Episode #166: Quarter-Season review
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss yet another double-digit blow lead, this time to the New Orleans Saints in Week 4. Then with the team on a bye, it’s the perfect time to do a quarter-season review of the team/players and see what’s going wrong and what’s going right. Finally, we answer listener’s questions from the mailbag.
This week’s topics:
- COVID-19 scare ahead of Week 4, created a sleepless night for Erik
- Reviewing the 35-29 loss to the Saints
- Was Stafford’s interception the Pivotal Play of Week 4?
- Who were the 3 stars of the game?
- T.J. Hockenson grades out at the top of Lions’ PFF
- Erik reviews the Week 4 snap counts
- Erik’s most popular article in 2020: Matt Patricia getting hammered for post-game quote
- Duron Harmon to Patricia’s rescue – shifts blame to players
- Joe Dahl and Justin Coleman eligible to return from IR — but it won’t be this week
- Practice squad RB Kerrith Whyte to IR, Tavien Feaster replaces him
- Erik’s quarter-season review of every Lions player
- Jack Fox only Lion to make PFF quarter-season team
- Diving into this week’s Mailbag questions!
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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. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Joe Kanya. |
| 0:06.7 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:10.6 | Eric also whapt as we are Detroit Magazine's number two, most beloved sports columnist blogger, |
| 0:15.6 | according to our Detroit Magazine 2020 article special from earlier in the year. |
| 0:21.8 | We got a full year of it still. |
| 0:24.2 | You've got at least another six months of saying that. |
| 0:26.7 | All right. |
| 0:26.9 | So Eric, I'm going to start with, certainly, I think when I came to the Detroit Lions |
| 0:32.2 | Breakdown podcast, there was a lot of work to do, and that's what we're trying to do. |
| 0:38.7 | Yeah, you know, I think there was a lot of work to do, and that's what we're trying to do. Yeah, I think there was a lot of work to do. |
| 0:42.2 | There still is after good four seasons. |
| 0:45.6 | Hopefully we've had more success, though, over those four seasons |
| 0:48.3 | than the record that Patricia currently has, right? |
| 0:53.5 | I would have chalked up my introduction of you a little bit earlier as a loss. |
| 1:00.0 | That wasn't a good one today. |
| 1:01.2 | Sometimes they're good. |
| 1:02.0 | Today wasn't so good. |
| 1:03.4 | And the lion's not so good as well, 3529 losers on Sunday. |
| 1:07.9 | Yeah, what, I mean, what a mess, right? |
| 1:09.9 | I mean, from it just, it seemed, you know, |
| 1:14.4 | too hopeful when the injury reports come out and they're missing all those, they're missing five, |
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