Episode #197: Summer Mailbag!
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, the guys dip back into the mailbag to help listeners get through the summer months of July, as we wait for Detroit Lions’ training camp.
Items in this week’s mailbag include:
- Training camp dates open to the public
- No Supplemental Draft in 2021
- Recent roster moves
- UDFA players who could make an impact this season
- Sorting out the wide receiver room
- Tight end depth
- Running back timeshare splits
- Expectations for Jared Goff
- Offensive line options
- Which defender could reach double-digit sacks?
- Explaining the Lions linebacker and safety roles and projecting who plays where
- Looking at the battles on special teams
- Any impact free agents on the horizon?
- Potential camp roster casualties
- Season projections and why the national media is down on the Lions
- Are Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell a package deal?
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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. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Joe Kenya with me as always is Eric Schlitt from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:11.2 | This is a special mailbag episode. |
| 0:14.6 | So we probably have to dive right in, Eric, because this is a monster amount of questions. |
| 0:18.8 | This is not the small mail bag. |
| 0:20.8 | This is the huge mail sack. This is how it always is, monster amount of questions. This is not the small mail bag. This is the huge |
| 0:21.4 | mail sack. This is how it always is, right? Like every time we ask for questions, we get a plethora |
| 0:28.1 | of them from our audience. It's terrific. Ranging from the complex to simple. The first one's a good |
| 0:33.8 | one to kick off on because we know the answer. Jake Baltimore asks any details on when the Lions will release details to going to training |
| 0:41.1 | camp for fans. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.2 | So I asked, I made a call out for questions before the Lions released the training camp dates. |
| 0:50.1 | And then, you know, here we go. |
| 0:50.9 | A couple of days ago, they happened to announce that everyone |
| 0:54.5 | is going to be able to attend practices this fall. |
| 0:59.1 | So, you know, there was a bit of speculation on if they would be able to open camp to |
| 1:04.7 | fans across the league just because of, you know, the COVID restrictions. |
| 1:14.1 | But the lines have, you know, been able to, you know, the COVID restrictions, but the lines have, you know, been able to, |
| 1:20.1 | you know, put protocols in place. So it's a little bit different than, you know, what we've seen in the past. They'll have a cap on how many people they can allow in the facility so that |
| 1:26.8 | you can maintain some social distancing. |
| 1:29.8 | And there's a few other little nuances that make it a little bit different than normal. |
| 1:34.5 | But, you know, I anticipate there'll be, you know, still some fun events for people to go to. |
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