Episode #347: Lions vs. Vikings, Week 9 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik is solo, but keeps things moving by previewing the Detroit Lions’ Week 9 matchup with the Minnesota Vikings, and kicks things off with a review of Aidan Hutchinson’s new contract extension.
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 and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My name is Eric Schlett. |
| 0:06.1 | Joe can't be with us this week, so I'm going to do a solo podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | Expectations are this will be a little bit shorter than our normal podcast would be, |
| 0:16.0 | but I'm going to go through the same rotation and schedule that we would typically do. And so because of the lines were coming |
| 0:24.2 | off the buy week, we're not really going to have much of a game recap for you. But there was still |
| 0:30.6 | a lot of stuff going on that's worth talking about and previewing the Vikings is certainly |
| 0:36.1 | on the agenda today. So the first big news we should |
| 0:40.5 | talk about today is the Aidan Hutchinson deal. Lions secure another one of their core pillars. |
| 0:48.7 | And it's an unusual, I mean, it's a bit unusual from NFL purposes that that move gets done |
| 0:57.2 | during the season, but it's, I guess, not unusual for Brad Holmes. The Lions front office is |
| 1:03.2 | constantly working on, you know, how to improve their team. And this is another way for them to just once they, once they |
| 1:13.0 | arrived at a decision, you know, they don't hesitate. They execute. They get it done. And I think |
| 1:19.8 | everyone walks away pretty happy with this. Hutchinson ends up being the highest. He ends up getting |
| 1:26.5 | the most guarantees on his contract of all of a amongst all non |
| 1:30.8 | quarterbacks that's a nice feather in the cap for him even if he doesn't want to take credit for that |
| 1:37.5 | but the deal ends up being pretty good for the lions when you look at how the edge market was exploding. |
| 1:47.7 | You have, you know, Micah Parsons who's setting edge records and, you know, the Miles Garrets of the world and the JJ Watts of the world. |
| 1:58.3 | You just saw the edge market just consistently rising and rising over |
| 2:04.2 | the last, you know, six months. So being able to get in where they did and secure him at |
| 2:12.6 | the price point that they did, I think is really an important factor here. |
| 2:19.9 | Like it's he was pushing, he's going to average by the numbers of the hub in his new contract |
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