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 Chargers this past Thursday night. They’ll welcome J.J. McCarthy back to the quarterback spot, his first appearance since suffering a high ankle sprain in Week 2 against Atlanta. Will that be enough to help the Vikings engineer an upset?
I mean, I’m not super optimistic. . .and neither are the sharps in Vegas, as they’ve installed the Vikings as an 8.5-point underdog going into this one, the biggest underdog the Vikings have been in the Kevin O’Connell era.
Kickoff for this one is slated for noon Central time on Sunday afternoon, and this game will get the big-time treatment from FOX, as they’ve assigned their #1 team of Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady to the broadcast. We’ll be putting all of our stories on this week’s game in this stream, so keep refreshing for the latest.
