We know a lot went wrong in the Detroit Lions\u2019 in 2025. There are plenty of reasons they will not be playing football this weekend, while the top-14 teams in the league will still be fighting for a Super Bowl. The offensive line took a big step back, Detroit clearly made a regrettable hire at offensive coordinator, the defense went through a handful of key injuries and also just played inconsistently from week-to-week, and there were also significant coaching mistakes at key moments in their losses.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to identify the problems. It\u2019s harder to take those problems, learn from them, and come up with the correct solutions. So let\u2019s take the second step in that process.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Question of the Day is:<\/p>\n
What are the biggest lessons to take from the Lions\u2019 2025 season?<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen whether Frank Ragnow\u2019s retirement caught the front office completely by surprise or not. It seems unlikely, as I would imagine Ragnow would have brought up the possibility of it during his exit interview following the 2024 season. If that\u2019s the case, the Lions made a huge risk by not only failing to get a proven center, but compounding that gamble by letting Kevin Zeitler walk\u2014or failing to replace him with a startable player if Zeitler wasn\u2019t going to return. But why not be even more proactive than that?<\/p>\n
Not many were clamoring for a center in the 2024 NFL Draft\u2014and some would\u2019ve been downright pissed with that selection given their desire for an \u201cimmediate impact\u201d player\u2014but it\u2019s not hard to imagine how different the offensive line situation would have played out had they grabbed Graham Barton, Jackson Powers-Johnson, or Zach Frazier in the first round (or traded up in the second round to get Powers-Johnson or Frazier).<\/p>\n
This front office has said plenty of times how important the offensive line is, yet they didn\u2019t plan ahead for the possibility of losing Zeitler and Ragnow in a single offseason. Now they stand to possibly lose two more starters this offseason, meaning they will have to hit the position hard this offseason and hope each of those moves pays off immediately.<\/p>\n
What lesson are you taking from the Lions\u2019 2025 season? Share your answer in the comment section at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know a lot went wrong in the Detroit Lions\u2019 in 2025. There are plenty of reasons they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,52105,84539,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-664031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroit-lions-conversation-starters-and-community-questions","11":"tag-detroit-lions-discussion","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115860103995935804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}