Episode #196: Lions OTA and minicamp review
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 66 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, including Organized Team Activities (OTA) and minicamp.
Items on this week’s agenda include:
- An updated look at the Lions’ latest roster moves, including swapping out reserve nose tackle (John Atkins, out, Brian Price, in) and running backs (Rakeem Boyd, out, Michael Warren, in) as well as adding an EDGE rusher (Reggie Gilbert) to fill in for oft-injured Austin Bryant.
- A position by position breakdown of how the players within that group looked during Spring practices. Which players started? Who is challenging for time? Any fun surprises?
- A look at what’s next for the Lions now that Spring camp is wrapped up and looking ahead to training camp.
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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. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Joe Kaine. |
| 0:05.8 | You know, with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.7 | And, you know, it's been a couple of weeks since you heard from us, but we're going to be |
| 0:13.2 | talking lines as always. |
| 0:16.0 | Eric, we just finished up with OTAs and mini camp. |
| 0:19.0 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:21.5 | Yeah, the last month or so, we touched on it a little bit, the first couple of, like, |
| 0:27.4 | rookie minicamp and OTAs that I got a chance to witness. |
| 0:31.3 | But we haven't really talked about the mini-camp that we saw last week and, you know, the third week of OTAs, I guess, |
| 0:40.7 | are, yeah, second, third, right? |
| 0:42.6 | It's all blending together at this point. |
| 0:45.1 | It's all one big ball and back. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, so, but the final OTAs that, you know, aren't available to the media are taking place as we speak right now. |
| 0:57.8 | And then the team's going on break for about five or six weeks. |
| 1:04.2 | The players, some of the veterans have already scuttled off to their prospective training grounds. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, they're spending time with their families or their couple of them mentioned that they |
| 1:17.8 | were going to be out in California, so they were going to try and touch base with golf. |
| 1:22.8 | And, you know, they're kind of on their own, though, essentially. |
| 1:25.8 | There's no team involvement until late July when training camp kicks back off again. Excuse me, but for now, the coaches |
| 1:33.3 | are going to be spending a couple of days to kind of wrap things up, and coaches are going to get |
| 1:37.9 | time off as well. Dan Campbell spent some time talking about how it's important to, you know, even though they |
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