The Detroit Lions are 5-1 with three gritty road wins on their resume and four straight wins—all by multiple scores. Sunday’s win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was unconventional by Lions standards—they didn’t physically dominate via the running game—but perhaps more impressively, they developed a new identity and thrived in it.
Let’s break it all down in our Week 6 Lions report card.
Quarterback: A
Jared Goff didn’t have a run game. He was facing a defense that ranked second in DVOA with a complicated blitz scheme that can be extremely hard to diagnose pre-snap.