I'm okay. I just smoked them others in the face. Yes, she
want to stay singing to your beach. I go with j Don't just try
to tell me you love me. You can't keep it. Really, if
you really don't trust me, you come with a real you have been in
the front, so you get my meals. I'm conning for the money money
in the back, coming with a tank, scrilla, that tank rolling with
the gang. You sitting on the sideline trip and I'll go to the hole
with the rock Lake Pepper. Yes, I'm okay. You know this will
be an outstanding test for us, but it's one we're ready for. We're
ready for. So we're built to handle this and this is gonna be uh,
this will be an outstanding game on the road. Our guys, you
can be ready to roll. He sucks. Booter has mutic What up though,
Welcome to what Weights loping with sports dot Com. You more easy,
Joe, My guys, more recks, Young Chris. We got Booter in
the sound booth. Booter, keep plucking the lights beneath you. Yes,
sir, hey, I can barely see myself man, Yes, he kind
of Yeah, what what like a friend telling friends share the streams uh kg
is company from late travel in the meantime, you got Booter Booter, what
up? We got the boomers pass and the Let's go man. It's like
my audio debut, is it really? I mean, I've been in here
just unmute. But I mean I'm playing some down a little bit. I
don't got to do that. You gotta do that best five. Yeah that
works too. It's funny because this is like two days in a row where
heavyweights kind of just like, uh fucking through it. Yes, today it's
being on the handheld. I was with a quick instagrab the mass chair,
which, by the way, I'm not gonna lie. Mad's got it made.
He's got like the confus scene, just just chilling talking sports. Honestly,
I did feel like more comfortable, feel like I feel like I put
on a better show from the mass chair because I was chilling. It was
a conversation, you know, it wasn't all like honest, that's just changes
things. I feel like you got to be extra with the desk. The
desk feels like hello today it is. Yes, yeah, I mean,
I don't know, man, just I don't think it could be like my
Foby myself. Do you get that feeling? Sometimes? I do. I
do whenever I'm in the chair man. It just feels like I'm just rapping
with the boys. Feels like, Yo, there's a spotlight on. Yes,
that's probably difference. That's the difference there. That's very true, Detroit
Lions. It's almost here. We continue to talk about it. We got
a couple of clips from Dan Campbell. Jared gospoke to me today, Frank
Ragnow. We also got zach ercheout the boonef feeling in for KG briefly actually,
Chris, Yes, sir, would you mind playing the zach Ertz cut?
Yeah, just jump into something right away. Yeah, give me a
second to queue it up. I appreciate you, and sorry, I'm looking
for it. This is uh there we go, new tight for the Detroit
line. Zach Ertz super bowlinner. I don't expect anything handed to me,
obviously. I want to earn whatever reps I get. I'm not here to
start any drama or cause any subordination, per se. I'm just here to
support the guys. And ever however I can hopefully teach Sam or some of
these young and some things and play the best of my abilities with my numbers,
called Zach with zach Ertz, I'm I'm glad that Brad Holmes isn't at
this point wrestling on his laurels. You know, I remember mid season when
it was getting up to that kind of trade deadline. We were like,
yo, go do something to kind of secure this year because we thought you
can't count for next year. If you got a good opportunity this year to
get to the super Bowl, you got to do everything you can to do
that. Now, obviously, up to that point, Brad Holmes must have
thought he had what he had to get there, and clearly the results are
starting to pan out. Yeah, but there's only so many injuries that you
can sustain and cover up and scheme over. At this point in time,
the tight end is something crucial to Jered Golf's success. It just has been
all season, and so for them to you know, be down brock right
and Sam la Porter to be a little bit banged up, I think that
this is the perfect opportunity in time for them to bring in a guy like
zach Ertz who has the experience and he's gonna be fresh. Obviously, he's
he's not gonna be in his prime, it's gonna be a little bit older,
but to be able to step in and play maybe one, maybe two
games. And what I heard is him being really really effective potentially in the
blocking game. I'm all for it. Bro. That's where I'm kind of
curious, And I don't know if it's just because I'm more I guess obviously,
you know, I think I didn't grow up an Eagles fan, so
I thinted to watch jack Ertz against blocking reps. I know him as a
receiver, his pass catching game, I don't know if he I mean,
is he off of that because when I look at the piece we lost,
which is blocked right, Yeah, he catches like a ball here and there.
I feel like he's mostly majority of used for like, you know,
blocking for the most part, or maybe as a decoy or whatever it may
be. Does zach Ertz I mean is that in this game is repertoire?
I mean, that's what I heard, man. But what I think it
really helps the lines as well, is a guy like like like Ben Johnson
as offensive coordinator. It's not just the fact that you have a zach Ertz
who's going to have this experience catching the ball and potentially pass blocking and run
blocking, but also the element of surprise, like when they were able to
just kind of throw Craig Reynolds back there, it kind of threw off the
entire defense of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They're like, what are they doing?
You know, when they're able to kind of run Jamo out there,
all of a sudden, you see the safety start to hedge over and play
a little bit deeper. And when you put a zach Ertz out there,
it's going to make a defense have to think that. And you know,
with Ben Johnson, I trust him to be able to scheme up something to
take advantage of his of his opportunities on the field, and I really do.
It's funny you mentioned the thing about Craig Reynolds scoring Tashohn g Stampa Bay
last week? Did you know that was a complete accident? Talk about it
that. Yeah, I posted it shot to thirty thirteen for showing me some
love. I was really just showing them some love. The Saint Brown Brothers
podcast is obviously a tremendous one, but that had Calvin Johnson on yesterday.
Obviously it's coming out today, but so in the podcast, we're talking about
the game first between the tamp Bay Buccaneers and theyre talking about the touchdown the
Craig Reynolds scored on fourth down and initially started with e Q you know,
giving Ben Jonson's flowers, Like, yeah, I like that. That was
a good move, and Rob was like, yeah, he was supposed to
be in. That was a beautiful mistake if you were uh, and I
guess yeah. The rest is history. That's the second time this year though,
something like that's happened with the wrong personnel and just ended up working in
our favors. And you want to talk about being a team of destiny?
Is that a sign those type of things. Remember the Dave Montgomery run against
the Chargers, like that too, the seventy five yeard run that ended up
happened. Yeah, that was supposed to be a play called you do in
that situation either, But hey, it's definitely a team of destiny, man.
I'm taking it every time, man. Like this season has been one
in which the Allions have done things that teams haven't done in a long time,
like no back to back losses for a full season. The only contender
man to not have back to back losses all season I think that's pretty big
and for me personally, I remember as we were kind of getting to the
last quarter of the season, a lot of people are concerns about the longevity
of this run, not just this year but in years but years to come,
and that's when their next season schedule dropped. A lot of people were
like, man, that's a tough schedule. What we've seen them do of
the last quarter of the season and into the playoffs has me ultimately confident in
this team, not just this year but years to come. Obviously, they
got business to handle right now, but they just continue no matter what's put
in front of them, even if it's wrong personnel, you know, wrong
play calls or something to just sncely meet the mark and beat the mark man
honestly, and I love it. I love it. I was talking about
this earlier. Man, it shout out to KG again and it was like,
you know, this team, man, this team, this Lions team.
I don't even know sometimes what I'm seeing, what I'm looking at.
It's almost it's surreal. It's surreally, because like this is like these are
moments like we all dreamed about as Lions fans. You know what I'm saying
like you've you've seen this. You've been in a situation where the crowds like
breaking records at decibels, and then you're hosting playoff games and winning those playoff
games. I mean even to the point you're beating Matthew Stafford in those playoff
games. You've seen it before. That's why just feel some weird. It's
like it's like a day job or something like that, because you dream this.
We're living in a dream right now. Bro. Think about this though
in the years past where we said yo Ford Field can be an advantage,
it was during seasons where we weren't going anywhere. Bro. To see it
happening this year, and not just our own stadium, Bro, we took
over as a one prize multiple other stadiums this season. Man, I will
always this year. I will always go back to the fact that we took
over our own personal house of horrors in lambeau Field. Man. Yeah,
there's been some crazy things that's happened to the Lions in lambeau Field, Man,
even times when we were also go in there and win and you just
come away like what the heck happened? Yeah, to be able to go
there and to see the Lions fans there louder than Packers fans of Lambo and
after the game, sticking around, seeing Sheila out there, seeing Brad out
there, seeing Jared Golf, just walking around looking at all the fans,
was about to go into the tunnel saying, Nah, it's still one Lions
fan. Let's get hyped. Yeah, bro, that's been awesome to see.
I think you know what fans we deserve this. I think that was
a game that Brad was going around screaming, yeah, yeah, which one
you mean? I think, like, oh damn, yeah yeah, because
on Thursday night game. Oh man, this it's been a dream season.
I don't know if the dream's over yet, man, I really don't.
I've been tossing and turning on like the idea of it or what it may
be like I guess this entire week. But we're gonna find out. Man,
one more point, when I make him Zach hurt stuff before we move.
I've gone far away from that in the first place, but it's funny
to hear him say like whatever, i' I'm here to help whatever I can
do and help Sam and stuff like that. It's like, and there's obviously
things he could learn from zach Erzer did for a very long time. But
sim report is also all pro, just as a rookie year like like,
I don't know, man, it's just like I'm here to help Sam.
Like Sam's killing it, brother, I don't know. I don't know if
you noticed, but Sam's that man right now. He was like, yo,
know, I'm here to kind of help some of the young guys,
give him some advice, teaching some tricks, and it's like, maybe Sam
can help you learn this offense a little bit, a little bit faster than
then, you know, just coming off the street and having to go through
all the rigamarole of the playbook and everything. But yeah, there's got to
be something, you know what I mean, zach Ertz. Where I think
he ultimately helps is helping people understand on this team, especially the young guys,
just how big a moment they're in right now. Yeah, you know,
he's been there, he's done that, he's won this, and now
being able to be in this position as a mentor, as a player,
as a potentially doing a little bit more than just pass catching, but going
out there and blocking as well. Yeah, I have no problem with a
guy that's going to be able to come into this room and absolutely help the
locker room. Because we talked about this with Cam Sutton. There's a lot
of people who look at what he's doing on the field. He's single covering
right now and that's allowing the Lions defense honestly to win in other areas,
even though we think Cam Sutton is getting beat. But the one thing that
you know is in that locker room when you ask players about him in the
locker room, I know brother's got an opportunity. Shout out to Broder,
the WSM Lions beat writer. They all talk about the impact that Cam Sutton
has made in that locker room. And if zach Ertz can come away at
this point in time and think about this, he won a Super Bowl too
with the Eagles. That's what I'm saying. Think about that. Though he
chose to sign with the Lions, you're not the only team dealing with injuries.
He chose the Lions man to say, you know what, I think
I can go win the Super Bowl with them. What do you think that
says? And that does for that that entire locker room already. So when
he does start to speak, that's gonna resonate even more. This person who's
won a Super Bowl before has come to this franchise something that would have never
happened in the past, and he's here to help us learn and help us
win. Kinds when the Rams picked up Eric Whittle before they continued on their
trip to the Super Bowl, and you know he was starting at that situation.
But I think another cool piece of that, I guess realizing that he
did play for the Super Bowl winning Eagles. At that point, they're also
the underdog Eagles, you know what I'm saying That that was when they had
big Nick Nick Nick Folks at quarterback helping him go all the way dogs.
But so like it's it's also like, don't I don't think this this the
locker room need any type of like mental boosts at all either way. Obviously,
I think, you know, Dan Kimill gets praised for that for a
reason. But if they ever did, I mean, there's there's your piece
right there, a guy who's literally been part of the underdog story into the
Super Bowl. I mean not not just did they win the Super Bowl,
they beat Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Yeah, man, with a backup
quarterback. You know what I'm saying, like crazy, it is insane,
man, but we gotta go to break. When we get back, we
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We've got hit. Actually, if I'm doing Jeff, it's me.
You know the two for one, Give me two hundred likes. Hundred yeah,
yeah, give you two hundred likes. Let's let's roll. That's still
a do it should be three hundred. But you cut them slash. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying. Too much? We are. We're gonna
be joined by her more at some point shortly here, but I guess to
buy some time here. You missed something in the last segment of like this
being the new expectation of the Detroit Lions. By that I mean, what
do you mean like playoffs, going deep into the playoffs, Like what tier
of expectations are you talking about for this team? Like when the schedule came
out, when the schedule for next season was released, and we know that
this is going to be a much harder path for them to get back next
season, I don't think anybody should be looking at it like we would have
to start this year like Wow, that's going to be tough. We're the
big dogs, We're the predators. That's exactly what Dan Campbell has continued to
set up. He's continued to say. He said, look y'alln't got to
go looking for us. We'll be right on your front porch. That's the
identity I wanted the team to be able to take on, to be able
to believe. And sometimes you're doing that and your confidence will exceed what you
can actually do. But in this team, especially with this run, they're
proving that his rhetoric, his philosophies, and their capabilities, man are all
the lining. Remember going into that Cowboys game, all of us were like,
yo, we don't know really what to expect. No one of us
did, and when we saw the outcome, whether you know a loss or
whatever with an asterix, we all said, you know what this team is
for real? And that's what I mean. These expectations have changed, and
knowing that they're going to have cap space, knowing that they have another year
of Brad Holmes to get busy in the draft, knowing that a lot of
the work he did was with draft picks that came a little bit lower than
where we wanted him to initially pick. Those types of things. To me,
it's like, wait a second, he gets to completely go into this
offseason and he's not trying to augment a team that's kind of done nothing or
had to crawl their way out of the basement. He's augmenting a team that
believes in itself and has proven something. Now that to me, like everything
we wanted him to do at the boy the trade deadline. He's going to
be able to go into this offseason with a team that's full on confident and
has proven it man, and really really really set up this foundation of this
team going forward that nobody should be looking at next year's schedule like, oh
man, that's gonna be tough. That's gonna be a tough sale. People
should be looking at it like Yo, our lines are going to go out
there represent That's what I truly believe. Man. Speaking about representing the Detroit
Lions, we got one of the greatest representations of that legend. Legend,
Herman Moore joined the show. What Up though, Man, Hey, what
up? Though? You know I'm always in the house. He couldn't make
it. This is my guy, Brendan Dent, Detroit Cooleddy covers the Pistons
for us. He's also got a couple of Detroit Pistons podcasts. I like
that shirt too, man, that hoodie? Oh you like that? Man?
I like that. That's what we've been rocking at. That's rocking that
for a little bit. Man. People are showing love on purchasing those and
rocking those at the game, So I appreciate that. See, I got
a cop one of those accidents. Yeah, give me a website real quick
for the shirt. Oh yeah, you can go to Armbermore eighty four dot
com. I'mber Moore eighty four dot com and check out some of the swags,
some of the gear we got there were always keeping it refreshed. So
yeah, speaking refreshed, refreshing for me is a Detroit Lions playing in a
NSC Conference championship game. Herman, where are you at? Where's your head
at? With is the reality that we're in right now? You know what
all I can say is this, man, it's like, this is where
everyone's been talking about getting back to. And as a player who has been
in this position where you're one game away from a Super Bowl, man,
it's a feeling that it's hard to put into perspective for a fan or for
someone who's not on the field to really understand. Just like the fan can't
help us understand. I understand both sides of it. I've been cheering for
the team since I retired, so I've been out there for a couple of
decades. Also understanding what you want to see happen with this franchise, happen
with this team, and understanding also that I know these guys are feeling on
the inside of the locker room. This is the moment, This is the
moment of truth. This is the moment that, yeah, you win your
playoff games, but I can tell you right now, we got all the
way to the conference championship, and if you don't win that game and go
into the super Bowl, it becomes a great run, but it doesn't give
you that sense of victory that you want to get from culminating that season.
How distracting is that moment or that situation knowing that there's a super Bowl on
the line when you win this game? Is is it is that creep in
or are you guys in your situation when you guys went through like we just
locked it on the game. Now you get locked in on the game,
it becomes another game. You do not understand the importance because no matter what
you do, if you turn on the TV, you go on your social
Uh. The the tenseness that's around the locker room and a lot of people
want to say, listen, man, we're we're we're we're relaxed, We're
we're focused, We're No. Man, you get tense because as it gets
closer and closer, you realize this is it, Like the moment is bigger
than any game you played short of going to a super Bowl. I mean
this is the next step before that. Uh So that will start to creep
in right around you know, Saturday Friday and walk through. Uh they're gonna
watch film and and and really pay attention to the detail of it. You're
gonna be focused on assignments and mistakes and making sure that you you minimize the
mistakes. You're gonna make mistakes. You're gonna have mishaps. Nobody plays a
perfect game, but you're gonna go in and really try understand not only what's
on the line, but you can't get ahead of yourself. And if you
get fall behind and you're on the road, you have to dial it in.
You can't let it get out of control. Hey, Harman, Man,
look, the Lions to just added zach Ertz to the team. He's
coming in with a little bit of savvy, He's coming in with championship experience.
What do you believe he's going to add to this team both in the
locker room as well as on the field. Well, you know, when
you look at bringing in players who have some experience that can bring some depth,
that only strengthens the morale. It strengthens the ability for a team to
be able to say, Okay, we got some players who understand what this
moment means. They understand that you have to be on your game, you
have to be on top of it. But it gives you a sense of
confidence because when you you don't have players that you normally will have that that
you've built that confidence all year in. You know, the next person is
not going to be a new just a new guy. It just has to
be someone who also has that experience as well her his first two matchups.
You know those those seasons ended and they hit the podiums. I listened to
them. They said, you know, no one thought we'd be here.
We're happy to be here in the season, Timpa Bay, no one thought
we'd be here, happy to be here in this season, l A.
Rams. But now we're going up against the big bag bullies of the NFC
for like the past, I feel like the past five years. How you
feel about this matchup? Detroit Lions headed into San Francisco faces forty nine ers.
You want me to really tell y'all how I feel? Let's preach it.
Do you really want to know how I feel? You know what?
Brother? Sure? How I feel? You see this? Well, that's
that all thing. Thing, that's that game. Learn that this is from
the game. This is from the game. Man. Listen, man,
y'all playing around colapscond. Well, I'm gonna finish my conversation. Don't think
you don't come home. Wait a minute, a minute. This is crazy
right now, right here, go home crazy. Hey, c J gave
me those man booms, so I know they were you know what I'm saying.
So hey, if you feel into your feeling, this is what I
feel. This is what I feel about this team. This is what I
feel about what they're ready to do, and it's it's you put it all
on the line. I'm telling them, I'm telling I'm gonna give them a
hype video for the end of the week because I'm telling you. Don't worry
about nothing else because you don't want to leave anything to be regretted. You
don't want to leave anything on the table and say I wish I had done
more. I don't care if you get tired. You got to fight through
it. And if you're not, you're not on your game. Come out,
put the next person in. They got to step in, don't miss
a beat, and that's when you got to play it. There is no
what they say right there is no tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. You
gotta go get it. So this is me. I'm gonna be rocking it
just like this. Damn, that's fine. Come on now, this is
a legendary man. He's still like he can go for eighty five out there,
man saying, man, now you know I'm ain't gonna lie man,
this this jersey a little snug. Now bring it in a little bit.
What what are the the key features of this offense or defense that they really
need to I guess expressing this game to make sure they come away with that
victory rather be us making sure we stopped the run on our end for defense
or run the ball on the offensive side. What needs to have with Detro
Allianza cash in the w this Sunday, It's gonna be a couple of things.
So let's look at their you know, we look at both of the
offenses. They match up real well. You got their running game against our
running game, which is comprised of two players that can come in and really
wear down your defense. They're gonna, you know, hopefully McCaffrey's gonna be
a guy that that can can lead that. You know, what's gonna have
with Deebo Samuel who knows, but he's a guy that helps give them a
little bit more versatility in their running attack and also giving them some of those
offset plays you start getting into the passing. They have Kittle got Laporta,
but we also have our guys working out of the backfield, but we can
attack them more ways than one. And then when you get into the offensive
receiving unit, we already proven that we have one and the best in the
game. And Saint Brown. You start looking at how josh Renol comes in
and plays that second tier, that third tier, and then you got just
players that can come in and just keep circulating in and beat down your defense.
The difference here is going to be defense. How will our defense match
up against their offense. We know they have one of the best defenses in
the NFL. They're going to match up well against our team. They're going
to make sure the Lions are having pressure on Jared Goff. They know what
his numbers look like under pressure. Now can we get the same on Purty?
You know, can we defensively make him get into pressure situation where he
makes mistakes? Otherwise, these teams match up pretty good. I mean,
you got the number one versus number three on both sides. That's why we're
looking at one of those those epic moments and championship games where teams that are
supposed to be there or there at the end, no Harman Man. Look,
you got the jersey on, you got the gloves on. So it's
only fitting and right that I ask you this. If you were in that
locker room and you're on that field on game day, what are you telling
this Detroit Lions team. Oh all right, I'm telling you right now,
I'm coming out of locker room. I'm saying, you know what, this
isn't enough. You know a lot of people say, hey, we've been
here, we know what this No, this is not another moment. This
is a moment you don't get to bounce back from. This is the moment
de termines whether or not we keep playing or we go home. And when
we get out there, mistakes are going to happen. But when they happen,
we got to make up for them. And we don't have to We
don't have to pressure ourselves into anything because we've been here, we've practiced for
this. The hard part is over. That's practice, that's preparation, that's
winning the games during the season to get here to the division championship game,
the conference championship. All we gotta do right now is beat the man in
front of you. You got to beat the person that's in front of you.
You got to be sound, more sound in your assignment than that person
is trying to throw you off of And if you win that battle, we
win the game. The score will be the score. You know, the
score will be the score. You don't have to worry about looking up at
the scoreboard. All you got to do is look at that person in front
of you and said, did I do what I was supposed to do?
I blocked the right person. That I dominate that person, That I win
that battle, that individual battle, the team wins. The more individual battles
you win, that's it. That's it all. Throwing your weight. Don't
care how it's thrown to you. You know what I'm saying. I don't
care how the ball thrown to me. Did I touch it? I should
have caught it. Did he get it off? He gave me an opportunity.
If they do that, do your part. Be a playmaker sometimes guys
can't be just receivers in this game. You gotta be playmakers. You got
to make it what's not there. You got to make it possible. I'm
telling you, that's that's the mentality. Yeah, That's how I'm going in
there. What's that three you got to you got to put that on a
T shirt. Bro, This is not another moment. That's a bar.
It's a bar. That's a bar. Stop. Yeah, coach, some
people haven't had it. We'll say that. Oh you know what, you
know this, this is this is something that we've done before. You know,
you haven't there even no time you've been in the NFC Championship Conference game.
No you haven't. No, you haven't say another moment, So you
know what I need. I don't need another. I don't need another regular
effort that you have. I need an effort you haven't even given me.
I don't I need an effort you didn't even know you possessed. You know.
That's that's what I need. Man. That was one for me.
Yeah, I'm ready to go for jersey and some gloves to man and go
ball out, sir. I'm ready heard they got day for the other media
obligations you got to do. But before we let you get going, man,
I want you to plugging everything you got going? What are you doing
for the game? And uh, some people get some playoff merch you know
where was that? This is not another moment? Do we lose them?
Oh? Frozen in time? He was spitting hot fire, bro too much.
He burned up because he burnt the connection. Damn, I don't know
what happened, Bro. That was epic, man Like, I'm literally ready
to run through a brick wall right now, man, Like some of the
Lions players see that type of stuff, because this is a legend right here,
man, And I think he understands, he would understand more so than
a lot of these other players on this team right now, exactly what it
means to be in this moment. And the fact that he said this is
not another moment. I know he wishes they could have broken through and gotten
to the Super Bowl, man, and had that opportunity to represent the city
on the biggest stage. Man. I know that for a fact. You
could see it in the passion. You can see it in his eyes.
This matters to them, This matters to them. And I love that all
of the some of the former players that have been here in recent years,
the players that's been here from long ago, you know, some of the
legends, theyre all bought and right now they all want to see this team
do something great. And it's cool to see even some of the legends that
were kind of disenfranchised man. They're just in a position now where they're just
like, you know what, I'm back on board, and I think that
starts with the owner, Queen Sheila Amen, Chris, Yeah, well,
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man, you burned up the connection. What happened is man's fired. Hey
listen, I'm telling you, hey. They sent somebody sent out a message
to San fran and they sent it out to the West coast and said,
we need to cut him off. He bring it. He bringing that blue
He bringing that blue wave. He bringing that blue fire, you know that
blue fire. So that's all. You can't stop this. You can't solve
this. You try as you may, you can't stop That is value that
they do have, all the Internet connections and all the nerds out there,
doesn't that they're like, man, we got to cut this brother off.
We got to cut him off. It was fire. It was hype,
man. It got me hyped and her. One of my keys of the
game was and this is the kind depends on if Deebo's playing or not,
but I think the Detroit Lions and a lot of people are sleeping on the
fact that they have one of the best run defenses in the game and there's
no deble To throwing those extra wrinkles. I think we should be able to
at least slow down Christian McCaffrey where he's not. I'm hoping so he's not
an absolute nuisance in that situation. Do you think you know our guys the
Fontine the final was the C J, G J, the Kirby Joseph of
the Bryant branch. Do you think they're be able to capitalize on some of
the stakes that brock perty made last week? You know? And I think
they may be able to. But you look at what they faced with Green
Bay. Man, they were lucky to escape, uh, beating that team.
Green Bay was coming on strong, and they've been They've been getting better
and better as the year's gone. Uh. Their their offense has been able
to run the football. We saw what Aaron Jones was able to do.
But I'll say this, man, it's like the biggest concern I'll have is
this San Francisco. They're not just running. I mean Christian McCaffrey. He
gives them balance to where what we see with Jamier Gibbs, like, they
don't mind throwing the ball to him out of the backfield. They will run
him downhill. But the minute you start sleeping on him is when he does
the most damage. And then when they get into the red song. These
guys have been very effective, so you got to keep them in those long
down and distances. You gotta make brock Purdi get really uncomfortable in the pocket
because when he's given time, they have receivers that can beat you. They
have receivers like you've seen with most teams. It doesn't mean they have to
be household names. They just have to be able to have time. The
passing game is all about time. The running game is all about how do
you attack a defense to loosen them up so it gives you that opportunity.
Then I asked, I guess too like their defensive line. I think it's
Richard Shermands who ear this morning, and he says, we do a lot
of like just man up blocking and we just kind of, you know,
we don't live any extra chippers in and help these offensive lineman out. But
we still, in my opinion, is still like the best offensive line in
the league at least, you know, top three, but he that does
his like weak point for the Detroit line somehow as those one on one match
up on the offensive line, is there any concern there? You think they'll
be able to hold it down and keep Jared God clean enough to make those
throws the stars that we got. I think it depends on what San Fran
will do with their linebackers. You know you're talking, you know, top
tier. They got linebackers that can bring the pressure. They you know,
when they decide to blisch, they can. They can come from a standstill
and all of a sudden hit the gap and before you know it, you
know it is they're running in there like guys from the secondary. So it's
hard to just shape them Jered Golf. I mean, let's you know,
he's a he's a good quarterback, but his mobility is one that if you
give him time, he's he's gonna pick your card. But if you make
a move, that's where you get him at a disadvantage for your defense and
then for the offense, it becomes a situation where they have to figure out
how to keep him protected in their pocket. I look for them to really
throw quicker passes I look for them to San Franz is going to probably bring
up a little bit more man coverage to force the pressure. I don't think
they're going to sit back and see what we saw with Tampa Bay. They're
not going to sit back and just let them just you know, back up
and just hit some of those teams and hit some of those holes with their
offensive attack and their type of receivers that we have. Because possession style plays
well for the Detroit Lions offense. It's when you start to commit too far
down and you don't get pressure, they can attack over the top or they
start to hit you with those MyD those middle of the field passes. So
they're going to come in prepared. That's one thing you can be assured of.
For the Lions. It's a matter of how do they attack this offense
and how do they throw them off off their their game. And that's going
to be the question they're going to get there. I mean, they're going
to get pressure on Jack Golf. The offensive line is sturdy. We have
a very good offensive line top two in my opinion in the NFL. But
it's still going to come down to minimizing the pressure and then making throws,
making catches, making plays under pressure. I know the lines grabs, zach
Ertz. We got a new team in ourselves too. We got KG in
the sound booth and he actually has a question for you as well. What
up though, HERM this KG for you? What what is a player that
you think is an X factor or somebody that absolutely needs to perform in this
game in order for the Lions to win. That's not the quarterback? Wow,
you know, I want to say, it may come out, it
may come down, and I'm gonna go out on a limb. A guy
that that I think they come up with a big players is uh, Jamison
Williams. And if not him, I think you're you're gonna get people Jones,
the Jones people. You know, I always get his name back Jones.
Yeah, People's Jones. So you know, I look at it like
this, man, you're gonna get a big play or a couple key plays,
third down plays, chain movers, things that are back breakers for offensive
defense. They're gonna happen from those players that don't play much, but they
are playmakers and if they have the ability to really hurt you, and I
see it coming from their receiving unit. Uh, they're gonna be prepared for
Montgomery. They're gonna be prepared for Gibbs. They're gonna be prepared for Amaras
Saint Brown and Jared Goff, that trio, Sam Laporter. The packages are
going to be built around stopping their best players. Defensively, They're gonna stop
you know, Aiden Hutchinson. They're gonna look at ways to limit the effectiveness
of linebackers, any of those those off side blitzes, those backside blitzes that
we saw with branch Or, we see someone trying to sneak in and get
a clean hit on the quarterback. They're gonna be ready for that each team,
both teams. Uh, it's it's those players that you don't scout much
that's got to come up with big plays. Amen, Chris, you got
the forty nine Ers radio coming up. But I'm just wondering, like,
what cut the type of engury you coming with you going into the territory?
Man? Oh, you know what, you know, I'm gonna be on
there and I'm gonna give them the same fire I just gave you. I
really believe this is a game where I'm being honest. Man, I'm going
on to limb again. It's like, I don't think the Lions are going
to be nervous. That's not what I'm worried about. It's how do they
handle when the mistakes happen. You you don't minimize them. You you pick
them up because you know, every play counts. That's one less play you
get a chance to run. And if they can really focus in on minimizing
the mistakes, playing a cleaner football game and play you gotta go. You
can't play at your ability. You got to play above your ability. And
some people may disagree, but you have to. You got to play above
your ability. And if you do that, this is the opportunity for them
to take that next step that hasn't been taken, and that's get a victory
on the road and also on you know, against a team like San fran
and going to the super Bowl. Well her, I'm gonna let you get
to that man. Uh hey, let him know we come. I'm just
saying, you know, what do you call it? That blue fire?
The blue were bringing it. That's it. I gotta salute the legend.
Hey, I appreciate it. Thank you, good, Thanks, I appreciate
thanks for the time. Always Yes, sir, Herberlow dot com, Herman
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What up though? Welcome back to the reweights Libymores sports dot com. I'm
easy, we got Detroit kool Aid, Young Chris KG. We will rejoin
at some point by eighty Z Sports Mike Peyton to get some of his takeaway
from Detroit Lions games. And one thing I like about Mike now I used
to do this too, is he goes into the intricacies. He he gets
like down there with like whatever type of nerdy information you need to build a
case where Detroit Lions win me no matter who what's up against. And so
I'm happy to have Mike on at some point, you know, get some
of his takeaways, including the moon stuff that was Mike, that thing Mic
is the moon Man. But I guess until we buy some time, I
guess I'd like to ask you Brian Branch snub from the All Rookie Team despite
these numbers, Chris, you might throw these numbers up Fromrian Bridge's rookie year.
They're really trying to like more of a fire it was for Witherspoon and
then the snowbat was really for Joey Porter, which I'm not poop pooing on
Joey Porter at all whatsoever. But look at these numbers, man, it
really makes no sense side by side and just knowing like like, also,
what Brian Branch contributed to in the Detroit line has been at twelve and five
team as she got Brian Branch. Whatever you want to make a PFF grade,
I don't care because it goes beyond that. Even if you want to
take it to the old school like just x like the status almost double the
amount of tackles that Joey Porter had with sixty four versus Joey Porter thirty five,
triple the amount of receptions that Joey Porter had with three receptions to Joey
Porter's one, almost double the amount of pass breakup with eleven to Joey Porter
six. And then also, you know, Joey Porter, you don't got
QB pressures, but you know what I got. Brian Branch got ten of
them things. Bro tend them things. That's ridiculous. I mean to start
your rookie season off with that interception, don't okay, you was talking about
it earlier in Kansas City. Man to effectively seal that game. It's just
like he's a big time receiver. He's not just getting stats. He's affecting
wins directly. Man. He's playing tough throughout the game. And he's still
going out after these games where he's doing historical things and saying stuff like,
you know, I still got room to improve, I still got some mistakes
that I got to clean up. Man. This is I think this is
gonna lie even bigger, bigger fire underneath this Detroit Lions team. Just like
when I'm Arod Saint Brown when he was snubbed from just the Pro Bowl Man,
the Pro Bowl a popularity contest. He was still like, Yeah,
I'm pissed about this stuff, and I hope that these players take this type
of stuff personal, not to the point that they allow it to distract them,
but to the point that they realize, Man, continue to make people
see you, continue to do what you have to do to be seen.
Because I think it plays into what Hermit Moore was saying, this is not
just another moment. People still don't believe in you. People still don't believe
in what you're doing. Similar to like people in the beginning of Dan Campbell's
tenure. Man, it just kind of reeks of that a little bit.
It's like, you really don't believe that branch is that dude? Really?
I think it's disrespect man. It's more than a snub OKG. They continue
to doubt this kid. Man, he was drafted at the end of the
second round for reasons I really don't understand. He was a stud at Alabama.
He's been a stud ever since he's gotten on the Alliance, and you
got the numbers there, man, I didn't know. Like I said,
no offense to Joey Porter that he seems like a good player, but Brian
Branch is shattering like all of those stats man, and you know all you
gotta do is just continue to do him man, continue to play well,
continue to go out there and give it every play. And if they don't
want to give you respect, you just got to take it. As simple
as that. Yep, that's a bar to take it. The only explanation,
because I think there is one explanation for it. He's obviously I think
Brian Branch more than deserving to be on there. But I think it's the
fact that he plays a nickel cornerback position, yeah, versus like the outside
corner. But the same can be said for with Thisspoon at some point.
So I know that he was playing at the nickel spot for Seattle as well,
and I think eventually took over like the outside corner spot. Whatever I
guess make sense. But when I look at the linebackers all rookie team,
I saw I got shot. I got Jack Campbell for being on there too,
which also I mean no disrespect the Jack Campbell. But obviously, if
you look at the Detroit Lions rookie season between Brian Branch Jack Campbell, you
look at Brian branchon guy having a better year. But either way, Jack
Campbell, I'van Pace and my man from La La Rams one of the rookies.
I can't think it was Nap the top of my head. He's more
of like a rushing a rushing like linebacker, all linebackers, I know who
I think it was, or I don't know. Kobe Turner is the detect
tackle, which whatever the case may be. You have three different categories of
like linebackers on there making the All Rookie teams, So why why don't you
have the three different categories of like cornerback there? You know what I'm saying.
I guess because you're in a situation we look kind of like silly like
this in my opinion, you know, and the fact that you can put
aside by side like that and nearly every single stat is double and then you
have that one that the quarterback pressure one that's literally ten to nothing. It's
just obviously there's more value and a guy who's also on a winning team,
and these aren't just empty stats because he's out there and back situations against them.
No, he's contributing to winning football games. He just start to patch
Mahomes a little bit of a pick whatever, but still it was a pick
six helped the Detroit Lions win that game. NKC. Not many teams out
there doing that, especially here, Bro. It would look bleak for our
for our entire defensivege for damn sure. He's able to do so many things.
He's great in the run game, he's great in protection. I mean
going again, and I'm gonna go to your too, Chris apologize. I'm
just kind of like spinning right now. I was like the other thing too.
In the Rams. Cooper Cup is like a pretty good wide receiver and
I get maybe his age, he's got a couple of injuries, whatever it
may be. You hardly heard of him in that game when Matthew Stafford was
dishing it. Matthew Stafford was serving the balls on a player. To every
single body, you know, he was Kate Both throwing the ball to Cooper
Cup when he was guarding Cooper Cup. Brian Branch, you know what I'm
saying. I just I don't get Chris Godwin stop receiver right, Yep.
You hear a bunch of his name last week and you did not who was
that he would a Super Bowl with Champion Buccaneers. He was in Detroit last
week. He was, Yeah, you know who guard him? I did
not know Brian Branch. Like, it's it's crazy, Chris, I'm lett
you speak your piece on to you. I apologize. I mean no,
You're going exactly where I'm going with is the context of it. And to
add further context is and you're basically saying the same thing here, is that
think about what this team is and the fact that this team, this Lions
team, particularly this defense, he has been able to show out on all
facets And you talked about with the stats, but I think that's important when
we look at when we look at these awards, is to add context and
not only is it a winning organization or a winning team this season, but
it's also the fact that, like you said, this team this whole season
has struggled to put pressure on the quarterback. Brian Branch has been able to
fill that role for the team as well as guard the elite receivers. Like
he's literally done everything you could ask in more every single role you put him
in, he has thrived. And I don't think you can say that about
a lot of rookies. And so I feel like the context of the winning
season of the stats and just the ability to succeed in multiple different roles,
multiple different schemes, positions like how can you not look at this guy as
not not only an impressive rookie, but one of the best, and his
overall importance to this Detroit Lions defense in terms of all the success we've seen
them have getting to this point. We know that their personnel is not the
best right now. We know that they've dealt with injuries. They signed players
that they thought would be able to contribute to major roles. They got injured
early in the year. Some of these players like CJGJ got injured, Emanuel
Moseley, he got injured. To see what Brian Branch has done, it's
not just putting up the stats. It's his level of importance. Man.
Like I when I think about what this team would be if he went down
earlier in the year and missed significant time, I don't know if we're at
this point right now, don't. I just don't think so. Man.
It's and that's what kind of makes this a little bit frustrating, because it's
completely taking somebody's body of work and disrespecting it. Man. Yeah, it's
uh again, I maybe look at it as the outside cornerback position. You
know, I know Branch was, you know, slided back at safety spot
every once and again. I still think they should have found if you're you're
finding a way to put an on ball linebacker in the group with the All
Rookie team, the same should be made for a guy who's have an exception
season at the nickel spot, because not only is he like I guess,
like having an exception like rookie season as a nickel spot, but he's just
having an exceptional season as a nickel cornerbacks in general, Like like those numbers,
those are those are numbers amongst guys that are top ten in this league
at that position. They just are. Brian Branch has been that consistently.
And then it's like, say a third time I should have had to,
But like fucking you're also in the playoffs, and then at the conference championship
game? What more do you need? You know what I'm saying. I
don't know, man, Chris. I mean the one bright side is you
look at this organization and this roster and Brian Branch has a ton of people
who he can relate to on this Like you have am and Ra. You
have all these people that you're watching every day get disrespected on a national scale
and then feel it the right way, like you're watching people day in and
day out handle it, and even and even cj DJ, like what there
was there was people like there was some guy on a on on Woodward Heavyweights,
I forget his name, but he was talking about you know, cj
DJ was talking super greasy and saying he's a cancer to the locker room and
all that. And I want to do that guy, I want what did
you say? But no, I mean, but you have you have all
these people in the locker room that have been disrespected across the board and they're
handling it and they're feeling it the right way. And that's a credit to
coaching staff but also the players. And so Brian Branch is in a good
system where he's not gonna he's not gonna allow these things to bother him.
He's not gonna allow these things to take him off his game. It's if
anything's just gonna make him better, it's just gonna motivate them. Yeah,
And ultimately, you know what, I love that these guys, these Detroit
Lions, they believe in themselves. Man, they really do. I'm Ron
knows exactly what he is. Brian Branch knows exactly what he is. No
matter what the outside narrative is, no matter what other people are saying about
them or not saying about them, no matter what awards they do get or
they don't get, these players know who exactly they are. I'd be I
gotta admit too, man, CJGJ. That boy be talking, and sometimes
it's like, man, Brot's let's get healthy first. Let's get back on
the field. Like I'm not gonna doubt you, but let's get back up
there in the field. And even heading into this matchup with the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers, man, he was talking. Man, he was really like he
and I believe mentally, man, that stuff hassed away on an opposing quarterback's
mind. When you start getting the opposing quarterback to start talking back to you.
You see Jared Goffing the way he handles it. He's like, I'm
not listening to this day time stuff. I'm not listening to this trash talk
whatever. But for CJGJ to actually get the posing quarterback kicked off people from
both sides. I even saw Lions fans in our comments talking about man CJGJ
just need to stop talking. He don't get them riled up. And then
to go out there and have the first interception of the game, bro,
and then after the game to see him out there, like I told y'all,
like that level of confidence. These guys believe in themselves man, all
across the field, man from Penay to Frank ragnow. And I don't think
this is just another moment for them. I think this is their opportunity to
go out there and honestly stamp their own passport. They don't need TSA to
do it, man, they got it themselves. That's another bar. It's
a bar speak a CJGJ I means. And another hats off to the branch
branch took his spot in training. Can didn't move CDJ to the safety position
because the Branch are playing so damn well. I don't know, man,
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over here. Just wrong. He would take shots with us. We far
back they Oh God, don't leave me alone. Roll bro we can have
a whole what goes on the camera. Bro, I'm gonna try. I'm
gonna already do that. What we really need to find out? Find out?
Laugh, they don't even want to do that, that that there would't
even be a thing. They played victim in that situation too. There's no
no debates. We need that debate. So that's all I want to see.
I this could turn to debate. And I was trying to hold off
on like this being a topic for until the Detroun Lines win the Super Bowl,
But the news keeps coming out if we don't speak on it as Detroit
Sports Network or Detroy Sports Show, like what like what are we doing?
It's been rumored that Hank Frayley would become Ben Johnson is offensive coordinator in the
situation where he becomes the head coach of another franchise. And I guess just
want to get some of your guys takeaways from that one. KG yours perked
up when I said that. I guess I'm start with you. Yeah.
Man, It's a shame if we do lose Hank because he's been such a
force with this offensive line and getting these players together. Man. I know
they spend a lot of money on this old line. I think we have
one of the top five payrolls for offensive linemen in the league. But he's
just done such an amazing job when it comes to like the run schemes,
zone running schemes, helping create holes for jamir and and Manti, And yeah,
it'll be a damn shame if we got to see him go. But
next man up. You know, the same applies to the coaching staff too,
And if Dan was able to hire somebody like Frank, I trust that
he'll be able to hire somebody just as comparable, you know, but if
you know, if he'll probably do good as Ben Johnson's osdo. Yeah,
I think you said it right man. You know, we've seen Dan kempell
on a couple of times kind of in his tenure, shift around fire higher,
you know, elevate different coaches within within his system. And I love
the fact that he says that within his system he has a lot of people
around him that he trusts and that helps him be great. And I think
ultimately, if it's if it's something like this where you know, Hank and
Ben Johnson are both gone, I do trust that Dan Campbell has something up
his sleeves. The way that this organization does business right now from the front
office is just completely different. Man, the way that they identified even Dan
Campbell, the way that they identified the Ben Johnson, the way that they
identify you know, even Brad Holmes, because they hired Dan before Brad.
I do trust that this organization is going to have the ability to kind of
weather the storm. And the types of players that they have, man makes
it even better, you know what I mean. Yeah, the offensive line
is one that has kind of this nice mix of young players and veteran players.
But the young players don't seem like young players. You don't go up
to Pinney Suel and tell them, hey, you look like a young He
looked like a ten year vet who's been doing this his whole life, bro.
And that to me, ultimately, it makes me a little bit more
comfortable if you have to sustain a loss like that, at least it's to
that position group, which probably has been the MVP of this team the whole
season. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like Hank is a really, really
good coach and I'm not surprised to hear his name. I guess mentioned it,
And like the breath of being coming off as the coordinator because he has
been here since the Matt Patrician days. I think Chyly Decker gives him credit.
Pena School gives him credit. And we've seen it even so far.
We're like, we may be missing a piece, and I think this year
has been more effective than like years past, at least in the past two
years, I should say, but we've been missing a piece and the guy
who that fills in it's been like seamlessly at times, like last year especially,
one of the reasons I was so against like drafting the guard is for
that reason we had multiple people fill that role and not even just multiple people
too. One thing Hank Freley as a coach is that penn School, his
original position he was drafted was what left hand yep, and they moved him
right and then moved them right to so and here's like him as a coach
too, and then to Penney too. I'm not like, I actually don't
want this credit Penny in this at all, But like last minute's rookie year
had to play left tackle because the Andrew Taylor Decker and he held shit down
with with Bosa and I actually had had a conversation about Penny about that,
and he's like, yeah, it was annoying all off season. I was
practicing to be a right tackle, training my body, training my managers,
to train everything to hold down the right side, just to get switch to
the left side. Like the last minute. It was just it was driving
him crazy. But obviously Frank got him through that situation, kept him calm,
and obviously to Penny's credit too, he's a fucking monster. But on
top of that, you got Matt Nelson who was formerly with the team,
that's a former right end defensive end they moved to like a turn to a
right tackle. Graham Glasgow been kind of doing it on and off throughout the
season, but both playing center, both playing guard like everybody in this this
line, Skipper Dan Skipper, you know, as a left tackle feeling in
the play guard, and then also as a guy coming on there as like
an extra like tight end. And I mean it's Hank is a part of
all of that. Yeah, And I don't know what he is when it
comes like the X and les or play calling. I don't know if he
would even fulfill that role. Maybe he was being like a learning apprenticeship type
situation. Orneth been in that and that you know, situation to come.
But I think he's worthy. I think he's more than worthy. I think
he's clearly able to communicate these guys and have him buy into like these position
changes and whatnot, whatever it may be to contribute to the ultimate thing end
of the day, which is winning. So congratulation to him. It would
suck, but listen, both these guys are very, very deserving of what
they may have come in. Yeah, I'm glad that you said what you
said, because even though we do believe in these players, these coaches have
made an absolute difference on this team. And I don't want to understand that
either. Even if we think that the organization can weather the storm and get
somebody in here to replace what these players can, continue to take his philosophy
and to the new players coming in and make sure they understand it. You
never want to undersell the importance of a good coach man and what it means
if they ultimately leave this team. You know what I'm saying. On the
bigger, better, and greater. But it's awesome to see this organization now
being in a position where people want what we have. That's a different place
to be. Man people want what the Lions have right now. They want
their success, they want their recipe, they want their game plans, they
want probably the same types of players man, And I ultimately I think it's
a good thing. But you know, as I heard you talk, it's
like, you know what, there's a lot that this man has been responsible
for and helped as it relates to the culture of this offensive line and helping
these players not just become accustomed to their own positions, but if they have
to switch, if they have to fill in, if they have to play
a different position. These guys they haven't missed a beat at all, Bro,
And you think about just how good this offensive line has been for this
team this year and the different schemes and how it's helped David Montgomery, how
it's helped Jamier Gibbs. Like some of these runs that we see from Jamier
Gibbs, Bro, he's just running clean, super clean, especially in the
playoffs, just big chunk yards. Yeah, it's definitely gonna be something that
affects the Lions in some way, shape or form. But hoping that this
organization is to the point now that it doesn't affect him too much. Yeah,
you talked about one, and that's where that's where my mind went.
Is the name Tanner or Strand and what this means for him? And is
this a situation where Ben Johnson wanted to take hank instead of instead of Tanner
and the Lions organization has some type of understanding like, hey, that is
our that is our guy we're taking, we're taking the next step with or
you know, is it just that he or is it that he chose hank
O over Tanner Strand? Like to me, I find it interesting to see
where where he fits in this whole puzzle of you know, of the offense
and what it's gonna be next season. That's that's where my mind goes.
Is it Ben Johnson wanted to take Tanner Strand and the Lions we were like,
hey, this is our this is our backup plan. There's a good
understanding. Or is it just that the ors that the this is what the
Lions want and this is a great opportunity for hank to take Because either way
it is a great opportunity. It's you know, moving moving up. But
at the at the same time, I wonder, you know, what does
that mean for Tanner? Tanner staying here? I mean, that's that's the
one. That's the one. I'm glad you brought that name up. That
is the one bright spot of this whole situation is that I feel like that
he's obviously been placed per reports our guy Justin Rogers from Detroit News, that
news that he's gonna be the next offensive coordinator. He's been, you know,
being groomed to become that. And that's been one of my biggest fears
is like, okay, you know Ben's you know, grooming, this guy
getting getting I guess, starting his own coaching tree, if you will.
Because Ben Johnson we talked about the other day, Kyle Shanahan, the mcveigh's,
this has been Johnson's offense, Like Ben Johnson cook this up, and
so they have like his first protege stay here with us here and I guess
Hank Freddy become offense quarterate for Ben means that his porge is staying here with
us. Of respect to Hank and I and we truly will miss Hank and
and I will be sorry and sad about it, but I'm also very very
happy to hear that ten are stranded. Stay I'm just saying, you look
a lot more happier than when you were talking about hank Man. Yeah,
man, because like that's been my biggest fear, like a big piece of
this, and a lot of people perceive it as hate, including a certain
guy has a show between eight and ten and places victim. But hey,
but when I say this about Jared Goffers, he performs very very well well
le in a good system with good pieces, right Ben, This has Ben
Johnson system, but he goes elsewhere. You know, there's like not a
lot remnists of it left here, but tanner Strand has become his protege and
he's staying I'm at ease, Bro, I'm at ease. And I feel
like we can continue this on because my big anxiety at the trade deadline,
when I was crying and bitching about like not making a piece of go compete
like the forty nine ers and whatnot. We gotta go see those guys defensive
line by the way this week, And I'm sorry for the matchup, but
it's because this felt like the year to do it. This felt like the
year where we finally had like everything in place. Ben Johnson another running back,
a running back that could do more than just constable to huh An open
conference as well. The open conference like it felt like this was the year,
and Ben Johnson very much is a part of that. That's the reason
why he's getting the head coaching interviews, is the reason why he's one of
the hottest candidates in the head coaching market. And then I don't know,
we weren't gonna have him next year, but no one that Tanner strands stay.
I do feel a little bit ready, you know when I kind of
think about what Patricia and Quinn tried to do in terms of replicating what the
Patriots do here, what I think the real Patriots' way is is not doing
what they do that's what works for them, but having a system that is
so foundational that you can lose your coaches, You're going to lose a lot
of assistants that are going to go out there and become head coaches and become
coordinators at other teams, but that you can replace them because your system is
so strong. That's what I want to see at Alliance. If someone ever
tells me Patriot's way, I don't want the Lions to do what they do
because that's their personnel that they got going on. And sometimes it's difficult to
go out there and replicate the personnel. You're drafting different players and sometimes you're
met with different circumstances. It should be about the system that you have in
place. Is this one that can sustain these types of losses? Man?
Is it one where you can see now after about five six, seven years,
we can look out at the league and say, man, there are
Lions assistants and Lions head former coaches that are in head coaching positions now kind
of all over the league. That's to me is the you know, really
the the take on a good organization, on a strong organization foundationally, when
you're talking about not just the strong coordinators, but even the ones that support
them, like your different positional groups and things of that nature. You know,
that's what I want to see this Lion's team get to because it's going
to happen. This was always bound and that's going to happen. Last year
we heard it all season about ag and about Ben Johnson. We knew that
this was going to happen. I don't know how much we expected some of
the positional groups to get poached, you know what I mean, some of
those coaches to get poached, but if you're a good team and you got
something going on, well, you're talking about coaching up players all over this
team, Bro, they are exceeding our expectation. I sat on this desk
with you getting nothing close to the trade deadline, and we were just like,
man, it would be nice if he brought if Brad Holmes brought somebody
else in. But the fact that they have not just survived, but absolutely
going out there and kind of beat teams down, like we talked about earlier,
people want to make noise about the yards are given up through the I
almost think it's strategic because that's between a twenty and a twenty. What's happening
when these teams getting the offense in the resident against the Lions defense, you
know what I mean? They're kicking field goals and the Lions are holding these
teams to twenty points, twenty three points, twenty points, twenty three points,
and the Lions are winning these games as well. It's just it's it's
it's amazing. I don't even know what to say about it, because I
thought that they need to upgrade in personnel. We all talked about they change
the scheme, Do they have enough to support those schemes. So I do
believe that these you know, the offensive and the defensive coordinator and all of
the different positional coaches. Man, they have some type of recipe that's going
on. I'm hoping that Dan Campbell has a blueprint though, Yeah, definitely.
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to be able to handle the ebbs and flows of the game in a season
and playoffs, and that's what has been built for three years now, and
so that's what gives me faith. Look, there's gonna be things you're going
to happen in this game that it's going to look like it's out of control
and it's not going to go well for us. And as long as we
just play the next play, it'll turn and that's what we've done all year,
and that's the most important thing to keep in mind. But you've got
to be made a certain way in the team, has to be made a
certain way to be able to handle that. Otherwise you just crumble. So
that's what gives me faith we have a team that's built that way. This
is Dan Camble rally at the Truth. You noticed that that backdrop there,
that black NFC Conference Championship backdrop ain't crazy mootoshop. That's all that's crazy.
You. What's crazy too, is uh And I noticed like these little things.
In some ways, it's kind of our jobs, like over analyzed things
to make them into topics or whatnot. But I'm curious because I did see
Kyle Shanahan's piece. I don't know if I said it to Chris or not,
but I think those are still red or white their traditional color. I
noticed ours is black, and I noticed if you want to just pause and
put it up, I don't know if it works that way, Chris,
don't matter if not. But Dan Kimpbell's line on his chest was black,
and it just reminds me back to like the villain role de Troy Lions have
to play this entire season, even back when Brad Holmes during the draft season
and now here we are, you know, going into the home game of
the favorite team just to play that villain role, you know in their season.
It's just h You're right, easy. I don't know. I don't
know if I like, maybe it's done by purpose. Maybe you know,
I I don't know. He's right again, you're gonna find out. I
don't want to do this next one. I don't want to offend anybody and
have them just shelter up and call me a bowie Bobs and the poul ranked
the quarterbacks and teams left uh in these conference game championships, but KG and
not talking about before too. It kind of feels like easy to do at
this point. No, Yeah, for me, it is who was it
for you? Uh? For me, it's Party four, Golf three,
uh, Mahomes two and Lamar one. And I know a lot of people
would probably think that's crazy because it's Patrick Mahomes and he's been there before.
But I'm just really confident in the player Lamar Jackson and what the offensive coordinator
has been able to do for his passing game, and I just feel like
it's the time that combined with that defense man and and John Harball, he's
he looks like he's ready to win another one. Man, I'm really confident
in the Ravens at this point. But I digress. But yeah, that's
that's who I would have at my top power ranks at this point. Yeah.
Yeah for me, Man party for golf three because he's played clean football
in these playoffs. Yeah, and I gotta I gotta kind of echo what
you're saying here, man, Patrick Mahomes, and then Lamar Jackson, who
to me has just been playing on a completely different level this year. Man,
they've been obliterating good teams this year, absolutely obliterating, not just kind
of getting by, but they've been just going out there and they look they
look like they're having just an easy time with it sometimes too. Man,
he's press game postgame press conferences from Lamar Jackson. He's just up there like
this is what I do type of stuff. Man. You can just see
it. Yeah, And I absolutely love that feel like that all season too,
all season, Man, all season. He's I mean, I don't
know if he's because I don't watch too much, Like Ravens coverage. I
don't know if he's been too vocal about it, but it's almost like outside
of the Detroit Lions, my my second favorite team that I want them to
root for the Winter super Bowl is the Ravens, just because they amount of
disrespect that like Lamar had seen this past offseason, like for him to be
openly available to every NFL team, clean franchise like the Falcons. And it's
not even like attempt to make a waiver. Yeah, the Ravens could easily
matched it, but you'd even try. And then like to on top of
that from like fans and whatnot saying oh, he's not even that good.
That's why this is. This is crazy to right, it's not to lock
up another one, right? And then another thing too, is you know
for it. I guess he's got force in the throw brother, there's like
top ten, top five and QBR too, and he finally has receivers now,
right, It's just it's crazy Tom out respecting Lamar Jackson has seen.
And that's another thing too real quick actually and tell me if I'm wrong.
I could be wrong on this one or not. And I do agree that
Lamar has grown as a quarterback too. I'm not just gon pretend like this
version Lamar. I think the offense's in it's like fucking Todd Monkins is killing
it. Like there's a lot of pre snap motion C Detroit they're doing there.
Lamar plus Lamar's having the game changing ability to just you break a play
or break out of the pocket there's like a rusher there and find somebody down
the field. But the narrative of him like crumbling in the playoffs is that
I feel like it's kind of were blown a little bit. Yeah, is
it just me? Well, before he was one and two, before he
got this last one, I believe, so now he's he's five hundred.
But yeah, a lot was made about it, But I mean, what
can you do, man, I feel like it was employee by the league,
you know when they when they let him, dang go out on the
market, like go ahead, go try and find your own deal, and
then he wasn't able to find one. You can't tell me there wasn't teams
that would use a Lamar Jackson or could use a Lamar Jackson. So you
know, it is what it is. But he just got to go prove
the doubters wrong. At this point, Oh we have I forgot we hit
the two of the likes. Yeah, Joe Speakermari, when me get the
reasoning first, I apologize, chet, I forgot that you guys hit the
two of the likes. I didn't know you guy hit the like. I
gotta be refresh my stream here for me. It's a seventeen likes. Uh
So, Jeff's great grandfather and his great uncles it had an accident and Jeff,
being the last of his name, had to move to Italy to uh
state protected, comeback, become the Godfather's family and take over the rest of
New York. That's that's that's basically what happens. Sounds yeah, and Spinny's
also Italian, so he's you know, he's along with that sty It's it's
like a Black Panther moment, right, like Spendy's challenging for the throne.
Yes, no, but all seriousness. Jeff will be live tonight at seven
pm on his podcast, Gets a Crunch Time with Jeff. I think it's
called couch On with Jeff. He will be on. He'll be on at
seven to night. If you guys won't catch up with Jeff and uh I
might have some more information there, but yeah, I guess probably Tilamar Jackson.
I thought that was what only because I remember when he played we lost
that games of the Bills. Initially, he lost so many people in that
game. I got his players kept getting hurt on top of the factor's never
really having the weapons to begin with. It was like, I remember that
game specifically, it was a cold snow. I was almost like blowing away.
He kept carrying the team like where they were at that point. But
we go find out this year. Man, if I was prober Raking,
I'll probably go probably go the same for quarterbacks too, exactly if you want,
but i'mgoing Ravens Ravens lamar, I guess I can't do quarterbacks. Teams
and quarterbacks are different teams. Ravens forty nine ers, two Lions three.
She's four? Am I crazy for that? She's bar breaking the teams?
Oh? The teams? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, what was that again?
Said so Ravens one forty nine ers, two Lions three. Chief said
four. Chief said four. I'm not mad at it, just because of
the type of season they had. Yeah, I mean, you just off
name valued A lot of people would think you was crazy. What's yours?
The teams? Baranking the teams all right, Damn, I guess you would.
I guess you gotta put them for man, now that I think about
it, because I don't want to put them. But the Lions. The
Lions beat them exactly. Yeah, so Chiefs four, Lions three, San
fran Baltimore. And then based on that same type of season, now this
is we might can't call me crazy, and I'll get it. I'm putting
Lamar one the most dangerous quarterback in these playoffs right now, Patrick Mahomes?
What I mean, is there something of Is there something of like Patrick Mahomes
like obviously had been right, like not even just being Patrick Mahomes, but
like when you earn the throne, like what does it take to be dethroned?
And that's kind of where I'm at with it. Like I'm not mad
at anybody that would say, and I think all three of you ranked Lamar
over Patrick, I would personally still give it to Patrick because, like we
talked about what, Yeah, it was it was a tough choice. Yeah,
it's not that I could watch, but I would say, like I
think there is something of like a Lamar can definitely take it from Mahomes this
season, like he can, he can earn that title, earn that mantle
as the as the king the quarterback of the league. But right now,
I'm going to reside with with Mahomes because I look at, you know,
the the argument you use for Aaron Glenn right with the working with spoiled vegetables
and now he does have Travis Kelce, but outside of that, some pretty
spoiled vegetables that that Mahomes has got going on that offense in Kansas City.
So I'm gonna give him. I'm going to give him the slight doubt.
But you guys are right as far as the team rankings, like I think
that is that is right, Like when it comes down to it, I
think Chiefs four, Lions three, San Fran two, Baltimore Baltimore one.
So it's gonna be interesting to see what Patrick Mahomes. He's been able to
beat these broken teams, you know, Miami having their issues, you know,
like Buffalo having their issues. Like he's been able to beat these broken
teams. But the Ravens are a complete football team. So I'm excited to
see what Mahomes does in that game. Hey, it is going to be
and maybe I'm wrong because I literally told myself on Sunday, I'll never bet
against I had had three parlays going to cash in. One was mixed with
the NFL, You mixed with you UFC, everything that hit, everything that
hit. And if I thought the Bills were just finally slayd the Dragon,
I thought they could finally get a demon off the bat, I thought so
too. I'm just I just can't better. It gets Patrick Mahomes night and
here I am. I mean, technically it came down to a kick.
But Josh Allen, man, he just he takes so many damn risks.
Man, He's just everything is a thirty yard forty yard bomb. It seems
like like I don't know, man, but I'm starting to sour on him,
just just a little bit. He's still a great talent. I'm not
saying that, you know, by any means, but he can't get it
done in the postseason. Man, Yeah, well, I mean digs at
that? What sixty yard bomb? Yeah? Yeah, It's just it's it's
tough, man. It's so tough because like so many things are even like
ranking quarterbacks when I so many things are predicated off like winning yet when it
comes to winning, at least me personally, I will still be subjective enough
to be like, Okay, well, I mean that's a winning formula winning
team. When it comes to guys like Rock Purty and golf versus like we
have Josh Allen who can do everything, Yeah, but the winning part.
He's a risk taker, right, and you got to live and die with
the risks, right. We had it with Matthew Safford. Yeah, you
can do everything with that will come some like some fifty to fifty balls,
some probability because because you can make every throw, you're trying to make every
throw and sometimes it doesn't go our way. It's tough. It's tough balance.
Matter of fact, Maybe we'll talk about when we get back, because
we do a video from actual coach Kyle Shanhan speaking on Jared Goffin when he's
been I guess as a quarterback throughout the league. But before then, what
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do you respect about him and how has he improved since he's been in Detroit.
I mean, I think he's showing some of the stuff that he's in
in LA. I mean you go with Jared, I mean for a number
of years, especially you know, I think seventeen eighteen, really eighteen,
when he played at the MVP type level. When Jared's when they give him
a good scheme, when he's got good people around him. Jared's gonna always
find the spot. He's zaccurate as any quarterback i've seen. He can play
at a very top level. If you sit and make things easy for him,
he will gash you. I've seen an over and over, whether it's
with the Rams, whether it's with Detroit. And that's why you challenge it.
You better be on your stuff or you can embarrass you fast. Now,
how come when I say it, it's cool? When they say it,
we say hated? Like what what? Why? Why is that?
Not? Talk about it? And what are you talking about? Okay?
So basically what he's taking down right, he's saying, if you give Jared
Goff all day, if you give him the pieces of it, you make
it easy for him, he could gash you. That is absolutely that is
absolutely true. That is absolutely In fact, we're witnessing it right now on
this playoff run. I just want to know, now, you guys pro
see that's hate because that's what I've been say about Jack Goffe tired dad time.
What I say I'm I hate is that is he throwing shots there or
is he keeping it a bump? I'm supposed to defend the white guy here,
I'm just saying, is that shot I'm detecting light shade? Not not
nothing crazy, But you know, he preferenced it by saying, if you
make things easy for him. I don't know if I like that personally.
That's just the Detroit in me. But I mean it's it's like, hey,
I feel like but he's giving them respect. At the same time,
we all know that Golf, if you give him time in the pocket,
he is one of those quarterbacks that can break up down his own or man
coverage and and eat you up a little bit. So you know, ship,
I hey, it is what it is. But I do feel it's
a tad shadih Yeah, okay, I do too. That makes me feel
better. That makes me feel better. I feel like it's a too because
when you look at some of these plays where Golf is absolutely specially in the
playoffs. In the playoffs, it seems like he's going up another level.
You look at the full play, especially when they show theighlights the replay,
there are defenders in his face, he's getting hit, he's getting knocked down,
he's standing in the pocket, and he's still delivering the past and he's
been throwing a lot more dots than ducks in these playoffs. I do think
it's a little bit of shade. You know. I believe that any quarterback
out there that's getting extreme pressure on him is going to look just a little
bit off. We talked about this morning as related to Matthew Stafford and the
type of pressure that the Detroit Lions were applying to Matthew Stafford. Man by
the end of that game, by that fourth quarter, he just could not
make the throws that he needed to make to ensure that his team was going
to be able to have an opportunity to win that game. You look at
Baker Mayfield at the end of that game, he just could not find a
way to ensure that his team was going to be a He can make the
throws and put him on a dot the way that you would need to.
And so it's just like as I'm looking at these playoffs, including we're talking
about some of the other quarterbacks that are now eliminated. Man, when you
look at what happened, that pressure gets to them in pressure bust pipes with
anybody, I do think it's a little bit of shade. I don't think
it's making anything easy for Jared goff because we see him taking hits, we
see him getting back up, and we see him making the next pass over
and over and over again. Now does having a clean pocket help him?
Yes, it really anybody. But that's gonna help any quarterback in this league.
I believe that Jared Golf is a top tier quarterback who ultimately gets disrespected
because of what happened in LA. He got discarded by his former team,
and I was easy to kind of hate on Detroit, even if it's just
like you said, a little bit of shade light shade. I think it
just makes it. He's an easy target. And I think when you're talking
about the whole mental aspect of this game, and you know that the Detroit
lines are rolling, you know that Jared Golf has been rolling. Nobody has
really been able to break him mentally. I think that this was a shot,
like a psychological shot as well. You know that they're gonna they might
not listen to Skip Bayless, but the opposing coaches at these press conferences,
man, that type of stuff gets back to He definitely a psychological shot.
It means try to get do a little bit too much, now not too
much, but just get him thinking a little bit too much. Man.
You know when you hear the opposing quarterback, opposing coach saying stuff to you
like yeah, when you make it easy for him, but golf, to
me, has there's no greater disrespect that he's gonna that he is already,
in my opinion, overcome than what the Rams did to him. I don't
think that what the coach is saying is ultimately going to get to golf.
But I do believe that there's some gamesmanship with some of his comments that can
ultimately that he's probably believing in hoping will find this way to golf and that
it will have some way that it rattles him just someway. Because we've seen
bro Man that game against the Rams. Yeah, golf was putting. He's
putting passes on the money, like I know, we talked about it.
He was. He was crazy that game. It was crazy before we said
he used to be like the most accurate duck thrower, Like, it's a
little bit of that, but it gets to a spot. But against the
Rams, I'm like, why are all of these passes tight spirals? It's
like he took his mental acuity up a whole nother level. Man, and
just has been dominating in these playoffs in my opinion, man, and not
by putting up four hundred three hundred passing yards, but playing clean football,
putting the money on the spot, following the game plan to a t and
when the teams needed him to make the big throw, he's made that big
throw. Ye oh, here we go, Chris. That was that shade
a little bit, yeah, a little bit. But you know what,
come on, bro, you know what time it is. You know what
time it is. We on the avy weights. You know we support golf.
We rock with golf. We uh you know some people we believe.
We believe in golf. Right, easy talk that talk, Yeah, tell
about our order savior. Listen. I've always said the saying that's why the
people in the chat, you guys crack me up. Everything I say is
on record. If it was ninety to say it's on wax, you could
go and screen record all of it posted on you. I've never said the
bullshit you guys got roll this chat right now. I have held firm all
year, no matter what, the Detroy Liones win a playoff game. My
record prediction for the team was twelve and five. Listen, this is the
worst way to put in perspective. But everybody know that Jimmy G wasn't a
top ten quarterback. But you had expectations for Fort Niners being an NC chompis
CHAMPIONI NFC Conference Championship game at end of the year every single year. You
know what I'm saying, Golf is better than Jimmy G. But I'm just
putting things in perspective. I don't have to pretend the guy is top three,
top five to say that this team is gonna win. It's a team
game, for Christ's sakes. But I didn't perceive it as shade because the
time perceived Golf. Now is this shade for him to go off there and
say, I mean we said the part. I guess I kind of do
agree with you said KG weed to make it easier when you make it easy
and you make it easy, yeah, which but at the same time,
I feel like that's how Golf operates and that's how we've seen this team have
success. Has he had the best offensive line? Yes, I mean has
he had great weapons? That's that's true. I just don't feel like Golf
is getting enough credit for improving his game from LA to Detroit, and that's
the seeing him be able to handle pressure. You know that the thing that's
off if you blitz him a lot. This year, he's been very good
against the blitz. A lot of people don't realize that he's been able to
step up in the pocket take pressure. Man. He's also when he first
got here, you know, Ben Johnson created this system around him and he
had more responsibility. Ever since then he has thrived. I mean, we
just gotta be real. The first year was rough. We know that he
didn't have the weapons, but after that he gave us two really good,
damn near MVP level years. Man, Like I think he just needs to
get a tad more credit. Yes, he is a product of the system
a little bit, but I do give him credit for improving his game and
kind of being the one to elevate a little bit. He's top five in
a lot of QB categories. I mean, we just got to call it
like we see it now. And like I said, I'm not a golf
gobbler by any means, but you just got to look at what you're seeing.
Man, He's putting the numbers up and you're seeing it now. In
the off season, the postseason. I mean, and I see Domavera here
in the chest. He says, type of kol a, you sound like,
how easy? He says A golf gobbler, bro I said at this,
and I said that I would not give golf at the midway season,
midway point of the season. I wouldn't extend him. I would not bring
him back down, especially not No fifty million. I remember that because Chris
was over here, like, hit the drop, hit the drop, fifty
million dollars. It wasn't happening I mid season that this guy honestly was,
as Cam Newton put it, a game manager. He has won me over
this season in terms of what he can be because he has continued to improve
this season. That's what I've seen these playoffs. To me, golf has
been better than some of his games during the regular season. He has been
tighter spirals he has done. He's made passes down the field that we didn't
know. Man. That touchdown pass was to the Saint Brown. Yeah,
like it was just beautiful. What do you want me to do? Josh
Reynolds want two? What do you want me to do? He put that
on the money like they when they showed it the view from behind him.
He just threw it to the spot. Yeah, Renalds wasn't even in the
picture frame, bro. But the thing where golf people just get caught up
too much in the physical attributes or that, you know, the arm strength,
the mobility and stuff like that, he's not that guy. I think
we all know that. We've all said that, we've all seen that from
him. But that doesn't mean he can't play. That doesn't mean he can't
read a defense. That doesn't mean he can't tear you up, you know,
under certain circumstances. I think I think that's what they're saying though,
too is like because because the Fitsgatchy turn, they know what it takes to
win with him, and it is the offensive line. It is a system,
but he is executing it. I guess, like I to you,
he has gotten better. Yeah, he has calling his own protections or whatnot.
I mean part of the reason he's And I was gonna talked about it
the earlier this week or last week or whatever it may have been. Obviously,
the tamp Bay Buccaneers blitz a hell of a lot, and listening to
to Joey Harrington, we had him on uh Daniel Lawski at times. If
you're a quarterback, can you know your system, the blitz won't affect you.
Yes, if you have a great system and you and you know it
like the back of your hand, just as Jared Goff does, because as
you said, he is involved with making that the blitz gonna affect you because
you know where you guys are in those situations and you get the ball out
to him quick. And unfortunately for us and and by Taylor, by Brad
Holmes himself, this team with playmakers all around him I'm talking about yet,
guys like Sam Laporter. I never seen him get tackle one on one,
if not, he's going out of bounds those situations. I'm around Saint Brown,
there was like a I don't know what the exact yarded situation it was,
but I know he caught it shorter line and just muscle his way over
into that that first year. Right now, us like this team has been
tailored with guys to I guess, allow Golf to be who he is when
he's best at being without having to go over the top, right, And
that's just always been like my take, guys, he's good. I just
I just I was never wanted to say the VP part, because I just
feel like it's a team situation, you know what I'm saying. I just
feel like just calling him a game manager at this point is a tad disrespectful.
I think he's above that at this point. Not he's not top tier,
we know that, but he's just below that. He's in that that
second tier quarterbacks that you know, like I said, he's definitely top ten
that I don't think that can be disputed at this point. He's definitely a
top ten quarterback bordering on top five. So should you call him a playmaker
or game changer? That's what I'm saying. It's like, like by definitions,
I'm just saying that. That's where conversation gets weird. But they have
one games because of Jared Goff. Now, you're not gonna win every game
because of Jared Goff because he's not like the Mahomes, the Lamars and stuff
of that nature. But we have one games because of Jared Goff. It
hasn't been perfect the whole time. Yes, we have seen shades of La
Rams golf at times. You know, he's made mistakes, But the thing
that made me really respect him is the fact that he can overcome the mistakes
when he was in LA the mistakes just mount up, and then we got
the Jared Goff that we thought we received when we got him here. So
yeah, man, I just I feel like it's it's a tad different this
time. You got to put a little more respect on his name, That's
all I'm saying. And another thing that I've liked that I've seen in terms
of improvement from what he was doing during the regular season to what he's now
doing in the playoffs is he's been putting the money on the ball. Like
he's been putting the ball on the money even when the wide receivers been tightly
covered. I've seen Sam laportera now and Aamarra and Reynolds make some really really
impressive catches and it's because of the ball placement while the defender is kind of
draped on the receiver man. And to me, it's been impressive. I'm
a ra it seems like at least twenty thirty percent of his catches during the
playoffs have been like that, and golf has been on the money. To
me, he's continued to improve, He's continued to be somebody that is more
than just kind of this h He's been more than reliable. He's been somebody
that you know you can put the ball in his hands and he's gonna go
out there and make something happen. Man. Ultimately, I'm a fan speaking
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