With six straight wins and a 7-1 start that’s the franchise’ best since 1956, the Detroit Lions have shown they can find any way to win, but the connection between their quarterback and top receiver ranks near the top of the list.
During the streak, quarterback Jared Goff and wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown have connected on 30 straight targets, with their last mutual incompletion coming in Week 3’s win over the Arizona Cardinals.
“You want to think you get better every year and you are growing and you are understanding defenses and things like that,” St. Brown said on Thursday. “But for us, I feel like, I understand what (Goff) is seeing out there. I feel like I know what he likes as a route runner, things he wants us to do with us, come back to the football and things like that. And he knows how I like to run my routes, things that I am seeing, how I run different routes in the offense so he can anticipate throws really easily.”
The last incompletion when targeting St. Brown came in the third quarter of a Sept. 22 win over Arizona. Since then, Goff and St. Brown have connected for 332 yards with six touchdowns. And that’s not counting Week 4’s flipping of the script, when St. Brown floated a touchdown pass back to Goff.