Jared Goff Opens Up About Feeling Totally Betrayed by Rams After Getting Traded to Lions
Jared Goff has turned the Detroit Lions into legit Super Bowl contenders since that huge 2021 swap with Matthew Stafford shook the NFL. But even now, years later, that trade still stings.
In a no-holds-barred moment on the new Netflix show Quarterback, Goff got real about how blindsided he felt when the Rams and coach Sean McVay dropped the trade news on him.
“I get this call from Sean three weeks after the season ends,” Goff says. “Honestly, I wasn’t expecting anything. Then he just tells me they’re trading me to Detroit. I’m like, ‘Wait, what? What’s going on?’”
To make it worse, Goff found out the whole league already knew via Twitter before he did. That’s when the feeling hit hard — pure betrayal.
“You just feel like, ‘Man, I’m not wanted,’” he admits. “And what really got me was there was zero heads-up. No conversation, no ‘Hey, we’re thinking about moving on’ — nothing. It was a total blindside. You wish they had been mature enough to at least talk to me and explain what was happening.”
On the other side, McVay has openly said he regrets how quickly he pulled the trigger and not being straight with Goff about it.
Meanwhile, Goff’s been schooling the Rams since, leading the Lions to two wins over L.A. — including snapping Detroit’s playoff drought in 2023. So yeah, looks like he’s made the most of the ‘betrayal.’
