Episode #192: Pre-Draft Mailbag

Detroit Lions Breakdown

Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania

Sports, Football

5.0 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, the fellas break down and answer listener’s questions about the Detroit Lions and their 2021 NFL draft plans. Here’s a sampling of some of those questions:

How close do the media get with their draft boards?
Would the Lions take a QB at No. 7?
Who are the top-3 candidates to be selected at No. 7?
Where is the better value OT or WR?
Best and worst-case scenario at No. 7?
Trade options, trade options, and more trade options
How far would the Lions consider trading back?
Would the Lions trade back into the 1st round?
OT and WR options on Day 2
Identifying players of value on Day 3
Erik’s favorite sleepers?
What positions are the biggest priority to fill?
And more

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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 for Brideotidotidot.com.
0:09.0	Also our Detroit Magazine's 2020, second most beloved sports columnist or blogger.
0:13.7	Eric, we have one week until the NFL draft.
0:17.6	Actually, it's on Thursday.
0:19.0	We're at Saturday.
0:20.7	It's in Cleveland, and that's basically
0:23.5	what this whole podcast is going to be centered around, but a little bit different than what
0:27.2	we've done the last two weeks where we've gone position by position. We're going to go through
0:30.9	a bunch of listener questions. Yeah, the listeners have sent in a plethora of questions.
0:39.3	Oh, good word.
0:40.5	Yeah, so we are going to do our best to get through as many as we can.
0:45.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:46.2	So, yeah, let's start firing them out.
0:48.0	So first from Big Biting Pig, do you think there's a huge difference between the media draft boards that all the fans see and the actual NFL teams draft boards?
0:56.7	Well, so this is a yes and no question.
0:59.0	The reason it is definitely different is because the media draft boards do, their draft boards are just for all teams.
1:09.2	They don't specialize it.
1:11.0	They just put it out there as is these are the best players they think, you know,
1:15.4	are transitioning to the NFL, whereas the teams are doing specific boards for their
1:20.9	specific team, their specific scheme, their specific priority.
1:24.0	So you're going to have a lot of differential from team to team, much less NFL to media.
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