Episode #183: Hello, Jared Goff, Goodbye, Matthew Stafford
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week, the guys discuss the Lions blockbuster trade with the Los Angeles Rams of sending Matthew Stafford to L.A. and acquiring Jared Goff, a 2021 3rd round pick, a 2022 1st round pick, and a 2023 1st round pick from all angles.
- Trade discussions heated up on Saturday
- Multiple offers were on the table and a deal was reportedly close to being done
- Rams increased their offer to Jared Goff, a 2021 3rd round pick, a 2022 1st round pick, and a 2023 1st round pick — and the Lions pounced
- Goff after speaking with the Lions: “this is how it’s supposed to feel”
- Goff released a statement thanking L.A. and expressed excitement over heading to Detroit
- Trading for Jared Goff gives the Lions a starter level QB and a potential bridge to the future
- Erik breaks down the salary cap implications after trading for Jared Goff
- Touchdown Wire’s Mark Schofield explores how can the Lions maximize Jared Goff
- Lions’ coaching staff continues to grow
- Mark Brunell as the QB coach
- Dom Capers as a senior defensive assistant
- Former Jaguars DC Todd Wash as DL coach
- This suggests a divergence from the previous defensive scheme and likely more 1-gapping fronts
- Seth Ryan as assistant WR coach
- Kelvin Sheppard and Brian Duker as defensive assistants
- Lions still missing WR coach and OLB coach, others
- Cory Undlin to 49ers as DB coach/passing game specialist
- Robert Prince to the Texans as WR coach
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown Podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Joe Kenya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:11.3 | Eric's also our Detroit magazine's number two most beloved sports columnist or blogger for the year 2020. |
| 0:18.7 | You certainly earned it over this weekend because we had breaking news on Saturday night |
| 0:24.5 | as Matthew Stafford ends his 12-year journey to use a bachelor term. |
| 0:31.7 | With the Lions, when he got traded to the Los Angeles Rams and exchanged, |
| 0:36.3 | Lions got Jared Goff and three draft picks. |
| 0:38.6 | And of course, everybody already knows that. |
| 0:40.3 | But we'll talk about it more in depth. |
| 0:43.3 | Eric, we obviously we didn't know this last Thursday. |
| 0:46.2 | We discussed a lot of different landing spots for Stafford. |
| 0:50.4 | Were they already knee deep at the Rams at this time? |
| 0:53.8 | No, I think there was a lot on the table at the time, actually. |
| 0:57.5 | And the reports have all been focused around the fact that the Rams were in it, |
| 1:04.8 | but not the leading team as of Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:09.0 | So, yeah, they were fielding trade offers. |
| 1:12.7 | When we were last on, we talked about the fact that there were 10 or 12 teams. |
| 1:16.8 | I think we know like eight of them that have been reportedly that either offered deals |
| 1:21.7 | or were deep in discussions with them. |
| 1:23.6 | So it's a handful of teams that were in on the mix. |
| 1:27.1 | And yeah, it all comes to a |
| 1:30.1 | fruition, uh, Saturday night at what, 10 o'clock, right? Yeah, at 10 o'clock. As is, |
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