Within the grand scheme of issues, the 2023 Detroit Lions loved a profitable season regardless of squandering a 24-7 halftime lead en path to shedding the NFC Championship sport to the San Francisco 49ers.
Lions quarterback Jared Goff nonetheless nonetheless has a bitter style in his mouth as a result of, as he just lately instructed Greg Bishop of Sports activities Illustrated, “we didn’t win” the season’s remaining contest.
“Final 12 months, what bothered me, at instances, was folks had this notion that we had been glad to be there, and we definitely weren’t [that],” Goff clarifyed. “And it’s like, ‘No, we’re simply rattling good.'”
The Lions made some historical past final September once they entered a season for the primary time because the betting favorites to say the NFC North title because the division was shaped in 2002. Detroit achieved that objective whereas notching a 12-5 report and the Lions then earned their first playoff victory since January 1992.
The Lions rewarded Goff this offseason with a four-year contract extension that included $170M assured and might be value as much as $212M. Whereas he has thousands and thousands of causes to be happier in the present day than he was 12 months in the past, the previous Cal signal-caller acknowledged it nonetheless stings {that a} squad that “definitely” had the products to win Tremendous Bowl LVIII fell simply wanting enjoying in that sport.
“I adore it, I completely adore it, and he’s completely proper,” Detroit head coach Dan Campbell stated about Goff’s takes concerning final season. “Yeah, there isn’t any second, man. You’re dejected. And also you’re off. And it hurts.”
Campbell revealed earlier in the summertime that he basically started fascinated about the duty of returning to the NFC Championship sport “the minute that clock went to zero in San Francisco” this previous January. He also knows the Lions are actually a group “with the goal on our again” as a result of it is no secret that Detroit is, as Goff put it, “rattling good.”
As of late Friday morning, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the Lions second behind solely the 49ers (+250) among the many betting favorites at +550 odds to signify the NFC in Tremendous Bowl LIX. Detroit will look to make fairly a press release when it hosts the Los Angeles Rams — Goff’s former group and the group that misplaced to the Lions within the wild-card spherical of the playoffs again in January — for a Week 1 “Sunday Night time Soccer” conflict on Sept. 8.