Episode #76: Week 3 Patriots Preview

Detroit Lions Breakdown

Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania

Sports, Football

5.0 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Lions have returned home after a tough loss in Santa Clara to the 49ers. This week Erik and Joe discuss the Lions returning to primetime with a guest appearance on “Sunday Night Football” as the opponent of the New England Patriots.

The Lions have not yet released their injury report, but the current wounded are Ezekiel Ansah, T.J. Lang and Darius Slay
The team has released OL Jamil Demby and S Marcus Cromartie
Joe and Erik discuss Erik’s 6 takeaways from the 49ers game article
Devon Kennardwas the player of the game
Coach Patricia gave an uninspired explanation of clock management at end of the first half
Quandre Diggsand his late game penalty
10 Observations from Week 2 snap counts
Erik and Joe talk about Lions Wire’s Jeff Risdon suggesting of4 things the Lions must change
Breaking the New England Patriots
WR Josh Gordon is the newest Patriot
A myriadof mailbag topics are picked through… Matthew Stafford struggling with the deep ball, Staffords health, decisions while throwing
Are we going to see more Kerryon?
How was Wiggins performance, should he keep playing?
Can Golladay be a top 10 receiver, is this Golden Tate’s last year, why don’t the Lions use TEs?
How can Jarrad Davis improve, could Davis and Christian Jones switch linebacker roles?
Can Jamal Agnew expand his corner duties from the slot to the outside?
If the Lions keep losing, is blowing up the team and starting over an option (Spoiler: No)

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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.
0:05.2	I'm Joe Kenya.
0:06.1	With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today Lions Wire.
0:10.0	And this is the official USA Today Lions Wire podcast.
0:14.2	We're talking about all things Lions.
0:16.0	Sadly, Eric suffered another loss, 30 to 27 to the San Francisco 49ers out in Levi Stadium in Santa
0:24.7	Clara.
0:25.9	Worse than the score indicated for most of the game until the trademark mad dash at the
0:32.5	end, the tease, if you would.
0:34.9	Well, you know, they had a much better second half.
0:38.4	They looked a lot stronger.
0:40.1	They looked, they had opportunities to win that game.
0:42.9	And whether they should have been in that game or not, based on their first half play, is debatable.
0:49.5	But bottom line is they were in the game.
0:51.8	They had the opportunities.
0:53.0	And unfortunately, they couldn't capitalize.
0:55.4	And unfortunately, their omen two going into Sunday night football's tilt with the New England Patriots,
1:03.0	quarterbacked by a young fellow named Tom Brady and coached by Bill Belichick. We'll talk about them in a little bit.
1:09.2	First, Lions injury news. There's no report until
1:12.9	Wednesday, so we can't really talk about Ziggy Ansai being on the injury report. But he's still
1:18.9	got an ailing shoulder. T.J. Lang still has the bad back. Darius Slay concussion protocol.
1:25.3	Yeah, so they're all question marks.
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