Video recap: Evaluating Lions’ 28-25 last-second loss to Bills on Thanksgiving

DETROIT — The Detroit Lions (4-7) lost a heartbreaker in the final seconds on Thanksgiving, falling 28-25 to the Buffalo Bills (8-3) on Thanksgiving.

It was a wild ride to the finish line, with the Lions tying things at 25-25 with 23 seconds left on the clock. But Josh Allen and the Bills marched downfield in a hurry, with a 36-yard laser to Stefon Diggs and pair of runs by the quarterback good enough for field-goal range.

“Yeah, I mean look, there’s things we would like to do a little bit better,” Lions head coach Dan Campbell said of that fateful drive. “But that’s a hell of a quarterback (Allen) making a hell of a throw in a critical time. That’s another player making a heck of a play at the end to get themselves in that position. That quarterback’s the real deal. He’s a warrior. He’s clutch, and he made a lot of significant plays. We knew it would be hard to stop him, but we felt like we had to try and contain him. And I feel like for the most part we were able to do that. We just couldn’t quite close it out.”

See below for MLive Detroit Lions beat writer Ben Raven’s video breakdown and more headlines after the team’s loss to the Bills. Topics covered include that frantic final minute, more big days form the young defenders and that missed pass on third-and-1 by Jared Goff:

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