BONUS: What is the Lions' Biggest Need? | 'Necessary Roughness'
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
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From 'Necessary Roughness' (subscribe here): Going into the NFL Draft, Jon Jansen and TJ Lang debate the Detroit Lions' biggest need. Download and follow Necessary Roughness today.
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| 0:00.0 | And the reason I ask about how many quarterbacks are going to go in the top four, obviously, |
| 0:04.7 | the Lions pick six. And I think there's four that go in the top five. I do think Seattle, |
| 0:10.6 | the way that they structure Geno Smith's contract, it could be a one-year deal, |
| 0:15.6 | and they could groom another guy. And then all of a sudden, hey, they're off and running, |
| 0:19.2 | hopefully on any stunted rebuild that a team that made the playoffs last year. Who knows what they |
| 0:25.3 | do this year, but it all leads up to what the Lions do at number six. And before we start talking |
| 0:33.1 | about that pick or other picks in the draft, I do want to ask you following free agency. |
| 0:40.3 | We haven't gotten to the draft yet. They addressed, they brought Marvin Jones Jr. back. |
| 0:46.1 | So they've added a wide receiver to the room after losing DJ Shark. |
| 0:49.7 | They added Montgomery in the backfield. On the defensive side, we know that they |
| 0:55.1 | addressed the secondary, three guys in the secondary, the entire secondary might have a |
| 1:00.4 | completely different look, say for some of the young guys that played last year. And we'll see |
| 1:05.2 | what Tracy Walker, how he recovers from his Achilles. What's the biggest need for this team now? |
| 1:13.5 | And how does it relate to the draft? Front seven, front seven, front seven. |
| 1:17.6 | I think for me, it's it's being able to stop the run. |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah. And you can never have too many guys to put pressure on a quarterback. |
| 1:25.3 | I agree with you. And I think that that starts up front, right? The better front four you have, |
| 1:32.3 | the better success your linebackers are going to have, right? That's just the fact, right? |
| 1:36.8 | It's going to free those guys up. And sometimes having an all pro linebacker doesn't really |
| 1:42.0 | matter if your defensive line blows, can't stop anybody and is getting pushed into the linebacker's |
| 1:46.9 | lap, right? So, uh, |
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