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After being the first player selected in the NFL draft in 2016, Jared Goff experienced some heights and lowness during his five-year race with Los Angeles Rams.
From his second campaign, Goff took a noticeable leap forward when Sean McVay took the Rams head training. Goff won the Pro Bowl nods in 2017 and 2018, with the latter season culminating with a Rams’ Super Bowl performance.
But Goff ultimately wanted quarterback rams in just two more seasons when the franchise decided to trade him for the Detroit Lions in exchange for veterans signal call Matthew Stafford.
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Jared Goff #16 and head coach Sean McVay from Los Angeles Rams responds after throwing an incomplete pass on the third down into the fourth quarter against Seattle Seahawks during their play at CenturyLink Field on October 3, 2019 in Seattle, Washington. (Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
Goff is one of the NFL quarterbacks that agreed to allow Netflix’s cameras to follow him throughout the 2024 season for the streaming giant’s documeries “Quarterback.” The latest season of the series premiered this week.
RAMS -Trainer Sean McVay Reflects on Handling Jared Goff — Departure: ‘He deserved better’
During one of the episodes, Goff remembered his feelings as he learned that his time in a Ram’s uniform had ended. He suggested that he be completely blind -sided by the move to Detroit.
Los Angeles Rams Quarterback Jared Goff seems to pass through the first half of the team’s NFL Divisional Football Playoff game against Dallas Cowboys in Los Angeles on January 12, 2019. (Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)
“Three weeks after the last match of the season, get a call from Sean and really didn’t expect anything,” Goff explained on the show. “He lets me know that they are dealing with me to Detroit, and I’m like ‘Whoa, Ok, Okay. What the Fuck? What Happens?’ I would say about 30 seconds after the phone call it was on Twitter.
Goff added that he was left with feelings of treason. He also referred to a apparent lack of conversations with any of Rams’ decision makers from the football staff to be included in a possible trade before receiving a phone call from McVay.
Quarterback Jared Goff #16 by Los Angeles Rams and head coach Sean McVay from Los speech on the sidelines during the game against Baltimore Ravens at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on November 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djanszian/Getty Images)
“You feel that you have been betrayed or as if you are not wanted,” Goff said. “And I think for me, in the end it was the fact that there was no conversation and there wasn’t like one, ‘Hello, we’re thinking about going on with’ type of thing ‘. There was nothing.”
Goff continued to question the level of “maturity” involved in handling his situation.
“You wish it wasn’t such a blind side and that there was some kind of maturity, I assume that having that conversation and being able to tell me what was going on and how things went down. And why this happens. It was my first real taste of real adversity and your career is kind of a fork in the way.”
While Stafford has led Rams to a Super Bowl championship, Goff has been successful since arriving in Motor City. He helped lift Lions to a 12-5 record and ended the franchise’s long NFC championship game-looking drought in 2023.
He received the Pro Bowl-Head Certificate in 2024 and led Lions to a 15-Win season.
