Midweek Mailbag: Lions Final Roster Shifts Before Cutdowns

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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On this week's episode of the Pride of Detroit Midweek Mailbag, Jeremy and Erik dive into the Lions’ final roster decisions as cutdowns loom large. They break down the biggest position battles, surprise standouts, and tough choices Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell will have to make. Which fringe players have earned a spot? Who might be on the outside looking in? And what late shifts could shake up the 53-man roster? Tune in as they answer your questions and give their final thoughts before cutdowns. Want to support the PODcast? Get the gift of meat! Use promo code POD20 at www.righteousfelon.com to get 20% off your order on craft beef jerky, biltong, and meat sticks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Midweek Mailbag, your Detroit Lions midweek podcast where we answer your
0:24.7	Detroit Lions questions from our Pride of Detroit direct subscribers from Twitter.
0:29.5	And I was going to add a third thing, but that's really the only two places I get them from.
0:33.0	My name is Jeremy Raisman.
0:34.6	I am the producer over at Pride of Detroit.
0:36.1	You can find me at Detroit online.
0:38.1	With me, as always, is the managing editor of Pride of Detroit.
0:42.4	You may also know him as the machine or by at Eric Slit on Twitter.
0:46.7	Eric Slit is here.
0:47.4	Eric.
0:48.9	We're here.
0:49.8	We did it.
0:50.8	Hey, buddy.
0:51.0	Train camp's almost over, bud.
0:53.3	One more practice. One more practice. One more practice,
0:55.7	one more preseason game, and then, uh, yeah, turn the page. We're locked in.
1:01.4	Hmm. I, uh, I hate cuts. Uh, they're less than a week away, but it is a pivotal point in the, in every NFL season or, you know, the change between seasons.
1:15.6	And so it is something that I look forward to because it means we're closer to real football.
1:22.9	But at the same time, it's something to not look forward to as well, right?
1:27.2	Yeah.
1:47.5	It's a tough time for sure. I mean, we, we get to know some of these guys's stories that, yeah, probably never see again, uh, to put bluntly. Um, and there's a lot of really inspiring stories every year, whether it's guys that are, that are UDFAs or guys that come from the UFL. I mean, there's a million stories to be told during training camp and some of those stories last six weeks.
1:48.9	And it's just the unfortunate reality of life in the NFL.
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