Episode #165: Saints Week 4 Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the Detroit Lions’ victory over the Arizona Cardinals and preview the upcoming Week 4 matchup with the New Orleans Saints.
This week, the guys discuss:
- Wednesday and Thursday Injury Reports
- Desmond Trufant returns to practice, Daryl Roberts added this week
- Jayron Kearse returns after suspension
- Ty Johnson released in a corresponding move
- Bo Scarbrough and Mike Ford eligible to return from IR
- Same four practice squad players protected
- Patricia’s plan to slow down the Cardinals with ball control worked
- OL Shuffle: Hal Vaitai starts at RG, Tyrell Crosby stays at RT
- Jeff Okudah’s getting better, had his first career interception
- Week 3 pivotal play, Studs and Duds, 3 Stars of the week, By the Numbers
- Lions’ RB rotation continues: Adrian Peterson in the driver’s seat
- Jamie Collins: PFF’s No. 1 LB in Week 3
- Week 3 snap counts: Jarrad Davis see career-low in snaps, Walker back to 100%
- NFC Special Teams Player of the Week: Matt Prater
- NFC Special Teams Player of the Month: Jack Fox
- Fox/Brayden Coombs still “raising the bar”
- Previewing the New Orleans Saints
- Lions open as 4 point underdogs
- QB Drew Brees having a down year, is this the end?
- RB Alvin Kamara is the biggest potential problem
- Will WR Michael Thomas return in time?
- TE T.J. Hockenson should eat on Sunday
- Is RB D’Andre Swift be the Saints kryptonite?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:12.2 | Eric also happens to be the number two most beloved sports personality slash blogger in the Detroit area, according to our Detroit magazine. |
| 0:20.4 | I may have already mentioned that. Eric, Lions, big winners in the desert on Sunday, 26, 23 went over the Cardinals. |
| 0:29.5 | After our discussion last week, kind of shocking, except for the little tag we put on at the very |
| 0:36.3 | end of the podcast. Like, we were in range of the Lions putting a good game together because that's in the Patricia era. |
| 0:44.4 | They've had a couple early season well game planned wins against the Patriots. |
| 0:53.1 | And I guess then last year was a well-game plan lost to the Chiefs. |
| 0:57.9 | But we knew they had the sentiment. |
| 1:00.6 | Apparently they did it in week three. |
| 1:02.3 | We'll talk about in the next few minutes if they still have it in them for week four. |
| 1:06.8 | Well, I'll tell you what, we were close in our predictions in how much. |
| 1:10.1 | You were a lot closer. Well, we were both close in our prediction of how much we thought the lines would get. Yeah. I had the lion scoring 27. You had the lion scoring 24 and they scored 26. So we weren't off that far. I think we expected Kyler Murray to be a little bit more impactful. |
| 1:29.1 | He had a very rough game on Sunday. |
| 1:30.8 | He did. And some of it can be attributed to Kyler Murray and some of it can be attributed to |
| 1:35.5 | some alterations made by the lion. |
| 1:38.4 | It's so deep. Very surprising. |
| 1:40.6 | Yes. Yes. Right. And so a lot of those things that we talked about where we said, if things don't change, they're just going to lose again. Well, you know, some of those things changed, right? And we saw some improvement from the defense. Now, the defense is still a problem and there's still some issues that need to be, you know, ironed out here for sure. But they didn't have |
| 2:03.0 | all their starters and they were still able to put together a decent performance. They got three |
| 2:08.2 | turnovers. First time, they've had more than one interception in the game since Patricia took |
| 2:13.9 | over, which is both good and bad, right? And so, yeah, I think I have a lot of |
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