Episode #172: Panthers Week 11 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the Lions (4-5) Week 10 victory over the Washington Football Team, update the injury report/roster changes, and preview the Carolina Panthers (3-7), who the Lions visit in Week 11.
- Reviewing the 30-27 win over WFT
- Matt Prater comes through … again
- Prater is your NFC Special Teams Player of the Week
- D’Andre Swift’s career day
- Romeo Okwara underrated season continues
- The win doesn’t excuse another collapse
- Sunday: Matthew Stafford injures thumb
- Monday: Stafford’s initial X-ray’s come back negative
- Tuesday: report of a ligament tear in Stafford’s thumb
- Wednesday: No Practice Wednesday
- Thursday: Stafford back at practice
- D’Andre Swift’s concussion likely keeps him out
- Wednesday and Thursday injury reports
- Lions protect 3 practice squad players: Dee Virgin, Mohamad Sanu, and Frank Herron
- Previewing the Panthers
- Vegas line is off the board due to injuries
- Referee: Ronald Torbert
- Fox announcers: Kevin Kugler, Chris Spielman, and Laura Okmin (Field Reporter)
- QB Teddy Bridgewater “unlikely” to play
- RB Christian McCaffrey “won’t play”
- LT Russell Okung also “likely won’t play”
- WRs are talented: DJ Moore, Robby Anderson, and Curtis Samuel
- Can a Swiftless backfield take advantage of a bad run defense?
- Can Stafford take advantage of a young secondary?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Joe Kanya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:10.2 | Also our Detroit Magazine's number two, most beloved sports columnist or blogger for the year of 2020. |
| 0:17.3 | Eric, on Sunday, the Lions stumbled their way to a 3027 win over the Washington |
| 0:23.9 | football team. Yeah. And how did you like it? Well, you know, you like the start, right? You |
| 0:32.4 | like what's working in the first half. Even the start of the second wasn't bad, right? Then you, that collapse was just |
| 0:40.7 | miserable. And then you give up, what, 21 unanswered? And it's tied at 24. Praeter comes in and |
| 0:49.4 | get you a lead and then you give it. And then you are able to hold them off down the stretch, |
| 0:57.3 | hold them to a field goal, which ties it, and then 16 seconds left and Stafford does his magic |
| 1:05.7 | aided by a Chase Young unnecessary roughness penalty, which was pretty massive. And then Matt Prater comes |
| 1:14.4 | through on a lion's record 59-yard, or Lions record tying 59-yard field goal to win it. |
| 1:21.1 | So, yeah, ties with himself, right? So, I mean, there's a lot to unpack. I think we could, if we want to start positive, we just start at the end, right? They, they held at the end, even though they had been giving up, they gave up three touchdown drives in a row. They found a way to hold and, and keep Washington to a field goal. |
| 1:45.8 | And then 16 seconds just seemed like nothing. |
| 1:49.2 | But then, like, you know, you got three timeouts. |
| 1:52.7 | You can use the middle of the field. |
| 1:53.9 | Washington's going to be in pre-event. |
| 1:55.9 | And so they took advantage. |
| 1:58.3 | They went aggressive. |
| 1:59.8 | And then, you know, with six seconds left, go ahead. |
| 2:04.9 | No, it kills me when these teams go into Prevent, you know, at this point, |
| 2:08.9 | especially with the track record Stafford has. |
| 2:13.2 | Like, he's led a lot of final seconds comebacks. |
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