Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff recently opened up on Netflix’s Quarterback, discussing how he felt about the trade that brought him to Detroit from the Los Angeles Rams.
Per Awful Announcing, Goff touched on how he immediately felt wanted in his first conversations with head coach Dan Campbell and GM Brad Holmes, a feeling he hadn’t felt “for quite some time” prior to the move with the Rams.
“It kind of brought me from this moment of picking up the pieces to reinvigorated with this energy. Like, ‘Oh, this is what it’s like to feels like to truly feel wanted and to have these guys behind you.’ And I hadn’t felt that in quite some time.”
Goff’s comments came up in Friday’s episode of Two Pros and a Cup of Joe, on Fox Sports Radio, a program hosted by Jonas Knox and former NFL linebacker LaVar Arrington, and Arrington wasn’t exactly a fan of what he heard from Goff to say the least.
“Quarterbacks must have an alternate reality to other players,” said Arrington. “It’s interesting, we were just talking about Kirk Cousins and how he was misled. They all just sound like some soft mother F-ers, man. Listen, I can understand what Jared Goff was saying here.
“But again, this is business. You can throw out there that there should be a level of maturity and different things like that. It must be a different level of communication and entitlement for quarterbacks.
“It seems like every time I hear a conversation from them, it represents something that you would expect if you had the courtesy of the back and forth. ‘It felt like I wasn’t wanted.’ They didn’t want you, that’s why they traded you. If they wanted you, you wouldn’t be traded. So, you felt like you were blindsided by it. That happens to players every single day. And It’s not on an interview.
“It’s not on a Netflix special. It’s not on Fox Sports or ESPN. You just see it, it’s there. Transactions they are called. Look up NFL transactions online. Those are people, that’s not currency or anything like that. That’s actually real, living people that have family and wives. They are people. This is generally only a conversation when quarterbacks are involved.”
It’ll be interesting to see if Goff responds to Arrington’s strong words.
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Qwame Skinner has loved both writing and sports his entire life. In addition to his sports coverage at Comeback Media, Qwame writes novels, and his debut; The First Casualty, an adult fantasy, is out now.