Episode #333: NFL Free Agency preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe preview the 2025 NFL Free Agency period set to open next week. The Legale Tampering period opens on Monday, March 10, followed by the start of the League new year and official opening of free agency on Wednesday, March 12 at 4 p.m. ET. The guys go position-by-position through the Detroit Lions’ needs and identify the players available in free agency that Lions fans should be keeping tabs on.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. I'm |
| 0:04.7 | Joe Kenya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from pride of Detroit.com. Eric, the combine is done, |
| 0:10.6 | but free agency is upon us. So we're going to talk about free agency today. You're going to |
| 0:15.3 | mention a little bit about the combine, but we've got plenty of time to talk about future |
| 0:20.3 | alliance prospects and in future episodes. |
| 0:23.1 | A lot going on in free agency. |
| 0:24.4 | So that's what we're going to focus on today. |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah, it's going to be an interesting free agency period because most people or most, you know, analysts have noted that the free agency class is not as strong as it has been in years past. |
| 0:42.5 | And so they're not expecting to see like a, just a massive flurry of spending at the same time. |
| 0:50.1 | There's going to be that because that's what free agency is. |
| 0:53.9 | But you're kind of seeing that |
| 0:57.0 | come to fruition in the days leading up to free agency because there's a lot of re-signings. |
| 1:03.3 | There's a lot of teams resigning their guys. And so retention, I guess, is going to be important. |
| 1:12.2 | And we've seen that from the lions a little bit in these couple of days. |
| 1:16.2 | And then my guess is they probably re-signed a few more guys that we don't know about. |
| 1:22.1 | And we'll probably find out right before the tampering period starts. |
| 1:27.0 | So for those who just aren't aware of the timeline, |
| 1:31.3 | the tampering period starts Monday, the 10th at noon. |
| 1:38.2 | That's when... |
| 1:40.2 | Monday, yeah, March. |
| 1:42.1 | You said it. |
| 1:42.7 | Sorry, sorry, you go on. |
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