Episode #79: Week 6 Bye Banter
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The Lions enter the bye week on a high note after defeating the Green Bay Packers 31-23 at Ford Field on Sunday afternoon. This week Erik and Joe discuss things in general roughly 1/3 of the way into the season.
- Speculating the injury report
- Ezekiel Ansah has a backer in Patricia
- Who replaces Jamal Agnew?
- CB CreVon LeBlanc promoted to the 53-man roster
- Claiming CB Lenzy Pipkins
- Hakeem Valles was waived and thensigned to practice squad
- LB Marquis Flowers released
- Reviewing the victory over the Packers, Studs and Duds
- Thoughts on the Snap Count
- Lions v. Packers — By the numbers
- Rod Wood-Shed Jim Brandstatter gets Game Ball
- Erik in the Press Box
- Exploring the Lions DVOA
- Is Matthew Stafford off?
- The rise of Kenny Golladay
- How has RG Kenny Wiggins performed?
- Is there a trade out there for Bob Quinn at the deadline?
- Now folks are complaining about coverage sacks
- How will Ziggy Ansah be used when he returns?
- Can Jarrad Davis become the Lions version of Dont’a Hightower?
- Is it a positive sign with Agnew not going on IR?
- And as always — Should we extend Golden Tate?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:06.1 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:09.7 | And this is the official podcast of USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:14.2 | Eric, we've reached the bye week. |
| 0:16.1 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:17.9 | We've reached the by week. |
| 0:19.6 | Yep. |
| 0:20.3 | Week six, coming off of a solid win against the Green Bay Packers, where Mason Crosby left a whole lot of points on the board. |
| 0:28.6 | Sure. |
| 0:28.8 | But we'll get into that in a little bit. |
| 0:32.4 | Mines did play very well, had a very good first half in the game. |
| 0:36.2 | Now we've reached the, we're about, what, 31.25% |
| 0:41.2 | away through the season. Yeah. And we'll talk about where they're at. Yeah, it's actually a very |
| 0:47.5 | convenient time to have a buy because of the way Patricia approaches the season. |
| 0:59.2 | We've grown accustomed to Caldwell in the past talking about looking at the season in quarters, four games, four games, four games, four games, four games. |
| 1:02.3 | But Patricia talks about looking at it in thirds. |
| 1:05.5 | And so this is right about the one-third mark. |
| 1:08.3 | So this is usually a point where changes start to happen even a little bit. |
| 1:13.5 | You know, some of them subtle, some of them not so subtle. |
| 1:16.3 | But looking at the season in thirds is more of what Patricia's used to. |
| 1:22.1 | So let's go straight into the injury report. |
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