Episode #203: Lions vs 49ers Week 1 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Erik is rolling solo as he sets the table for the Detroit Lions 2021 Week 1 matchup with the San Francisco 49ers.
Topics on this agenda include:
- Roster moves: Lions sign OT Will Holden to practice squad, release WR Javon McKinley
- Lions hire Don Muhlbach as Special Assistant
- Lions bring back Kevin Bastin as Head Athletic Trainer
- Lions Injury Report: Taylor Decker (finger) likely to miss some time
- Lions name captains: Goff, Ragnow, Flowers, Anzalone, Reeves-Maybin
- Protected practice squad: Montez, Hector, Elliott, and Gonzalez
- Previewing the 49ers
- Lions preparring for Jimmy G and Trey Lance
- Key Matchup: Tracy Walker/Alex Anzalone vs George Kittle
- Key matchup: Romeo Okwara vs Mike McGlinchy
- Key Matchup: Decker or Matt Nelson vs Nick Bosa
- Key matchup: Hockenson vs coverage
- Fred Warner would look great in Honolulu Blue
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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. My name is Eric Schlett. |
| 0:07.6 | Joe has the week off. We've mentioned that last podcast, and we did one earlier in the week, |
| 0:13.8 | reviewing the 53-man roster. Now we're going to be reviewing the San Francisco 49ers |
| 0:20.1 | against the lines in week one of the |
| 0:22.7 | 2021 season. |
| 0:24.3 | And so Joe gets week off. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm going to go solo here. |
| 0:27.4 | I'll try not to bore you. |
| 0:28.7 | But I want to get through this so that, you know, we have some good information out there |
| 0:34.8 | for all the listeners. |
| 0:36.9 | We didn't want you to go into the game without our take on everything. |
| 0:41.9 | So I've talked to Joey's giving me some points. |
| 0:44.7 | We've got some score predictions. |
| 0:45.7 | And it's going to be, you know, should be a fun opening weekend to start the NFL season. |
| 0:52.7 | Now, as always, we like to open by talking about the roster |
| 0:57.2 | moves. Really, with the establishing the 53-man roster recently, we didn't see a whole lot of |
| 1:04.2 | movement from the organization on the roster. We only saw really one practice squad move. And that |
| 1:10.6 | was to add a veteran |
| 1:13.2 | offensive tackle in Will Holden. He was signed to the practice squad and a wide receiver |
| 1:19.5 | Javon McKinley was released in a corresponding move. McKinley was one of three wide receivers to get |
| 1:26.9 | $100,000 guaranteed from the team this offseason. |
| 1:31.2 | Adams being another one, Jonathan Adams. |
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