Episode #170: Vikings Week 9 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the Lions’ ugly loss to the Colts, Matthew Stafford’s crazy COVID-19 situation, examine several other key injuries, note this week’s roster changes, and preview the Vikings, who host the Week 9 matchup.
- Reviewing the 41-21 loss to the Colts
- Stafford’s late 3rd quarter fumble was the pivotal play
- Snap Counts: OL and DL see shifts in players and responsibilities
- 10 defenders on the field again — and the Lions did it twice!
- Matthew Stafford on reserve/COVID-19 list, Kelly says he’s negative
- Jarrad Davis on reserve/COVID-19 list, no update on his status
- Jalen Elliott (practice squad) is on the reserve/COVID-19 list
- Trey Flowers to injured reserve – short-term means he’s out 3 weeks
- This week’s injury report: Wednesday and Thursday
- Looks like Kenny Golladay will miss this game
- Austin Bryant (PUP) practices while Hunter Bryant is eligible to return
- Everson Griffen and Jonathan Williams complete onboarding
- Trade deadline is over
- TE Kahari Lee joins practice squad, joins XFL OC Tanner Engstrand
- Lions protect: Dee Virgin, Anthony Pittman, and Kareem Martin
- Previewing the Vikings
- Vegas favors the Vikings by 4 points
- Over/under just 53.5 points
- Referee: Clete Blakeman… he’s the worst
- This week’s game is on CBS again
- Can the Lions slow down Dalvin Cook?
- Kirk Cousins is the king of inconsistencies
- A ton of Defensive turnover, including 7 starters (!)
- The Lions need to take advantage of their inexperienced secondary
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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 Kenya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire, |
| 0:10.8 | and the number two most beloved sports columnist blogger, according to our Detroit magazine for 2020. |
| 0:19.8 | Eric, Lions are 41, 21 losers to the Colts on Sunday |
| 0:24.3 | and face a Vikings team coming off two straight wins in a battle for the bottom of the division. |
| 0:33.9 | And the lines may have to do so without quarterback Matthew Stafford who finds himself |
| 0:39.2 | on the COVID list but there's a lot of a lot of intrigue to that we'll cover all that in |
| 0:45.7 | a second yeah there's a whole bunch of starters that the Lions are going to have to worry about |
| 0:51.4 | but you know I think we should probably look at where this team was coming off |
| 0:58.3 | the Colts loss before we get into where are they going moving forward. |
| 1:02.9 | So our normal steps to the lions. |
| 1:08.2 | So, you know, I think the, you know, the way that they collapsed was so massive |
| 1:18.5 | that, you know, this game looked more out of control than I think it actually was. And, |
| 1:25.6 | and they seemed to be getting beat pretty handedly throughout the game. |
| 1:29.4 | But they were only down six points with like three minutes left in the third. |
| 1:37.1 | So like it was still very much a ball game getting close to that fourth quarter. |
| 1:42.7 | The lions are driving. They had the ball at like the 25 |
| 1:46.0 | yard line of indies 25 yard line and like at that point they're still very much in this game |
| 1:53.6 | even if they didn't look like they belonged to necessarily they were still there and then |
| 1:58.5 | old habits from the first month of the season kind of creeped up here |
| 2:04.0 | and Stafford gets sacked and he fumbles. And then they drive all right down the field and score. |
| 2:12.8 | And then Lions get the ball back and Stafford throws a pick six. And now all of a sudden, what looked like they were headed towards a potential lead, |
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