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everything [Music] [Music] Lions win overtime Thriller against Rams Sunday Night Football between the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams was one steeped in context the two teams starting quarterbacks the Lions Jared Goff and the Rams Matthew Stafford were traded for one another in 2021 the two met for the first time since last season's wildcard playoff game with Detroit coming out on top and once again it was Goff and the Lions who had the last laugh on Sunday as David Montgomery's one-yard touchdown run in overtime clinched a dramatic 26-20 victory for Detroit it was a slow burner at Ford Field with the Lions leading 10 to3 at halftime thanks to Jamir Gibbs touchdown run a 52y Jameson Williams TD catch from Goff extended Detroit's lead and it looked like the Lions would run away with the game but a second half comeback from the Rams saw them claw their way back into the game first Kiren Williams ran ran home from close range near the end of the third and then Stafford connected with Cooper Cup on a 9yd throw to give La a 20- 17 lead with 430 remaining in the fourth quarter Lions kicker Jake Bates tied the game at 2020 with just seconds remaining sending the game to overtime and having won the OT coin flip Detroit marched down the field going 70 yards 60 of which came on the ground in 4 minutes and 41 seconds seconds before Montgomery sealed the win according to the NFL it was Detroit's first overtime victory since week 9 in 2016 when Stafford threw a game-winning touchdown to Golden Tate for a team that has Super Bowl aspirations it was an important start to the season for Detroit which benefited from Williams career game five catches for 121 receiving yards including that long touchdown Lions head coach Dan Campbell sung Williams Praises after the victory yeah listen I expected him to play pretty good to play better and he showed up Campbell told reporters I mean that was a big game to be able to catch some of these and go through it and the best part of it was he didn't even play his best ball there's still so much to clean up but it also shows the work that he's put in and he is improving and he's an improved player and he wants it and he keeps working on it and he just he keeps taking these steps so as long as long as he keeps doing it and keeps making plays he's just going to continue to get better so yeah I'm proud of him I'm proud of where he's at but he's got so much room to continue to grow the loss was made even more painful for Los Angeles as one its star receivers puuka nakua was ruled out of the game at Halftime after suffering a knee injury in the second quarter