The Detroit Lions kept their play-off hopes alive in the NFL with a commanding 44-30 win against the Dallas Cowboys.
Jahmyr Gibbs ran in three touchdowns for the Lions, while quarterback Jared Goff completed 25 of 34 passes for 309 yards and one touchdown.
Detroit, who had lost three of their previous six games, improved their record to 8-5 and are third in the NFC North. They still need a run of wins to enter the post-season but are well placed to challenge in the final weeks of the reguulalr campaign.
“They’re as hot a team as there is in this league,” Goff said.
“It felt like we got back to kind of who we are. Maybe we can become that now.”
The Cowboys had won three in a row but a sixth loss of the campaign leaves their season in trouble.
Gibbs took his career touchdown tally to 47 – and moved with Barry Sanders for the most in NFL history for a player before their 24th birthday.
“The work was there all week. It always is but the intensity, the urgency… the guys don’t get panicked. They just go to work, and they did it again,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said.
