Tag: goff trade

Report: Washington’s offer for Matthew Stafford ‘was better’ than what Lions accepted

The Lions ultimately took a package of 3 future draft picks and a QB for Matthew Stafford, but there’s a belief that Washington’s offer was better.

A massive trade took place on Saturday night, with news breaking that the Detroit Lions were sending QB Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams for a package that included QB Jared Goff, as well as two first-round picks and a third-round pick.

This is a package that is massively bigger than we expected in a Stafford trade, but it makes sense that the Rams had to pay up to get their guy considering the major salary dump that Detroit took on with Goff, who is still owed $43 million in guaranteed money over the rest of his contract.

For Washington fans, it is a bummer that they were unable to land Stafford, but everyone should be okay not sending that many draft picks away in order to get him. However, a report from ESPN’s Josina Anderson shows that Washington’s offer actually might have been better than what Detroit ended up taking.

The keyword here is ‘better.’ That doesn’t mean that Washington offered more draft picks than the Rams did, but it’s believed that the package that was sent from D.C. included more immediate help for the Lions, rather than the package to rebuild with. My interpretation is that Washington probably offered their first-round pick this year, as well as a player that could help Detroit turn things around.

In the end, it doesn’t really matter what Washington offered, because Stafford is in LA. Now we can turn our focus on Deshaun Watson and feel comfortable that Ron Rivera is doing everything he can to land a big fish in D.C.

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Jared Goff could get traded by the Rams, so does Washington make sense?

New reports are showing that the Rams are open to trading QB Jared Goff, so where does Washington fit in that mix, and would they even want him?

A lot of our time over the past few weeks has been focused on which quarterback the Washington Football Team is likely to end up with at the start of the 2021 season.

Many have their eyes set on guys like Deshaun Watson, or Matthew Stafford, or Dak Prescott, or Matt Ryan; all guys who could be picked up in free agency or via trade for some high-prices. However, a new name has entered the chat: Los Angeles Rams QB Jared Goff.

A report from The Athletic shows that the Rams are starting to engage in some “exploratory trade talks,” according to Jourdan Rodrigue, with the ultimate goal to bring Stafford back to LA to run Sean McVay’s offense. With a high cap number after signing a new contract within the last couple of years and an apparent regression, it seems that the Goff experience in LA might be coming to an end.

That means if the Rams deem a quarterback worth trading for and are able to execute such a transaction, they would be willing to eat $22.2 million in dead-cap money, plus the new quarterback’s salary. They also could trade Goff after June 1 (an extremely rare scenario, though there is league precedent) for a relatively small total of $6.8 million in dead money in 2021 (plus $15.4 million in 2022).

So, like we said up top, Jared Goff’s name has now entered the chat of quarterbacks who are likely to be on the move this offseason. However, does that mean that Washington should be interested? It’s clear that they need a new guy under center going forward, but is Goff the guy?

Ask that question two years ago, and the answer is definitely yes. Ask that question now, and you’ll likely get a response that ranges from slightly-timid to aggressively against. What happened?

Well, a young player with a high ceiling was seemingly exposed by the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl a couple of years back, where he was held to 229 yards and 1 INT, being held out of the endzone in a 13-3 snoozer. Since then, things have fallen off a bit for Goff, and we can’t really figure out why. Check out these stats from Goff in both 2017 and 2018, compared to what he’s done in 2019 and 2020:

2017-2018: 24-7 record, 8492 yards, 60 TD, 65.3% completion, 19 INT

2019-2020: 18-13 record, 8590 yards, 42 TD, 64.95% completion, 29 INT

With a high-flying offense like the Rams have, Goff is apparently not the guy that McVay envisions running it going forward, but that doesn’t mean he can’t still have a solid career in the NFL. If Washington were to be interested, it would cost them significantly less to acquire Goff than someone like Stafford or Watson, simply because they’d more being doing LA a favor by getting him off their books. However, a Goff acquisition would likely not sit over very well with the fanbase in D.C., as he lacks a star factor that is so desired to head up this offense.

Goff feels more like a last-resort acquisition, mainly because of his regression, and that frighteningly big contract that he brings with him. At this point, though, it feels that his name has to at least be mentioned.

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