Episode #176: GM search updates and Titans Week 15 Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the Lions’ loss to the Packers, the latest injury to Matthew Stafford, the insane injury to Frank Ragnow, the role Chris Spielman will have within the organization, as well as preview the upcoming game against the Tennessee Titans in Week 15.
- Reviewing the loss to the Packers
- Pivotal play: Marvin Jones’ ruled incompletion opens the door for Stafford’s injury
- Snap Counts: Injuries on the edge leads to increased LB usage… again
- GM and coaching search updates
- Chris Spielman hired as Special Assistant to Chairman and President & CEO
- Already interviewed internal candidates: Kyle O’Brien, Lance Newmark, and Rob Lohman
- Interviews set up with…
- … former Texans GM Rick Smith
- … former Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff
- … former Chiefs GM Scott Pioli
- … former Eagles director of pro personnel Louis Riddick
- Erik and Joe share their preferences for a GM’s level of experience
- This week’s Wednesday and Thursday injury reports
- Jeff Okudah placed on season-ending IR after successful core muscle surgery
- Matthew Stafford’s rib injury is painful
- He’s not ruled out of Sunday … just yet
- There are no plans of shutting him down for the season … just yet
- Frank Ragnow suffers fractured throat (!!!), damaged vocal cords
- Kenny Golladay, Tyrell Crosby, Da’Shawn Hand, and Darryl Roberts have not practiced this week
- John Penisini is limited but looks on track to play
- Adrian Peterson, Jason Cabinda, Austin Bryant, Tracy Walker, and C.J. Moore are practice in full despite dealing with injuries
- Hal Vaitai has begun practicing
- Everson Griffen placed on COVID-19 list, acknowledges he contracted the disease
- Lions protect Dan Skipper, Marcus Martin, Kareem Martin, and Bobby Price
- Lions sign QB Jordan Ta’amu, RB Jordan Scarlett, and vet CB Tramaine Brock to practice squad
- Lions release from practice squad: RB Dalyn Dawkins, CB Dee Virgin, and P Aaryn Siposs
- Previewing the Titans, be warned it’s not looking good
- Vegas line: No line due to the Stafford injury
- Referee: Jerome Boger
- CBS announcers: Spero Dedes and Adam Archuleta
- Can the Lions win without Stafford?
- Who on this team can stop Derrick Henry?
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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 with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:08.7 | Eric also is our Detroit magazine. |
| 0:10.9 | He's actually, he's the runner-up for most beloved sports columnist slash blogger for the year of 2020 trailing only Mitch Albums. So everybody, I know |
| 0:22.1 | everybody listening loves Eric. Eric, the Lions, they, they didn't lose a heartbreaker to the |
| 0:29.5 | Packers, but it was no shock that they went down 31 to 24 on Sunday. We'll talk a little bit |
| 0:34.9 | about the game, but just in case anybody's been paying attention, |
| 0:38.5 | kind of a lot has happened with the Lions over the last seven days. |
| 0:43.4 | So we're going to probably spend a lot of time talking about that. |
| 0:46.1 | But let's start with the Packers. |
| 0:49.5 | The score was pretty close. |
| 0:51.1 | You know, they lost by a touchdown. |
| 0:53.3 | But the game really wasn't as close |
| 0:55.8 | as you watch it. They need, if they would have gotten another defensive stop, would have gotten |
| 0:59.4 | exciting, but they, they did it. Yeah, you know, I think the Packers were kind of, uh, resigned to |
| 1:07.5 | just, uh, you know, sit back and, uh, run the clock and know that they could basically turn it on at any point, right? |
| 1:16.8 | Didn't it feel like that? |
| 1:17.9 | No, they were definitely toying with the lines. |
| 1:20.0 | Like, Rogers, you know, and I know there's a lot of guys like this, but Rogers, he's just as comfortable as it gets when he sees Honolulu Blue. |
| 1:28.7 | Well, he, you know, I think he, I think he wasn't having problems. He wasn't running into a lot of |
| 1:36.9 | resistance, right? And when he was not, I mean, because of that, I, I think he felt like he could |
| 1:42.3 | come in at any moment and just, you know, get the win if they |
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