Episode #211: Lions bye week Mailbag
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the Detroit Lions are on a bye, so Erik and Joe decided to deviate from their traditional format, put out a call for questions from listeners, and they responded in a big way.
In this week’s Mailbag, the fellas cover a lot of topics, including:
- Taylor Decker and Kevin Strong activated from IR
- Tommy Kraemer was released from 53 and signed to practice squad
- Tyrell Williams released with an injury settlement
- Are Jared Goff’s struggles fixable?
- How much can we blame/praise the coaching staff
- What should fans look forward to over the back half of the season?
- Expectations for specific players
- What will the Lions do at QB in the offseason?
- Any developmental QB options in free agency?
- Are Ole Miss’ Matt Corral or Liberty’s Malik Willis franchise QBs?
- Are Nevada’s Carson Strong or Cincinatti’s Desmond Ridder options?
- Should the Lions wait until 2023 to target a QB?
- What happens if they don’t address QB this offseason?
- Should the Lions take a QB or is Oregon’s EDGE Kayon Thibodeaux the answer?
- Is Thibodeaux that much better than Michigan’s Aidan Hutchinson?
- Should the Lions claim WR Odell Beckham Jr off waivers?
- And more!
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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. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Joe K, and you with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Eric, we've made a, we're a little bit later the normal, but there is no game on Sunday. |
| 0:14.0 | So nothing really to preview. |
| 0:17.1 | But we're going to do the same thing Coach Campbell did with the game film from the 44 to 6th, |
| 0:23.7 | to the Philadelphia Eagles. |
| 0:25.0 | We're burying it. |
| 0:26.4 | We're not even going to discuss it. |
| 0:27.5 | It may come up in passing, the mailbag we're going to do today. |
| 0:32.8 | But we're going to just take a pass on talking about Sunday's game. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah, I think we're much better served sick into the mailbag than going back to revisit |
| 0:43.4 | that disaster. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah, we're not going to, yeah, not a lot of happy moments from that game or, you know, |
| 0:48.0 | things to build off of. |
| 0:49.6 | Right. |
| 0:50.8 | So diving right in with the transactions. |
| 0:54.0 | Team activated both Taylor Decker and Kevin Strong from Injured Reserve. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.6 | So I know there was some speculation over when that needed to happen because of the 21 days. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, because it ended on the by week, right? |
| 1:11.5 | So Campbell had said that he thought they might get an extra week because of the biweek. |
| 1:19.6 | And the language is a little bit confusing, as is, you know, most language in NFL stuff. |
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