Episode #178: Vikings Week 17 Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the Lions’ loss to the Buccaneers, examine why another starter was released, update injuries and roster moves, as well as preview the Week 17 game against the Minnesota Vikings.
- The Bucs game played out pretty much as expected
- Robert Prince was the interim, interim coach
- NFL had a chance to move the game, didn’t, as we expected
- Stafford’s early exit dooms the team
- Jamal Agnew’s punt return TD, helps Lions avoid a shutout
- Lions EDGE rushers are finally healthy
- Draft Pick update: Lions currently sit 7th overall
- Lose and pick between 3rd and 8th overall
- Win and pick between 7th and 13th overall
- PFF’s latest mock draft: WR Devonta Smith at 7
- Marvin Jones is talking like he’s gone
- Wednesday and Thursday injury reports
- Matthew Stafford now dealing with three injuries
- Kenny Golladay’s season is over, enters offseason with loads of unanswered questions
- Frank Ragnow back at practice, but limited
- Jamie Collins still not practicing
- Joe Dahl, injured last game, also not practicing
- Tyrell Crosby downgraded on Thursday
- DL coach Bo Davis remains out due to COVID-19 protocols
- Ty Warren (WCF Minority Coaching Assistant) coached the DL last week
- RB Jonathan Williams released
- S Jayron Kearse released, — violated team rules
- CB Josh Hawkins signed to the practice squad
- CB Alex Myers to the practice squad injured reserve
- Protected: C Evan Brown, DT Albert Huggins, SAF Bobby Price
- Previewing the Vikings
- Vegas line: Stafford’s injury lead to delayed betting lines
- Referee: Adrian Hill
- FOX: Joe Davis and Robert Smith
- If Lions allow 35 points: break their franchise record for points allowed in a season
- Allow 52: break the NFL record
- Dalvin Cook will miss this game after his father passed away on Tuesday
- LT Riley Reiff may not play, he was placed on Reserve/COVID-19
- WR Justin Jefferson will be motivated to play
- He is 47 receiving yards from breaking the Vikings single-season record (Randy Moss) and 111 yards to break the NFL rookie record (Anquan Boldin)
- GM search Update: Plan to interview Rams’ Director of College Scouting, Brad Holmes
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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. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Joe Kenya with me as always is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:10.0 | And Eric is also our Detroit Magazine's second most beloved sports columnist or blogger for this past year of 2020, which is quickly coming to an end. |
| 0:21.1 | But I'll keep saying it until they put out the new list. |
| 0:24.5 | Eric the Lions had a rough one to say at least last Saturday, |
| 0:29.5 | 47 to 7 loss to Tampa Bay Buccaneers. |
| 0:32.7 | Really not that shocking to anybody listening or to us. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, you predicted 44 and I said 43 taking the under and I was wrong again. I'm on a losing streak here, Joe. Well, we got one. You have one |
| 0:48.1 | game left to pull back even with me. Yeah. We were way too high on the Lions points,, but there was a caveat to that with Stafford getting |
| 0:58.4 | hurt, and as we've discussed many times before, that things will pretty much fall apart if |
| 1:04.4 | Stafford's not in the lineup, which it's also a bad sign. |
| 1:07.9 | It's not a bad sign. |
| 1:09.2 | Nothing's a bad sign anymore because anything's going to |
| 1:11.3 | happen in the offseason. But Chase Daniel is pretty much as bad as David Blas. I don't know. |
| 1:17.7 | I spent 13 million on him, you know. But that really, that's neither here nor there. |
| 1:25.7 | Well, no, no. But that's, I mean, look, I wrote about that in my Snap count article. |
| 1:29.8 | I said, I put the production chart, the stat chart from the game between Daniel and Blow. |
| 1:38.9 | And I said, I don't see why we're paying him, what we're paying him when you have blouse for the same, |
| 1:45.2 | you know, you're getting basically the same production out of blow. |
| 1:48.4 | And it really makes you wonder, is he now a cut candidate? |
| 1:54.8 | Because his job was to be able to put up points if Stafford goes down. |
| 1:59.2 | And here we are. |
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