Lions Finally Support Matt Stafford with Late-Game Heroics, Take NFC North Lead

November 24, 2016   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

As he stood in his own end zone with the ball on the 2-yard line, it seemed Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had surely met a fourth-quarter comeback hurdle that was too tall.
The scoreboard wasn’t his greatest enemy, as the Minnesota Vikings led by only three points while threatening to spoil Detroit’s annual Thanksgiving Day football festivities. And the clock wasn’t throwing lightning bolts at him, either. It read 5:02, which is the equivalent of roughly two days in gridiron time, especially with the Lions still holding all three of their timeouts.
No, the vast, stretching field ahead was taunting Stafford. It had been doing that for the entire second half. Until this point, the Lions had managed a mere 29 yards of offense since halftime. Now Stafford—who owns and operates the league’s best white-knuckle-ride offense—needed either 98 yards to win the game or a still-daunting roughly 65 yards to get kicker Matt Prater into reaso...

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