That was the thing about the debate that irked me the most, the insistence that Jared was garbage, that he was lazy, that he got a hot GF and lost his drive to be good, that we as no better than a JAG, etc.
I'm still for the trade too, as Stafford showed himself to be elite and I do think peak Stafford is better than peak Goff. But Goff showed he was pretty GD good when he's put in the right situation, and that was something McVay increasingly failed to do for him during his last year in LA. The contrast between 2020 Goff in LA and 2022 Goff in Detroit bears that out.
And I think with what Goff has done this year in Detroit has established him near the upper end of the tier that is one level below elite.