Episode #112: Summer Mailbag
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The dog days of summer are upon us, but that doesn’t mean the mail stops being delivered. Erik and Joe delve into an overfull mailbag and answer a bevy of listener questions.
- Is the league a passing league or is it secretly a run-first league?
- Was Frank Ragnow always destined to be the Lions center?
- Could Teez Tabor’s performance in OTAs just be a tall tale?
- Could the Lions end up splitting their dime package between 3 corners and 3 safeties?
- How has camp changed since last season?
- Are there candidates to be breakout players this season?
- How will the Lions dole out their extra cap space?
- Could an extension for Graham Glasgow extension be on the horizon?
- Could any available free agents be an impact player on this Lions team?
- Are there any trades the Lions might explore?
- Is it a greater priority to bring Darius Slay or Damon Harrison into camp?
- Is there anyone worthy of taking in the Supplemental draft — Jalen Thompson, DB Washington State
- What combination of events need to occur in the NFC North for the Lions to make the playoffs?
- What will the Lions be looking to draft in 2020?
- Discussion of our earliest Lions memory and favorite player
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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. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Joe Kenya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlitt from USA Today, Lions Wire. And this is the |
| 0:09.5 | official Lions podcast of USA Today Lions Wire. Eric, not much happening with the Lions this week. |
| 0:16.2 | They're gearing up for training camp. There's really no additions or subtractions to make note of. |
| 0:22.2 | Correct. |
| 0:22.9 | And last week we started, we started with our offensive training camp series. |
| 0:31.3 | Yeah, heading into training camp talk. |
| 0:33.1 | Today, we may have mentioned that we were going to go into defense. |
| 0:35.9 | We're going to hold off on that until next week because we got an overflowing mail bag. |
| 0:40.7 | You know, a big mail delivery, so we're going to go through some questions today. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.5 | You know, I think it'd be – it's a good time ahead of the 4th of July holiday to give back to, you know, |
| 0:52.1 | the fans are going to have a chance to maybe listen to us on the 4th |
| 0:56.9 | or sitting around or something like that. |
| 0:58.5 | Relaxing, so it's a good time to answer some of their questions |
| 1:01.9 | and we'll put our agenda a week from now. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm starting my 4th of July early. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm looking out the podcast studio window and I see a unicorn |
| 1:12.6 | floating around. Yeah, I have, I, you know, I still get my articles in, but I'm spending more |
| 1:21.1 | and more time with my kids in that pool. I did take a ride on that unicorn in the pool earlier today, just floating around. |
| 1:29.2 | Sure, it was very magical. |
| 1:30.9 | The first question comes from Ethan Weggler. |
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