Detroit Lions rule out seven players against Tampa Bay Buccaneers, including Brian Branch, Jahmyr Gibbs.
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00:00 Seven Detroit Lions players have been ruled out ahead of this weekend's contest against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
00:05 Here today to examine what that means for the Detroit Lions is SIL Lions John Mackram.
00:10 John, give me your thoughts on what this means for the Lions and how it looks for them in this weekend's matchup
00:15 against the Buccaneers.
00:17 Yeah, Cam, it's real interesting what's been happening. Over the past couple weeks,
00:21 the Lions have suffered some injuries during the week of practice in their preparation for games.
00:25 Dan Campbell was asked about that on Friday, and he indicated that he actually felt like this week they dialed it down.
00:32 He maybe is thinking that the team needs to actually ramp it back up,
00:36 maybe as a factor causing some of these injuries.
00:39 But you look at it, and there's gonna be some key injuries, Cameron, this week. Sam Laporta is questionable.
00:44 Suffered a calf injury last week and kind of flared up in the middle of the week.
00:49 But I think the expectation is that he is going to at least attempt to play this weekend.
00:53 The couple major injuries that are gonna potentially cause the Lions headaches are having Brian Branch miss,
00:59 with the ankle injuries, Jameer Gibbs, with the hamstring.
01:03 Gonna be real tough.
01:04 But the newest addition, a player that has been reliable and consistent, is left guard Jonah Jackson.
01:10 When you look at a player of his caliber, a player that is one of the key members of the offensive line,
01:16 that's gonna cause the Lions to have to shift some things, potentially moving Vitae over there or Dan Skipper.
01:21 But one saving grace has been the fact that Graham Glasgow has been pretty much a reliable vet that he was expected to be.
01:27 So the Detroit Lions are entering this game banged up, and they're gonna be without some key pieces.
01:32 But if they do in fact get back Sam Laporta and having the returning Amon Rossi and Brown,
01:38 the offense still has a lot of key weapons with David Montgomery and some role players with Khalif Raymond and Josh Reynolds that will help out.
01:45 The interesting factor will be how the injury to Brian Branch is gonna affect his defense.
01:50 Will Harris has been playing well, but you're losing still another key member of your defense.
01:55 So it'll be interesting to see how the Lions rebound this week on the road against the Buccaneers.
01:59 John, the injury bug is certainly going around.
02:02 But like you said, it'll be interesting to see how the Lions look this weekend in Tampa Bay.
02:06 Thanks for all the insight.