The quarterback watched as the turnaround happened, just like he knew it would, including Sunday’s victory over the 10-win Vikings. Now, for Detroit, there’s no turning back.
Jared Goff has been there. He’s seen a team go from bad to good in a hurry. So even as the Lions lost six of their first seven, even as Dan Campbell’s record dipped to an unsightly 4-19-1 over his first 24 games as Detroit’s coach, and even as the defense struggled to get its footing and the offense went up and down, Goff could scroll back in his mental Rolodex to find optimism.