Episode #263: Ben Johnson returns, Week 18 recap, UFA preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys recap the Detroit Lions’ meaningful win over the Packers in the 2022-23 season finale, explore what Ben Johnson returning to his offensive coordinator role means for the team, and get a jump on the offseason by taking a closer look at the team’s 18 unrestricted free agents.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Joe Ganya with me as always is Eric Schlitt from pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:07.9 | Eric, and a not, not frigid, not a totally frozen tundra of Lambeau Field-type game on January 8th. |
| 0:18.4 | The Lions, who bittersweetly had already been eliminated from playoff contention |
| 0:24.0 | minutes before in a poorly officiated game in Seattle between the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle |
| 0:30.2 | Seahawks. |
| 0:31.6 | The Lions defeated the Green Bay Packers, 20 to 16, at Lambeau Field in a game that meant |
| 0:36.8 | something. |
| 0:38.2 | And it had been a long time since the lion's been able to do something like that, |
| 0:42.6 | albeit without much on the line for themselves. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, it's, it was a poorly officiated game in, in Seattle. |
| 0:53.3 | ESPN wrote an article the following weekend about how |
| 0:57.5 | the uh multiple like teams or and people had complained about the fact that that was one of the |
| 1:06.1 | worst if not the worst officiated game of the year a lot of bad stuff at the end which uh |
| 1:10.5 | that was pretty rough. |
| 1:11.9 | That all benefited the Seahawks. It's not like, yeah, we shouldn't, we're, hopefully we won't, don't get delve into this too much. Oh, yeah. Because in the end, you know, even Dan Campbell would say it himself yesterday and, uh, it's, it's on them you know like they could have won an extra game and made it all |
| 1:28.9 | moot right but you know like but there were four like major calls in the second half and they |
| 1:34.7 | all went Seattle's way it's not like one of it's not like one or two or if it wasn't one to three |
| 1:39.7 | where the Rams got you know egregious cargo there when they were all for Seattle. |
| 1:45.1 | And it's just unusual how it plays out like that. |
| 1:49.0 | Unfortunately, you know, lines are on the wrong end of it again, but that's, it is what it is. |
| 1:53.7 | Because you can look at it and be like, well, there's really not a conspiracy attached to this because if they're going to, you know, if they were going to have the Seahawks get |
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