00:01well hi diddly do neighbors um i got jeremy out of good to start today oh boy i didn't do
00:07a single
00:07drop waited right till the end of the update and boy he just tripped right over it was tremendous
00:12i'm sorry you missed that oh yeah i kept it from invading you and you're uh in the studio earlier
00:17why do you yeah he's like is it i was like don't go in well i just listen i talked
00:24to a class of
00:24the utes right and i was like just don't he's like what just who jeremy i don't like it'll be
00:31available about 130 what did he need he needed to record something okay um look we've got a i think
00:38a pretty diverse show planned here you've got something you want to surprise me with we're
00:44going to attempt to extract any any interest out of the rivalry got a little bit of lions
00:49got a a temperature check on college football uh paul pulling double duty david with the day off
00:56today but you i want you to tell me what the hell we're opening with because i i like being
01:01surprised
01:01you're following protocol organic response go ahead okay well what is this calvin johnson goes on the uh
01:10this podcast and he's talking i know we're screwed now okay no well no it was actually what he had
01:18to
01:19say talked about when he was a player back for the lions and and how they always thought they were
01:25good okay but it's very it's it's very apt for what's going on right now so was this uh jamar
01:33chase's
01:34podcast because you know every player has a podcast now so calvin johnson goes on jamar chase's podcast
01:40how about you get you only get to be a host of podcasts if you're the best wide receiver on
01:44your team
01:45stop getting outperformed by t higgins you're killing my fantasy team well here's what calvin had to say
02:08that's okay
02:29so that was calvin johnson talking and what you found out it's an historical thing with the line
02:34it's not just a brad problem it's an historical problem where the lions will always just operate
02:40on the budget they will go right up to the line and not cross the line this is not mean
02:46two to six
02:47saying hey you need to go out and make some moves this is nfl hall of famer megatron lions wide
02:55receiver saying the same thing quit being cheap go out and get the player or two that you need
03:02to get over the edge now we're five days away from the trade deadline but yes i thought it really
03:10magnified when calvin johnson comes out and says that we kind of wasted my career we wasted
03:15stafford's career stafford goes to the rams soon as he gets there wins superbowl why rams kind of went
03:21all in lions don't go all in and listening to calvin johnson he is saying what i have said what
03:30you have said what paul has said what david has said and what a lot of the smarter people in
03:35detroit
03:35have said you have to go out you have to do something because your window is now you have
03:42a really good team one or two more people will make it a great team and dare i say a
03:50superbowl
03:51contending team is there a question in there like what about how am i supposed to respond you said
03:57this is way too loud sorry no it's okay gator and doug both need hearing aids i that should be
04:02the
04:02next client at the station some form of miracle here so i the question that i have for you because
04:08you you were not here yesterday no unfortunately in lieu of what went on your we were saying look
04:15you got to get a linebacker i mean you got to get a corner you got to get a safety
04:18but now that
04:19your linebacking corps is taking such a major blow is that the position of need that the lions
04:25really need to look after or is it just you know what we're gonna just go best player available
04:30and we're just gonna try to figure this thing out that's the one for me i think it's immaterial i
04:36don't think it matters what they do i just think they've got to raise the floor of the defense
04:39best player available that's interesting i mean i bristle a little bit when it's you know former
04:47player coming out and talking and back in my day we could have done calvin i don't know man i
04:53never felt
04:54like the lions are one player away in your era hate to break it to you but i understand it
05:00as long
05:00as he's not speaking about money if he's speaking about the approach of doing it on a budget i agree
05:06with him i've never been able to call the lions cheap now you'd have to go back to the barry
05:13era
05:13where they were hardlining negotiations and losing kevin glover and that's different rico look i i
05:20it's not necessarily cheap mike i think it's just the fact of do we really need to make that extra
05:27move do we really need to spend that money do we really need to lose that draft pick do we
05:31really
05:32want to go that extra step well in that sense just he's right can we just do enough right here
05:37right
05:37now that this will be good enough and we'll roll the dice and see what happens well i i mean
05:43look i i'm
05:45not i don't want to be insincere okay this isn't exactly a fresh topic but i like i like that
05:53calvin
05:54saying it gives us a fresh angle correct but once again you're trying to be provocative you have asked
06:00me don't get mad about things that haven't happened yet no and i've stuck to it you have i think
06:05the
06:05lions have a really good football team i think they can absolutely compete for the division i just think
06:09they're a step short of being that super bowl type team that's all i've said i want them to make
06:14a
06:14move but i don't now this is my my takeaway now now we've gotten a positive report on jack
06:21and knowing you're you know look you're you're losing an all pro football player i think it it's
06:26one of these things where jack's intrinsic value is in the run game he was asked to become alex
06:34anzalone and he is not but in the run game now that's jack's deal and the lions are a stop
06:40the run
06:41first team downhill linebacker physical presence get everybody lined up right like that's hard to
06:47replace i would say to you
06:52there's no singular position now as i look at a defense that i do think is short on talent
06:58best player available yeah but to your calvin audio here right yeah i think it feels like
07:06they're reticent anytime that they're good to risk being great because that i agree because
07:14i almost feel like i need to i owe brad a little bit of an apology because maybe this isn't
07:20a brad
07:21problem maybe this is a lions problem maybe this is the lions culture of just how they do things down
07:27in allen park you gotta ask the people on that one they don't go far enough and we still have
07:33a few
07:33days i don't know what they'll do i i still believe in my heart they're going to do something
07:38i just think it'll leave people underwhelmed and i still wonder are they high in their own supply after
07:44the last three weeks as faulty as that is and do they view kirby joseph as the elixir as faulty
07:51as that
07:51is rico i i'm trying to live in reality i just i've brought up some names i'm done being specific
07:59about it i'm done demanding anything i hope they do something so 2485-399-797 two questions out there
08:08one is linebacker now the position of need or is it best player available or is it another position
08:16that you think the lions should go after in the next five days and the second question is
08:20did calvin kind of tell you maybe we've been a little too hard on brad holmes this isn't a brad
08:27problem this may be a lions problem that they don't go all in because brad had nothing to do
08:33when calvin was here and he was saying the same things so 2485-399-979 paulie what do you make
08:40of
08:41it go ahead give me an outside perspective here i mean i think it makes sense you have to like
08:47the
08:47seahawks 49ers chiefs all these teams you're competing with the bears they're all trying to get better and
08:55they're not afraid to take risks on picks they've holmes has sort of laid the foundation to his team
09:00he's built it through the draft he's got all his star players through the draft now you just have
09:04to put the toppings on it to get over the top you can't just be like you know and to
09:09your point you've
09:09said this before mike the fact that they're using multiple picks to trade for guys that are like
09:14balls of clay we're going to mold this guy into something instead of using those for proven players
09:18or just drafting guys you know you could plug and play right away it's kind of what got them in
09:23this
09:23situation over the last three drafts well i think about it too is like and this is probably unfair
09:29but sadly i don't know that it's inaccurate um it probably only took four nice carries from vaki
09:36for them to feel vindicated and we don't need to trade for a backup running back
09:41like i really wonder if they just they just get high on their own scent like i i don't like
09:49look we
09:49had a caller the other day rico he called in is like i wouldn't mind him trading for a wide
09:52receiver
09:53like tesla's got nine catches on the year and i and i did tell the guy i go look his
09:57value is in
09:58blocking and he can be a red zone target but we're halfway through an nfl season he has nine catches
10:04i couldn't laugh at that caller but i just i i wonder if they really believe they just have
10:11everything they need and look they might be right i would none of us know again seattle was 65 to
10:161 to win
10:17the super bowl do i believe they're a super bowl team no but i'll tell you if they beat the
10:21bears
10:21on thanksgiving day and they don't trip over their ding-a-ling in miami what etc i'm happy to put
10:27them in that category but they have to go away from home and do something or they gotta they gotta
10:32continue beating teams i care about like i don't care about the packers when they're down so many
10:37starters right the vikings are i thought the vikings were fraud before the game i picked you to win
10:41you did it's hard when we watch the bears go on the road and do what they did to seattle
10:47that's difficult same thing they deep pants new england that's difficult you did you did you predicted
10:54them you also predicted them against uh green bay oh i regret that no you're fine i saw the helmet
11:00oh my god i regret that's it's that's tough had to be tough but we'll hear from the people
11:05248-539-9797 do you view this as an organizational issue and not a brad holmes one rico with a
11:13new angle
11:13i'm here for 97-1
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