Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff believes the Bills loss could be a “nice little reset for us.”

FIRST DOWN: RECALIBRATION

When the Lions last lost a game 91 days ago, in Week 2 against Tampa Bay (20-16), they found a way to respond. They didn’t lose again for three months.

Lions quarterback Jared Goff hopes Sunday’s 48-42 loss to Buffalo can be another good reset for this team in the final three weeks of the season and into the playoffs.

“Maybe it’s a good wake-up call for us,” Goff said. “Nice little recalibration for us. Now we can go out. We’ve had a couple of nice home games that we’ve just finished, but now we can go away and we’ll compete against everyone else again, come together and get a little tighter and move on.

Goff, who threw for 494 yards and five touchdowns in the loss, said they couldn’t match Buffalo’s intensity and production early on and when they fell into a double-digit hole on the scoreboard, it was too much to pass up liberate.

He hopes that a loss like Sunday’s can be beneficial for the team if they handle it properly.

“I think we will,” he said. “If you deal with it correctly and recognize where your shortcomings were, improve and move on, then it can certainly be a great thing for the team.”

“We know Minnesota is nipping at our heels in the division and we’re fighting with Philly for the No. 1 seed, and if there’s no urgency now, then there won’t be. I think our guys are going to show a lot of urgency.” , not that there wasn’t that today, but there certainly will be now.

The Lions face Chicago and San Francisco on the road in the next two weeks before ending the regular season at home against Minnesota. The Lions are tied with Philadelphia at 12-2. Minnesota (11-2) plays Chicago on Monday night.