Episode #122: Quarter-Season Review
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
They played valiantly, but 2 fumbles in the red zone proved to be too costly for the Lions to overcome while losing 34-30 to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. This week the team gets to heal up with their Bye Week and begin to prepare to face the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football in another week.
- Inferred injury report
- 6th rounder WR Travis Fulgham was waived then, re-signed to the practice squad, necessitating the release DT Frank Herron
- Slot WR Tom Kennedy was promoted to the 53 man
- DE Jonathan Wynn brought back to practice squad, waive DT Ray Smith
- Recapping the Chiefs game
- Mike Ford played well in Darius Slay’s absence
- NFL took a hard pass in reviewing the Hail Mary shove
- The Week 5 Power Rankings, the Lions rise in half the polls despite coming off a loss
- Next Gen Stats show that Stafford has started hot
- Lions Wire’s Quarter-Season Awards
- MVP candidates
- Rookie of the year leader
- Most Improved
- Most pleasant surprise
- Biggest disappointment
- Best Play/favorite moment
- Erik answers questions from a jam-packed mailbag
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Joe Kanya. |
| 0:05.4 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, LionsWire. |
| 0:10.0 | And this is the official Lions Podcast of USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:14.0 | Eric, we've taken a little bit more than a week off because this is the Lions spy week. |
| 0:19.3 | We're coming off of a heartbreaking yet hopeful. |
| 0:23.9 | 3430 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. |
| 0:27.6 | A loss which has, you know, it's still upsetting because they lost and they had some |
| 0:33.4 | opportunities in the game to put themselves in position to win. |
| 0:37.4 | They made some mistakes. Maybe the curse reared its ugly head for a minute or two. opportunities in the game to put themselves in position to win. |
| 0:38.6 | They made some mistakes. |
| 0:41.3 | Maybe the curse reared its ugly head for a minute or two. |
| 0:42.9 | It's neither here nor there. |
| 0:47.7 | Let's start talking about what's going on as we speak while the team's off on vacation. |
| 0:55.2 | The injury report first, Matthew Stafford, still with his hip injury, although he played last Sunday. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, so because... Valiantly. |
| 0:57.8 | Oh, yeah, very... |
| 0:58.7 | I mean, he looked shaky in the first half like he wasn't comfortable, and then in the |
| 1:05.5 | second half he's lowering his shoulder and hitting people and then standing up and |
| 1:08.8 | talking trash, right? |
| 1:09.9 | Can't question his toughness at this point in his career. |
| 1:13.1 | So to clarify, there's no official injury report. |
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