Episode #116: Preseason Week 1 Recap
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Lions opened the preseason with a 31-3 drubbing by the hands of the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, or at least their reserves. This week Erik and Joe talk about why there is no reason to work your way out to the ledge yet.
- CB Tarvarus McFadden signed, in a corresponding move the team cut WR Deiontez Alexander
- McFadden gets injured and subsequently released, then sign CB Jonathan Alston
- IOL Joe Dahl secured himself a 2-year contract extension
- CB Darius Slay is off the NFI
- WR Tommylee Lewis gets activated from PUP
- Erik runs down the full injury report
- DT Mike Daniels reports he “could play tomorrow” if required
- WR Jermaine Kearse’s suffers a gruesome, likely season-ending injury
- Rookie RB Ty Johnson gets Erik’s player of the game nod
- Other rookies that tried to make an impact in preseason Week 1
- Erik discusses the apparent position competitions with the Week 1 snap counts
- Erik’s latest Roster Stack based off what he saw in the Pats game
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Joe Kanya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire, and this is the |
| 0:10.5 | official Lions podcast of USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:14.2 | Eric, I'm guessing a lot of our listeners are tuning in to this episode because it was a rather disastrous game yesterday |
| 0:23.9 | or on Thursday night, lions succumb to the Patriots 31 to 3. |
| 0:29.5 | Not a lot of positives to talk about. |
| 0:31.6 | That's why they come here to hear you. |
| 0:33.5 | Because you're going to tell us, you're going to help me. |
| 0:36.6 | You're going to talk me, not off the ledge. I'm nowhere near the ledge yet, but a lot of people are. Sure. I'm sure. And you're going to tell us why this is not so bad. Deal. All right. So first things first, we've got these tiny little roster moves that are really affecting the bottom of the roster lines signed cornerback tarveris |
| 0:55.9 | mcfadden and a corresponding move released wide receiver d'ontas alexander might as well just |
| 1:02.6 | carry right over to the next one too yeah lines wave macfadden after signing them and then go ahead |
| 1:08.1 | and sign cornerback Jonathan Alston. |
| 1:11.4 | Right. |
| 1:22.0 | So it's just this is that 90 man, you know, the last five spots on the roster are always getting turned over looking for diamond into rough essentially, right? |
| 1:31.4 | It's always been talked about with Quinn that those last five spots are basically like just extended tryouts. |
| 1:40.3 | You know, you don't get a chance to give guys tryouts other than when they are preparing for the draft where you get to work them out like with your team. You just have to, you know, make assumptions based on what you've watched on film or, |
| 1:45.2 | you know, their athletic skills or previous scouting reports on them. And so this is how you |
| 1:51.3 | utilize the preseason by, you know, giving these guys these longer looks. With McFadden, he was injured |
| 1:57.8 | the second day he was there. So he'll, he's unable to work, so he has, he was waived injured, and now he's reverted back to the |
| 2:06.3 | lions. |
| 2:06.7 | Lions will either sign him with, or give him an injury settlement or, which is likely. |
| 2:12.6 | We've seen that a lot last season. |
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