Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff completed all 18 of his passes during Monday’s home win against the Seattle Seahawks, setting an NFL record for completions.
While the biggest thing is that Detroit’s defense deteriorated rapidly Detroit’s 42-29 win over the Seattle Seahawks This certainly could have been a more ideal program.
No, we’re not rooting for a touch of gray for the boys in silver, black and Honolulu blue, but at least mention next week’s bye. Talk about an obvious stunt for speed. Then again, perhaps an attack that continues so early should be rewarded with a short respite before an optimistic surge.
“I was sure it would happen,” Goff said after the game“I thought the first half of last week was indicative of who we are. … To be able to have a full game that feels like that, that’s what you want.’
Goff completed 18-of-23 passes for 196 yards and two scores before connecting on the first 14 passes of an eventual 20–13 victory at Arizona in Week 3. This streak marked his longest period of starting games in his nine-year career.
This also provided encouragement. Goff was a combined 52-for-83 through the first two weeks of the season, throwing for an impressive 524 yards but only throwing three interceptions and one TD.
On Monday, Goff was turnover-free while adding two more passing touchdowns and getting another score.
Yes.
With the Lions leading midway through the third quarter, Goff handed the ball off to David Montgomery, then ran out of the backfield toward the left sideline.
Montgomery passed the ball to Amon-Ra St. Brown, who delivered a nice… accurate pass over a Seattle defender and into the arms of Goff for a 7-yard TD.
“I was so excited,” said Goff, who threw the ball into the stands. “We’ve been cooking that thing for a long time. I think it’s the first touchdown catch of my career.”
Perhaps it’s fitting that Goff tossed the ball to the Ford Field faithful with no abandon.
At the end of the night, Lions coach Dan Campbell distributed game balls to safety Kerby Joseph and wideout Jamison Williams. The latter received a 70-yard TD pass from Goff, who did not receive the game ball, perhaps because Campbell has fallen back to taking Goff’s efficiency as a given.
“I gave the game ball to someone else, so I feel really bad,” Campbell said. “I knew he played a great game. I didn’t realize he was perfect. I didn’t know he was really 18-18, but I knew he played really well. can you Feel It. “He found his rhythm really quickly.”
It’s hard to blame Campbell or even call him absent-minded. Not that this is baseball, where teammates traditionally leave the potential culprit of a perfect game at one end of the dugout, not to be disturbed, even if he remains in full sight.
In football, stadium scoreboard operators sometimes show playful graphics accompanying home invasions on the field, suggesting that the group would prefer relative silence, please and thank you. A message to the tune of “Quiet: Crime at Work” comes to mind.
However, once ‘D’ retakes the field, the loud shouting and clapping resumes.
With Detroit on the cusp of a 3-1 start and its first win against Seattle since 2012, fans would have believed Monday night was almost perfect without knowing that Goff was actually in sight of the box score.
Goff admitted that he was concerned about whether the pass he threw out of bounds during the game would later be ruled an incompletion as offensive pass interference.
It did not happen.
With that, Goff can rest up before aiming to extend his streak of keeping the ball off the field in two weeks when the Lions visit Dallas.