Episode #86: Week 13 Rams Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Lions served up a late-game disaster on Turkey Day, allowing the Bears to use two late turnovers to boost the holiday cheer of their fans back in Chicago. The Lions look to pick up the pieces this week against the 10-1 Rams who are fresh off a byeweek. Erik and Joe slowly start looking towards the future in this episode.
- As always, the injury report
- Marvin Jones on injured reserve
- Jamal Agnew returns to practice, off injured reserve
- Marcus Cooper is the latest claim
- Nic Grigsby now on the active roster
- Eric Lee is back, signed to the practice squad
- The visit by Don Careywas short
- Lions not interested in Reuben Fosteror his baggage
- Takeaways from the Thanksgiving game
- The Lions by the Numbers
- Offensive weaponsare lacking for the Lions
- Reviewing the Lions Week 12 snap counts, Mike Ford is here to stay
- Los Angeles Rams Preview
- The Rams are heavily favored
- Rams passing game coordinator, Shane Waldron, could be a replacement at offensive coordinator if the Lions move on from Jim Bob Cooter
- Who could fill the Lions void at slot wide receiver moving forward?
- What are the expectations for Agnew once he returns?
- Should the Lions be scouting running backs in the draft?
- How deep is this year’s EDGE draft class?
- Which top linebackers fit from this draft class?
- Are the Lions an appealing destination for free agents?
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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. I'm Joe |
| 0:05.6 | Kenya. With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today Lions Wire. And together, this podcast here is the |
| 0:13.5 | official podcast of USA Today. Lions Wire, Eric. Eric is a little under the weather today. He's not as |
| 0:19.4 | normal, bright, ne effervescent self. |
| 0:21.6 | But I'm sure he's a gamer, so he'll trudge through it and give us his best as always. |
| 0:27.1 | Well, I've been told I have an easy job. So I'm going to muscle through this easy job. |
| 0:32.4 | That fella apparently had a very difficult job, and he's under a lot of pressure and stress and he's got a lot of work |
| 0:37.7 | to do and you know he doesn't appreciate when people don't do the job he's doing all right |
| 0:43.5 | moving on to the injury report which where we start with all the time uh Marvin lewis not |
| 0:51.5 | marvin jones i got the the Bengals on the brain. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.9 | Marvin Jones, he's finally been moved to injured reserve. |
| 0:57.8 | I think most people listening already know that. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, it's another big blow to what was probably the strength of the offense. |
| 1:06.5 | Now they're down to Kenny Galliday as their best option. |
| 1:10.3 | So it's going to be no different than their approach the last couple of weeks with Marvin being out. |
| 1:15.6 | Now it's just... |
| 1:17.0 | It's just Kennedy Galladay and the Gallaudet's. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, kind of. |
| 1:22.2 | And also not making that any easier, Kerry-on Johnson's been out for both days of practice this week. |
| 1:29.8 | I would not expect to see him in the game on Sunday. |
| 1:33.0 | Look, he was week to week when they diagnosed him 11 days ago. |
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