Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,
I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I
put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and
laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go
out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football fun everybody. I think that
at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday.
Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same thing
for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play
to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a
great thing about sports. You play to win. I don't care if you
don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start telling
me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the math. That is
right. Good morning, everybody. Dennis Fifthian in for Matt Shepherd. On
this Friday, This Friday, heading into the holiday weekend, heading into the
Memorial weekend, Friday, May the twenty fourth, allys Fridays. Like a
lot of people, it's my favorite day of the week, and heading into
a holiday weekend where you know, I know, I would guess if you're
listening right now, you probably are heading to work. Did you get up
and head out to the lake you go fishing heading into the Memorial weekend because
you're off, maybe, but the most people getting the Monday off and it
just just feels good. It makes you think about you know, some of
the I don't know which countries do it, but you know they say,
you know you only work forget the five day work week, four days.
Everybody's neither their head, Yeah, four days. People driving right now listening
saying the five days I worked seven days. So we're going to keep your
company, get you into this weekend. You're a sports fan, you know.
Last night rang the Bell and Memorial Weekend with a little bit of stuff
for everyone. If I'm thinking about what is very top of mind for me
and I'm thinking for you. It was the Lions and Dan Campbell who talked
at OTAs yesterday and he was asked to question, it's the question of the
day. I'll be answering it myself an hour from right now at seven to
one. Of course, you could jump in and answer it is it super
Bowl or bust? For the Detroit Lions this upcoming season. Dan Campbell interrupted,
I mean he answered the question, but he interrupted the question saying he
doesn't see bust, he sees Super Bowl. It was a fine way to
answer the question. I think about this time last year, I was asking
this question with Michigan, with the Michigan football team, was it national championship
or bust? And Michigan fans agreed that it was championship or bust. Now
college and pro, there's some obvious differences with Michigan. Certainly, they had
been to the two previous college football Playoffs and it took him a while to
you know, they had the long streak where they couldn't beat Ohio State.
They had to deal with all the jokes that they hadn't won the Big Ten
since they moved the since they had a championship game and it was in India,
they had to deal with, hey, you know where Indianapolis is at.
But so they were able to do that, slay that dragon, but
they lost the TCU in the College Football Playoff. The first year they lost
to Georgia, I think got people know it was a pretty good Georgia team,
great Georgia team, but Michigan was favored to be TCU. That was
a chance to get to the national title game, and they say they blew
it, didn't do it. So coming back when they had JJ McCarthy and
Blake korm you go down the list of all the they were set, they
were ready. They had ten players out of the transfer portal, and it
felt like if it wasn't going to belast year at the Ohouse, State game
was at home, they had another super easy non conference schedule. If it
wasn't going to be last year for Michigan, there was a question of,
well, is it ever gonna happen or certainly now you know, I didn't
feel like with this group, although JJ could have come back for his senior
season, so you could have made that argument, and some people did,
but the other guys, you just it was it was National Championship or bust
last year for Michigan, But so is it Super Bowl or bust for the
Lions. Dan Campbell doesn't see bust. He sees Super Bowl. As he
was standing up at the podium with his grit hat on, we'll get into
that. Pistons have a new man at the top calling the shots, Trajan
Langdon the Alaskan Assassin for those of you that can go back and remember when
he played at Due. Not many ballplayers coming out of Alaska, but Langdon
did, and he went to Duke and then you know, a couple of
years in the pros, then overseas and then you know, getting involved on
the front office side of things. He'd been down to New Orleans. But
he is going to be the next president of basketball operations. But what he
is going to be is the guy with the final say and personnel decisions,
and that's the top job. And so this is going to be the guy
that will either you know, Troy Weaver has been calling the shots for the
past few years. It will be Langdon now for the next few seasons,
and we'll see what he will do. I'll I'll give you a couple ideas,
you know, for the you know, you think about if you're a
Pistons fan coming off a season where he only won fourteen games and the bitter
disappointment in almost every area for the team, and you look to this season.
In the draft, there was there was nothing. It was it's called
you know, one of the worst I get the worst draft ever. And
you know, obviously they didn't win it, and they you know, fell
to five. So not only was it a terrible draft, but you wouldn't
have minded it wouldn't have uh have minded grabbing that number one pick. But
they fall to five, which you know, felt like another loss for this
team. So now they sit here, there's not great prospects. But oh
if if you sometimes you find that Brad Holmes was coming in, it was
a for the Lions. Honestly, that felt like a rinse and repeat type
situation. I've seen a lot of general managers over the years come in for
Detroit and the fans, and that's what you do. You're like, yeah,
we got a new guy. Let's put our you know, full faith
behind him. Maybe this will be the guy. Oh, Bob Quinn,
you know he's the guy. And he was not the guy obviously, Bob
Quinn. It did not work out, but Holmes I was. So you
know, there's when you get somebody new like that, there is at least
with the change part, you feel like, you know, maybe a chance
we'll ship through what his most important moves are, at least that we see
on the surface. That talked about yesterday that these teams you look at the
four teams that are remaining in the playoffs, and you you look at their
roster, you look at their front office, you look at how they have
been able to get where they're at and has it just been sitting back and
getting lucky. In some cases it is Minnesota of the year that they get
the number one pick. The last time, I mean a couple of years
before they got kat Karl Anthony Towns and that didn't look like it was really
gonna be all of that. But you know, they get the ant man
Anthony Edwards, and that was lucky, but they did have to take him.
There was it wasn't a slam dunk. There were a lot of people
saying, hey, take LaMelo Ball in that draft, and they didn't.
So that was part of it. But we'll get into a little bit of
that actually straight ahead, and we'll cover what happened last night on the ice
and the hardwood in the playoffs. We had the Tigers in action as well.
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Is it super Bowl or bus for the Detroit Lions? That was the
question posed to Lions head coach Dan Campbell after OTA's yesterday. He says he
doesn't seek bust. He's the super Bowl. What about you? As it
super Bowl our bust? I'm answering that question at seven oh one. Good
morning, Dennis Fithian Here, Axes and Bros. And the Michigan Sports Network.
I'm gonna run through what happened last night in sports. I got a
bone to pick with the ESPN. They it's nice today after Dan Campbell spoke
yesterday. Now they they pick a team Sports Center does and they picked popular
teams a lot of times. Right now the Lions are are are a popular
team obviously, and Campbell spoke yesterday, so they're talking a lot about the
Lions. But they put up a graph and you know, it has the
Lions win total at ten and a half and then at the bottom and then
it says they've got eleven and one odds to win the Super Bowl. And
at the bottom of that it says the best title odds in forty five years,
which is a little bit of an attention grabber. You're like, wow,
because the Lions said, oh you go at ninety three, ninety one,
they had one, they had won one playoff games. It's fifty seven.
We knew all of these numbers. They're ingrained in our brain. It
is a relief last year when they won one, not only two. I
mean, you know the whole story there. But so when I saw the
forty five years, I was thinking, you know, that's interesting. If
somebody asked me one with this is the best title odds since when, I
think I would have said nineteen fifty seven. I don't know even know if
they had odds back at nineteen fifty seven. I thought about the same thing
they have odds forty five years ago, but they do because I see them.
They often talk about the Jets and Joe nama Is guarantee, and you
know what sort of underdog the Jets were, or they were their double digit
underdog, and that's what made the guarantee by Joe Namas so famous. So
I get that part. But then I was just thinking myself because I was
a young, very young kid in at nineteen seventy nine, and I would
have I was a Lions fan. But so I'm thinking with the Lions.
Was I thinking about the Super Bowl back in the late seventies for the Lions.
Absolutely not. Now, the Lions went two and fourteen in nineteen seventy
nine, you'd say, well, you know, it's seventy eight. They
must have had a hell of a season to have the the best odds until
twenty twenty three. Well, no, they went They went seven to nine
in seventy eight, seventy seven, they went six in eight the whole seventies.
I'm sorry. In nineteen seventy either the Lions beat the Cowboys like five
nothing or I'm sorry they lost to the Cowboys of five nothing in the playoffs
and so if it would have said seventy one, that said coming off a
playoff appearance, all right, But the rest of the seventies it was nothing.
But you know, seven wins, six wins the seventy nineteen, which
is interesting because it was two and fourteen. It was a famous song that
made its way around the Motor City after that by by Spider Man. Allen
to the song by Queen as Spider Man said, he was sitting on his
seat something. I'm trying to remember the lyrics there, Spider Man sitting on
his seat. But the line was last year was two and fourteen, but
this is the year for New Orleans. Now that rhymed when Spider Man said,
it didn't seem like a really rhyme to roll off the tongue there for
me when I was rolling it out. Maybe it's just because it's early in
the morning, but I don't know, I have I'm sending that off to
ESPN. I'm questioning their odds. Now, if they would have said the
Lions in a ninety one, you know they lost the conference finals, or
when they lost actually, you know, the winning against the Cowboys. Remember
when they got that one playoff win for the first time. So it's fifty
seven. A lot of people thought and it was the next for the foreseeable
future, it was going to be the Lions and the Cowboys. This is
it. Look at the young talent on these teams. Well they were kind
of right. The Cowboys would go on and we win three Super Bowls,
but not the Lions. So I could have seen if they were saying that
in ninety four ninety five that there was there was something there for Detroit ninety
two. I guess that's I think, the best Super Bowl odds, But
you know, so I'm questioning it. That's what I have to say for
ESPN best title odds in forty five years. I know there were less teams
and everything else, but it just didn't make sense to me as my mind
works through it all right. Last night in the playoffs, she had Game
two in the NBA in the Eastern Conference Finals with Indiana going into Boston.
Boston had won. That had bugaboo, one of those things in Game two's
where they were losing no matter who they were playing in the heat, and
you just go through it. And so Indiana, after the way they played
played in Game one and threw Game one away and only had themselves to blame,
and thinking, well, however you want to look at it, I
felt pretty good about their chances to steal the game. But you know,
Boston with a twenty zero round of the first half, it looked like it
was going to be over as I watched it. But I watched this game
up to halftime. The Pacers Pascal Siakam, they got it down to a
half dozen. It was a six point game at the half, but then
in the third quarter it was mostly Boston, but the Pacers did inch within
a bucket there the third but Tyrese Halliburton got hurt and then that's pretty much
it. And that is going to be the main storyline for Game three.
Halliburton and his hamstring and his availability in Game three, that is the big
question and the series. Of course, if Halliburton, they might lose anyways
and might get swept anyways. But if Halliburton is out, I would think
that that would be a likely scenario. OH one twenty six, one ten
the final sixteen point victory for the Celtics. They're up to to oh On
the other side, it will be a game two. MAVs te Wolves Tonight
eight thirty in Minnesota on the ice, you had Dallas and Edmonton first game
of the Western Finals. Nobody listening right now stayed up to watch the end
of that one, although it was riveting. I watched the highlights today and
it ends up going Edmonton's way, three to two, double overtime. But
that's a hell of a game. With Edmonton now sitting here, they've got
so much firepower, but they've had this firepower, but the fire power is
being helped by a subtimely goaltending now and another edition of a local product,
Zach Hyman, who they signed as a free agent, who leads the NHL
Playoffs with the twelve goals. Hymen had a goal drive title, of course.
I mean if I asked you to say, hey, who are the
three players that scored the goals for the Edmonton Oilers, you'd say, probably
Hymen, probably Dry Title, and probably Connor McDavid, And you would be
right on all of that. McDavid, with thirty two seconds into the double
overtime scores he's about on the door step, right in the slot. When
Bouchard has been excellent for Edmonton, is over on the right side in the
corner. He throws the puck right front and McDavid is sitting there all alone.
That's going to be a scary proposition as a goaltender, Connor McDavid and
he just he shoveled it the passed from Bouchard. No chance there for Ottinger
winner for Edmonton. They're up one to zero. Two posts for the Stars
in overtime. And if you're looking for a key, how about five for
five of the penalty kill there for the Edmonton Oilers in game one tonight Game
two of the Eastern Finals. Rangers they got shut out in Game one eight
o'clock face off at Madison Square Garden and the Florida Panthers. They're going to
take a two to zero lead there. You're up to speed there. The
Pistons have a new guy calling the shots and we will go over what the
first order of business will be for Trajan Langdon, your new president of basketball
operations for the Detroit Pistons. Straight ahead here on x'es and Bros. And
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this Memorial weekend, Dennismithian in for Matt Shephard Axes and bros. And I
have just learned something. You know. We have the ability for you to
of course call in on the Meyer Hotline, and we also have the availability
for you to participate the via the text. And this is now my fifth
show that I've been filling in. And I say, hey, text sports
radio to twenty one thousand. Well, the last time I was in I
just tested it out myself and I texted the sports radio and I was like,
hey, what's up Ben? You know it's then, you know,
And then Ben didn't say anything to me, and I thought, well,
maybe Bench just you know, he's you know, not into just being a
friendly via the text or with me. You know, I said it was
me. You didn't say anything. But when I say text sports radio to
twenty one thousand, sports radio is one word. And my problem is when
I tried it twice, it automatically corrected to sports radio and put a space
in there. Sports radio one word to twenty one thousand. You can get
in that way, and hey, Ben is very friendly and he's not ignoring
your attacks. You just have to put sports radio in as one word,
so try it out. That is something that has me kind of fired up,
and that just happened over the last five minutes. Now the question of
the day, and we're going to dive into it head first. Coming up
at seven to one. I'll answer the question. It's about the Lions where
Dan Campbell yesterday was asked by the assembled media whoever it was, Hey Dan,
do you see this year as super Bowl or bust? And Campbell with
five coffees in him, a couple shots of whatever else he puts in those
coffees and the hat with grit on it, stared down that reporter and said
he doesn't see bust, he sees super Bowl, which is a very nice
answer by Dan Campbell. But we want your answer and I'll give you a
myrie coming up at seven one. But there is some news with the Detroit
Pistons. Yes, they are still organization. They do plan on playing the
upcoming season. They do own the number five pick and the twenty twenty four
upcoming NBA draft. As we all know, they finished with the worst record,
but it fell to five, which felt very Pistons like with how things
are going. But the Pistons hired a new guy, a new leader,
Trajan Langdon comes in for the Pistons. According to reports, they are set
to hire Trajan Langdon as president of basketball Operations. Now I am going to
work through what I think his first order of business is now, you might
ask, and I asked this question myself when I saw that they were hiring
Langdon as president of basketball operations and that he had been the Pelicans general manager
since twenty nineteen, I thought, why would the general manager of the Pelicans
want to leave their situation and come to Detroit? And that's a good question,
patting myself on the back. Good question. Well, Langdon was the
general manager, but he did not have final say in personnel decisions. That
was David Griffin, who was the Calves, a guy calling the shot.
I don't know exactly what his title was with the Calves, but that's in
New Orleans. He was the one, which was a pretty easy decision,
drafting Zion Williamson. And that's why you want to be the guy that's calling
the shots. And Langdon is going to do that and we say, well,
is this a good hire. I'm not sure if it's a good higher.
The Pistons are in a real tough spot with the roster that they have
in you know, last year at this time I looked at it and said,
yeah, I know, they got a young roster and you just want
to take incremental steps and prepare yourself and try to surround Kate Cunningham with some
good players. And it's not like they were hit with injuries or anything.
Last year. They had their starting five what you would say, not a
bad starting five, maybe not a playoff team, but a team that you
know, you thought they might have something going for them, but no,
they didn't. They they don't play well. They didn't play defense at all,
they didn't shoot really well. And you know, in their their head
coach didn't see particularly interested in in coaching, which is going to be a
pretty big deal when you know you're sitting there on the sideline and you're Monte
Williams, who the Pistons brought in last year to be their head coach and
they gave him seventy six million dollars. Now, this is the first order
of business for Langdon. I think that if you're listening right now. And
I said that to you, you'd say, what do you think is first
order of businesses? You'd say, fire Troy Weaver and then fire Bonnie Williams.
Broom. These guys out start fresh that way. And I agree with
that. I don't know how Troy Weaver is staying around he is out.
I would I will put all of the money I have on Weaver being out
now. No, Williams is interesting. You know, it's not a cap
situation. The Piston's just oh, Monty Williams sixty million dollars more after you
know, the the six year, seventy six million dollar deal. And he
could say, that's a hell of a lot of money to you eat if
you're Tom Gorris, although a report in the Athletics says that if Langdon wants
to move on, that Gorris will eat that money if Langdon decides to make
a coaching change. So I don't think that Langdon is flying up to Detroit
thinking the money's gone automatically. I think he's going to have an open eye.
Would I would think that he would have an open mind. I would
meet with money Williams. There's the perception if Langdon was asking me, what's
up with you? What do you think of money Williams. I would say,
it looks like he just took the Pistons job just because they offered him
seventy six million dollars. He even said something to that effect when he was
hired and he had fired by Phoenix. It felt like, you know,
after all of this, that he was just perfectly content to live his life
as a multi millionaire and chill. But the Pistons said, hey, how
about seventy six million guaranteed? Who say a no to that? Basically what
money Williams said. But then he coached like he had all the security of
the world and not a care in the world about winning basketball games. And
you can't have that as a head coach. You need somebody driven. You
need someone despite you know, making seventy six million, that he is just
grind it. It's everything consumed with being a head coach and moving this thing
forward. And Monty Williams did not seem like he had any of that,
any drive. He was reluctant to make lineup changes. He stayed with Killian
Hayes for some reason. What every single person that I've ever spoken with or
talked to that watched the Pistons and said, I don't know why Ice,
you know, playing Killian Hayes like he is. And and then finally,
you know, he finally made some moves at the trading deadline. Move some
guys out, move some guys in. But it's totally unspectacular, terrible as
a matter of fact, that's the way it looks. That's what I would
tell Langdon. Langdon's gonna sit down and he's got to look to the other
side of the table and say, money, tell me why you want to
stay here and coach this team. And he needs I would need an impassion
plea from many about what went wrong last year and how he just can't wait
to get out there and turn the narrative around that he's just sitting there and
collecting a check. Maybe he's ready to do that. Maybe he's ready to
Maybe he's already reached out to Langdon and said, I can't wait to get
the work. Let's do it. Whatever it is, it better be a
hell of a sales job from Williams. Now have he said everything that I
just said. I could easily just see him just sitting back. Bonnie Williams
and be like, you want to go ahead, I'll get this retirement underway.
I'll take I made the sixteen million last year. I'll take a sixty
million dollar check and I'll walk A lot of us listening right now think about,
Hey, you don't have to fly around, you have to be at
the pistons next year or the next five years. You can just take your
check, fold it up, put it in your back pocket, and fly
wherever you want for the rest of your life and your entire family as well.
So that is going to be the first order of business. Now,
if I had to predict, it's tough. I don't know much about Langdon
as a player at Duke, and that if you're worth anything as a competitor,
you are going to sell that as I want to be on the sideline
and I want to get this thing going. And you know, you know,
he doesn't need to throw Troy Weaver under the whatever. She used to
go out there and says, you know, he wants to here's his ideas
and he could sell it. But so I think he's going to get an
opportunity to continue coaching. Now. I do think if I was somebody that
was an NBA writer certainly a Pistons writer. And I was in the off
season and the editor said, you know, we're gonna need some content.
I would sit down. One of the first things that I would write was
Coaches on the hot Seat for twenty twenty four. Monny Williams's name is going
to be right at the top, and next to it, it's going to
be training at Langdon is the new basketball president of basketball Operations. He's not
standing for any thing like last year, and then he'll be gone. And
I don't think that he will be the head coach at this time next year,
but I do think he'll be the coach at the start of the year.
So those are the two orders of business for Langdon Waiver. I can't
see how he stays around, but I do think Money Williams will come back,
even though the Pistons are open to taking these sixty million dollars and flushing
it down the toilet. You look at the Pistons and you're training Langdon and
you're flying in, you say, all right, what do I got?
You got Kate Cuttingham. That's the first thing you already thought that Kate Cuttingham
could have been last year saying get me out of Dodge. It's the first
call I'm going to make if I'm trading Langdon saying hey, Cad, these
are my ideas, this is what I'm going to do. Everything should be
about can we get Kate Cuttingham to stick this out for give us a chance
this year. Kate Cunningham said all the right things last year about people were
like, hey, you went out of Dodge and he's like, no,
I don't. I'm in. He has said he's been all in. That's
a credit to Kate Cuttingham. Most NBA players in his spot just be like,
get me out of here. Other than that, Jaden Ivy, last
year's first round pick, User Thompson, you know he's a development piece.
Jalen Duran's nights. It's like these guys are Thompson a beef stew and Jalen
Duran. I think those three starters, those three guys, it would be
if you're talking about a playoff team. You'd like to see those guys coming
off the bench, and you know, having some guys that could score and
shoot in their place is individually they're not all that bad. Like I said,
Thompson, you expect a lot more from him and in the development side.
You know, the beef do is just like he's okay, and he
would be best unless you have four tremendous players around him. He would be
best coming off the bench. And I would say the same thing about Durreat.
So really it's it's cutting Ham and Ivy. Pistons do have sixty two
million and cap space, But you look at the free agents. Is Spicy
p really going to take, you know, some max offer from the Pistons.
Pascal Siakam, he's there in Indiana right now, He's going to be
a free agent. The way he's playing, he's going to command the top
dollar. Is he going to look to the Pistons and say, yeah,
it's a quandary when you're talking about the very free agents. If the Pistons,
you know, would offer a max deal because they would only be coming
for the money, but hey, you've got it, you're at least going
to offer it up, at least to him. Demark DeRozan is also a
free agent. He would also be another one. These are the top two
targets I would think for Langdon. Other than that, you know, I've
seen the name Tobias Harris. I think he played for the Pistons. Maybe
that's why, But I haven't really felt Tobias Harris since he played for the
Pistons. Was he was a disappointment in Philadelphia overall. So you're gonna pay
him a boatload of money. I would be hesitant to do that if I
was Langham. So if you can't get Siakham or DeRozan, you're gonna have
to piece some things together and then you're gonna have to show us what you're
made of that way. So good luck to Trajan Langdon who has that order
of business straight ahead. You want to dial in on any of that you
had the playoffs from last night. Boston goes up two to ozh at Minton
a double overtime. Connor McDavid scores thirty two seconds into the double overtime session
and Edmonton takes a one ozero series lead. They won three to two last
night. And we've got Panthers and Rangers and maps Tea Wolves coming up tonight.
Oh yeah, the Tigers. Tigers played last night and they lost their
fifth in a row. They are four games under five hundred and they get
beat up nine to one. I listened and watched the game, and it
wasn't encouraging. Tigers are now ten games back in the Al Central to the
Guardians, and the Royals are only a game and a half back. The
Twinkies six and a half games back of the Guardians, but low scoring early.
Jack Flaherty on the mound for the Tigers gave up seven hits, three
runs. He worked into the seventh inning, so not so bad. But
then Vladimir Guerrero Junior. The bullpen, which when we were sitting here,
certainly two weeks ago, you talked about, I talked about. You knew
it, Oh man, this bullpen, this starting pitching for the Tigers,
and you know now that has gone sideways. And the offense which perked up
here and there you thought, oh hey, now the hitting's going the pitching's
going south. You know, now both of them are ore south and that's
not a combination that's going to make anybody excited. The story of the game.
However, as I was a dry around, I was listening to the
radio broadcast. Dan Dickerson is working with the former Tiger Andy Dirks in the
broadcast booth, and Dickerson's like, I don't know if that was a splitter
or not. I don't know if that was a slider. We don't have
our our television booth. We have had a power outage here at Comerica and
okay, Dan, I got ya. But then I tuned into the game
and Jason Beniti it was two seconds ahead of the television copy. The audio
was done, I think over his cell phone. It was the worst sounding
and the worst presentation. Not their fault. I don't know though. Whatever
the power outage was, he couldn't get it going. But it lasted so
long, and the jokes, you know, the power outage. We're a
parent for this for this Tiger team and just yea terrible all around situation for
the crew there. The tree had to make the best out of it that
they could. But in the end, when you lose five in a row
and you get the broadcast like that, just they thumbs down all over,
thumbs up on the Lions, though, super Bowl or bust. We're gonna
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