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    Jared Goff has found perfection

    Seren Anwen Posted on

    This is For The Win’s daily newsletter, The Morning Win. Did a friend recommend or forward this to you? If yes, subscribe here. Do you have any feedback? Leave your questions, comments and concerns in this short reader survey! This is Mike Sykes.

    Good morning, winners! Welcome back to Morning Win. Thank you for reading today. We thank you for your visit today.

    If I had told you four years ago that Jared Goff was not only one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, but that he would have pulled off one of the most unique plays in NFL history for arguably the league’s best offense, you would have… I would have probably said I was crazy.

    And yet here we are.

    Goff pitched a perfect game against the Seahawks on Monday Night Football. He completed 18 of 18, which ranks as the most pass attempts without an incompletion in NFL history. Goff had more touchdowns (!!!!) than incompletions on Monday, which is also a sentence no one thought he would ever type. But I think that’s what’s special about Jared Goff these days. He specializes in doing the unpredictable.

    His success so far was unimaginable just four years ago. There was no denying that the Rams needed to trade Goff and move up at quarterback. He just wasn’t good enough to do the job. Los Angeles delivered one of the most offensively toothless Super Bowl performances of all time in 2019, which marked the beginning of the end for him in this city.

    Now we’re in the third year of the Goff to Detroit experiment and, well, it’s hard to believe that things are the way they are. Goff breaks every convention we thought we knew about him. The man has gone from an unwanted quarterback to the man who holds everything together for the Lions offense. The lions! Careers used to end in Detroit. It was supposed to be his career.

    That’s why this perfect game is so great. It’s not the fact that Goff did it, although that’s obviously an accomplishment in itself. It’s the fact that you feel like it wasn’t him allegedly to be able to do something like that. If the Lions were ever going to win anything, it would be against him – not because of him.

    Instead, he creates perfection and makes plays we’ve never seen from him before. How? I don’t know. He makes it easy.

    And you have to love it.

    The MLB playoff field is set

    After a final doubleheader between the Mets and Braves on the very last day of the MLB regular season, baseball’s playoff field is finally set.

    The Mets and Braves split the doubleheader, giving the two NL East rivals the final Wild Card spots in the National League. So we have the following:

    • Bundesliga: Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 1), Philadelphia Phillies (No. 2), Milwaukee Brewers (No. 3), San Diego Padres (No. 4), Atlanta Braves (No. 5), New York Mets (No. 6) .
    • American League: New York Yankees (No. 1), Cleveland Guardians (No. 2), Houston Astros (No. 3), Baltimore Orioles (No. 4), Kansas City Royals (No. 5), Detroit Tigers (No. 6).

    All the playoff action begins tonight. Charles Curtis has more on the Wild Card matches and schedule here.

    Obviously the Dodgers and Yankees will be the favorites. But the differences between these teams are not that big. We had a lot of surprises last season and while it probably won’t be as drastic, there’s a good chance we’ll see something similar again this season.

    Hang in there, folks.

    Davante Adams, you are a chief…perhaps?

    Well, not yet, I guess. And maybe never. But it looks like the Raiders wide receiver is destined for a move elsewhere outside of Las Vegas.

    Antonio Pierce liked an Instagram post about Adams potentially being on the move.

    Here’s Charles with more on what it could mean:

    “We don’t know what that means, but if Antonio Pierce really hit the like button on Instagram on a post about a report that Davante Adams may have “already played his last snap with the Raiders “, then… is that TRUE?

    Apparently Pierce revoked the like, but you can read what you want into the tea leaves. Adams is injured right now, and the Las Vegas Raiders may want to trade him to a contender like the Kansas City Chiefs.

    But maybe it was a coincidence. A wink. A like designed to throw us all off guard. Who knows?”

    That’s hard to say these days. It’s probably nothing. But, man. If that’s something? Whew, boy. Things could get interesting in the next few weeks.

    Quick hits: RIP Dikembe Mutombo…RIP Pete Rose…and more

    – The NBA world mourned Dikembe Mutombo after he died on Monday at the age of 58. He meant so much to the game, man. Robert Zeglinski has more.

    — Pete Rose also died Monday at age 83. The baseball world mourned him, even though he was a complicated (and criminal) figure. Cory Woodroof has more.

    – Tyler Netunno is here with his weekly winners and losers for Week 5 in college football.

    – Here are Robert Zeglinski and Christian D’Andrea’s weekly NFL power rankings for Week 5.

    – Cory says the Dolphins should hire Ryan Tannehill as their backup QB going forward.

    – Dan Campbell somehow didn’t give Goff the ball despite his perfect game. Crazy.

    That’s it, folks. Thank you for reading. Let’s do this again tomorrow. Peace.

    -Sykes ✌️

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