ATLANTA – Matthew Stafford had his helmet on, hoping for one final shot at the football, but when the Atlanta Falcons picked up a first down at the Detroit Lions’ 10-yard line with 1:12 to play, even Stafford briefly lost hope.
“(I was) thinking the game was probably going to be over,” Stafford said.
But against the NFL’s true kings of the collapse, nothing is ever out of reach. And when interim Falcons coach Raheem Morris got greedy and called a running play rather than take a knee to set up a chip-shot field goal, the Lions got the break they needed to keep their season off life support.