Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. I'm Joe Kanya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. This is the official Lions podcast of USA Today, Lions Wire. Eric, Super Bowl's upon us. I think we could, I don't know, we could say that or not, but probably get fined. Don't they go after anybody who uses that terminology? Yeah, well, I don't know. Big games on Sunday.

Here we are on Thursday is our normal podcast recording day. And we're here to talk about whether or not the Lions will be able to get there one day. And as right now, it's not looking too promising, but hopefully we have a long life ahead of us. Where we're going to start, we're going to talk about the Senior Bowl, do a little review of that.

But first, we have some more player changes, and we have a staff announcement that was made.

So that's where we'll start.

They have signed or reportedly signed Tyrone McKenzie to be the new linebacker coach.

Yeah, so McKenzie was a drafted by the Patriots in 2009,

and Matt Patricia was the defensive coordinator at that time.

So they were familiar with one another.

He played in that system for two years.

ACL cost him his first year, was a practice squad player the second year.

He didn't really make his name until he ended up in Minnesota.

So he went to Tampa after New England, then he went to Minnesota.

That's where he got most of his notoriety in Minnesota.

But he ended his NFL career relatively early.

I guess that's what a lot of players end up ending their career after three or four years,

right?

And he started coaching.

He ended up at Colorado as like a graduate assistant with the linebackers.

Then he went to Stanford for a year. And then after just a year at

Stanford, the Los Angeles Rams called him up and they made him a special team's assistant.

He was with the Rams for a year. And then when Mike Vrable was hired in Tennessee, Mike Vrable then

brought him over to coach their inside linebackers.

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