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Jared Goff drinks for free for the rest of his life in the Motor City. He led the Detroit Lions to the team’s first NFL Playoffs victory in 32 years, a drought spanning 1991 to 2023, and then he won another game when the Lions beat the Buccaneers in the Divisional Round.
Jared Goff’s arrival in Detroit was part of a famous swap with long-time QB Matthew Stafford who won a Super Bowl for Sean McVay’s Rams but then ceremoniously had his jersey banned in the NFC Wild Card Game on January 14th where Stafford lost to the Lions and Goff broke Detriot’s 3+ decade drought. It was poetic. And it was evident how comfortable Jared Goff is in Detroit throughout the Playoffs run, now we know why…
In a synergistic move, Netflix paired Lions QB Jared Goff with Beverly Hills Cop‘s Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), a cop from Detroit who was new in LA, to give Goff the lay of the land in the Motor City. Normally these weird promo videos don’t work and come off as cheesy but it’s evident they let Eddie be Eddie with this and it works:
Why now? Well, Beverly Hills Cop 4 is releasing exclusively on Netflix on July 3rd this Summer, just in time for Independence Day. It is a bit odd they didn’t pair them together and instead had Goff watching film but it makes sense from a football perspective.
The film will star Eddie Murphy, of course, as well as Kevin Bacon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bronson Pinchot reviving his role as Serge, Paul Reiser, and others. It is interesting that Netflix landed Jared Goff for this when as far as I know he’s not part of their Quarterback series, but that may change.