Episode #125: Giants Week 8 Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This past Sunday the Lions hemorrhaged over 500 yards to the Minnesota Vikings en route to a 42-30 loss at Ford Field. This Sunday the Lions look to redeem themselves at home as they welcome the 2-5 New York Giants. Erik and Joe discuss a myriad of topics including…
- Injury reports for Wednesday and Thursday
- Kerryon Johnson now on injured reserve we won’t see him on the field until at least Week 16
- The week’s biggest news was Quandre Diggs traded to the Seattle Seahawks
- Film Study: What will the Lions do to replace Diggs
- With the loss of Kerryon Paul Perkins was promoted to the active roster, RB Wes Hills signed to the practice squad
- S Marcus Gilchrist brings his 90+ starts, what the Lions are getting in him as a player
- Matthew Stafford cracks 40,000 yards passing in the fewest games to date
- Player of the Game: Easily Marvin Jones with an Al Bundy-like 4 TDs
- Jones’ TDs lands him in elite company
- Studs and Duds from Week 7
- Lions had a real rough time stopping the Vikings
- The Lions must take the bull by the horns to save their season is now
- Snap Counts:The Lions defense sees some big changes usage
- Vegas likes the Lions by 7-points
- On paper, the Lions offense has an advantage over the Giants
- On defense, the Lions will have to fix a big weakness
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:05.6 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlitt from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.6 | The official Lions podcast of USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:13.0 | Eric, Lions, they had a rough one against the Vikings on Sunday. |
| 0:17.7 | They lost 42 to 30. |
| 0:19.4 | So you were right. |
| 0:20.4 | If the line, if both teams, if only one |
| 0:23.8 | team cracks 17 points, the Lions are going to win. And that's not what happened. They went |
| 0:28.9 | well over that. And so the Lions lost. Yeah, shootout was not a, it was not a wise approach. |
| 0:36.6 | No. And I don't think they had a choice. But yeah, I think, you know, we'll get into that, I guess. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:42.5 | And some things have happened during the week. |
| 0:47.0 | And like the game has now become really secondary to the Lion's story this week. |
| 0:52.1 | Oddly enough with the trade of Quadra Diggs, |
| 0:54.2 | we'll talk about that in the second as well. |
| 0:56.3 | We'll first start with the injury report. |
| 0:58.6 | Number one, this is what everybody would have thought |
| 1:01.7 | would be the biggest news of the week. |
| 1:04.2 | That Carry On Johnson has been placed on injured reserve. |
| 1:07.2 | He's available to come back in week. |
| 1:09.3 | 16. Oh, 16, yeah. Yeah. And in my mind, this move is probably still the most impactful thing that |
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