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Detroit Lions Breakdown

Episode #217: Lions vs Cardinals, Week 15 preview

Detroit Lions Breakdown

Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania

Sports, Football

5.0 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary


This week on the podcast, the guys set the table for the Detroit Lions 2021 Week 15 matchup against the Arizona Cardinals at Ford Field.

Broncos’ review

  • Lions lost 38-10
  • Shorthanded is an understatement – then they lost Jerry Jacobs and Alex Anzalone
  • Another strong second quarter kept them in it, but Denver ran away with it (literally) in the second half
  • Kalif Raymond TD play design was well laid out and executed
  • Penei Sewel continues to dominate
  • Welcome to the Craig Reynolds show

Roster Moves:

Reserve/COVID

  • RB Jamaal Williams
  • LB Tavante Beckett
  • CB Bobby Price
  • CB Ifeatu Melifonwu
  • CB Mark Gilbert
  • NB Corey Ballentine
  • NB Robey-Coleman
  • S Tracy Walker
  • Evan Brown was removed from reserve/COVID and began practicing, expected to play Sunday

Injury Report

  • No practice:
    • RB D’Andre Swift (shoulder)
    • TE T.J. Hockenson (hand)
    • LG Jonah Jackson (back)
    • EDGE Julian Okwara (ankle)
    • LB Alex Anzalone (ankle)
    • OT Will Holden and S Jalen Elliott (non-injury related)
  • Limited
    • LT Penei Sewell (shoulder)
    • DL Michael Brockers (knee)
    • EDGE Austin Bryant (shoulder)
    • LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin (shoulder)
    • LB Derrick Barnes (knee)
  • NB AJ Parker (on IR) has started 21-day clock and is expected to play on Sunday

Protected PS: Craig Reynolds, Bruce Hector, Parnell Motley, and Aldric Rosas

Cardinals’ preview

  • Ref: Land Clark
  • TV: FOX, Gus Johnson, Aqib Talib, Megan Olivi
  • Bet line: Cardinals -13.5
  • WR DeAndre Hopkins is injured and may not play
  • RB James Conner is banged up and day-to-day

We close with our new segment: Offseason Mailbag!

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As always, thanks for listening. Tweet us @erikschlitt, @JoeKania_DLB, @lionsbreakdown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast.

0:05.4

I'm Joe Kaine. You're with me as always as Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com.

0:09.9

Eric, last Sunday, the Lions took one on the chin against the Denver Broncos 38 to 10 in Denver.

0:16.6

The Lions were short a bunch of players due to a flu and COVID outbreak and then things didn't get much better during the game when it came to the health of the guys out on the field.

0:27.1

Yeah, Jerry Jacobs goes down, took some friendly fire to the knee, and he's been put on injured reserve.

0:36.3

So his season is over.

0:42.1

He has an ACL injury. Typically, those are about six to nine months to recover from. Campbell said nine months at his presser.

0:48.8

Well, if it's nine months, that basically takes him out of training camp, right? So that would be

0:53.7

worst case scenario.

0:55.3

Ideally, he can come back in six months. He'd be ready to try and get some training camp

0:59.4

work in. I think that would be ideal. But yeah, if it's nine months, he may not just miss

1:05.5

training camp. He may start missing games in a regular season and whatnot as well. So that'd be a big

1:10.1

blow. But, you know,

1:12.2

kids got a good work ethic and he'll have one of his good buddies in Jeff Akuta training, you know, rehabbing at the same time as him. So, you know, maybe that'll be some motivation. and you know it's he was playing well so it's it's it's it's it's another loss right yeah he was a bright

1:30.6

spot but now it doesn't And, you know, it's, he was playing well. So it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he, I would bet that he, he finds a way to make it in

1:45.3

a training camp at some point. So, um, then, yeah, then Anzolone gets hurt as well. Um,

1:51.9

that's a little bit tougher to replace because, you know, you, you, you, you, you cut Jamie

1:57.3

Collins at the beginning of the season because he's not buying in or whatever.

2:02.0

And then you're basically going with some with like a rotation of sub-package linebackers as your starters with Anzolone.

2:12.0

Then Reeves Maven, who was the primary starter, is not in the game.

2:16.0

Then you lose Anzolone on top of it.

2:17.7

And it's like, now you're down to all subset guys that, you know, one of them was,

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