Detroit Lions on SUPER BOWL PACE at the break!? | The Braylon Edwards Show with Matt Shepard

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Things like that. Everybody assumed and he was just going
to be a comedian or he's going to be staying
in that realm, and he really branched out and has
done a really good job in a lot of different roles.
So I respect guys like that who can really take
it to a different level, even though I may not
always like him in that movie. And that's okay too.
Just sometimes the best conversations take place when the microphones

(00:23):
aren't on. And actually that was a great conversation because
we didn't expect it. But you had mentioned when we
went to break about trap games, and I don't know
if this is exactly what you mean, but we were
trying to figure out who's the best team in college football.
I think Alabama's. In the discussion, you said Texas A
and M. And then Texas A and M is playing

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in Bapton Rouge, Louisiana this weekend. What's to find a
trap game for me? In your mind?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
A track game is when a trap game is when
you play opponent that is less than you're clearly better than,
right before you play a team that matters, And so
what happens in those games is the focus on the
next game, whether it's the head coaches focus, whether it's
the players focus, whether it's the deal. You know, especially
if you're coming off a big win. That's why a

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lot of teams do not schedule that, you know, the
big game, no game, big game. But that's what a
trap game is, when you're playing a team that you
know you should be. Back when I was playing in Michigan,
we would always have a Northwestern or Indiana right before
we would play Ohio State, Like it be a tune
up game, it be a buffer game. It'd be a
chance to work some of the things that we would

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use against Ohio State. I think that's when guys, or
that's when teams lose games, is when you're focusing so
much on the following game, but then you're utilizing the
things that you're gonna do in that game. In the
game against the first team, Like when you're not paying
attention to what that team is, you're not breaking their
film down, you're not coming up with plays and schemes

(01:57):
to be successful against that team. I'm worried about that
following game. That's the trap game.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, Texas A and and plays at LSU, and then
next week they play at Missouri if they want to
be part of that college football playoff. This is a
big two week stretch for that, no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's not a trap game for them. However, that would
be a bad loss because LSU, regardless of the record,
is not a good team. Brian Kelly does not have
the ear, he does not have the vibe the feel
of that team. You can see he's clearly on his
way out. Gus Nussmeyer. That offense does not look anything
like we thought it was going to look like before
the season started. Injuries as well. Billy Napier is going

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to be the head coach at LSU next season, so
to know that they have all that going on. If
you go in there and you lose riding the waves
that you finally got to, all the money that's being spent,
all that Texas oil money being put to good use,
you go in here stinking up and lose Brian Kelly,
that will set you back and that loss to turn
into two losses because I guarantee if you lose LSU,

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you'll lose to Missouri as well.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah. I don't dis agree with any of that. The
Billy Napier thing is very interesting when you say that,
because I wonder how you sell that to LSU and
Tiger Nation.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Billy Napier was at Louisiana Monroe Correct and had a
ton of success while he was there. I want to
say his last three seasons he won ten games, eleven games,
and twelve games.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
You're right, twelve.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Knows how to recruit that area, he knows the area,
had players in the area, and I think for them,
they want to keep the elements of LSU football, They
want to keep the elements of the buy you, but
they want to win. They want to win, and I
think he's authentic to that area. Billy, we've been cracking jokes.
In fact, every time I mentioned Brian Kelly, Ryan looks
at me and asking me to do the family if

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you will family. It was unauthentic from start to finish there,
and I think nobody ever jailed, nobody ever vibe. I
think you get Louisiana like, no one's going to have successful. Well,
Florida hasn't had success since you know who left, So
sometimes you gotta leave programs and just it's just it's
too much to get jump started. I think he's got

(04:03):
boots on ground already. I think he understands the layer
of the land, and he's authentic, and I think that
will be a breath of fresh air. Sometimes when you
go so far left, you have to come back home.
And I think for LSU, bringing an individual that knows
that space, it could be a good move.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
That's interesting because I wouldn't have thought that. I think that, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Think, who hasn't here's the thing, who hasn't snuck it
up in Florida since Irvin Mayer.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
No, I'm not going to disagree with that. I just
think it's a hard If I'm the athletic director, I've
got to sell my fan base and more importantly, my
donors on Billy Napier. And when he comes to the
podium and says I once went eight and five with LSU.
Everything else was under five hundred, and I got fired
at three and four coming off of victory. That's a

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tough thing to sell when you're going into another SEC school,
that's all. And at LSU, whether we believe it or not,
they feel like they should be in the mix for
an SEC title every year and they need they should, okay,
and they and they need a coach who can get
them there and Billy Napier didn't do it at Florida,

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why in the world would he do it at LSU.
In other words, if he's a if he's a Louisiana
guy and that's his recruiting base, how come he wasn't
recruiting the best in Louisiana to Florida. If he was,
how come he wasn't getting the most out.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Of the Louisiana has one of the best hodgepodge areas
of talent in his country, especially when you look at
the Lead, the Uh, the Bad, and Ruge Slash Free
Sports Slash New Orleans. That area alone produces some of
the best athletes till still to this day, even in
the NFL. Mind you, three of the four five, five
of the best wide receivers in lead right now all
from this same area in Louisiana. A lot of these

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guys like to stay in Louisiana. Lot of guys like
to go to LSU. A lot of the guys aren't
trying to take chances and go to Florida with a
guy that they don't know. They knew him in Louisiana,
but they didn't know him at Florida. They didn't know
what he was capable of what he was going to
be able to do. So trying to get kids to
come to a new jump started Gainesville is a little
bit harder than trying to get kids to come to

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a school they already want to go to. Their parents
have access to the game, their family has access to
the game, their boys, their friends, they can all drive
up to the game. I think it'd be a little
bit easier for him to recruit.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I love that good, good thoughts. I appreciate that at
the beginning of the year we brought up I would
say a half dozen things about the Detroit Lions. Okay,
and I know you said we're going to revisit this.
This is I think you said this after the last
preseason game. We're going to revisit this at the bye week.
We're at the bye week, so let's revisit some of

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those things about the Lions and what people were saying,
not necessarily us, but what people were saying and how
we responded to it. So let's won't we take it
through a few ideas here of what the big knock
on was the Lions. First and four almost.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're ready, this is Detroit Lions at the bie week.
This is what I believe about them. This is who
they are going into the season. We talked about it
six weeks, first six weeks of the season. The teams
you play, the spaces you're gonna be in the type
of talent that was on those teams that was gonna
say a lot about this Detroit Lions team. So here
we are after six. The first thing everybody remembers what

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the first team people talked about this year. How about
the coordinators now going into the season. No Ben Johnson,
No Aaron Glenn. What is it gonna look like? Will
Ben Johnson be excuse me? Will Johnny Moe be able
to get this offense going? Will Kelvin Sheppard be able
to be the air apparent? Here's how the offense is
stacked up this season currently. Right now, the offensive line

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and we'll get into that because they are on here
as well. Offensive line is third in the ranking right now.
That offensive line third in the NFL. Right now, The
total EPA right now, Detroit Lions are seventh, and total
EPA expected point in a temph or something like that.
It really gets that. Yeah, I'll be chuving how to
break it down a little bit better. Total touchdowns on offense.
Guess what third in the NFL. Passing yards per game,

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first in the NFL. Jared Goff passing touchdowns, he's third
in the league. I int he's thirty first. Do the
math on that. Second, fewest interceptions this season, yards a game,
I mean yards on the season, he's ninth. I'm on
a round. Saint Brown five thirty eight, he's fifth. Seven
touchdowns he's first, and then fifty catches he's third. What
what the offense look like? Will the stars still be

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able to align? Jamior Gibbs saw that two days ago,
saw that two days ago. Five hundred twenty six yards
paces him fifth, sixth and six touchdowns makes him third
and five point one yards of carry. I mean when
you run four three like that, it helps five point
one yards per carry. That's what offense is right now.
That's what offense is. And they're putting up the most

(08:50):
points in the NFL per second most behind the coach
Indianapolis coach, the first in the league. This is what
the offense was. This is what we wanted to know.
That sounds good to me. That sounds good to me
after six game That sounds like Johnny Moll knows what
he's doing. That sounds like it was the right move
for Jerry Golf to bring in Johnny Moll, to co
sign Johnny Moll because he had that relationship. Everybody seems

(09:11):
like they're eating I'll talk about the offensive line later.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Defensive said one thing. That offensive line. Uh well, I
mean you could be in a lot worse situation. Tampa
allowed thirty pressures on Monday night. That's the most against
any offensive line this year.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's why I said, say say say this back to
the offensive line, because I will bring them in there
by themselves. Yeah, here we go, the defensive coordinators. Where's
that defense? Where's the defense at right now? Points allowed
their eighth in the league total yards, their eighteenth in
the league total defense, their eight their third in sacks
on the season, They're seventeenth in takeaways, and they have

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also held two teams to ten or fewer points. They're
only giving up seventeen point four points a game right now,
which puts them under tow like.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
That stat about ten points or fewer.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, fuer this is what the defense is. This is
what kelvin.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
It isn't.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh, by the way, what did that game look like?
This past Monday, when there was no Brian Brants, when
there was no Kirby Joseph. When you get the point,
this is what the defense done in those six first
six games of the season. That was the question. How
about those coordinators? Now, what would you say about the offense?

Speaker 1 (10:17):
I absolutely, I think they've done a fantastic job. What
Kelvin Shepard did Monday night puts him on other teams
head coaching radars. What I truly believe that?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Please repeat? What did excuse me? What did Troy Aikman say?

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Troy Aikman said, it's one of the best defensive efforts
he's ever seen, one of the most impressive defensive efforts
he's ever seen it.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
No, no, he didn't. I didn't want the world to
hear that.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, God forbid.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
He didn't say games, but he said efforts, and that
tells you something. To your point, the Lions are number
one in the league in fumble recoveries. They are number
two in past defended. You mentioned the sacks and number
six in interceptions. I'm sorry, it's you gotta have talent,
you know how I feel about that. But the dude

(11:04):
with the glasses and the headset on in the back
wall here, Kelvin Sheppard has been unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Also, you have to set your best players up to
be the best players. You look at what Johnny will
has done. I'm Ron Saint Brown, We're talking about him
being the best player in the NFL through the first
four weeks and season. You look at what Sue has
done yet again thanks to Hank Friendly appreciates you right there,
big a guy for my teammate of mine. What he's
doing with Jared Goff. Can Jared Goff be that without
Ben Johnson? So one under he's done it. On the opposite

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side of theball, Jack Campbell is taking amazing stride. He's
taking his stride to a different place you talked about
and being one of the best linebackers in the league
in his position, maybe even more so. Uh coordinators, I think.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Just add At first, I wanted to disrupt Chef telling
the world about how great you know the.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Other chef is. You know chefter shef left.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
But he's the real chef.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Starting to realize this, Dang Campbell in Brad Holmes, they
have a very very special skill set and identifying who's
going to be great for their staff and I'm glad
that they know not how to pivot quickly when they
have to. But what we're seeing right now, it ultimately
gives me that much more confidence than Dan Campbell as
a headman, and the fact that he picked two guys
in Johnny mo and Calvin Sheppard who have not just
gotten a job done. Did you see these guys doing

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things that not a lot of people in the national
landscape thought that they were gonna be cap.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Who wouldn't want to play for those guys?

Speaker 5 (12:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (12:25):
In all, honestly, I mean Braylan brought it up yesterday.
When you got guys who are okay, maybe somebody gets cut,
maybe somebody moves on, Why wouldn't you want to play
for these guys knowing that you're they're going to put
you in the position for success On top of the defense.
We talked a little bit about Aiden Hutchinson and how
he's got to jump off the page at you, and
I agreed with you, And then I went back and
I looked at some numbers. In total pressures generated, he's

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number one in the National Football League with forty eight. Okay,
in quarterback hurries, he's number one in the National Football
League with thirty three strip sacks, he's number one in
the National Football League. Enforced fumbles he's number one in
the National Football League, and in sacks overall, he's fourth

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in the National Football League. That's crazy, Yeah, those are
those are big numbers.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yes, yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
And the craziest part of it is is it feels
like midway through the game, I feel like I haven't
seen Hutchinson even in the game, and then all of
a sudden, it just all comes at once and he
makes big plays.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, I'm glad you guys are doing my job for
me and making my points. Kool A put number two
up there for me. If you mind the second conversation
people want to talk about will Liam and Aiden be
the same?

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right?

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Will Liam and Aiden.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Be the same? I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
That was a great Situay.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
He told you all you need to know about eight
and huncheson and soda. Rander's one thing that I would
like to add. When someone comes off with injury, you're
nervous about the snap count. You're nervous on what's gonna
look like. You're nervous on how many times are're gonna
be in there, How long is it going to take
him to get back to fully active shep at his position.
He has played the second most snaps in the NFL.
Really the starting rushings. He's played the second most snaps

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in the NFL. When I tell you, it doesn't matter
who he's behind his second coming off injury. At the
end of the day, the boy is back the boys
doing his thing. And like you said, round, there are
moments in which it flashes on one or two players
a little bit more than if it was four or
five consistent players because of how it looks. You're absolutely correct,

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the big fellas doing his thing. Speaking of big fellas,
Alee McNeil, we have a one game sample size. We
have a one game sample size. And when he came back,
and boy did the guys around him eat because of it,
the linebackers, Jack Campbell, the linebackers led the way with tackles.
This stems from the big fellow up front. Also, Baker
Mayfield has been on MVP pace yep, correct this whole season.

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MVP Baker, MVP this, he can make the throw, he
can do that. Baker looked the rest distressed the whole game.
He was under the rest because the big fellow was back.
So I think your two guys that you were worried
about most coming back after major injuries, check and check.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I would say Allen McNeil. I've always liked him and
I've always thought highly of him. He's better than I
think he gets credit for because dts oftentimes because they
take up space and because they take on blockers and
then the linebackers are there to clean some stuff up.
He's such an impactful player. When I think of defensive

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tackles in the National Football League, who are some of
the names that come to mind? His name's gotta be
frought and center, because not just because he's from Detroit,
but because he's a disruptive force. It's awesome to watch.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Dtackles typically don't get the love they deserve until their
team wins, and wins at a heavy clip. Aaron Donald,
for as good as he was, you didn't know about
him unless you were in the sport until they got
to the Super Bowl and loss, and then they got
back to the Super Bowl and won, and all the
defensive MP's in the row. For Chris Jones, as good
as Chris Jones is, he didn't hear about him until
he started winning Super Bowls and then gone to the

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AFC or the Super Bowl each year for the last eight.
That's how it is. Lee mcnil is just as good
as Chris Jones was when he blew I ain't good.
I'm not going that far. It's the other one. However,
what happens is he's on his client, he gets hurt.
Last year. Last year would have been the year that
he would have shown how good he was. I told you,
I will go back to this the Indianapolis Coast game

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last year when he was dump trucking Quentin Nelson, who's
one of the best in the game and has been
for a while. He made it look easy. I took
note of how good he was. So the big fellas
they're back, and they looked like they could be better
than ever.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
It also matters whether we like it or not where
you're drafted. He's a third round pick out of NC State.
Jalen Carter gets all kinds of love. He was a
first round pick out of Georgia. This guy is as
much a disruptive force as Jalen Carter is.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's a cap because Jalen Carter's been to the Super
Bowl and won, and it looked a certain way.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Don't do that I'm going to do that. That's exactly
what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's disrespectful that Lee McNeil hasn't done enough to warrant that.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
I'm just talking about from a disruptive force and from
what he does for this team. I think he's that good.
I do, And I don't want to be hyperbolic you're today,
but I've said it about him for a long time.
And then the wrap up on the tag team guy
you were talking about.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'll say, you know good, So have you said about
that long man? What do you mean you just say
you just found out he was that good. You don't
realize that.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
No, I recognize how much better he really is than
I was giving him credit for. Okay, And I think
we get caught up in where people are drafted and
I understand that. Okay, I'm not saying Jayalen Carter is
not a good player. I think he's a hell of
a player. It's unbelievable, and he's a key to their success,
no doubt. But I think he's just as important to

(17:41):
Detroit success. I just think DT's especially him, don't get
enough love cap on this guy that you were talking about.
Twelve players in the National Football League right now have
thirty pressures or more. Twelve. I think there's six who
have thirty five or more. Aiden Hutchinson has thirty or
forty eight, and Jared Verse has thirty eight next closest

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to him. And you and I both love Jared Verse.
We think he's a phenomenal player. Second year pro out
of out of Florida State.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Right I start watching all these hurrys and see see
what the count is. Make sure it's accurate, because they've
been doing this even the league. Forty eight herries I see.
I see Jared Verse on every play. Yeah, and it's
no knock to Aden, but every time they showed the rams,
he is the name that they're mentioning. It is Verse,
Verse on the tackle, Verse on the stop, Verse on

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the said Verse said recovering.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Hey, listen, I feel you. I mean I do. I
think there's sometimes it depends on the website you're looking at.
I can be you know, misled a little bit by
Pro Football Focus or some of the others. I take
something fair enough, all right, all right, keep it rolling.
What's number three?

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Three? This was another big question going into the season.
How will the Lions fare through the first six. I
think we already talked about that more so than anything.
Here's the first six Lions four and two. We talked
about it going through this schedule before the season started.
They had to play the Chiefs. They had to play
the Baltimore Ravens, they had to play the Chicago Bears,

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they had to play the Green Bay Packers to open
up the season and get it going, had to play
the Cincinnati Bengals. We're expecting Joe Burrow. At the end
of the day, you play who's in front of you.
After six games, they're foreign two. You hurt the offensive statistics,
you hurt the defense of statistics. You can throw out
the first game of the season. I give it a watch.
I don't even count it out of side, out of mind.
When you don't play in the preseason, this is what happens.

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Look at that team now, the Detroit Lions will beat
the Green Bay Packers by at least double digit points.
Right now, in my mind, I watched that game, the
Chiefs game. You lost, and we can talk about the
semantics civil what happened with Jared Goff and what happened
after that. You lost. You didn't necessarily play that good
in Your Stars, Aden Hudchson lined up all sides, Ama
Rossy Brown doesn't drop anything. Well, he dropped the first
down on that one that would have been big. So

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you lost that game. Looking at through that lens, you're
foreign two and you're getting better and be the team
going into your buy that is going to be a
thorn on your side potentially at the end of the year.
Has been a thorn on your side up to this
point in the last three years. I think they are
on pace. They are on part they have actually probably
they've probably exceeded where I thought they would be. Now

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I had them going five and one after six. I
had them only losing to Baltimore in my original But
even with that, I can witness I like what the
Lions are doing, some things that I want to see.
But they got ten games left. That's what people got
to pay attention to.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Getting healthy.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
They have ten games left. They're getting people healthy. They're
going to be a much better version of themselves when
you get to the Thanksgiving game.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
How much better? What people will ask, how much better?

Speaker 2 (20:41):
A lot better? Because the thing that you saw on
defense from them, I think you'll start to see that.
Even when the starters get back that discipline to detail,
that attention to detail, if you will. At Lee McNeil
is back, like, that's gonna look different when you get
Brian Branch back, when you get Kirby Joseph back, that
looks a lot different. And then on offense, Tate Ridley
is getting better and better.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
It seems better and better.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
By the week. Yeah, and I also think Taylor Decker
hopefully can get more.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Healthy when you bring up the defense, just real quick,
because I don't want to get two into the weeds
on this. But when you bring up the defense and
Alien McNeil is in there, and however many snaps I
forget how many snaps he played. You said about fifteen
or sixteen is what you would expect. I'll have to
look that up. But knowing that those guys rotate, you're
playing two dts, Okay, how much better is that going
to mean for Lopez, for Reader, for Williams and for McNeil.

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If you're rotating those four guys, you've got better, bigger
bodies in there in the rotation. That's got to help
them to stay fresh, right, you would think better production
from them.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
No, Well, you just answer the question it's keeping them fresh.
You're talking about somebody as disruptive as a Lea man'neil,
and especially in the hands up space as Lee Williams
has been this year. DJ Reader has just been really
steady for the Lions. I think he doesn't get enough
credit for the steadiness that he's provided since the time
he's gotten here. He's been very steady. Having fresh guys,
guys that get tired the fastest, no surprise at the

(22:03):
defensive lineman like those are the guys who get tired
the fastest. To have four guys like that that can rotate,
especially a three that you know they can be dare
I say dominant all three? That's good to have because
that's gonna free up eight and Hutchinson for a lot
of one on ones. He's gonna catch people sideways on
the opposite side, Muhammad. But then also it helps out
Jack Campbell in the linebacker court. Derek Barnes and Jack

(22:24):
Campbell can be so much better with Baby Thor as well,
Alex Azeloni when you have the big guys up front.
So he allows that freshness to happen by.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Being How surprised would you be if I told you
that based on Pro Football Reference, different website. Okay, Aleen
McNeil played forty four snaps on defense Monday night and
one on special teams, so forty five total snaps. That
stunned me.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
So yes, it stunned me as well. But what it
says is, remember the question I asked, I said, how
far along is he? I said, is this? He could
have played three four weeks and they did the process right,
and they're presenting this like it's all hands on deck
or is it true? All hands on deck? And now
what we see based on those numbers, he could have
played three weeks ago. Yeah, and they saved them because

(23:11):
of the Browns. Don't need you because of the Bengals,
don't need you play against the Chiefs. Thought we might
have had one. Now we'll play you against Tampa when
you're already ready to play. So kudos to doctor Lynch
who's also my doctor, and that mad team over there,
Henry Ford, also the training staff.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Maybe some magic dust going on with the Lions on
a pretty regular basis where Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes
are like, you know what, we're gonna save them and
we'll see what we can do, and boom they get by.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
If there was a franchise that deserved magic this, it
would be the Detroit Lions. Like even last year what
you did too, It's like you bought us at fifteen
and two, but you injured the whole damn defense and
then David Montgomery. So true, they can use it. It
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Speaker 1 (31:12):
Hey, we back, but by the way, I mean we're
gonna get back in the lines. Did you watch did
you see how how good Sagoon was last night? For
Houston Get thirty nine and eleven thirty nine, eleven and seven.
I mean, dude's pretty good, man, pretty damn good. But
so is Jay Gildis Alexander who like a lot. Did
you see their rings? The rings they were presented with.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
But like I mean, at the end of the day,
it gets to a point where nothing can surprise me.
I was gonna ask you, especially I would be hating
if I said that. But once who was it? Once
it opened it up and it was like the stadium
was in the ring.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Dude, honestly, god, it's it's like the It's like the
size of a little home. Your your finger.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
The fingers heavy. Yes, within the next five years.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
It's like every team's gotta outdo the other team, no
matter the sport. It was nauseating how big they are.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I felt like with the rings, it's you should be
able to outdo only yourself. So if you're putting the
stadium in there, it would be ring like four. It
can't be like your first ring. You're just out doing
a team that might have been better than you put
the h You.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Say that because I want to say it may have
been the Patriots. Oh no, it was chiefs Oh the
opened up on the stadium and did you.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
But in all honesty, instead of looking like a bumper hitch,
wouldn't you like a ring that you could actually wear?
And I'm not saying it should be the nineteen eighty
four ring from the Tigers, which looks like a high
school ring. It does. It literally looks like somebody's high
school ring from back in the day. It's awful and
no offense to them. Like if I were the Tigers,

(32:55):
I'd redo all of them. They deserve something better than that.
But the ring is that ok s got last night
were you know, they're like a shoe. You can't wear
that out in public.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
And you don't. They don't wear my in public. They
put him in a case and keep them on displayed.
It's also their first one.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
That the franchise. You know who it was. I know
it's the Eagles. The Eagles are the one where opened
up because it was their first one. That's what it was,
their first one. One they won when.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Folds, when Foles won it. Okay, you're not talking about
last year.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Okay, I'm talking about seventeen.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Look, my son works for Michigan Football. They won a
national championship, as you know, and so he got a ring,
but he also got a ring for the semi finals
for the Big ten Championship and winning the Big Ten.
He's got he got literally a box with four rings
in it. He can't wear any of those. They're massive.
It's pretty cool, but it's still all it is is, Hey,

(33:58):
here's my rings. Check it out now.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
It's unfortunately, because you're already even though I don't agree
with this, understand you're already a jackass if you wear
a super Bowl ring or championship ring, like why is
he wearing that ring? If you wear one of those rings,
you're definitely a piece of work.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Or or just put them on your hand to take
a picture of it every once in a while, and
you can put that on and then wear the T
shirt and wear the T shirt and put the picture right.
Let's let's die back into you are a jackass if
you wear what what the hell are they were wearing
that for? I got a Big ten Championship ring once
when I called, when I called games, I made sure
I wore it. I did award it the Big ten Tournament.

(34:36):
I awarded the Nuble tournament. Why not?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
My mom gets mad? I never wear minds. I'm like,
for what I don't need to.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Well, then what are you doing with Is it in
a safety to possible?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
I know I have them, I know I achieved it. Yeah,
I'll bring them out every once in a while. To
be honest, I dropped the ball on this past weekend
with my dad.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
I was just gonna ask you, I should have worn
him there?

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, And I didn't be because I don't think to
wear them. That would have been a good place.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Did your dad and his teammates get one?

Speaker 2 (35:04):
They were theirs?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Good? And my dad's got is that three? Big No? Two?
One two? He's got three Big ten championships?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Which one does he wear more often?

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I don't know, probably nineteen eighty.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay. Let's get back to the Lions discussion prior to
the season. Right after the last exhibition game, Braylan brought
up six topics that he thought would be discussed or
we all recognized were discussed the most, and we wanted
to revisit them at the break. That's what he said
at the bye week, We're going to revisit them. We've
gotten through the first three. We had the coordinators. Will

(35:38):
Ali McNeil and Aiden Hutchinson be back to their old form,
and we had the Lions fair and through six. Let's
get to the other three. Let's see it up there.
What's number four on your list?

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Well, the big man himself and as Dan Campbell, will
he be enough? That was the conversation. This kind of
feeds into number one. The coordinators leave him, But there
was a deeper conversation. Had Dan Campbell's shown you enough
where you believe this guy could lead this team, where
you believed he can actually lead you to the championship,
to actually win the Lombardi Trophy? Is he enough so far?

(36:11):
Has he done enough to make you feel like that?
In my opinion, yes, he had an ugly game in
the beginning of the season against the Green Bay Packers.
They lost the ugly game, and a lot of people
were jumping off the bandwagon. A lot of people had
real questions. We were those that had real questions, not
necessarily jumping off. And what did he do after that? Well,
he proceeds to win three games in a row, proceeds
to keep his team in check, proceeds to with the coordinators.

(36:33):
Of course, looked like a brand of football that we're
very familiar with. However, keeping the same you know, like playfulness,
still keeping the same vibes, but still keeping that same grit,
still keeping that same effort. And then also they lose
one game four to Kansas City Chiefs. Didn't seem like
they were prepared, just mentally some space in that game.

(36:54):
How do you respond. Fifty two regular season games, they
have not lost back to back. That's how he responded,
That's how the Lions responded. That is the head man.
That is his impression. That is his impression. You're tapped
at some point. You have to give Dan Campbell credit.
So looking at him, is he enough? You damn sure? Straight?
And I think he's operating. In fact, I know he's

(37:15):
operating in a space of confidence. He's playing his game,
he's coaching his way. I think the players are buying in.
We're not buying in. They bought in years ago. The
young guys now understand that as well. I think some
of the younger players are starting to play well. So,
just looking at what it looks like from afar, Dan
Campbell's more than enough for his Detroit Lions team because
he makes the smart decisions. And the best thing about

(37:38):
him is he understands I'm not the smartest man in
the room, which makes him one of the smartest men
in the room. You can recognize that it's not you,
and you hire people that can be that version to help.
That's brilliant. So right now he's on pace for NFL
coach a year.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
In my opinion, I agree. He's one of my favorite
quotes from Dan Campbell came at the podium Monday night
and when people were wondering about how are you're going,
how is your team able to respond in adversity, and
his quote was, this is what's expected here. We've got
a special group of coaches and players. They're competitive, they

(38:13):
want to win, and we don't make more of things
than what they need to be. That was written in
The Athletic. Nick Bomgardner wrote a really good article about it.
But that first line, this is what's expected here. And
I thought to myself when I heard that, I said
thank you, literally all aloud, I said, thank you. Can
we hold that standard for other teams? Please? This is
what's expected when we sit there and tell people it's

(38:36):
okay to expect a Super Bowl just because it's foreign
to us, because we've never been there, and like the
Seattle Mariners have never been to a World Series. It's
okay to expect it when you think your team and
coaching staff is good enough. It's okay to expect an
ALCS when you have a fifteen game lead. It's okay
to expect a playoff run when your hockey team hasn't

(38:58):
been there in nine years. And it's okay to expect
your team to be a top five team in the
Eastern Conference when Indiana isn't as good, Boston's not as good,
and you know a team here or there might be
on the fence a little bit. Raise the damn bar
for expectations. Dan Campbell's done it, and he's not afraid
of it. Everybody else seems to be afraid of it,

(39:19):
including fans of other teams in this market.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Shep gonna find a way to get them Tigers in there.
Shep gonna find a way to sneak them Tigers in
the conversation. No, I agree with you want him saying.
What I love about it even more so is when
I'm a Rosson Brown goes on his podcast and what
he says when his brother asked him about the penalty,
What did he say, Man, we ain't lose because of
that penalty? He shut it down cold. You know what,
he shut it down cold because Dan Campbell shut it down.

(39:43):
Dan Campbell didn't allow that to be the reason that
they went off the deep end. He said, man, we
got f't on that play, but we lost this game,
saying Aiden Jared, I can point the guys. So the
fact that he made that the moniker that week, that's
also what the players do. And the players went to
the game and said, look, not two in a row, right,
they were so passed the Kansas City Chiefs game getting

(40:06):
before we were. They were passed it exactly, They were
passed it, and they were on to back to back.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
You are so right. We dwelled on it, not necessarily you,
but I know I did. We dwelled on it on
every single day that ended in why until a new
game came right, and you know what he does. I
don't want to see anybody sucking their thumb. Nobody's grabbing
a blanky, no one's rolling up in the corner, and
no one's pointing fingers, and no one's gonna sit there
and say it ain't us. Own your shit and move on.

(40:33):
That's exactly what they've done.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
And the best thing is, don't allow one to become two, right,
And that's what Dan Campbell has not allowed his ball
glove to do. In the last fifty one games. He
has not let one loss beat him twice. And I
appreciate that about him. So is he enough more than enough?

Speaker 1 (40:49):
It's such a great point. Here's what I love most
about the Detroit sports coach professional coaches right now. They
most of them are old school. JB. Bickerstaff is not
afraid to choose some tale. Todd McClellan will call you out.
Dan Campbell has high expectations and says you're not gonna

(41:09):
use that excuse today, and AJ Hinch will tell you
to your face you're not good enough right now, You've
got to be better. I love that because that's how
you were coached when you were growing up. That's how
I was parented and coach when I was growing up.
And I hope we get back to more of that
stuff because it's needed. And guys, do players do respond
as long as it's done with respect. Go ahead, what's

(41:30):
number five in.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
The last one? Number five, Let's see where at with it? Boom.
This is why I said don't give too much in
the first one, because I knew this will come back around.
Can the old line survive without Frank and Kidd? Now,
obviously we're talking about Frank raganw one the best centers
in the last twenty five years, and then we're talking
about Kevin Ziler only one year with the Detroit Lions,
but what he helped that offensive line do, especially on

(41:53):
the right side. It led to some long runs. It
led to a lot of artists by Dave Montgomery as
well as Amar Saint Brown. Excuse me, Jamier Gibbs. If
Dave Montgomery doesn't get hurt, they would have had two
thousand yard rushers. Let that sink in. That's how good
the offensive line was last year. Fast forward. Those guys
are good. Those guys are gone. You bringing the new guys.

(42:13):
You move Graham Glasgow to the center position. You draft
Ted Rally, you make him your right guard. And Christian
Mahogany that played a couple games for you last season,
you're making me left guard. I told you before we
started show. Excuse me, I did third overall? Right, Now,
that is what the rank is the Detroit Lions, and
that rank is based on your pass pro connected to
your run pro. And they get third overall. This is
after six games, mind you, So they had to play

(42:35):
some teams. Could they fare against the defensive lines of
Kansas City Chiefs obviously lost that game, but the Baltimore
Ravens Miles gear do you remember what Taylor Decker did
the Miles geart and not did but in the sense
of being able to shadow, being able to move. Now,
granted that's why he missed the next game, but that's
the type of work. That's the type of play that
we're getting out of this offensive line. And who I

(42:56):
should have put on this graphic and it's disrespectful, it's
Hank Frayley. Because Hank Frayley is the He's the piece
that has been here through it all. He's been rotating
the office and lines. Remember, this offensive line has been
a constant door of who's playing left, who's playing right,
who's left, who's right. In terms of guard, who's playing left,
guard was playing right as well as the center with

(43:19):
the exception this year. So Hank Frayley, kudos to you,
because these guys are getting better and better and better.
You're starting to see the communication. You starting to see
Tate Rallies communicating on his own. You starting to see
him tap Graham glads before play goes. So I think
Pine is the best offensive lineman in football right now.
And he's got a guy next to him that is
on his way up the ladder, and Christian Mahogany is
also figuring it out on the left side. So that

(43:42):
offensive line has given you everything you want. Also, look
at what Jamir gibbs SATs are, look at what his
numbers are. Look at Jared Goff because for him to
have a pocket that clean, for him to be able
to have the yards and the time, somebody's gotta be
blocking for him. And that's what the offensive line is doing.
So all five questions coming into this season, I think
we all had them. Now, whether you were more on

(44:02):
one or more on another, we all had that as
a question. And if you didn't, then you don't know
the game. They've checked off all those boxes. They've checked
them off, and at the buy they're a better version
of themselves. And they're foreign too, So I think the
Lions are doing exactly what they need to do to
be on the trajectory to be one of those teams
or be the team. I think right now that the
first they're the best team in the NFC and I

(44:25):
got the Rams second.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
In fairness to you, you have given Hank Freley a
ton of love all season long, and for good reason.
I would argue that he Triy's the best team in
the National Football League right now. But those are good debates, right,
I love it. Do you think Kevin Zeitler wishes he
was back in Detroit rather than Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
What money wise did he get? Because we want to.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Say in this case, yeah, I wanted to say nine million.
It could be wrong there.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
So when you get to the end of your when
you get to the end of your career, which he
clearly is, like Kevin Ziley that maybe we'll have a.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Year after thirty five years old.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Now, yeah, but the money there, you got that nine million,
You start counting that cheese. You start looking at it
a little different, like what what the Lions willing to give?
Like that money goes a long way. One thing my
dad told me when I was about to get ready retired,
when I was done, like I said, oh Dad, I
think i'ma hang them up. I ain't number one. You

(45:19):
always called me number one, and then when I was leading,
called me seventeen. He said seven I'm seventeen. But you know,
it's not a lot of jobs to pay five million
a year. It's not a lot of jobs you can
walk into the pay because at that time I was
making one point two or three or four whatever it was.
He says, not jobs is you can walk into making
one point four million dollars. So if you're.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Ready, just make sure you're ready. It's what you said.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
So that's more so what I'm saying, Like, it's not
a lot of jobs. It's paying nine million dollars at
thirty six that you can just walk into. So if
you got an opportunity, I get it.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Yeah, some fans would quickly argue, do you need to
when you're making that much money?

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yes, because, like, first of all, because when you don't
have a million, like you think a million will last
you the rest of your lifetime. Let me, ladies and gentlemen,
when you have kids, four kids, when you have a
wife and you have a life, when you're trying to
prepare for decades later, you need all the tips that
you can. And he also he's a right guard that
hasn't made a ton of cash in the scope of

(46:15):
what you think. You think big money, you think you know,
the with Jared Goff's making and what he's made over
his career. In fact, Jared Golf this year has made
probably more than he's made the entirety of his career.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
So, speaking of retirement, your friend who you saw last weekend,
Brandon Graham Ben announced I think it was today. I
think it was today that he's coming back Philadelphia. He
signed a one year contract. Why do you why do
you think that is?

Speaker 2 (46:43):
I knew this too though I saw him. Okay, I
saw him. I couldn't. I can let the couacter back.
I saw him Saturday, the Washington guy. He was the captain,
the downery captain. Deserved me so love him so much. Man.
He is He is authentically a good brother. He is
authentically a good father. And he's just authentic because when
you retire on top, you have a plan before the

(47:04):
season start. He and his wife they sit down, sit down,
maybe with the kids, maybe just himself, and you say,
all right, look, this is gonna be last year. Like
I'm at that point. I've got a ring, I've played
in two Super Bowls, I've got the accolades. Now he
puts some bread away. He puts some bread away, I have.
I'm at the point now I want to be a father.
I have more time be a husband more like I'm good.

(47:26):
My body is. My body is at his last leg,
well for him, last arm, you know, last thing. So
after this year, let's make it happen. What happens. They
go out, they win the Super Bowl. It's the best
way to go out, go out on top. Didn't play
much towards the end of the season, played in the playoffs.
Was more of a leader because that's what that team

(47:48):
needed last year, especially with the Jalen and AJ and
him reading the Bible, and he was able to muster
that team back together. Fast forward, he retires. You enjoy
that March, you can enjoy that. In April, you sip
my ties. In May, you're on the beach, still riding away.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Their careers, taking your kids to class.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Taking your kids to class. Now here's summer. You're hanging
out with the kids and the wife. Now it's July
and you're like, all right, man, I'm getting tired of
these people.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
They're getting tired of me because you.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Never spend that much time with your family where you're
playing for that long, like legitimate, like you're with the
exception of like two months and you're a dial into
the work at the facility, watching film, training, practicing, training, practicing, training,
watching film. Here's practice again, here's training camp, here's the season.
So you don't get a lot of time. So now
you're like all right, like, yes, all right, I can

(48:40):
go to Costco. All right, I guess we can go
to Costco. Yes, Daddy will come play catch. Yeah. Meanwhile,
season starts. You've missed training camp, which you didn't want
to operate in anyway. That's why you didn't care about August.
Now the season starts. Now, this is the first time
that you haven't put on pass in September. Now that
is the first time that in decades, in decades. Now

(49:03):
you start to realize, well, I've still been working out. Well,
I'm still it's nine nine nice, it's too crazy. It's
to create the team's good? Is the team good? Now
you're looking at your team where Brandon Graham is mister Philadelphia.
It's Jason Kelsey and him, Like it's Jason Kelsey and him.
So he has a greater stake in terms of the
emotional connection. Now he's watching his team they lose a game.

(49:26):
Here's Aj Brown again, here's Jalen at the end of
the bench. Nick Sirianni can't get the team on track.
They're saying, you know what, I gotta get back. So
between all of that, this is how you get back
to announcing it. He has to be back for that
team for the connection. Plus it's like it's like Joe
Flacco said, yeah, I got so much left. Well not

(49:48):
so much, he said, but I have enough, he said,
I still have it in my system. I would be
damned if I didn't play because I don't want to
be forty five, which he almost is regrets. I don't
want to be fifty. And I'm like, I would have
I could have played that year. I think I could
have helped the team out. I think I would have
been better. So he's operating from that space.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Yeah, those are those are great accolades, and I agree
with all that, And it's an interesting synopsis of what
a guy might be going through or a female professional athlete,
is it. Do you think it's hard for them to
watch games? Was it hard for you to watch games
because you know that you were as good, or especially

(50:26):
when your first retired. Is what I mean that you
could still do something that you loved and maybe better
than the person you're watching at the time.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
It wasn't necessarily hard for me to begin It got hard.
It got hard later, I think. I think it's a
delayed kind of reaction, if you will, maybe like the
year three four. But it wasn't hard in the beginning
because I mean Jet still sucked and you know, Brown
still sucked. Seattle, I don't necessarily play for a lot.
And then by the time I got to San Francisco, like,
I feel like it was over for me a little bit.

(50:53):
So I didn't watch that. Man, I still can play it. Yeah,
I really didn't. I didn't have that connection to a team,
the Jets in a three year space, not like him.
So like his connection. When I watched the Jets fall apart,
I'm like, man, they sucks and something. Yeah, when he
watches the Eagles for it's like, no, this is unacceptable,
this is unacceptable. Nick, Nick, what are the guys? He's

(51:16):
still access he still has access to Nick sire. He
can call him say what are we doing. He's still
got that type of connection to the team. So the
fact that he just retired he still could play.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
He's also loved and they need him like I don't.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
That's why I said, I'm still not buying the Eagles.
I know that. I know they blew out whoever they
played last game, and they had all the yards and
he looked great, he looked like a I still didn't
buying because Saquon Barki still looks uncertain, he still looks
awkward at the podium, and they still don't have a residence.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
They still don't look like they're connected whereas they certainly
did before. And he's going to help them, there's no
doubt about that. I wonder if that call. First of all,
there's two things. I wonder who made the call first,
him or the front office for Philadelphia. Second thing would
be if Zadarius Smith didn't retire, would Brandon Graham even

(52:04):
be considered coming back.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Zadarius Smith couldn't fix like the connection with the team.
He couldn't be a leader that they need because brand
is the leader. Yeah, it's not that you need a leader,
you need him him. So I think the call was
made by Nick siriy in that front office, that the
call was made by Howie okay, and followed up by Nick, Hey,
get back, get back. We will figure out the pay structure,

(52:29):
we'll set it up nice and confetence.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
What would take you won't have you do much.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
But we just we need you in more spaces than
being on the field getting leven sacks, and what they
need out of him is deeper than you know, gameplay.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, there's something to that for sure, and you've always
felt like it's a real thing. I mean that that's
he's going to add that one element that they've been
missing and doing it without necessarily being you know, super productive.
He played forty six percent of the snaps last year.
If he played thirty percent this year for the rest

(53:05):
of the season, it's it's better than you know, maybe
somebody else in that space who they could have traded
for playing even a bigger percentage because of what he
means to that locker room. As much as money.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Watched this, they would be undefeated if he would have
been playing this season. Because I'm gonna take it a
step further. They lost that first game of the season. Uh,
they had no defensive line. They almost like they lost
to the Cowboys.

Speaker 7 (53:28):
Right.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Because they thought they beat the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
I'm sorry they beat the Cowboys, it wouldn't be undefeated,
but I guarantee you what wouldn't have happened Jayalen Carter
wouldn't spit in Dak Prescott's face. Yeah, so that's what
they need out of him. And you can say, well, remember,
how does one grown man control another grown man? He
wouldn't have let his ask go on to the other huddle. Yeah,
so when he proceeds to go over there, that's Brandon Griham.

(53:54):
All right, come on, get back, come on, let's get
over here. That's what Brandon Graham provides. So it's a
little deeper than the actual game.

Speaker 7 (54:01):
There.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Yeah, there's there's a fumble, there was a The two
losses for the Eagles without Brandon Graham this year are
to Denver and the Giants, And I doubt they lose
to the Giants with a guy like Brandon Graham leading
the way. All right, more to come here.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
They lost the Giants, that's definitely Brandon Graham, because now
Michigan would have lost Appelais State.

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Best matchup in the NBA tonight, you're ready, they take
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Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
I opened myself up for that. I say a lot
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the hell they're doing with their scheduling. They do. They
know when to schedule certain things. Yeah, I mean, look,
there's some where you're like Sunday night football or Thursday
night ball. It's Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. That turned out to
be a hell of a football game. Yeah, five year old,
five really good games. Tonight you're ready. Tell me what's

(01:03:08):
the best? San Antonio with Dallas, Webin Yama against Flag
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if you will, Philadelphia at Boston, Okay, well you shake
your head. But I mean historically it's pretty cool. Cleveland
against New York. Okay, Miami against Orlando, Battle of Florida, right,

(01:03:32):
and Detroit against.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Chicago, Cleveland against New York.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
I agree, Cleveland gast.

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New York, Cleveland verus New York.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
And then for the optics, you you gotta light that
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I love Yeah, the Spurs, MAVs. Everybody wants to flag
and Victor webbin Yama, Yeah.

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It's worth its wait and go to long to splashy.
It's a splashy match.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
I said Miami against Orlando. I said Philadelphia against Boston.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
That's the note. Philadelphia might be the healthiest team, and
he's like, they may be the team to contend with her.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Until Joel, until Joel and b plays ten games.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
He's starting tonight, Paul George is starting tonight, Like when
is this this? I'm just saying it's sneaky. I don't
believe them as far as I can throw them, but
I just think it's interesting that they're the healthy team.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
How much of the luster is lost in that because
of what Boston is now missing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
The problem is Boston's still gonna win. Boston's still gonna
win that game.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Kool Aid has and I hope people get an opportunity
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Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
I am excited for one specific anger with the Pistols, okay,
is one player is a sorry Thompson and it's because
of this, because of the blood clot last year, he
didn't get a full off season and he didn't get
a chance to really grow as a player like his
brother did. And I hope his brother's okay. He didn't
get the chance to grow at the beginning of last
year and through the season like Amen did. Because Amen

(01:05:21):
was healthy and did the whole off season. This is
going to be pivotal for him because he was healthy,
he did get this offseason and it is with a
better situation. So I'm excited to see the step that
he has taken this season.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
The sorry times his brother made a bad mistake last
night though they had fouled a give and they didn't
follow shake guilt of Alexander, who pulled up and you know,
made a nice move and hit one from sixteen feet
similar to what Ryan will do tonight, and it'll be
really so somebody just watching. Somebody asked me, I know

(01:05:59):
that I can't get that vision of out of my
health head right now.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Every time I see the mid range, I'm saying, Ryan,
I am damn straight.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
You know what I'm picturing the I'm picturing Steve Carell
in the office. That's what I'm picturing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Ah, give me, I'm not gonna do my man like that.
I'm picturing Philip Philip Seymour Hoffman in along came probably Rainda.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
We want video to what we want video to this.
I can don't be selective and you suddenly say to
your body, somebody's while you guys are taking a water break,
let me hit a fifteen Ryan, Can I get Can
I get down on?

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
We need a solid We need like a four minute
video footage, four minute clip, because I feel like we
can see all the things.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
I don't know four minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
I will never get that back in the last four minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
It will be the back watching four minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Skim it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
I I watched it. I mean I didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:06:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Somebody asked me this morning, give me a reason to
stay interested in the Pistons this year. If I asked
you that, well, okay, you're very close to it. Okay,
there's a lot of people who are still wondering.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
And look, I feel like you're from the other side
of the country, and like you live in Los Angeles
and you're not a Pistons fan, and think.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
That Seth is being real because I've seen that question everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Yeah, you've got you got forty four wins from a
year ago. Here's my expectation. You ready, my expectation for
this team considering Indiana's loss, Helberton Turner, considering Boston's injuries,
primarily Tatum, I'm gonna not disrespect Cleveland. They won sixty
one games a year ago. They deserve to be atop
the East. I get that. I think Orlando's better. I

(01:07:41):
think people are overplaying Atlanta, and I think New York
deserves some credit. I think Detroit is a top four,
top five team in the Eastern Conference. That's my expectation.
If they stay healthy, primarily number two, that's my expectation.
Why But if I ask you, give me the biggest
reason why you should be read by the Pistons this year,
not tonight, but this year, you say it is Asar Thompson.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
No, that's not the biggest reason. Just me being a
Homer and watching them through the lens of what we do.
But if I was more broad scale, I would think,
because you got a guy that is going to be
in the running for MVP at least that's what I believe.
At whatever level that's at, it's the level shove if
it's I'm not saying one for three, but he'll be

(01:08:25):
the top six in that running this year. And he
also led a team last year that went from fourteen
wins to forty four wins. That in itself I'm interested
in because you got a guy that's going to be
an MVP candidate leading this team that went for fourteen
to forty four. What does your two of that look like?
So that's what would draw me in good.

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
And I want to see a sar Thompson the goal
All NBA defensive team, That's something I want to see
from him. He made some great strides up, you got
back and got his legs under him, and then by
the playoffs you got Jalen Brunton, one of the most
physical players in the league and one of the best
the clutch play of the year saying those ones as
it relates to defense.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Alright, do your favorite. I'm gonna take you. I'm gonna
take you on the journey. This is me getting my
producer talk, right, take off your Detroit Pistons cap.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Is that possible?

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Take off? We're going I don't think we're gonna We're
gonna act like it is. Take off the Detroit Pistons.
Take off the deep analytical sense and what you know,
you understand all that? Just go more broad and more chill.
What about the Pistons would draw you in this season
if you knew just a little.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Bit, you know what?

Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
The fact that they play all out, that's the one
thing I've loved to see return.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
So the physicality and all out Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Yeah, the physicality, the diving on the floor. They have
a little flare to them.

Speaker 4 (01:09:41):
They you could tell that they have that togetherness to them,
and I know they put out that document. Those types
of things I do believe add to the in arena
entertainment value. And then you got the number one lib
connection in the NBA and k Cunningham and Jayden during.

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
They are lob city.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
They've made basketball fund and they're quickly becoming one of
the league's top.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
I think that's really well said, because that's that's my
answer is they're fun to watch. Okay. Now, I know
how some people can beat about the NBA, and it
gets a little long times and you're really never out
of it, and in the last two minutes. This team's
fun to watch. And if you are somebody who wants
your money's worth to watch a basketball team, this team,

(01:10:21):
more oftentimes than not, night in, night out, are giving
you your money's worth because they play like they care.
And that's something fans always say. They want athletes to
play like that. Now the only thing, guy, I pushed back,
and I hope you're right with Kid Cunningham. When when
you hear MVP of the NBA, you think of Shais Gilges,
Alexander Nikola, Jokic, giannas Antete Campo Luka, Doncitz, Anthony Edwards,

(01:10:46):
Victor Webbin Yama. I don't know if Kid Cunningham has
penetrated that six name favorite list if you will, and
I hope he finally does, because he's I think he's
deserving to be mentioned. I'm not saying he deserves to
be the MVP, but he deserves to be mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
I agree, and that's what my conversation was. He would
be in contention. Yeah, like contingent to me. I finished
eighth in the Heisman Trophy. I was not in the
top three, top four. I was nowhere near, but I
was in contention to a certain point. That's more so
what I mean by K But I like the answer.
You like that answer right there, like kool a once
you start like if I read that, that would draw
me in for two games. Like if I just read

(01:11:25):
that the synopsis how you put it, I would legitimately
be drawn in for two games. And shit, we talk
about fun two twenty twenty five as related to sports
is entertainment, which is fun? That would draw me in,
and then Superstar that would be the other thing. You
mix your conversation with your conversation in mine, I would
definitely tune it into the Detroit Pistons for two three

(01:11:45):
games and if they can continue, then I stay.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:48):
See k Cunningham taking over the chat right now there.
I guess people are putting in their reason for watching R. J. Graham,
MVP Motor Kade Dante one five to one, KDE Cunningham.
So as you talk about Superstar, I think that this
is that season in which k did speak to wanting
to be an MVP, wanting to be the face of
the league, and so I do believe he has the chops,

(01:12:08):
but there is a uphill battle for him to climb,
not just what he does on the court, not just
if the Pistons win, but I think that they're gonna
have to win so good and so impressively that they
can move some of those narratives.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
Dude, I'll tell you, every team in this market is
fun to watch. Okay, the Lions are an absolute blast.
I don't know if there's a more enjoyable team to
watch the game of football than the Detroit Lions. The
Red Wings right now, and they play tonight against Buffalo
in Buffalo. Detroit's won five in a row. Defensively, they've
been rock soft, those young kids, the physicality in which
they play, how hard it's tough to get away from

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the wall against those guys. It's tough to find the
ladies teas in between and down low and try to
get some shots off. They are physical, but they are
hard to play against. They're a fun watch. I don't
know if it'll stay that way all year, but they're
a fun watch. We thought the Tigers for the most part,
until they pooped themselves and said Tember were fun to watch, right.

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I think this Pistons team is exactly that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
It's funny said about Detroit rail Wings last year when
Tom McLelland took over. I got a chance to talk
to d Mac and I asked d Mac something, My god,
I asked Mac, you know what was this gonna be like?
He said, right, just wait till next year, Just wait
till next year. He's gonna get the guys. He's he's
gonna do all the things. All right. Well d Mac
says it, I'm gonna shut up. I didn't ask again,
and now you see how the season started. D Mac

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was here earlier today. I got a chance to run
into him. I said, you knew yourself about it? He said,
well be, it's just a matter of time. He made
it more professional. He had some pieces and some players
that gonna hold people accountable. And then it's the physical.
It's physical, he said physically like four times. So it's exactly.
But he said that back then, he told me, you know,
stay of course, relaxing, chill, and this is what you're seeing.

(01:13:47):
So it's early, but it looks it looks so different
like you made me turn into it. Ryan, who's that
watching you and Justin were talking about last week?

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
You know, I'm like, yeah, look at you. Take a look,
and there are certain characteristics of winning teams. So, for example,
in baseball, I've always brought up war, where's your team
in a war for wins? Above replacement with the Red
Wings And somebody brought this up in the chat and
it's a really good one and that's from Randall Small's random.
He said, I love the wing speed. If you're physical

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and you're fast, that's what Florida's been. Edmonton's been fast.
Have they been as physical? No, Florida has worn them down.
That famous clip of Paul Rooris telling his guys blank
the park, wear them down, forget about shooting. Wear them down.
Their legs will give way in the third. And that's
what Detroit is doing right now. To teams. It's awesome

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to watch. Let's hope the Pistons can get their legs
under and two so it'll be really.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
Fun Physicalitian speed is the undefeated combo. Like you talk
about that and it makes me think about one team.
It's the sweater I'm wearing right now or the hoodie.
Excuse me. Michigan was always physical. Michigan has been physically
since the inception eighteen eighty seven. Excuse me. Yeah, eighteen
eighty seven, Michigan's been physical. This is what they've done.
The speed aspect is with change in twenty twenty two
when Jamar Barbar and Ben Herbert and that's why he

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stole them and took him out to the Chargers. Now
you have physicality, and now you have dynamic speed. Now
you can beat Bama. Now you can beat Florida's excuse
Mihio State. Now you can win a national championship. Speed
and physicality together.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
It's a great combo.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
It's an unbeatable combo.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Dude, think about the Lions. Why are the Lions? We'd
love to hear about the mauling up front? Right, But
the speed of Jamison Williams, the speed of Jamior Gibbs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
Play's breakdown for speed in physicality.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Yeah, speaking of MOFO, there's a guy right now coaching
in the National Football League who, even though he's a winner,
he's won a Super Bowl, I think he's lost an
awful lot of respect. Yeah, this guy what what a toolbag?
In all honesty, I don't know if people saw this.
I hope you did, but if you didn't, we're going

(01:16:00):
to show it to you here. Coming up. Sean Payton
is now the head coach of the Denver Broncos. Yeah,
and when he first arrived there, he had Russell Wilson
as his quarterback. Now, I know Russell Wilson's a little different,
and I know he wanted certain things because I learned
from somebody to my right here that are rather unique.

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But it's how you handle yourself and how you handle
players that I think make you a really good leader.
Listen to what Sean Payton said after his Broncos scored
thirty three points in the fourth quarter, came back and
beat the Giants, who were led by Jackson Dart, and
of course he replaced Russell Wilson a few weeks ago.
This is what he said afterwards about Jackson Dart and

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his impressions of the Giants.

Speaker 7 (01:16:44):
Go ahead, in.

Speaker 11 (01:16:45):
Respect for that organization. I spent four of my early
years there close with the Marittish family. You know, they
found a little spark with that quarterback. I was talking
to John Mayer not too long ago, and I said,
we were hoping that that change would have happened long
long after our game.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
So that's an obvious slap at Russell Wilson without saying
his name, and Russell Wilson's response was, and he's been
for the most part classy, he said, look classless, but
not unexpected. In other words, he figured it was coming
from a guy like that. I don't know Russell Wilson,
and I know he's not back to his twenty seventeen

(01:17:27):
pace of what he did in Seattle. But what Sean
Payton did there is flat out wrong, bush league and unprofessional.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
What does it matter? What does it matter about what
Russell did in Denver? This is the conversation that I
don't understand. I was listening to ESPN because I wanted
to see what is with the ones that protect the coaches.
I wanted to see what they had to say. They
made the whole conversation. Steven A. Smith, I'll call him out.
He made the whole conversation about what Russell was in Denver,
what he was, what the skill no longer was, how

(01:17:56):
the deal fell? Who the FK is we're talking about
the disrespect that Shawn Peyton did in here in Detroit.
Down the road to be rape. This man a veteran
at that, a Super Bowl champ, much like yourself in VP.
You got one. He's got one MVP Man of the
Year like Peyton, like this comes with something to be
rate him and to be disrespectful in that space. He

(01:18:17):
wouldn't have done the Drew Brees, he wouldn't do it
the Bowl Knicks, but he did it to Russell Wilson.
Fast forward, Russell's gone. Russell's been gone. Russell's actually been
gone a season plus now, and he's in New York.
Went to Pittsburgh last year. He's with the Giants. Now
he's not even He's not even playing, he's not even starting.
Why does Sean Payton feel the need to bring him up?

(01:18:38):
This is a personal matter. I don't know what that
personal matter is, but this is once these individuals get
older a lot of times man, they can say and
do what they want and get away with it. Like
I just don't understand with the why so classes, what
is it about Russell? Maybe is it because in twenty
thirteen you thought you had a good season and then
those playoffs you lost to a certain quarterback that you disrespect.

(01:19:01):
Then I remember that twenty fourteen you thought Drew was
going back. Guess what he didn't. Instead, Russell Wilson went
back to the Super Bowl and that was the infamous
you know, Oh no, that was the year they won.
That was a year Russell won in Super Bowl? Are
you still upset about that? Are you upset? Maybe because
at some point it seemed like Russell Wilson had jumped
the favor and the skill and the fame of Drew Brees.

(01:19:23):
There was for a brief moment when Drew was finishing
and Russell Steel was a Sydney Yeah that maybe you
felt your quarterback that you thought was better got disrespected.
Whatever this issue is with Sean Payton, it is a
personal issue. He came into Denver with that attitude and
I know Russell is hard to deal with and had
his own locker and all that, But does that give
you the right to be disrespectful? Does that give you

(01:19:45):
the right to bring it up eighteen months later?

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
You look petty by doing it. It's what it is.
And you people in the chat they are like, well,
he's speaking the truth. You don't just because it's the
truth or you think it's the truth, doesn't mean that's
what you say it. You don't have to trample on
somebody who is now the backup in New York right
to be a little classier. Okay, it's not always about
the truth. And somebody else says, well, Russell's a weirdo.
What difference does it?

Speaker 9 (01:20:06):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
At the end of the day, pointing out facts has
nothing to do with what this individual has done, has said,
and how he looks. The conversation isn't about it is
Russell washing or not?

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
He's washed?

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
Okay, yes, he's washed. I would not have him as
my quarterback. I said that last year. If I was Pittsburgh,
I wouldn't have He's washed. Wasn't good? Had one shiny
moment this year for four to fifty five? They still
lost that game. Yes, but Sean Paynton, being an individual
well beyond fifties in his sixties, is won a super
Bowl that has a cachet, if you will, of a

(01:20:37):
head coach. Why do you feel the need to he do?
Why he's not playing? Sean Payning is talking about a
player that he's not even coaching against. This week. He's
coaching against Jackson Dark. That's what the conversation is. So
why do you feel they need to miss it? That's
because you're twenty five. That's because you're twenty two. That's
because you're nineteen eighteen thirty, as a sixty plus year
old man with a Super Bowl champion as a head coach.

(01:21:00):
It comes with something with certain respects.

Speaker 1 (01:21:02):
Why are you still thinking about him? I just to me,
I don't get it, And it makes him stay, like
I said, makes him look petty. For people in Denver,
they're probably going like this, come on, I mean, was
that necessary? And people outside of Denver they're going, you
know what, you're a jackass, okay, And a lot of players,
I'm sure, look at it like, man, you're doing that
to that dude for no reason whatsoever. And now what

(01:21:24):
would that be with somebody else? Now to the bow
Nixt thing. He has chewed bow Nix's ass out on
the field, but he's never said that. He wouldn't say
that at the podium. Why would he he made down
the road, who knows, but he has chewed him out,
much like he did with Russell Wilson. It's how you
handle your situation. Sean Payton looks like the panic, almost
fear stricken leader that you're not supposed to be. When

(01:21:46):
you're on the sideline.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
He looks like a representation in his country to be honest,
like realistically like there's no respect from the league man,
so it's an imitation in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
No, I don't know if I quickly go that far,
but we can. Well, he doesn't have any so he
doesn't deserve any respect. But I'm Sjohn Dayton doesn't. Yeah,
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
I'm talking about the other guy. I'm saying the leader
of your country shows nor respect.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
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Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
Struck me his own refresh our back and you know what,
I just don't like the guy.

Speaker 4 (01:24:44):
Gotta make sure we got the Detroit versus everybody in
the Pistons fine storm right now. We also got the
Red Wings hat on, so support your teams. Also going
to hit a man set like, but I want to
jump right into I just hijacked this for you guys. Man,
it's good these super chats all right, Charles Bosnet first,
Deontay More, he just sent in two separate two dollars
super chats just to support the crew.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
So thank you for the support.

Speaker 9 (01:25:06):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
He actually is wearing the number two crown today in
the Chat family crown. The number one crown is Randall
Small's five dollars super chest, and he's been active throughout
the entire show. He says Lion's Super Bowl rings will
be a key to new Ford special edition ride.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
I like that, yeah, man, I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
That is a good idea.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
See, that's the that's the cool thing about I love
the concept. You know what you should add to that?
That special edition should be for the Lion's owner and
they should like for it. Definitely. Look you got you
guys have had since how long to cook this idea.
They definitely should have that car waiting and that should
be the ring reveal. It should be that new car
that they get.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
That's a great idea, man, I love.

Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
My dad thinks that they should paint a Mustang on
those city jersey that they just played on against the Bucks.
He thinks a Mustang should be designed around that color scheme.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
They don't have one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
They don't have in that color. He said, Oh, like
once Mustang started going electric. Man, I tapped out, look,
I love you, Lions, I love you. See but like
electric Mustang. Like part of having the Mustang was to.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
Hear the audible.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
Got a convertible, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
You gotta do that. Yeah, because a buddy of mine
had the It looked like the lions blue with black interior.
So that's why I asked you. But maybe it wasn't
quite that blue. It's a good point by your dad.
All right, more super chats and mail bag go ahead, Yes, definitely.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
We got a couple more here. Michael Werry says, good
job chat. We made it to our light goal today.
It's the two dollars super chatt he sent there, So
shout out to him to appreciate the work he's doing.
The Crown and the Tap family with that super chest,
So shout out to you, Michael Werry and Charles Bosnak.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
The two dollars super chests first, a top five offense
and the number one defense.

Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
Sit Again, he said he would rather have a top
five offense and the number one defense. It was back
to when you guys were talking about those coordinators and
how well the Lions have been playing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Yeah, definitely, you gotta take them both if you have both.
Ladies and gentlemen, where's the Super Bowl at this year?

Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
San Francisco? I meet you there.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
You said it, number You know what you did, bright
you You said that the Detroit Lions have an offense
to the defense over a certain rating, they are going.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
To and probably going to win a Super Bowl Right now.
They're looking pretty visually.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
What I like about it is like, because winning winning
doesn't have to always look good. But when you watch
the Lions games, they're winning and they're getting better, like
even this the minutia behind it, and you're all right, well,
I didn't like the run game this week, or I
didn't like the Jerry go off through interception this weekend
last week, So what the way in which they're winning,
they will get better. And that's how I'm looking at
I'm looking at the whole ride versus just so focused

(01:27:38):
on right now where they are. They can be better here,
they can be better here, of course they can.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Yeah, I would ask them. Also, I mean you want
the number one defense. You know who's the number one
defense right now, Houst Houston. Scoring wise, I think it's
about scoring defense. I don't care how much you move
the ball up and down, the twenties and stuff like that.
Scoring defense, Houston's number one, but they got.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
A losing whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Total defense. For me, that's why white white total defencause,
total defense is everything. How many points you're giving up,
how many sacks do you have, how how many yards
you're allowing. When you add all that in, that's who
you really are, got you because that's I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
When I think total, I think of passing and rushing combined,
and that would be Cleveland. So if you're saying all
of it together and there you have it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Yeah, yeah, it's just one more.

Speaker 4 (01:28:20):
I gotta I gotta throw one more from our guy,
Steve o'baby. He's one of the regulars, and I gotta
show him a lot more love to shout out to.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
You, Steve o' baby, he says, smell back, Graylan.

Speaker 4 (01:28:29):
Did you see when Jamis and Williams said that he
doesn't care if he's getting the touches, just as long
as we win.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
What are your thoughts on.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
That, I love the conversation at the end of the day,
like they're winning, so you know, people get frustrated and
been out of shape about him not getting his touches
and winning and not looking a certain way. Would I
like Jamo to look better? Yes, he's making thirty million dollars. However,
they found a way for him to be a thirty
million dollars decoy. And if that's working. To the tune
with Sam Laporter can have five catches a game, am
Rock can get over and then once he goes on

(01:28:56):
deep routes, he softens up the run game a little bit.
And so I mean they spent the money, so yeah,
I'm I'm perfectly fine with it. And this is how
he's played too. Jamo's always done everything, and he wasn't
just a guy trying to get the passes. He's blocking
down the field.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
He's hype.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
He's going to You said you liked about him, So yeah,
I believe it when he says that. And good for
him because when you win, when the team wins, everybody's
gonna win, everybody's gonna eat.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
He got paid, So I like the way he's handled himself.
If he if he takes it the other route and
he's pouting about it and he's mad. Yeah, what is
everybody saying? You're selfish?

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
So he can't win no matter what. I think he's
handled it very well and I give him a lot
of kudos. We thank you for joining us in the chat.
It's awesome stuff. It's great to be with Ryan kool
Aid and of course the man Brail And you're back
with us tomorrow. Remember, doctor Pierce will be with us
and we'll get some updates on some of those injuries
that are most important to your fantasy league and so on.
So for join us tomorrow two o'clock.

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