Jared Goff is the first quarterback in NFL history to attempt more than 10 passes in a game without throwing an incompletion. Goff was as perfect as you could be throwing the football Monday night in Detroit's 42-29 win over Seattle, as he finished 18-for-18 for 292 yards with two touchdowns and a passer rating of 155.8.
And that performance didn't even earn Goff a game ball from head coach Dan Campbell.
"Yeah, well, I just gave the game ball to somebody else so I feel awful right now," Campbell said with a smile after the game. "Well, I knew he played a heck of a game. I did not realize he was perfect. I did not know he was literally 18-for-18.
"But I knew he played really well – you could feel it – and he really found his rhythm early, and I thought he was seeing the field, played with rhythm, he had to move a little bit in the pocket."
Goff made all the right reads and checkdowns and tight-window throws to keep the offense churning all night to the tune of six touchdowns and 42 points. He even caught his first career touchdown on a 7-yard trick-play pass from Amon-Ra St. Brown. He then hit Jameson Williams in stride for a 70-yard touchdown and later helped seal the game in the fourth quarter with a 7-yard strike to St. Brown.
In his last two games, Goff has completed 36-of-41 passes (87.8 percent). Over any two-game span since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger, this ties for the second highest completion percentage any quarterback has had when attempting at least 40 passes.
"Never. I don't think I've ever done it," Goff said of having a perfect passing game in his career. "I knew I did it in the first half last week, so I was aware of it then, and I was kind of aware of it today – middle of the third quarter, I was like, I couldn't think of one.
"But then I threw the one out of bounds that ended up being offensive pass interference, and I was like, 'Does that count?' I didn't know if that counted or not. But yeah, I didn't."
