Episode #261: Lions vs. Bears, Week 17 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys talk about the Detroit Lions loss to the Carolina Panthers, how that impacts the playoff picture, and what Detroit needs to do in order to make the postseason. Then the fellas take a deep dive into the Chicago Bears, who the Lions will face in Week 17.
The guys also take a look at the team’s latest roster moves, the injury report, and discuss their approach to this week’s game. As always, they wrap up by going position-by-position through the Bears’ roster, discussing how the Lions will try and take advantage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:07.7 | Eric, the Lions playoff hopes took a big hit, a joel. |
| 0:11.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:12.4 | On Saturday on Christmas Eve with the 3723 loss to the Panthers, Lions hemorrhage, 320 yards on the ground. |
| 0:20.7 | What was it? 570 overall. Further, |
| 0:24.6 | they're once again dead last in the NFL and defense. And more importantly, they are now |
| 0:30.2 | seven and eight with two games left in the season. They were helped by everyone else's losses, but the playoff hopes are still slim. |
| 0:40.8 | They're getting slimmer by the week. Yeah, the playoff hopes basically come down to, |
| 0:47.7 | you have about a 20, they have about 20% chance, 25, 20, 25% chance or something like that right now. |
| 0:54.4 | If they beat Chicago this week, they jump up to about middle of the road, like about 50, 50, if I'm not mistaken. |
| 1:01.6 | If you beat the Packers, then you jump up to like 70, 75, but you still need help, right? |
| 1:06.9 | You can't just win out. |
| 1:08.1 | Now you have to win out and get some help from other teams so |
| 1:11.2 | they have to win out the commanders have to lose the have to lose at least yeah you got to lose |
| 1:16.4 | at least i think commanders have to lose commanders and sea hawks have to at least lose once right |
| 1:22.6 | and so if though if the commanders lose once the seahaw, the Lions win out, then they're going to get in. |
| 1:29.0 | They're golden. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.1 | So you need a – and those teams have a couple of tough matches. |
| 1:35.1 | So, I mean, it's still entirely possible that they're in the hunt still, definitely. |
| 1:41.9 | But if they were to won, they would be in slot seven, |
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