Episode #354: Lions at Bears, Week 18 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe review the disappointing Week 17 loss to the Vikings, then preview the Detroit Lions’ upcoming Week 18 matchup with the Chicago Bears in the 2025-26 regular season finale.
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. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Joe Kenya with me, as always, is Eric Litt from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:08.5 | Eric, usually, well, I shouldn't say usually, back in the Matt Patricia era when we do this show, |
| 0:14.6 | I would open this episode with the ship is slowly, it's now nestling itself on the bottom. |
| 0:21.8 | You know, it's all over, and this will be the last game coming up. |
| 0:25.8 | But this year a little different because the plane, there was turbulence in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:32.1 | It's a totally different analogy. |
| 0:33.9 | Playing there's some turbulence against Pittsburgh, |
| 0:35.8 | and then it's smashed into the mountain on Christmas |
| 0:38.5 | Day against Minnesota, maybe a little bit of strong analogy. And here we are. Lions are done. |
| 0:45.3 | Seasons over for them except for having to play out the string. They lost Minnesota 23 to 10 on Christmas. |
| 0:50.5 | Everybody's well aware of that. So this episode will be slightly different than what we normally do. |
| 0:56.1 | We're still going to have all of our normal stuff, but it'll be an abridged version as we |
| 0:59.6 | look towards the future for these Detroit Lions as the regular season wraps up. |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah, you're starting out with a Matt Patricia reference. |
| 1:10.5 | It's certainly got on my toes. It's certainly, uh, |
| 1:11.6 | it's technically, but well, I guess, you know what? |
| 1:15.5 | I probably did it in, in season one of the Campbell era as well. |
| 1:19.4 | I probably should have same old that the boat has settled on the bottom of the ocean. |
| 1:24.3 | It's, uh, it's certainly a different, uh, I agree with you. It's certainly a different, I agree with you. |
| 1:30.1 | It's certainly a different feeling, you know, this time around. |
| 1:33.2 | It's not like, you know, something we were anticipating and preparing for. |
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