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Jeff Risdon

Jared Goff doesn’t care about silencing his critics

Jared Goff doesn’t care about silencing his critics. In fact, the Detroit Lions quarterback doesn’t care one bit about any critics or critiques of his performance.

Goff made that clear at the end of his media session at Lions practice on Tuesday. Good, bad, whatever — Goff does not care what you say or think about him.

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“Don’t care. Don’t care,” Goff said earnestly. “There’s still going to be some and there will always be even if I’m playing great, if I’m playing poorly, there’ll always be haters and lovers and ignore them all and keep trying to get better.”

He’s played very well since the midpoint of the 2022 season and is leading one of the NFL’s most diversely successful offenses. Goff made the Pro Bowl a year ago, thanks in part to a lengthy streak of not throwing an interception.

That streak ended, and he’s thrown a pick in each of the last three games. Goff is more worried about preventing more of those than reliving the three INTs.

“You’ve got to be smart with it,” Goff said. “I’ve had three; two of them were bad throws, one was a bad decision. Try to limit the decision ones. Those are the ones that really sting, but yeah, just got to take care of the ball better and really limit that is something I’m focused on.”

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