“The pick-six especially I’d love to have that one back,” Goff said. “That was a poor decision by me. The other turnovers are sometimes part of the game. But at the end of the day, it’s on me. I’ve got to take care of the ball better.”

The Lions won a franchise-record 15 games in the regular season - tied for most in the NFL - and earned the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. They were fresh and rested coming off a first-round bye, and yet they had no answer for rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels and a Commanders team that played a lot like the Lions.

Here are some quick takeaways from the game: The Lions didn’t appear to make much of an attempt to counter the pace that the Commanders like to move at. A sound strategy would’ve been to slow this game down to keep them off the field, but a pass-happy strategy, even before the game started slipping away, allowed Jayden Daniels to stay on the field.

Dan Campbell, as we know, is a man of many colorful words over the years. But after a crushing loss to the Washington Commanders on Saturday night to send the No. 1 seed in the NFC home, the Detroit Lions head coach summed it all up for him, his team and his fans with just six words.

"It just hurts to lose, man, and I don’t care if you’re the seven seed, six seed, five seed, one seed because I’ve lost at all of them damn near and it stings, and it hurts."