00:01all right let's jump in uh we have a lot of ground to cover we will be heavy college focus
00:07starting at three lord knows u of m's got a lot going on i'll try to mix in a little
00:12spartan angle
00:13just so pitiful spartan fans could feel like they have a place at the table uh but i want to
00:18start
00:18with the nfl and it's a roundabout way to talk about the lions which is there was a big trade
00:23in the nfl not one the lions should have been in on that's not what this is about uh but
00:29a team
00:29we thought was going to start selling is selling quentin nelson eight-time pro bowler one of the
00:34best guards of my adult life is now going to seattle uh for a third and a fifth the pricing
00:41is such
00:41because he's an expiring contract it's the compensatory maximum uh the colts get to speed up
00:47the process they have to hire a new gm chris ballard got launched into space you get a third this
00:53year
00:53instead of waiting a year for the comp pick so okay now one presumes deforest buckner who's in
01:00the same situation as quentin nelson and then jonathan taylor who's more expensive but if you're
01:05fire sailing you don't need a 20 million dollar running back one would assume those players are
01:09next so why would this ever involve the lions well here's here's the angle it gets you thinking about
01:17a very active trade deadline according to a lot of people who cover the league
01:21and war chesting john schneider's one of the gms i always bring up john schneider has struck first
01:28you know if quentin nelson is even 80 of of quentin nelson seattle's running game will be invariably
01:36better which makes their play action better which makes sam darnold better yeah especially when both
01:41your backs are about to come off of the eye correct so john schneider he's on the board
01:46john lynch and the niners i'm convinced the niners are going to do something and going to do
01:51something bold i do think the bears are going to be bold so i started sitting here and thinking going
01:59okay well if if trade season has begun who can we go get and and here here's what i came
02:05up with
02:08the the player we needed and the player we should have gotten is with the dallas cowboys
02:15this is the problem because now you're seeing trade lists come out you know what the lions are
02:20mentioned with well you could get reek woolen you mean the guy who got lit up last night on national
02:25television he did but in all fairness cd lamb does that to a lot of people bottom line he doesn't
02:31make
02:31you exponentially better no he was a free agent did he get a big contract no he did not he
02:36went to a
02:36one year prove a deal and he's played average this year all right so that's one oh christian
02:42fulton you mean a guy who can't start for kansas city couldn't unseat a rookie in monsoor delane
02:49a guy who's a backup that's that's what that's what's going to help me so i i said it then
02:56and i
02:56say it now joey porter jr is going to be the best fit for this team that will be dealt
03:01all year long
03:02and you passed so now all right quentin nelson's going to seattle if i said to you right now do
03:09you think there's a puncher's chance just a puncher's chance of jonathan taylor ending up a viking
03:17would you buy or sell that buy that okay do you think there's a puncher's chance
03:24of a deforest buckner being a niner or a bear i would buy that okay so you start to look
03:31at the
03:31usual suspects are doing the usual things and the player that we all know we needed a man-to-man
03:39lengthy long corner we didn't go get him dallas did and i have nothing to offer you as far as
03:50okay how do we answer what these teams are doing now there's a part two before you carry us to
03:56six
03:57the part two is this are you and are you out there in listener land concerned that the defense
04:07simply not being utterly regrettably garbage will give brad holmes the confidence to do nothing
04:16brian branch is back we're not utterly terrible we're just bad kirby joseph's posting weird things
04:25on social media making it seem like he's coming back him and i you should do a collaboration with
04:29an ice cream cone at this point i i hope kirby's okay but he does some weird stuff look i'm
04:34asking
04:35you guys out there i'm not in an uproar over quentin elson going to seattle does it make seattle
04:40better yeah it does of course it does it's i until i see a guy that is equal or better
04:48than
04:48joey porter jr as a fit i don't think they're doing anything and if you go out and just trade
04:55for depth that's not doing anything so don't don't waste my time with that type of receipt crap
05:01yeah but i would love to hear from you guys because my fear is they'll be able to justify not
05:07doing
05:07anything because there's no one available there's just not a high level corner available because the
05:14only one that was you passed on that's the problem and i do believe it guys i mean it
05:21i believe teams like minnesota chicago and san francisco will be aggressive the rams it's just a
05:28matter of can they get healthy can they get byron young can they get oh i don't know miles garrett
05:33can aleric jackson put his head on straight can they can they can they get devontae adams back at
05:39some point yeah can he come back for the playoffs i'm with you the way i look at this is
05:45mike look
05:45when it comes to the trade rumors i treat it like the mock drafts as just a guideline not the
05:52bible but
05:53there was a team that you left out and david and i spoke upon it right before the show
05:59everybody in your division appears that they're going to be active including the packers
06:04the bears and the vikings along with the other usual suspects as well the other thing about the
06:10lions is you like you talked about the rams and you got a lot of injured players coming back the
06:16niners they got a lot of injured players coming back the packers have a lot of injured players coming
06:19back that you could actually treat those as trades you don't this is your team as is it's not going
06:27to
06:27get any better and you're the person that that really would have helped this team out you passed on and
06:32i
06:32don't think there's anybody out there because the midday show was asking me do you think that they
06:36would go after sauce gardener and i'm like well no he comes at too high of a ticket and it's
06:42terrible
06:43if not even that if you wouldn't go after joey porter jr there is no way you would go after
06:50sauce
06:50gardener because that price now you're going to have to actually pay to get him because he's going to
06:55cost you money and you're going to probably have to give away a lot of picks and yeah he is
07:00not having
07:01a great time right now do you guys even understand the contract he signed what am i in willie what
07:05am
07:05i floating down the chocolate river and willie wonka they had just asked me hey next year his
07:10deal is like 22 the year after it's like 27 and that's why i was like that's way too big
07:15of a
07:15ticket oh my goodness for the lions and this is a team that that rarely does anything they're not
07:20going to jump into the the super deep end of the pool so no i'm with you but yes when
07:25you look and
07:25see that supposedly everybody in your division is going to be active it leads you to wonder what
07:31are you going to do no and and again here's your here's your thing and you can you can do
07:34what you
07:34want with it but like joey porter jr like i'm not a huge pff person i think it's a fun
07:39little note
07:39but i don't think it's gospel by any way shape or form joey porter jr doesn't have enough snaps
07:44to qualify but at his current pff grade he'd be one of the top 14 corners in the sport
07:50okay well i i'm not ready to say he's that elite but i'll tell you this he's good because i've
07:56watched games he's good first game he played they didn't even throw to his side of the field
08:01then he had the poops and left the locker room with the garbage can and didn't play
08:05then he came out last week prior to last night he played excellent football excellent against green
08:11bay so that's my fear others will get better do you believe the trade market along with
08:20if you want to call it confidence if you want to call it arrogance if you want to call it
08:25delusion
08:25you do whatever you want i'm not going to call it spite do you believe that brad holmes won't be
08:31motivated to make that move won't be motivated because well who'd you want me to go get we like
08:38the guys in the room well see i like what you said earlier i think that he has fallen in
08:43love
08:43with this defense and because this defense is not completely trash and you can look at the hey we
08:48lead the league in sacks and look at the pressure rating and look at all this that we're doing and
08:52we have a winning record and you know that's all going to be deceptive you know what the problem
08:58with all this is this is this is the issue window dressing it is you played a green bay team
09:03why
09:03did i pick the lines they allow the highest snap count of of pressure they allow the highest
09:09percentage of fast pressure do you know what you can't do when you're continually under pressure
09:15against a really nice front i want to give them credit you can't throw yolo balls you can't hold the
09:21ball has nothing to do with your coverage jordan love was under duress on half of his snaps
09:30so oh what about arizona what about arizona i just i'm sorry you're gonna face good teams who can
09:39who can supply their quarterback with 2.75 to to three seconds of time yeah your your coverage ain't
09:47gonna hold up i think you know it deep down in your heart but that that's fine i just i
09:52wonder where
09:53you guys are at with it again i'm not other teams are gonna do what they do the seattles the
09:59san francisco's the la's the phillies not this year philly's gonna end up selling but you know
10:04what i think dallas will be buying because i think the cowboys winning that game looking at the east
10:09are saying why not us yeah it's fair i guess and jerry jones he doesn't know if the sun's coming
10:14up
10:14tomorrow so fair enough uh we'll get some of the people but i i just a just a fun thing
10:20to start
10:21talking about and just do you believe the resurgence plus there there aren't high level corners
10:26available that's why i stressed on joey porter not that he was a savior but he was a fit you
10:32don't
10:32have tall corners you don't have corners with a wide radius you don't have that player that was
10:39the player christian watson here go cover him that's right cover jefferson go cover these guys
10:45because you're gonna see them twice a year that's correct amundo but i will always believe
10:49the gms in this town tell you and brad told us a while ago he likes the guys he has
10:54in the room
10:54right and i think all they were looking for is any evidence that we're not historically bad
11:00and my fear is if there's an organization they'll get high on their own supply it's them
11:05they have a good team rico now i've said from the beginning even when they things were bad
11:08no man they're gonna win 10 11 games i just bridging the gap from being good and fun to actually
11:16being a
11:16real threat to win a super bowl no i i i gotta see a lot more before i think that
11:22way i just think
11:23they're fun oh look we survived the packers split squad sick 2 4 8 5 3 9 97 97 we'll
11:35get with the
11:35people we'll get into all kinds of college football trouble at three o'clock it's 97 1
