{"id":372052,"date":"2025-12-26T01:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372052\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:45:07","slug":"lions-vs-vikings-week-17-highlights-dominant-minny-defense-ends-detroits-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372052\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions vs. Vikings Week 17 Highlights: Dominant Minny Defense Ends Detroit&#8217;s Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 pd-b-15\">The Lions (8-8) were fighting for their playoff lives entering Thursday, needing to win out in order to get back to the postseason for a third straight year. But, as it turns out, the Vikings (8-8) made sure that didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 pd-b-15\">Minnesota, led by an outstanding defensive performance, bested Detroit in a spirited win despite being knocked out of playoff contention a couple of weeks ago. The win was the Vikings&#8217; fourth in a row, with rookie quarterback Max Brosmer making his second start with J.J. McCarthy sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 pd-b-15\">Check below for all the highlights from the Vikings&#8217; win over the Lions!<\/p>\n<p>\n        Live Coverage for this has ended\n      <\/p>\n<p>7:55p ET<\/p>\n<p> End of Game: Vikings end Lions&#8217; season behind outstanding defensive effort   <\/p>\n<p>7:31p ET<\/p>\n<p> Addison explodes for 65-yard rushing TD in crunch time   <\/p>\n<p>7:05p ET<\/p>\n<p> Goffs third straight turnover, Vikings take over in FG range   <\/p>\n<p>6:53p ET<\/p>\n<p> Vikings pick off Goff on back-to-back drives to set up big field goal   <\/p>\n<p>6:49p ET<\/p>\n<p> Vikings add field goal after Goff interception   <\/p>\n<p>6:14p ET<\/p>\n<p> Lions go on a 19-play drive for a TD   <\/p>\n<p>6:11p ET<\/p>\n<p> Aaron Jones opens up the scoring after a Lions turnover    <\/p>\n<p>Live Coverage for this began on 8:00p ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions (8-8) were fighting for their playoff lives entering Thursday, needing to win out in order to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-372052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}