NFL offseason thread

Stafford's not a winner. This will set the Rams back for a generation.

 

You will be utterly amazed at how immobile a healthy 26-year old qb can be.

If the 10 other men on the Lions offense do their jobs perfectly on a play, and nothing breaks down,Goff will be adequate. If the slightest thing in a play breaks down, you're fucked.

 

Well his $33.5 million/year guaranteed contract probably had a little to do with that

 

That was implied in my comment.
A player as shitty as Goff with out a big contract is usually just kicked to the curb.

 

Fair enough. Still drinking morning coffee.

 

Stafford’s wingnut wife is really going to fit in well in Southern California.

 

The Lions weren't going to win anything under Stafford. He's 33 as of next week, so he's into the physical decline phase, and he's taken some serious ass beatings, so he's an old 33. Even if the new regime's rebuild was a smashing success, they're two years away from .500 and three from contention. By which time Stafford is 36 with another three years of ass kickings on his frame.
Goff is 26 and is at least a credible starting QB -- they don't have to cull the waiver wires to dig up somebody to take snaps. He's still young enough to have potential to get better, or recover the level of his brief flash of near stardom. If he bombs out, they can dump his contract after a couple years.
With the haul of picks, they should be able to get a difference maker QB at some point in the next couple of years, plus putting together some kind of actual competitive team (ie, offensive and defensive lines).

 

It is actually about as close to a win win trade as we are going to get these days.

 

Really, pretty much a win-win win-win: it could turn out well for both teams and both players.

Stafford gets to go to a team with some weapons and some means to protect him; Goff gets out of a situation where the coaching staff had already cut bait on him, and he's got a couple years to get better.

Of course if either QB really shits the bed, it all goes bad, but that was gonna be true in any case. But in the end the Lions have those big fat juicy draft picks.

 

That’s 2 first round draft choices the Lions can trade for NFL quality starting players. Maybe not stars but proven starters

 

It doesn’t matter if Goff shits the bed. They got more because they took his contract on.

 

Stafford's contract is fairly hefty too (and could turn to a real albatross if he suffers more nagging injuries, a real possibility with the current Lions.)
If Goff shits the bed they write it off after the two-year guarantee period and dig up somebody better (probably using one of the draft picks to key a deal).
If he recovers to average-starter competence, they've got a decent starter. If he turns it around and returns to 2018 form, they extend him and he's still only 28-29.