Detroit Lions fans are all too well-acquainted with horrible Sundays, but this one might be the worst. This was the year. This was the team. This is how they’ll spend Sunday: wondering how the best team in modern franchise history failed to win a single playoff game, while Matthew Stafford plays for his second trip to the NFC championship game since he left.
Commanders 45, Lions 31 will leave a mark: On the fan base, on the team, on coach Dan Campbell and especially on quarterback Jared Goff, who needed to be great and wasn’t even good. Last week, a Detroit crowd chanted “Ja–red Goff!” when he showed up to a Pistons game. Saturday night, Goff lost a fumble, threw three interceptions, overthrew Jameson Williams on a deep ball and delivered this assessment afterward:
