Jared Goff is the most disrespected quarterback in the NFL
Ok, maybe that title has some hyperbole attached to it. I'm not around the news cycle of every quarterback in the NFL all the time so I can't say this definitively. But I will say there is a lot to the idea that Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff is the most disrespected quarterback in the […]
Ok, maybe that title has some hyperbole attached to it. I'm not around the news cycle of every quarterback in the NFL all the time so I can't say this definitively. But I will say there is a lot to the idea that Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff is the most disrespected quarterback in the NFL. Even if Lions fans strongly rallied around him this season. This is mostly about people outside of Detroit.
Where does this come from? Well, it didn't start with this, but it finished with this.
This is stupid fantasy nerd stuff and I know that. This isn't the inciting incident, this the straw that broke the camels back and put me in front of my laptop. There's guys on this list that are better than Goff, but there's also guys that aren't and there's clearly a player ahead of him that's never played an NFL game.
Anyways, this inspired me to make a list of reasons why Goff is the most disrespected. Here it is:
Any good he does is becasue of someone else
This has followed him around his entire NFL career. For the first part it was "well he was coached by Sean McVay" or "He had Todd Gurley." Then when he got to Detroit it became "well he has Ben Johnson." Any time he plays good it's because someone designed it that way.
It's as if Jared Goff is a fully capable woman and his coaches and teammates are a guy that thinks they need to show this fully capable woman how to really do something and they stand right behind him and show them while touching his hips and saying "it's all about the follow through." It's the like the guy isn't out there throwing the ball himself or navigating the field.
His past is never forgotten
Goff had some trouble in the playoffs withe Rams. He had a little regression. That happened and you can't take that back. But that didn't happen in Detroit. Yet every week before each playoff game there would be some analyst on TV or a podcast that would say something to the effect of "this is Jared Goff. He's going to make some sort of mistake in the playoffs." That never happened. Goff was very good in the playoffs. He completed 70.7% of his passes and never turned the ball over.
He did have that weird chest pass thing against the Rams, but other than that, he played quite well. That was ignored a lot.
His stats are ignored
Jared Goff finished the season second in passing yards, fourth in passing touchdowns, seventh in completion percentage and ninth in passer rating. in 2022 he was sixth in passing yards, sixth in passing touchdowns, 18th in completion percentage and seventh in passer rating.
The way that people talk about him would make you think that he's in the bottom half of the league. Despite all this, there are fans of the Lions that want the team to move on from him and hand the ball over to a rookie quarterback. Either that or they want him to prove himself for a third year in a row instead of extending him.
Everyone thinks he can't throw deep, but he finished the season 10th in deep passing yards and was fifth in completion percentage in deep passing.
Everyone thinks he's bad against the blitz, but in reality he had the second most yards against the blitz and the second most touchdowns against the blitz.
He does struggle against pressure, but every quarterback struggles against pressure.
Nobody considers who he made better
A lot of people judge a quarterback by who they've made better, but nobody really looks at Goff as a guy that's done that, but he has. For example, Kalif Raymond was a cast off from a few different teams until he started playing with Goff. Josh Reynolds was released by the Titans midseason and then came to Detroit and Goff made him the teams number two receiver. Amon-Ra St. Brown didn't get here without someone throwing the ball to him.
So there you have it. That's my case for Jared Goff being the most disrespected quarterback.
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