00:00Let's get it rolling on a Friday.
00:03Man, we got a lot to talk about.
00:06Lions finally take the field.
00:08It feels like it's been an eternity.
00:10You got Michigan in a big showdown game.
00:13You got a program game in East Lansing.
00:15We're going to talk about all of it and more.
00:17TJ will join us at 3.
00:19I do have a critical question for TJ that is absolutely football-related.
00:25I don't want he or you, Rico, to be nervous.
00:28It's a football question.
00:30Okay.
00:32So I think we should dive into this.
00:34And I'm going to present something.
00:36And I simply need to know who is brave enough to saddle up and ride with me on this.
00:44I want to know if you're prepared for VDC.
00:49You know, VDC is?
00:52I do not.
00:53Okay, Paul Serra.
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01:07If you're confused about where you're going to lunch today, call Paul.
01:10He'll have an answer for you.
01:12I had to tap out or it was going to be Jazzy Cat and Gator Bait.
01:16Got it.
01:17Paul, you know what VDC is?
01:20I do not.
01:21Okay.
01:22David.
01:23Virtual Dan?
01:24No, I mean, you're close.
01:25Do you know what VDC is?
01:28Here's a hint.
01:29It doesn't stand for venereal disease.
01:30I was hoping it wasn't anywhere close.
01:32No, I don't.
01:33VDC.
01:35People, here's what VDC is.
01:37Okay?
01:38And I think we need to prepare for it on Sunday in a good way.
01:43Vintage Dan Campbell.
01:46Now, what is Vintage Dan Campbell?
01:49That simple.
01:50The version of this team that nobody's going to walk in here and hit him in the face with
01:58a whipped cream pie.
02:00The version of this team that will separate itself from another.
02:05The version of this team that will not have 10 penalties.
02:08A version of this team that will control the line of scrimmage.
02:12That will shut down the run, create a turnover or 12.
02:15And a team that is going to bounce back.
02:18Not because the Jets are hapless.
02:20That's not what this is.
02:21The Jets are limited offensively.
02:24They have a good defense.
02:26Albeit, I question who they've faced offensively.
02:30Should we prepare for the Dan Campbell that, off of a loss, never loses two in a row?
02:37And this team has sat home for 10 days, been told just how bad they are, and they are going
02:45to walk into their den, and they are going to hit Aaron Glenn with a brick right in the
02:50head.
02:52VDC.
02:53I believe you're getting vintage Dan Campbell Sunday.
02:56I believe the defense will play better.
02:58I believe this team will delight the senses.
03:02And yes, I believe they will beat the Jets by double-digit disco.
03:08VDC.
03:09Because if they don't, this team is pure ass.
03:13I mean pure, unshowered, three days in the jungle ass.
03:20You cannot have a long turnaround, and this defense, and all the consternation, all the
03:28people bleeping all over you, and you don't respond.
03:32This is VDC.
03:35Rico, I have a pony at the hitching post.
03:39It's riders up.
03:40Are you willing to ride with this opinion?
03:43I am not.
03:44Okay, then.
03:45Paul, just call Paul for lunch services.
03:48Sir, your stallion awaits.
03:51It's at the hitching post.
03:53Will you ride with Nona on this opinion?
03:57Yes.
03:57Yes.
03:58I think they're going to win by double digits.
04:02It's VDC.
04:03David Hall, leader of the black community, marital counselor, and assistant pastor at
04:08Greater Life Church on Tireman.
04:10Also DJ at Canton Cobras football.
04:13David, will you ride with us on this opinion?
04:18Double digits?
04:19It is VDC.
04:21I can't.
04:22A bounce back game.
04:23I can't do it.
04:24I'm sorry.
04:24No, I'm not on board.
04:25People, we have a racial divide.
04:27All right.
04:28Well, the one white guy on the show stuck with me.
04:30Rico and David opted out.
04:31Well, fine.
04:32Well, here's the thing, Mike.
04:33Fine.
04:33No.
04:34Vince is Dan Campbell, so you're going back to whenever they lost, they bounced back.
04:38Correct.
04:38Because that ended last year when they lost three in a row.
04:41So that's why it's vintage.
04:43So that's what I said.
04:43We're going back there.
04:44Yes.
04:46Okay.
04:46Is vintage Dan Campbell bringing back some vintage players that played for him back then
04:50when he was vintage?
04:51Long turnaround.
04:52They'll tighten the screws on a few things.
04:55I don't see the Jimmies and the Joes for a double digit discount.
04:58I mean, disco.
04:59That's going to be you, my friend.
05:01I love you.
05:03Look, I'm being serious.
05:05I know you are.
05:05Take the disco crap away.
05:07I just did that to screw with cookies.
05:09Oh, okay.
05:09That's the same idiot who's all boned up about Verlander.
05:13The point is, this team's response is vital.
05:18If this team doesn't respond to what has taken place the first two weeks, a long turnaround,
05:25coming home, Jets just played in a physical death match against the Packers.
05:30Rico, if they don't respond in that way, we have real problems.
05:36So, I'm expecting vintage Dan Campbell.
05:40See, I'm looking at, look, I know that the Jets aren't world beaters offensively.
05:44Vintage.
05:44But, the fact that Aaron Glenn knows Shepard, because he probably taught him a lot of the
05:50things, that's going to be the chess match that I'm looking at, because he knows Shepard's
05:55desperate, and desperate people do desperate things, and that's why he can probably take
06:01advantage of it.
06:03Dan Campbell will give the greatest speech ever.
06:06I'll meet you at that point.
06:07That team may actually come out and, for the first time this year, don't go three and out.
06:13But I can't see it lasting for 60 minutes.
06:16Okay.
06:16Listen.
06:18People, who's riding with me on this?
06:20I'm talking bounce back.
06:22I'm talking best performance of the season.
06:25I'm talking about distancing or ending a game on your terms and a rousing home win.
06:32And, again, the Jets' defense has improved.
06:35Their offense shows a level of competency, but they are not high-powered.
06:39This game is not being played outdoors.
06:41This is on the fast track, in your barn, off 10 days rest.
06:46Because if you don't respond, oh, no.
06:50No, no.
06:50Then Goff and his bird watching and vultures and all the rest.
06:53The vultures should be out.
06:55I mean, if you win this game like 27 to 24, that's more of a red flag than anything to
07:01me.
07:02And you could say, oh, well, you're putting them in a no-win spot.
07:05Welcome to being a good team.
07:07If you beat the Jets, it's probably because you should.
07:09Vegas has installed you as a seven-point favorite.
07:12But if you don't win convincingly, if you don't play a higher level of football,
07:17that's the conversation we're going to keep coming back to.
07:20Is this team capable of making a run to a Super Bowl?
07:23Well, playing quality football over long stretches of the season is the bare minimum.
07:28In my world, they're 0-2.
07:29They are beyond fortunate to be 1-1.
07:32Signed, refs.
07:34I expect a big performance.
07:37And you let Geno Smith come in here and kick it like he's a Seahawk again.
07:41No, that's a red flag.
07:43So I want to know who's with me on this.
07:46And if you're not, give me a reason.
07:48Because if you're not, you're basically saying you really don't believe in this team.
07:51Which is an opinion that you have a right to.
07:54Just like Cookies has a right to wear his Verlander thong to the ballpark this weekend.
07:59And get played like the lemming he is.
08:01The onesie?
08:02Wouldn't shock me.
08:03Dude owns a cat.
08:042-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
08:08Let's get to it.
08:09Yeah, for me, it's Aaron, Glenn, and Shepard.
08:11And Glenn knows what Shepard is doing.
08:14Glenn knows that Shepard is desperate.
08:15And I think he knows how to exploit that.
08:18I'm not saying this is going to be some great shootout game.
08:22Stunning.
08:23He knows, Mike.
08:24He's the mentor.
08:25He knows his mentee.
08:26He knows.
08:28He's stunning.
08:29You know what?
08:29I see that you're teetering.
08:31I'm just going to go ahead and push you off the edge.
08:32Okay.
08:34At 2-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
08:36David, the early text communications, I am saying brace for VDC.
08:42A bounce back, vintage Lions, this team playing tight, buttoned up football.
08:49No more 10 penalties.
08:51No more blown coverages.
08:52And for all their defensive foibles, they simply outpace a Jet team to the tune of like 31-17.
09:00Something that just represents a really solid performance.
09:04Discoing.
09:05I'm not discoing.
09:0731-17 is discoing.
09:08I'm making a point.
09:09You know what quality football should look like as a seven-point favorite in this league at home off 10
09:14days rest after Josh Allen put a baby in you and didn't even throw a towel at your head.
09:19Okay?
09:20Like, come on.
09:21And if all of a sudden there were some great defensive players coming back this week, I'm with you.
09:26Blake Miller is going to help.
09:27But he doesn't play defense.
09:28I've heard that.
09:31Text communications.
09:33Yes.
09:34I said the same thing.
09:35Clean up the penalties.
09:36Go for it on fourth downs again.
09:38Run up the score.
09:39That is Joe in New Boston.
09:41VDC.
09:42Someone else texted in and says, Lions defense is hot garbage.
09:45Lions will lose to the Jets.
09:46So no, Mike.
09:48No, VDC.
09:48If they lose to the Jets, someone should lose their job.
09:52Because you cannot, cannot drop a home game on a 10-day turnaround against a team that offense is not
10:00their calling card.
10:02I mean, that would mean your offense got bodied by the Jets.
10:05It would mean the Jets found a way to run the football against you in a way they couldn't do
10:10against the Packers.
10:11Cutscene.
10:11Bijan just scored again.
10:13And you would have let Geno Smith come in and dangle his ornament over your head.
10:18Are you kidding me?
10:19At that point, if you can't beat this Jet team who is limited offensively, then you're not beating much of
10:25anyone.
10:27I will not say that.
10:28I'm still saying 10-7.
10:30I'm still saying they can win this division.
10:33I just don't think they'll win anything of substance.
10:35I think the Lions and Michigan are very similar.
10:38They will win games.
10:40They just will not win anything we care about.
10:43But more on that later.
10:452-4-8-5-3-9-9-9-7-9-7.
10:47Official DJ of Canton Cobras football.
10:50VDC, baby.
10:52Z in Rochester Hills.
10:54Vintage.
10:55I'm just going to say this.
10:56I'm a little uncomfortable saying VDC.
10:58I know.
10:58It sounds like one of those ads that, you know, you need a pill for.
11:02David, you are having your son's team take the field to Ice Cube's No Vaseline.
11:07You're uncomfortable with saying VDC?
11:09It's just somebody's going to clip that and they're going to have me saying something else.
11:13That's what I'm afraid of.
11:14That's my hope.
11:15Paul's already got it done.
11:17I agree with you, Mike.
11:18I need to see them control the game and put it out of reach in the late third quarter.
11:23VDC.
11:25The Lions are not only winning by double digits.
11:28It's going to be 20-plus.
11:30It's Riders Up.
11:32Let's talk about it.
11:33I'm being serious.
11:34Because, again, I'm giving you reasons.
11:38The league, and look, Rico disagrees.
11:42Totally legitimate.
11:43I'm not mad if you disagree.
11:44I'm trying to gauge who sees the world the way I see it.
11:48In the NFL, you have scheduled wins and scheduled losses.
11:53This is one of those games you are supposed to play high level, a 10-day turnaround, slandered.
12:00You've been on a rotisserie for 10 days.
12:03You have, Mike.
12:04And the Jets, off a physical battle, they're built to play low-scoring games.
12:09You're going to come in here on the fast track, VDC.
12:11I'm going to take it from the words of Calvin Shepard.
12:14I'm not even focused on the Jets.
12:15I'm focused on the Lions.
12:17The fact that you're having these closed-door, hey, guys, what did you do wrong, meetings?
12:23Not a great sign.
12:25It tells me I can't feel confident enough in this defense to be on board with you.
12:31If they could just stop some people, if they can force some three-and-outs, if they can get some
12:35turnovers, yes.
12:37But I feel like that's more hope than feeling confident.
12:40Hey, did you see Pete Harper might not play?
12:43Whatever the hell his name is.
12:44I know it's not Roman Harper.
12:46What the hell's his name?
12:47Thomas.
12:48Thomas.
12:49Tom Harper.
12:50Great.
12:50He ain't playing.
12:52Okay.
12:52Vontae Maddox, he ain't playing.
12:53Right.
12:55VDC.
12:56I can't.
12:57You know what?
12:57I'm proud of you.
12:58Look, here's the other thing.
12:59No, no, no.
12:59I'm proud.
13:01I will gladly come and scoop you up as roadkill.
13:04I'll give you another reason.
13:06We'll use a horse racing example.
13:07Okay.
13:08There's a term you're looking at horses and what race they're in.
13:11Class relief.
13:12You know what class relief means?
13:14Horses that's been running in stake races is dropping back down into something more normal, like an allowance.
13:19Okay?
13:20Class relief.
13:21It's not that who you're facing is bad.
13:24It's that they're not megalodons.
13:26Okay?
13:27I think the Saints are going to win the South.
13:29You know what we think of Buffalo.
13:31The class relief alone should allow the defense to get up off the carpet.
13:38VDC?
13:39Question mark?
13:40I'd love to hear from the people.
13:42248-539-9797.
13:45Rico's going to tell you all about his basement.
13:47We're going to have a big football Friday.
13:49And people, we got a program game in East Lansing.
13:53The Pontiff is making his way to the 517.
13:57And Rico don't just show up for games no more.
14:00Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
14:02Big games only.
14:04Rico Beard and his entourage.
14:07Founders.
14:08Event.
14:08Tomorrow.
14:09Spartan Stadium.
14:105 o'clock.
14:12They're doing a meet and greet outside the artisanal pretzel stand, Section 8.
14:16Actually is a Founders event, but it's earlier in the day.
14:19Anyway.
14:20Founders are about to break that foot off in your ass.
14:23It's going to be exciting tomorrow.
14:25Yeah.
14:25I heard a rumor.
14:26If State loses, you're going to beat the hell out of Fitzgerald.
14:30At the 50-yard line.
14:32Right on the, you're going to go Devin Bush on Fitz at the 50.
