Jared Goff threw three touchdown passes and Jake Bates made a last-minute field goal as the Detroit Lions clinched a playoff spot with a 34-31 victory over the Green Bay Packers, breaking a franchise record with their 11th straight win.
UpdatedDETROIT — Jared Goff threw three touchdown passes, Jake Bates made a 35-yard field goal as time expired and the Detroit Lions clinched a playoff spot with a 34-31 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night.The NFC-best Lions broke a franchise record with their 11th straight win — including two over the Packers — to stay ahead of Minnesota in the highly competitive NFC North.
“I just got tripped up there a little bit,” Goff said. “It’s a bad feeling when you’re a quarterback.” Goff threw two touchdown passes on fourth-and-goal, one to Tim Patrick, who had two TD catches. He also threw an interception in the third quarter to set up one of Josh Jacobs’ career-high matching three TD runs.
Green Bay took advantage of the only time Campbell’s aggressiveness didn’t pan out, denying Gibbs on a fourth-down run late in the third quarter from the Detroit 31.Brandon McManus made a 32-yard field goal with 3:38 left to pull the Packers into a 31-all tie in a game that had four lead changes earlier in the second half.
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