WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.480 Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.679 I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I 3 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.199 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.520 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.159 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think 6 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:40.119 this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from 7 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.600 yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same 8 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:49.280 thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You 9 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:56.280 play to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's 10 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.520 a great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care 11 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.680 if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. You start 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:15.359 telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the Nats. Hey, 13 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:21.359 what's going on? Glad you're with us here on Exis in Bros. 14 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:26.200 Throughout the great state of Michigan. We're with you Monday through Friday, six 15 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:30.719 until nine. The Meyer hotline is open for you eight sixty six eight three, 16 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:36.159 eight forty eight forty three, and you could text the program Sports Radio 17 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:40.680 to twenty one thousand. It was an afternoon affair yesterday for the Tigers, 18 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:46.920 and the Marlins shut them out again to nothing. So the Tigers haven't scored 19 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:53.359 in the last nineteen innings. Brian dal Lacruz's first inning to run homer able 20 00:01:53.359 --> 00:02:01.519 to stand up for a Miami team that is not good. They're just they're 21 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:07.760 one of the worst teams in baseball, at least so far. How long 22 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:14.719 this lasts, I don't know. All we can do is judge teams and 23 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:22.759 leagues and players to the point of which we've seen them. And Miami has 24 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:30.000 thirteen wins on the year. That is the fewest in Major League Baseball, 25 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:39.599 fewer than the Chicago White Sox. Folks one fewer than the Chicago White Sox. 26 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:47.960 Miami and Chicago have the worst run differential in all of baseball, that 27 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:53.199 minus eighty seven runs. And you might be rolling your eyes right now, 28 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.560 because, man, why do you always bring this up? Check? I 29 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:01.919 bring it up because it's really important. That is a really important statistic in 30 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:07.879 all the world of baseball, where we get wrapped up in certain numbers, 31 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:16.159 that is really a vital number. Go back through history and look at it. 32 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.599 You know why Atlanta was so good last year? You know why the 33 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:24.199 Dodgers were so good last year. There's a lot of reasons, but one 34 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.759 is they could outscore their opposition. That's the name of the game, right, 35 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.800 you just heard HERM Edwards. That's the name of the game. The 36 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.439 name of the game is to win the game. Well, Atlanta was a 37 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:44.080 plus two hundred and thirty one and run differentially a year ago. Texas was 38 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:57.759 a plus one sixty five or one eighty five. Excuse me. Those two 39 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:04.960 teams were the gold standard a year go in their respective leagues. Baltimore was 40 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:11.639 up there too for the American League, but they two had a really high 41 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:18.480 run differential. They were at one twenty nine. Tampa won the division the 42 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:23.759 American League East last year ninety nine wins, one ninety five, a plus 43 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:30.040 one ninety five. You don't think it's important, Okay, Minnesota won the 44 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:33.480 Central Division. They were the only team with a plus run differential. The 45 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:39.120 Tigers were a minus seventy nine. White Sox were a minus two hundred. 46 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:44.480 You know why Oakland stunk last year with just fifty wins. They were a 47 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:54.680 minus three hundred thirty nine run differential. Sometimes those numbers are tough to comprehend, 48 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:58.439 man, I mean that is incredible. Look at the teams right now. 49 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:03.319 Who's winning, who's struggling. I told you who struggled in the Al 50 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:08.959 Central Chicago White Sex. They're the only team with a minus run differential. 51 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:13.879 You just don't find it very often where a team is going to outperform its 52 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:19.319 lack of offense. I know defense wins championships. I know pitching is really 53 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:28.399 important, but this is ridiculous. Miami doesn't shut out the Tigers once. 54 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:33.480 They shut them out twice one nothing in two nothing. You may not have 55 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:39.600 felt two nights ago that they had a lot of scoring opportunities. They didn't 56 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:45.399 yesterday they did. Couldn't take care of business. Casey Mace pitched well enough 57 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.639 to win. He made a mistake, came in the first inning, came 58 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.959 in the second hitter. He went six innings, two hit, two run, 59 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.720 ball, struck out six sixty one of his eighty nine pitches or whatever 60 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.600 it were, strikes ninety pitches. He retired eleven in a row, one 61 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:10.199 point eighteen in the last nineteen. That's good enough. You can't expect your 62 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:16.879 pitcher to go out there and be perfect just not realistic. Detroit's one through 63 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:23.519 six hitters, We're two for eighteen. This team left ten men on base, 64 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.680 they advanced a runner in scoring position just twice, and they lose the 65 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:35.759 series. Was it possible? Anything in baseball is? But Trevor Rodgers had 66 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:43.519 an ERA of eight point five seven going into the game against Detroit yesterday, 67 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:50.279 yet somehow handled the Tigers offense. So now the Tigers are under five hundred 68 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:55.079 for the first time this year, at twenty one to twenty two. They 69 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.000 have now lost four straight series. Remember, this is a team that started 70 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.519 what six to zero, and everyone was like, hey, don't it's a 71 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:04.319 fun team to watch. This is why you we think they've turned the corner. 72 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:11.199 So on and so forth. How do you feel now you lose four 73 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.839 straight series, You've lost nine of your last twelve games. You're headed to 74 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.360 Arizona, which initially would make you go, Okay, that's not terrible, 75 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.759 that's doable. Arizona's won seven of ten. They're under five hundred, but 76 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:35.079 they've won seven of ten and they have a plus in the run differential. 77 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.120 And I know what you're hoping for, so am I you want to turn 78 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:46.439 it around? So on and so forth. How do you do it? 79 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:51.240 You get the day off, so you're traveling to Arizona and you're going somebody 80 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:56.680 please save us. Oh it's Terrek Schooble. Thank goodness, he's going to 81 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:01.439 make the start. He gets the nodding Game one against Ryan Nelson. No 82 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:13.399 question who the better pitcher is is Trek Scuble. It's just you want to 83 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.759 rely on the one guy. You know what, You're still gonna have to 84 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:20.160 score a damn run or two because you haven't been able to do it for 85 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.920 the last two games against a bad Miami team. And I try to keep 86 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:35.320 this in perspective, knowing in baseball that things fluctuate and change so quickly. 87 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:43.559 I understand that it's how you play. I don't want to sound like Current 88 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.919 Edwards here. It's how you play the game though, and played well. 89 00:08:50.279 --> 00:09:00.360 That's very simple, isn't it. But it's also very true. Can't canntinue 90 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:05.679 this way otherwise we are going to be having a miserable summer. I'll reiterate 91 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.840 this, and I'll say it on a pretty regular basis. Expectations have to 92 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:16.080 be higher. Expectations for this team have to be higher. Absolutely no reason 93 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:22.559 they should be under five hundred. Right now, they may come back from 94 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.799 the road trip playing much better baseball, and we won't even think about this 95 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:30.320 right now. But at some point this year we're going to look back like 96 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:31.559 we did during the Red Wings and say, oh my god, how'd you 97 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:37.000 lose to the Coyotes two straight games. We're gonna say the same thing about 98 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.720 this Miami series. Meyer Hotline eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty 99 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:45.039 three the text line Sports RADIY to twenty one thousand. We're just getting started 100 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.960 on a Thursday morning on EXUS and Bros. Stay with us, he and 101 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.840 sure for my good friends from Flying as Whiskey. 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You could text the program 122 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:03.120 Sports Radio twenty one thousand, Tiger's a loser yesterday to nothing to the Marlins 123 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:11.679 shut out yet again, their offense rearing its ugly head again in a negative 124 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:18.159 way, and the statistics continue to jump out at you and just how bad 125 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:24.919 this team truly is offensively? Right now? I keep saying right now because 126 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:33.360 I really want this team to turn it around. I'm so hopeful, but 127 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.200 I'm looking at it, and the more I see it, I think you 128 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:39.840 probably see it too. The more you see it, the more you think 129 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:50.039 this is not happening because we've given them. We've given this team a lot 130 00:12:50.080 --> 00:13:00.039 of room here, a ton of room, and we're just not seeing it. 131 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:09.440 Can this team drastically change? There could be there could be a little 132 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.440 bit of a margin for air here. I'll give you an example. All 133 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.519 right, let's try and be let's try to be positive here for a second 134 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:28.039 with this situation. Do you think the Toronto Blue Jays have a potent offense? 135 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.639 Yes? So do I so do. Why it's a team I think 136 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:46.080 with a ton of offensive talent. Vladimir Guerrero Junior bo Bishett, George Springer, 137 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.679 Dalton Varshow. They added Justin Turner in the offseason, along with Isaiah 138 00:13:50.720 --> 00:14:03.200 Kiner, Falefa Sure, Kevin Kiermeyer. They're scoring fewer runs than the Tigers. 139 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:11.879 The Toronto Blue Jays have scored fewer runs in more games, I might 140 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.480 add, than the Detroit Tigers. Now, keep in mind, it's a 141 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:26.639 Toronto team last year known for its offense. Last year, that Toronto club 142 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.879 was a little bit below league average, but scored a hell of a lot 143 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:39.879 more runs than Detroit did. This is becoming a little bit of a pattern. 144 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:50.320 What about Seattle? Do you think Seattle is a good baseball team? 145 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.799 I know we don't follow them every day. They lead the West. They're 146 00:14:54.960 --> 00:15:07.039 twenty four and twenty. They've scored fewer runs than the Tigers. Again, 147 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.279 I'm trying to I'm trying to be positive here for us. I'm trying to 148 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:18.120 give us a reason to believe. And after yesterday, actually they've scored the 149 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:28.840 same number of runs as the Tigers. But it's a dangerous situation for Detroit 150 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:35.279 in the sense that we have seen this become more of commonplace than not. 151 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.399 Remember, this is a Tigers team. That scored the second fewest runs in 152 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:46.480 all of bass players last year. The only team who scored fewer runs than 153 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:52.000 Detroit last season with the Oakland Athletics, they scored five hundred and eighty five 154 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:58.120 runs. Detroit scored six hundred and sixty one. Actually, Chicago, the 155 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.559 White Sox, I apologize, the White Socks scored fewer runs too. So 156 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:15.080 only the A's and the Athletics scored fewer runs than Detroit. Is it a 157 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:27.879 pattern? It's troubling. Two years ago Detroit was you know, the league 158 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:34.120 average is about six hundred and ninety four runs. This is in twenty twenty 159 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:45.840 two. Nothing great about the Tigers' efforts there either. It's a problem. 160 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:55.919 This team is not gifted offensively. So we've seen it for a few years 161 00:16:55.919 --> 00:17:03.600 in a row now where you're like shaking your head, relying solely on your 162 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:11.759 pitching and it's constant. Hey, we're going to talk with Colton Pouncey of 163 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:15.440 the Athletic at eight thirty five. Looking forward to that for sure. We'll 164 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:22.160 talk about the Lions schedule, We'll talk about the golf extension and more in 165 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.079 the NFL. There are when you see the release of the schedule and it's 166 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.079 pretty creative. Man. I don't know if you folks saw this much, 167 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:45.240 but a number of different teams social media events kind of expressed how this team 168 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:49.640 was going to celebrate the release of its schedule. And it's pretty creative. 169 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:56.759 It was really good. If you saw any on social media, let us 170 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.759 know. Tell us which one you think was the best and how you thought 171 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:07.319 the Lions did. Because the Lions had a couple of comedians showcasing theirs, 172 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:14.279 we'll get to that coming up here. Former Tiger Willie Castro had an embarrassing 173 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.240 moment last night. Did you see this? Willie Castro plays for the Minnesota 174 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.799 Twins. He's actually been a really good find for them. He's played well 175 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:27.279 for them. He's not gonna be an All Star. He's a firstatile player. 176 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:30.640 He could play a number of different positions. He could play second, 177 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.599 he could play short, he could play third, he could play any outfield 178 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:37.039 spot. He was playing center field for them yesterday in the game against New 179 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:40.920 York Yankees won at one for nothing. They were up one nothing with a 180 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.599 man on third when a fly ball was hit to center field. Willie Castro 181 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.440 thought there were two outs when he grabbed it. He thought he made the 182 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:53.400 third out, nonchalantly starts jogging into the infield. I think it was Anthony 183 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:56.680 Volpi at third base. He breaks for home and scores easily to make it 184 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:03.720 too nothing New York, and it's an embarrassing moment for Willy Castro. I 185 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:08.319 saw that highlight and I thought to myself, there are scoreboards and ribbon boards. 186 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:15.240 You know what the ribbon board is right around a stadium. There are 187 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:21.759 scoreboards in so many different spots of the ballpark. Obviously it's in centerfield or 188 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:26.720 left center field. It's tough for a center fielder to look at that unless 189 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.480 you're absolutely turning around. But to his right there's a ribbon board, and 190 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.240 to his left there is a ribbon board. They're in Minnesota. It's not 191 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:40.200 hard to locate, so it's easy. As a quarterback walking on the line 192 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:48.279 of scrimmage and seeing the play clock. After every out, most players signify 193 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:56.359 and scream how many outs there are? Willie Castro was in a daze. 194 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:06.440 I suppose he screwed some things up pretty bad right there. NBA last night 195 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:10.039 Boston ns Cleveland season with a one thirteen to ninety eight game five win. 196 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:14.960 They are into the Eastern Conference for a third straight year and a six time 197 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:19.599 in the last eight years. You want your best players to elevate their games 198 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:23.839 at the biggest moments. It's such a cliche, but it's so true. 199 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:32.559 Jason Tatum did twenty five points, ten boards, nine a SIS, But 200 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:37.000 I'm going to give you probably a bigger reason why they won that game, 201 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.160 and it comes from a wiley veteran. We'll get to that. 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You know, everybody that came on 228 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:10.079 the floor, give one hundred percent energy, and we play as the team. 229 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:12.359 We win as a team, we lose as a team. And this 230 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:15.960 team is special. Man. We've only been too better for what five months? 231 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:30.880 And you know, I'll be having a lot of fun with this team. 232 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:38.400 That's Luca Jogs Following the Mavericks win in Oklahoma City, A little surprised 233 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:42.480 at this series, I thought, Okay, see, I mean, they 234 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:45.440 are one of the younger teams in the NBA, but I really thought that's 235 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:52.640 a team that would take care of business because I was unimpressed with Dallas's defense. 236 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:57.799 But give credit where credit is due. The Mavericks hold Okay Seed to 237 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:03.200 ninety two points. That's the fewest points they've scored all year. Dallas shoots 238 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:07.599 fifty two and a half percent. Doncic leads the way thirty one points, 239 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:11.240 ten boards, eleven assists, seventh time he's had a thirty point triple double. 240 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:17.200 They win at one O four to ninety two. Dallas is up three 241 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:22.599 games to two. Charles Barkley as much as anybody else needs Okac to come 242 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:27.640 back, because last night, while they were talking post game of the Boston 243 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:45.640 Celtics win, you heard Draymond Green kind of downplaying Boston's ability to win three 244 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:49.279 straight or reach the Eastern Conference Finals three straight years in six out of last 245 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:57.119 eight years. He downplayed it. And Charles Barkley when they had Jason Tatum 246 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:06.759 on Green had talked about the Knicks and talked about either Dallas or Denver coming 247 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:11.279 out of the West. Jason Tatum wouldn't bite. Charles Barkley said, you're 248 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:15.559 wrong, because Okase he's going to beat Dallas. Well, now they go 249 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.920 back to Dallas and the Mavericks are up three games to two. Can they 250 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:25.960 finish off? Jay Gilgis, Alexander chet Holmgram company. We'll soon find out. 251 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:34.519 But the Boston win saw Al Horford, at age thirty seven, in 252 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:42.880 his one hundred seventy seventh career playoff game, score twenty two points and grab 253 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:49.440 fifteen rebounds. At his age thirty seven, he's the oldest player to ever 254 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:56.680 have fifteen points or more, five or more triples in a playoff game and 255 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:03.440 have double digit rebounds and he had six threes. Overall, really impressive win. 256 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:11.519 NHL last night, Colorado up ended Dallas five to three. Been a 257 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:18.720 high scoring series. The Avs score three times in the third and have pulled 258 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:26.119 and keep their playoff hopes alive or keep their Stanley Cup Championship hopes alive, 259 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.519 because that was an eliminigation game for them. They're down three to two in 260 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:34.119 the series. Game six is in Denver. Nathan McKinnon, Artury Li Likenan 261 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.400 each had a goal in an assist, and Cale mccarr, one of the 262 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:44.960 best defensemen in the world, had two goals. The PGA Championship begins today 263 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:52.279 at Valhalla. Scotti Scheffler is the favorite. Rory McElroy and Brooks Koepka right 264 00:26:52.279 --> 00:27:02.680 there in the mix. Lion's schedule has been released. The NFL schedule has 265 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:11.400 been released. The Lions I told you yesterday, I said this team is 266 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:17.799 going to be on national TV quite a bit. They're on national TV six 267 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:27.880 times. That includes the Thanksgiving Day game against Chicago six times. They've got 268 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:34.039 the eleventh toughest schedule in the league. Here are the national games they are 269 00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:40.160 going to be on. Matthew Stafford and the Rams visit Ford Field on opening 270 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:48.960 night September eighth, Sunday Night football. They're going to play Seattle on Monday 271 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:57.440 Night Football September thirtieth at home. This is kind of the beauty. The 272 00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:07.039 beauty is that Detroit is getting a number of games at home on the national 273 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:15.200 stage. That's pretty cool, man, It really is because of how loud 274 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:22.160 Ford Field gets and the passion that you folks show all that stuff. Love 275 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:32.839 it. So there's two of them. They're at Houston week nineteen Sunday Night 276 00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:41.160 Football. They got a Thursday night game December fifth against Green Bay, so 277 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:51.039 another Thursday Night football. December thirtieth is a Monday night football tilt at San 278 00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:56.440 Francisco in a rematch of the NFC title game. So those five, in 279 00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:04.799 addition to Thanksgiving Day national TV six times. You want to showcase your brand, 280 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:11.279 showcase your talent, and in a lot of situations, here showcase the 281 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:18.480 city of Detroit. Here's your chance. Not that it has to be proven, 282 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.839 Don't get me wrong. It doesn't have to be proven. We already 283 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:30.079 know that there's a reason they want to be in Detroit. But you get 284 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:34.640 Sunday Night football twice you get Monday Night football twice, you get Thursday Night 285 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:44.160 football once and a Thursday day game tradition on Thanksgiving Day. Absolutely love it. 286 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.200 I am not I said this yesterday. I'm not going to break down 287 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:53.480 what their winning record is going to be. Writers have to do that. 288 00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:02.160 Unfortunately for them. Writers have to go about Okay, now the prediction game 289 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:07.200 begins. Like we had Dave Brikett on not too long ago, the Detroit 290 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:10.240 Free Press does an outstanding job. We're gonna have Colton Pouncy of the Athletic 291 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:15.000 on at eight thirty five, but he had to go out and predict, 292 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:19.359 you know, an eleven and six record. Why Well, because they're editors. 293 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:23.519 We gotta find we gotta fill space. Writers don't like doing that stuff. 294 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:29.079 They don't want to be married to that because they understand all the stuff 295 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:33.680 that's going on with it. But that's just the way it works. There 296 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:44.240 are some very interesting matchups, very interesting matchups in terms of playing against one 297 00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:55.759 another for specific reasons. Specific matchups is what I'm looking at. For example, 298 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:04.359 you've got the Steve it the Falcons opening week. Most people think, 299 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.400 what's the big deal there? The big deal there is that's it's in all 300 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:15.359 likelihood, Russell Wilson the starter for Pittsburgh, Kirk Cousin, the Steeler of 301 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:22.240 the Falcons starter. Those two clashed in the twenty eleven Big Ten Championship game 302 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:27.559 while Russell Wilson was at Wisconsin, and of course Kirk Cousins with Michigan State. 303 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:34.559 That's kind of fun. I'll give you another one. Week twelve, 304 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:48.480 that's when Jim Harbaugh and John Harbaugh match wits. I know you're probably rolling 305 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.960 your eyes a little bit and you're thinking to yourself, this gets really old. 306 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:59.599 It's going to be in Baltimore, it's going to be a nationally televised 307 00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:06.720 game, and it's going to be what Jim Harbaugh hopes to be the first 308 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:14.799 time he beats his brother John, who has won the previous two meetings. 309 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:20.559 If you don't think that matters, you're crazy. It absolutely matters. So 310 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:27.599 that kind of jumped out at me. Speaking of Kirk Cousins, Week fourteen, 311 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.400 he goes back to play Minnesota. How long do this stuff lasts? 312 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:35.359 Like? Do we ever would we make a big deal if Kirk Cousins played 313 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:45.359 Washington, considering that was his first team. Probably not. We've gotten pass 314 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:52.240 past that right, Like Saquon Barkley is now with Philadelphia, Folks, they're 315 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:57.480 going to play the Giants twice a year. I don't know how long Saquon 316 00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:01.720 Barkley is going to be in Philadelphia, but at least this next season he's 317 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:06.640 gonna play the Giants twice because they're within the division. They're gonna play Week 318 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:10.359 seven. Is that a big deal? I don't know. Not when you're 319 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:14.759 seeing it twice. It probably will be when he goes back to New York. 320 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:25.400 Russell Wilson playing in Denver against Sean Payton. Yeah, that's probably a 321 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:34.119 pretty big deal Super Bowl rematch. You love this stuff. Right Week seven, 322 00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:46.680 it's Kansas City at San Francisco. Stefan Diggs really good player for Buffalo 323 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:57.039 for a long time. Put up a ton of highlight reel grabs, had 324 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:07.240 a great on field chemistry with Josh Allen. Do we think about Stefan Diggs 325 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.119 going back to play against Minnesota. No, but we do think about him 326 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:15.920 playing his old team Buffalo because Stefan Diggs is now in Houston and that'll take 327 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:27.039 place Week five, So that is an interesting little tidbit for those two teams. 328 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:31.760 That'll be kind of fun. To me, like I was looking through 329 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:36.599 the schedule. Oh, I noticed Derek Carr, who quarterbacks in New Orleans, 330 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.480 used to be for the Raiders. The Raiders are playing at New Orleans 331 00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:44.079 a week seventeen. I don't think that's a big deal. That's just my 332 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:50.440 opinion. Who cares? Does it matter to you that Aaron Rodgers is going 333 00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.280 to get his first game back? Not really. I'm sure people will make 334 00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:58.800 a big deal out of it, but to me, not really. But 335 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:05.559 some of the highlights that I just gave I think are pretty interesting. So 336 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.880 you can follow along with that Meyer hotline eight sixty six eight three eight forty 337 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:13.920 eight forty three. The text line is sports Radio to twenty one thousand. 338 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:17.559 I know what matters to you more than anything else is the Lions schedule. 339 00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:28.039 What do you think of the Lions schedule? They're gonna take on the Rams 340 00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:32.320 at home, Tampa at home. First road game is Week three at Arizona. 341 00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:37.480 Then you get Seattle at home on a Monday night kick, So three 342 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:44.039 of the first four at home and the road game based on last year's statistics, 343 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:49.920 very wittable. Then you get the bye week. In a perfect world, 344 00:35:50.119 --> 00:35:55.800 your bye week comes in week seven or eight. When Dan Campbell and 345 00:35:55.880 --> 00:36:00.440 others are asked after the game against Seattle during the week of week five, 346 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.880 hey, your bye week is taking place? Is it too early? They 347 00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:07.800 will say no, not really, this is good. They're never going to 348 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:14.119 admit that, right, But that's when the bye week comes. It'll give 349 00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:20.639 them two weeks to prepare for Dallas in Dallas, and we all know what 350 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:25.119 happened a year ago. So out of that bye week they get at Dallas 351 00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:30.679 and at Minnesota, back to back road games against two teams, two pretty 352 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.599 good teams. Right, Dallas is better than Minnesota, you would think going 353 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:38.440 in, but two good teams have to be careful. Then a home game 354 00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:45.920 against Tennessee road game at Green Bay, road game at Houston. That defense 355 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:50.079 will be tested by C. J. Stroud and company and Stefan Diggs and 356 00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:55.679 others. Then it's a home game against Jacksonville, a road game at the 357 00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:05.440 Colts home to Chicago, that's Thanksgiving home to Green Bay, Thursday night game 358 00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:14.559 home to Buffalo. Defense will be challenged against the Bills offense at Chicago at 359 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:20.000 Frisco on Monday night, and Minnesota at home. That is kind of like 360 00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:25.559 almost like a flex game. The date is yet to be determined. The 361 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.920 NFL would like to use their power of being able to flex games and do 362 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:38.880 all that stuff by scheduling Detroit Minnesota for a certain situation, certain night right 363 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.480 which game excites you. We don't know yet. I don't expect you to 364 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:51.960 know that, because I think with this schedule it gives you a lot of 365 00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:58.880 pregame storylines. Stafford and the Rams is obvious, and it's a rematch of 366 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:04.960 the playoffs. Tampa a rematch of the playoffs, Seattle the team that beat 367 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:10.480 them at home a year ago in their first home game, Dallas and the 368 00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:16.639 controversy that ensued there. Green Bay is always special. Houston gives you a 369 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:22.440 really good idea of a young team that is on the rise in a Houston 370 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:29.920 club that's going to test your defense. Chicago with Caleb Williams at the helm, 371 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.960 Buffalo kind of a standard in the AFC with Josh Allen under center, 372 00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:39.480 and of course San Francisco with the rematch there. There's a lot of storylines, 373 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.400 a lot of good stuff on this Lions schedule. We'll talk more about 374 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:53.400 it with Colton Pouncey of the athletic There is a bit of a disturbing situation 375 00:38:53.639 --> 00:39:00.599 in the NBA that you have complained about before, and it's starting to creep 376 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:09.760 in into another sport, and I can't figure out why. I guess I 377 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:15.239 guess I could figure it and understand it a little bit more in this sport 378 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:23.440 than I could in the NBA. It's called load management. How many times 379 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:29.920 have we talked about this where people are starting to look I think when it 380 00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:34.639 first started, probably Greg Popovich and San Antonio made it most popular with the 381 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:39.480 Tim Duncan era trying to rest his guys because they had deep NBA playoff series. 382 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:44.000 So I think a lot of people were a little understanding, you know 383 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:46.920 what, he wants to rest Manu Ginobili at age thirty six. I get 384 00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:52.719 it, he wants to rest Tony Parker. I understand that Tim Duncan deserves 385 00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:55.079 a night off on a tail end of a back to back. I get 386 00:39:55.079 --> 00:40:06.320 it. It's starting to creep into another sport. Sports used to be about 387 00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:13.960 well, pride in being out there and available every single day. I've got 388 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:22.199 a theory on why it is taking place. It's not going to happen in 389 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.760 football. They rest players at the end if they've already got a playoff spot 390 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:34.320 or if they have a division title wrapped up, they can do that because 391 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:40.719 you know they generally go to at certain positions, maybe three deep. But 392 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:45.320 it's still hard to just play your backups and put your starters in street clothes 393 00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:50.760 because you only have what forty eight dressed on game day and you got to 394 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:58.079 play twenty two. But this sport, it used to be a prideful thing 395 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.679 to be available every day, and apparently it is moving away from that. 396 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:05.760 We'll get to that when we come back on Exis and Bros. 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