00:06is this a bad spot for the lions on sunday the classic trap game 248-539-9797 jim costa john
00:14jansen heather park gov and greg behind the glass man bun mike training with us this week
00:19you tell us we got people putting in requests like we're a music station this should be a
00:25costa lock this week oh and goes as far as to say they're going to double digit disco these
00:30dolphins that's chris in a car oh we almost had it well i hit the button he oh i drew
00:40that again
00:41there we go we both turned our keys now it's like a submarine uh-huh yeah we're locked in we're
00:47ready
00:47to go now we're in yeah nukes are ready that's not how it works you don't get to text in
00:53like
00:55request the costa lock no no you you mean you have to be moved that way earlier in the morning
01:00you you wake up and you're victimized as a listener with a costa lock it's conviction from me that
01:05that uh you just can't request i'm i'm very confident that this team will respond i know
01:10that they're going to be down a couple of key components defensively but i think that this
01:15is a team that is going to respond and maybe the letdown the big letdown is going to be on
01:19that trip
01:19to germany that's next week's problem right texas i don't think this is a dangerous spot if any coach
01:26knows how to use jack campbell's situation to better his football team it feels like dan campbell
01:33master motivator they're going to fire on all cylinders and they're going to be doing it by
01:38honoring jack not letting him down yeah well that's probably part of the game you play yeah yeah
01:43there's a heavy part of this week that plays into that texas it does feel like a trap game once
01:50again our defense is depleted i am pretty concerned how about this their head coach as a dc swept the
01:57lions last year john had made that reference earlier the familiarity yeah i i understand that but it's
02:02also like the lions last year were offensively were completely different than they were this year
02:08and i mean if you go even go back two years he was jeff halfley was still a dc two
02:12years ago
02:13and when when the lions have a good offensive line it's it's been a different story going up against
02:21him texas the dolphins may have a bad record but their offense isn't that bad watch out for malik
02:28washington is one of their unheralded receivers for people who haven't taken caleb douglas is actually
02:34the guy i would watch out for rookie receiver texas tech he's missed sometime this year but
02:40has flashed and all it takes is him winning a one-on-one bigger receiver six four the other
02:47thing i would say we got a text that suggests the lions game plan is pretty simple just run the
02:50ball
02:5135 carry should be the goal miami despite being a one in six football team is not one of these
02:55teams
02:55that has given up a ton of rushing yards i think they're about average like 16th in the nfl and
02:59you
02:59would think a team that's one in six late game teams would tack on an extra 30 or 40 yards
03:04just
03:04kind of running out the clock and yet miami's at least been respectable stopping the run yeah but
03:10that i mean this is a rush offense that is one of the better rush offenses in the nfl so
03:17it's it's it's
03:18not as easy to stop them as it is the jets offense how about this is the nawaski game dolphins
03:24sushi
03:24platter lions about to eat double digit win nawaski has a great game who do you expect in that linebacker
03:31room to play a bigger role well i mean the guys that that dan talked about it's it's going to
03:40be
03:40listed the whole team well yeah but i think it's derrick barnes i think is going to be expected to
03:47do
03:47a lot more than he's done and and he's the guy that is he's the most veteran guy up there
03:53the most
03:54accomplished guy up there did they give him the green dot that's a good question um because dan
04:01didn't commit to any one person early in middle of the week well here's the thing is derrick barnes
04:08plays a different position than jack campbell and malcolm rodriza malcolm rodriguez plays a different
04:14position than jack campbell are they going with amon as their middle linebacker and then and he
04:22wears the green dot well and the green dot should be on the field all the time all the time
04:27and if
04:28they're going to rotate linebackers it feels like the guy that wouldn't get rotated out very often
04:32would be the green dot would be barnes even though he's not the mic linebacker right but it's not
04:37john you could maybe speak to this even better it's not every team puts the green dot on the mic
04:41no and it could it probably will be derrick barnes but the issue is communication at that point
04:46if you're not in that middle linebacker spot the reason the middle linebacker frequently wears the
04:51green dot is because he is the one that is best positioned to be you know connecting the back
04:57end with the front end and making sure that everybody is in the right place at the right time
05:01um and so that that may be the biggest loss not just jack campbell as a player but jack campbell
05:08as a
05:08a defensive play caller and how do they work are there bumps along the way as they start working
05:15through some of those the process of getting the defensive play called and everybody on the
05:21same page uh could you put the green dot on a safety it's rare but well i mean yes you
05:30could i
05:30mean he's already got the green mouthpiece that's sticking out of his helmet brian branch but how many
05:35plays is brian branch going to play well they've ramped him up and the good news yesterday is he was
05:40practicing don't put it on don't put it on chuck clark you can't even notice jordan addison flying
05:46by oh god so it's that's going to be a big question um in regards to who's going to be
05:54wearing the green
05:54dot and is it going to be multiple guys because there's not one guy that's going to be out there
05:59every single play does that breakdown and communication play into this trap game narrative
06:05well it doesn't mean the lions lose but it's like wait it was third and eight and we had this
06:09check
06:10on but it didn't get passed on to this level the defense or this side of the field and we
06:14just gave
06:15up a big explosive right and a drive continued that shouldn't it very well could that's one of the
06:19risks that you run and it is a lot of things that you're missing by not having jack campbell out
06:24there first of all the player but second of all the guy that wears the green dot that is getting
06:28everybody in the right place before the ball is snapped got a text that said shep at his post game
06:34there's a midweek press conference uh texter claims that barnes will be the green dot per calvin
06:40shepherd which is probably the most likely scenario anyway uh birchie also had that in his 97 one
06:46the ticket.com article so we're getting some feedback on that this one just says connect the
06:51back end with the front end using a beef stick it's always a possibility but let me ask you this
06:59and
06:59obviously the the injuries play a huge part when i ask this question defensively the first four games
07:07they allowed 30 over 31 points per game in the last three games they've allowed just over 17 points
07:15per game again injuries are a big factor this week but which defense do you trust what they were in
07:24the
07:24first four what they were in the last three and then throw in the mix that there is an upheaval
07:30in
07:30the amount of guys that are going to be out that won't be participating this week yeah if you told
07:35me
07:35we had the healthy defense i would say hey i think they're turning a corner and i i think that's
07:40more
07:40of who they are with the injuries i'm concerned you're going to see the backslide into more of what
07:44we saw the first few weeks of the season but what does that backslide mean against the team like
07:49it means miami hangs in but okay so they hang in but does it cost them the game no they
07:57ended up
07:57beating the jets and and um the saints but i could see it kind of like that game does that
08:01make sense
08:01where you're like yeah yeah we probably should have put these guys away they hung around our defense
08:05gave up one too many plays and we're suddenly sweating out the final possession those were both
08:10one score games a one point game in week one i could see it regressing a little more that way
08:15and that doesn't have to be permanent like you know dj want him is he going to play he was
08:20a no
08:20participant practice dj reed a no participant you know and and jack campbell of course not going to
08:24play kirby joseph not going to play if you start getting all of these guys back then maybe it looks
08:32more like this this last three week stretch right and and and so if you don't have want i'm up
08:37there
08:38at which it's i i don't expect dj want him to be playing in this game um then it is
08:44okay what what
08:45are you going to get from derrick barnes because it hasn't been a whole lot lately but he's going to
08:49have to step up and fill that void well how many roles is he i'm not sorry not derrick barnes
08:53i'm
08:53talking about derrick more yes not not a great start to his rookie campaign rookie season no so
09:01hey opportunity man but it hasn't been there they're playing uh lacy a good good amount to it
09:07and i mean do you are you going to finally see a little bit more of uh hassanen this could
09:12be the
09:12game he finally gets activated i know he's been chomping at the bit so there you go two four eight
09:17five three nine 97 97 but we got text we got feedback want to know if this is a trap
09:21game for
09:21the lions as they go down to south beach to play the dolphins cookie jar at 7 35 including one
09:27question
09:27that i don't think john understands no i'm scratching my head i don't know i only got another 20 minutes
09:33to
09:33try to explain it to you it's 97 one
