Episode #184: Calvin elected to the Hall of Fame
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss legendary Lions’ wide receiver Calvin Johnson’s acceptance into the Hall of Fame, update the latest news of the Matthew Stafford-Jared Goff trade, explore the new additionss to the coaching staff, check-in on the roster, and begin at the 2021 NFL draft.
- Calvin Johnson elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Video of him getting notified is worth your time
- Calvin and Lions’ relationship in “moving in the right direction” thanks to Shelia Ford Hamp
- Lions initially asked for Aaron Donald in the Stafford/Goff trade
- Stafford’s “final thank you” is a $1 million donation to Detroit based educational center
- Stafford 2020 injuries were more expensive than originally thought
- Eagles shopping Carson Wentz — looking for Matthew Stafford level deal
- Is Wentz more Stafford? Or more Goff?
- Coordinators/Assistant head coach met with media
- Antwaan Randle El hired as WR coach
- Jett Modkins hired as Assistant special teams coach
- DeOn’Tae Pannell hired as WCF Minority coaching assistantship
- Joe Barry, former 2008 Lions DC, lands in Green Bay as DC
- Taylor Decker and Frank Ragnow land on PFF Top-101
- Lions add TE Alize Mack via futures deal
- NFL Draft season is now the focus of the front office
- Lessons learned from new Lions’ front office’s past
- Lions sent two staff members to watch Trevor Lawrence throw
- 10 questions for Lions fans — what do they want to happen with pick No. 7
- No consensus on who the Lions will pick at No. 7 in the latest mock drafts
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| 0:00.8 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Joe Kenya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.7 | Eric's also Our Detroit Magazine's 2020 Man of the Year or something like that. |
| 0:16.7 | So it's a long thing to introduce you, but I guess we need to give you all your accolades. |
| 0:22.3 | Our Detroit Magazine's 2020 second most beloved sports columnist or blogger only behind Mitch Album. |
| 0:32.0 | Mitch Album used his number one status to pull that Matthew Stafford interview. |
| 0:37.8 | That was a... |
| 0:38.3 | See, you only got to leapfrog one guy before you're getting that. |
| 0:42.4 | It won't be a Matthew Stafford interview because he'll be long gone. |
| 0:45.5 | It'll be somebody... |
| 0:46.2 | It could be the Jared Gough exit interview. |
| 0:48.9 | You know, I don't know if he'll make himself as part of the city as as Stafford has been able to over the last 12 years. Goff might not have 12 years here. Just my guess. He's not going to have all that time. Endear himself to the city. That's what I was trying to think of earlier. All right. We'll get to Jared Goff in a little bit. We're going to start not a ton of news for this week. Well, there is a ton of news, but it's not as big of news as we've had |
| 1:16.6 | over the last several weeks. But the first piece of information is that Calvin Johnson is elected |
| 1:23.3 | to the Hall of Fame. Yeah, first ballot, right? Okay, so are you surprised that he was the first |
| 1:30.9 | ballot Hall of Famer? No, I tell you, I, I, um, I wrote one article, I pre-wrote one article on, um, |
| 1:38.8 | if he was going to make it. And I pre-wrote, yes, he's going to make it. I didn't even write the, |
| 1:43.3 | uh, no, he didn't get, he got snubbed or whatever. I only wrote to make it one because I felt that confident that he was going to get in on that first ballot. Yeah, there was concern. A lot of people thought he wouldn't get in just because of the career, the lack of career longevity. His stats not near the top of, you know, all-time receiver stats. |
| 2:03.6 | But, and that's all true. |
| 2:04.9 | But at the same time, like, the eight years, how many six, was it nine years? |
| 2:10.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 2:10.9 | Nine years, he's, he's the best receiver in the NFL for six of them. |
| 2:16.8 | You know, like, it's hard to keep him out of the fame, especially, you know, |
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