The People Chime In On The Lions' Disappointing End To 2025 Playoff Hopes

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Rico hears from the people on the Lions season ending.

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0:00.0	All right, let's get to a couple texts before we get back to your phone calls for the Lions
0:03.8	fans out there.
0:06.9	How are you feeling about this team going forward?
0:10.1	It's a long way away from the NFC title game out of the playoffs with still another
0:14.8	game to go.
0:17.2	248, 539-9-7-97.
0:19.3	David, give me a couple ticket texts.
0:23.6	I do not trust Brad Holmes. He couldn't recognize that the Lions needed to improve the pass rush when the entire city knew we had to.
0:29.6	Someone else says trust that they will retool and back in the playoffs, but don't trust Dan to win it all.
0:35.6	The fourth down nonsense will always come to haunt
0:38.4	this regime. Okay, let me real quick talk about the fourth down thing. After a while,
0:45.6	you almost become a caricature of yourself. Dan Campbell, when he first started doing the
0:51.7	fourth down and going forward, it caught people off guard and they weren't ready.
0:56.1	Everybody's ready for you now.
0:57.8	Everybody knows you're going to do it.
0:59.5	And your fourth down success rate has not been the same.
1:02.2	And even yesterday, you could say you were two for two on your fourth down plays.
1:07.6	You barely made the one by a fraction of an inch.
1:13.2	Like Montgomery looked like he was stopped
1:15.1	and the referees had to look at it.
1:17.2	The Isaac Tesla touchdown,
1:20.1	he went up high to get that thing
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