Episode #214: Lions vs Bears, Thanksgiving Day preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys set the table for the Detroit Lions 2021 Week 12 matchup against divisional rival Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving Day at Ford Field.
Roster Moves:
- Ahead of the Browns’ game:
- Activated QB Tim Boyle
- signed WR Tom Kennedy
- released DL Kevin Strong
- released CB/RET Corey Ballentine (signed him to the practice squad)
- Elevated RG Tommy Kraemer and K Aldric Rosas
- Swift back-to-back 100-yard rushing games – first to do it since Kevin Jones in 2004
- Boyle 77 yards passing – apparently the design was to protect the QB
- Another game with a few questionable coaching calls at the end of the game
- Kicking the field goal on 4th and 1
- Draw play on 3rd and 14 – then punted and never got the ball back
Injury Report – Monday and Tuesday were walkthroughs
DNP
- RG Halapoulivaati Vaitai (concussion)
- OL Matt Nelson (ankle)
- EDGE Trey Flowers (knee)
- DL Da’Shawn Hand (groin)
- NB A.J. Parker (ankle)
Limited
- QB Jared Goff (oblique)
- RB Jermar Jefferson (knee/ankle)
- WR Trinity Benson (knee)
Still on IR but practicing: CB Ifeatu Melifonwu (thigh)
Bears’ preview on Thanksgiving Day
- Ref: Adrian Hill
- TV: FOX, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
- Betting Line: opened at Bears -4, now Bears -3.5 (over/under 43)
- Bears on a 5-game losing streak
- Lots of key injuries, including to Justin Fields, meaning Andy Dalton will start at QB
- Matt Nagy’s job is reportedly on the line
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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 Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.3 | Eric, Thanksgiving week is upon us. |
| 0:12.6 | Lions coming off of a 1310 loss to the Browns. |
| 0:15.5 | We'll get to that in a second. |
| 0:17.5 | This is a short week to prepare for this one, but the lions are used to it over the years. |
| 0:22.7 | Dan Campbell's been a part of it before, but this will be his first time as coach. |
| 0:27.3 | Yeah, part of it as a lion and as a cowboy, right? |
| 0:30.4 | So it's not his first, he hasn't just been to it one game or two. |
| 0:34.3 | It's been a fuse. |
| 0:36.0 | So, yeah, short week. So everything is just |
| 0:40.4 | crammed together from a new cycle standpoint. And when you get this much information, |
| 0:48.7 | all kind of piled on top of itself, you don't always get some clarity, right? |
| 0:57.6 | So like there's going to be things like the injury report where we don't really have a |
| 1:02.6 | whole lot of clarity. |
| 1:03.9 | And because of the way that they operate or the injury on a short week or the injury report |
| 1:09.0 | on a short week like this. |
| 1:12.9 | We're not going to get a whole lot of information, if anything. |
| 1:19.4 | And so we're not going to know everything that we normally do on a week like this because we see the Lions play on Thursday this week. |
| 1:23.2 | All right. |
| 1:23.5 | So let's talk about the roster moves. |
| 1:26.6 | This was ahead of the Cleveland game. |
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