{"id":13974,"date":"2025-02-14T01:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2025-02-14T01:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:14:59","slug":"breaking-news-detroit-lions-favorites-to-land-highly-coveted-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=13974","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Detroit Lions Favorites to Land Highly-Coveted Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2187598699-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2187598699-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2187598699-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2187598699-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Detroit Lions Favorites to Land Highly-Coveted Game\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Lions are being talked about as a great fit for one of the biggest games of the next NFL season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Detroit Lions had high hopes to make it to the Super Bowl this year, but those hopes were dashed early with a 54-31 loss to the Washington Commanders at Ford Field. Well, say misery loves company, and after seeing the Chiefs fall so hard to the Eagles in the big game, the Lions are suddenly not looking so bad after all.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Detroit Lions are being talked about as favorites to try to take down the Eagles in the first game of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Detroit Lions Against Philadelphia Eagles May Kick the Season Off<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_2116,h_1190,x_180,y_15\/c_fill,w_1440,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/all_lions\/01jkrpdtp7nbr8zxhrvc.jpg\" alt=\"Detroit Lions Kicking Off 2025 Season Against Eagles Is Serious Possibility\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that the Super Bowl is over and the Philadelphia Eagles have been crowned the winner, as tradition holds, the Eagles will host the opening game of the 2025 NFL regular season on the first Thursday evening of the season. As soon as the Eagles were named champions, NFL experts and analysts started talking about which team might be selected to take them on for the opening game.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter took to X on February 9 to share some options, including the Commanders, Cowboys, Giants, Bears, Raiders, Rams, Broncos and, yes, Lions.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that could help, or hurt, the Lions\u2019 chances to snag the opening game is the fact that the team kicked off the 2023 season by taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. On the downside, it could be too soon for the team to repeat that experience, but on the upside, since that game was so well-received, it could entice the NFL to repeat the Lions\u2019 appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Patra of NFL.com is also talking about the opening game. He discussed four possible Eagles\u2019 opponents for that first night of the season, and he was hot on the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFC matchup we didn\u2019t get to see in the 2024 postseason after the Lions\u2019 disastrous loss to the Washington Commanders,\u201d he stated in a February 10 feature.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, \u201cEven losing offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, Detroit should still boast an explosive offense led by Jared Goff, Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown. Facing the Eagles\u2019 No. 1 passing defense would make for an intriguing opening-game matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patra also noted that \u201cVic Fangio suffocated the Chiefs\u201d and asks if the Eagles could do the same to the Lions, who have a \u201cbetter offensive line.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Lions Draw Big Viewership Numbers<\/h2>\n<p>Patra also talked about how the current Lions team, under coach Dan Campbell, have brought big numbers for NFL viewership, which certainly doesn\u2019t hurt in this situation. In fact, per\u00a0Anthony Crupi of Sportico, the Detroit Lions were the most-watched NFL team in the 2024 regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Berreman of SideLion Report agrees that the Lions could be a good fit against the Eagles, stating that \u201cthe NFL rarely misses an opportunity to maximize an audience, and its bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutting one of the Eagles\u2019 NFC East rivals in the season-opening game would be fine,\u201d he added, \u201cbut the Lions traveling to Philadelphia to kickoff the 2025 season would be immeasurably more interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll find out who kicks off the NFL season against the Eagles in the middle of May, when the NFL schedule usually arrives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions are being talked about as a great fit for one of the biggest games of the next NFL season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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