Episode #244: Season preview, 53-man roster breakdown
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys take a closer look at the Detroit Lions’ upcoming season and 53-man roster, including the active roster, injured players, and 16-man practice squad. Erik and Joe go position-by-position through the roster and discuss every decision, while also examining what it means for the organization in 2022 and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Joe Kenya with me as always is Eric Schlitt from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:08.3 | Eric, the preseason has wrapped up, |
| 0:10.5 | it wrapped up with a 19 to 9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers at what used to be known as Heinz Field. |
| 0:17.5 | The Lions looked pretty rough out there offensively not a bad defensive performance |
| 0:23.8 | it's not a surprise what ended up happening at the quarterback position yeah i mean |
| 0:30.6 | the quarterbacks were not good in that oh they were not right and uh uh look i mean we might as well just jump right |
| 0:40.3 | into that like because that's what we're going to go over the 53 man roster because we didn't you know |
| 0:44.9 | our last podcast was after the colts game but today we're going to talk about how the 53 man roster |
| 0:51.9 | shakes out and work what we're going to look at during the 17 |
| 0:55.1 | game season, kind of what we're expecting to happen. So let's start with the quarterback position |
| 0:59.1 | dive right into it. Yeah, I mean, so obviously Jerry Gough is the starter. Unquestionably. |
| 1:06.1 | Unquestionably, yes. Some people have a problem with. We'll talk about that. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, but like, I mean, he played one drive during the preseason. |
| 1:17.3 | An excellent drive in week one. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.0 | And I mean, even Hard Knocks had kind of stayed away from the Jared Gough storyline, but even they in episode four |
| 1:30.1 | was, were like, golf has just been on fire. |
| 1:34.2 | I mean, he really has. |
| 1:35.0 | He's really played up. |
| 1:37.3 | He's really been able to up his game a level. |
| 1:41.2 | He's playing like he did at the end of last season, |
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