Episode #158: Pre-camp 53-man roster projection
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the latest news from the NFL, where the Detroit Lions stand heading into 2020 training camp, discuss all 90 players on the current roster and examine Erik’s latest pre-training camp 53-man roster projection.
- They made it work: NFL and NFLPA reach an agreement on 2020 season
- Infectious disease emergency response plan approved
- Daily COVID-19 testing
- The preseason is toast — it has officially been canceled
- Training camp still on schedule to begin on time
- Lions rookies delay reporting will show up next week with veterans
- Erik’s 53-man roster projection
- What the Lions are spending at each position?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Joe Kanya. |
| 0:05.2 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire, who also happens to be, according |
| 0:11.0 | to our Detroit magazine, 2020's second most popular sports columnist blogger in the Detroit area. |
| 0:17.8 | So I needed to get it out of the way early. |
| 0:20.2 | I've been waiting too late in the show the last few weeks. |
| 0:24.2 | Eric, Big News, the Players Association and the league's owners came to an agreement. I believe the |
| 0:31.0 | vote was 29 to 3, the owner's vote. No, that was the players. |
| 0:37.3 | The player representative. All right. Yes was the players. The player representative. |
| 0:38.8 | All right. |
| 0:39.0 | Yes. |
| 0:39.5 | Excuse me. |
| 0:41.6 | They're an open training camp, kind of. |
| 0:43.9 | We're going to go over that. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, basically they just approved that everything would start at the predetermined schedule that they were hoping to |
| 0:56.0 | hit anyway. So it just keeps everything in motion. But there's a lot of things that we've been talking |
| 1:02.7 | about over the last couple of weeks where they didn't have answers to, well, now those things are |
| 1:07.8 | answered. So we'll try and hit that real fast and then get to the |
| 1:11.1 | the meat of our conversation here after all right so first is the player opt out money so any |
| 1:17.3 | player that opts out of playing in the 2020 season uh there's two versions of this right there's a |
| 1:22.7 | with no pre-existing conditions and then with pre-existing conditions and how much money they'll |
| 1:27.8 | earn for the 2020 season. |
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