Lions beat Vikings 16-13, have grip on 1st place

We’re competing our tails off, we really are in this locker room.

Detroit now essentially holds a two-game advantage over the Vikings (6-5) because of the head-to-head tiebreaker with five games to play. Matt Prater kicked a clutch field goal as time expired. At this point, this is Detroit’s identity.

“I knew (Bradford) was going to throw, ” Slay said. It was a performance that questioned the old adage that great quarterbacks don’t need to make fourth-quarter comebacks because great quarterbacks don’t face fourth-quarter deficits.

The Lions led 10-7 at halftime after Matt Prater made a 29-yard field goal, but the Vikings dominated play in the third quarter.

Bradford, through a combination of not having enough time to do anything else and knowing that he can’t risk turning the ball over, has pretty much stopped taking the chances that he was taking during Minnesota’s early-season win streak. They’ve surrendered just 33 first downs in the last two weeks, both wins.

At the start of the fourth quarter, the Lions trailed 13-10.

Ziggy Ansah hit Sam Bradford from behind to force a fumble that Haloti Ngata recovered, but replay showed that Bradford’s arm was coming forward when the ball came loose.

“We’ve probably got to try and find a way to create some explosive plays, ” Bradford said (per TwinCities.com’s Chris Tomasson). Maybe you aren’t impressed that the Lions season has hinged on a few plays.

Even if all the Vikings’ starters on the offensive line were healthy, they’d have issues at that spot.

“They’ve been in it”.

Rookie quarterback Dak Prescott had two touchdowns, with Ezekiel Elliott running in two more. Fricke said “It is week 11 in the National Football League season and Detroit is the 3rd seed in the NFC, the Falcons can’t catch them even with a win on Sunday”. It was a divisional game.

So when the early games were close and competitive, fans gathered around the television.

It all added up to a huge win for the Lions in their biggest game of the season.

This Detroit team, however, keeps winning. “It’s impressive, man. It’s ridiculously impressive”. His counterpart, Matthew Stafford, extracted himself from ticklish situations with his feet, while Bradford threw into the defensive lineman’s outstretched hands. But it could be so many players on the Lions roster these days. Just something about this team. They’ve accepted that this is the way they are. I mean, the first run I had today had like eight jukes and went nowhere, so it’s nothing special. “Fourth quarter if were down, we know Staff is going to make a play. What happened is the Lions became a compelling story, an interesting team winning in the most surprising ways. But Dallas answered with touchdowns each time Washington got within a score on Cousins’ passes of five yards to Jordan Reed and 67 yards to DeSean Jackson, who had 118 yards receiving.

“I don’t worry too much about it”, Quin said.

Receiver Cordarrelle Patterson then didn’t get lined up right on third-and-2 in the final minute.

Besides overeating and trying to avoid political discussions with family, watching NFL football is one of America’s go-to Thanksgiving activities.

Tomasson said Minnesota’s upcoming game will pose the biggest challenge.