Episode #117: Preseason Week 2 Recap
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, Joe is on vacation so Erik welcomes back special guest Lions Wire’s Scott Warheit, to help navigate the last week of football and examine the Detroit Lions 30-23 loss to the Houston Texans in Week 2 of the preseason.
This week they discuss:
- Signing QB Josh Johnson, WR Deontez Alexander, CB Jamar Summers and CB Jonathan Alston, while also releasing Marcus Cooper
- Removing EDGE Trey Flowers from PUP and NT Damon Harrison from NFI
- WR Jermaine Kearse and Darius Kilgo in injured reserve
- Lions opponents suffer injuries: Week 1: Arizona Cardinals and Week 2: LA Chargers
- Erik’s projected injury report
- Erik’s projected depth chart
- Erik and Scott go position by position breaking down the roster based on what happened in preseason Week 2
- Player of the Game: Will Harris, Rookie standouts, Studs and Duds, Scott’s 6 takeaways from the game, and 4 things Jeff Risdon learned from the game
- Erik’s 12 snap count observations
- Erik’s exclusive interview with Kevin Strong
- How the Lions could benefit from the NFL reinstating Patriots WR Josh Gordon
As always thanks for listening and Tweet us at @LionsBreakdown, @Erikschlitt, @JoeKania_DLB, and our special guest Scott Warheit @swarheit on Twitter.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | My name is Eric Schlett of USA Today LionsWire, and this is the official podcast of USA Today, |
| 0:10.8 | LionsWire. |
| 0:11.9 | Joe Kenya is on vacation this week, so joining us is another one of my fellow LionsWire writers, |
| 0:18.4 | Scott Warwright. |
| 0:19.3 | Thanks a lot, Eric. |
| 0:20.2 | Just don't ask me to cheer for Michigan State, and we'll be okay. |
| 0:24.1 | No, that's a, yeah, it's an all-Michigan podcast today, so hopefully we'll stay focused on the Lions and not, you know, go down to our maze and blue ways, I guess, right? |
| 0:35.3 | So we're going to cover what we saw in last night's game against the Houston Texans. |
| 0:40.5 | We're going to talk about the different signings and things that have happened throughout the week, |
| 0:44.7 | just to kind of get everybody caught up so that in case you miss something, we will have you covered. |
| 0:49.3 | And I guess we should probably just start right there. |
| 0:52.4 | We should start talking about what the |
| 0:54.6 | signings are, right? So the big signing from last week was Josh Johnson, the quarterback, right? Injury |
| 1:01.4 | happens in the New England game in week one, and Tom Savage goes down. It is a confirmed concussion |
| 1:09.7 | by the coaching staff. And we have, since he has a long |
| 1:15.3 | history of concussions, the lines need to make a move in order to have at least three |
| 1:20.6 | functioning quarterbacks on the roster, and they sign Josh Johnson. So Josh Johnson |
| 1:25.2 | comes most recently from the Washington Redskins, but he's played for |
| 1:29.8 | 13 teams over his 12 years in the NFL, and so he brings that experience. Look good so far in |
| 1:36.1 | practice this week. He's took first team reps over David Fails in last night's game, but it was an interesting dynamic that |
| 1:47.5 | we'll get into a little bit more. After Josh Johnson, they also signed Deontes Alexander. |
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