Episode #154: Preparing for fall football
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys discuss what the NFL is having teams do to ready facilities for fall football, how they plan to ensure safety, and go back to the mailbag.
- Lions have opened their facility to limited staff with key restrictions
- Mini-camp officially completed
- Training at Allen Park
- No joint practices
- Could there be a shortened preseason?
- Creating a safe environment
- “Establishing the 53” Mailbag, parts 1, 2, and 3
- Jeff Okudah’s leadership
- What will the NFL do with a “fan-less” experience?
- How will COVID-19 impact 2021?
- Will the presumed salary cap adjustments impact contact extensions?
- What might those extensions look like for Kenny Golladay and Taylor Decker
- When do conversations begin?
- Do the Lions have an elite difference-maker on the 2020 roster?
- Jamie Collins “versus” Tracy Walker or will they complement one another?
- More blitzing in 2020?
- Rookie roster impact
- Most improved position group? Weakest?
- Will the weakest be addressed?
- Surprise cut?
- Will Rick Wagner signing in Green Bay be a problem?
- Where do the Lions rank in all three phases among all NFL teams?
- A bit of 2021 draft talk
- Kickalicious!
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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. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Joe Kanya. |
| 0:07.3 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:11.3 | And Eric, today, you know, we've been off the air for the last two weeks. |
| 0:16.5 | We didn't do a show last week. |
| 0:18.6 | And it's really because not much has been going on. |
| 0:38.3 | I mean, a lot has been going on in the world, but not too much has been going on as far as the NFL goes, as far as scheduling. But things are starting to happen this week. They're talking about changing, perhaps changing the preseason. We'll get in all that because I don't want to bury the lead. We'll start talking. You'll get on some sort of tangent about how not missing preseason games is going to affect guys at the bottom of the roster. |
| 0:44.1 | And we don't need to talk about that. Second, we're going to, I have our Detroit magazine.com, |
| 0:51.2 | our Detroit.com. I have it out here. And every year they do a best of Detroit. |
| 0:55.8 | So this is the best of Detroit 2020. And if you scroll around and you happen to find sports |
| 1:00.6 | columnist slash blogger, the winner, unsurprisingly is Mitch Album from the Detroit Free Press. |
| 1:06.9 | We've been reading him for well over 30 years now and then there's two two gentlemen tied for |
| 1:13.8 | second one of them is brendin quinn from the athletic and it just so happens the other one is |
| 1:20.0 | eric schlitt from lion's wire so i think you need a big congratulations for that thanks man it's uh |
| 1:27.2 | we need an applause track we don't have an applause track. I, uh, I was surprised. I didn't know |
| 1:33.6 | anything about it, uh, to be honest. And, um, uh, I was very happy to hear, uh, that I was |
| 1:41.0 | voted in. And, um, it's a, it's just just it's a real honor I I I know that you know I get a |
| 1:49.1 | lot of feedback on social media and and people uh encourage me and they tell me that they |
| 1:55.0 | enjoy what I do and um but it's if I've never had something on it on a larger recognition scale like this. |
| 2:01.8 | And so that's, it's very humbling, very humbling. |
| 2:04.6 | I feel very appreciative that I was recognized. |
| 2:08.9 | It's quite an honor. |
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