The Arizona Cardinals are 10-3 this season and will take on the 1-11-1 Detroit Lions Sunday on the road at 1 p.m. ET. They are heavy favorites, as they should be, and can clinch a playoff spot if they win the game.
However, they will have to end a pair of winless streaks in the process.
They have not beaten the Lions since 2015 and have not beaten their starting quarterback, Jared Goff, since his rookie season in 2016.
This will be the fifth straight year the Cardinals and Lions face each other. the Cardinals are 0-3-1 in the last four meetings.
Goff, who played for the Los Angeles Rams before this season, has beaten the Cardinals seven straight starts. All those were as a member of the Rams before being traded to Detroit this year.
The Cardinals can get multiple monkeys off their back with a win. A win ends their winless streak against the Lions, their losing streak against Goff and will end their streak of not making the playoffs.
Overall, the Lions lead the all-time series 34-28-1. It is the ninth time in 10 years they have faced each other. Before the four-game winless streak against the Lions, the Cardinals had won seven games in a row in the series.
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray is 0-1-1 against the Lions. Let’s look back at the last four losses to the Lions.
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