November 10, 2025 • 41 mins
- Headlines from a jam-packed sports weekend, including wins from the Lions and Pistons - Dan Campbell takes over offensive play-calling, and the offensive line plays incredibly - Jameson Williams has his best game of the season Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Day every single week. I put my freaking heart and
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It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't want
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I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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You still the same person I was yesterday, and I got.
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You play to win the game. You don't play to
just play it. That's a great thing about sports. You
play to win, and I don't care if you don't
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Speaker 7 (02:12):
Wow what a day, man, I mean that was something else.
I mean you start with a Red Wings game at
one and you conclude with a Pistons game at seven,
and squeezed in between was a really good football game.
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You could text a sports radio twenty one thousand. I
hope you had a great weekend, really do. I'm Matt
Shephard Trent Bally is with us as well. We've got
a mitche Lion's wealth pull question out there for you.
Do you believe the Lions are fixed? Yes or no.
I'm not talking about from a veterinarian standpoint. I don't
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want to know if you've fixed your dog. I'm wondering
if you think the Lions are fixed overall, that would
be a good sign. My guess is most people don't.
And the reason I say that is because they played
Washington and you saw Washington without Jayden Daniels. Marcus Mariotta
wasn't terrible. It's good backup, right. I wouldn't want him
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start in seventeen games for me, but he's a good backup. Sure,
you saw Dan Quinn's team lose. It's cool on a
regular basis and all I could help, but think the
entire time is you know what this is how quickly
things can change in the National Football League. Oftentimes at
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some point there's going to be a sports radio host,
radio or TV. They're going to ask you the tendencies
of what has happened with the National Football League over
the years is you have an X amount of teams
six I believe that missed the playoffs last year and
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we'll make it this year, which means six teams that
made it last year will not make it this year.
Who those teams are? You know, could be Houston in
the AFC, South Indianapolis really good team so far. It
could be a team like Washington. It sure seems like
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that team is Washington. In the NFC's there's a few
San Francisco, although they didn't make it last year. There
are oftentimes teams that had a good year last year
didn't this year. I'm watching Dan Quinn on the sidelines
yesterday and I'm thinking, that's that's you this year. So
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quickly it goes in the running for Coach of the Year,
Jayden Daniels Offensive Rookie of the Year. A lot of
things went well, made some moves in the offseason. People
thought this was going to be a really good situation
for Washington and it has not turned out to be
at all. So that's why I think a lot of
people will say, no, I don't think they're fixed. Let's
see what they do next week against Philadelphia, who closes
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out the week tonight against Green Bay. That could be
the case either way. You looked at what the Lions did.
They score on every possession. Okay, we'll take the Can
you grant me the kneel down?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Please? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Forty four to twenty two, Absolutely blowout Washington. This is
exactly what you wanted to see from the Lions offense
after last week, where you didn't feel like there was
much creativity, where they gotten a bit of a lull,
where they didn't use certain people the right way. Where great,
it made you frustrated. Maybe it made you even more
frustrated after watching Minnesota play Baltimore yesterday, I'm waiting for
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nine to come out, just wondering. Okay, JJ McCarthy and
his alter ego, I call him nine. Was he yesterday
throwing two picks, having three turnovers? Nothing from the Minnesota
locker room, that's for sure. Anyway, Lions offense totaled five
hundred and forty six yards. I think the best statistic
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that they had I know Jared Goff three hundred and
twenty yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's great.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Jamior Gibbs one hundred and ninety two total yards of offense,
three touchdowns, that's fantastic. Jamison Williams was engaged in for
good reason. One hundred and nineteen yards in a score.
That's fantastic as well. No sacks, very little pressure. I
know it's Washington, Fine, Okay, there's still NFL players. They
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are still a team striving to win. I don't think
they gave up. There are times when Minnesota gave up.
JJ McCarthy threw it an interception downfield. Did you watch
Justin Jefferson try to tackle the guy. Hell no, he
literally jogged his way and gave up. He stopped, and
I like Justin Jefferson, I think he's all of a play.
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But that showed you something, didn't it. That was an awful,
awful look. He literally watched the guy. The guy looked
at him, ran I don't know, five six yards that way.
Justin Jefferson is one of the faster wide receivers in
the league. And that's the stuff you're going to give
to your team. You think that'll be pointed out in
the film room. I would hope so. But I thought
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the zero sacks and the very little pressure was impactful,
important and key to the victory. Golf, by the way,
one of two quarterbacks to ever complete seventy five percent
or better of their passes throw at least twenty touchdowns
and fewer than three interceptions in their first nine games.
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One of two quarterbacks in history to do that. Who's
the other one? Drew Brees twenty eighteen. Bears come back.
They beat the Giants twenty four to twenty. Caleb Williams
seventeen yard touchdown run completed the comeback. Chicago's won six
of seven. Do you believe now? I know, I'm thinking
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the same thing. I don't know. It's they look pretty good,
they really do. I know they needed to come back.
I don't care. He's still gotta win. It's gaining momentum.
It's feeling their oats vikings. As I mentioned, they come
up short to Baltimore twenty seven to nineteen. Week is
going to wrap up tonight. Packers hosting the Eagles. Philly
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has won two in a row. They lead the NFC East.
Green Bay needs win to keep pacing the NFC North.
Otherwise it's Detroit and Chicago atop the division. Pistons keep rolling.
Man were they good in the second half. They use
a one to eleven, one O eight win in Philly
to notch their sixth straight win. Cay Cunningham took over
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in the second half. He was terrible in the first half,
one for nine, two points, looked out a sink, look disengaged.
Score twenty four of his twenty six in the second half,
including that poster dunk over Andre Drummond. But Jalen Duran
continues to really impress. I mean, he is gaining more
and more momentum as an offensive player. And can I say,
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as a leader, did you see him chewing out Assar
Thompson off a defensive miss. Asar Thompson is the one
who's supposed to kire the most about defense and yet
Jalen Duran was the one in his grill and it
was all good. I mean, they shook hands on the bench,
it was great. But Duran had twenty one points and
sixteen boards. When are we going to start talking more
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about him? Seriously? We talked about Kay Cunningham, and for
good reason. He's one of the best guards, one of
the best players in the world. Jalen Duran is really
coming to his own and fitting nicely. Detroyed off to
their best ten game start since five oh six. They
were down by as many as thirteen folks. Cunningham had
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seventeen to the third to get him back into it.
Day started tough. Red Wings lose their third in a row,
Fallbell Blackhawks five to one. Nate Danielson up, healthy scratch,
Michael Rasmussen healthy scratch, Jonathan Bergrian.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What does Todd McClelland care about some of these guys.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
You're not gonna play, You're not gonna be effective, You're
not gonna use your six foot six frame. Sent wear
a suit, stay that way. Dylan Larkin scored the lone
goal for the Wings. Connor Bernard had goaling two assists.
Wings in mount scored ninety two during their slide. Something's
got to change. We gave you the mitchellones Well Poll
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Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yes?
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Or no?
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We'll talk Lions football with you. Pretty damn good offense
because a different play called.
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Speaker 7 (11:51):
Was making those calls. We'll get to that. Here are
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Speaker 8 (11:58):
And you know, it was just let's try something a
little different, right, you know. And and uh, look, I
know if I know what I want to do, I
know how I want to do it. Now that being said,
this is a collaborative effort. Now, I mean I was taking,
you know, input from John Morton that whole time and
the other coaches, So, hey, man, what do you think here?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Third down?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
All right?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We get into this third and seven.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Plug bla blah blah blah blah, all right where we
give me to So this is uh man, this is
this is all encompassing. You know, we all work together.
Coaches did a hell of a job, but I just
wanted to change it up a little bit. You know,
let's just see if, if you know, maybe a different
play caller can can you know, maybe get.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Us a little rhythm. That's all. And it honestly is
nothing more than that.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
He makes it sound so simple, doesn't he. I give
him a ton of credit. This is also protecting John Morton. Yeah,
that's what I mean. He he's so he's such a
good leader. He really is.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
He doesn't take it upon himself and say, yeah, I'm
the difference here. This is Dan Campbell at his best.
It really is not because this team, you know, had
five hundred and forty six total yards of offense. It's
not because you know, before they had been struggling on
third down. Their third down conversion percentage was thirty six
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percent against Washington, they were five and ten five four
ten and if you think about it, two of those
they then went forward on fourth down and converted. Let
me fix this real quick and converted. And because of that,
I mean you almost give them a little bit of
pass on those two. It wasn't because Detroit ran sixty
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eight plays. It wasn't because Jared Goff threw for three
twenty and three touchdowns. Well, Marcus Mariotto was limited to
two hundred and thirteen yards. It wasn't because Jamiir Gibbs
was I mean just spectacular, it really was. The offensive
line was awesome, but Gibbs ended up rushing for one
hundred and forty two yards, nine and a half yard average,
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touchdown runs of forty three and thirteen, a fourteen yard
touchdown catch all those those are all great numbers and
makes you turn your head and say, wow, that's really bad.
He looked so comfortable as the play caller, and the team,
to his point, had a rhythm. Did you notice how
many times they exposed Washington up the middle, very similar
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to what Minnesota did to Detroit a week ago. The
Lions did that. One of the biggest problems the Lions
have had this season. I mentioned third downs. That's easy
to recognize when you rank twenty third in the league
in that category going into the game against Washington, that's
an obvious one. But the thing we have to remember
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is there first and second downs. Why are they getting
in those third down situations? Why are they having issues
with third down and long Why are they in those
positions in the first place.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And what they did better.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Than they've done in a long time is prevent that
they ended up because of their first and second down situations.
They ended up in a more comfortable third down situation,
and I think that's important to note. And Dan Campbell
was so good protecting Like Trent said, protecting John Morton
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was key and making sure that everybody knows that John
Morton was still an important part of this offense. In
case you missed it, Dan Campbell after the lost to
Minnesota spoke with John Morton private conversation and you noticed
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that didn't come out during the week, and that was listen,
we're gonna mix it up a little bit. It's still
important for an offensive coordinator to stay involved. How much
I don't know, and that's something I'm going to find
out for Mitch Lyons. Mitch Lions will join us Mondays
with Mitch at sevent eighteen. He'll give us an idea
of that. When you take the play calling away from
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an offensive corner, he just doesn't sit in the booth
with his headset on and not do anything. He's still
involved in the offense. He's still involved in giving you options, tendencies.
The communication still has to be there. Okay, So let's
not think that because of Dan Campbell taking over the
play calling duties that John Morton didn't earn his job,
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didn't earn his paycheck. Absolutely he did. But let's look
at this real quick Detroit on the first drive. All right,
I don't need to go over every single play, but
what do they do. They get eight yards on their
first down run, then they get three yards on a
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second down and two Suddenly it's a first down, so
you don't face a third down right away. Eventually, when
you do get to a third down because there was
an incomplete pass there, it's third and six. Now I
know that's not third and two or third and three.
Something simple that could keep things open. You're more likely
going to pass, but it's much more manageable. And that's
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where Jared Goff connected with Jamison Williams all right, And
a little bit later, they had one third down on
that first drive and it was third down and six.
You know, that's third down in medium. That's not necessarily
third down and long, all right, not compared to what
they've they've had to deal with in the past. So
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that's a huge plus for this team. On the second drive,
they had a third down and seven, not once, but twice,
And the second time was when they connected on the
nine yard touchdown pass Golf to Aman Ross saying Brown,
all right, so is it third down and long? Yeah,
I think I think seven yards. It's beyond the medium party,
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I'd say yeah, I would say yes, okay. On the
third drive, there's a third and two. They actually experienced
a penalty a little bit later on. That's the only
third down they experienced. It was third down and two.
Those are the types of situations. I'm not going to
go every single drive, but you get my point. Those
are the types of situations that this team was used
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to putting itself in in the past when the offense
was home on a long this time in this game,
they experienced the same thing against Minnesota. It's way too
often where it was third down and long over and
over and over again, and I would say third down
a long, third and six trends probably that's on the
fringe rate. Third and seven, I would call that third
and long.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yes.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
And against Minnesota there was so much pressure up the
middle constantly. Yeah, where and we all know that Jared Goff.
This is not a knock on him, but he's not
great when there's pressure up the middle. Yeah, not many
quarterbacks are exactly There's only like three guys that would
do better.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Yeah, that's where that's where everybody gets into the whole
running quarterback.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
And they overreaterback. And I get it. I get it.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But I oftentimes would tell people, Okay, would you want
Matthew Stafford this year? Four touchdowns, two picks. He's probably
the front runner for MVP. He's not one of those
guys either, So I think you're right about that. I
got to give Coyote Awaseka a lot of credit. He
did a great job. Tristan Cologne did a really good
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job when he filled in for Graham Glasgow, and Graham
Glasgow did a really good job.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think it's really.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Important during the loss, not Trent or me specifically, but
during the loss, we noticed what Trent just said pressure
up the metal, and we immediately say the offensive line
did a shit credit job, almost went there, credit job,
And they did do it, and they.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Did do a credit job.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
But if we're going to take dead aim at those
guys when they struggle, we should they did. We also
need to recognize it's not just Jimi or Gibbs, it's
not just Jared Goff, it's not just Jamison Williams, Sam
Laporter early on.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It's that offensive line too.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
And we have to give the credit where the credits due,
and we have to hold them accountable when they don't perform.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And we've done a good job of that, yes.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
But I want people to notice that because the offensive line.
I noticed this all the time in college football. If
you I'm sure you do too, you're watching the game. Well,
there's a penalty, and then immediately they go to the
offensive lineman because he was holding, because it was illegal motion,
because his hands to the face whatever. Immediately they'll point
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that out. But those guys when things go well, it's
always hey, look at how great this back is. Yeah,
look at look at how good the quarterback did it.
Look at how well he recognized certain situations. You've got
to have time those guys. And we were crying for
offensive lineman at the trade deadline and this does not
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this doesn't fit it per se. Okay, but we were
asking for offensive linemen at the trade deadline and the
Lions get mocked for this, but say, in so many words,
we're good and at least for this day, at least
for this game against Washington, they were. Kudos to those
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guys for stepping forward and doing what they need to do.
Our phone number on the Meyer hotline is eight sixty
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can challenge some of these teams in football. We'll get
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to that because it was a really interesting day yesterday
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Speaker 10 (22:44):
Oh my think you know, spreading around and let everybody
get going.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
You know, that's what we did.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
You see we got forty four points. It's one of
the highest we had this season, I think our second highest,
and I think it was just the main thing was
just getting out there and getting our guys going. We
had a tip on our short from life. Sure, we
just used it as an event. So I said, goat
there and go extra hard on him. Boys today.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That's good stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
That's Jameson Williams on the field after the game. I
think that's courtesy at Detroit Lions dot Com. So I
want to give them reddit. Yeah, yeah, thank you for that.
So James and Williams. You know, I've been really impressed
with him. I know how I felt about him. Originally
I thought there was some lack of maturity. I think
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he has grown into a pretty good pro. Love the
fact that he blocks downfield. Obviously his speed is incredible.
But what I like most about him is when he
had a chance to complain, he didn't. What he said was, look,
we're spreading the ball around, We're winning. That's all that
really matters to me. Yesterday was, to a certain extent,
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his day, right, I mean, six rocks, one hundred and nineteen.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yard the year for him, do you think so? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
From a production standpoint, you're saying, yep, yeah, So this
is what This isn't a perfect world, folks, but this
is what a really good offense can look like. When
you get targets to Jamison Williams, who had the most targets,
the idea.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I'm on Rosame Brown he had That's yeah, that's a
safe bet.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
So he had eight, Williams had seven, Laporta had five.
Do you need any more? Well, Gibbs, of course, out
of the backfield. Montgomery sometimes out of the backfield, where
the hell is Isaac Teslaw one catch, eleven yards, one target. Okay,
I'm not gonna I'm not going to go into that
rabbit hole again. I've already I already did that last week.
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I'm going to continue to wonder why the hell a
third round pick and that much capital is traded for
and he gets one target and Khalif Raymond's getting four.
Frayman is doing a good job blocking too, I might add.
So while we're watching the football go down field, watch
what some of these guys are doing when the ball's
not coming their way or after somebody else is making
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a catch. Are they doing a justin Jefferson finger up
the noses situation where he's just watching somebody run away
from or is he given all out effort Khalif Raeman's
doing that? It really is. That tells you something about teams.
When things are going wrong. The easy thing to do
is tuck tail and hide flounder. It's hard to stay
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after it and say what you want about certain coaches
this team has had in the past. I know Rod
Marinelli owns sixteen. If you watched those games, those players,
they weren't very good. The players weren't good, but they worked.
They got after it. There was a pride factor involved.
They still tried hard. And I know you don't get
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anything for trying. I get that. But it is contagious,
and so is the lack thereof I want you to
think about it for a minute. If you're around somebody
who's got a negative attitude, or you're around somebody who
does not care, doesn't have the same goals with you
as a company does. Do you want them there any longer?
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Do you want to be around them? No, everybody has
bad days. I get that. I'm talking about consistently. So
you are working toward a common goal. You thought that
person doesn't do anything. When you were in school, did
you have a partner for a lab experiment or an
art project or something? Hey, you two work together? You
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know your deskmates. You guys are going to work together
if you put all the work in. Do you want
that desk mate again?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Well?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
No, okay, I don't care how good looking she is.
It doesn't matter to you. If you got to do
all the work, it's not going to matter. So you
want guys working with one another. Something Jamison Williams has
done He's done a really good job with that, and
I give him full marks for it. I also give
the Lions in general full marks because look, they didn't panic,
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they didn't start pointing fingers. We read into it, we did.
We didn't like the body language, we didn't like the
awkward answers given by aman Ross and Brown. By Dan Campbell,
by John Morton. Do you remember the SoundBite we played
last week Thursday, it was Thursday or Friday, John Morton
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where he was talking about the offensive line, and we're
talking about accountability, that the plays are there, we're just
not executing, and so on and so forth, all the
things you and I say that is okay to talk about,
But when the guy who's in charge of the offense
talks about it, everyone's like, oh, oh my god, I
can't believe he just said.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That out loud.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Why what the hell's wrong with that. He's not throwing
any one particular player under the bus. He's saying, look,
the plays are there, they're going to work. We've got
to execute. You've got to get protection, no blanks, Sherlock.
Why was that such a bad thing? So it's about
so we tried to read as much as we possibly
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could into it. You saw the headlines, didn't you. You
read the articles. I know you did. It was all
about this is a bad luck. Uh oh are they fracturing?
We were looking for cracks in the wall. Then we
get inspected, an inspection into the house, and we look
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at what happened on watching on Sunday in Washington and
we're like, maybe it's not quite so bad.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Now.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
You got to, you know, piece more and more of
those together. But this is what I mean about our
Mitch Lions wealth poll question. Do you think they're fixed?
People are gonna say no, And I know they are
because they look at Washington as a less than team
first and foremost and not at full strength, which is
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ironic because the Lions aren't at full strength.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I suppose we can't look at Detroit playing with Thomas
Harper in the backfield or Avonte Maddox or Arthur Mullett.
Can't do that? Can we rock your scene? Oh you
didn't see a Kirby Joseph. You didn't see a DJ
read Terry and Arnold left with a concussion.
Speaker 11 (29:18):
Well even the whole line you talked about Awa Sika, Yeah,
and Cologne. Yeah, Cologne for even if it was a
short period of time. Did you notice when Christian Cologne
came in for the injured Graham Glasgow. Did you notice
what happened? Did you take note of that.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I'm not asking you specifically, trying I'm talking to people
in general.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, you mean getting a push.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
No, they ran right behind him, They went right up
the middle. Yeah, that's that's awesome. They didn't. They weren't
scared of it. Oh and by the way, Pennay Sewel
also left for a period of time. He went into
the blue tent, did he not?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Right now? Was early on too, well? Still early on?
They still scored on the drive.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Yes, I mean I bring that up because it's like
they could have had trouble setting the tone with him
out early right.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Dan Snydre comes in, Dan Skipper comes in, the guy
who was on the practice squad earlier this year. And
I'll call myself out here. I want an offensive lineman
at the trade deadline. This does not prove me wrong.
But and I said this at the time when they
didn't make any moves and I was kicking rocks, and
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I'm like, oh my god, you just got a practice
player from the New England Patriots. Please, No, you know
what it was. They know their personnel, maybe they felt
really comfortable. They better be right. I said that too,
But I'm willing to say I don't know how good
Dan Skipper has been. I don't know how good Coyote
Always Seka has been. I don't know how good Tristan
(30:50):
Cologne can be. You know who does Hank Freyley, John Morton,
Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes. Again, they better be right,
because that's their job. It's not my job. My job
is not to know the ins and the outs of
how good Detroit's too deep is okay? However, when those
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guys get in there and make place and that offense
does not skip a beat. What oftentimes happens is when
you get a replacement in anything, you're a little tentative.
Don't you think It's like we got a new right
tackle in I'm going to run to the left side.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
Yeah, and that's not necessarily a bad thing either, It's
not an uncommon thing.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah. I don't know if it's good, bad, or indifferent.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
I suppose it's It all depends on the results, right,
But what I noticed is Cologne comes in and Detroit goes,
screw it, man, this is what our script is. We're
gonna We're going to attack Washington's middle of their defense.
We're gonna kick them right in the ass. This is
what we're doing. And I don't care if. I don't
care if it's Graham Glasgow, I don't care. If it's
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Tate Ratledge, I don't don't care if it's Coyote Awaska,
I don't care if it's Tristan Cologne. Who's ever up there.
That's what we're gonna do. You know the assignment, you
know the job, you know our game plan. You better
be ready. So let's see. You want to play, here
we go. That's what they do. I thought it was awesome.
I loved it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Now.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
I loved it because it worked. But my point is,
I love the mindset Dan Campbell. I'm glad Jamison Williams.
That was a really good SoundBite to play. Dan Campbell
is so much more. We've said this on a pretty
regular basis, but he is so much more than a big,
you know, guttural sounding ex football player. He's a really
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really smart football coach. There are certain coaches in the
National Football and the history of the National Football League
who are viewed as geniuses.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
I'm not going there yet. Please just don't. Don't drive
off the road and goat. Come on, you're overreacting. I'm
not one of those people who overreacts. I really don't.
Sometimes I get a little emotional, but I don't overreact.
I'm not saying he is Bill Walsh. I'm not suggesting
he's Don Shula or Tom Landry or Bill Belichick or
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Joe Gibbs or anybody like that. Okay, Bill Parcels, any
of the great coaches you've seen. What I'm saying to
you is that he is viewed a certain way. It's
funny guys with glasses we view as you know, brilliant.
I don't know what it is. You know, guys who
just don't want to share a lot with us. Oh
that's a mad scientist, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (33:46):
All right, Oh, George Seffert, he doesn't wear a headset
on the on the sideline. But boy, he's got his
team under control.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
That's he's he's he's.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Got his stuff together, don't we. Dan camb wear's a
T shirt, works out, has a dip in his mouth,
has a low voice and talks like a regular guy.
And we don't think he's a really smart football guy.
Why played the sport, has coached in the sport, has
(34:20):
learned from some good coaches. Why don't we think he's
capable of carrying that over? Not to mention the fact
that he's already proven it to us. Do we think
the Lions are We're only fifteen and two last year
because of Golf and Gibbs and Saint Brown and Williams
and King, Jack Campbell and Penny Sewell and Aiden Hutchinson
(34:41):
and all those guys. Do we think they went twelve
and five the year before and reached the NFC Championship
game despite Dan Campbell. I don't understand why we think that. Oh, well,
because it was Ben Johnson, that's right, And it was Oh,
that's right, it was Aaron Glenn. My fault couldn't be
the guy who hired them, put him in charge and
oversees it all. The head coach is the CEO man.
(35:05):
All these other CEOs of these big companies are raking
in golden parachutes, all these big bonuses because they've hired
people to help them get those bonuses. Dan Campbell's done
something similar. But the problem with football is we don't
always know exactly what a head coach does. And it
(35:27):
might be another good question for Mitch Lions for Monday's
at Mitch tell us, define to us what do head
coaches do on gaming? We see them with their headset on,
we see them talking. But the belief is that the
offensive coordinators calling the plays, unless it's Sean McVay because
he's holding up a big placard and he's talking into
(35:49):
the microphone and he's telling Matt Stafford throw for four
touchdowns and no picks again today, will you thank you?
Or the defensive coordinator because of the emotion and all
these other things. And then we see one have special
teams coordinators without heads that's just in there given fifth
pumps left and right. So people wonder where's the offensive
where's the head coach? How is he involved in these
(36:12):
play calls? He's part of this whole game plan for sure,
And just because he isn't in the running backs room
or the wide receivers room or the offensive line room
doesn't mean that he isn't aware of what is expected
and what the game plan is going to be and
what plays he wants seen. With that said, you could
(36:37):
argue on last week against Minnesota that Dan Campbell was
partly responsible for that too, because if you know the
plays going in there and you disagree with it, why
are you not overruling it? But I digress. Dan Campbell's
a really smart football dude, and it's evident again to
(37:00):
know to have a feel for your team. There's a
feel there from him where he's like, you know, I
think we've got to mix it up. Doesn't mean it's
gonna be this way always, all right, but I think
we need to mix it up. I would say, if
you make this known and it's that successful, if you
go back to what it was before with somebody else
(37:23):
calling the plays, John Morton, you're leaving yourself exposed for
all kinds of criticism. So you can't put that back
in the bottle. This is toothpaste. You're not pushing that
toothpaste back into the tube now, all right, He's got
to keep calling the place, at least against Philadelphia, and
if it goes awry, maybe something else. Maybe you're working
(37:48):
with somebody on play calling. That's not uncommon either, okay,
but it's interesting that there's time and time again we've
seen Dan Campbell in a certain mode, a certain situation,
and we haven't necessarily completely grasped his football brilliance. And
(38:14):
it wasn't just a play calling for me. It was
the timing and how he went about it. Nobody knew
during the week that he was going to be the
play caller. We find out in a television broadcast, and
to a certain extent if you're listening on the radio broadcast,
that Dan Campbell was the play caller. That's that's when
(38:36):
we found out. He didn't come out there and say,
you know what, like a lot of people would in
today's day and age, you know what, I'm making a change,
and I'm going to make sure everybody knows it. It's
going to be me calling those plays on Sunday, and
here's what I've done, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
He didn't do that.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
He let John Morton speak to the media as usual.
He like Kelvin Shepherd, speak to the media is usual.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
None of his players let it out of the bag.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
There were no leaks, tight ship, really good stuff from
Dan Campbell. Thus the forty four twenty two went. I
couldn't help but wonder though he goes forward on fourth
down a couple of times, and what a lot of
people have said publicly and on social media specifically, don't
(39:24):
like the fact that Dan Campbell goes for it so
often on fourth down? You do when he's you noticed
it was fourth and one on one occasion, fourth and
two on the other. Those are the same same people,
you know, I'll be out to dinner with them, like, look,
if you can't get a yard, you don't deserve to
be out there on the football field. Okay, but if
it was a little bit further I think it was
(39:45):
fourth and four, he said, you know, let's kick the
field goal, and they did just that. Really impressed with
the with how the Lions went about their business in general.
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I mean you start with a Red Wings game at
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hope you had a great weekend, really do. I'm Matt
Shephard Trent Bally is with us as well. We've got
a mitche Lion's wealth pull question out there for you.
Do you believe the Lions are fixed? Yes or no.
I'm not talking about from a veterinarian standpoint. I don't
(02:55):
want to know if you've fixed your dog. I'm wondering
if you think the Lions are fixed overall, that would
be a good sign. My guess is most people don't.
And the reason I say that is because they played
Washington and you saw Washington without Jayden Daniels. Marcus Mariotta
wasn't terrible. It's good backup, right. I wouldn't want him
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start in seventeen games for me, but he's a good backup. Sure,
you saw Dan Quinn's team lose. It's cool on a
regular basis and all I could help, but think the
entire time is you know what this is how quickly
things can change in the National Football League. Oftentimes at
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some point there's going to be a sports radio host,
radio or TV. They're going to ask you the tendencies
of what has happened with the National Football League over
the years is you have an X amount of teams
six I believe that missed the playoffs last year and
(04:05):
we'll make it this year, which means six teams that
made it last year will not make it this year.
Who those teams are? You know, could be Houston in
the AFC, South Indianapolis really good team so far. It
could be a team like Washington. It sure seems like
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that team is Washington. In the NFC's there's a few
San Francisco, although they didn't make it last year. There
are oftentimes teams that had a good year last year
didn't this year. I'm watching Dan Quinn on the sidelines
yesterday and I'm thinking, that's that's you this year. So
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quickly it goes in the running for Coach of the Year,
Jayden Daniels Offensive Rookie of the Year. A lot of
things went well, made some moves in the offseason. People
thought this was going to be a really good situation
for Washington and it has not turned out to be
at all. So that's why I think a lot of
people will say, no, I don't think they're fixed. Let's
see what they do next week against Philadelphia, who closes
(05:09):
out the week tonight against Green Bay. That could be
the case either way. You looked at what the Lions did.
They score on every possession. Okay, we'll take the Can
you grant me the kneel down?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Please? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Forty four to twenty two, Absolutely blowout Washington. This is
exactly what you wanted to see from the Lions offense
after last week, where you didn't feel like there was
much creativity, where they gotten a bit of a lull,
where they didn't use certain people the right way. Where great,
it made you frustrated. Maybe it made you even more
frustrated after watching Minnesota play Baltimore yesterday, I'm waiting for
(05:50):
nine to come out, just wondering. Okay, JJ McCarthy and
his alter ego, I call him nine. Was he yesterday
throwing two picks, having three turnovers? Nothing from the Minnesota
locker room, that's for sure. Anyway, Lions offense totaled five
hundred and forty six yards. I think the best statistic
(06:13):
that they had I know Jared Goff three hundred and
twenty yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's great.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Jamior Gibbs one hundred and ninety two total yards of offense,
three touchdowns, that's fantastic. Jamison Williams was engaged in for
good reason. One hundred and nineteen yards in a score.
That's fantastic as well. No sacks, very little pressure. I
know it's Washington, Fine, Okay, there's still NFL players. They
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are still a team striving to win. I don't think
they gave up. There are times when Minnesota gave up.
JJ McCarthy threw it an interception downfield. Did you watch
Justin Jefferson try to tackle the guy. Hell no, he
literally jogged his way and gave up. He stopped, and
I like Justin Jefferson, I think he's all of a play.
(07:01):
But that showed you something, didn't it. That was an awful,
awful look. He literally watched the guy. The guy looked
at him, ran I don't know, five six yards that way.
Justin Jefferson is one of the faster wide receivers in
the league. And that's the stuff you're going to give
to your team. You think that'll be pointed out in
the film room. I would hope so. But I thought
(07:23):
the zero sacks and the very little pressure was impactful,
important and key to the victory. Golf, by the way,
one of two quarterbacks to ever complete seventy five percent
or better of their passes throw at least twenty touchdowns
and fewer than three interceptions in their first nine games.
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One of two quarterbacks in history to do that. Who's
the other one? Drew Brees twenty eighteen. Bears come back.
They beat the Giants twenty four to twenty. Caleb Williams
seventeen yard touchdown run completed the comeback. Chicago's won six
of seven. Do you believe now? I know, I'm thinking
(08:09):
the same thing. I don't know. It's they look pretty good,
they really do. I know they needed to come back.
I don't care. He's still gotta win. It's gaining momentum.
It's feeling their oats vikings. As I mentioned, they come
up short to Baltimore twenty seven to nineteen. Week is
going to wrap up tonight. Packers hosting the Eagles. Philly
(08:29):
has won two in a row. They lead the NFC East.
Green Bay needs win to keep pacing the NFC North.
Otherwise it's Detroit and Chicago atop the division. Pistons keep rolling.
Man were they good in the second half. They use
a one to eleven, one O eight win in Philly
to notch their sixth straight win. Cay Cunningham took over
(08:50):
in the second half. He was terrible in the first half,
one for nine, two points, looked out a sink, look disengaged.
Score twenty four of his twenty six in the second half,
including that poster dunk over Andre Drummond. But Jalen Duran
continues to really impress. I mean, he is gaining more
and more momentum as an offensive player. And can I say,
(09:12):
as a leader, did you see him chewing out Assar
Thompson off a defensive miss. Asar Thompson is the one
who's supposed to kire the most about defense and yet
Jalen Duran was the one in his grill and it
was all good. I mean, they shook hands on the bench,
it was great. But Duran had twenty one points and
sixteen boards. When are we going to start talking more
(09:36):
about him? Seriously? We talked about Kay Cunningham, and for
good reason. He's one of the best guards, one of
the best players in the world. Jalen Duran is really
coming to his own and fitting nicely. Detroyed off to
their best ten game start since five oh six. They
were down by as many as thirteen folks. Cunningham had
(09:57):
seventeen to the third to get him back into it.
Day started tough. Red Wings lose their third in a row,
Fallbell Blackhawks five to one. Nate Danielson up, healthy scratch,
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What does Todd McClelland care about some of these guys.
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Speaker 8 (11:58):
And you know, it was just let's try something a
little different, right, you know. And and uh, look, I
know if I know what I want to do, I
know how I want to do it. Now that being said,
this is a collaborative effort. Now, I mean I was taking,
you know, input from John Morton that whole time and
the other coaches, So, hey, man, what do you think here?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Third down?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
All right?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We get into this third and seven.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Plug bla blah blah blah blah, all right where we
give me to So this is uh man, this is
this is all encompassing. You know, we all work together.
Coaches did a hell of a job, but I just
wanted to change it up a little bit. You know,
let's just see if, if you know, maybe a different
play caller can can you know, maybe get.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Us a little rhythm. That's all. And it honestly is
nothing more than that.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
He makes it sound so simple, doesn't he. I give
him a ton of credit. This is also protecting John Morton. Yeah,
that's what I mean. He he's so he's such a
good leader. He really is.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
He doesn't take it upon himself and say, yeah, I'm
the difference here. This is Dan Campbell at his best.
It really is not because this team, you know, had
five hundred and forty six total yards of offense. It's
not because you know, before they had been struggling on
third down. Their third down conversion percentage was thirty six
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percent against Washington, they were five and ten five four
ten and if you think about it, two of those
they then went forward on fourth down and converted. Let
me fix this real quick and converted. And because of that,
I mean you almost give them a little bit of
pass on those two. It wasn't because Detroit ran sixty
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eight plays. It wasn't because Jared Goff threw for three
twenty and three touchdowns. Well, Marcus Mariotto was limited to
two hundred and thirteen yards. It wasn't because Jamiir Gibbs
was I mean just spectacular, it really was. The offensive
line was awesome, but Gibbs ended up rushing for one
hundred and forty two yards, nine and a half yard average,
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touchdown runs of forty three and thirteen, a fourteen yard
touchdown catch all those those are all great numbers and
makes you turn your head and say, wow, that's really bad.
He looked so comfortable as the play caller, and the team,
to his point, had a rhythm. Did you notice how
many times they exposed Washington up the middle, very similar
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to what Minnesota did to Detroit a week ago. The
Lions did that. One of the biggest problems the Lions
have had this season. I mentioned third downs. That's easy
to recognize when you rank twenty third in the league
in that category going into the game against Washington, that's
an obvious one. But the thing we have to remember
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is there first and second downs. Why are they getting
in those third down situations? Why are they having issues
with third down and long Why are they in those
positions in the first place.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And what they did better.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Than they've done in a long time is prevent that
they ended up because of their first and second down situations.
They ended up in a more comfortable third down situation,
and I think that's important to note. And Dan Campbell
was so good protecting Like Trent said, protecting John Morton
(15:19):
was key and making sure that everybody knows that John
Morton was still an important part of this offense. In
case you missed it, Dan Campbell after the lost to
Minnesota spoke with John Morton private conversation and you noticed
(15:41):
that didn't come out during the week, and that was listen,
we're gonna mix it up a little bit. It's still
important for an offensive coordinator to stay involved. How much
I don't know, and that's something I'm going to find
out for Mitch Lyons. Mitch Lions will join us Mondays
with Mitch at sevent eighteen. He'll give us an idea
of that. When you take the play calling away from
(16:02):
an offensive corner, he just doesn't sit in the booth
with his headset on and not do anything. He's still
involved in the offense. He's still involved in giving you options, tendencies.
The communication still has to be there. Okay, So let's
not think that because of Dan Campbell taking over the
play calling duties that John Morton didn't earn his job,
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didn't earn his paycheck. Absolutely he did. But let's look
at this real quick Detroit on the first drive. All right,
I don't need to go over every single play, but
what do they do. They get eight yards on their
first down run, then they get three yards on a
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second down and two Suddenly it's a first down, so
you don't face a third down right away. Eventually, when
you do get to a third down because there was
an incomplete pass there, it's third and six. Now I
know that's not third and two or third and three.
Something simple that could keep things open. You're more likely
going to pass, but it's much more manageable. And that's
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where Jared Goff connected with Jamison Williams all right, And
a little bit later, they had one third down on
that first drive and it was third down and six.
You know, that's third down in medium. That's not necessarily
third down and long, all right, not compared to what
they've they've had to deal with in the past. So
(17:29):
that's a huge plus for this team. On the second drive,
they had a third down and seven, not once, but twice,
And the second time was when they connected on the
nine yard touchdown pass Golf to Aman Ross saying Brown,
all right, so is it third down and long? Yeah,
I think I think seven yards. It's beyond the medium party,
(17:53):
I'd say yeah, I would say yes, okay. On the
third drive, there's a third and two. They actually experienced
a penalty a little bit later on. That's the only
third down they experienced. It was third down and two.
Those are the types of situations. I'm not going to
go every single drive, but you get my point. Those
are the types of situations that this team was used
(18:15):
to putting itself in in the past when the offense
was home on a long this time in this game,
they experienced the same thing against Minnesota. It's way too
often where it was third down and long over and
over and over again, and I would say third down
a long, third and six trends probably that's on the
fringe rate. Third and seven, I would call that third
and long.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yes.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
And against Minnesota there was so much pressure up the
middle constantly. Yeah, where and we all know that Jared Goff.
This is not a knock on him, but he's not
great when there's pressure up the middle. Yeah, not many
quarterbacks are exactly There's only like three guys that would
do better.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Yeah, that's where that's where everybody gets into the whole
running quarterback.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
And they overreaterback. And I get it. I get it.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But I oftentimes would tell people, Okay, would you want
Matthew Stafford this year? Four touchdowns, two picks. He's probably
the front runner for MVP. He's not one of those
guys either, So I think you're right about that. I
got to give Coyote Awaseka a lot of credit. He
did a great job. Tristan Cologne did a really good
(19:23):
job when he filled in for Graham Glasgow, and Graham
Glasgow did a really good job.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think it's really.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Important during the loss, not Trent or me specifically, but
during the loss, we noticed what Trent just said pressure
up the metal, and we immediately say the offensive line
did a shit credit job, almost went there, credit job,
And they did do it, and they.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Did do a credit job.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
But if we're going to take dead aim at those
guys when they struggle, we should they did. We also
need to recognize it's not just Jimi or Gibbs, it's
not just Jared Goff, it's not just Jamison Williams, Sam
Laporter early on.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It's that offensive line too.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
And we have to give the credit where the credits due,
and we have to hold them accountable when they don't perform.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And we've done a good job of that, yes.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
But I want people to notice that because the offensive line.
I noticed this all the time in college football. If
you I'm sure you do too, you're watching the game. Well,
there's a penalty, and then immediately they go to the
offensive lineman because he was holding, because it was illegal motion,
because his hands to the face whatever. Immediately they'll point
(20:37):
that out. But those guys when things go well, it's
always hey, look at how great this back is. Yeah,
look at look at how good the quarterback did it.
Look at how well he recognized certain situations. You've got
to have time those guys. And we were crying for
offensive lineman at the trade deadline and this does not
(20:59):
this doesn't fit it per se. Okay, but we were
asking for offensive linemen at the trade deadline and the
Lions get mocked for this, but say, in so many words,
we're good and at least for this day, at least
for this game against Washington, they were. Kudos to those
(21:19):
guys for stepping forward and doing what they need to do.
Our phone number on the Meyer hotline is eight sixty
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can challenge some of these teams in football. We'll get
(21:41):
to that because it was a really interesting day yesterday
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Speaker 10 (22:44):
Oh my think you know, spreading around and let everybody
get going.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
You know, that's what we did.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
You see we got forty four points. It's one of
the highest we had this season, I think our second highest,
and I think it was just the main thing was
just getting out there and getting our guys going. We
had a tip on our short from life. Sure, we
just used it as an event. So I said, goat
there and go extra hard on him. Boys today.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That's good stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
That's Jameson Williams on the field after the game. I
think that's courtesy at Detroit Lions dot Com. So I
want to give them reddit. Yeah, yeah, thank you for that.
So James and Williams. You know, I've been really impressed
with him. I know how I felt about him. Originally
I thought there was some lack of maturity. I think
(23:32):
he has grown into a pretty good pro. Love the
fact that he blocks downfield. Obviously his speed is incredible.
But what I like most about him is when he
had a chance to complain, he didn't. What he said was, look,
we're spreading the ball around, We're winning. That's all that
really matters to me. Yesterday was, to a certain extent,
(23:56):
his day, right, I mean, six rocks, one hundred and nineteen.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yard the year for him, do you think so? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
From a production standpoint, you're saying, yep, yeah, So this
is what This isn't a perfect world, folks, but this
is what a really good offense can look like. When
you get targets to Jamison Williams, who had the most targets,
the idea.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I'm on Rosame Brown he had That's yeah, that's a
safe bet.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
So he had eight, Williams had seven, Laporta had five.
Do you need any more? Well, Gibbs, of course, out
of the backfield. Montgomery sometimes out of the backfield, where
the hell is Isaac Teslaw one catch, eleven yards, one target. Okay,
I'm not gonna I'm not going to go into that
rabbit hole again. I've already I already did that last week.
(24:48):
I'm going to continue to wonder why the hell a
third round pick and that much capital is traded for
and he gets one target and Khalif Raymond's getting four.
Frayman is doing a good job blocking too, I might add.
So while we're watching the football go down field, watch
what some of these guys are doing when the ball's
not coming their way or after somebody else is making
(25:10):
a catch. Are they doing a justin Jefferson finger up
the noses situation where he's just watching somebody run away
from or is he given all out effort Khalif Raeman's
doing that? It really is. That tells you something about teams.
When things are going wrong. The easy thing to do
is tuck tail and hide flounder. It's hard to stay
(25:31):
after it and say what you want about certain coaches
this team has had in the past. I know Rod
Marinelli owns sixteen. If you watched those games, those players,
they weren't very good. The players weren't good, but they worked.
They got after it. There was a pride factor involved.
They still tried hard. And I know you don't get
(25:53):
anything for trying. I get that. But it is contagious,
and so is the lack thereof I want you to
think about it for a minute. If you're around somebody
who's got a negative attitude, or you're around somebody who
does not care, doesn't have the same goals with you
as a company does. Do you want them there any longer?
(26:13):
Do you want to be around them? No, everybody has
bad days. I get that. I'm talking about consistently. So
you are working toward a common goal. You thought that
person doesn't do anything. When you were in school, did
you have a partner for a lab experiment or an
art project or something? Hey, you two work together? You
(26:35):
know your deskmates. You guys are going to work together
if you put all the work in. Do you want
that desk mate again?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Well?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
No, okay, I don't care how good looking she is.
It doesn't matter to you. If you got to do
all the work, it's not going to matter. So you
want guys working with one another. Something Jamison Williams has
done He's done a really good job with that, and
I give him full marks for it. I also give
the Lions in general full marks because look, they didn't panic,
(27:02):
they didn't start pointing fingers. We read into it, we did.
We didn't like the body language, we didn't like the
awkward answers given by aman Ross and Brown. By Dan Campbell,
by John Morton. Do you remember the SoundBite we played
last week Thursday, it was Thursday or Friday, John Morton
(27:25):
where he was talking about the offensive line, and we're
talking about accountability, that the plays are there, we're just
not executing, and so on and so forth, all the
things you and I say that is okay to talk about,
But when the guy who's in charge of the offense
talks about it, everyone's like, oh, oh my god, I
can't believe he just said.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That out loud.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Why what the hell's wrong with that. He's not throwing
any one particular player under the bus. He's saying, look,
the plays are there, they're going to work. We've got
to execute. You've got to get protection, no blanks, Sherlock.
Why was that such a bad thing? So it's about
so we tried to read as much as we possibly
(28:04):
could into it. You saw the headlines, didn't you. You
read the articles. I know you did. It was all
about this is a bad luck. Uh oh are they fracturing?
We were looking for cracks in the wall. Then we
get inspected, an inspection into the house, and we look
(28:24):
at what happened on watching on Sunday in Washington and
we're like, maybe it's not quite so bad.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Now.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
You got to, you know, piece more and more of
those together. But this is what I mean about our
Mitch Lions wealth poll question. Do you think they're fixed?
People are gonna say no, And I know they are
because they look at Washington as a less than team
first and foremost and not at full strength, which is
(28:53):
ironic because the Lions aren't at full strength.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I suppose we can't look at Detroit playing with Thomas
Harper in the backfield or Avonte Maddox or Arthur Mullett.
Can't do that? Can we rock your scene? Oh you
didn't see a Kirby Joseph. You didn't see a DJ
read Terry and Arnold left with a concussion.
Speaker 11 (29:18):
Well even the whole line you talked about Awa Sika, Yeah,
and Cologne. Yeah, Cologne for even if it was a
short period of time. Did you notice when Christian Cologne
came in for the injured Graham Glasgow. Did you notice
what happened? Did you take note of that.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I'm not asking you specifically, trying I'm talking to people
in general.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, you mean getting a push.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
No, they ran right behind him, They went right up
the middle. Yeah, that's that's awesome. They didn't. They weren't
scared of it. Oh and by the way, Pennay Sewel
also left for a period of time. He went into
the blue tent, did he not?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Right now? Was early on too, well? Still early on?
They still scored on the drive.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Yes, I mean I bring that up because it's like
they could have had trouble setting the tone with him
out early right.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Dan Snydre comes in, Dan Skipper comes in, the guy
who was on the practice squad earlier this year. And
I'll call myself out here. I want an offensive lineman
at the trade deadline. This does not prove me wrong.
But and I said this at the time when they
didn't make any moves and I was kicking rocks, and
(30:27):
I'm like, oh my god, you just got a practice
player from the New England Patriots. Please, No, you know
what it was. They know their personnel, maybe they felt
really comfortable. They better be right. I said that too,
But I'm willing to say I don't know how good
Dan Skipper has been. I don't know how good Coyote
Always Seka has been. I don't know how good Tristan
(30:50):
Cologne can be. You know who does Hank Freyley, John Morton,
Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes. Again, they better be right,
because that's their job. It's not my job. My job
is not to know the ins and the outs of
how good Detroit's too deep is okay? However, when those
(31:14):
guys get in there and make place and that offense
does not skip a beat. What oftentimes happens is when
you get a replacement in anything, you're a little tentative.
Don't you think It's like we got a new right
tackle in I'm going to run to the left side.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
Yeah, and that's not necessarily a bad thing either, It's
not an uncommon thing.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah. I don't know if it's good, bad, or indifferent.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
I suppose it's It all depends on the results, right,
But what I noticed is Cologne comes in and Detroit goes,
screw it, man, this is what our script is. We're
gonna We're going to attack Washington's middle of their defense.
We're gonna kick them right in the ass. This is
what we're doing. And I don't care if. I don't
care if it's Graham Glasgow, I don't care. If it's
(31:59):
Tate Ratledge, I don't don't care if it's Coyote Awaska,
I don't care if it's Tristan Cologne. Who's ever up there.
That's what we're gonna do. You know the assignment, you
know the job, you know our game plan. You better
be ready. So let's see. You want to play, here
we go. That's what they do. I thought it was awesome.
I loved it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Now.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
I loved it because it worked. But my point is,
I love the mindset Dan Campbell. I'm glad Jamison Williams.
That was a really good SoundBite to play. Dan Campbell
is so much more. We've said this on a pretty
regular basis, but he is so much more than a big,
you know, guttural sounding ex football player. He's a really
(32:49):
really smart football coach. There are certain coaches in the
National Football and the history of the National Football League
who are viewed as geniuses.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
I'm not going there yet. Please just don't. Don't drive
off the road and goat. Come on, you're overreacting. I'm
not one of those people who overreacts. I really don't.
Sometimes I get a little emotional, but I don't overreact.
I'm not saying he is Bill Walsh. I'm not suggesting
he's Don Shula or Tom Landry or Bill Belichick or
(33:25):
Joe Gibbs or anybody like that. Okay, Bill Parcels, any
of the great coaches you've seen. What I'm saying to
you is that he is viewed a certain way. It's
funny guys with glasses we view as you know, brilliant.
I don't know what it is. You know, guys who
just don't want to share a lot with us. Oh
that's a mad scientist, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (33:46):
All right, Oh, George Seffert, he doesn't wear a headset
on the on the sideline. But boy, he's got his
team under control.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
That's he's he's he's.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Got his stuff together, don't we. Dan camb wear's a
T shirt, works out, has a dip in his mouth,
has a low voice and talks like a regular guy.
And we don't think he's a really smart football guy.
Why played the sport, has coached in the sport, has
(34:20):
learned from some good coaches. Why don't we think he's
capable of carrying that over? Not to mention the fact
that he's already proven it to us. Do we think
the Lions are We're only fifteen and two last year
because of Golf and Gibbs and Saint Brown and Williams
and King, Jack Campbell and Penny Sewell and Aiden Hutchinson
(34:41):
and all those guys. Do we think they went twelve
and five the year before and reached the NFC Championship
game despite Dan Campbell. I don't understand why we think that. Oh, well,
because it was Ben Johnson, that's right, And it was Oh,
that's right, it was Aaron Glenn. My fault couldn't be
the guy who hired them, put him in charge and
oversees it all. The head coach is the CEO man.
(35:05):
All these other CEOs of these big companies are raking
in golden parachutes, all these big bonuses because they've hired
people to help them get those bonuses. Dan Campbell's done
something similar. But the problem with football is we don't
always know exactly what a head coach does. And it
(35:27):
might be another good question for Mitch Lions for Monday's
at Mitch tell us, define to us what do head
coaches do on gaming? We see them with their headset on,
we see them talking. But the belief is that the
offensive coordinators calling the plays, unless it's Sean McVay because
he's holding up a big placard and he's talking into
(35:49):
the microphone and he's telling Matt Stafford throw for four
touchdowns and no picks again today, will you thank you?
Or the defensive coordinator because of the emotion and all
these other things. And then we see one have special
teams coordinators without heads that's just in there given fifth
pumps left and right. So people wonder where's the offensive
where's the head coach? How is he involved in these
(36:12):
play calls? He's part of this whole game plan for sure,
And just because he isn't in the running backs room
or the wide receivers room or the offensive line room
doesn't mean that he isn't aware of what is expected
and what the game plan is going to be and
what plays he wants seen. With that said, you could
(36:37):
argue on last week against Minnesota that Dan Campbell was
partly responsible for that too, because if you know the
plays going in there and you disagree with it, why
are you not overruling it? But I digress. Dan Campbell's
a really smart football dude, and it's evident again to
(37:00):
know to have a feel for your team. There's a
feel there from him where he's like, you know, I
think we've got to mix it up. Doesn't mean it's
gonna be this way always, all right, but I think
we need to mix it up. I would say, if
you make this known and it's that successful, if you
go back to what it was before with somebody else
(37:23):
calling the plays, John Morton, you're leaving yourself exposed for
all kinds of criticism. So you can't put that back
in the bottle. This is toothpaste. You're not pushing that
toothpaste back into the tube now, all right, He's got
to keep calling the place, at least against Philadelphia, and
if it goes awry, maybe something else. Maybe you're working
(37:48):
with somebody on play calling. That's not uncommon either, okay,
but it's interesting that there's time and time again we've
seen Dan Campbell in a certain mode, a certain situation,
and we haven't necessarily completely grasped his football brilliance. And
(38:14):
it wasn't just a play calling for me. It was
the timing and how he went about it. Nobody knew
during the week that he was going to be the
play caller. We find out in a television broadcast, and
to a certain extent if you're listening on the radio broadcast,
that Dan Campbell was the play caller. That's that's when
(38:36):
we found out. He didn't come out there and say,
you know what, like a lot of people would in
today's day and age, you know what, I'm making a change,
and I'm going to make sure everybody knows it. It's
going to be me calling those plays on Sunday, and
here's what I've done, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
He didn't do that.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
He let John Morton speak to the media as usual.
He like Kelvin Shepherd, speak to the media is usual.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
None of his players let it out of the bag.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
There were no leaks, tight ship, really good stuff from
Dan Campbell. Thus the forty four twenty two went. I
couldn't help but wonder though he goes forward on fourth
down a couple of times, and what a lot of
people have said publicly and on social media specifically, don't
(39:24):
like the fact that Dan Campbell goes for it so
often on fourth down? You do when he's you noticed
it was fourth and one on one occasion, fourth and
two on the other. Those are the same same people,
you know, I'll be out to dinner with them, like, look,
if you can't get a yard, you don't deserve to
be out there on the football field. Okay, but if
it was a little bit further I think it was
(39:45):
fourth and four, he said, you know, let's kick the
field goal, and they did just that. Really impressed with
the with how the Lions went about their business in general.
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