Nine days before Super Bowl LV had officially put a bow on the 2020 NFL season, the calliope music already could be heard.
The league's 2021 quarterback carousel was in motion.
Yes, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers still had to settle the business of a championship, but the Detroit Lions had agreed on Dec. 30 to ship quarterback Matthew Stafford -- he told the Detroit Free Press' Mitch Albom this past week, "I wanted to shoot my shot" -- to the Los Angeles Rams for Jared Goff and a pile of draft picks.