Episode #108: Taste of the Lions
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Another quiet week around the NFL allows Erik and Joe to explore the studio space with questions from the listeners in this podcast.
- Lions sign a slew of rookies
- Numbers are handed out to the new kids
- T.J. Hockenson considers it a great honor to wear #88
- LB Juwon Young gets added and LB Tre’ Williams gets released
- WRs Jordan Smallwood and Tom Kennedy get added
- The Rod Wood-shed has been accessed to talk about the Taste of the Lions
- Taking a deeper look at the scheme and how it has changed on both offense and defense
- Group chemistry is the theme this offseason for the Lions Offensive Line
- Good news? Arizona Cardinals CB Patrick Peterson suspension and how it can impact the Lions opening game?
- Finish up with the mailbag
- Special thanks to Dan Anderson for the 5-star review!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:05.2 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:08.7 | It's official Lions podcast of USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:12.2 | Eric, Eric, he's feeling better. |
| 0:14.5 | You are. |
| 0:15.3 | I am feeling worse. |
| 0:16.7 | This is what happens when you share a microphone. |
| 0:20.4 | So we're going to dig right in. |
| 0:22.2 | Not a whole lot of news going on right now. |
| 0:24.2 | You have some interesting takes. |
| 0:26.1 | They're not even takes. |
| 0:27.5 | From Taste of the Lions, a little fancy suiress they had down at Ford Field the other day. |
| 0:34.1 | We'll get to that in a minute. |
| 0:35.0 | First things first. |
| 0:36.5 | The Lions signed five more |
| 0:37.8 | rookies. I believe that just leaves one that's unsigned. Will Harris is the only unsigned |
| 0:42.8 | third round to pick safety out of Boston College. There's some language in the first round contracts |
| 0:50.8 | and then there's some apparent language in a third round contracts. Not exactly 100% sure what it is, but if you remember, it caused a delay in Kenny Ghaladay's contract a couple years back. And apparently it's a little bit of a sticking point right now, but it's going to happen. He's going to get signed. You know, it's just a matter of time. He's going to play football this year. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, the rest of the rookies. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, the rest of the rookies all got signed. |
| 1:15.0 | All the day three guys are now under contract with Oruwari was the only one that had signed at the time of our last show. |
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