Jared Goff is one of the quarterbacks featured in this year's season of Quarterback on Netflix. The show covers the 2024 season for the Detroit Lions, which we know ended in a bit of a heartbreaking fashion thanks to numerous injuries to the team - including to Goff.
Still, it's a fun show and an interesting dive into Goff's everyday life as the Lions' top gun. However, one of the first things the show covers related to Goff is the trade that sent him to Detroit in the first place in exchange for Matthew Stafford and a plethora of picks.
Goff talks about the trade himself, saying that he really wasn't expecting to be shipped off by the Rams despite a disappointing few postseason runs led by him
"Three weeks after the last game of the season, get a call from Sean and really did not expect anything. He lets me know they're trading me to Detroit and I'm like, 'Whoa, okay, alright. What the hell? What's happening?' I would say about 30 seconds after that phone call, it was on Twitter," said Goff of the delivery of news from Sean McVay, his then-head coach with the Rams.
"You wish that it wasn't such a blindside and that there was some sort of maturity, I guess, to have that conversation and to be able to let me know what was going on and how things went down. And why this is happening. It was my first real taste of true adversity and your career is kind of at a fork in the road."
Goff gets real about McVay's method of delivering Lions trade news
McVay clearly handled the transaction poorly. Regardless of whether we acknowledge that the NFL is a business and players should expect this sort of cutthroat action to take place, McVay should've given Goff a greater jump on this news beyond just a 30 second window.
Everything ended up working out for both sides, obviously - the Rams got a Super Bowl with Stafford while the Lions are building towards one with Goff - but that doesn't erase that feeling Goff got from McVay and his immature handling of the trade.
Goff, of course, was also welcomed with open arms in Detroit by head coach Dan Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes. That sweetened the deal, and likely erased that bad taste - temporarily - out of Goff's mouth after the deal was done.
