Pride of Detroit
In a preview for season 2 of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback,’ Jared Goff gets emotional retelling the first few moments of his trade to the Detroit Lions.
We’re just about a week away from the debut of Netflix’s second season of “Quarterback,” which will heavily feature Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff, as well as Kirk Cousins and Joe Burrow. On Monday, ESPN’s “Pat McAfee Show” debuted a long clip of the show that depicts Goff retelling his emotions during the moment in which he was traded from the Los Angeles Rams to the Detroit Lions.
For many, it may have been a humiliating moment to be traded away—with a load of draft picks—by the team that you helped take to the Super Bowl just a year prior. But Goff talks about how phone calls with Lions general manager Brad Holmes and coach Dan Campbell immediately changed his perspective of the moment.
“It kinda brought me from this moment of like picking up the pieces to, like, reinvigorated with this energy of, ‘Oh, this is what it feels like to truly be wanted and to have these guys behind you,’” Goff said. “I hadn’t felt that in quite some time.”
Campbell remembers the call, too, and in a testimonial to the Netflix show, he remembers telling Goff that they’re a duo now.
“I just wanted to make sure that he understood how excited we were, how excited I was,” Campbell said. “You’re going to be part of the foundation. We’re going to build this from the ground up. You’re going to be a huge part of this, and you’re ours. You belong with us. We’re going to be tied to the hip.”
Campbell reiterated that point a little later.
“That’s my guy. That’s my quarterback,” Campbell said. “Every head coach has got a quarterback. If you want to have success, you better have a quarterback, and I’ve got one.”
Ultimately, Goff started to see the outstanding opportunity that Detroit provided. Working with a first-time head coach and a first-time general manager, they had the opportunity to bring success to a franchise that hadn’t seen any in seven decades. That’s when Goff got a little emotional
“To be able to be the first decision they made when they got here and prove them right—how great of an opportunity is that?” Goff said. “Sorry, I’m trying not to cry, but—it’s been so incredible to build with them. That moment of hearing them on the phone, knowing (that) the opportunity that I had here was special.”
You can view the entire clip here:
