00:00Picks coming up at 835.
00:02Acosta Locke this week.
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00:07Love watching the Packers lose last night.
00:10Very enjoyable.
00:11That feeling when you're headed for a six-win season
00:14and you have to check for your pulse.
00:15We don't even have our first-round pick?
00:18Is this really happening?
00:19And we had the question yesterday, the Thursday touchdown.
00:21Did the NFL get this wrong by having Atlanta
00:24three weeks in a row in prime time?
00:27I think it's Sunday night next week.
00:30Oh, it's Monday night, and then it's Sunday night.
00:33Whichever way, it doesn't matter.
00:34They're in prime time.
00:35And I think they answered the bell last night.
00:38Yeah, and now think about it.
00:39Bijan ran for damn near 200 yards.
00:42Drake London had almost 200 yards himself as well, receiving.
00:44If you're the Bears, Lions, anybody facing this Packers defense,
00:48you are licking your chops.
00:50And then it's not like the Green Bay offense.
00:52Well, we'll get Josh Jacobs back.
00:53Maybe.
00:54You ran for 17 yards.
00:56Phew.
00:57It's just moon balls.
00:59It's just Jordan Love.
01:00The Afternoon Show loves Jordan Love.
01:02It's just him throwing moon balls.
01:03Yeah, throw it up, see what happens.
01:05And Golden's a good player, but that can't be your whole offense.
01:08We have a Red Wing game a week from today, the home opener.
01:11Oh!
01:11Season opener.
01:12All right!
01:13Will Dylan Larkin be there is a big question.
01:15We have an updated report from Elliott Friedman.
01:18Oh.
01:19This is from today.
01:21His list of teams?
01:23It's not three teams, John.
01:24That list has as many as eight teams on it.
01:27Great.
01:55You're going to be on the track of eros,
02:11so the question is when did this list expand is it since he met with the media the last time
02:19if they had more conversations and yeah will he i think he will be in a red wings
02:26uniform i don't think there's anything that happens between now and the home opener in regards to
02:32dylan larkin not being a detroit redway tom you said something to me off air when i uh brought
02:37this up to you i mean look i think it's 50 50 now that he is on the team next
02:42week why is this
02:43getting out there all of a sudden like i mean it's kind of weird wording he used there because he's
02:48like uh i was asleep at the wheel too can i get a little context on that so so elliot
02:54friedman was
02:55going through his own contract negotiation this offseason and he had shared on a previous podcast
03:00that when his deal was in limbo he kind of scooted away you're not working because you don't have a
03:05contract right so he's had to re-engage is there anybody else in the nhl that can report though i
03:10mean like i almost feel like it's the wording makes me think that this list has been longer for a
03:16while
03:17i do i do think though now that the it's gotten out there why is it getting out there now
03:21well
03:22because it was longer for a while it wouldn't have mattered they didn't have a general manager
03:25exactly i mean the whole thing was but the fact that it's getting out there now tells me that
03:31that at least somebody's trying to push to get this done before the season starts
03:37uh yeah and look the idea that larkin isn't being reasonable with his three-team list we can throw
03:43that out the window now eight is a healthy number i don't expect him to put 20 teams out there
03:47you know he has a no trade clause i think eight's a healthy number to give the wings some leverage
03:52to
03:52get a deal done do you agree with that what do you make of colorado being on it be fascinating
03:57right
03:57well what's what would be the deal where you could get an everyday player something the as would do to
04:03shake it up after playoff disappointments yeah i'd have to look at their team a little closer i mean
04:07isn't the thought though we're probably getting futures back or now do you think the expanded list of
04:12teams gives us a chance to get some nhl ready people wasn't there a recent report that they're still
04:17holding out that they want nhl somebody right now yeah expanded list makes that more likely
04:25this is kale mccarr
04:28what's that kale mccarr
04:31that's not possible is it they just sign a new deal i think he did he did it's a very
04:36very large
04:37deal uh you say now they have a general manager in place that's great can edvinson get signed
04:42they're playing a week from today can edvinson get signed i don't know what are we going to hear
04:46about that i mean that seems to be the most pressing need well it seems to be the most
04:50break it's in his last year yeah there's a lot back a lot that needs to get done um but
04:56larkin maybe he plays in a preseason game saturday maybe he plays on friday when the season starts or
05:02maybe he's skating for the tampa bay lightning i don't know certainly more on the table now
05:07those three teams were dead ends now eight teams makes this this is possible it's also more on the
05:12table simply because you have somebody that can actually talk to other teams and make a trade yeah
05:19how much do you have to do it greg just threw out nathan mckinnon i'm just kidding we're talking
05:26about bringing back people from their prime can we get joe sackik from his prime back you want brent burns
05:32did he shave the beard did i see that yes it's kind of like john looks like a completely different
05:36person she does yeah i mean i've he's had a lot of iterations of the beard mine was just scraggly
05:45let's go to ken ken you've been waiting you're on 97 one hey good morning gentlemen and go blue go
05:51blue i just i wanted to comment on the lions um i think our offense is much more intact on
06:00the defense
06:00um i just think it needs time to gel get used to each other timing all that good stuff but
06:07i i'm not
06:07really concerned about the offense but the defense i'm just really disappointed that mr holmes uh didn't
06:14address the uh the the two elephants in the room with our secondary and and do something to to shore
06:21that up and even if you bring in joey porter um it's going to take him a minute you know
06:27to uh to get
06:28you know aligned with with our defense and and everything else so i'm i'm thinking that our
06:35offense can score 28 points 28 to 35 points a game but i think that we're going to have to
06:41score
06:42close to 42 points with that defense and i don't know if we can do that and i'm really uh
06:48concerned about the season
06:53i think we're all nodding our head with you yeah i mean there's not a lot of fight or
06:56embrace debate we all see it the same way man the offense leads the way the defense could could drag
07:01them down does the defense eventually cost them the division well it's going to be what does the
07:08defense cost them is really kind of i mean if you really break down the last 10 days of our
07:12show
07:12it's been what is the defense going to cost them individual games certainly no lead safe
07:17a chance at the super bowl hello but the division they're the division favorites but is it ultimately
07:23going to limit them from getting it done it is their biggest weakness right now so what do you
07:28need to see that's a good question for us to ask all show long what do you need to see
07:31this weekend
07:31to feel like the lions are the best team in the nfc north we'll get to that we'll do the
07:36picks let's
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