The Minnesota Vikings’ 2025 season has taken a markedly negative turn over the past couple of weeks, and now they’ve got a tall task ahead of them in Week 9 as they head to the Motor City to take on their division rivals, the Detroit Lions.

The Lions have had Minnesota’s number in recent years, as they’ve won the last five games in this series. The last time these two teams met, the Vikings were watching the #1 seed in the NFC slip away, as a game that was only a one-score deficit going into the fourth quarter wound up being a rout for Detroit.

Detroit has new coordinators on each side of the football this season, but they’ve remained on a winning path, coming into this one with a record of 5-2. The Vikings have dropped their last two, including their embarrassing 37-10 loss to the Charg

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