Episode #142: 2020 Combine Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The annual draft combine is only one week away and with the proceedings now in prime time Erik and Joe give a full preview of players Lions fans should focus on during the four days of sessions.
- The 10 surprising players omitted from the 2020 NFL Combine
- Combine focus: Quarterbacks
- Combine focus: Running backs
- Combine focus: Wide receivers
- Combine focus: Tight ends
- Lions Wire will continue previewing position groups every day as the combine approaches
- Erik and Joe discuss specific players, that were submitted by the listeners.
- Erik and Joe also say goodbye to Snacks Harrison, who was released by the Lions on Thursday
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Joe Kenya with me, as always, is Eric Schlitt from USA Today, Lions Warrior. |
| 0:08.8 | This is the official Lions podcast of USA Today Lions Warrior. |
| 0:12.9 | Eric, today we're talking about the combine, which occurs next week starting Thursday. |
| 0:19.8 | Correct, yep. |
| 0:20.8 | It's typically in the past it started on Friday, |
| 0:24.5 | on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. They're changing it up this year. More hullabaloo than ever. |
| 0:29.3 | Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And instead of it starting at 9 a.m., it's now starting at 4 p.m. and ending at 11 p.m. Eastern. So they're |
| 0:41.2 | trying to get the primetime viewership out of it. It makes it real difficult for the people who are |
| 0:47.6 | actually covering it, but I'm sure it's fun at a much more reasonable time for the fans and, you know know people who haven't got to see it in the |
| 0:56.5 | past but for someone who's basically writing articles about it live i don't want to be finishing |
| 1:02.4 | my last article off at midnight but that seems to be what it's going to be so so this is you complaining |
| 1:07.5 | a little bit yeah i guess but yeah they so it'll be four days and it'll be fun. |
| 1:12.5 | It starts at 4 o'clock on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and then 2 o'clock on Sunday |
| 1:17.9 | finishing up with the defensive base. |
| 1:20.7 | Going head to head with the XFL. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm sure it's not worried. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah, I don't think it's worried. |
| 1:25.2 | All right. |
| 1:27.7 | So we're going to talk about the lion's need, or not the lion's needs as much as what to look out for, what the lions would be looking about for during the combine. |
| 1:38.0 | But we will discuss it in reference to need level at each position, and we got a lot to go through here. |
| 1:43.3 | So we'll start with the quarterback. What is the need level at each position and we got a lot to go through here so we'll start with the quarterback what is the need level at quarterback i mean realistically i think from what the |
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