How good are the Detroit Lions? How gritty?
Jared Goff threw more picks Sunday night — five — than he had all season, and the Lions still erased a 16-point halftime deficit in Houston for a 26-23 victory.
Detroit, now 8-1, remains the class of the NFC. Nineteen unanswered points from the Lions were punctuated by back-to-back kicks from Jake Bates, who was good from 58 yards with five minutes left in the fourth quarter, then from 52 yards as time expired to cap a wild win. For the Texans (6-4), it’s a stunning loss: After torching the Detroit secondary in the first half, C.