Jared Goff laments Rams exit on ‘Quarterback’ Season 2, and Sean McVay’s past comments show he agrees

Jared Goff laments missing 'maturity' from his Rams exit

Goff, in recollecting his trade to the Lions, gets emotional recalling how blindsided he was by the call from Sean McVay to share the news. Part of the frustration from Goff, stems from how hurriedly the process unfolded from his side of things. Within 30 second of getting the call from McVay, the news broke on the internet that the trade was going down. 

"You feel like you've been betrayed or like you're not wanted. And I think for me, ultimately it was the fact that there wasn't a conversation had, and that there wasn't like a...'Hey we're thinking about moving on' type of thing. There was nothing. You wish that it wasn't such a blindside. You with that there was some sort of, um, maturity, I guess, to have that conversation and to be able to let me know what's going on, how things went down, why this is happening." 

— Jared Goff on his trade to Detroit

Goff has every right to feel how he feels, just as the Rams had every right to pivot and go in a new direction. And here's the thing about everything that Jared Goff said — Sean McVay has already lamented how he handled this situation, too. 

McVay has already admitted he was wrong

“I will say…when I look back on it, the Jared Goff situation could have been handled better on my part. In terms of the clarity of the dialogue in the midst of that. You never know which direction this is gonna go, but when you sit there and you say ‘I had some growing up to do. Could have done a better job for Jared'...there’s a lot more respect and etiquette he deserved in the way that was handled on my end. That was poor on my part and you want to make sure that as you try to apply your learning lessons from your mistakes that you’re at least trying to communicate with clarity.”

- Sean McVay on Fitz & Whit earlier this offseason

That was Sean McVay back at the end of February. Based on his own self-awareness of how things ended with Goff, one would have to assume that McVay probably doesn't disagree with anything being said. And that's a good thing for whenever these stories and journeys end, so that any lingering damage done by a regrettable process can be mended accordingly. 

There's little reason to thing that day will come any time soon, as McVay and the Rams keep on rising throughout the NFC ranks and Goff continues to perform at a high level as the quarterback in Detroit.