00:02i saw that long time nbc golf announcer and weekend host at nbc and there's a lot of their
00:10sports coverage uh notre dame football dan hicks died at the age of 64. um it's sad it really sad
00:19apparently suddenly uh he had suffered some sort of an acute illness in the last few days
00:26and uh now he's he's no longer with us it's a really sad news uh i like dan hicks as
00:32a golf
00:33announcer i thought he was he was really good um an outstanding announcer and one of those people
00:39that you know like looked still in the had his had his fastball right absolutely still had his
00:46fastball and was in the prime of of doing what he did and he was one of those really inviting
00:53voices
00:53there are certainly voices where you hear him you turn down the volume he was one that i turned up
00:58yeah and he was also and i want to i mean this is a total compliment to him he was
01:03a guy that when
01:04you heard his voice i was kind of like who's this i mean he's really good he does what he's
01:08just does
01:09the job you know he doesn't try to make himself the story the story and i thought he was really
01:14really good at what he did and it's uh just sad news today 64 years old uh an acute illness
01:19see in
01:20the next few weeks if they release what that was but it's just it's too bad uh lions and patriots
01:28on
01:28sunday and now that the smoke is cleared the dust has settled from the trade deadline we all know what
01:35they didn't do and maybe more importantly we all know what other teams did you start to look at
01:44the nfc mark and this is where we're going to concentrate on because of uh uh that that's
01:50obviously the conference the lions are in and you look to see okay playoff wise going into the trade
01:57deadline felt pretty confident this lions team is a playoff team i know how difficult the nfc north is
02:02green bay packers are six and three the lions the vikings are six and two and the bears are seven
02:08and
02:08two lions have beaten both the vikings and the packers in recent weeks they look pretty strong
02:14they won four games in a row roar the rest of the conference really is just the nfc west
02:24and it might just be san francisco the rams continue to lose they i shouldn't say continue to lose they're
02:31five and four on the season but they're losing players they lost davante adams now they've lost
02:36puka nakua could be for a really long time um they are compromised even though they've got now
02:42miles garrett is playing again well it's really unfortunate for them that they didn't have miles
02:47garrett from the beginning of the season because maybe they won a couple of those games they lost
02:50and have a little bit of padding to try to absorb uh the pain of losing not one but two
02:57really really good wide receivers uh seattle just doesn't look like the same team i'm tired of people
03:03talking them up like they're some elite team that can't run the football well they can't run the
03:07football because yeah because they don't have the running back because you let them go uh in kenneth
03:11walker and then they've got quarterback issues with with sam darnold has been out for a little bit here
03:17i'm just not sold that a team from the west is definitely going to make the playoffs over a team
03:22from the north and of course the east and and south are so bad i mean you wonder why they
03:28even get an
03:29out of it yeah is i well i i understand why they do and yet there's also the argument that
03:33says
03:33how could you possibly do that when you have a division like the nfc south that exists where
03:38this is a couple times now that they've flirted with having a team that's going to have a less
03:44than 500 record three and five leads that division right now it's pathetic it's pathetic and yet when
03:50all everything shakes out i bet you some team ends up being nine and eight because it's just how
03:54kind of things i think worst ever record to win a division was seven and nine what if this one
03:59beats that what if it's seven and ten what if a double digit loss team is in the playoffs
04:05that'd be horrible i mean nobody wants that in the nfl and then of course you get into the whole
04:09seeding aspect of it like how can a team that's seven and nine not only a make the playoffs but
04:14to
04:15host a playoff game exactly like that shouldn't happen and yet someone from the south is going to
04:20host a playoff game remember beast mode when he had that run that was a seven and nine division
04:25winner and i think they beat the saints in a wild card playoff game that they hosted they rode the
04:31wave of momentum that is quite simply an advantage you should not have so you look at the landscape
04:37of the nfc right and you get three wild card teams that make the playoffs right now it sets up
04:44that
04:44all three teams in the north along with the whoever wins the division will make the playoffs
04:52do we really feel like it's going to hold up that way i mean are all four teams in the
04:56division going
04:57to make the playoffs meaning that all the wild cards come from the nfc north it's never happened
05:02well there's a first time for everything right i mean we we have we've actually have seen a team go
05:08undefeated in this season given it was a 14 week season the dolphins did in 1972 we have seen
05:14teams go oh and 16 the lions are the first team and then cleveland said hold my beer we can
05:19do that
05:19too we may see you know in 17 team there's a first time for everything um so i'm not going
05:26to be
05:26terribly surprised if that happens but if you had to call your shot right now do you think that the
05:33lions are going to find themselves on the outside looking in because of what didn't happen this week
05:40with the trade deadline because they missed their opportunity to shore up obvious holes
05:46on the defensive side of the football or is this team good enough to make the playoffs
05:52and do you think they can still make some noise if they make the playoffs 248-539-9797 is the
06:01telephone
06:01number personally i think we're going to see four teams from the north make it first time ever i i
06:07just
06:07think that uh i don't i we're going to see these teams continue to beat up on the rest of
06:11the of the
06:12national football league as they have done and and i think that the the remaining games they have
06:18against each other there'll be some cannibalization i don't know who the best team in the division is
06:22if you had to put a fork to my nose in the dark alley i'd probably say it's the chicago
06:27bears
06:27but i'm not married to that because i want to see what the the vikings look like now that they
06:31actually
06:31have a quarterback of some kind of substance 248-539-9797 mark you'll give your opinion
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