{"id":665066,"date":"2026-05-12T02:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665066\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:09:34","slug":"detroit-lions-to-face-buffalo-bills-week-2-on-thursday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665066\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions to face Buffalo Bills Week 2 on Thursday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In that December matchup, Lions quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/jared-goff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jared Goff<\/a> threw for 494 yards and five touchdowns and Allen countered with 362 passing yards and four total touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo is coming off a 12-5 season in 2025 in which they lost to Denver (33-30 in OT) in the Divisional Round of the playoffs. They have a new first-year head coach in Joe Brady, 36, who was promoted from offensive coordinator to head coach in January. The Lions were 9-8 and missed the playoffs. They are looking to get back to being one of the top teams in the NFC.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a critical early-season test for two teams with Super Bowl aspirations in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In that December matchup, Lions quarterback Jared Goff threw for 494 yards and five touchdowns and Allen countered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,245095,245096,85],"class_list":["post-665066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","tag-news-twentyman","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}