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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Detroit Lions Team Preview

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe previews the Detroit Lions for 2021 fantasy football purposes including rankings and projections for all of the key players. Jeff kicks things off with some reason for pessimism with D'Andre Swift's role in this offense. He then breaks down Jared Goff's outlook along with giving you his thoughts on the Lions thin wide receiver corps. Jeff then wraps things up by gushing over TJ Hockenson's expected workload this upcoming season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, it's the rant. My name is Jeff Radcliffe and it is Tuesday June 22nd. The Lions are on the

0:25.8

docket for today are fantasy football preview series roles on a very interesting team, but Anthony

0:32.6

Lynn could be complicating things before I dive into that. Please review the podcast on Apple,

0:39.4

iTunes, whatever the heck it's called these days and rate the show as well. And in your review,

0:45.4

leave your Twitter handle and you'll be entered into win a rant t-shirt, which of course, if you

0:51.4

want to buy one, you can also buy that over at sawdustpods.com, but yeah, we'll do that little

0:56.6

contest there. We'll name a winner here in July. So there's plenty of time to get it in, but

1:00.9

the earlier the better. So hook it up, even if you don't listen on Apple, review it on Apple,

1:06.4

and that will help me out. And then hopefully I can then help you out. All right. So let's dive

1:11.4

into it. A new regime is in place. This is a team in transition for sure. And it may take some time

1:20.7

and maybe this is a team that will continue to be in transition. Who knows? This is an

1:26.7

interesting regime. Dan Campbell is the exact opposite of Matt Patricia, Matt Patricia, a

1:31.3

disciplinary and defensive-minded coach. And now we have a players coach who is much more

1:36.8

offensive-minded. Of course, as I mentioned, though, Campbell bringing in Anthony Lynn and I really

1:42.6

don't want to bury the lead here. And on some of these podcasts, I've talked about quarterback

1:47.8

first, et cetera, but really we do need to talk about this backfield first and foremost.

1:53.4

And initially, it seemed like the stars were aligning for DeAndre Swift in this backfield.

1:59.2

You had a head coach coming from New Orleans, the Lions organization sort of rating the

2:06.0

cupboard of the Saints. And seemingly that would set up very well for Swift who does have a

2:12.2

lot of similarities with Alvin Camera. But Anthony Lynn comes in and has slightly different

2:18.8

plans raised a bunch of eyebrows in the fantasy football world when he called Jamal Williams,

2:24.2

his prototype A back who for him and that A back is a back who has a big role in early downs,

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