Episode #202: Lions 53-man roster review
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Joe gets the week off, so Erik is joined by Jeremy Reisman of Pride of Detroit to review the Detroit Lions’ 53-man roster and 16-player practice squad, as well as all the roster changes that happened over the past week.
Topics for this episode include:
- Lions establish 53-man roster
- Lions trade for WR Trinity Benson
- How Benson went from unknown to Brad Homes No. 1 target
- Lions claim WR KhaDarel Hodge and K Austin Seibert
- Hodge takes paycut, saves Lions cap room, get some guarantees
- Tim Boyle to miss 6-8 weeks with broken thumb – lands on IR
- Da’Shawn Hand lands on IR
- Tyrell Crosby lands on IR after going unclaimed
- Breshad Perriman lands in Chicago, Mike Ford in Denver
- Lions roster 2nd youngest in NFL
- Lions establish 15-man practice squad
- Lions make 5 chages to practice squad after just one day
- Draft watch: Erik make a QB watchlist schedule
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As always, thanks for listening. Tweet us @erikschlitt, @JoeKania_DLB, @lionsbreakdown, as well as our guest Jeremy Reisman at @DetroitOnLion.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | My name is Eric Schlett. |
| 0:09.3 | And with me, this episode is a special guest. |
| 0:13.7 | Joe gets the episode off. |
| 0:16.1 | He's, uh, it's my fault, really. |
| 0:18.3 | I mean, like, my schedule doesn't work very well with everybody. And so I've made it difficult for Joe to attend with us. So Joe's getting the week off. But fortunately, my schedule has matched up with my good buddy, friend of the podcast, friend of mine, friend of everyone's really, I would have to say, Jeremy |
| 0:38.2 | Reisman of Pride of Detroit. This, obviously, we are co-workers. Jeremy gets the fun editor-in-chief |
| 0:46.7 | role. You know, that's, how you doing, buddy? I'm good. I never have anything going on. So, |
| 0:53.1 | you know, my schedules really mesh with everybody. |
| 0:56.6 | Well, I appreciate it. I was going to do this one solo because, you know, we've, it's been almost a week now. |
| 1:05.7 | Geez, since the Lions started their 53-man roster cut down. And, you know, while I wanted to wait until |
| 1:14.5 | all of the secondary moves were completed before we did our podcast here, it just then it became |
| 1:22.3 | a problem with the schedules. And I just, you know, my life is just upside down crazy right now. |
| 1:27.1 | So I was going to do it solo, but solo sometimes boring, even though everyone knows I could talk |
| 1:32.8 | for an hour by myself. |
| 1:35.9 | But I figured it's better with banter. |
| 1:38.4 | And so I'll spice things up here. |
| 1:41.1 | Yeah, right. |
| 1:41.6 | So usually we open the podcast talking about, you know, new additions and all that stuff. |
| 1:48.5 | But look, since it's, we're talking, everything's a new edition. |
| 1:51.2 | You know, everything is a breakdown of the roster. |
| 1:53.0 | So I think we just jump into it and just start talking about like what are our impressions. |
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