Early in the week, Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff downplayed the significance of going against the Los Angeles Rams—both the team that drafted him first overall in 2016 and the franchise that opted to trade him away in 2021 in an effort to upgrade at quarterback with Matthew Stafford. It was much more important, for him, to deliver a postseason win to a city starved for it.
“I so badly want to win a game for this city and win a playoff game for this city that hasn’t had one in so long,” Goff said. “We’ve got a home playoff game for the first time in so long and that’s so much more important than anything personally for me.