Episode #182: Matthew Stafford on the trade block
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss Matthew Stafford requesting a trade and all the happening surrounding this decision. How Lions’ coach Dan Campbell’s staff is impressively coming together and they examine how the Lions are structuring their front office around GM Brad Holmes.
- Stafford has requested to be traded
- Stafford initiated the process in January
- Negotiations begin with a 1st round and Day 2 picks (probably more)
- Top trade destinations for Stafford
- The Broncos and Colts lead betting lines, but the guys have other ideas
- Top draft prospects to replace Stafford — this will be a hot topic throughout the offseason
- Martin Mayhew hired as GM in Washington, will he make a play?
- How trading Stafford impacts the salary cap — Lions save around $14 million
- Lions get $12.8 M in rollover cap space
- Deshaun Watson’s trade request will likely impact Stafford’s market
- Dan Campbell’s staff is almost complete
- Anthony Lynn hired as Offensive Coordinator
- Duce Staley hired as running back/assistant head coach
- OL coach Hank Fraley returning
- TE coach Ben Johnson returning
- No quarterback or wide receiver coach announcement yet
- Aaron Glenn hired as Defensive Coordinator
- Exploring what the Lions are getting in Glenn
- Projecting the defensive scheme under Glenn – this won’t be Patricia’s 3-3-5
- Aubrey Pleasant hired as secondary coach/passing game coordinator
- Watch Pleasant mic’d up with Rams in training camp
- Lions to hire Mark DeLeone as linebackers coach
- No defensive line announcement yet
- Dave Fipp hired as special teams coordinator
- Two big front office moves and one promotion
- Ray Agnew hired as assistant GM (official announcement)
- John Dorsey hired as senior personnel executive
- What the Lions are getting in Dorsey
- Mike Disner promoted to Senior Vice President of Football and Business Administration
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always as Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:11.1 | Eric is also our Detroit Magazine's 2020 second most beloved sports columnist or blogger of the year, |
| 0:19.0 | even though the year 2020 is over. |
| 0:20.8 | But they won't be voting for another couple months. |
| 0:23.6 | I do this every week. |
| 0:26.1 | Everybody's hearing this, you know, first thing when they're listening Friday morning, |
| 0:30.6 | hopefully, and they're probably getting tired of me mentioning that, but I don't |
| 0:34.3 | tire of it at all. |
| 0:35.1 | There are people that are there are people that |
| 0:37.5 | are going to listen tonight. I guarantee it. I'm going to upload it and people are going to be |
| 0:41.7 | listening to it tonight. And I, and I love the passion that that Lions fans have. Well, |
| 0:47.4 | okay, or is it passion or do they have night jobs? No, no, I think like a lot of people, |
| 0:53.3 | it's put the kids to bed and then they, |
| 0:55.4 | they use it to kind of relax. I mean, others. Oh, I'm blind. Yeah. Others, you know, we have, |
| 1:01.9 | we have a fan base across the pond here, too, Ireland, England, out in Germany and whatnot, |
| 1:09.1 | Sweden. Yeah. And so those guys, they're getting it early Friday morning, |
| 1:14.3 | a lot earlier than we are here in the States. |
| 1:16.8 | But it's a, it's, I can't tell you, I can't speak proudly enough of the, of the fan base we have. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah, no, it's awesome. |
| 1:28.9 | And it's crazy that we have people who will religiously listen to us every week from, you know, in Europe. |
| 1:38.4 | Something I never would have imagined would be possible. |
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