00:00you tj may attack jeremy otto but let's do an appropriate introduction this is our detroit's
00:05father of the year former pro bowler podcaster blogger play-by-play man and noted emu nil honk
00:14tj lang is joining us i'm trying to think how many lies were in that statement that you just
00:21gave me i can't keep track what jeremy like i know he threw the nicest guy in the world i
00:27tell
00:27you every every friday i'm in here mike i tell you hey take it easy on jeremy he's a nice
00:32kid he and
00:33then he takes shots at me he did not you know what f that dude okay all right you keep
00:38you keep blowing
00:38up every every spot he has it just took one time oh tj lang finally showed up oh this is
00:45gonna be a
00:45good hour i don't need that um i'm nice i'm nice to jeremy i know you are i don't know
00:50why you're
00:50yelling at me i'm not i'm not i don't know he's pumped he's ready to go because he knows i'm
00:55gonna ask the question right now okay oh my god we're getting it out of the way already no i
00:59have
01:00a question is this your critical question i can ask him the critical question now or a 315 but it's
01:04a football one nothing salacious okay rico is there much difference between the serious question
01:13and the critical question hold on hold on i'm looking at the critical question we all know what
01:18they it is football it is football related and i think your immense knowledge of your former job
01:25oh that i finally showed up to the parent you gotta let the whole thing go i'm jeremy alto oh
01:31my god
01:32do me a favor go down a hole punch jeremy in the head get it out of your system and
01:36come well i gotta
01:37wait 15 minutes but all right do you want the critical question and then i guess i do okay then
01:41we'll get to the line whichever one you want to go the critical question is this watching atlanta and
01:46green bay last night boom woof uh i want to understand how five grown men could play like
01:54bigger cat enthusiasts than the entire packer o-line what exactly is that 21 pressures you
02:03weren't going against the fearsome foursome yeah you know o-line play better than anyone duh what in
02:10the actual was that explain how it can look that bad um tj i wish i could i i think
02:19that great i'm
02:20glad i thought about this i'm so sorry i just wish he's still upset over jeremy it's just i can't
02:26get
02:27jeremy i can't get him out of my head um god green bay to me is a finesse team and
02:33that is much
02:34different than please don't kill me when i say that back when i played or you know that's why we
02:43asked you the question like you know but when you have a quarterback like blocking for aaron rogers
02:49or jordan love like you have to have pride you have to have a certain attitude about you you have
02:55to
02:55have a certain motivation that i'm going to do everything in my power to not get these guys hit
03:01and to you know to to be the big brother that i'm going to stick up for guys and um
03:08that just
03:09hasn't been the case with green bay and yesterday it just seemed like man they're just their whole
03:14offense was let's just take shots and shots and shots and shot let's try to get the ball down field
03:18down field down there was no toughness to that team that we saw uh last night in green bay and
03:24and
03:25there were a lot of people texting me last night and i didn't get to watch the first half i
03:28got home
03:28the second half and and i'm just like oh my goodness like this is i don't recognize this team
03:32every snap it was higher the entire o-line as a unit was being collapsed upon jordan love it wasn't
03:40this one matchup or somebody you know like it like when aleem is on his game and you're a disruptor
03:46up
03:46yeah there was none of that this was the entire thing was a catio yeah and i don't think they
03:51have
03:51a guy in green bay right now to be that leader on that offensive line to say this is unacceptable
03:56this is
03:57the way we do things right like this is this is the standard this is the expectation they don't
04:02have that right now it seems like a bunch of individual guys and i know that they lost uh
04:08zach no it's it's who used to be who used to be zach tom uh formerly who was a very
04:15good player in
04:15this league they lost him maybe he was that leader and they did they just don't have any balance they
04:20look to me like a finesse team and that's how matt lafleur looks to me and i don't want to
04:25bury
04:26matt lafleur but he looks to me like a guy that hey if they're gonna take a cheap shot at
04:31us just
04:32let it go and we'll take the 15 yards and be cool with it or if they're gonna hit us
04:36late that's
04:37okay don't do anything don't go punch somebody because we don't want to get a penalty it looks
04:42finesse to me and that's just i'm sorry i'm just stating facts with that and i think that the falcons
04:48came into lambo on a short week punched him in the mouth and they had no answers for it they
04:52couldn't run the ball obviously you're missing if you're if you're the packers you're missing
04:56josh jacobs which depending on his situation who knows when he gets back micah parsons you're missing
05:03two of your lead probably three players two of your top three players on that team but the guys that
05:09they have right now just it didn't look physically tough enough it didn't look mentally tough enough
05:14to to overcome uh some of the issues that they had and they got smacked in the mouth and they
05:19had no
05:19answer for it but i just thought that uh i thought green bay looked like an incredibly
05:25finesse soft football team last night against the falcons and did the falcons look a little better
05:33with pennix i think we could all say yes it goes both ways i asked you that to ask you
05:40this i
05:41despite how the lines have looked i haven't wavered i think they're a tenner now the jackson darts
05:45dead an 11 win team no one with a back of quarterbacks winning oh do you want me to apologize
05:49to you
05:49oh boohoo what did i do but you're the guy that says injuries are an excuse when you lose your
05:54quarterback that's the one thing bro you know that you can't lose your qb lions will steamroll
05:58the giants now james winston good heavens james took him into overtime last year i know it's
06:03embarrassing my question is this i'm just i'm giving you a hard time i don't feel bad for you
06:08i felt bad for big g you should don't worry about when it happened i felt bad for big g
06:13i was like
06:13but my point is i still believe the lions are fully capable of winning this division for sure
06:19okay so should they be the favorite or should minnesota that's the whole build up to this
06:24with caleb hurt two games in yeah i'm asking you should the lions be the favorite uh two games in
06:31i would say minnesota has been the more consistent team okay um and and you look at the two and
06:37oh
06:37record and you look at the lions being one in one and one you're really one and a half games
06:44back
06:45because both of minnesota's wins are in the division right and that that that always that
06:50always plays such a huge factor and that's why you hear players and coaches talk about uh these games
06:55matter about a half game more because they're division so i think minnesota what they did and and
07:02i'm not watching the game last week in chicago saying oh my goodness i couldn't believe minnesota
07:07beat them and that was an incredible game and it was chicago to me in that that looked like the
07:12better
07:13team they just had the more mistakes and you know you fumble at the one yard line and and caleb
07:18going
07:19down and a blocked field goal you know inside the the 15 yard line i think it was and and
07:24those aren't
07:25excuses but chicago to me still looked like they were the better team but what minnesota's done
07:31consistently with their defense and being able to lock guys down especially when you get into the
07:36second half and the adjustments that they have made uh against you know week one against the
07:41packers i think they were down what 22 uh 22 to 7 something like that and then then they come
07:48back
07:48and they they score 22 points in the fourth quarter the the defense shuts them out man they made some
07:53adjustments i think right now if you're going by the most consistent team what would i put my odds on
07:59yeah if the lions and the vikings right now had to play on neutral field who's playing better as a
08:06team
08:06as a in a complimenting complimentary football i would say the vikings right now okay i just would
08:16right now that doesn't mean that it's not going to change as we get into the thick of the season
08:21but
08:21okay i had two weeks minnesota's got off to a hot start uh we are going to ask tj the
08:26other critical
08:26question is he ready for vdc does he believe we're gonna see if he's ready to ride rico can you
08:32help
08:32me out vdc nothing salacious it's okay are you sure you don't need a shot for no you're supposed
08:38to text me before the show to give you a heads up thing on the way in you know we
08:42give the guy a
08:42five-star intro and the thing that ruined you that was there was a lot of lies in that intro
08:49they
08:49were all positive but they were lies you were a cartel man they were lies saying you're a good
08:55dad that not that one but you know there were all lies david can we can we play those podcaster
09:07blogger those are not those are not true i got you the question is i got you man you still
09:15a long
09:16week you still my linebacker hold on did i not ask him okay you can take him no i need
09:24you to go
09:25assault jeremy auto and we'll be right back 97-1
