Episode #222: Lions roster, where they go from here
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys examine the Detroit Lions roster, taking a closer look at what they did, where they are, and where they’re going at each position group.
Here are a few relevant articles discussed that you may enjoy:
- Contract status of every Detroit Lions player heading into the 2022 offseason
- Ranking the Detroit Lions’ 13 potential unrestricted free agents
- Should the Lions tender any of their restricted free agents?
- Lions to rollover just over $1 million towards 2022 salary cap
- Detroit Lions special teams land at No. 7 in Rick Gosselin’s 2021 rankings
- Free Agent Watchists
And as always, we close with a big dip into the 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. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Joe Kaine. |
| 0:05.8 | You with me as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.4 | Eric, we're in the middle of the divisional playoffs weekend, the NFL playoffs, obviously. |
| 0:18.3 | And for the 30th consecutive year, the Lions are not involved in it, so we really |
| 0:22.6 | can't talk about the game they had yesterday or the game they might be playing today. But we do |
| 0:28.2 | have plenty of other stuff to talk about. And it's a perfect week for us to dig into the roster. |
| 0:33.9 | There's roughly, I think it's like 49 guys currently under contract. So there's a lot of room to add more players through the draft and through free agency. |
| 0:42.2 | Let's talk about what they have now and compared to what might be leaving, right? |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.6 | Look, I'm enjoying the playoffs. |
| 0:51.2 | Are you? |
| 0:52.0 | Oh, yeah, of course. |
| 0:53.4 | You know, low scoring games yesterday. Yeah. I guess not too surprising, especially once conditions deteriorated in Green Bay. Yeah, well. They weren't going to score much. Although it was a lot deteriorated in Green Bay. Well, yeah, yeah, and the gold field goal. Oh, my goodness. Like, he's like, how was he going to make this? |
| 1:11.7 | It was a piece of cake. |
| 1:13.1 | You know, because like Aitman's talking about how the receivers are all started to slip and all over the place. It's like, here's there not a kicker, what's the kicker going to do? But it is at the center of the field where maybe it's like they got a little better attraction because of all the |
| 1:26.0 | the mass |
| 1:28.1 | of people that go through there. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, look, both they got a little better traction because of all the the mass of people that go through there. |
| 1:30.1 | Well, look, both kickers, because the Bengals walked off on a field goal as well. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah, those conditions were a lot better. |
| 1:37.3 | It was like in the 30s. |
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