Episode #352: Lions vs. Steelers, Week 16 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe are back and ready to preview the Detroit Lions’ upcoming opponent: The Pittsburgh Steelers.
The fellas 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. The guys also take a peek ahead at the NFC Playoff picture and what the Lions need to do to make the postseason.
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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. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Joe Cania with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Eric, the lines coming off of a heartbreaking 41, 34 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. |
| 0:17.5 | As everybody is listening, knows they're going on again off again with wins and losses. |
| 0:24.1 | Still in eighth position in the NFC, so on the outside looking in as far as it comes to the playoffs, |
| 0:30.4 | this Sunday, the Lions will host their final home game at Ford Field, barring, anything |
| 0:35.7 | crazy happening where they end up winning the ironically still still possible and they'll face the |
| 0:43.9 | Pittsburgh Steelers we'll talk about the Steelers in a little bit um want to talk a little bit |
| 0:49.8 | about this Rams game that the same uh there's a lot of, there was a lot of, |
| 0:55.0 | things go wrong for the lions. |
| 0:57.8 | They play poorly in the third quarter. |
| 0:59.7 | This goes way back in time to 2023. |
| 1:02.9 | And it held true over the weekend. |
| 1:04.9 | And we've seen it quite a bit peppered in throughout the season. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, |
| 1:09.4 | yeah, |
| 1:09.6 | that's kind of been, |
| 1:14.8 | um, a little bit of a theme this year for sure, |
| 1:16.2 | especially in their losses. |
| 1:22.6 | They've got it in their mind that they wanted to do something, |
| 1:26.2 | and they tried to do it and it didn't work. |
| 1:29.9 | And then they tried it again, and then it didn't work again. And then they ran their head into the wall a third time and it doesn't work again. |
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