Episode #126: Raiders Week 9 Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In Week 8 action the Lions pulled off a 31-26 win over the New York Giants. This week the Lions travel to Oakland for the final time (for at least a while) where they will face off against Jon Gruden and his 3-4 Raiders. Erik and Joe think the Lions will have a definite advantage in the passing game.
- Injury report from Wednesday
- Austin Bryant is back practicing, the team can spend the next 21 days evaluating what to do next
- Familiar name LB Steve Longa returns to the team before the Giants game
- CB (not deceased pop star) Michael Jackson signed off the Dallas practice squad, RB Paul Perkins was released subsequently, and OL Casey Tucker was signed to the empty spot on the practice squad
- Thoughts from the Giants game
- Player of the game: Kenny Golladay
- Studs and Duds from Week 8
- Matthew Stafford has a near-perfect second half
- The running game continues to struggle
- Da’Shawn Hand shines in his return to game action and the run defense showed great improvement
- The secondary misses Darius Slay and Daniel Jones’ stat line showed that
- Lions made no moves at the trade deadline but did make move to try and acquire Broncos CB Chris Harris
- Vegas line began at: Raiders +2.5
- Raiders QB Derek Carr is having a solid season thus far
- Raiders rookie RB Josh Jacobs finds himself as pro football focus’ No. 1 rated running back
- TE Darren Waller is the latest of high-end TEs the Lions have faced
- A couple of familiar faces will be all over the field for the Raiders defense ex-Lions Tahir Whitehead and Nevin Lawson are on their active roster
- What will the Lions need to do to beat the Raiders on Sunday
- Special thanks to Chad and Brad for their 5-star reviews!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. I'm Joe |
| 0:05.6 | Kenya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire, and this is the official Lions |
| 0:11.3 | podcast of USA Today, Lions Wire. Eric, lions are coming off of a wins-a-win type 31-26 victory over |
| 0:20.0 | the New York Giants. |
| 0:21.1 | This week, they traveled to Oakland for the last time to face the three and four Raiders. |
| 0:26.3 | So we got two teams tied for ninth place in the respective conferences meeting for a tussle Sunday afternoon at 4.30. |
| 0:34.2 | Don't forget, not a 1 o'clock start. |
| 0:35.8 | So let's start with the injury report, |
| 0:38.6 | as always. Number one, Tracy Walker, his knee injury, is mispracticed on Wednesday. |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah, and I guess that's not overly surprising. He leaves the game in the second half. |
| 0:59.7 | He goes and gets some x-rays done on it. Initial word is very positive, |
| 1:06.2 | but he has to have MRI and other testing done the following day. Everything seems to be positive from what I'm hearing, what the team is saying, and from what I've heard behind the scenes. |
| 1:13.4 | But they're going to take it slow with him. So missing this day, they're wearing pads today. |
| 1:20.6 | So missing today is not overly surprising. We'll see about his status for Sunday. |
| 1:33.9 | We'll know a lot more, depending on what he does tomorrow, but it's kind of up in the air right now. |
| 1:37.3 | Graham Glasgow, back injury, missed on Wednesday. |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah, he, you know, Patricia was a lot, he seemed a lot less concerned about this one than he did about the Tracy Walker injury. He barely, he didn't even acknowledge it, I guess, on Monday |
| 1:54.0 | during the conference call. It was brought up to him and he kind of dismissed it. Then today, |
| 2:00.2 | he said, you know, because we're in pads, we're |
| 2:03.8 | going to let Graham have a day off as well. So it sounds like they're just giving him some rest, |
| 2:09.5 | but it sounds like he should be good to go. If he doesn't, then, you know, your rotation at guard |
| 2:16.0 | has paid off, right? |
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