murksiderock
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Goff's Rams went to the Super Bowl in 2018, and yes he choked...Padford's Rams went to the Super Bowl in 2021. 3 years later, that was not the same Super Bowl team Goff had...
Goff choked in the SB while Stafford won with the same team.
I find it funny that when Padford won a Super Bowl nikkas got blasted with that Men In Black flash thing, and forgot how he got the nickname Stat Padford in the first place...
I saw this man play dozen fukking years before going to LA. Not a year or two, not even 5 years like LA Goff.......12 fukking years of Matthew Stafford in Detroit.
He was never "trash" or "garbage", and he did have mostly shyt management, coaching, and teammates for MOST of his Lions career. But he had a few years where they were legitimately GOOD, better than most of his LA teams, and there are a LOT of instances of him throwing up garbage time numbers because he couldn't keep a game competitive when it was in the balance...
Matthew Stafford isnt a floor-raiser, which is fine because most quarterbacks aren't. The VERY BEST quarterbacks are, though. And in his youth he was never a Top 10 guy, consistently, because he's not a floor-raiser. Example, the elevation Allen has done this year in Buffalo, that Mahomes and Lamar have done in the past, with mid talent around them, Stafford never did...
I'm not even entertaining any conversation of him being better than Goff unless this is a scouting mission, grading "the measurables". Not even entertaining this shyt. I know who Stat Padford is...
100 fukking percent. LA was fukking garbage when he got there. Detroit was fukking garbage when he got there. And of course, as you mentioned, he's had help------>he was at his best in LA with an All-Pro running back, and turns out McBay is an elite coach. Also the pairing of Holmes and Campbell in Detroit is elite, these guys know how to build a roster and Campbell certainly isn't a bad coach...Irony of course being that Goff is the only person that has produced (numbers and winning) on more than one team. People pick and choose which help they wanna harp on. Meanwhile folks ready to crown Burrow for, possibly, making the playoffs and putting up big numbers with the best WR duo in the league. Goff lost a SB too so you cant even use that plea.
But both were unproven commodities before coaching Goff, he's the one similarity between the success rate of the 2017-2020 Rams and the 2023-present Lions, yet he gets nitpicked like a mf...
Every single one of these guys has help but Jared Goff is a floor-raiser, and yes he's better than he was in LA. His case as a Top 5 QB is as strong as any other mf who ain't the Big 4, and it's certainly as strong as Stat fukking Padford...