Episode #135: We’re Onto the Offseason
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Lions season mercifully ended on Sunday with a 23-20 loss to the Green Bay Packers. The team heads into the offseason with a 3-12-1 record and the 3rd overall pick in the NFL Draft. This week Erik and Joe begin to discuss the coaching turnover and the impending player turnover.
- DC Paul Pasqualoni and OL coach Jeff Davidson avoid the firing squad by “stepping away from coaching”
- 4 other assistant coaches, and 2 strength and conditioning coaches were not so lucky
- Who might replace Pasqualoni at defensive coordinator
- Contract status of every Lions player heading into the offseason
- 11 players were added to the roster via Reserve/Futures contracts, added 3 more the next day
- For the season Matthew Stafford and Trey Flowers received the highest PFF marks
- Kenny Golladay sets a new career-high in receiving yards and leads the NFL in touchdown receptions
- Damon Harrison may retire
- Tracy Walker finishes the season with over 100 tackles
- The Lions unrestricted free agents, ranked
- Graham Glasgow… re-sign him or let him walk?
- Lions will pick 3rd in 2020 draft
- The Lions will coach in the Senior Bowl
- It is once again possible the Lions will end up on HBO’s “Hard Knocks”
- Jeff Risdon penned his initial Lions 7 round Mock Draft
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always as Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:08.2 | And this is the official Lions podcast of USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:12.0 | Eric, season mercifully ended on Sunday with a, what was it, 23 to 20 loss to the Green Bay Packers? |
| 0:19.3 | I thought it was closer than that, for whatever reason. |
| 0:22.1 | I thought it was closer than that. |
| 0:24.0 | Put a nice caper on a 312 and one season. |
| 0:27.0 | The Lions will pick third in the NFL draft. |
| 0:29.0 | We won't talk about that yet. |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.5 | We will talk about coaching changes, |
| 0:34.2 | and a bunch of them were fired not on Black Monday, |
| 0:37.3 | but on Lions firing Tuesday. |
| 0:40.8 | And then a couple more stepped away today, leaving a coaching staff of... |
| 0:48.3 | A coaching vacuum. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, well, they're going to need to replace six coaches, including two coordinators, |
| 0:54.6 | and a strength and conditioning coordinator as well and an assistant. |
| 1:00.9 | So eight spots that they're going to have to fill, and they're going to be on the clock to fill those, too. |
| 1:06.8 | So we'll get to that a little bit later. |
| 1:09.3 | All right, so one move, we all kind of question whether or not it was coming. Yeah. Was defensive coordinator Paul Pascoloni. He is, it's very well known that he was the mentor to Matt Patricia. So nobody thought about this two years ago that, hey, one day you're going to have to fire this guy. Well, I think we might have talked about it. We may have talked about it. |
| 1:28.6 | What's going to happen when they had to fire him. |
| 1:30.6 | And, of course, they didn't fire him. He's stepping aside himself. They'll give him some special title. No, I don't think he's... Oh, he's not coming back. Staying with the team at all. Oh, well. I think he's stepping away. |
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