00:02all right you've heard from shop
00:06we all agree got to do it on the field solid plan though solid plan
00:12solid plan i think the solid plan is what they did right after the loss is get together have
00:16the airing of the grievances where where's the disconnect what are we what are we not doing what
00:21what doesn't translate from from practice field to to playing field what what happened there
00:27get that figured out and if you can figure that out you're going to be in great shape you're not
00:31going to win every play because some plays you're just going to get flat out beat on but don't beat
00:35yourself let's go to mike you're on 97 one hello mike how are you today what's up so there's something
00:43that i like to do before every lions game uh is check on the other team on their perspective on
00:48what their fans are saying and what their media is saying i like it too about about us yep so
00:54and i
00:54checked on the jets and let's just say they're really chesty about this they're saying that a
00:59lot of them are saying that the lions are the worst that they've been in a long time that they're
01:02very
01:02beatable their defense is very bad their secondary is bad and they're very confident that this is a
01:08get right game and if they don't get this right now then their season's kind of on the on the
01:15ropes
01:16but i find that very very like i don't know if weird's the word but odd i think that the
01:24jets
01:24think that they're going to come into detroit and like whoop our butt almost well i mean fans uh
01:29the same thing happens here right um well i think fans get you know they get excited about their teams
01:36and they're rooting for their teams and they want their teams to do well and it sometimes clouds their
01:41their vision of what's going to happen i mean guilty as charged too right but you know there's
01:47we're not immune to it here in detroit at the end of the day the only thing that i find
01:53interesting
01:54there is and i wish you hadn't hung up because i did a follow-up if i'm a if i'm
02:00doing this show
02:01in new york i'm not thinking of this as a must win you said if they lose this game their
02:07seasons
02:08on the brink or however you put it you didn't say must win but i wouldn't see it that way
02:14at all
02:15if i were a media member covering the jets trying being trying to be realistic
02:21this would be a season about taking a big step forward not playing for anything of real substance
02:28it's nothing could be must win in week three they won three games last year if you're if you're getting
02:35to seven or eight wins that's a big step forward that's a sign that you got a coach that probably
02:43knows what he's doing or at least gets more chances to keep keep it up to see what happens
02:50um so i i don't know i mean if jets fans think this team their team's an afc contender i
02:55guess
02:56that's a different thing i wouldn't think of it that way but um and as far as the lions are
03:01they the
03:02worst they've been in a long time i feel pretty confident this year's team will have a better record
03:09than last year's team when it's all said and done this year's lions team will have a better record
03:13than last year's lions team when it's all said and done does that necessarily mean they're a better
03:17team i if they stay healthy like i you know that's that's the one thing that sucks about predicting nfl
03:26games yeah and predicting nfl seasons is it's how healthy are they going yeah how healthy are they
03:32going to be if this is a playoff team how healthy are you going into the playoffs and if if
03:38they're a
03:38healthy team going into the playoffs they can win it all but so much has to go right between now
03:46and
03:46then and they're already you know showing signs of of not being healthy going into this because of
03:52the safety situation wins and losses age differently the lions hanging on to beat new orleans
04:01has aged better it's only two games but then to watch new orleans do what they did
04:07okay maybe new orleans is better than we thought the jets lost to green bay
04:12is not aging well after what green bay did last night
04:17you know these cards can be overplayed of course
04:22but you have a 10 point lead against a green bay team that looks
04:25i might be a mess offensively you'd think you'd be able to close that game out
04:31you'd think uh feedback coming into the karshan anderson inbox
04:35i like shep i would not expect any coach to say he doesn't have the answers
04:40the secondary was built by brad holmes with as much precision as scott harris built the tigers bullpen
04:45this team does not have the personnel and the secondary to be successful
04:54well i mean if you listen to the entirety of what shep said for some reason shep decided
05:00he was going to use christian izzy in a lot as his example but he just kept saying izzy what
05:04do you
05:04see izzy what is it is and he used that a lot so i almost feel like much of the
05:11out of place stuff
05:11i don't know if it's exclusive to the secondary but he used that example a lot there could have been
05:15some pass rush lanes that were left open some linebackers jack campbell has beaten himself up
05:21for a reason right uh yes but you know izzy is a safety and just from that perspective you know
05:29you're kind of you're there as as help you're there to stop the run you're there for a lot of
05:34things
05:34and what are you seeing because you're also in the back end of it you get to to see what's
05:38up in front
05:39and you know if you're if you're noticing that the things aren't right that the the corners aren't
05:45where they're supposed to be the linebackers aren't where they're supposed to be i mean yeah that's
05:48a good place to start because this is this is the guy who's got the great view of of the
05:51defense
05:52because everything's in front of them uh the problem for the lions is low-end talent when you
05:57shop at the value store that's what you get this is brad holmes fault
06:04uh next text guys it's week three and the defense is already in crisis management meetings
06:10shep telling you i don't have the guys these guys aren't processing my system
06:13and or aren't good enough i think it's misinterpreting what shep said too
06:20right now they they're dealing with injuries and and he can't worry about injuries he's got to worry
06:25about the guys that he's got and that's not necessarily an indictment that brad holmes hasn't
06:29given them the players they need although we can't be interpreted that way and i understand why you're
06:34doing it i just don't think that's how shep is looking at it i don't think there's any rift
06:39or any calling out with with shepard and and uh brad holmes
06:45248-539-9797 ethan is next on 97.1 hello ethan
06:51what's up guys how you going okay i just had a question do you guys think not having alex
06:57is causing an issue not having guys in the right spot maybe that's why jack is so frustrated with
07:02himself he's not being able to put guys in position to be good enough as well as alex did
07:07i think that's possible well did jack campbell call the defense last year
07:13uh who had the green dot i don't know who had the green dot last year i thought he had
07:18the green dot
07:18last year i think they did transition to him but but do they miss alex anzalone's veteran presence
07:24they miss him because it doesn't mean alex anzalone wasn't speaking up or or making you know telling
07:29people where to go or or just being somebody be a sounding board um defensively to help guys out
07:36as a veteran presence it's possible they miss him he had the green dot last year who's he jack camp
07:42okay gotcha so that that would mean he's not making the calls but but that doesn't mean they
07:47don't miss anzalone's veteran presence in the middle of that defense i think it's possible that
07:52he's missed you don't i mean i i look at this as a secondary issue i think last week jack
08:00campbell
08:00had a bad game but i think it's a secondary issue for the lions in the first two weeks of
08:04the season
08:04so no i don't think it it has much to do with anzalone's absence i think anzalone was a very
08:10well player well liked player i think he was a very good player for this team but that's not reflective
08:15on what's going on with the secondary it'd be fascinating to be a close warm personal friend
08:23of jack campbell or knows you're trying and and but if he were venting about what went wrong or what
08:32he did wrong what would he say is he taking others on the defense being out of position
08:40as his fault is he making some wrong calls
08:47what time the green dot gets turned off with 15 seconds to go before the play clock hits zero
08:51or something like that then is he messing stuff up after that like where where what is the genesis of
08:58his disappointment in himself and you know not every you're not going to play the same every game
09:07and we know he's capable of better than that but again buffalo is buffalo is a handful man it's a
09:15scarring game and i'm not sure it needs to be a scarring game you can there there's plenty about the
09:20second half of new orleans it'll have you going oh we got to worry about that let alone what
09:26happened the next game against buffalo i'd worry about what happened with with new orleans more so
09:30the birchie kid from allen park the very latest injuries updates what dan campbell said today what
09:36it looked like in practice we'll hear what he had to say has to say next here on karshen anderson
09:40on 97.1
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