Jared Goff doesn't want to make Sunday's Wild-Card playoff game between the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams more than it is.

However, the quarterback hasn't forgotten the 2021 trade that sent him and a number of high draft picks to the Lions and Matthew Stafford to the Rams.

Goff was asked if the chip from being traded is still there.

"Of course," he said. "I think it'll never leave me, and I think that's a good thing."

Sean McVay said that he acknowledges now that Goff "deserved better" than how his exit from Los Angeles was handled.

"The thing that I'll never run away from are mistakes that I've made in previous instances. But when you look back on it, the gratitude for those four years, all the good memories that we had. And then when you end up making a change, that ended up being difficult. And could it have been handled better on my end? Absolutely. And I'll never run away from that," he said.