Episode #90: Week 17 Packers Preview
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Lions season will come to a close Sunday at Lambeau Field as they take on the Green Bay Packers. This past Sunday the Lions left their fans coal in their stockings in a lackluster 27-9 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. A Lions win may, or may not, put their current 5th overall draft position in Jeopardy.
- Week 17 injury report
- Charles Washington and Bruce Ellington placed on injured reserve
- Brian Brown joins the practice squad
- Takeaways from the Week 16 loss to the Vikings
- Week 16 Naughty and Nice list
- Week 16 snap counts
- Week 16: By the Numbers
- The Lions still cannot stop the Hail Mary
- Green Bay Packers Preview
- Vegas Bet line favors the Packers
- Pat McAfee will make his debut on the game call
- Packers placed Kenny Clark on injured reserve
- Packers are rumored to be interested in former Lions coach Jim Caldwell
- Should the franchise QB be involved in coaching decisions moving forward?
- Discussion over which Lions coordinators and position coaches may no longer be employed Monday
- Would Adam Gase — current Miami coach — be an option for the Lions OC job if he’s fired?
- Which young players could step up into a leadership role?
- Lions rookie class ranks as the sixth best draft class according to Bleacher Report
- What does Kenny Wiggins bring to the table in comparison to TJ Lang?
- Is Joe Dahl the Lions fullback of the present and future?
- Has Jarrad Davis peaked as a football player?
- Will Ezekiel Ansah return?
- Can the Lions reduce injuries in 2019?
- Which Lions may be moving on in the offseason?
- The Lions hold the 5th overall pick and the odds havethemstickingthere
- The Lions are likely to stay at pick #5 based on the point spreads
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Transcript
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| 0:00.6 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:06.2 | With me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today LionsWire. |
| 0:09.8 | And this is USA Today Lions Wire's official podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | All right, Eric, we're headed into Week 17. |
| 0:17.6 | The Lions are NFC North champions, and they need a win this weekend in Green Bay to secure the one seed. |
| 0:23.2 | The NFC playoffs meaning home field advantage. |
| 0:25.7 | And none of that's true. |
| 0:27.1 | All right? |
| 0:27.5 | We're heading into this Packers game on Sunday. |
| 0:30.2 | Team is 5 and 10, staring at either 5 and 11 or 6 and 10, which would be the worst record since 2012. Did you think about that? |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. It's been six years since they've been this bad. They haven't dipped below 7 and 9 in that time |
| 0:45.9 | from 2013 and 20 to 2018, which I don't know. That seemed odd to me, but that's true. Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:54.6 | You know, I think there's a lot of flaws in the team, but there's also this isn't as bad |
| 1:01.9 | of a team as, you know, going back that far like 2012. |
| 1:06.0 | I think they're farther along now, but this has been a strange year. |
| 1:11.4 | We've talked about it all season. |
| 1:13.5 | Beating teams, they shouldn't beat, losing the teams they should, and then once the |
| 1:18.5 | collapse kind of happened at the end, it's been injuries and just a whole, it's been a very |
| 1:24.4 | slew of problems. |
| 1:25.4 | It's just been a very strange season from the last, like you said, at least six. |
| 1:32.2 | All right. |
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