Jared Goff’s incompletions against the Rams show just how good of a quarterback he is
The plays that make him look bad, are actually the ones that make him look smart
Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff played a pretty good game against his former team on Sunday. He threw for 316 yards and three touchdowns, and just kind of balled out in a loss. He also showed some really solid pressure navigation. Something he’s supposedly bad at.
But still, you get on social media, and everyone is ignoring his play and focusing on how the Lions lost, and that’s somehow his fault, and the fact that he kept throwing balls low into the dirt. I want to talk about why the latter shows how good Goff really is.
Jared Goff’s bad throws on Sunday were pretty much all by design
The “greatest quarterback of all time,” Tom Brady, even mentioned it after a play in which Goff dirted the ball. Brady talked about how a lot of the younger quarterbacks might try to make something happen and take a seven-yard sack, but Goff dirts the ball to live another day.
That’s what it’s all about at the end of the day. It’s about knowing what’s at stake and that taking a sack is just a drive killing thing that Goff is going to try to avoid if he can. There are the mobile guys that everyone wants, and I get that, but those are the guys Brady is talking about. Those guys are trying to run all over the place to avoid sacks, but they’re also the guys who are mostly leading the league in getting sacked right now. They’re also the guys who are throwing the ugly interceptions when they try to get rid of the ball after realizing all the dancing around didn’t work. Mobility is cool, and it has its perks, but it’s not a get out of jail free card.
There are other plays where you see Goff throw the ball low at receivers, and that’s understandably making fans upset, but really watch those plays. Goff is either trying to throw it to a place where only his receiver might have a chance to get it to save an otherwise dead play, or he’s flat throwing it away.
It’s all about living to fight on another down. Taking a sack is a drive-killer way more often than not. Goff won’t do it if he can help it. That’s way more valuable than mobility if you ask me.
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