Amon-Ra St. Brown leads Detroit Lions back where they needed to go

When you need divine help, you call on a Saint.

Here were the Detroit Lions , their fans praying hard, in a game that they had to have, on a series that they had to control. They were clinging to a one-touchdown lead over Dallas with less than three minutes to go. Conventional wisdom says, “Run the ball. Take seconds off the clock. Force the opponent to use a timeout.”

Instead, Jared Goff dropped back on second down and saw his favorite target streaking across the middle: Amon-Ra St. Brown – aka “Saint” – who, as the whole city seemed to know, was a game-time decision with an ankle injury . Don’t ask me which ankle. They were both working fine on that play. DAVE BIRKETT'S GRADES: Jahmyr Gibbs lights it up in run game

St. Brown grabbed Goff’s perfect pass in full stride and took of