Episode #353: Lions at Vikings, Week 17 Christmas Day preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe review the brutal Week 16 loss to the Steelers, then preview the Detroit Lions’ upcoming Week 17 matchup with the Minnesota Vikings on Christmas Day.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. I'm |
| 0:04.8 | Joe Kanya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlitt for pride of Detroit.com. Eric, the Lions suffered one of |
| 0:10.1 | their, I don't know, this has to be one of the, the most crushing losses we've ever got to witness, |
| 0:17.3 | you know, as Lions fans in the 29, 24 to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. |
| 0:23.4 | They got to that north, that north end zone, Eric, where a lot of great things have |
| 0:27.5 | happened over the years. |
| 0:28.5 | Like, that's where the Stafford had the fake spike, right? |
| 0:31.6 | You know, when he ran for that touchdown to beat the cowboys. |
| 0:34.6 | And then, or is it? |
| 0:36.6 | And then, okay, I'm going to keep going. It's been a popular end zone this year for sure. The Calvin Johnson catch against the Bengals, you know, the three defenders, that 50-yard pass. There's, when they broke the 0 and 11 streak, the pass to St. Brown was in that end zone. |
| 0:54.5 | Correct. |
| 0:54.9 | And then, you know, and then it was almost that crazy Jared Gough touchdown to beat |
| 1:00.1 | Steelers. |
| 1:00.7 | Also very negative end zone because that's where also Rogers, the Motor City miracle, |
| 1:06.1 | which they had to keep bringing up during the, it was that same end zone. |
| 1:09.5 | And even when Derekrick barns says |
| 1:11.0 | the interception against the rams and the playoffs they're facing that way correct it's the |
| 1:16.5 | obviously didn't score but regardless you know that there was something you know they they scrambled |
| 1:22.2 | yeah they were got totally dominated by the Steelers for the most of the second half you know |
| 1:27.4 | they'd make |
| 1:27.8 | that big push at the end everybody knows we're talking about this brutal loss it it was on par |
| 1:37.3 | with with the Vikings loss earlier in the year in a game that they really had no business losing right like they were the better team |
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