Jared Goff postgame media availability | 2023 Week 16: Lions vs. Vikings

Hear from quarterback Jared Goff following the Detroit Lions’ 30-24 win over the Minnesota Vikings during Week 16 of the 2023 season.

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Do do that’s the main thing I keep on repeating since the game’s over like just yeah there’s there’s a lot of you know obviously you feel pride in yourself and being able to win one but overwhelmingly proud of being a part of this group and being a part

Of group that’s gotten Taylor and and Frank and Graham to this to this point and being able to do that together it’s it’s really special and um I know those guys have grinded through some dark times and um we’ve been a part of some of them together and uh to be able to

Stand here as division champs it’s um it’s awesome and it’s it’s it’s just a beginning for us but it’s Awesome yeah to do see yeah man it’s it’s cool it really is cool and um you know being able to really reflect on it like we did something that yeah you know there team after team after team for 30 years and um this 2023 team did it and uh you know

Broke that streak and um we we will guarantee a home playoff game and um but yeah got some work to do next week and then the following and and see where we can go you knew exactly what this game would be in terms of slugfest um just just job you guys were

Able to do from game perspective and kind of keep in their pass rush from having that can what went into that why able to ex so well yeah it was it’s a very unique defense which which calls for a very unique game plan and um you have to play the game just slightly

Differently um you know I’d say 80 75% of the game is is you know what we usually do and then there’s a big chunk of stuff that we had to um rig up a little bit throughout the week and and figure out how we wanted to do things

And I thought Ben did a hell of a job getting us ready for this and and preparing us for what they can do and um I thought we did a hell of a job executing we really did I think those last two drives in the fourth quarter

Were were no good by us and um certainly need to get fixed and we will get them fixed but everything else all day man was was really good they have three touchdown drives 13 plays difficult operate in a world like that you yeah you know you you don’t hope to

Do that but again sometimes some of the things their defense was presenting you have to and um it’s you know it’s it’s us being disciplined it’s me being disciplined and them saying you’re not going to be disciplined and you know just trying to do it one play after

Another and uh yeah it’s it’s hard and it’s not ideal but that’s what we had to do today after uh was 217 consecutive touchdowns early in third what were you thinking and maybe what did you say to to your guys at that point because you know the noise and the stakes all you

Know we don’t we don’t really think about any of that when we’re out there um I didn’t say anything we just operated um those guys don’t need a pep talk in the middle of third quarter they they know what’s at stake and know what we had to do to execute and um we’re

We’re we’re we’re good at executing we’re we’re operators and uh in the noise wherever um we we do that and certainly there was some mistakes today and and some things that need to be cleaned up but um we’ll never apologize for w and certainly never apologize for division championship see brown get so

Much coverage from just because of he does still plays and G plays just built such a report with him over the years just he thisam this offense and yeah he means a ton he means a ton to this team he means a ton to this culture a ton to our

Offense certainly and a ton to me I mean he’s he’s getting himself open he’s running great routes he’s got great hands he communicates great with me tells me what he likes what he doesn’t like um and yeah I can trust him on every single throw you can you can ever

Make I trust him um he’s a hell of a player and uh is only going to continue to get better which is exciting couple more fin Drive falls out of your hand you can’t do [Applause] anything yeah you know it was uh it’s always hard sitting there and at the

Mercy of it and um the way that offense was operating they were you know kind of just taking shots down the field trying to get lucky and um they hit one and they and they didn’t hit one and they hit one and uh so yeah ify making that

Play man it’s it’s what our teams about all year of um picking each other up when they need it complimentary football uh you know offense struggled there for the last two drives defense picked us up on the last one um and then throughout the game we were making our plays on

Offense but yeah it’s it’s a whole team effort um it’s it’s fun to finish it that way with a turn over where you can take a big deep breath on the sideline but um yeah it’s it’s never easy and today was certainly not easy and um we’re we’re proud to be division champs