Episode #121: Chiefs Week 4 Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Lions escaped Philadelphia with a 27-24 victory over the Eagles on Sunday leaving them as one of the eight remaining undefeated teams in the NFL with a record of 2-0-1. This Sunday the Lions welcome reigning league MVP Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs to Ford Field. Erik and Joe discuss how the Lions will deal with the Chiefs.
- The injury report still includes Darius Slay
- Marvin Hall gets added to the active roster, Chris Lacy is released
- Lacy and Ray Smith are brought on the practice squad, RB Nick Brossette and DE Jonathan Wynn are let go
- Keys to the victory over the Eagles
- Jamal Agnew sheds his demons — highlighted by a 100-yard kick return for TD
- Coach Matt Patricia trusts his guys sticks with Agnew
- Lions Wire player of the game – Marvin Jones
- Kerryon Johnson found more time on the field after the release of C.J. Anderson
- Erik discusses a conspiracy against Johnson
- Many little mistakes lead to poor run blocking
- Pass protection has been good – zero sacks allowed over the last two games
- Previewing the Chiefs
- Just like the Eagles, the Chiefs have injuries to very important contributors – LT Eric Fisher, WR Tyreek Hill and RB LeSean McCoy
- Can the Lions
stopslow down Patrick Mahomes? - The Chiefs do have weaknesses, defending the run game is a big one
- Timing of offensive aggressiveness will be critical
- Key matchups to a Lions victory
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:05.6 | With me, as always, is Eric Shulet from USA Today, Lions Wire, and this is the official |
| 0:10.5 | Lions podcast of USA Today. |
| 0:12.8 | Lions Wire, Eric, the Lions, still undefeated, now at 2.0.1, after a 27-24 victory against Philadelphia Eagles in the city of Brotherly Love on Sunday, |
| 0:25.4 | they didn't make it easy on us, the fans at the end, but they squeaked it out nonetheless. |
| 0:31.3 | Now, I believe it's a very Lions thing, maybe the most lions thing about this season, that the lions |
| 0:40.8 | are undefeated after three weeks, yet aren't even tied for first place in their division. |
| 0:47.2 | Only the lions could pull that off, right? |
| 0:50.4 | Well, um, half game back in the Packers. |
| 0:52.9 | The tie, the tie is going to be both a blessing and a curse. |
| 0:58.4 | It's going to be a curse when it comes to, um, situations like this where you're a half game back. |
| 1:06.0 | But I also think not losing that game could come back to pay benefits for them down the road |
| 1:11.6 | when it comes down to a tiebreaker a lot of times 10-5 and 1 would be better than 10-6 |
| 1:18.9 | right or even 8-7 and 1 you know what I mean is better it's better at 8-8 but um I mean so my |
| 1:26.8 | point is obvious guy says yeah right um but but the packers |
| 1:32.0 | packers went to one the division eight seven and one just a few years back yeah well that's i think |
| 1:37.5 | this is a better division oh yeah for what we were dealing with a couple years ago yeah there's |
| 1:41.8 | it's you know regardless of what happens this week you're still going to enter the buy with a couple years ago. Yeah, there's, it's, you know, regardless of what happens this week, you're still going to enter |
| 1:45.8 | the buy with a winning record, and you're going to come out of the buy with two NFC North |
| 1:51.5 | match-os. |
| 1:53.1 | Yeah. |
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