Episode #246: Lions vs. Commanders, Week 2 preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys review the Detroit Lions Week 1 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and take a deep dive into their Week 2 opponent, the Washington Commanders.
In this episode, the fellas take a look at the Lions’ latest roster news, injury report, and discuss their approach to this week’s game. Additionally, they go position-by-position through the Commanders’ roster and discuss how the Lions will try and take advantage.
Topics discussed in detail on this podcast include:
- Levi Onwuzurike and Tommy Kramer were placed on injured reserve
- Lions sign RB Justin Jackson and OG Kayode Awosika
- Lions restructure Michael Brockers contract, save $2 million
- Injury Report
- D’Andre Swift insists he is going to be alright
- Lions open as 2.5 points favorites, now at 1.5 points
- Erik’s 5 keys to a Lions victory
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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. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Joe Kanya. |
| 0:05.2 | With me, as always is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:08.5 | Eric, the Lions had a wild one in week one, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles 38, 35. |
| 0:14.3 | There's a lot to like. |
| 0:15.9 | There's a lot not to like. |
| 0:17.4 | There's a lot that looks similar to last year. |
| 0:24.5 | Yeah. You can tell it's a different team though right because last year they got blown out by 41 right um they looked better against |
| 0:31.2 | the run you still saw some hiccups they really only had one bad quarter of play last Last year, it was more like one half, right? |
| 0:40.7 | So you can see the improvement. At the same time, you did still see some of the bad habits |
| 0:48.8 | creeping in, right? After being like wildly successful all training camp and through the preseason, |
| 0:56.7 | the starters couldn't find the same page in the second quarter. |
| 1:00.8 | And it was like, well, yeah, it was it was a bit surprising. |
| 1:04.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:04.7 | To me, because the starters, when they all played together with, you know, golf with this limited play, |
| 1:10.0 | it was the scripted series. |
| 1:12.4 | They looked great on the scripted series in the preseason. |
| 1:15.1 | And once again, they look great on the scripted series. |
| 1:18.0 | And, you know, week what? |
| 1:19.5 | And then, yeah, once the game started going and once Philadelphia started making |
| 1:23.6 | little adjustments, you know, in game, that really, you know, got the Lions untracked. |
| 1:29.7 | And then the second half, similar to the San Francisco game from week one last year, |
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