Episode #344: Lions at Bengals, Week 5 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe review the Detroit Lions’ Week 4 win over the Browns and preview their Week 5 matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals. The guys review the injury reports from the week, break down the opponents’ roster position by position, explore their strengths and weaknesses, examine what has changed since last season, and discuss how the Lions can capitalize on these, as well as the top keys to a Lions’ victory.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Joe Kenya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:08.6 | Eric, Lions walked away with 34 to 10 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. |
| 0:14.8 | They were, it wasn't it, they didn't play as well as they did against Baltimore, |
| 0:18.9 | but it was more than enough to take out Browns. And there was a lot of good in that game. We'll talk about that in a little bit. |
| 0:25.5 | This upcoming Sunday, they're going to face off against the Cincinnati Bengals to complete the |
| 0:30.0 | full Ohio experience of NFL football in the regular season. And they've had a rough last couple of weeks, and we're going to dig into that a little bit |
| 0:41.2 | after we talk about the Browns. |
| 0:42.6 | First off, how'd you feel about that Browns game? |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, I agreed with you. |
| 0:47.6 | It wasn't their most complete game on offense, but we knew the Browns defense was really good. |
| 0:54.0 | We expected the Browns defense to show up. |
| 0:56.4 | And they did a little bit right at the beginning. Yeah. But after after they were hanging in there, |
| 1:03.8 | at least at the beginning. And then, you know, wheels came off. But I mean, like, look, we, we, |
| 1:09.2 | we both expected a score close to what it, what it, what it ended up being, right? |
| 1:14.6 | Like I had 3116, you had 3314, ends up being 3410. |
| 1:20.3 | So you're, you're right on, you know, just off by a couple there. |
| 1:25.5 | But that was that was also out of spike, though. |
| 1:27.8 | That wasn't what I truly felt. |
| 1:30.5 | Well, you did it right. |
| 1:32.0 | And you're going to get the win. |
| 1:34.5 | But, you know, I think this was along the lines of what we were thinking. |
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