Social media can be dumb. Correct that, social media always has a tinge of dumbness about it. There is never a day on social media where things are completely normal. This morning, an article got posted from the Detroit Lions’ Sports Illustrated account asking if Jared Goff was the best quarterback in the NFC North. This was pure bait from whomever runs their social and content to get people engaged in the comments, quote tweets and clicks. That’s all this is, yet some Packers writers took as that’s what they said in this roundtable when really it’s not.

Detroit Lions Roundtable: Is Jared Goff the Best QB in NFC North?https://t.co/nYSSG0tKT0

— DetroitSportsPodcast (@DetroitPodcast) April 18, 2021

If you click in the article (Sorry for giving them one), they both talk about how Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback in the NFC North and until Rodgers leaves, he will have that title. One of the podcasters says that Kirk Cousins is also better than Goff. It’s on a much smaller and less important scale, but this is misinformation. The social media people are trying to draw out engagement and reactions. What they should have posted is pretty simple – “What does Jared Goff have to do to be the best quarterback in the NFC North?” That’s the topic. It’s pretty obvious he’s not the best one.

Let’s try to create real discussions about this stuff instead of manufactured ones.

Charlie.