can move to avoid the rush, but your feet don’t step,” Franklin said. “When you’re stepping and your foot comes off the ground, you can’t throw. You’re off-platform to throw. There’s a huge deal today about off-platform, sidearm throws. I always tell guys this: That’s freakish. That’s not normal. You can train yourself eventually to get better at that, but most people can’t. What the rest of the world has to do is work and find those throwing lanes.”

Franklin told his pupil he would rename the drill if he ever got good enough at it. After Goff’s time at Cal, Franklin started calling it the Manning-Goff drill.

Throughout Goff’s NFL career, Franklin said, he saw Goff’s footwork decline as he adjusted to the league’s speed and coaching systems. In the summer of 2023, Franklin visited Detroit to watch a training camp practice and catch up with Goff. He noticed Goff’s footwork — he was doing the Manning-Goff drill.

“His feet for a period of time in the NFL were not as good,” Franklin said. “The last two years, his feet are as good as they were in college.”

Those improvements surface most when Goff is under duress. Last season, Pro Football Focus graded Goff as the 19th-best quarterback against the blitz; this year, he is ninth. According to PFF’s accounting, Goff posted a 61.0 quarterback rating last season when throwing under pressure, which ranked 31st. This year, he ranks sixth at 93.8.

One play typifies Goff’s leap. In the second quarter two weeks ago, Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores — known for his exotic, diabolical blitzes — aligned seven defenders at the line. Six of them rushed as Goff received a shotgun snap.

Goff made a quick little shuffle to his right, keeping his feet close to shoulder-width apart, creating just enough space to find a throwing lane and provide a split second for wideout Amon-Ra St. Brown to plant his foot and cut upfield. Goff lofted a perfect pass. St. Brown cruised under it for a 35-yard touchdown.

After the game, Franklin sent Goff a text message praising his footwork on the play.

Slot Merchant
 
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The weekly referendum​

As Franklin discussed his former pupil, he contrasted his current hot streak to “back when everybody thought he was done because of the way McVay threw him under the bus and gave up on him.”

Despite the bitter ending, McVay once helped revive Goff. His rookie season under Jeff Fisher was a debacle. He was inactive for the first half of the season, and then he went 0-7 in an antiquated offense behind a rickety offensive line. Goff went to the Super Bowl two years later, but he and the Rams never again reached those heights. Teams chipped away at McVay’s scheme, and McVay came to believe he needed an upgrade at quarterback.

“McVay was really good,” Franklin said. “McVay’s a great coach; there’s no doubt about it. My issue with McVay is, the moment that it wasn’t easy, you couldn’t look in the mirror and say it was you.”
The feelings from the trade may have motivated Goff at first. But they were exorcised in January, when Goff outdueled Stafford and the Lions knocked the Rams out of the playoffs.

“I don’t think that whole thing is still motivating him,” Jerry Goff said. “He kind of put that to rest in the postseason last year. But I think it’s a constant. Guys that play that position, it’s a week-to-week thing. If you have a good week, you’re the greatest. If you don’t have a good week, you stink.”

On Sunday, Goff will walk into Lambeau Field for one of the biggest games of this NFL season as one of the best players on the field, quarterbacking at a higher level than he ever has. He reached this point not because of his talent but because, no matter what anybody else thought, he never stopped trusting in it.
 
BobbyLayne said:
Jared Goff now has four consecutive games with a passer rating =>129.9.

This ties Ryan Tannehill for the most consecutive games with a passer rating =>129.9.

There has been one other instance of a player accomplishing this in 3 consecutive games (Rodgers, 2020).
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Go Bears.
 
In any six-game span in NFL history,

Lions QB Jared Goff has:
  • the highest completion percentage (82.8%)
  • the highest passer rating (140.1)

Jared Goff is the only player in NFL history to complete at least 80.0% of his passes in three-straight games in a single season (15 attempt minimum).

Jared Goff is also the only player in NFL history to produce six-straight games with:
  1. completion rate of 72.0%+ and
  2. passer rating of 105.0+ and
  3. a TD pass
 
Big one for him having a good game outside in cold and rain as well. THAT might be the marker that he’s actually levelled up a few notches
 
Chaka said:
Da Guru said:
Football Jones said:
I’m sorry, but that contract is ridiculous, especially for a one-dimensional QB who doesn’t throw a good deep ball. You have to be more fiscally responsible than that.
Giving Jared Goff a 4-year extension for that kind of money is suicide. They couldn’t of handled it any worse, IMO.

Just when it looked like they were turning the corner, too.
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:lmao:

Meowwwwww.
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Jared Goff, superstar. LOL. Pay him if he gets you a title or at least proves he can get you close before treating him like a stud. It's very risky to give the semi-talented guys a bunch of money. Not good for the ol' salary cap.

Jared Goff is still Jared Goff. His limitations didn't go away. Goff has done a nice job this season, but he's got a ton of help (more than any QB in the league). That makes a HUGE difference with the kind of stats you can put up. Let's not get this guy confused with the top QBs in the game.

Detroit has the best offensive/defensive combination of talent in the league. If Goff is actually a top QB, there's no way in hell they don't win the championship this season. Make him prove he can overcome his limitations.

The NFC hasn't been this weak in a long time. The Lions should cakewalk to the Super Bowl and face whoever comes through the much tougher AFC. BTW, I'll certainly give Goff his props if he gets it done.
 
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