Episode #234: Lions Pre-Draft NFL Mailbag
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, with the 2022 NFL Draft just hours away, the guys discuss the Detroit Lions’ approach to the event by diving into the listener’s mailbag of questions.
Topics on this week’s show include:
- Our confidence level in Lions’ GM Brad Holmes
- How strict is the Best Player Approach?
- Trade options, up, down, and all around
- How serious are the Lions about taking a QB and when might they do it, if at all?
- Sorting through the options at WR
- Lions options at No. 2
- Aidan Hutchinson and Kayvon Thibodeaux hype
- Could Travon Walker switch positions?
- Could the Lions double-dip on the defensive line?
- Linebacker fits
- Could the Lions wait on taking a safety?
- What is the one position that is a clear need that the Lions might not draft?
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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. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always as Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.3 | Eric, we are within 24 hours of the kickoff of the NFL draft, although everybody |
| 0:14.3 | listening, it'll be much sooner than that. |
| 0:18.9 | I know this is your Christmas, if you would. |
| 0:22.8 | You're at least football Christmas. |
| 0:24.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:24.8 | I would put your actual Christmas more like Christmas, but it's your football Christmas. |
| 0:29.8 | You're probably your favorite part of the football calendar year. |
| 0:33.4 | Are you ready? |
| 0:35.4 | Well, you know, I'm still pushing through to absorb as much information as I can. |
| 0:44.6 | So I want to say I'm like 99% ready, right? I'm still trying to add those last little bits. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm still trying to do everything I can, trying to weed through all the |
| 0:55.2 | disinformation. But yeah, you know, like I feel a lot more prepared this year than I did last |
| 1:00.5 | year when, because we got such a late start because of the, you know, GM and coaching changes |
| 1:05.4 | and whatnot. But more information because, you know, the COVID situation has changed from a year ago. |
| 1:14.2 | And so, yeah, it's all, it's, it's really exciting that it's going to be going down here. |
| 1:20.3 | And, you know, pretty soon. |
| 1:23.8 | All right. |
| 1:25.3 | We went full mailbag this week. You know, we let, we let our listeners do all the work for us. |
| 1:31.2 | And I'm just kidding. But we're really, it's awesome that we get so many questions, except for it puts us into a situation where we are in full lightning round mode. |
| 1:40.8 | That's how we're going to have to go through this. And we'll get through as many as we can. |
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