DETROIT — The Detroit Lions aren’t just disappointed with how Sunday’s wild game ended against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Sure, they had two touchdowns erased due to a pair of offensive pass interference penalties in the final 25 seconds. But they were touchdown favorites heading into their home finale, needing to win out for their best shot at sneaking into the postseason.

Instead, they got pushed off the ball, had the worst third-quarter performance in recent history and gave Aaron Rodgers one last laugh at Ford Field.

They’re disappointed with the fact that they are 8-7, needing a ton of outside help to make the playoffs. They’re disappointed they just got bullied around when they needed a win the most. They’re disappointed they had their fourth-worst rushing game since 1970, while giving up 200-plus yards on the ground for the first time of the year in the 29-24 loss to Pittsburgh.

“I mean, look. It’s frustrating,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said. “We just lost two in a row, you know. That’s the worst — I don’t know. I don’t know what all of this is or isn’t. I know we’ve got two left. And I just want to see us finish. I just want to finish, our style of football, with two to go, man. You know, and try to play four straight quarters of good football. Clean football. Efficient football. That’s what I want to do.”

When it comes to the two decisive offensive pass interference penalties, Campbell didn’t want to harp on the topic too much. He pointed out how the team blew their opportunities and that they put themselves in that hole to begin with.

Jared Goff took a similar approach, crediting the referees for having a tough job, but saying he felt the first one on Isaac TeSlaa was more open “to interpretation.” TeSlaa was called for the penalty as Amon-Ra St. Brown caught what would have been the go-ahead 1-yard touchdown with 25 seconds left.

The Lions scored as time expired, even after that penalty, as St. Brown lateraled the ball after getting hit short of the goal line. Goff scooped it up and dove into the end zone for the touchdown. But St. Brown was called for pushing off and creating an unfair advantage, and due to the rulebook, the Lions lost the touchdown and didn’t get another chance to score.

“But listen, man, they’ve got to make the calls, and I promise you if I were sitting on the other side of that right now, we’d be saying ‘great job,’ “Goff said.

“Those sting for sure, and you wish they weren’t called. So be it.”

The Lions head into their final two games needing to win both, while also needing two-straight losses from the Green Bay Packers to make the postseason. They are headed to Minnesota for Christmas, and then end the season with a trip to face the Chicago Bears.

Reality set in after the 29-24 loss to the Steelers. They know what the odds are and what needs to happen, while trying to focus on themselves.

It’s a situation these Lions haven’t been in since the red-hot finish to the 2022 campaign. They won 15 games last year and made it to the NFC title game the year before. Goff said he knows who the Lions are, but that they just haven’t been able to put it together consistently during this stretch to put them in a hole.

They had the ball for 51 seconds in the third quarter, suffering a safety while watching the Steelers control the game and pad their lead. Goff and the offense found life while forced to pass the ball 23 times in a row at one point down the stretch, but execution, missed opportunities and a wild finish in the the final 25 seconds came back to bite them.

“We haven’t had that feeling; it’s creeping in on us now,” Goff said. “We’ve got to find a way. I think it goes back to what Dan’s (Campbell) message was. Are we who we say we are type of thing? In games that are meaningful now, but you don’t know if they will be, depending on other things that happen.

“Are we still going to be what we say we are and show up to work and do the whole thing on a short week? It’s tough, and we’ve got to go on the road in a loud environment. It’s hard, but we’re built for it. I’m excited to see guys bounce back and find a way to get a win this week.”