Two years after the Los Angeles Rams traded him and his world was upended, Detroit's starter has found his people and his team.
, was halfway expected to fade into oblivion in January 2021, when he found out he was being traded to Detroit just moments before it was all over social media.won a Super Bowl with McVay and the Rams, and Goff went to the cold, harsh reality of Detroit. He lost 16 of his first 22 games. But then they ripped off eight wins in the last 10 games of the 2022 season, including a"Sunday Night Football" victory in the last game of the season that deniedAnd here now are the Lions, contenders.
He played golf with them on January 30, and they'd just eaten dinner that night when he received the call that the Rams were trading him. His dad Jerry called after he hung up with the Lions, and a number of people tried to boost his spirits that night. At some point in the haze, Nancy offered some of the best advice.
And it was fun, even with the chaos. Nancy learned to rent furnished apartments, and Jerry learned to adapt. They passed on to Jared, how to roll with it when things didn't go your way. From an early age, Jared was the opposite -- cool-headed, but also viciously competitive. He threw for 7,687 yards with 93 touchdowns and 18 interceptions in three seasons at Marin Catholic High, and pledged to play at the University of California, Berkley, the school his parents attended.
Dykes, now the head football coach at TCU, calls Goff one of the toughest players he's ever been around. He says Goff changed the program. The Golden Bears' 8-5 record and victory over Air Force in the Armed Services Bowl in Goff's junior year accounted for Cal's best season under Dykes. After the bowl game, Goff declared for the NFL draft.
Franklin, now retired from coaching, says he did not like the way McVay took the credit for the Rams' successes, including the team's run to Super Bowl LIII in 2018, and blamed Goff when things went bad. "[Jared] got his ass whipped," Franklin says."He got humiliated in front of the world. You know, you're the first pick in the draft, you take a team to the Super Bowl, you're all-pro. You have a couple of seasons that are not quite as good. And the next thing you know, in the quiet of the night, your head coach throws you under the bus, runs over you with the tire tracks and you're traded.
When Franklin told him he'd probably be traded, Goff couldn't bring himself to believe it. It blindsided him, he said, because he'd never had any conversations with the Rams about being moved."But yeah, I was home, got a phone call from Sean, [and he] told me I was getting traded. Ten seconds later, it's on Twitter."
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