Episode #147: Draft Prep
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys all things 2020 NFL Draft and field questions from listeners about the Detroit Lions. This week, the guys discuss:
- A position by position breakdown of listeners questions,
- When do the Lions should start looking at quarterback?
- When will the Lions draft a punter?
- How Halapoulivaati Vaitai’s positional flexibility gives the Lions options in the draft
- Erik breakdown specific names of prospects sent in from listeners
- Erik’s ideal four-round Lions mock draft
- Which high-profile players Erik believes the Lions won’t have rated high
- Why the Lions are targeting players who can contribute with minimal offseason training
- Who is this year’s surprise pick on Day 2
- Day 3 sleepers
- How the UDFA market will suffer due to COVID-19
- Trade scenarios. Lots and lots of trade scenarios
- Team’s needs
- Exploring the Virtual Draft
- and many more questions.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Joe Kanya with me, as always is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.2 | Eric, we are one week away, well, actually a couple days less than one week away. |
| 0:14.5 | We are recording on a Saturday here from the 2020 NFL draft. |
| 0:18.4 | And not a ton going on player personnel-wise for the Lions as everybody could |
| 0:24.4 | imagine but there's a lot going on as far as preparations for the draft you were on a conference |
| 0:30.1 | call with general manager bob Quinn yesterday so I'm sure that'll get mixed into our |
| 0:35.1 | discussions here today but once again our podcast is going to be centering around questions from the listeners. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, there's a ton of draft questions. |
| 0:47.6 | You know, last week I mentioned that we got 70 questions, which is double our normal. |
| 0:53.8 | And then this week we got 96. So it's going to be hard to hit them all, but we're going to try and do our best to- |
| 1:01.0 | We're going to wrap and fire. Everybody's... Right, exactly. All right. So we'll start right from the top. It's going to be... We're going to talk about quarterbacks first, just our normal format. We're going to go |
| 1:11.3 | position by position. Let's go through fast, especially through quarterback, because depending on |
| 1:15.8 | who you are, there's not a great need there. Casey's question, do you think the Jaylen, |
| 1:19.5 | do you think Jalen Hertz could interest the lines to pick 85 or possibly in the fourth, |
| 1:23.6 | especially if they move back and acquire extra draft capital? like a good fit for Bevel in my opinion. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, I do think he's a good fit for the Bevel offense as well. |
| 1:35.4 | I don't know if they'd be willing to invest in a third round pick and a quarterback. |
| 1:42.5 | And that's really where I think he's going to go. I think he's going to go somewhere in day two in the second or third round pick and a quarterback. And that's really where I think he's going to go. I think he's |
| 1:45.0 | going to go somewhere in day two or in the second or third round. I don't think the lines will be |
| 1:49.8 | in the mix for that, even though systematically he would be a good fit. He does have some developmental |
| 1:55.2 | progress that needs to be made. If he's there in the fourth, it's a little easier to palate. But I still think that if they |
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