Episode #160: Padded practices have begun
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week the guy’s breakdown the opening of Phase 2 at Lions training camp and how padded practices are being covered by the team and the media.
- The Lions have removed all remaining players from the reserve/ COVID-19 list
- Golladay and Hockenson confirm previously testing positive for COVID-19
- Lions are over 1,000 straight negative tests and climbing
- NFL changing rules after Matthew Stafford’s false/positive
- Romeo Okwara off NFI
- RB Jonathan Williams signs with the Lions, What are the Lions’ getting?
- Lions released eight players, including Travis Fulgham — who was claimed by the Packers — and Chris Lacy
- Traded CB Michael Jackson to the Patriots
- Active roster now at 80 players
- Observations from Monday’s “Lions Training Camp LIVE”
- Best Lions’ Twitter accounts for 2020 training camp
- Day 1 notes on practice from the Lions beat
- Jonah Jackson gets 1st team reps
- Golladay wants to be in Detroit, hoping for a contract extension
- Is having a new holder going to be a problem for Prater?
- Why is Erik keeping 5 RBs on his 53-man projection?
- Exploring the difference between Quintez Cephus and Jamal Agnew
- Is this the run game we have been waiting for?
- Will the guard rotation continue?
- Knee braces on the lineman
- Do the Lions have enough pass rushers?
- Can Jarrad Davis finally break out?
- Looking at tryouts
- Are the Lions done with “meaningful” signings?
- Will Marvin Jones Jr. get another deal in Detroit?
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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. |
| 0:05.6 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire, who also happens to be our Detroit |
| 0:10.6 | magazines tied for number two. |
| 0:13.6 | I should just say number two, forget tied for number two, sports bloggers slash columnist |
| 0:18.0 | for our Detroit magazine chasing only Mitch Albums. |
| 0:22.4 | So Eric, how you doing today? |
| 0:25.0 | It's been a busy, busy first day of training camp. |
| 0:30.3 | Well, not first day of training camp, but first day with pads. |
| 0:32.9 | First day the media gets access into the facility. |
| 0:37.2 | So a lot of information coming out of the, |
| 0:40.0 | out of Allen Park right now. And, you know, a lot of, a lot of reports decipher through, |
| 0:46.9 | a lot of pictures, videos. There's all kinds of information coming out right now. So I'm glad |
| 0:52.4 | that we took our time and didn't rush a podcast over the weekend and instead |
| 0:57.4 | waited for today to get a nice reaction from some of the things happening in Allen Park today. |
| 1:04.8 | All right. So, yeah, the biggest things, first, the roster, they've been able to cut down to 80 players. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, so they had to make a series of moves over the last several days in order to get to a point |
| 1:21.2 | where they could get everyone all on the field at the same time, right? |
| 1:24.6 | So the first thing that I think is the most significant is the fact that their COVID list, |
| 1:32.5 | their COVID reserve list is clear, right? |
| 1:35.3 | They returned a couple, like not too long after we did our last podcast, |
| 1:39.3 | they returned Hawkinson, O'Waree, and SIP-Off off of the COVID-I-R. |
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