Lions: Jared Goff had the right response to a different QB commerce rumor
Lions’ Jared Goff would respect it if the media stopped throwing gasoline on quarterback commerce rumors. It isn’t occurring, not in 2023 anyway.
The Detroit Lions have their quarterback room set for the 2023 season: Jared Goff will begin underneath middle for the third straight yr whereas 2023 third-rounder Hendon Hooker develops behind him.
It’s a reasonably cut-and-dried system, proper?
To not one reporter who requested Goff a thorny query about wideout Jameson Williams’ social media exercise. Williams had appreciated a tweet about Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson coming to Detroit and… nicely, that was it. That was the query.
So how did Goff really feel? He may have cared much less.
Goff merely assumed the reporter was bored to the purpose the place Lions gamers’ social media likes have been fueling content material creation. In different phrases: Discover a extra inventive angle, or get a brand new job.
The times of the Lamar Jackson contract saga are over. Actually, Jackson just signed a blockbuster extension with the Ravens a month ago, and any future commerce involving the star quarterback doesn’t make sense anymore.
Jared Goff shuts down Lamar Jackson commerce rumors for hopefully the final time
It seems like lightyears in the past when Lamar Jackson was rumored to affix the Lions, with many citing his dual-threat talents paired with Detroit’s elite operating backs and younger exterior targets as a playoff-contending offense within the making.
On the time, Jackson’s path to the Lions was tougher than that of different free brokers because the Ravens positioned an unique franchise tag on him in March. The Lions, Colts, and Falcons have been among the groups rumored to be interested by buying and selling for Jackson, although almost each franchise within the operating in the end pulled out of the race by the top.
Whether or not that was collusion or not, Jackson discovered his eternally (or five-year) dwelling in Baltimore.
Detroit ended up proper again the place they began, which was dedicated to Jared Goff after Goff’s Professional Bowl-caliber season in 2022. The 28-year-old nonetheless has a number of productive years left in him to assist the Lions obtain imminent success, and he’s not going to let foolish distractions like months-old quarterback commerce rumors get in the way in which.
In comparison with the frantic and frenzied rumor-mongering and trade-speculating of prior months, sure, June has been extra “boring” from the NFL media’s perspective. That’s nonetheless no excuse to dredge up the previous. Let sleeping Lions lie.
