Jared Goff has had an unreal career resurrection with the Detroit Lions (currently playing the Buffalo Bills in a thriller as of this posting).
After the Goff-led Los Angeles Rams lost the Super Bowl to the New England Patriots with Bill Belichick shutting down Sean McVay’s prolific offense, the Rams head coach famously shipped Goff out of town to the Lions for Matthew Stafford. McVay and Stafford got their Super Bowl against the Cincinnati Bengals , and the 30-year-old Goff is poised to get his revenge with the 12-1 Lions.
After this story from ex-teammate Andrew Whitworth, now an analyst on Prime’s Thursday Night Football, many more NFL fans will be rooting for Detroit to close the deal after this story about Goff with on of his sons, MIchael. (Whitworth, 43, has four children with his wife Melissa, including twins Sarah and Drew, and another daughter Katherine.)
“I’ll never forget realizing how special he was going to be,” Whitworth told fellow TNF analyst Ryan Fitzpatrick on their podcast, “Fitz & Whit.” “A few weeks into the season, Michael, who you now, America has gotten to see… He shares with Jared Goff after one of the games in the locker room that he had lost his goldfish at home. He sat in Jared’s locker the whole postgame while Jared was doing postgame interviews, and we must have just worked Jared over…