Episode #221: We’re on to the offseason
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys put a bow on the 2021 regular season, review the Lions’ victory over the Green Bay Packers and start looking ahead to the 2022 offseason.
- Fake Punt failed on first drive, but …
- The Tom Kennedy 75-yard TD pass to Kalif Raymond worked on the second
- Another successful trick play to Brock Wright on a modified flea-flicker for a 36-yard TD
- Amon-Ra setting rookie receiving records
- Tracy Walker NFC Defensive player of the week – 4th down stop, game-sealing interception
- Young secondary stepped up.
- AJ Parker forced fumble, Ifeau Melifonwu recovered it, C.J. Moore interception
- Dan Campbell sets record for most 4th down attempts and conversions
News:
- Lions officially move on from OC Anthony Lynn
- Broncos request to interview DC Aaron Glenn
- Lions officially pick No. 2
- Lions will coach in the Senior Bowl
- Penei Sewell and Alim McNeil named to PFF All-Rookie team
- Injury updates on Frank Ragnow, T.J. Hockenson, Romeo Okwara, and Amani Oruwariye
Roster Moves:
- Contract status of every Lions player entering the 2022 offseason
- Lions begin signing players to futures contracts
- New names: safety JuJu Hughes (claimed from Rams), TE Matt Sokol
- Lions also release veterans off practice squad in youth movement
We close with our Offseason Mailbag!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Eric, the season finally ended, 3730 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Ford Field. |
| 0:18.7 | Now it wasn't the full strength Packers, but the Packers, nonetheless, Lions finished |
| 0:24.2 | the season 313 and 1. |
| 0:27.1 | They always say only one team ends the season with the win. |
| 0:30.3 | I always thought that wasn't true because like there's all the teams that missed the playoffs |
| 0:33.8 | and a couple of them. |
| 0:34.5 | We're going to end the season with wins too. |
| 0:35.7 | Lions are one of them. |
| 0:37.5 | But I don't believe in the idea of winning the last game is momentum going into the next year |
| 0:41.9 | because too much time passes. No, look, I get that. I also get that. I also believe, though, |
| 0:49.0 | that you win that last game and that changes the attitude. You know what I mean? |
| 0:54.5 | Everybody's in a good mood when they got golf finger, the Caribbean. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, it's not, it's not going to, it's not going to impact game one next year, |
| 1:02.3 | but it's going to impact the perception in the off season. |
| 1:05.9 | And I think that that's, that's, that's what's, |
| 1:08.2 | and I think it goes beyond just the final win. |
| 1:11.3 | They won, they were three and three, uh, down the stretch. |
| 1:14.6 | They were three in one with golf as their quarterback because two of those losses came |
| 1:19.8 | with boil. |
| 1:21.2 | And then not only were they three and one, but they beat, uh, two division rivals. |
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