Matthew Stafford has heard it all before. The trade rumors. The coaching hot seat discussion. The speculation he doesn’t want to be in Detroit anymore.
As he has often done in the past, Stafford squashed the sports-talk radio fodder. In his Zoom session with reporters on Wednesday, the longtime Lions quarterback reiterated what he’s consistently stated over the years: he doesn’t listen to any of that outside noise.
“No, I just go out there and play,” Stafford said this week when asked about the speculation coach Matt Patricia could be fired as the losses continue to mount. “I don’t really worry too much about that stuff, even when it’s offseason or whatever it is. I just go out there and try to prepare to play as good as I possibly can week in and week out. I understand the game and the life of the NFL just as much as anybody else, but I don’t think about it too much, to be honest.”
Instead of biting into the bait on any potential trade to the Dallas Cowboys, Stafford offered support and well wishes to injured Cowboys QB Dak Prescott.
“It was horrible,” Stafford said of Prescott’s nasty broken ankle. “I felt so bad for him. He was playing so great, he’s been playing great for a few years now. Just been the heart and soul of that team and to see it happen – I was watching the game live, looked down for a second, looked back up and it did not look good obviously.”
Stafford indicated he reached out to Prescott via Kellen Moore, his former backup and now the Dallas offensive coordinator.
