The Detroit Lions, led by quarterback Jared Goff, defeated the Tampa Bay Bucs at home in a dramatic divisional round NFC playoff game to advance to the NFC Championship Game on Sunday afternoon. Following the Lions’ victory over the Los Angeles Rams last week, in which Goff contributed to his team’s first postseason victory in more than three decades, came this victory.
Goff was equally outstanding on Sunday afternoon, leading the team to victory with two touchdown passes and no interceptions. The Lions’ next game is a road match against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship, where a trip to Las Vegas on February 11 to play in the Super Bowl is at stake.
Goff, who recently talked about his team’s confidence as the postseason moves along, is one person who is not at all scared about that clash.
According to Will Burchfield of 97.1 The Ticket on X, the social media platform that was formerly known as Twitter, Goff stated following the Buccaneers game, “I don’t want to say this arrogantly, but we expected to win the first game, we expected to win this game, and now we get to go to a game we expected to be in against a really good team at their place and we’re going to come into it expecting to win.”
On Sunday night, the 49ers and Lions will play their first game from the Bay Area in California. The victor will be leaving for Las Vegas.
