Episode #350: Lions vs. Giants, Week 12 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik is solo, but keeps things moving by previewing the Detroit Lions’ Week 12 matchup with the New York Giants.
Erik reviews the injury reports from the week, breaks down the opponents’ roster position by position, explores their strengths and weaknesses, examines what has changed since last season, and discusses 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. My name is Eric Schlett. |
| 0:06.5 | I am solo again this week. Unfortunately, Joe is still not able to rejoin me, but we're going to press on with the Lions next opponent. |
| 0:16.3 | In week 12 of the 2025 season, the Lions will host the new york giants this marks the first of three |
| 0:24.5 | home games the lions will have in the next what 18 days or something like that because they have |
| 0:29.5 | an upcoming game on thanksgiving against the packers and then another thursday night football game |
| 0:35.9 | the following week after that against |
| 0:37.6 | the Cowboys. |
| 0:38.9 | All three of those games are home for Detroit and it's a good opportunity for them to get back |
| 0:45.5 | to their winning ways because week 11 was certainly disappointing the results from the Eagles |
| 0:51.9 | game while it was just a one scorescore loss, it was still a pretty |
| 0:56.7 | frustrating loss for a lot of Lions fans. |
| 1:00.3 | Nothing really worked right on offense for the Lions. |
| 1:03.9 | And there's a lot of questions that fans have when we're, you know, as we've exited that |
| 1:10.3 | game, the offense certainly |
| 1:14.1 | disappointed uh inconsistencies in a lot of key areas offensive line uh is really the big |
| 1:21.7 | catalyst i think for most people the the the that's where most of the finger pointing has landed. |
| 1:30.3 | They end up going, I think they convert one third down on the game. |
| 1:35.7 | They were over for like five or six for a while there. |
| 1:40.1 | And eventually they end up converting a third down. |
| 1:43.8 | But I think they only ended up with like three on the day. |
| 1:48.1 | For a long time, they were 04. |
| 1:51.3 | And then they were 0 for five on fourth downs. |
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