Jared Goff entered Thanksgiving royalty on Thursday. He also checked off a major item on his NFL bucket list.
After tossing two touchdowns in the Lions' 23-20 win over the Bears, Goff joined Hall of Famer Brett Favre as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to throw at least two touchdowns in each of their four first Thanksgiving Day games.
Of course, Goff had lost his first three. And the Lions had lost their last seven. Those skids are cooked. Goff tore into Thanksgiving turkey legs with Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jahmyr Gibbs, DJ Reader and Al-Quadin Muhammad while David Montgomery nibbled on a carrot during the customary postgame interview on CBS and said later, "It’s the best."
"In your NFL career you have these bucket-list items. Holding the Lombardi is obviously No. 1, but the whole eating the turkey after the Thanksgiving win is up there, too, and that’s something that I’ll never forget," said Goff. "It was actually pretty good, the stuffing was good, we were having a good time. It’s awesome. It’s a memory I’ll have forever.”
As for Montgomery?
"David was eating carrots, yeah, I don’t know, maybe he wasn’t hungry," said Goff.
Now that the Lions have ended their Thanksgiving slide, "we can start our new streak of winning," said Goff.
"To get the W in the way we did and to end that skid that we’ve been on and put that to rest, it’s another check on our list that we’ve been working on for the last handful of years, and it feels good," said Goff.