Episode #96: Everything Defense
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week Erik and Joe flip to the defensive side of the ball where they break down every position group. As a special bonus, and also due to rambling on in the previous episode, they will also break down the offensive line.
- “Everything Offense” episode covered almost all of the offense. The first breakdown is the last remaining offensive position group
- The defensive line gets their turn first in the defensive breakdown
- Damon Harrison finds himself at No. 40 on PFF Top-101 grades for NFL players
- PFF: Hand earned highest pass rushing grade for rookie IDLsince they started keeping track in 2006
- At how many different positions will we see Hand in 2019?
- Will Ed Oliverbeinplay when the Lions draft at #8?
- Lions Wire has profiled EDGE’s Rashan Gary and Brian Burns this week
- The newest Lion is free agent linebacker Tre Williams
- Is the need at LB greater than it seems?
- Under what condition will the Lions move Jarrad Davis to WILL?
- A recent mock has Buffalo LB Khalil Hodge to the Lions in the third round, how does he fit?
- Could Nevin Lawson be on his way out? And how would the Lions replace him?
- Will Jamal Agnew find his role in the secondary increase in 2019?
- Would it be for the best if the Lions moved on from Teez Tabor?
- Are the Lions more likely to upgrade the corner position through free agency or the draft?
- Could Bradley Roby be an option?
- Is DeAndre Baker a similar talent to Greedy Williams?
- Who will replace Glover Quin’s leadership in the locker room if he retires?
- Could Landon Collins be an impending Lion if he makes it to free agency?
- Don’t forget, the Lions hired John Bonamego as special teams coordinator
- Bill Belichick gives the Lions some love for showing his Patriots how to beat the Rams
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Joe Kenya. |
| 0:04.1 | With me as always is Eric Schlett from USA Today LionsWire, |
| 0:07.8 | and this is the official podcast of USA Today Lions Wire. |
| 0:11.8 | Eric, last week we promised everybody we're going to get through the offense |
| 0:15.9 | and we were totally lying because we didn't get through it. |
| 0:19.1 | We have one more section to go today. |
| 0:21.8 | And since we have no player movement no coach movement to speak of at least within the team uh we're going to start |
| 0:27.5 | talking about the offensive line so who do we got who's going to be gone uh there actually there was a |
| 0:34.0 | minor uh player signed but he's a linebacker, so we'll get to him today. |
| 0:38.5 | We'll get to it in a few minutes. |
| 0:41.0 | Hopefully. |
| 0:42.4 | So the offensive line is actually in pretty decent shape, except for the status of T.J. Lang, which is obviously the big question mark. |
| 0:52.0 | They return basically the entire too deep, you know, offensive line with the exception |
| 1:01.1 | of T.J. Lang being the big question. |
| 1:03.9 | So at left tackle, you've got Decker and Crosby, and then at left guard, Ragnow, had a |
| 1:10.7 | nice rookie season, and Dahl was his backup. |
| 1:13.9 | Fullback. |
| 1:14.9 | At center, you had Grand Glasgow. |
| 1:19.5 | And technically Ragnow would have been the number two, but Colomonti was hanging around. |
| 1:24.7 | Yep, and he was promoted at the end of the season. |
| 1:27.1 | T.J. Lang was the right guard. |
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