Episode #218: Lions at Falcons, Week 16 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys set the table for the Detroit Lions 2021 Week 16 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons.
- Lions whopped ’em
- 8-minute drive to open the game, settled for a FG 3-0
- Amon-Ra St. Brown touchdown play was well designed, 10-0
- Charles Harris came to play – dominated in arguably the best game of his career
- AJ Parker PBU on 4th and goal give the Lions ball at the 3-yard line
- 97 yards TD drive, capped by Goff to Reynolds 22 yd score, 17-0 at the half
- Godwin fumbles… again… but Amani Oruwariye save him with an insane interception
- Set up a Jason Cabinda touchdown, 24-3
- Riley Patterson closes out the day with two more field goals, 30-12
- “Out-coached and outplayed” the Cardinals
Roster Moves:
Reserve/COVID
- QB Jared Goff – placed on Monday, said he was “feeling good” on Tuesday
- OT Matt Nelson
- NB Corey Ballentine (PS)
- NB Robey-Coleman (PS)
- CB Chris Williamson (PS)
- OUT:
- EDGE Julian Okwara (ankle)
- LB Jalen Woods (neck)
- CB Amani Oruwariye (thumb)
- Limited
- RB D’Andre Swift (shoulder)
- WR Josh Reynolds (thigh)
- WR Kalif Raymond (shoulder)
- LG Jonah Jackson (back)
- DL Michael Brockers (knee)
- LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin (shoulder)
Protected PS: Steven Montez, Shane Zylstra, Bruce Hector, and Aldric Rosas
- Ref: Ron Torbert’s crew (near the bottom of the NFL in penalties called)
- TV: FOX, Chris Myers, Robert Smith and Jen Hale
- Bet line: Falcons -5.5
- Are the Falcons fool’s gold?
We close with our new segment: Offseason Mailbag!
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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. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Joe Kanya with me, as always is Eric Schlitt from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.8 | And Eric, the Lions, shocked the world, shocked us. |
| 0:14.3 | You pretty much shocked everybody with a 30 to 12 victory over the Arizona Cardinals |
| 0:18.3 | at Ford Field on Sunday. |
| 0:22.5 | A drubbing, right? |
| 0:23.5 | Like I feel like I'm running. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, I feel like I'm running out of adjectives. Like, because every time I write about this game or I write about like something related |
| 0:31.6 | to it, I'm trying to find a new adjective for how they won. |
| 0:36.2 | It was first they beat them. And then it was, well, they beat him solid. And then it was, oh, you know, they drugged them or they, they whooped them. Or, I mean, like, convincingly beat the, it's, it's just, I had a lot more clever things to say, but I'm, I'm running out of ideas now. Well, this week's almost up. |
| 0:55.9 | You know, the team's going to play on Sunday. |
| 0:57.6 | So this game will be quickly forgotten. |
| 0:59.8 | And we'll get it. |
| 1:00.8 | Maybe they can win again. |
| 1:02.1 | We're going to get into that a few minutes. |
| 1:03.8 | Sure. |
| 1:04.4 | Talk about the Cardinals game at first. |
| 1:06.5 | The big one was the eight-minute drive to open the game, |
| 1:09.8 | although they settled for the field goal to get them going. |
| 1:13.2 | But they did very likely what they set out to do is just control the ball |
| 1:21.1 | and keep the ball out of Arizona's hands. |
| 1:23.0 | Keep it out of Kyler Murray's hands. |
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