Is Jared Goff Really the Best Quarterback in the NFC North?
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Memorial Day is over and Packers OTAs officially begin tomorrow, but before we spiral into boot watches and right tackle rotation drama, we're settling the real fight in the NFC North. Today I lay out exactly why Jared Goff was the best quarterback in the division last season — not with vibes, not with "he's about to take the leap," but with the actual numbers that matter. We're calling out the bad stats, the ecological fallacies, and the crayon rankings once and for all.
- What to expect from Week 1 OTAs: voluntary participation, no pads, teaching tempo, key injury updates, and why I'm already preemptively pissed about potential right tackle cross-training experiments.
- The statistical case for Jared Goff: leading the North in yards, touchdowns, passer rating, and sitting comfortably ahead on PFF while protecting the ball better than Jordan Love or Caleb Williams.
- Why wins, raw yards, and "future potential" metrics are noisy garbage when ranking quarterbacks — and why serious people isolate what the QB actually controls.
- Tomorrow's plan: the full, no-holds-barred ranking of all four NFC North quarterbacks using metrics that actually work.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | I am your host and resident fanalyst. |
| 0:16.3 | As always, Ryan Schlipp, check us out online, packernet.com. |
| 0:24.1 | Find me on Twitter pack underscore datam. |
| 0:31.7 | All right. Well, it is, it's a memorial day for you, right? Happy Memorial Day. Hope you guys are enjoying it. |
| 0:36.1 | If I'm not mistaken, it should be pretty nice outside for those that are relatively local. I think the warmth is flowing through. |
| 0:40.4 | So the plan today, just confirming no major news just happened here or overnight. Nothing. |
| 0:49.7 | Okay. So if we pull up the calendar just ever so quickly here, today for you being Monday, the 25th Memorial Day, tomorrow, Green Bay Packers, OTAs, week one begins. |
| 1:06.0 | I want to take a minute just to describe what's coming up. |
| 1:10.3 | And then I don't have a definitive schedule as to when we're going to have news coming out of OTAs. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm guessing at the very least there'll be tiny little dribs and drabs. |
| 1:21.2 | But there will also be moments where we'll get more bigger news, just depending on what kind of access and what access and win access and how access and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:32.0 | But according to Mike Clemens here, he says Packers should have good weather for OTA practices next week. |
| 1:40.2 | Matt LaFleur will hold a press conference and will hear from some of the new players Wednesday. I'm assuming that's all together, not two separate statements, so we should hear |
| 1:50.4 | from Matt and players all on Wednesday. Furthermore, I think the way that this has worked in the |
| 1:55.8 | past, I haven't been able to find any confirmation that it's the same this year, but it seems |
| 1:59.9 | to be the way that |
| 2:01.1 | this goes every year is you've got the different weeks of OTAs. And for example, this week is |
| 2:10.7 | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. But the actual practices, I think are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. |
| 2:21.2 | And so that's week one of OTAs. |
| 2:23.2 | And generally, the media gets one day. |
| 2:26.4 | And generally, generally, it's the second of those days, which would fall on that exact Wednesday that Mike Clemens was talking about. |
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