Episode #157: Inching closer to training camp
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss how the NFL is inching towards training camp, what is still being debated by the NFL/NFLPA, what’s happening in Lions news, and we tap into the mailbag to answer another batch of mailbag questions.
- Jeff Okudah signs his rookie contract
- Jashon Cornell only Lions rookie (player) unsigned
- Projecting a Kenny Golladay contract extension
- ESPN poll puts Golladay outside Top-10
- Hunter Bryant tabbed UDFA most likely to make Lions roster
- Jamie Collins was the best cover LB since 2011
- Where the NFL and NFLPA are in their conversations
- What do they agree on?
- Where are they still far apart?
- Salary cap could drop $50-70 million in 2021
- Lions set up to withstand a potential drop in NFL salary cap after 2020 season
- How many points can Darrell Bevell put up in 2020?
- Updating T.J. Hockenson’s health
- Setting the table at RB — depth chart and roles
- Projecting the OL — Who starts? Will the rookie guards start at some point?
- Will the guard rotation continue? Spoiler: Yup
- Will coach Matt Patricia adjust his defensive style?
- Will Cory Undlin bring more Wide-9?
- Is adding another big-time player in free agency realistic?
- Discussing disguising coverages and Darius Slay’s agreement with Davante Adams said the Lions didn’t in 2019. How will the Lions coverage be different from 2019?
- What is Will Harris’ potential?
- At the end of 2020, which rookie will be considered the best, relative to their draft position?
- Are GM Bob Quinn and Patricia a package deal?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. I'm |
| 0:05.1 | Joe Kenya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today Lions Wire. And Eric, the grind of the |
| 0:11.6 | off season keeps going on and on and on. And we're going to talk about all the latest Lions stuff. |
| 0:17.2 | There's some news, you know, Jeff Kuda, we'll start with that, the latest |
| 0:21.8 | Lions News. He signed his rookie deal, which should be no surprise to. Yeah, and it came in right |
| 0:28.0 | about where we expected it to, right? It's a nice deal. He's got a lot of guaranteed money. |
| 0:34.5 | He makes around that $6 million his first year. That'll be his cap hit this first year. |
| 0:41.1 | But he's got something like $27 million guaranteed out of that contract, right? |
| 0:48.0 | And a four-year deal, right? Right. Not including that fifth year. |
| 0:51.1 | Correct. Correct. So he's making just over almost, |
| 0:56.0 | almost 6.1, just under 6.1, he'll end up having the eighth highest cap hit on the team. |
| 1:02.3 | But again, that's not surprising given, um, when you're being drafted in the top three like that, |
| 1:07.5 | right? So, yeah. So it's a good contract for him. Expectations are very high. Everyone |
| 1:13.2 | continues to love the signing, love the pick. You know, nationally, the outlook on him is all very |
| 1:23.3 | positive. Whenever you see national writing about him, it's always like future pro bowler, |
| 1:30.5 | Jeff Okuda, signed his first year. You know what I mean? That's just like, that's the way it is. |
| 1:34.2 | Yeah, they're very high on. I mean, I hope they're all right. I hope he's an all pro |
| 1:38.5 | within a couple of years, you know. Yeah, so it's, it's nice to have him under contract. What's |
| 1:43.6 | interesting is that um he's still |
| 1:47.4 | the third highest paid corner on the team which means that of the top eight contracts the |
| 1:54.2 | lions have three of them are corners so you know that's not shocking it's an important defensive |
| 1:59.7 | position right and it's a it's a big deal for what they |
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