Tyler Bass hit a tie 45-yard field goal two seconds from time and propelled the Buffalo Bills to a 28-25 win over the Detroit Lions on Thursday for their second win in five days at Ford Field.
Josh Allen set up the winning kick, starting the drive with a 36-yard pass to Stefon Diggs and running twice for 12 yards before Bass landed the winning kick.
Buffalo (8-3) has clinched back-to-back wins to move a half-game ahead of Miami in the AFC East.
The Bills were back in Detroit after the NFL moved their previous home game against Cleveland to Ford Field due to a winter storm in western New York. They had to work harder to win than they did against the Browns on Thursday.
Allen threw a five-yard go-ahead touchdown pass to Diggs with 2:40 left to put it at 25-22, but Bass missed the extra point. The Lions then converted fourth and one from midfield with an end-around from Amon-Ra St Brown to set up Michael Badgley’s game-changing 51-yard field goal with 23 seconds remaining. Badgley had missed a 29-yard field goal late in the third and Jared Goff took a sack for safety in the same quarter and those errors proved costly.
Allen had a passing and rushing touchdown in the first half and finished 24 of 42 for 253 yards to more than make up for throwing his 11th interception of the season.
Detroit (4-7) missed an opportunity to win four straight games for the first time since 2016 and lost a sixth straight game on Thanksgiving, setting a franchise record.
Goff was 23 of 37 for 240 yards with a 1-yard touchdown pass to St. Brown, who put it 14-14 late in the first half, and a 1-yard touchdown for DJ Chark, who sent the Lions to Beginning of the third quarter on three points brought 22-19.