DETROIT – There was a point Sunday night where Eli Harold looked around and started to wonder where all this had been. It’s a fair thought, one many inside Ford Field had at varying points Sunday night. The Detroit Lions, for the better part of six weeks, had looked exactly like the team they had been on the field.
Rough on defense. Struggling on offense. Undisciplined on special teams. Outmatched in a lot of ways. New England figured to be more of the same. And yet, by the fourth quarter during the Lions’ 26-10 win over the Patriots on Sunday night, almost all of those statements had been scrambled.