Detroit Lions Preview 2025-26

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By: Evan Troxel

The Detroit Lions had the 28th overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft!

The following are my notes about the Hall of Fame Game on Thursday, July 31st, 2025!

The Los Angeles Chargers are 10-6 at home and 6-10 away on Thursdays in the preseason all-time! The Chargers are 0-1-1 all-time in the Hall of Fame Game.

The Chargers are 2-1 in games in July and 2-2 in games in July (including scrimmages). The Chargers are 1-0 on July 31st all-time as they won a home game 49 years ago in 1976 over the Philadelphia Eagles 20-7.

The Lions are 7-9 as the designated away team on Thursdays all-time in the preseason and 13-9 as the designated home team on Thursdays all-time in the preseason.

The Lions are 20-18 all-time on Thursdays in the preseason (as far as I know) before the games on July 31st, 2025!

The Lions are 3-1 in July all-time in the preseason if I am not mistaken!

The Lions are 45-48-2 all-time on Thursdays in the regular season! The Lions are currently 65-66-2 all-time on Thursdays in the preseason and regular season!

The Lions will be playing their 134th preseason and regular season game tonight on Thursday and the Chargers currently have 133 preseason losses all-time!

The Lions are 41-46-2 in the regular season on Thursdays at home all-time and they are 54-55-2 as the designated home team in the preseason and regular season on Thursdays all-time!

The Chargers are 12-12-1 all-time on Thursdays in the regular season. The Chargers are 6-7 away in the regular season on Thursdays all-time and therefore they are 12-17 away in the preseason and regular season all-time on Thursdays!

(Predicted at 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time on July 16th, 2025)

Prediction to win: Detroit Lions

Prediction to lose: Los Angeles Chargers

Lions 606-709-34 (-103 more wins, 1,349 games played) all-time won-lost record regular season

237-407-20 (-170 more wins, 664 games played) all-time won-lost record AWAY regular season

369-302-14 (+67 more wins, 685 games played) all-time won-lost record HOME regular season

2025-26 Schedule

Preseason

July 31st vs. Los Angeles Chargers (Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio)

August 8th at Atlanta Falcons

Lions 26-14 (+12 more wins, 40 games played, W1) against Atlanta Falcons regular season and postseason all-time won-lost record

10-7 (+3 more wins, 17 games played, L1) all-time won-lost record against Atlanta Falcons regular season AWAY

16-7 (+9 more wins, 23 games played, W1) all-time won-lost record against Atlanta Falcons regular season HOME

NFL Preseason Week 1 Predictions for Thursday, August 7th, 2025 through Sunday, August 10th, 2025 (Predicted on Thursday, August 6th, 2025, at 8:46 p.m. Eastern Time)

Predictions to win: Indianapolis Colts, Cincinnati Bengals, Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions, Carolina Panthers, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans, Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints

Predictions to lose: Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles, Las Vegas Raiders, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Washington Commanders, Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Jets, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Chargers

Results: Loss, Loss, Tie

August 16th vs. Miami Dolphins

August 23rd vs. Houston Texans

Regular Season

September 7th at Green Bay Packers

September 14th vs. Chicago Bears

September 22nd at Baltimore Ravens

September 28th vs. Cleveland Browns

In Gematria

"NFL": 32/14/49/13

"National Football League": 220/85/374/122

The 2025-26 season is the 106th National Football League Season. In the actual year of 2026 is scheduled to be the 60th Super Bowl and the 56th Super Bowl of the modern era.

There's a good chance this season will be dedicated to the late former pope, "Pope Francis" or the current pope, "Pope Leo XIV" whose papacy began on May 8th, 2025. It probably would be a good idea to figure out how many days it is to and from Super Bowl 59 and Super Bowl 60 from May 8th, 2025.

Pope Francis was born on December 17th, 1936 and died on April 21st, 2025. He lived for 88 years and 4 months. His papacy as pope began on March 13th, 2013, and it ended on April 21st, 2025. So he was pope for 12 years and 1 month.

Pope Leo XIV was born on September 14th, 1955. He is currently 69 years of age in April and May 2025. Pope Leo's middle name is "Francis" and with the Super Bowl being near San "Francis"co this year it probably is a great idea to know the Gematria of "Francis" and many other names.

The "Pope" is the "Bishop of Rome" which is the head of the "Catholic Church".

"Pope": 52/25/56/11

"Bishop of Rome": 141/69/183/57

"Rome": 51/24/57/21

"Catholic Church": 132/69/246/75

"Francis": 70/34/119/47

"Pope Francis": 122/59/175/58

"Jorge Mario Bergoglio": 201/111/312/105

"Pope Leo XIV": 139/58/131/41

"Robert Prevost": 193/67/158/77

"Robert Francis Prevost": 263/101/277/124

"Super Bowl": 131/41/112/49

"Super Bowl 60": 191/101/172/109

"Super Bowl LX": 167/50/130/58

"Sixtieth Super Bowl": 245/83/214/97

"Fifty Sixth Super Bowl": 277/97/236/101

"Super Bowl 56": 187/97/168/105

"Super Bowl LVI": 174/57/150/69

Super Bowl 50 was the last Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, and the only one at the San Francisco 49ers current home stadium, "Levi's Stadium" the "Field of Jeans".

"Levi's Stadium": 154/46/170/80

"Field of Jeans": 106/52/218/65

The stadium is operated by the "Forty Niners Football Company LLC" and owned by the "Santa Clara Stadium Authority".

"Forty Niners Football Company LLC": 360/135/423/153

"Santa Clara Stadium Authority": 314/98/388/172

The playing surface is "Tifway II Bermuda Grass".

"Tifway II Bermuda Grass": 230/95/310/130

The stadium is located on the 37th Parallel.

"Thirty Seventh Parallel": 270/99/297/117

"37th Parallel": 142/79/202/94

"Super Bowl L": 143/44/127/55

"Super Bowl 50": 181/91/162/99

"Super Bowl Fifty": 197/71/181/73

"Santa Clara": 90/27/180/72

"California": 88/52/182/65

"Santa Clara CA": 94/31/230/86

"Santa Clara California": 178/79/362/137

"San Francisco": 122/50/202/76

"California": 88/52/182/65

"San Francisco CA": 126/54/252/90

"San Francisco California": 210/102/384/141

"49ers": 91/64/88/70

"San Francisco 49ers": 213/114/290/146

"Forty Niners": 163/64/134/62

"San Francisco Forty Niners": 285/114/336/138

"Niners": 79/34/83/38

"San Francisco Niners": 201/84/285/114

Will it be "entitlement" or "entitled" this season for the San Francisco 49ers?

"Entitlement": 137/47/160/61

"Entitled": 89/35/127/46

I am going to list the first several numbers spelled out in the four main base ciphers of Gematria!

Please consider using the Gematria calculator yourself at Gematrinator.com/calculator.

Gematria basically is like a secret code so people can correctly get their message across and sent to people who really need to hear it! In dangerous times in the past, you couldn't get your message through to the people who really needed it if you wrote something that your enemy could easily understand! But with a secret code, your messages wouldn't be detained or intercepted quite as often or easily and your messages could actually get through and your enemy wouldn't know what the message you wanted to send someone was/is, which is partly why Gematria is so EXTREMELY important! I also believe winning streaks or losing streaks of a certain number of games will be able to let your know how a team will do throughout the upcoming season when you apply Gematria to it!:

"Zero": 64/28/44/17

"One": 34/16/47/11

"Two": 58/13/23/14

"Three": 56/29/79/25

"Four": 60/24/48/21

"Five": 42/24/66/21

"Six": 52/16/29/20

"Seven": 65/20/70/25

"Eight": 49/31/86/23

"Nine": 42/24/66/21

"Ten": 39/12/42/15

"Eleven: 63/27/99/27

"Twelve": 87/24/75/30

"Thirteen": 99/45/117/45

"Fourteen": 104/41/112/40

"Fifteen": 65/38/124/34

"Sixteen": 96/33/93/39

"Seventeen": 109/37/134/44

"Eighteen": 73/46/143/35

You can also add "Week" to each cipher/number written above in Gematria and then apply it to each week or the relevant week of the 2025-26 NFL regular season!

"Week": 44/17/64/19

Or you could even determine winning or losing streaks in Gematria!:

"W1": 24/6/5/5

"W2": 25/7/6/6

"W3:: 26/8/7/7

"W4": 27/9/8/8

"W5": 28/10/9/9

"W6": 29/11/10/10

"W7": 30/12/11/11

"W8": 31/13/12/12

"W9": 32/14/13/13

"W10": 33/15/14/14

"L1": 13/4/16/7

"L2": 14/5/17/8

"L3": 15/6/18/9

"L4": 16/7/19/10

"L5": 17/8/20/11

"L6": 18/9/21/12

"L7": 19/10/22/13

"L8": 20/11/23/14

"L9": 21/12/24/15

"L10": 22/13/25/16

"Football": 83/29/133/43

"American Football": 147/66/285/96

A handful of teams (for now) in Gematria. I plan to add all 32 NFL teams to every team's NFL preview page eventually and it is in alphabetic order by team first name or by city or by state name:

"Arizona": 84/39/105/42

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Arizona" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1011/681/504/630/

168/84/210/105/

1770/329/350/39/

39/39/42/42/

42/279/794/1504/

448/366/1088/2071/

24/16/36/

"Cardinals": 81/36/162/63

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Cardinals" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

288/248/486/972/

162/81/324/162/

2907/396/477/45/

36/45/63/63/

63/247/607/1133/

473/565/1741/3320/

23/28/38

"Arizona Cardinals": 165/75/267/105

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Arizona Cardinals" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1299/929/990/1602/

330/165/534/267/

4677/725/827/84/

75/84/105/105/

105/526/1401/2637/

921/931/2829/5391/

47/44/74/

"Atlanta": 69/15/120/48

Additional ciphers for "Atlanta" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

483/263/414/720/

138/69/240/120/

2514/314/365/15/

15/15/48/48/

48/228/606/1143/

406/425/1320/2520/

19/20/33/

"Falcons": 70/25/119/38

Additional ciphers for "Falcons" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

250/210/420/714/

140/70/238/119/

1838/315/364/34/

25/34/38/38/

38/214/521/972/

553/407/1207/2295

30/21/31/

"Atlanta Falcons": 139/40/239/86

139 is the 34th prime number, 239 is the 52nd prime number

Additional ciphers for "Atlanta Falcons" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

733/473/834/1434/

278/139/478/239/

4352/629/729/49/

40/49/86/86/

86/442/1127/2115/

959/832/2527/4815/

49/41/64/

"Buffalo": 63/27/126/36

"Bills": 54/18/81/36

"Buffalo Bills": 117/45/207/72

"Carolina": 73/37/143/53

73 is the 21st prime number, 37 is the 12th prime number, 53 is the 16th prime number

"Panthers": 101/38/115/43

101 is the 26th prime number, 43 is the 14th prime number

"Carolina Panthers": 174/75/258/96

"Cincinnati": 96/51/174/66

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Cincinnati" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

384/254/576/1044/

192/96/348/174/

2397/446/524/51/

51/51/66/66/

66/281/673/1250/

819/602/1765/3356/

29/32/44/

"Bengals": 60/24/129/39

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Bengals" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

195/165/360/774/

119/86/257/155/

2208/305/374/33/

24/33/39/57/

57/180/420/780/

418/455/1386/2643/

22/24/29

"Cincinnati Bengals": 156/75/303/105

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Cincinnati Bengals" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

579/419/936/1818/

312/156/606/303/

4605/751/898/84/

75/84/105/123/

123/461/1093/2030/

1237/1057/3151/5999/

51/56/73/

"Denver": 68/32/94/31

31 is the 11th prime number

Additional ciphers for "Denver" in Gematria can be found at Gematrinator.com/calculator:

554/834/408/564/

135/94/187/120/

1354/278/304/32/

 50/50/31/67/

67/212/569/1070/

285/316/933/1772/

27/25/30/

"Broncos": 86/32/103/40

103 is the 27th prime number

Additional ciphers for "Broncos" in Gematria can be found at Gematrinator.com/calculator:

365/315/516/618/

172/86/206/103/

1417/331/348/41/

32/41/40/40/

40/273/715/1344/

579/343/953/1803/

29/21/36/

"Denver Broncos": 154/64/197/71

197 is the 4th prime number, 71 is the 20th prime number

Additional ciphers for "Denver Broncos" in Gematria can be found at Gematrinator.com/calculator:

919/1149/924/1182/

307/180/393/223/

2771/609/652/73/

82/91/71/107/

107/485/1284/2414/

864/659/1886/3575/

56/46/66/

"Houston": 112/31/77/32

31 is the 11th prime number

"Texans": 83/20/79/34

83 is the 23rd prime number, 79 is the 22nd prime number

"Houston Texans": 195/51/156/66

"Indianapolis": 123/60/201/75

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Indianapolis" according to Gematrinator.com/calculator

393/333/738/1206/

245/149/401/227/

2568/543/621/69/

60/69/75/84/

84/370/881/1639/

971/684/1973/3745/

40/36/56/

"Colts": 69/15/66/30

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Colts" according to Gematrinator.com/calculator

393/263/414/396/

137/95/131/92/

705/244/241/24/

15/24/30/30/

30/227/604/1139/

324/209/562/1058/

20/20/28/

"Indianapolis Colts": 192/75/267/105

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Indianapolis Colts" according to Gematrinator.com/calculator

786/596/1152/1602/

382/244/532/319/

3273/787/862/93/

75/93/105/114/

114/597/1485/2778/

1295/893/2535/4803/

60/56/84

"Jacksonville": 133/43/191/74

43 is the 14th prime number, 191 is the 43rd prime number

Additional ciphers for "Jacksonville" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

718/1548/798/1146/

265/159/381/217/

2243/553/611/52/

70/79/74/92/

92/411/1012/1891/

877/644/1824/3457/

40/39/58

"Jaguars": 77/23/112/49

23 is the 9th prime number

Additional ciphers for "Jaguars" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

509/979/462/672/

154/77/224/112/

1903/322/357/32/

23/32/49/49/

49/251/677/1277/

133/387/1167/2222/

17/30/35/

"Jacksonville Jaguars": 210/66/303/123

Additional ciphers for "Jacksonville Jaguars" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1227/2527/1260/1818/

419/236/605/329/

4146/875/968/84/

93/111/123/141/

141/662/1689/3168/

1010/1031/2991/5679/

57/69/93/

"Miami": 45/27/90/36

More ciphers for "Miami" in Gematria:

99/79/270/540/

89/71/179/116/

1080/220/265/27/

27/27/36/36/

36/130/273/501/

535/309/903/1716/

11/13/22

"Dolphins": 97/43/119/38

97 is the 25th prime number, 43 is the 14th prime number,

More ciphers for "Dolphins" in Gematria:

331/281/582/714/

193/123/237/145/

848/377/399/52/

43/52/47/47/

56/296/720/1343/

689/386/1028/1937

36/29/42

"Miami Dolphins": 142/70/209/74

More ciphers for "Miami Dolphins" in Gematria:

430/360/852/1254/

282/194/416/261/

1928/597/664/79/

70/79/83/83/

92/426/993/1844/

1224/695/1931/3653/

47/42/64

"New England": 99/45/171/45

Additional ciphers for "New England" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

702/1062/594/1026/

198/99/342/171/

2484/449/521/45/

45/45/45/81/

81/297/738/1377/

873/590/1746/3321/

42/31/47/

"Patriots": 118/37/98/53/

37 is the 12th prime number, 53 is the 16th prime number

Additional ciphers for "Patriots" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

730/490/708/588/

236/118/196/98/

971/398/378/46/

37/46/53/62/

62/395/1083/2048/

349/306/803/1508/

30/36/49/

"New England Patriots": 217/82/269/98

269 is the 57th prime number

Additional ciphers for "New England Patriots" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1432/1552/1302/1614/

434/217/538/269/

3455/847/899/91/

82/91/98/143/

143/692/1821/3425/

1222/896/2549/4829/

72/67/96

"New Orleans": 126/45/144/54

"Saints": 82/19/80/44

19 is the 8th prime number

"New Orleans Saints": 208/64/224/98

"New York": 111/39/78/33

Additional ciphers for "New York" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1425/1485/666/468/

220/163/154/130/

555/356/323/39/

48/48/33/51/

51/373/1078/2045/

509/243/616/1154/

28/22/45/

"Jets": 54/9/54/27

Additional ciphers for "Jets" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

315/795/324/324/

108/54/108/54/

495/194/194/18/

9/18/27/45/

45/178/470/886/

94/174/470/886/

13/22/23/

"New York Jets": 165/48/132/60

Additional ciphers for "New York Jets" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1740/2280/990/792/

328/217/262/184/

1050/550/517/57/

57/66/60/96/

96/551/1548/2931/

603/417/1086/2040/

41/44/68

"New York": 111/39/78/33/

Additional ciphers for "New York" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1425/1485/666/468/

220/163/154/130/

555/356/323/39/

48/48/33/51/

51/373/1078/2045/

509/243/616/1154/

28/22/45/

"Giants": 70/25/92/38

Additional ciphers for "Giants" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

367/247/420/552/

140/70/184/92/

1145/280/302/34/

25/34/38/38/

38/223/579/1088/

315/310/887/1682/

17/27/31/

"New York Giants": 181/64/170/71

181 is the 42nd prime number, 71 is the 20th prime number

Additional ciphers for "New York Giants" on Gematrinator.com/calculator:

1792/1732/1086/1020/

362/181/340/170/

1700/636/625/73/

73/82/71/89/

89/596/1657/3133/

824/553/1503/2836/

45/49/76/

"Pittsburgh": 140/50/130/58

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Pittsburgh" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

986/656/840/780/

280/140/260/130/

1147/490/480/59/

50/59/67/67/

76/458/1260/2380/

247/416/1120/2110/

38/54/59/

"Steelers": 103/31/113/50

103 is the 27th prime number, 31 is the 11th prime number, 113 is the 30th prime number

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Steelers" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

535/395/618/678/

206/103/226/113/

1292/383/393/49/

31/49/50/104/

104/336/884/1665/

248/362/1024/1935/

30/41/43/

"Pittsburgh Steelers": 243/81/243/108

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Pittsburgh Steelers" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

1521/1051/1458/1458/

486/243/486/243/

2439/873/873/108/

81/108/117/171/

180/794/2144/4045/

495/778/2144/4045/

68/95/102/

"Seattle": 82/19/107/44

19 (8th prime number), 107 (28th prime number)

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Seattle" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

541/321/492/642?

164/82/214/107?

1682/327/352/28/

19/28/44/80/

80/270/719/1356/

202/359/1069/2031/

25/33/36/

"Seahawks": 87/24/129/48

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Seahawks" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

735/1105/522/774/

174/87/258/129/

2190/367/409/42/

33/51/57/66/

75/282/775/1463/

162/446/1363/2597/

26/32/39/

"Seattle Seahawks": 169/43/236/92

43 (14th prime number)

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Seattle Seahawks" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

1276/1426/1014/1416/

338/169/472/236/

3872/694/761/70/

52/79/101/146/

155/552/1494/2819/

364/805/2432/4628/

51/65/75/

"Tampa Bay": 79/25/137/47

79 is the 22nd prime number, 137 is the 33rd prime number, 47 is the 15th prime number

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Tampa Bay" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

1015/595/474/822/

156/131/272/189/

3179/359/417/25/

25/25/47/56/

56/271/768/1457/

340/494/1580/3023/

22/18/38/

"Buccaneers": 91/37/179/62

37 is the 12th prime number, 179 is the 41st prime number

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Buccaneers" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

559/429/546/1074/

181/117/357/205/

3563/441/529/46/

37/46/62/98/

98/281/743/1395/

312/630/1975/3771/

35/37/42/

"Tampa Bay Buccaneers": 170/62/316/109

109 is the 29th prime number

Additional ciphers in Gematria for "Tampa Bay Buccaneers" can be found on Gematrinator.com:

1574/1024/1020/1896/

337/248/629/394/

6742/800/946/71/

62/71/109/154/

154/552/1511/2852/

652/1124/3555/6794/

57/55/80/

"Tennessee": 106/34/137/47

137 is the 33rd prime number, 47 is the 15th prime number

More ciphers in Gematria for "Tennessee" on Gematrinator.com/calculator 

Standard 520/ Latin 380/Sumerian 636/Reverse Sumerian 822/

Capitals Mixed 211/Capitals Added 132/Reverse Caps Mixed 273/Reverse Caps Added 163/

Reverse Standard 1703/Satanic 421/Reverse Satanic 452/Single Reduction 52/

KV Exception 34/SKV Exception 52/Reverse Single Reduction 47/EP Exception 119/

119/335/860/1614/541/453/1294/2451/40/41/46

"Titans": 83/20/79/43

83 is the 23rd prime number, 79 is the 22nd prime number, 43 is the 14th prime number

More ciphers:

560/340/498/474/

165/109/157/105/

952/293/289/29/

20/29/43/43/

43/277/761/1439/

315/256/705/1331/

18/27/35

"Tennessee Titans": 189/54/216/90

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1080/720/1134/1296/

376/241/430/268/

2655/714/741/81/

54/81/90/162/

162/612/1621/3053/

856/709/1999/3782/

58/68/81