00:00for the rivalry best and worst moments tj i want to play a piece of audio david can you get
00:05the
00:05ross tucker audio for me buddy i just wanted your spin on this because we're going to get to it
00:09later
00:09as a full topic of upset alert who is in more danger of being upset when it seems like neither
00:17is in any danger michigan or the lions so the morning show did a nice interview with ross
00:23tucker i thought this was interesting and you could tell it caught cookies and john off guard
00:27so i want to play this for you tell me what you make of this whether this is interesting or
00:33you
00:33think ross tucker had had a doobie or whatever that morning uh david the audio please
01:03you
01:15you
01:17you
01:30what do you make of that tj lang i completely disagree with it i think that
01:39sure now if you're playing the whole game oh we've got a game at miami and then we've got a
01:44comeback short week i'm not sure when they're leaving uh to go to germany next week i i think
01:50it might be wednesday or thursday um so could it be a quote unquote look ahead game you know what
01:59i
01:59mean where hey it's miami they stink they got one win we know we got bigger fish you know coming
02:04up
02:04next week and a big week i could see that argument but with this team i just man i i
02:10don't know i trust
02:11dan campbell to galvanize his guys i trust you know kelvin shepherd who who took a lot of heat
02:17rightfully so through the first month of the season you know now he's kind of sitting back in the
02:22background again hey i got my guys playing good football again oh certainly you don't think so
02:28you played the worst offense in football in minnesota you played the arizona card okay you
02:33too mike i'm not saying that i'm not saying they're world beaters all right but you hold green
02:37bay to 17 points you you beat minnesota you hold them to 15 points which listen i understand what
02:44you're saying you're saying they got up off the mat but that was the one thing that we asked for
02:48if this defense could just find a way to be average right like that's that's that's all that's that's
02:54all this team really needs i understand what you're saying mike and i'm not trying to overblow it by any
02:58any any point but no i think that knowing the guys and dan campbell knowing the guys in that locker
03:06room i think they're just going to find a way to galvanize around what how tough this week has been
03:11with jack and i know you everybody's been talking about it it's amazing it's horrible campbell's got
03:16the best he's got a hold on his room maybe of any coach he's he's got these he never seems
03:22to be
03:24off base or man i thought this but this was really happening like i think he has a really good
03:29pulse of
03:30of the team and what they need and what they need for motivation what they need to kind of clear
03:35their heads what they need to go out there and maybe use a little bit extra for a guy like
03:40jack
03:41campbell um who's like can't mention enough man how how terrible that injury was and i know he's
03:46continuing to get better glad to see him put out a quote or a statement uh that said you know
03:52he's
03:52getting better but you know it is that's just that's the hardest part of the business is when you
03:58go through injuries like that that you just you just aren't sure right and you worry about the
04:03person more than you worry about the player yes um but i think that the guys they have in that
04:07locker room like i i think they're gonna have a hell of an effort and calvin shepherd gave a great
04:13you know dissertation i think it was yesterday up at the podium talking about getting his guys to
04:21how does jack campbell prepare how to the best way we can honor you know missing our captain missing
04:26our green dot missing our stud middle linebacker we got to prepare the same way jack did we got to
04:31play
04:31the same way jack did we have to have the same ferocity that that jack plays with the same
04:37tenacity and i i just i look at miami and i could say yeah they're playing better they try they
04:45don't
04:45have the players to match up with the lions they just don't and that's why i just i don't want
04:50to
04:51sound overconfident here i don't want you accusing me of you know being the disc double disco costume no
04:56no no no like this this get your point because the lions generally don't do what a lot of teams
05:03in the league do i and and you're right you're right to the competition they just because campbell
05:08this is a part i'm glad you said that i think they're gonna smoke my it's it's part of his
05:11other
05:12critical question so let me i'll just ask it real quick see i look at it as miami unlike some
05:18of the
05:18other teams that you know you got players just begging to get out of town please trade me
05:23they're just young and inexperienced they don't have anybody with any leverage to say trade no no
05:29but i'm saying they're out there at least trying hard and scrappy and as campbell said it reminds
05:36they remind them of the lions before they got good where they had a young nucleus yeah and you know
05:42what give us a little bit of time and we're going to be good beat up on us now because
05:46you won't be
05:46able to do this later you want this question yeah this because it leads into this motivation thing
05:50this is fun i'm not asking you to get yourself in trouble but i'd be happy if you did so
05:55on the
05:56heels of us talking about i'd be excited if you'd get yourself in trouble so we have the rivalry game
06:04i'm pretty sure i already did to start no you're fine that's that's a nothing burger you have the
06:08rivalry over here where we talk about who's going to be able to get up for this game you just
06:14talked
06:14about dan campbell galvanizing a locker room so i had a question more geared for michigan michigan
06:19state but also at the pro level i wanted to know the best pre-game speech that you were given
06:26by a coach that actually worked and got a team ready to run through a wall but then the other
06:33side of the coin the pre-game speech where everybody's in the room rolling their eyes going
06:38is this guy serious now if you're willing to give some names i wouldn't mind it but i also i
06:45don't want
06:45to see you get in trouble so you can do what you want wow i can't remember in a specific
06:53instance
06:53and i would tell you this okay pre-game game day is mostly players yes game day is mostly a
07:02captain
07:03some teams have designated captains for that week some teams have captains throughout the entire season
07:09you might have an honorary guy you know he's playing a former team hey let's let him be a captain
07:14those are normally the guys that do the speeches before games so i don't have a specific instance
07:21where trust me i've heard some bad speeches from players i don't think i've ever heard one from a
07:27coach where you're just like uh man like completely come on bro come on man that that's mostly post
07:34game when you go to the the the debrief you're in the locker room coaches give a speech i'll tell
07:40you
07:40one that drove me crazy though and this was post game so okay i'm diverting a little bit oh you're
07:45fine man we lost i think it was 2017 to the vikings on thanksgiving and it was a huge game
07:54for us we
07:55finished that year nine and seven um i know we ended up losing a couple weeks after the the bangles
08:02that
08:02kept us out of the playoffs that was christmas day it was it was and i'm not trying to get
08:05in trouble
08:06i'm just giving you my honest opinion but jim caldwell was just like hey guys great effort we
08:11appreciate and we played terrible and like for me like as a guy nine years in the league i'm like
08:17rip somebody apart man like rip rip rip into me rip into everybody like like this isn't inner mirror
08:24football like i appreciate the effort guys and let's just get back to work and keep trying
08:29that's why that's why a lot of guys love jim uh uh jim caldwell though because he was that
08:34players type yeah but we had other coaches on the staff that were kind of the bad cops
08:38uh but that one for me was was one that stood out where i'm just like this is the time
08:44to galvanize
08:45the group and like put some urgency into this into this locker room a little bit but i never had
08:52one
08:52i don't think i thought we could get a college one from you done man like you're five and six
08:57and
08:57you get the coach ripping his shirt off we need to make the rely a quest like college is so
09:02much more
09:03corny though and it's not really game day but it's like during the week we're gonna you know
09:08quick story we were playing howard one day at eastern michigan and the whole big attraction was
09:13they're bringing in this great marching band which they were but our coaches like were out there on
09:18the field with like trumpets and trombones and tubas playing during practice like this is why people
09:24are coming to watch you not for you to watch the howard marching band and blah blah like i'm like
09:29what
09:29are you doing like this is just it's so cool it's so corny and the howard marching band
09:38okay you know what they're historical man hbc they're historical you you are just like what
09:43are we doing you are not about the disrespect to howard marching band no and i'm not no i'm talking
09:47about these two you are not about the disrespect to howard marching band disrespecting the coaches
09:53tj come on just give me the game plan and like the rep and goal line all of a sudden
09:58here comes
09:59chris creighton
10:02come on focus tj focus
10:06you're getting a lot more short yardage
10:12there's there's a lot more corny activity
10:14fast field goal fast field goal
10:19sudden change come on let's go let's go
10:25his db coach had a trombone unbelievable all right we'll just we'll catch some of the
10:32mark ryan out there oh boy uh-oh no he was in the floor
10:37hey hey he what he played trombone maybe he should go back for alumni day
10:43i wish you wouldn't have told me that okay we're done here
10:4697
10:47you
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