Regardless of getting into a Week 2 matchup on the Buffalo Payments on “Thursday Night time Soccer” with matching 1-0 information, the Detroit Lions’ abysmal protection put them behind the 8-ball too typically, resulting in a 41-31 loss.
Although Jared Goff completed with a powerful 327 yards and 4 landing passes, Detroit’s lackluster protection (significantly within the secondary) and quite a few pricey penalties had been an excessive amount of to beat. These errors saved drives alive for quarterback Josh Allen and Buffalo’s high-flying offense throughout a number of key moments all through the evening.
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Allen totaled 5 touchdowns, passing for 248 yards and three touchdowns and working for 69 yards and two scores.
Naturally, Lions followers had been removed from happy with the trouble by Kelvin Sheppard’s defensive unit in opposition to Buffalo in a recreation the place Detroit might have performed spoiler to the Payments within the first-ever recreation on the new Highmark Stadium.
Here is how Lions followers and media reacted to the TNF loss:
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