Episode #227: NFL Combine Preview, Offense
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys preview the offensive players at the 2022 NFL Combine. The fellas go position by position and examine the top prospects, those the Detroit Lions should be interested in, identify sleepers, and answer related questions from the listener Mailbag.
Here are a few relevant articles discussed on this week’s show:
- Combine preview: 9 Quarterbacks the Lions should be watching
- 10 Running back
- 15 Wide receivers
- 10 tight ends (at POD soon)
- 15 offensive lineman (at POD soon)
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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 Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett for pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.4 | Eric, today is part one of our draft series. |
| 0:13.7 | We will be focused on the offensive side of the ball today. |
| 0:17.1 | Yeah, it's a combine less than 10 days, right? |
| 0:20.9 | I guess they report in a week. |
| 0:23.4 | Almost didn't happen. |
| 0:24.9 | Yeah, well, you know, I mean, look, there's too much money for it not to happen, right? |
| 0:31.1 | So, yeah, look, I love this time of year. |
| 0:36.0 | And, you know, I think it's, you know, a lot of people get caught up in the, |
| 0:42.5 | and I guess the nuances of the event and how it's become very TV-oriented. |
| 0:51.3 | And, you know, you know, people always say don't put too much into the underwear |
| 0:56.6 | Olympics. But look, it's part of the process. I mean, it's not the whole process. You can't, |
| 1:02.0 | you know, move a guy up, you know, multiple rounds on your board or anything like that just |
| 1:07.3 | because he has a good combine. But it's part of it. It's it's checking boxes. |
| 1:11.5 | It's seeing guys that come out in surprise. And there's drills that will show you, you know, |
| 1:18.4 | what type of like fluidity a player has. How does that translate to the different positions? |
| 1:24.5 | And I always find that there's a lot to learn. You just have to know, |
| 1:29.7 | you know, I guess how to evaluate it and, and not get too caught up in the hoopla of the, you know, |
| 1:37.0 | the TV show that it has become. It's really, really expanded over the years. |
| 1:44.6 | And I'm sure the NFL didn't see that coming, you know, a long, long time ago. |
| 1:49.7 | They obviously realized it at some point, oh, wait, this is, you know, this is a way we can |
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