Episode #177: Bucs Week 16 Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the Lions’ loss to the Titans in Week 15, examine why coordinator Brayden Coombs was fired, update the COVID-19 situation, take note of the current injuries/roster moves, and preview the Lions versus Buccaneers in Week 16.
- Fallout from the loss to the Titans
- D’Andre Swift scores twice, Marvin Jones still performing
- Snap Counts: Heavy front can slow down Titans’ run game
- Lions have been eliminated from NFL Playoff contention
- Lions fire Special Teams Coordinator Brayden Coombs
- Bevell adds perspective on why Coombs was fired
- 2021 Pro Bowl: T.J. Hockenson, Frank Ragnow, Jack Fox
- A COVID-19 situation is unfolding in Allen Park
- Allen Park closed on Tuesday
- Lions isolate several coaches after contact tracing
- No new positive cases on Wednesday, the team practiced
- Bevell and DC Cory Undlin are close-contact exposures
- as are Bo Davis (DL), Ty McKenzie (LB), Steve Gregory (DB)
- Stephen Thomas (DQC), Tony Carter (D. Asst), and Ty Warren (MCA) remain healthy
- Tuesday (estimated) and Wednesdayinjury reports
- Da’Shawn Hand placed on IR (last Saturday)
- Julian Okwara returns from IR, back on the 53-man roster
- Everson Griffen activated from reserve/COVID-19
- Danny Shelton returns to practice, still on IR
- Hal Vaitai returned from IR (Sat.), suffers a concussion (Sun.)
- Matthew Stafford and Frank Ragnow updates
- Taylor Decker downgraded
- Hal Vaitai upgraded
- Tyrell Crosby, Kenny Golladay, Jamie Collins miss two practices
- Matt Prater has a back injury, misses practice on Wednesday
- C Jon Toth signed to the practice squad, C Marcus Martin released
- Practice squad LB, Anthony Pittman, placed on COVID-19 list
- Lions protect 4 players in Week 16
- Previewing the Bucs
- Vegas line: Bucs -9.5
- Referee: Scott Novak
- NFL Network: Adam Amin, Mark Schlereth, Lindsay Czarniak
- Can the Lions stop all Tom Brady’s and all his weapons?
- Can the Lions keep it close in a shootout?
- Coaching/GM search updates
- New rule: Interviews with employed coaches can begin immediately
- Already interviewed: Kyle O’Brien, Lance Newmark, and Rob Lohman
- Interviewed Louis Riddick last Friday
- Interviewed Rick Smith, Thomas Dimitroff, and Scott Pioli this week
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lines Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.7 | Eric is also our Detroit Magazine's number two, most beloved sports columnist or blogger for the year of 2020, which is the dwindling on us and not too soon. |
| 0:22.3 | But it'll also stretch a little in the 2021. |
| 0:24.8 | They don't do that. |
| 0:25.6 | They won't do the next issue right on January 1st. |
| 0:28.3 | So you've got some buffer time with that, Eric. |
| 0:30.6 | Sadly, on Sunday, the lines fell 4625 to the Tennessee Titans. |
| 0:37.9 | That's not the big news. |
| 0:39.4 | There's a whole bunch of other big news coming our way. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, it was a crazy couple of days in Lions, you know, in the Lions world here. |
| 0:49.8 | It's, man, it's just people coming on and off the roster, COVID situations, people getting fired, |
| 0:57.6 | like it just chaos. It's just been chaos. And so, yeah, we'll have dogs living together, |
| 1:04.5 | we will, we want to do our best to, uh, to detail everything as much as we can without, you know, |
| 1:12.7 | boring people with rehashing the same stuff. |
| 1:15.2 | But, yeah, there's a lot for us to cover today. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, as of like Sunday evening, we've, the really the only thing we would have to talk |
| 1:23.4 | about coming out of the games. |
| 1:24.5 | Well, DeAndre Swift, he's bouncing back. |
| 1:27.3 | You know, I had a couple |
| 1:27.9 | touchdowns on the ground, you know. They hung in there for a little bit, and then, you know, |
| 1:33.7 | everything came crumbling down. And, you know, there was this fake punt that they tried, that, |
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