00:01let's get to your phone calls Jim in a truck you're on 97.1 hello Jim
00:07hey morning guys love the show of course long time listener first time caller appreciate it
00:13very much I think my champ's got to be Bryce Underwood I thought he played a pretty solid game
00:19I thought he's throwing the ball you know a heck of a lot better he seems a little bit
00:24well-rounded since those first couple of games but my chump I'm sorry it has to be Brad Holmes
00:32and is he really good with the people in the room as far as that secondary so I have no
00:39issue with
00:40him supporting his guys publicly and and that's what I really think that is he can't anything else
00:46he says gets back to the locker room and undermines you know his own his own team's chance for success
00:52Jim I'm not um I do wish he'd be a little bit more humble and and say things like we're
00:58always
00:59looking to improve the football team which is a nice vague statement without throwing anybody under
01:03the bus um but yeah and as far as Bryce is concerned that the context of it being UTEP is
01:09important
01:10here however throwing with more confidence working his way through his progressions if he does it this
01:16week against Iowa it it might signal a big step forward I call it with Bryce baby steps it was
01:23I think it was baby steps going from week one to week two and and probably baby steps going from
01:28week
01:28three or week two to week three and now if he can do it against Iowa big 10 defense respectable
01:34unit
01:34um that'll that'll definitely uh be a sign that he could be turning the corner in Jason Beck's offense
01:42yes sir well hopefully he has a great game against Iowa um thank you guys just one one more thing
01:48would be do you think the lines are going to make that move in the secondary or not I think
01:54they will
01:55I just think it's not going to happen this week but I think it'll happen before the trade deadline
01:59I think they're going to make some kind of move and it should be for the secondary they got a
02:02bunch of
02:02guys coming in to work out today and you know here we go again with guy off the street remember
02:07last
02:08year when they were like signing guys on on Tuesday and playing them on Sunday and Avante Maddox injury
02:13has them with three guys who can play the safety spot working out today and we'll get into that as
02:18the show goes on although what are the names here uh sorry they're somewhere um Jordan Fuller Jalen Mills
02:26and Mike Edwards are all working out so uh but although it was described by Jeremy Fowler as a group
02:34of
02:34defensive backs those are the names that we know 248-539-9797 Jim in Delaware hello Jim
02:42hey guys good morning how are you okay hey well I you know the Brad Holmes thing is getting you
02:48know
02:49everybody's ripping on him but I I do feel a little more confident uh after watching games yesterday
02:57I feel like just seeing the NFL I mean there really is a parody I mean I heard the morning
03:02show
03:03talking about the Bills Chiefs and Bengals but I just feel like the parody is there and you the
03:09Lions offense is in a weekend where teams struggle to score points the Lions don't seem to struggle
03:15even with the offensive line issues so that that that was definitely something that made me feel
03:21a little better yesterday it felt weird not watching the Lions on Sunday but it did make me feel better
03:26watching the the NFL uh yesterday and seeing like hey we're right there we just got to fix this defense
03:32and get our get our players back Jim if you want one single thing that happened yesterday that should
03:37make you feel and Lions fans feel a little bit better you can feel however you want but it makes
03:41me feel a little bit better is New Orleans going into Baltimore and beating the Ravens agree
03:46yeah handling Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry without having their any of their successes be fatal uh and
03:53and you're coming back on them too they outscored them 18 to 3 in the second half second half
03:58performance by uh by New Orleans yeah and and you can't help but we we had speculated last week Kang
04:05asked the question in the in the blitz thingy about feel free to overreact to week one he licensed us
04:10to
04:11overreact to week one and my overreaction was New Orleans is really pretty damn good uh and I
04:15think that that that performance yesterday that win over New Orleans which felt ugly in the moment
04:21and felt disturbing might age reasonably well um and it would it would be better to feel it would
04:28feel a lot better about if the Lions didn't have such a stinker last Thursday but um having that New
04:34Orleans win in the back pocket now feels like it might be an accomplishment maybe we'll see I agree
04:39I agree 100 that's a great point guys my champion jump are one baseball related one football I think
04:45the chump is Baker Mayfield his performance against the Browns everybody thought he was going to shine
04:49I thought he was a chump yesterday my my uh champ um is the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers Pat
04:56Murphy
04:56they just broke their single season record wins uh third straight year of 90 plus wins he's doing an
05:03awesome job especially after their manager flew the coop for Chicago well he's doing an awesome job in
05:09regular season for sure we'll see if if their lack of you know going and getting a top line starter
05:15the
05:15trade deadline if that's going to bite them in the playoffs when they're going to be competing with the
05:20Dodgers to see who gets to go to the World Series but there's no question Milwaukee is a pretty well
05:25run
05:25organization they've really built up their their minor league system over the years and it's paying
05:29dividends right now getting ready for our champion chump sure all right my champ of the weekend is
05:34chris sims who eviscerated espn and the save college sports act saying this is all about saving
05:42the southeastern conference and being pushed by espn because they have a tv deal with the southeastern
05:48conference and that the south he said it he said something that perhaps you've heard it before from
05:5310 to 2 on this radio station interesting what happens when everyone can play by the same rules
05:59the leveling of the playing field it's not as lucrative times for the southeastern conference
06:06hence hence they want to save college sports and put a cap on how much money is being spent
06:12so that they can go blasting over the cap chris sims let espn and the southeastern conference have it
06:19and uh echoing some thoughts that have been been expressed here yeah i mean effectively what college
06:26is doing right now is their major league baseball there's no cap you're gonna have haves and have
06:31nots as opposed to getting a cap in place which would make more sense but to your point i get
06:36it
06:36we're enjoying it now because the big 10 is spending money uh my champion of the week is gonna be
06:41trinidad chambliss the quarterback at ole miss gets the job done over the lsu tigers on saturday night
06:48in the game that had the the nation captivated watching it 33 out of 48 for 363 yards had a
06:54couple
06:55touchdowns and a pick he was spectacular another uh touchdown on the ground uh him being able to
07:01come back and play at ole miss is a pretty big storyline that happened in the off season when
07:06wasn't sure if he was gonna be able to come back or not and he did he's not going to
07:10lsu no he's
07:11staying at ole miss awesome and then they just took down their former coach in a major show now awesome
07:16okay my job at the weekend and this pains me to say it but it to me it's brad holmes
07:23uh the the
07:24backups that he signed the depth pieces he signed i i'm like i'm gonna give this guy a chance because
07:30i think mostly he's been a positive general manager and he's trying to bring in veterans to have better
07:35depth but between larry borum and the secondary guys he brought in chuck clark or uh christian
07:41or whomever like it it doesn't look like the depth is there necessarily i'm gonna hold out that
07:48maybe it's because buffalo is going to do that to everybody but that was not a display of finding
07:56diamonds in the rough and creating more depth it's one week give it to holmes yeah i'm gonna go with
08:02one of the holmes pickups which is what you talked about and it's larry borum he gave up 11 quarterback
08:07pressures according to pro football focus in the game against the bills including a couple of sacks
08:11he got his quarterback hit a couple times there were three penalties that he had as well not a
08:16good game for larry borum and when the signing was made you know we're all the reporting done at the
08:22time and the quotes from from the lions seem to indicate this is a good signing by the lions is
08:28a
08:28guy that that will likely start the season and if you know unless they draft somebody and then they're
08:33gonna be competing and and he's just been a it was a disaster last thursday he's got to be better
08:38than that and hopefully we don't see him again because that means blake miller is healthy get
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08:48matt is next hello matt hey good morning what's up my champion chump champ uh old miss for beating
08:56lane kiffin uh if i only shut him up uh my chump yeah brad holmes the reasons you listed secondary
09:06and uh calvin shepherd you know i i kind of figured the lions would not beat the bills but
09:14you know you're playing the bills so you know alan and cook are gonna run so you should have had
09:20some
09:20better defensive strategy to try and stop and mitigate the run and then i know a lot of people
09:28i won't say hate dislike aaron rogers but i was watching the game yesterday and that he took he got
09:36assassinated i hope he's okay because that was a nasty hit well i hope that hit helps contribute to
09:44pittsburgh losing a lot yep anything well there you go matt way to connect the dots i am i am
09:52rooting
09:52for pittsburgh season to blow up they've got cincinnati this weekend i think they they're an underdog
09:59against cincinnati then they go to cleveland and if they lose in cleveland and are one and three
10:07i feel like that's a team that might be motivated to make a move for the future
10:13aaron rogers looks i mean he's such a shell of what he was um but he also was done no
10:20favors by
10:20the offensive line he was getting crushed and that the one jarring hit the fumble that was uh i'm
10:27amazed he got back up right away to play but he wasn't he wasn't good throughout the game he hasn't
10:32been good so far 248-539-9797 get your champion jump votes in of course the nfl action over the
10:39weekend
10:39we had the one caller call and say i actually feel a little bit better about the lions watching
10:44all the struggles that everybody else goes through and a reminder how there's parody in this league
10:48and then you see injuries being absorbed by other teams like caleb williams going down with the
10:53hammond bears that could be a major issue for them and change the outlook in the nfc north uh lions
11:00getting set for a jets team however that might be a little bit better than expected we'll talk with
11:04aiden hutchinson about that today at 12 45 more of you next here on karshen anderson on 97 one
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