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Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

Lions vs Steelers Preview: A Must-Win Game for Detroit | Before the Roar

Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

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4.4957 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It’s a must-win moment for the Detroit Lions as they prepare to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. On this episode of Before the Roar, we dive into the matchups that matter most, how Detroit can exploit Pittsburgh on offense and defense, and what absolutely has to improve for the Lions to keep their season alive. We also break down the playoff implications, identify our X-factors, and wrap things up with final score predictions as Detroit faces a true gut-check game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Before the Rory, your preview podcast over here at Pride of Detroit.com,

1:08.5

where we take a look at the Lions upcoming opponent for this week,

1:27.9

which this week, it will be the Pittsburgh Steelers that the Lions will be taking on at home. Before we get into the podcast, first and foremost, I am your host, Miko. Join, like always, by my co-host, Morgan, how you feeling? Great, man. It's like 40 degrees here in Detroit right now. It feels balmy outside, so I'm not going to complain. I was going to say, snow's melting. It it's supposed to rain tomorrow so I don't know how I feel necessarily about that but I mean it is

1:31.9

what it is the lines have another opportunity to get back in the wind column after a pretty

1:36.1

disappointing loss to the Rams this past weekend but we are also joined by another special guest

1:40.9

he's been on the podcast already once before max Gerber's back with us again this week's week. Max, how are you feeling, man? Dude, I'm great. I'm happy to be here. You know, hoping I'll feel a little better after Sunday and see how this goes with the Alliance. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't, I'm, I'm annoyed, obviously by the loss, but it's kind of hard to be, like, overly disappointed

2:01.5

and depressed about it when most of the staff picked the team to lose.

2:04.8

Like, we all picked the Lions to lose this game last week.

2:08.4

And it does.

2:09.1

It makes, obviously, the path to the playoffs a lot more difficult.

2:13.7

And it's one of the reasons why I think it's fair to classify this game guys as a must win, right?

2:20.4

I mean, this is a game that's really going to be able to set the team up to kind of make that playoff run.

2:25.9

Statistics show that if the Lions go 3 and 0 down this stretch, they at least have a 94% chance of making the playoffs.

2:32.0

And that's exactly where you want to be, right, Morgan?

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