Episode #78: Week 5 Packers Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Lions return home after a disappointing 26-24 loss to the Dallas Cowboys last Sunday at Jerry World. This week the Lions welcome an old adversary when Aaron Rodgers brings the Packers to town.
- Ezekiel Ansah returnsbut is limited in practice
- Quandre Diggs fractured handisn’t keeping him from practicing
- T.J. Lang has a concussionwill likely keep him out
- Eric Lee finds himself on the 53-man
- Andrew Donnal so long and hello
- Dee Virgin waivedshortly after surrendering 19 yards in field position
- Stafford’s personal stats are headed in the right direction
- Kerryon Johnson and LeGarrette Blount, Patricia says it doesnot matter who is in the game? Really?
- DVOA says it does, ranking Johnson the most efficient back in the league through the first four weeks.
- How will the OL fare with Wiggins moving into the lineup?
- The run defense still does not improve
- The secondary is holding up their end of the bargain
- Snap Count observations
- Green Bay Packers preview
- Vegas likes the Packers
- 4 key matchupswill directly affect this weeks game
- Aaron Rodgers is hurt, probably doesn’t matter
- Some fans are missing Ameer Abdullah
- How is the rookie class shaping up
- Where should Jarrad Davis end up?
- How good can Da’Shawn Hand be?
- Looking at potential draft needs.
- Will Golden Tate be a Lion beyond 2018?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:06.9 | With me as always is Eric Schillett from USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:10.9 | And this is the official podcast, the official Lions podcast of USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:17.2 | See, I'm not, I don't have it down yet. |
| 0:19.8 | You know, I'll keep working on it, even though we're |
| 0:22.1 | a dozen or so weeks in. Right. Well, we sat through another, I don't, I can't call them |
| 0:30.3 | heartbreaking losses anymore. Yeah, I guess, difficult. Like when they scored, we knew Dallas had |
| 0:36.9 | too much time left on the clock. |
| 0:38.7 | Like, they're going to make something happen because something always happens. |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah, you really needed, I mean, you really needed to get a stop in some sort of fashion. |
| 0:48.5 | And it looked like it was going to be hard to come by based on how the defense had played all game. |
| 0:55.5 | But, I mean, there's still a shot. |
| 0:59.1 | So, I mean, I know people have talked about should Golden have not scored. |
| 1:03.3 | Well, I like that. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, I know. |
| 1:05.9 | And I'm a, if I'm in a video game, yes, like I will not score. |
| 1:10.7 | But in the real world, you got to score. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, you got to score. |
| 1:14.5 | You can score. |
| 1:15.2 | Because there's no guarantee. |
| 1:16.2 | You need a touchdown. |
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