Episode #219: Lions at Seahawks, Week 17 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys set the table for the Detroit Lions 2021 Week 17 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks.
- Tim Boyle, did what he needed to do… until the final play
- Amon-Ra St. Brown was dominant again – 8+ rec in 4 straight games
- 6 false starts, but only 3 on the offensive line
- 3 sacks on opening drive, Derrick Barnes 1st, Alim McNeill’s 2nd
- Charles Harris and Jalen Reeves-Maybin continue to elevate their games
- Jack Fox = Fake punts are just a regular thing now
Roster Moves:
- TE Shane Zylstra (kneecap) was placed on the practice squad injured reserve
- Signed TE Jared Pinkney off Rams’ practice squad
- Signed TE Ross Travis and WR Juwan Green to the practice squad
- LB Josh Woods (neck) was placed on injured reserve
- DL Jashon Cornell was activated from the reserve/non-football injury list
- Lions needed to convert money from Hal Vaitai’s contract to make enough space for moves
Reserve/COVID
- WR Trinity Benson removed
- OT Matt Nelson removed
- WR Josh Reynolds – added on December 27
- TE Brock Wright – added on December 28
- RG Halapoulivaati Vaitai – added on December 29
- DL Michael Brockers – added on December 29
- QB Steven Montez (practice squad) – added on December 27
- WR Geronimo Allison (PS) – added on December 29
- DNP Wednesday:
- QB Jared Goff (knee)
- FB Jason Cabinda (knee)
- Questionable
- LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin (shoulder)
- FULL
- RB D’Andre Swift (shoulder)
- EDGE Julian Okwara (ankle)
Protected PS: Nick Eubanks, Tavante Beckett, Bruce Hector, and Aldric Rosas
- Ref: Tony Corrente (same crew as last time in Seattle, batted ball no call)
- TV: 4:25 pm ET on FOX, Gus Johnson, Aqib Talib, Megan Olivi
- Bet line: Seahawks -7
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. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Joe Cania with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.4 | Eric, the Tim Boyle show. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not a great program, but it was okay, you know. |
| 0:15.2 | It was okay all the way up to the last play of the last offensive for the lions on Sunday. They lost the Atlanta Falcons, |
| 0:22.5 | what was that, 20 to 16. Correct. To probably make a lot of folks happy. The draft, the draft pick |
| 0:30.0 | folks happy. Sure. Although they're still, they're just, they're dangling. They're hanging on to that |
| 0:35.2 | number two spot. The lion's win group not |
| 0:38.4 | not going to be so happy although they could take some solace that you know even with boil |
| 0:42.0 | in there they kept it close yeah i think this was this was one of those games where i think it |
| 0:48.4 | made everybody happy the uh the the the the team showed progress the she the team showed a |
| 0:54.0 | willingness to uh compete, compete again. |
| 0:56.5 | Like there's no, there, you see so many teams around the NFL that are just like, |
| 1:01.1 | you know, they've, they're done. |
| 1:03.1 | They've, they've cashed their chips in and they're looking towards the offseason, |
| 1:06.6 | book and vacations. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh my God. |
| 1:09.1 | What a mess. |
| 1:10.2 | And, um, not this team, though. |
| 1:12.3 | This team is playing hard. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, they haven't given up yet. |
| 1:16.1 | All right. |
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