Episode #150: Lions’ 2020 schedule release
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys do a game-by-game breakdown to the entire Detroit Lions’ 2020 schedule:
- Lions 2020 schedule
- Instant takeaways
- Lions have no primetime games
- Two late-season flex games
- Thanksgiving is only official nationally televised game
- Revisit the 2012 Lions-Texans Thanksgiving game
- Lions have an early bye week for a fourth conservative year
- Early away games, Late season games at home
- How the schedule may flex because of COVID-19 pandemic
- Positive weather late in the season
- Lions 2019 opponents record points to 5th most difficult schedule
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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. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Joe Kanya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.2 | And we're going to be talking about the Lions and, of course, the schedule. |
| 0:13.4 | Big deal, schedule came out yesterday. We're recording on a Friday. |
| 0:17.9 | Eric, how you doing? |
| 0:19.6 | Oh, I'm doing, Arn. I wish it was a little warmer today. |
| 0:22.1 | All of a sudden, Michigan decided to go cold. |
| 0:24.5 | We've plunged back into winter, which, you know, it's not a good sign. |
| 0:30.8 | But, yeah, there were some snow flurries out this morning, which is a bit ridiculous. |
| 0:37.0 | Did you have them in your, you had them in your area? |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, just briefly, you know, you could just see them hanging in the air. |
| 0:44.2 | Nothing, nothing overly concerning. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.1 | Nor will it. |
| 0:50.4 | We might have record low tomorrow night, but this isn't the weather show. |
| 0:53.9 | So let's dig into the schedule. |
| 0:57.0 | Schedule came out. |
| 0:58.0 | Everybody's psyched about it because, you know, nothing else is really going on. |
| 1:02.0 | Let's dive right in. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's start right at week one. |
| 1:06.0 | When the Lions host the Chicago Bears last year, the Bears win 8 and 8. |
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