Episode #346: Lions vs. Buccaneers on MNF, Week 7 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe review the Detroit Lions’ Week 6 loss to the Chiefs, discuss all the drama following the game, and preview their Week 7 matchup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on “Monday Night Football.”
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:08.5 | Eric, Lions Fall, is the Kansas City Chiefs, 30 to 17 on Sunday night football. |
| 0:15.0 | They'll have to bounce back pretty quickly. |
| 0:16.9 | They play against the NFC leading Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football at Ford Field. |
| 0:24.0 | We'll talk about that one in a little bit. |
| 0:26.4 | First, we're going to talk about the Lions. |
| 0:28.1 | We're going to talk about a bunch of drama that occurred in the Chiefs game. |
| 0:32.5 | We'll talk a little bit about the Chiefs game as well. |
| 0:35.5 | Eric, what are your preliminary thoughts? |
| 0:39.6 | As far as the Chiefs game as well. Eric, what are your preliminary thoughts? As far as the Chiefs game goes, |
| 0:42.2 | it was in a lot of ways, kind of what we expected. |
| 0:46.8 | The lines were going to have to try and get a lead early. |
| 0:51.6 | They're going to have to try and score. |
| 0:53.0 | They're going to have to try and take advantage of some of the areas in which the chiefs were struggling. At the same time, they were going to have to work to keep from being exposed in the secondary. And I think that inevitably was their downfall. They, they struggled, uh, |
| 1:15.2 | dealing with Mahomes. They ended up not, you know, being a little bit worried about running with |
| 1:20.3 | the receivers. And so they played more zone than they should. They're, well, in my opinion, |
| 1:24.7 | in them what they should have. have. You play more zone. |
| 1:27.8 | It allows Mahomes a little bit more time. |
| 1:31.3 | He's much better at picking apart the zones. |
| 1:34.2 | I don't think they contained him as well as they would have liked. |
| 1:38.0 | And then on offense, you hit some hiccups and you run into some funky penalties and then uh you know you end up |
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