Episode #188: Reviewing Lions free agency after opening week
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys review the opening week of 2021 free agency and examine how the Detroit Lions roster has changed for the better and for the worse. Are GM Brad Holmes and the Lions making the right early moves in a rebuild? Erik and Joe share their opinions.
The podcast opens with the two Lions’ biggest moves of free agency: trades with the L.A. Rams for QB Jared Goff and DT Michael Brockers. We knew most of the contract details surrounding the Goff trade but we did get a few more details on his cap hit and the draft pick compensation. Brockers was acquired for a 7th-round pick in 2023 and he has reportedly signed a new three-year, $24 million contract.
Next, the guys look at all the new Lions, look at their contract and discuss what they will bring to the organization. Those players include QB Tim Boyle, RB Jamaal Williams, WR Tyrell Williams, WR Breshad Perriman, TE Josh Hill, DE Charles Harris, and kicker Randy Bullock.
The fellas will repeat that process with the players the Lions re-signed to new contracts, including EDGE Romeo Okwara, LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin, CB Mike Ford, and LS Don Muhlbach. They’ll also take a look at which Lions free agents have signed with other teams and which are still on the market.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown Bypast. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com, as well as our Detroit |
| 0:10.5 | magazine's 20-20-second most beloved sports column, Mr. Blogger. |
| 0:14.2 | Eric, huge week for the Lions with the opening of free agency and via both free agency and a trade or actually technically |
| 0:23.0 | two trades. |
| 0:24.4 | The Lions have added what nine guys to the roster. |
| 0:26.9 | So in other words like was that 16, 17 percent, about 17 percent of the roster will |
| 0:32.2 | be brand new. |
| 0:33.0 | And we knew that coming into this week. |
| 0:35.0 | Anyways, we're going to talk about all those moves we'll start |
| 0:38.3 | with the obvious one because we've known about it for months that jared goff's going to be a lion |
| 0:43.4 | and now the trade is official right yeah so to recap um two first round picks one in 2020 one in |
| 0:52.3 | twenty twenty three and a third round pick in this year's draft. |
| 0:57.3 | And that third round pick is going to be one of the Rams compensatory picks. |
| 1:01.7 | Ironically, it is the pick that they got for Brad Holmes. |
| 1:05.5 | So that is pick 101. |
| 1:08.5 | Originally, it was speculated. |
| 1:10.8 | It could be the Rams original third round pick, which would, it was speculated. |
| 1:14.0 | It could be the Rams' original third round pick, which would have been 88. |
| 1:21.7 | But it's kind of, I'm sure this was an agreed upon thing back when they originally made the deal over a month ago, that the compensatory pick was the one that was going to be |
| 1:26.7 | included. |
| 1:30.1 | In addition, another bit of news that we found out this week was that they delayed the trade until the second day of the new |
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