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Charles Curtis

Jared Goff got back at Ryan Fitzpatrick for calling Lions QB ‘a poor man’s Matt Ryan’

First off, I should say that being called a “poor man’s Matt Ryan” isn’t the worst thing. Ryan had a pretty good career!

That said, calling anyone a “poor man’s” anything is usually damning with faint praise, so I get why Jared Goff might have been zinging Ryan Fitzpatrick after the Detroit Lions’ dominant 34-20 win over the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night.

Apparently, Fitzpatrick called Goff “a poor man’s Matt Ryan” before the game on Prime Video’s pregame show … and Goff heard it.

So when Goff appeared after the contest, he went right back at Fitzpatrick: “I didn’t know I was a poor man’s anything.” He was laughing, so it was all in good fun:

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