{"id":67471,"date":"2025-12-22T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67471\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:11:07","slug":"observations-from-the-detroit-lions-week-16-loss-to-the-pittsburgh-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67471\/","title":{"rendered":"Observations from the Detroit Lions\u2019 Week 16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>21 straight: Goff completed 34-of-54 passes (63.0 percent) for 364 yards, three touchdowns and zero interceptions for a 101.2 passer rating against the Steelers. Goff has now produced a touchdown pass for 21 straight games, tying the longest streak of games with a touchdown pass in franchise history. Goff also topped 30 touchdown passes on the season, becoming the first player in franchise history to throw 30-or-more touchdown passes in three different seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Substitution problems: Detroit continues to have issues subbing in and out of personnel packages on defense. The Lions were flagged Sunday for a too many men on the field and later had to burn a timeout because they only had 10 players on the field in a critical fourth down situation.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons: Fourth-year wide receiver <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/jameson-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jameson Williams<\/a> caught five passes for 70 yards. That gives him 1,006 on the season, a new career high and his second straight 1,000-yard season after recording 1,001 yards in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"21 straight: Goff completed 34-of-54 passes (63.0 percent) for 364 yards, three touchdowns and zero interceptions for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21830,22205,20748,22384,21409,15641,20747,73,75,74,34622],"class_list":["post-67471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aidan-hutchinson","tag-amon-ra-st-brown","tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","tag-isaac-teslaa","tag-jameson-williams","tag-jared-goff","tag-news-twentyman","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-at-detroit-lions-2025-reg-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}