Episode #195: Examining the Lions new approach to camp
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, the guys discuss the happenings surrounding the Detroit Lions over the last two weeks.
Items on this week’s agenda include:
- Lions rookie mini-camp and the first week of OTAs
- Lions sign TE Charlie Taumoepeau, CB Alex Brown, and S Alijah Holder after try-outs
- Lions sign OT Darrin Paulo
- DT Joel Heath tore ACL and was placed on IR
- The current roster is at 89 players
- RB Todd Gurley visited Allen Park for a tryout
- Lions signed three rookies
- Discussing Frank Ragnow’s contract extension details
- 2021 salary cap breakdown – how the Lions are setting themselves up for the future
- 2022 salary cap ceiling is capped at $208.2 M
- Fans expected to be in full attendance
- 2023 salary cap is expected to operate debt free
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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. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Joe Kenya with me, as always, is Eric Schlitt from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:10.5 | Eric, this happens to be Memorial Day. |
| 0:13.1 | Big thank you goes out to all the service members out there, past and present. |
| 0:18.2 | Also, good thing it's Memorial Day, because it's a memorialization of the podcast we |
| 0:22.8 | once did. It's been a few weeks without it. Yeah. We had to bring it back. You know, I didn't |
| 0:31.6 | mention this to you before we started, but the Our Magazine came out with its best of 2021 yeah i left i left your accolades out for a reason |
| 0:42.6 | did you notice that the category was removed entirely the journalist category was not there |
| 0:50.6 | it's because we were hammering on it all the time. Everything bringing it up. |
| 0:54.9 | I must have got tired of it. |
| 0:56.2 | It's like, well, you know, Eric's got the lifespan out of it, you know, that Joe wanted |
| 1:00.8 | at least. |
| 1:01.4 | I think you didn't like it all the time when I'd bring up. |
| 1:04.3 | You were the second most popular columnist slash blogger. |
| 1:07.7 | But that's all right. |
| 1:08.6 | I wonder if I maintain my status because they didn't have a... Right. No, you're right. Yeah, like it's no longer being held. So yeah, you're holding it forever. It's not like you lost it. It's not like somebody else is the second most popular. Well, technically somebody else was because you were tied with someone. Right. Right. But like you still are both tied. |
| 1:28.3 | Nobody's replaced you. |
| 1:31.3 | But I won't bring it up anymore. |
| 1:33.3 | That would be probably in poor taste. |
| 1:35.3 | Maybe like if, you know, if everything works out well, we're doing this in a few years still. |
| 1:40.3 | Then I'll bring up that you were the 2020, you know, second most popular |
| 1:44.3 | sports columnistler block, for Detroit Magazine. All right. Not a tight, you know, it was a good |
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