Episode #113: Happy Trails Glover Quin
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Another week of summer, another slow week for the Lions. Luckily Erik and Joe have plenty to discuss with Erik’s latest series about heading into training camp. Once again, the listeners deliver with a bunch of excellent mailbag questions.
- Detroit ended up being his final football home Glover Quin officially retires from the NFL
- To the 37th consecutive season the Lions do not select any player in 2019 Supplemental draft
- Schlitt’s Heading into training camp series continues
- 12 Lions who will not lose their spot on the 2019 roster
- Austin Bryant will find himself at JACK linebacker this season
- Erik predicts how many JACK linebackers will make the roster?
- Will the Lions be more aggressive on offense in 2019?
- Who is the Lions No. 1 wide receiver?
- Could Marvin Jones be traded during the year?
- What WR could the Lions trade for?
- Potential offensive breakout player
- PFF’s pre-season list have the Lions as the No. 15 ranked Offensive Line, what do they need to do to get back into the top-10?
- If the Lions can only retain one… Graham Glasgow or A’Shawn Robinson?
- Not many of the rookies on the line impressed during spring camps, why?
- Which rookie could breakout in the pre-season
- Is a Ricky Jean Francois return possible?
- Could Darius Slay and Damon Harrison resolve their contract disputes before the regular season?
- Between Snacks Harrison and Quandre Diggs, who is more underrated nationally?
- Can Jalen Reeves-Maybin eventually fit in the LB unit?
- Who is currently penciled in as the Lions starting outside cornerback opposite Slay?
- What is Will Harris’ potential?
- Is there relevance for the “hot seat” talk for Patricia?
- Why different franchises have large discrepancies in overall value
- Thanks to Dean K 127 for the 5-star review!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Joe Gania. |
| 0:05.0 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire, |
| 0:09.1 | and this is the official Lions podcast of USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:13.9 | Eric, we're rolling towards training camp slowly but surely just a couple weeks away. |
| 0:20.4 | Yeah, you know, I thought about a bunch of articles I wanted to write and penned them out, |
| 0:27.6 | kind of like an outline. |
| 0:28.8 | And now I'm wondering if I can get them all in in time because it seems like training camp's going to be here. |
| 0:33.7 | See, just like that, you're out of time. |
| 0:35.3 | Way to procrastinate. |
| 0:36.6 | Well, you know what? |
| 0:38.1 | It's like during the slow months, you have to generate your own material and so i had these grand oh |
| 0:45.3 | grandiose ideas here and uh i'm about halfway through and i've got less than half the time that |
| 0:51.3 | i had planned so either i got to start working or i got to start cutting some of them out of the rotation. Get busy living or get busy dying. Thank you, Andy. Actually, that wasn't Andy Dufram. That was... There wasn't Andy Dufram. No, it was Brooks. Well, Brooks was the librarian. Well, it must have been red then. Somebody will correct us. |
| 1:11.5 | It was red. |
| 1:13.0 | Over the last week here, there's no real big news except for Glover Quinn retiring, |
| 1:19.4 | which might not be that big of a shock. |
| 1:22.6 | No, no. |
| 1:23.1 | We had been anticipating this for what? |
| 1:26.5 | About a year now, he spent last off season away from the |
| 1:31.8 | lions at home with his family he revealed uh after the fact after his retirement here that his |
| 1:39.3 | plan all along was to play for 10 seasons and then get out healthy and he did so he's got a bunch of young |
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