Episode #109: OTA Recap
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
As the Lions head into Week 2 of OTAs Erik gets the chance to discuss what he saw during the Lions practice on Thursday.
- After talking about the mood at practice Erik talks about the expansion of different defensive looks the Lions may employ this season
- Teez Tabor has surprised in these early practices
- A position by position breakdown of who has started finding their way up the depth chart
- Stafford looked relaxed
- The battle between Connor Cook and Tom Savage rages on
- Zach Zenner will still find his way onto the field somehow this season
- Seemingly the biggest news in OTAs has been Frank Ragnows move to Center
- Special thanks to Kimmy KKKKK, Corey $r, Zeel city, Best Draft Application and G Lions fan for the 5-star reviews!
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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. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:05.5 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlitt from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a podcast of Lions Wire. |
| 0:13.0 | Eric, OTAs started this week. |
| 0:16.6 | You haven't heard from us. |
| 0:17.9 | Well, you have heard from me, but the folks listening haven't heard from us unless they heard |
| 0:22.5 | you on another podcast the other day. |
| 0:24.5 | That's true. |
| 0:25.1 | In two weeks, we took a week off there. |
| 0:27.6 | Now we're back. |
| 0:29.6 | Not a lot's happening. |
| 0:30.9 | Nobody's been added. |
| 0:31.9 | Nobody's been subtracted. |
| 0:33.7 | But there's a lot going on now that we're having organized team practices. |
| 0:37.8 | So, when we dive right in, and what was the mood like out there today? |
| 0:42.6 | You happened to be in Allen Park today for practice. |
| 0:44.9 | What was everything like down there? |
| 0:47.4 | You know, there was rain early, right? |
| 0:49.9 | So the rain was they put a big question mark on whether or not we were going to be able to watch practice indoors or watch practice outdoors. |
| 0:59.0 | And they decided to start outdoors and see what happened. |
| 1:02.2 | And then as if like some miracle, the sun came out and glowed for an hour and 55 minutes of the two hour practice. |
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