Lions quarterback Jared Goff made NFL history Monday night by completing every pass he threw, but his favorite play may have been the pass he caught.
On a trick play the Lions call “Alcatraz,” wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown threw a pass to Goff in the end zone, which Goff caught for a touchdown. Goff said that, as far as he can remember, he had never caught a touchdown pass in his life at any level — not in college, high school or as a little kid.
“I think this is my first one ever, all the way back to 7 years old,” Goff said. “I think this is my first.”
Goff said he and St. Brown have been working on the piece for a few years, but the right situation to use it in a game had never arisen before.
“That play has been going on for a long time and we’ve never been in the right situation to call it out. I think we’ve mentioned it before in a game and if it’s not the right look I’ll come out of it. But that was the right look,” Goff said.
Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson wrote up the play and gave it the name, for reasons unknown to Goff.
“We call it Alcatraz,” Goff said. “Ben has been calling it Alcatraz for two or three years now. I don’t think I ever asked him why. There’s probably a reason. I guess I should ask him why.”
It was the second straight game in which the Lions got a touchdown pass on a trick play, after scoring on a hook and ladder the week before. Goff said there are more tricks in the Lions’ playbook.
“We have these plays in the game plan a lot and they don’t always happen,” Goff said. “There has to be the right scenario for them. The hook and the ladder were one and so was Alcatraz.”
