There will be nothing but pride on the line in Week 17 between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. Many fans will simply be watching out of unshakable loyalty, morbid curiosity or for draft implications.
And while that doesn’t give me a ton of motivation to break down this game from an analytical standpoint, this is as good of an opportunity to look at what went wrong for a divisional rival in 2020 and what it means going forward for both the Lions and the Vikings.
So here is your final Detroit Lions scouting report of the 2020 season.