The NFL will end its Week 17 Sunday slate of games with a bang, as the Chicago Bears (11-4) will travel West to take on the San Francisco 49ers (11-4).

This holiday season, the Bears have sat back and watched with glee as both the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers lost their Week 17 games, thus securing Chicago’s first NFC North title since 2018. While the Bears can’t be knocked from the top spot in the division, they still have a chance at the No. 1 seed in the NFC, and beating the 49ers would keep those hopes alive....

With five Week 17 games in the books, and two nationally televised games still on the docket (“Sunday” and “Monday Night Football”), the regular Sunday slate of games is quite a bit smaller than most weeks in the NFL. Fortunately, there are a couple of meaningful games that will likely be available for you to watch.

For the local Detroit audience, CBS will have the better game in the early 1 p.m. window, as the Seattle Seahawks (12-3) —the current No. 1 seed in the NFC—will take on a Carolina Panthers (8-7) team looking to stay at the top of...

The Detroit Lions’ playoff hopes are dead. It’s a terrible development, and I’m sure many Lions fans are checked out because of it.

But for those who are staying, there are still some stakes left in the final two weeks of the 2025 NFL season. Most notably, the Lions’ draft position is still in flux. As of right now, at 8-8, the Lions hold the 15th position in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. They cannot jump into the top-10, but here’s a look at the teams outside the top-10.

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Even though there’s one more game left, the Detroit Lions’ 2025 season is ostensibly over. The playoffs are no longer a possibility, and fans and media alike are already trying ot pick up the pieces of what went wrong in a season so filled with hope and expectation.

While it is never hard watching the Green Bay Packers get beat up on their home turf, I’ll admit it was hard to watch the Ravens run all over them with ease. It was also tough to swallow that if the Lions had beaten either of their past very mediocre opponents—the Steelers...

It’s the holiday season, and that means the NFL is going to attempt to broadcast as many games over as many days as possible. While the Christmas Day triple-header was a debacle, Saturday’s games will have a bigger impact on the postseason, potentially making them a better product for NFL fans to consume.

Unfortunately, while the NFL has seven nationally broadcast games this week, these two Saturday games could be the hardest to watch for the average fan. The first game on the schedule, featuring the Houston Texans (10-5) at the Los Angeles Chargers (11-4), is broadcast only on NFL...

Oh, did you think that our Detroit Lions rooting guide died with the team’s playoff chances? Absolutely not. We just shift the focus to 2026 and the things that could help this franchise bounce back in a big way next season.

Yes, it’s time to talk about 2026 NFL Draft position for these 8-8 Detroit Lions.

Look, I don’t like it. You probably don’t like it. But it’s the reality that we’re facing here. The playoffs or over, so if you look at things practically, the best outcomes are those that help improve draft position—and possibly the 2026 schedule—and, yes,...

The Detroit Lions have been eliminated from the playoffs for the first time in three years. That last time was 2022, when just before the Lions were scheduled to play the Green Bay Packers for a potential win-and-you’re-in scenario, the Seattle Seahawks eliminated Detroit with an overtime win.

The Lions didn’t seem to care much that Sunday evening. They went on to beat the Packers in a spirited Sunday night matchup, kicking Green Bay out of the playoffs and ending their 2022 season on a high note. The Lions parlayed that win—part of their 8-2 finish to the season—into back-to-back...

Thus ends the Detroit Lions’ 2025 campaign. The dream was dying after a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers last week, but it is officially dead following the Christmas Day loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Detroit has fallen to 8-8 on the season, an embarrassing and disappointing fall from their 15-2 season the year prior.

The Lions still have one game left to play, but it matters little besides pride for a prideless team. Officially, there are winners and losers from this game, but as a whole, the entire Lions organization is a loser this week and this year.

Loser:...

While the Detroit Lions entered this game with slim hopes for the postseason, they let their final opportunity slip through their fingers with self-inflicted mistakes (six turnovers) and another ineffective game plan. Let’s take a look at how the Lions adapted their approach to their rematch with the Minnesota Vikings.

Quarterbacks:

• Jared Goff: 64 snaps (100%)
• Kyle Allen: 0 (0%)

After being efficient with the football all season, Goff accounted for five of the Lions’ six turnovers on the day. While you can argue he wasn’t at fault in several of the mistakes, there were clear chemistry...

On the Detroit Lions’ final injury report of the week in the lead up to their Christmas Day bout with the Minnesota Vikings, the team did not even list starting center Graham Glasgow with an injury designation. He was good to go after tallying two full practices this week—albeit in walkthroughs, not actual practices.

So it was a bit surprising to see that the Lions ended up trotting out second-year Kingsley Eguakun as the starting center against the Vikings.

It was a day to forget for Eguakun, who was just making his second career start. Against a tough and cerebral...

Welp, the season is over. Although there is still a game next week against the Chicago Bears, the Detroit Lions have nothing to play for but a winning record. Heading into the Christmas Day showdown against the Minnesota Vikings, the Lions still had the possibility of making the playoffs. What they needed was to win their next two games and have the Green Bay Packers lose their next two.

Detroit couldn’t even defeat Minnesota.

The offense chose to have its worst game of the season at the worst possible time, and the Vikings’ defense took advantage of it.

Here are...

The Detroit Lions are not in a good place right now. They’ve been eliminated from playoff contention, they’re on a three-game losing streak, and they’re currently playing some of the worst football they’ve played in the Dan Campbell era. It’s extremely concerning to see the team take this big of a step back and do very little to improve their situation throughout the course of the season.

But if you’re the type that is looking for sliver linings in Detroit’s epic collapse, there is one.

The Lions are currently in last place in the NFC North, representing a pretty huge...