Episode #138: Senior Bowl Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week Matt Patricia got to make a lot of noise at the Senior Bowl, as ESPN mic’d him up for practice. The Lions coaches got to remain busy while observing this years’ draft class go through a week’s worth of practices leading up to the game on Saturday. Erik and Joe discuss who the Lions may unearth based off of what they’ve seen in Mobile.
- The Lions still have 3 coaching spots open
- Should the Lions have a full staff at the senior bowl and did they miss an opportunity by not having a full staff in place?
- Who got to be stand-in coaches this week?
- Jeff Davidson acted as coach emeritus at the Senior Bowl
- Kenny Golladay added to the Pro Bowl roster
- Darius Slay to showcase himself in the Pro Bowl Skills Showdown
- North Roster
- Previewing the Senior Bowl: Wide receivers
- Previewing the Senior Bowl: Small school stars
- Senior Bowl weights and measures: 20 prospects who hit the Lions benchmarks
- Darrell Bevell mic’d up along with Patricia
- Erik and Joe discuss Patricia’s quote of the week: “No one that rushes the passer well uses finesse. It’s all power“
- Patricia states that it is, “Way too early” to know if the Lions are interested in trading the No. 3 pick
- A dip into the listener mailbag
- Who have the Lions been focused on during practices?
- Javon Kinlaw versus Derrick Brown, how do they stack up?
- Is trading down still realistic?
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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, is Eric Schlitt from USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.3 | And it's the official Lions podcast of USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:12.5 | Eric, Senior Bowl is upon us. |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.2 | It's this weekend. |
| 0:17.0 | We were just watching practice a minute ago. |
| 0:19.6 | Yeah, it's exciting times. |
| 0:22.1 | Get to see some behind-the-scenes stuff that I didn't think we'd be privy to. |
| 0:26.8 | ESPN has got Patricia miced up a couple of days, and so it's been pretty interesting. |
| 0:34.4 | It's led to some interesting conversations, and you can see, you know, a little |
| 0:39.7 | bit of who he's paying attention to and who he's not, even though obviously your ESPN's jumping |
| 0:45.0 | all over the place so you can't always just follow who's Patricia's watching, but it's, it's |
| 0:50.8 | interesting to watch him interact with different guys |
| 0:54.2 | and then give different types of instructions to different types of players. |
| 0:59.8 | This is your own personal version of Hard Knocks, isn't it? |
| 1:03.0 | Kind of, because... |
| 1:04.8 | It's what you'd prefer over Hard Knocks. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, you know, they... |
| 1:07.9 | The Hollywood-produced drivel. |
| 1:10.9 | They, for the people who are in Mobile, uh, they are right up close. |
| 1:17.8 | And I really wish I had a chance to go this year. |
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