Terry Bradshaw once dubbed Jared Goff a “turnover machine” when he was struggling for form at the Los Angeles Rams – but he has since changed his tune.
Goff has been exceptional as a quarterback for the Detroit Lions this season, leading them to a 14-2 record so far and topping their NFC North league heading into the final week of the regular season. The 30-year-old is fourth in the table for most touchdowns, and is second across the whole NFL for the most passing yards, with 4,398.
However, it has take some time for the former number one draft pick to rise to the occasion in the league, as his time with the Rams wasn’t exactly a successful point in his career. Goff lost all of his games in his rookie year, but improved year after year until he left Los Angeles and headed to Detroit.
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During his time with the Rams, Bradshaw was not impressed with the top-picked quarterback, as he claimed Goff was a “turnover machine” – arguably the worst thing you can be called in the 30-year-old’s position in football.
While appearing on FOX’s YouTube channel, the 76-year-old said: “Goff has turned into a turnover machine. You’re not going to win Super Bowls or play-off games with your quarterback playing like he’s playing right now. You got 134 million dollars invested in your quarterback, a guy you’re not real happy with right now. A guy you really want to get rid of and you stand in front of the media and you go ‘Well, week after week I have to stand up here and defend this guy and complain about it’. No you don’t, sit his a– down and put somebody else in there.
“I know you can’t get rid of him, that’s way too much money but there’s a quarterback out there named Matthew Stafford and if you could I would make a move. Get rid of one guy and bring in Stafford.”
At this point, Rams head coach Sean McVay seemed to take Bradshaw’s advice and traded Goff – plus some draft picks – for Matthew Stafford. Despite the Rams winning a Super Bowl later on in 2022 with Stafford, it looks like Goff has benefited from this trade too.
The 30-year-old is now heading for his second consecutive playoff appearance with the Lions, after narrowly missing out on the Super Bowl last year, in a 34-31 Conference Championship loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
Goff’s poise has been praised by Bradshaw, who has changed his tune, as he also compared the in-form quarterback to former New England Patriots icon Tom Brady.
While appearing on the FOX NFL Sunday show, the 76-year-old said: “You know you look at a coach and you look at the quarterback and their relationship. When you have a coach like Campbell and you have a quarterback like Goff, the first thing I think about – the first thing that came to my mind actually when they got the ball back to go down and get the winning field goal was that ‘God, this guy reminds me a little bit of our guy Tom Brady’.
“You said that some lines are going to go down, Goff’s going to take them right down, they’re going to score and I remember standing on the sidelines down in Houston when Tom led them down and how he was a mess. But I said ‘Never worry, this ball’s in the best hands it could possibly be in, in Tom Brady’.
“When you can trust a quarterback who has consistently brought your team from behind, in the fourth quarter especially? Man, that’s a rare era right there.”
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