WEBVTT 1 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.559 Final hour of the program on Axes and Bros. Here throughout the great state 2 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:27.120 of Michigan. If you can get involved in the conversation eight sixty six, 3 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:34.759 eight three, eight forty eight forty three, you could Texas Sports Radio twenty 4 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:42.960 one thousand. Next week for the NFL Draft, my friend Bill Simon's You 5 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.759 Show will be at the Caucus Club on Thursday. I will be at a 6 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:55.719 draft party at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort on Thursday night, but on Friday 7 00:00:55.759 --> 00:01:03.600 morning we'll be broadcasting live from there and talking about what the Lions chose to 8 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.959 do, if anything, in Round one. I've seen some mock rafts where 9 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.079 they've traded back, somewhere, they've traded up. Who knows what's going to 10 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:17.280 happen. I just wanted to get your thoughts on the new Lions look real 11 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:25.239 quick. As I said just before the break, I am a throwback or 12 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.480 a traditionalist. And it's funny because somebody said yesterday the Lion's new home uniform 13 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:34.280 hearkens back to the Lions of glory years. I'm thinking, what are you 14 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.680 talking about? When are their glory years? They had a glory maybe just 15 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:48.319 a small period of time, but stop with the there's really nothing that tells 16 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:53.519 you those are glory years. They've got a black jersey that kind of is 17 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:59.719 an ode to the black and blue division. No, it's not. It's 18 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:05.200 to sell more jerseys. Now. I'm not gonna lie and say I think 19 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:09.319 the Lions' uniforms are the best in all the NFL. I don't think that's 20 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:14.400 the case at all. I do like the color scheme, I just I 21 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.240 don't like the way they I don't think it's a very clean look. I 22 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:22.280 think it can be a very convoluted look with their jerseys. But that's neither 23 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.800 here nor there. I'm not the fashion police. I am a traditionalist. 24 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:31.120 I like the English d on the Tigers uniforms, and that's it. Are 25 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:36.240 there other uniforms I like? Absolutely? I think the Yankees pinstripes is really 26 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.120 sharp. I think the Dodgers look is great. I think the Cardinals look 27 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:46.919 is really strong. I've always liked the Royals uniforms. In hockey. Yeah, 28 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:53.439 I wouldn't want anything done other than a red jersey or a white jersey 29 00:02:53.439 --> 00:03:00.080 with a wing wheel. Blackhawk's uniform, Yes, very cool Toronto. Absolutely. 30 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:08.759 In football, I think there are certain things that are kind of sacred. 31 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.599 I think you need to look clean. There are certain uniforms that jump 32 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:19.800 out to me. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say some of 33 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.280 it is associated with winning. Yes, So when I see the Steelers' uniforms, 34 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:30.639 I see the Cowboys' uniforms, I see the Niners' uniforms, I think 35 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:36.280 they're really sharp. I like Miami's way back in the day of the Dan 36 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:39.719 Marino days. I do not like what they've done with the helmet and some 37 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:46.319 of the uniforms. I don't like the Patriots uniforms. I think the Lion's 38 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:53.960 uniforms have been fine, but adding the black into it and a blue helmet 39 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:59.960 and the kind of blue that it is, I am not thrilled at all. 40 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:04.680 I don't think that's a good look. I think it looks more like 41 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:11.840 the Carolina Panthers than anything else. And I think fans recognize it. I'm 42 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.040 not saying they shouldn't like it. I'm sure they like it. Some fans 43 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:21.000 do, some fans don't. I just think they recognize what this is, 44 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:31.279 and this is a way of selling more merchandise. Somebody had texted in. 45 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:36.040 Instead, it looks a little bit more like a usf L team or a 46 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:45.199 UFL team, borderline XFL players are going to be excited about it. What 47 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:47.360 else are they going to say? I don't know how much it matters. 48 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:53.519 Have you seen the throwbacks of what the Steelers and the Bears have worn from 49 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:59.560 way way way back in the day, or the Packers? You think those 50 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:06.680 guys like we're in those uniforms. I doubt it with those socks, I 51 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:12.399 seriously doubt that. But they go out and they play, so I'm not 52 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:16.240 sure how much that truly matters. Are you a traditionalist or are you somebody 53 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.680 who feels like you're a little bit more progressive and likes to use those new 54 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:30.360 uniforms. Would you buy a jersey if you had your choice of the white 55 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:35.399 jersey, the blue jersey, or the black jersey, which one of you 56 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:44.439 buy in I'm not I'd probably be buying the blue one. I would not 57 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:49.920 be buying the black one. I can tell you that our phone number is 58 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:55.319 eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. Our text line is 59 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:59.959 Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. We're with you Monday through Friday from six 60 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.959 until nine, and we're on throughout the Great State of Michigan. 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You'll lose yourself and it's 70 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:54.759 great. Let's go to our phone lines on eight sixty six eight three, 71 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.680 eight forty eight forty three. Ben, who's up next? Yeah, we 72 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:02.399 got Freddy about the new uniforms. All right, Freddy, Good morning, 73 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.920 Chef. I can't say I long to day, but I already text you. 74 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:10.360 I read good morning. I already text you about saying hey, you 75 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:13.399 know I like to clean look but I'm not a fan of the black ones, 76 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.600 and obviously I don't I don't get it. But you know, to 77 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:20.920 your point that it's I don't think fans really understand it really is about selling 78 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:27.800 jerseys and selling merchandise to prove our points, your point, my point. 79 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.560 What happened to the helmets from last year? What happened to the new logo? 80 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.480 Not even a whisper though yesterday? Right, and everyone that comes into 81 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:41.040 my restaurant or I go around anywhere I go, they have that new logo, 82 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.920 right, the Mustang logo with the two stripes. Yeah, So what 83 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.079 happened? What happened to that? That was all about making money? Is 84 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.399 selling jerseys, selling logos, That's all it was about. Yeah, And 85 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.839 I hope, yeah, I hope they don't wear those new uh back, 86 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:00.759 those new blue helmets. I am not a fan of all, but two 87 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.800 I can live with. It's a clean look, you know. Yeah, 88 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:09.360 okay, not good. I appreciate the perspective. Yeah, all right, 89 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.279 Bell, thanks, I appreciate the opinions. Rod Wood said this, the 90 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:20.279 new uniforms are honoring our traditional color with a little updating and twist. It's 91 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.040 not a little it's a lot. When you add another color, that's not 92 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.160 a little, that's drastic, he says. It gives us a lot more 93 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:37.360 options too, options for what now you need to wear? Now you need 94 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.639 to have options as a player to wear a uniform, the home uniform, 95 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:48.000 in the road uniform. Not enough. Stop it, just be honest with 96 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:54.080 us. Fancy through that stuff. I don't understand why why teams feel the 97 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.720 need to do these things. It gives us a lot more options too. 98 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:03.960 My goodness, give me a break. Baseball has two uniforms for the most 99 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.080 part. Okay, I mean you can mix a match. We've seen that 100 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.519 with like the White Sox who can't figure out what their team colors are for 101 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:16.720 a crand outline. Why is it so bad to have team colors and stick 102 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:26.759 to it. Maybe I'm going overboard with it. It's not like it matters 103 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:33.799 on how a team's gonna play. I just I don't like the deception of 104 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.799 we're bringing back to the glory years, or we're giving us ourselves a lot 105 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.039 more options. We're going to introduce a couple of different pant options to goo 106 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.120 to go along with the jerseys as well. Oh great, hope you have 107 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:52.000 a separate prized conference for that excited for it or not? Stay with us 108 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.960 more coming on the other side of x'es and bros. 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That means the Rangers have won three out of the four in the 144 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.600 series. Ken Tamada roughed up yet again. Detroit scores seven runs but commits 145 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:54.159 three more errors. So that's two straight games in which they've committed three errors. 146 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.840 They are in Minnesota for a weekend series against the Twins, starting whether 147 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:07.200 permitting, tonight, and Jack Flaherty gets the call for Detroit. Do you 148 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:13.279 guys know who The NBA is set for their playoffs now that the play in 149 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.440 Game tournament is over, and not the tournament that's in season, but the 150 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:26.240 play in games and the NHL regular season is over, so their playoff seatings 151 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.679 are set. I don't know if you know this, but Philadelphia had to 152 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:41.720 come from behind get about twenty points off the bench from Cameron Payne the other 153 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:43.960 night against Miami. Was a Cameron Payne. I'm trying to think of who 154 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:50.679 it was. No, it is Nicholas patoomb I'm sorry, Nicholas Patum's got 155 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:52.960 I think he scored like twenty points off the bench the other night and the 156 00:13:54.039 --> 00:14:00.600 one point went over Miami. That sets up Philadelphia and New York because New 157 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:03.360 York's the number two seed. They won fifty games. They leap frog Milwaukee, 158 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.320 who seemed to be, you know, going right down the toilet during 159 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.440 the end of the season, although ever since Doc Rivers took over there, 160 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.720 they don't look like the same team anyway. Bottom line is Paul Reid. 161 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.120 You know who Paul Reid is. I mean he's listed kind of as a 162 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.279 backup center. He's really more of a forward. He's a former second round 163 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:26.200 pick a few years ago out of de Paul Guy averages about seven points a 164 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.039 game for Philly. He was on a I don't know if it was a 165 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:37.200 radio show of a podcast. He was a podcast anyway. He said this 166 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.440 is a quote. Now we ain't ducking no smoke don't know what the hell 167 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.360 that means. We ain't duck in no smoke, but yeah, we wanted 168 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:54.639 the next matchup. Of course that's the easier team. Well what, First 169 00:14:54.679 --> 00:15:00.759 of all, it's not like it's not it's Joelle Embiid or Tyree Samaxi or 170 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:11.440 Tobias Harris or but even Buddy Healed. It's Paul Flip and Read making these 171 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:16.360 comments. A guy who plays nineteen minutes a game is making these comments, 172 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:24.279 Yeah, we want the Knicks. You barely beat the Heat and now you're 173 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:28.600 gonna actually go out there and say the Knicks are the easier team. Look, 174 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.080 I'm all for a bravado. I am all for believing in oneself and 175 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:39.759 believing in your teammates. No athlete is going into a game or a tournament 176 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:46.240 or anything like that thinking I'm gonna lose. I suppose there are a few 177 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.960 boxers who stepped in the ring against Mike Tyson in his day that thought, 178 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.200 I got no shot at beating this guy. All I want to do is 179 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.159 hang on. It could be. I'm sure that was possible, especially the 180 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.000 way he dominated. I'm sure there was a time a stretcher during a ten 181 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.200 year span where golfers lined up and they said, we're playing for second place 182 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.960 because Tiger Woods is in this tournament, or maybe on a Sunday they might 183 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:12.720 be thinking that. I would hope not. It's the reason that they get 184 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:18.080 to this level is because they are so confident in their ability. But if 185 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:26.440 it crept in a little bit, I could understand it. It's Paul Reid. 186 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:37.039 You follow basketball, I doubt you know who he is. He comes 187 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:40.840 into locker room, you think Joel and me goes up to him, He 188 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:45.039 goes, hey, bro, you know, I know you're out there. 189 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:49.399 You're trying to make a name for yourself. Remember there's a whole team who's 190 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:56.080 got to play the next Let's just be whatever happened to humility and humbleness, 191 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.120 It's okay to be confident. I love it, you're supposed to be. 192 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.759 There's a little bit of an edge there, but saying the knicks of the 193 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:14.400 easier team. And obviously he's referring to Boston because Boston was what thirteen games 194 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:22.799 clear something like that. I just, first of all, I don't know 195 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:30.119 why that podcast last show is having Paul read on. They must have Usually 196 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.480 you get three requests, you know who you're requesting for your show. Well, 197 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:34.599 I want Joel Umbiid. Yeah, he's not going to do it. 198 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.200 Tyrese Maxy, I'm sorry, he's busy. Tobias Harris, Nope, he's 199 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:41.920 doing a different show. I don't want to stretch him too thin. Buddy 200 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.119 Healed, No, can't do it. How about Kelly Obray, I don't 201 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.799 think so. How about d Anthony Melton, No, that's not going to 202 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:56.400 happen. Kyle Lowry, he's hurt. Cameron Payne, he's hurt. Who 203 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.599 else you got? How about Paul Reid? Who? Paul Reid? Who? 204 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:07.880 Paul read? Okay, and then he says that very strange. They 205 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:12.119 wanted, they wanted the knicks, They got the knicks. Here we go. 206 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:18.599 Let's see what happens. I'd be careful because Jalen Brunson has been a 207 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:26.359 first team All NBA or for sure for sure. And remember Philly needed a 208 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:33.720 late comeback in the fourth to beat Miami, who was playing with Jimmy Butler 209 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:42.359 basically on a leg. So Paul Reid might be singing a different tune. 210 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:48.319 Careful what you wish for. We'll see what happens. Maybe he's trying to 211 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.839 create some motivation for his guys, I don't know. I read this article 212 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:55.920 on CBS Sports the other day. I wanted to get to it phill the 213 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.119 last couple of days. We just haven't had time, so I do want 214 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:03.319 to. I wanted to about it. They listed the top fifteen first round 215 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.240 values over the last ten years, so, in other words, the stars 216 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:12.160 that outperformed the position in which they were drafted. I'll give you a good 217 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:17.119 example. Not that he's on this top fifteen list, but Brandon Ayuk. 218 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:21.559 He was number twenty five overall by San Francisco. He's done a pretty good 219 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:26.119 job, Okay. Jordan Love was drafted twenty sixth overall by Green Bay. 220 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.799 It might be too early to tell, but that's a pretty good job. 221 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.559 Here they are Josh Allen listed at number fifteen. He was drafted seventh overall 222 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:42.119 by Buffalo DJ Moore in twenty eighteen. Drafted twenty fourth overall by Carolina. 223 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:52.839 Micah Parsons drafted twelfth overall that's hard to believe by Dallas. Marcus Peters drafted 224 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:59.640 eighteenth overall by Kansas City in twenty fifteen. Number eleven is what I want 225 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:08.559 to talk because it involves the Lions. It's the twenty eighteen draft, it's 226 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:14.559 the twentieth overall pick, and it's Frank Ragnow not that he doesn't deserve to 227 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:19.599 be on this list, because he does. My issue is with the first 228 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:27.720 sentence written after it. Here's what it says. Fans might roll their eyes 229 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:41.599 when a team spends a first round pick on interior linemen. Why, here's 230 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:48.319 a guy who handles the football on every play. We think the quarterback handles 231 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.279 the football on every play. I'd say probably ninety eight percent of the time 232 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.119 they do. But you've got jet motion a lot of times. Sometimes the 233 00:20:55.160 --> 00:21:00.319 center is snapping it to the guy coming in jet motion. Sometimes it's wildcat. 234 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:08.519 Sometimes the quarterback's not always handling the football on every single play, but 235 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:15.079 the center is. He's also in charge of the line calls. He's also 236 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:19.680 in charge of run blocking and pass blocking. It's a pretty important position. 237 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:27.960 Why would anybody roll their eyes. It's not like he was drafted first overall. 238 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:38.279 He was drafted twentieth. We undervalue the position because the only time it 239 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:47.119 gets mentioned is when something goes wrong or when they commit a penalty. Phone 240 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.440 numbers eight sixty six, eight three eight forty eight, forty three, eight 241 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:53.119 sixty six, eight three, forty eight forty three. 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But I was a little bit more bothered by the fact 272 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:45.599 that what they wrote is fans might roll the rise when a team spends a 273 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:49.319 first round pick on an interior alignment, which to me is ridiculous. I 274 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:56.359 mean, if you're a starter and you're being drafted twentieth overall, and you're 275 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:02.880 in the interior and you're playing as often as Frank Now has hurt or healthy, 276 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.799 and you're as vital to the team's success as he is, what difference 277 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:15.039 does it make. It's funny how you've got all the wide receivers on here, 278 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:21.119 like Mike Evans and Ced Lamb, and that's fine because Frank Ragnow, 279 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.759 you could make the argument, is just as important, if not more, 280 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:33.960 because Ceedee Lamb is getting how many catches when he's not playing the Lions. 281 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:37.839 How many catches a game is he getting. Let's say he gets ten, 282 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:41.480 which is a great day, by the way, but if you're getting eight 283 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:47.200 to ten, that's pretty damn good out of how many plays fifty six. 284 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:53.160 Frank Ragnow is touching the ball and being an integral part of the success of 285 00:25:53.200 --> 00:26:00.039 every one of those offensive plays. Zach Martin is on this list. He's 286 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:07.480 an interior offensive lineman. TJ. Watt, Justin Jefferson, Lamar Jackson. 287 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.440 Oh, I said he's number one. Actually number one is Patrick Mahomes. 288 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.920 Excuse me, because Patrick Mahomes has taken tenth overall, Aaron Donald is two. 289 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:18.680 I would go the other way around. I'd say Aaron Donald would be 290 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:23.799 one. I think Aaron Donald was better at his position than Patrick Holmes is 291 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:29.839 at his That's not a knock on Patrick Mahomes, because I think he's fantastic. 292 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:33.200 He's the best quarterback in the league. I think Aaron Donald is arguably 293 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:37.480 I'm not saying he is, but he's arguably the best defensive lineman the NFL 294 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:44.279 has ever had. Yes, Reggie White, I get it. Some of 295 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:48.119 you may say, Randy White, Bruce Smith on the edge. I get 296 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:53.240 what you're saying. Right, Aaron Donald could play outside or inside, and 297 00:26:53.279 --> 00:27:02.880 he's a dominant force. What's interesting about this list, too, is that 298 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:07.599 TJ. Watt is on There is number five. TJ. Watt was drafted 299 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:15.839 thirtieth in twenty seventeen. Thirtieth. How in the hell did so many teams 300 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:22.119 miss on TJ. Watt. I'm going to read you some of the names 301 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:27.319 who were drafted ahead of them, someh are justified. Miles Garrett, Mitch 302 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:37.119 Trubisky another example of drafting for need. There's no way the Chicago Bears could 303 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.319 have thought we're going to trade up because we have him as number two on 304 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:44.559 our board, and if so, those scouts should be fired, and probably 305 00:27:44.559 --> 00:28:00.720 were. Solomon Thomas, Leonard Fournett, Corey Davis, Western Michigan Adams, 306 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:12.519 Mike Williams, Chargers not Lions, obviously, Christian McCaffrey. How many of 307 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:17.079 those players that's the top eight? How many of those? John Ross John 308 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:23.440 Ross, a wide receiver out of I think it was Stanford, No, 309 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:26.599 No, Washington, Washington number eight. He were number eight of Washington, 310 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.839 then Patrick Mahomes. John Ross was taking ahead of Patrick Mahomes. This was 311 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:41.480 the drafts, not just football, an inexact science. Marshawn Lattimore. Right 312 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.799 now, you've got probably three players that are justified ahead of TJ. Watt, 313 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:52.960 Deshaun Watson, Hassan Reddick who I really liked out of Temple, Derek 314 00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:00.960 Barnett, Malik Hooker, Marlon Humphrey, Jonathan Allen, Adri Jackson, OJ 315 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:08.799 Howard, Garrett Bowles. He's the starting tackle for Denver Boise State Lionstook, 316 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:21.359 Jared Davis, Evan ingram Gary On Conley, no idea, Jabrill Peppers to 317 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:30.960 Karris McKinstry for Davius White, Taco Charlton David and Joku then TJ Watt and 318 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.039 by the way, the guy taking two picks later, Ryan Ramchuk out of 319 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:41.480 Wisconsin, really flipping good as a tackle. One hundred and one starts, 320 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:48.640 steady guy. He's a right tackle, not a left, but still in 321 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.240 exact science to the text line Sports Radio to twenty one thousand, Ben, 322 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.160 what else we got? Yeah? These are back to the Lions new uniforms. 323 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.799 Okay says they dropped the ball a bit. Should have been a black 324 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:03.599 helmet with a blue lion and black pants would have made it made it great 325 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:10.640 close, but not good enough. Trash Man Niles and Sparta black helmet. 326 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:15.799 Huh, Yeah, what do you think of that? Would you have wanted 327 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:21.920 that? I don't think so. I can't say that I would either. 328 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.400 I'm not saying it's wrong, just can't say that I would either. I'm 329 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:33.000 just trying to think off the top of my head. Outside of Baltimore and 330 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:44.599 Pittsburgh, Atlanta, who has black helmets? I think those are the only 331 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.480 three. Don't say the Raiders. The Raiders are silver. I think it's 332 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:53.039 just three. Bears are blue, it's a dark blue. It's Pittsburgh, 333 00:30:53.640 --> 00:31:03.240 it's Baltimore, right for sure, those two, and it's Atlanta, and 334 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.599 Atlanta sometimes goes red. Way back in the day, used to love those 335 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:15.599 red helmets. Steve Bartkowski with the red Atlanta Falcons helmets. That's an interesting 336 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:22.480 concept. I'm not a I think again, I'll go back to their their 337 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:26.160 colors are Honolulu blue and silver. I think a team, when that's your 338 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.759 when those are your colors, that should those should be the predominant colors. 339 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:36.599 I didn't like the black accents either. I just wanted the two colors. 340 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.519 Maybe I'm wrong there. Here's what Here's what else I wonder outside of the 341 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:48.759 color white, how many teams are just two colors or how many how many 342 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.160 teams have more than two Let's put it that way, Like the Colts, 343 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.880 for example, they're only blue and white. Jacksonville's got a little aqua, 344 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:04.079 it's got a little black, it's got a little would you call it yellow 345 00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.519 for the Jaguar, So they're kind of three colors. The Titans are two 346 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:12.640 shades of blue and a red, so they are three colors. The Houston 347 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.759 Texans, I think, are only red and blue. That's the AFC South. 348 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.039 I'm just thinking out loud here all the teams. Think about how many 349 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:28.880 teams have more than two colors. I think the Lions are just fine with 350 00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:34.440 the two that they have. Even if you look at the division, it's 351 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:38.000 just green. Bay is green and gold. Minnesota is purple and gold. 352 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:43.200 The Bears are blue and orange. Boom. That doesn't mean you gott to 353 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.920 follow the There's no rule to it, right, I mean, just because 354 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.279 those teams do it doesn't mean that you have to do it. I just 355 00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:55.880 don't. I think it looks I think it looks messy. I like something 356 00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:02.720 crisp and sharp. Doesn't mean you can't have it. You can have multiple 357 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:08.880 colors, I think in a uniform and look sharp. Chicago Blackhawks is a 358 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:14.720 good example of that. Anymore. Tex Ben, Yeah, we got one 359 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:17.240 last one. It says shep, You're wrong. The black ones are great, 360 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:22.319 not close to the Panthers, totally different colors. Embrace the new, 361 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:27.359 Yeah, okay, I mean, look, I respect your opinion. I 362 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.359 hope you respect mine. I get it. It doesn't make me wrong. 363 00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:37.880 It just makes me different than you. I'm not saying it's the same color 364 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.799 as the Panthers. I said it reminds me of the Panthers. Panthers have 365 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.880 the blue on top, the black pants, and then same thing with the 366 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:52.160 helmet they'll have. I guess they don't have a black helmet, do they. 367 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:57.480 They have the silver helmet with a lot of black and aqua or light 368 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:04.119 blue in it. It's what I think of, right or wrong. That's 369 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:08.000 what I think of, and I don't like it. Embrace the new is 370 00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:14.800 a good way to say it, though, I should be embracing the new 371 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:20.960 or embracing change. How's that embracing change? I just with uniform certain teams, 372 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:24.679 certain teams. I can't do it, and I'm not going to be 373 00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:27.599 able to do with this. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do with 374 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.960 the Pistons either. I think it was a year ago or two years ago 375 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:35.039 they brought back the aqua and people were like, oh man, this is 376 00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:38.840 great. I was like thrown up in my mouth. I can't stand it. 377 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:45.119 I think it's brutal. I think it's ugly and it's not what the 378 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:50.320 Pistons are about. And I think this says the same thing to me to 379 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:57.239 me about the Lions. Look, you say, embrace the new. That 380 00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.679 the helmet with what Freddy called, you know, the racing stripe down the 381 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:07.480 middle, that's new or relatively new. I embrace that. I don't necessarily 382 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:15.440 like it, but I don't hate it. And by the way, sometimes 383 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:19.480 that new. And the other thing that's new is sometimes they'll go like blue 384 00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.320 on blue, which I think looks terrible. But you know, I'm not 385 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:28.880 sitting there complaining about it. Sometimes those new or what is viewed as new 386 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:32.159 by a certain team doesn't always go well. Like remember when the Pistons had 387 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:37.880 the black alternate uniforms with a three one three, but they wore them on 388 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:43.280 Sundays and it said motor City across the front and it had like a tire 389 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:46.320 mark up the middle. Do you remember that, Ben watching it? Yeah? 390 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:52.320 Okay, you know what people used to make fun of it looks like 391 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.800 you just got ran over. When they get blown out in those uniforms, 392 00:35:54.880 --> 00:36:00.440 it looks like you just got ran over by a car, which is pretty 393 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.800 close to the truth. Back when those when they were wearing those and and 394 00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:15.440 since. Quite honestly, it wasn't too long ago where something was said by 395 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:28.599 Jared Goff about Detroit and the and the Lions writers and the negativity. And 396 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:35.639 Goff was on a podcast and said this, I have this thing with our 397 00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:46.440 local media where like they almost relish in negativity at times, and people took 398 00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:51.880 offense to a lot of people in the media took offense to that. I 399 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:59.920 agreed with it. I just don't think it's only Detroit. I think it's 400 00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:06.159 I think it's US in general, and it's not just limited to sports either. 401 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:13.960 When did it change? I have a theory on that. I think 402 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:17.400 a lot of it has to do with the cycle of twenty four hour sports 403 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:27.519 and twenty four hour news, and the fact that it's not always news gatherers 404 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:32.880 but news creators. In other words, not necessarily journalists, but almost talk 405 00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:38.039 show hosts all right to bide some time, and the same thing happens in 406 00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:44.800 sports. You go from twenty four hour sports where you're seeing a lot of 407 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:50.519 highlights, and you're seeing a lot of games being played and the replay of 408 00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:55.000 games from the night before, and that has been taken over by what a 409 00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:01.880 lot of talking heads and a lot of bombastic look at me moments in sports 410 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:09.519 television, and I think Detroit is no different. I also think in Detroit 411 00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:15.760 especially, and I've been fortunate in my career to be all around the country 412 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:22.039 listening to various hosts, talking with various writers, speaking with different anchors, 413 00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:25.840 and pre and post game hosts and play by plays and so on and so 414 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:32.199 forth. Not that Detroit is completely unique, but let's face it, especially 415 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:38.480 with the Lions not always used to winning, and when you're not used to 416 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:45.599 winning, you see a lot of losing. You become jaded. I'm not 417 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:51.639 making excuses, but there is always instead of relishing and enjoying a victory, 418 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:57.400 we're told you're wrong. You got to be looking at what's wrong with this 419 00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:02.480 team? Even when they do win, we're being told how to act all 420 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:09.119 the time. And that's not fair and it's not right, and you shouldn't 421 00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:15.239 take it. An athlete shouldn't. Either athlete wants to come out and say 422 00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:20.519 that they have every right to it because it's their experience. Jared Goff hasn't 423 00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:24.000 been in Detroit his entire life, and he hasn't been in Detroit his entire 424 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:31.000 professional career especially, But it's an observation that he's made, and instead of 425 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:35.760 getting offended by it, what you should do is trying to, I don't 426 00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:38.320 know self, reflect a little bit and recognize that, yeah, look, 427 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.519 the job of a talk show host, the job of a reporter, the 428 00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:51.639 job of an editor or a columnist or an anchor, it's not supposed to 429 00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:57.599 make you feel good per se. It's not supposed to give you what you 430 00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:06.679 want to hear, but their observations and factual information that helps you form your 431 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.920 opinion. It's not one of those knee jerk reactions where you're a hockey game 432 00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:15.519 and the guy's patiently waiting for a lane because it's clogged to take a shot, 433 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:20.280 and you got the guy behind you who's just sucked down his fourth labats 434 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:25.639 going damn it, shoot the puck. Oh and by the way, that 435 00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:31.039 guy can't skate and it's never played hockey. That's not what it's about. 436 00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.320 But Jared Goff has observed this, and I think it's a fair observation. 437 00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:44.679 I said this six years ago. And one of the hard things about doing 438 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:51.599 talk shows around football season is because you have one game a week and then 439 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:58.239 you have roughly five to six days to talk about it, and it gets 440 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.199 borderline nauseating where you're like, oh my gosh, people, do you not 441 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:07.599 remember the week before? Or hey, writers, why don't you remember what 442 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:14.000 happened last time? You know, we have short memories at times. So 443 00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:16.320 for him to say, sometimes your relish in the negativity, yeah, I 444 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:22.880 think some people, do you know why? Because it's really easy and because 445 00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:25.960 they're used to it. It's easy from the standpoint of, hey, the 446 00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:31.400 lion's lost yesterday. I need an easy day off on a Monday morning. 447 00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:36.480 Let's open up the phone lines at eight sixty six, eight three, eight 448 00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:38.960 forty eight forty three, and then I don't really have to do much After 449 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:47.599 that. You can write about the negative all week long, get people stirred 450 00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:51.440 up, and then the last point would be this, Hey, guess what 451 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.239 I got this many clicks today? Boss? Aren't I doing a good job? 452 00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:00.159 Yes, you are, mister, because that's what it's about out. 453 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:05.280 It's about getting clicks. It's about you. Though on this show Exes and 454 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.360 Bros. 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