Jared Goff Week 5 QB Grade: Lions @ Bengals

The Lions are rolling, after a Week 1 loss to the Green Bay Packers, the Detroit Lions, fueled by the accurate and efficient play of Jared Goff have reeled off 4 straight wins and are tied for the best record in the NFL. Interestingly this is an offense that, even when it's not firing on all cylinders, it still has no issue dropping 30+ on opponents, like we've seen the last 2 weeks. And they have done so every week since week 1.

Let's take a look at the (abridged) breakdown.

Basics (Season Average in Italics)

C/A: 22.5/30.5 (73.8%) | 19/23 (82.6%)

Yards: 232.2 | 258

aDOT: 8.5 | 5.0

Touchdowns: 2.3 | 3

Turnovers: 0.5 | 1

QB at Fault Sacks: .8 | 1

Passer Rating: 113.0 | 153.0

True Passer Rating: 145.6 | 159.1

Time to Throw: 2.60s | 2.31s

Time to Pressure: 2.35s | 2.24s

Pressure Rate: 29.04% | 29.63%

On-Target Rate: 69.4% | 78.3%

PPR / BPR: 10.9%PPR / 6.5%BPR | 3.4%PPR / 0.0%BPR

Abridged Breakdown

• I will be honest and say this was mostly a un-noteworthy day from Goff. The Detroit offense did not need him to do a whole lot besides get the ball to his playmakers, which he did at a very accurate rate. Just 4 incompletions on the day and a majority of those completions were on-target.

• His best throw of the afternoon came on the touchdown to Isaac TeSlaa, a crosser out of play action that Goff hits TeSlaa perfectly for an easy touchdown thanks to his accuracy and placement.

• His 1 turnover worthy play came on the strip sack, in my grading fumbles are agnostically graded as turnover worthy if a defensive recovery is made, however, in this situation no additional negative score was applied to the play due to it being a blind strip.

• Outside that and taking a bad sack where he was staring down Sam LaPorta and still managed to take a sack, Goff did fantastically at limiting negatives and keeping the Detroit offense on schedule. The final grade may not be sexy but this was essentially a flawless game. Not all great games will be reflected in play scoring. But that's where TPR comes in, where he scored a 159.1, his second highest TPR score of the season.

• Scores of -0.20/0.30/0.10 give Goff a fairly "Average" game score, which given the play grades makes a lot of sense. He was accurate and efficient with the ball, setting up his receivers to pick up YAC at ease and move the chains. Goff played the point guard roll this week to a tee, he wasn't asked to do much because he didn't need to to much besides distribute the ball accurately, which he did at a 78.3% clip this week, a season high for QB's I grade in on-target throws.