Episode #137: Coordinators Hired
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The Lions are filling out the ranks at the top with the additions of a new Defensive and Special Teams Coordinator. This week Erik and Joe discuss the coaching staff and many of the potential rookies that could find themselves in Honolulu Blue and Silver next year.
- Lions make Eagles DB coach Cory Undlin as their defensive coordinator
- What is Undlin’s connection to Patricia?
- Undlin has connections to 8 Defensive Backs that will be free agents
- Lions have added Bengals’ assistant Brayden Coombs to be the new special teams coordinator
- What Coombs will bring to the Lions
- Looks like Lions QB coach Sean Ryan will remain in Detroit, with the Panthers hiring LSU’s Joe Brady
- Three position coaching spots are still open
- Erik explains how the Senior Bowl works
- Bob Quinn will attend some of the East-West Shrine practices
- Erik’s favorite players from the Shrine Game
- Alabama QB Tua Tagovaiola will work out for teams before the draft, so the Lions will have a gauge on how much their #3 pick will be worth
- #OnePride Lions Fan Mock Draft 2.0
- Lions Mock Draft Round up — a bunch of new names emerge for the #3 pick
- How Clemson’s Isaiah Simmons will fit in their defense
- The Lions should consider these 7 free agent pass rushers
- Listener draft questions
- Alex Karras elected to Pro Football Hall-of-Fame
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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 with me as always is Eric Schlett from USA Today. |
| 0:08.0 | Lions Warrior and this is the official Lions podcast of USA Today. |
| 0:11.9 | Lions Wire, Eric, there's still a bunch of openings left on the coaching staff as we approach the Senior Bowl, |
| 0:17.7 | but one, the big one, and has been filled, and that's the defensive |
| 0:22.1 | coordinator. |
| 0:23.4 | Corey Undlin from the Philadelphia Eagles, former defensive backs coach, now the defensive |
| 0:28.4 | coordinator for our Detroit Lions. |
| 0:30.7 | You know, he's a very interesting story. |
| 0:35.1 | You know, I knew a little bit about him as a coach from his Denver days when he was |
| 0:41.7 | part of that. Defense with John Fox. I knew he went over to Philly with Chip Kelly, but that was |
| 0:49.0 | about it. I didn't really follow him a whole lot past that. So he wasn't the name that we had talked |
| 0:54.0 | about because, you know, he wasn't the name that we had talked about |
| 0:54.2 | because you know it wasn't somebody that was you know within our you know it wasn't within our |
| 1:01.0 | normal discussion points of of connections but you know connections seem to go pretty far back right |
| 1:06.8 | and this is uh this is how they Patricia and Patricia and Unlin first met, what, 15 years ago. |
| 1:15.7 | In 2004. |
| 1:17.0 | Yep. |
| 1:17.9 | And since that, and it's like a really interesting story, how both of them have gotten there. |
| 1:24.0 | Both of them were teachers. |
| 1:26.7 | And while they were trying to become coaches, and then they left |
| 1:30.5 | teaching to take a underpaying coaching job to follow the passion. |
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