about one of the key positions on the team that we thought one
or two of their first-round picks
would be devoted to
in order to improve it to go get a franchise guy because two
years ago this month the whole Matthew Stafford for Jared Goff
trade was about getting Stafford to a new place because
the Rams
had been perennially or their liens, excuse me, had been
perennially bad and part of the deal was Was to get a sweetener
to get an enhancement to get an extra first-round. Pick for
the lions,
please take our trash and I don't mean that in a pejorative
sense but one man's trash is another man's treasure and
the Lions took Jared Goff under the assumption. By everyone
I assume including them.
That this is a short-term thing.
This was a Brock Osweiler. Hot Potato deal. We got to get this
contract off our books. We never should have given it to
him. Here's a first round pick. Please take him.
And now two years in
your golf's, the guy that's a hell of a wind up for me to throw
to the Brad Home Sound
talking about the guy who was their quarterback, the past two
years and will be the quarterback. Moving forward,
Jared Goff. Here's Brett, homes.
I think it's a lot easier to get worse at quarterback,
then to get better at quarterback and so I in in this
league and so I think what Jarrod is done this year,
you know he Captain the ship of a you know, top three offense
and I On to say, he was top 10 statistically and most of
the passing category. So,
and again, you know how we approach the draft, like we're
never going to
turn down a good football player. So
this a football player, really love my being. We're going to
make sure every stone is on turn, but but I do think that
Jared has proven
everybody that he is a starting quarterback for us.
Absolutely. You know it's funny to when When Brad homes got
that job a couple of years ago. He Have the
he's got kind of a look now. He's got the build now of like
Dan Campbell is like Dan. Campbell was getting everybody.
Go to the gym and lift weights and
get get yoked. And
he doesn T seem like 30 pounds. Heavier, not a bad way. He just
seems like he's jacked. It is like he and Dan Campbell or
having bench, press competition. It's like he grew
into a big Burly strong man. All the sudden somehow just
like drinking
eating protein shakes up there with Dan Campbell getting in
a few. A gun sessions, their curls and triceps. But no
doubt, he's got like a little more of the most interesting
man in the world. Type of colors in his beard going on.
And then a little yeah
looks like he's got a little you know, arms there he's got
something going. So I noticed it right away. When I saw two
I was like, damn he he does look a little different as compared
to when he first got the job. But
but hey, he should be feeling good. Hopefully, his body's
feeling good. He's done a lot of great things like you talked
about, I mean, really when you look at their roster, After you
look at the offensive side of the ball you know with him
starting with the
drafting of pain iseul at right tackle. Well that's where that
starts with the Lions for his starts with the success of
Jared Goff and everybody there are all line can be
overpowering. The receivers are awesome. And then, we haven't
even seen Jameson Williams really at 100%
yet. The running backs are damn good.
I mean, both of them, Jamal Williams and DeAndre Swit, they
got tight ends even though they traded Hawkinson away, they got
two Titans. They like, that's why they traded him now, can
all go to the defensive side of the ball. Ball and
I don't know Mike, what do you think? I like the Approach at
quarterback, they're not going to make it all about that guy.
They're not going to, you know, let go of a guy that's, you
know,
top half of the League, top 20 quarterback and football
just to go oh maybe we can strike it rich and get a guy
that's in the top five that's risky. It is you got something
kind of tried and true here in Detroit going in the right
direction. I would agree with it. Don't disrupt it
and just build around what you got right now. You got a little
Mojo. Going.
It's all relative weird cough was never going to win a Super
Bowl for the Rams. Well the Lions would be thrilled to just
be in the playoffs every year. Yeah, maybe yeah to a Super
Bowl and they'll worry
about winning it
if they get there because maybe they'll have enough Talent
around here at Gulf that it doesn't try to be all about,
right? Jared Goff making or not making a big throw in a big
spot. So
they have a guy who's good enough to help them get to
where they're currently trying to be
the Ation is not yet relevant, is he holding us back? He's not
holding his back because we're not where we want to be, he's
helping us get to where we want to be. Now
it's a cruel, objective results, driven business,
if there is a cap that develops on how far he can take them
and this is one of the - realities of what they've done
this year.
The bar is higher next year. It's easier to emerge with
a great season when no one expected anything out of you
and you did start one in six and then you spread it around
right? Become everyone's darling and everyone thinks
this is great. Well there's gonna be a lot of pressure on
everyone next year and you know your schedule the routine of
playing at 1:00 eastern, most Sundays, that's going to get
disrupted because now you're going to get yanked 24, 25, and
you're gonna be more desired and they're going to want you
on National platforms other than the one that you own
the first of three Thanksgiving games. So,
you know, once you prove you can get it done, people expect
you to keep getting it done. And and so that's that part of
this. And you know what, flip it around Chris, I'm looking at
his contract 25.6. 5 million
is what he's do to make
this year at some point. It's not about do the lines, want to
rip up this contract and move on from him. We've crossed that
bridge. Now, the question is is Jared Goff being fairly paid
considering what he's done and considering where the market
is. I think it's some point God needs to be
thinking about. Talking to the Lions about something that
better reflects his value,
because twenty five point, six five
is beneath where he should be
given what he's done.
Well, yeah, I guess so,
I guess, you know, I, but we certainly could say he was
overpaid for a few years, for given what he was done as well.
I understand, I mean, the good, the current market for where
it's at. Yeah. He's, he is a little underpaid right now.
But, to your point, I mean, we were at week, seven going.
Well, they're going to draft a quarterback. Back here. You
know they're
going to draft a quarterback, right? So it's so that's where
I don't think we can start to just go. Well, he's definitely
will.
Let's sign them up long-term, that's where there's a little
bit of a balance, I think to what you're talking about, too.
Yes, he's turned the corner from. Okay, wait. We need Sean,
McVeigh to devise game plans to help them out and make them
look good. He's not that anymore.
That's for sure.
You know, this experience in, Detroit has definitely made him
physically, mentally tougher. He pulls the trigger into
tighter
Now, he's more aggressive that way throwing the ball. They've
given him a little more confidence, that's her shirt,
but I know for me personally, I'd like to see more before
I said, hey, let's give them a new contract and throw out more
money
to all the points you just talked about,
you know? It's there is, you know, when you're sneaking up
everybody and you're one and six and you're the Lions and
like Aaron Rodgers said, you know, and
we can't lose to that team this way. I mean
that's how your looked at the start of the streak to to a degree
they became real the end of the year, but expectations will be
real Year, you're right about that. Let alone like what we
talked about a minute ago there.
I would think are going to be one of the major players and
free agency and then when the draft that's only going to add
to the expectations. So
everyone's going to look at and go wait
top 5 offense. Wow when they now they put all these assets
on defense while the defense should be you know, top 10 top
15
and that should mean we go to the playoffs and
it's a whole different ballgame as you're explaining. Mike,
I think you're exactly right. It's different when you're The
Marked Man as compared to your sneaking up on people and you
kind of been
the laughingstock of football for the last 40 years.
Well, they feel right now to me like the Browns after 2018
Browns didn't make it to the playoffs that year, but they
they turned it around enough. That
that we started thinking hey they got something. Yeah.
Right and 2019 was a major disappointment in part because
they made Freddie kitchen to the head coach because kitchens
had done so well with Baker Mayfield and then they didn't
have the infrastructure in place to continue
the development of Baker Mayfield. And that's a relevant question
to the Lions.
Because if they Would lose Ben Johnson. Their offensive
coordinator, one of the five teams looking for head,
coaches. Now,
the Broncos won't touch him because the Broncos are going
with a guy that's doing a head coaching experience after
Nathaniel hack it. But the Texans,
the Colts there are teams that are considering Ben Johnson and
to the extent he gets the credit for getting the most out
of Jared Goff then they have to replace him and that
complicates things and that
that becomes, you know,
good problem to have. I don't know, it's just a problem. It's
great that that they've done so. Well that Ben Johnson is
being considered to be a head coach elsewhere, but we didn't
make the playoffs, we're
going to lose our offensive coordinator. We're going to
figure out who's going to continue this development of
Jared Goff. So it really has been remarkable even though
home said he never deemed Jared Goff to be a bridge
quarterback.
I think everybody did and
and homes. Probably deep down recognized that.
Well,
we got to give this two years because of the contract because
the Monty's, they inherited. They had to give it two years,
they had to keep them around. For two years, they weren't
going to turn around and unload him unless they were going to
tie a first round pick to it as well.
So they made that commitment because they had nothing else
to do as they laid the foundation for whatever they
were going to be. And now the foundation is in place. Let's
see where Jared Goff
can take them and you made a great Point
earlier. This year,
about them playing outdoors in the cold
and early. In the game on Sunday night, there was one of those
old-school Jared Goff
She Club throws and on the peacock show
postgame actually watched it this week. I stayed up late.
I was energized by the outcome. When sometimes you get
energized by the outcome of a game and and you keep watching
what's on and I was watching the game
on peacock and I heard
Rodney Harrison acknowledge. Yeah, during the post game show
that he used to call Jared Goff country clock, right? And he
did. And the idea was any time, you take this guy out in
the cold. He can't throw. He can't play and we saw it
2018. I think they went to Chicago late in the regular
season. He fell. Part. Yeah. And the Rams were having
a great year, and it can, and there was one of those
one of the, but no wasn't an issue non-issue like through
that. In Detroit, even though they play indoors, they live in
Detroit, he's out in the cold, they practice in the cold, he's
getting used to it. He's like the kid that
grew up in the cold, it's not an issue. He's becoming that
kid to grow up in the cold, even if he didn't grow up in
the cold. That's right. I think we should all make strides this
year in that department. I mean, we can't even go to
the late part of the year, like in Carolina.
It was in the high 20s. They lost a game in care. He didn't
he didn't play that great in the game.
Stats will shed say, oh, he threw for 300 yards, but it was
all late. Meaningless, kind of yards, is one of those type of
things, but I even was still a little worried about that to
your point last week in Green Bay.
But for the most part through the ball, you know, pretty well
in the cold days, I think he has adjusted to that. I think
he's adjusted to, you know, just being off the red carpet
as far as, you know, not being the first pick of the
franchise and you know the coach making it all about him
and them being so invested in. In 2000. We got to make him
look good because he's the first pick to now we're
yeah. He's a part of the team. He's a part of the game plan is
good deep ball thrower and he's tough.
He's at two and he's humble, he's not a guy that's, you
know, looking to be me, me me. So there's a lot of positive
things about Jared Goff as
a quarterback, you know, but the one thing I think that, you
know,
it's where is he? What is he? His stats are top-10. Sure,
I don't think anybody in their right mind is going to say,
he's a Taliban. 10 quarterback, right? I don't think that
that's where we are. You know, I think the next thing is do we
think Jared Goff can he be a guy that
you know, maybe can carry a team at certain moments
and and carry you through
fourth quarter when the team's not playing well and making
plays. And I think that's the, that's where he's on that fine
line of guy that needs support system, you know? And, and
really needs that to be a successful quarterback
or can he take that next little jump and start to be a guy
that? Oh, whoa. Its fourth quarter, Jared Goff, watch out
for this. I don't think he's going to be that guy. I think
he's got to be a guy, that's
got to have a team in a formula around him the right way here,
and they certainly seem like they're set up to do that here
for the next four or five years for sure.
One amazing statistical development, nine straight
games, without an interception and yeah, franchise records for
the lowest interception rate, only one point, two percent and
the highest touchdown
to interception ratio of 4.14. And as we know if you can
really crank up that touchdown to interception ratio, you can
maybe make some Aaron Rodgers style arguments that you're one
of the best quarterbacks in football. So
keep it up, Jared Goff, but don't let that keep you
from pulling the trigger.
If In a week 18 winning in game
not that and I Aaron Rodgers boys pull he was pulling
the trigger on Sunday night he was just pulling it all over
the pain that triggers. Write it. Exactly, right. Yeah we've
I don't know it's
I guess it's better not pull the trigger at all and if when
you're going to pull the trigger you just going to be
firing it up into into the air for whoever may want to go
catch it and we saw that happen as a man more than once on
right Sunday night.