Episode #152: Wrapping up our 53-man projection
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
After breaking down the offensive side of the ball in last week’s episode, this week the guys switch over to defense and continue to dig into Erik’s series of articles at Lions Wire:Establishing the 53 – projectingthe Lions’ 53-man roster.
- Erik resets the Lions’ 90-man roster and depth chart
- Discuss Erik’s new article series: Establishing the 53
- Picking the DL
- Who are the new starters? How they will be used?
- John Penisini vs John Atkins is a key battle
- Looking at adding a DT in free agency
- Picking the LBs
- How the Lions’ linebacker roles are changing
- Jamie Collins impact
- Picking the DBs
- Special teams impact
- how it will decide the last few spots at LB and DB
- Picking a punter
- Full 53-man roster projection
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Joe Kanya. With me as always is Eric Schlett from USA Today Lions Wire. And Eric, today, |
| 0:10.4 | we will be continuing on with the second part of our two-part series on the 53-man roster, |
| 0:17.1 | or what we believe projected 53 man roster to be. |
| 0:26.5 | So without further ado, we're going to dive right in and start with the defensive line. |
| 0:29.3 | Yeah, that sounds good. |
| 0:34.5 | You know, we've, we established, what, 25 offensive players, two special teams. Okay, yeah, two of the three special team, but we're at 27, we have 26 more to go. |
| 0:39.6 | So you're going to get slightly less content today than you did last week. |
| 0:44.7 | But there's a lot more, I think, to talk about because there's a lot more new players, right? |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah, this is the much dirtier of the two sides of the ball when it comes to what players are going to be sticking around for the regular season. |
| 1:00.0 | You want to start in the middle or you want to start on one of the edges? |
| 1:02.7 | We start from the middle. |
| 1:04.8 | Work our way out from the middle. |
| 1:07.9 | So at Nose, we have a new starter, and that's Danny Shelton, right? |
| 1:13.8 | So we lost Snacks Harrison. |
| 1:16.5 | Snacks was not patriotic and a New England patriotic in us. |
| 1:20.5 | You know, and I think maybe we should just quickly mention this before we get too far. |
| 1:27.4 | There's a lot of media out there that will sell his departure. we should just quickly mention this before we get too far. |
| 1:38.9 | There's a lot of media out there that will sell his departure from Detroit as a problem, I guess, with the coaching staff. |
| 1:40.4 | And that's actually not the case at all. |
| 1:43.0 | The leaving New England, he said leaving Detroit. |
| 1:45.0 | Or are you talking about snacks? I'm talking about snacks. |
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