Jared Goff: 'You Have to Be Able to Talk S**t to DB's'

Jared Goff discusses leadership style in podcast appearance.

Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff / Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK

Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff feels empowered to be one of the leader's of the locker room.

As a veteran who has experienced the ups and downs of life in the National Football League, the 29-year-old is the right person to aid young players manage the emotional rollercoaster of playing a sport that is covered so heavily.

Detroit's starting quarterback expressed acting "normal" has helped him build rapport with the majority of his teammates.

"I was talking to another quarterback about this recently. Like, you have to be able to talk s**t to the db's, right. And stand on it and then also be able to talk to your offensive lineman about, I don't know, whatever they do in the offseason," Goff said in a recent podcast appearance. "It's not like it's like rocket science. It's like, let dudes just be normal, and just have those conversations. And that doesn't mean everyone's going to like you or that everyone's going to get along with you, but they'll respect you."

College athletes 'most overtrained athletes in sports'

While acknowledging training during his collegiate playing days helped him put on weight and grow as a player, Goff expressed the sheer amount of running was astounding at that level.

"I think that college football players, at least when we played, things have changed since, are the most overtrained athletes in sports," said Goff. "What we did is in football in the offseason, like we were a track team my freshman year at Cal in the offseason.

"It was great. It was for a good reason. I'm not bagging on it. It was for the the mental toughness and the whole thing, and it's helped me be mentally tough through hard workouts. But in hindsight, it's like, you don't need to run as much as we were running, right?"