Episode #338: Reviewing the Lions preseason so far, projecting next steps
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Erik and Joe take a look back at the Detroit Lions’ first two preseason games, against the Chargers and Falcons, and compare performances versus what’s been seen at practice. As always, the guys break down the Lions’ roster position by position, analyze how each player performed, how they fit into the roster, project roles, and discuss what our expectations are for the final two preseason games.
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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, we have seven |
| 0:09.9 | quarters of preseason football in the books. We'll call it two games because if you go on Google |
| 0:15.6 | or any of the other sites, they'll say Friday night's game was a final. |
| 0:19.8 | The first one, |
| 0:23.8 | Hall of Fame game lost the Los Angeles Charters 34-7, |
| 0:25.4 | looked rather listless than the game. |
| 0:30.1 | At the beginning of the fourth quarter on Friday night, |
| 0:32.8 | Lions were leading 17 to 10 over the Falcons game was suspended. |
| 0:33.8 | So we'll call it a win. |
| 0:34.6 | Doesn't really matter. |
| 0:36.9 | It's the preseason, whatever game they won or lost so now there |
| 0:38.3 | there were two games and we could talk about what we've been seeing and uh you know just go from there |
| 0:43.4 | yeah it sounds good uh look we it's it's interesting perspective we were just starting to talk about |
| 0:50.6 | this and then uh i said let's save it right because I do think it's very interesting |
| 0:57.4 | to have our two different perspectives right because I've seen practices which give me an |
| 1:05.9 | altered perspective on what the game what I see in the games you're seeing the games i can only live off the games |
| 1:12.4 | right but you're like 95% of the audience right and so so i do want to dig into that and talk about |
| 1:22.9 | like what is perception versus you, what the media sees. |
| 1:28.9 | And we still get to see, I'm not seeing. |
| 1:31.2 | We read a lot of that. |
| 1:33.0 | We get to read what you're writing. |
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