Get some facts and come back and Seebee. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't fill out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
Why a lot of detain? Why you're not that day we weren't good.
There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling you
we laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for you.
He sucks. He sucked. He laid an egg. That's all I have
to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break it down for
you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us. We have to
figure it out every way. Dad, you need dog, he said.
There's no doubt about it. The Lions have some dogs in a good way.
I don't mean in a bad way. I mean in a really good
way. I'm not going to try and say it okay, because it doesn't
work for me. Man, you a dog that doesn't work for me.
This is not a Seinfeld episode where he says, oh, that Michael Jordan,
he's such a phony. Why did you tell him? No, that's
not the way it works. We can tell you this, though, that
the Lions do have some dogs in a good way, and one of them
is I'm on Ross Saint Brown pro bowler a year ago. Dude is an
absolute baller. You want him on your team. He was rewarded for his
efforts. And here's what I think I like most about I'm on Ross Saint
Brown more than anything else. Sure, the production is there and it's beautiful.
I love the fact that that dude, if you watch him, isolate
him for a moment, whether he's getting the ball or not, whether it's
a pass or not. He is all out all the time. In addition
to that, he is a team guy. And was he an underdog?
Was he a guy you looked at and you said, honestly, did you
let me ask you this. You watch a lot of college football trend you
watch mostly Michigan State, so there's a there's a little skew there. I
understand that, But did you notice him at USC not particularly no right,
So is it fair to say that a guy like this is an underdog?
Yeah? We talked yesterday about quarterbacks with a chip on their shoulder. How
about receivers. I don't know. If there is one with a bigger chip
on his shoulder, then I'm in Ross Saint Brown. Everyone knows the story
about He's got every receiver picked ahead of him. Order unbelievable stuff. He's
so motivated. Yeah, as a fourth round pick. Being a fourth round
pick, there's nothing wrong with that. Is there a bigger chip on the
Cooper Cup? I don't know if you've ever seen any of the documentaries on
him. He plays with a strong chip on his shoulder. But I love
the fact that this dude is locked up for Detroit and he's only twenty four
years old, and he earned it, and he absolutely earned it. As
a fourth round pick. He has been as productive as anybody you could hope
for. I mean, I don't think he had a thousand yards his rookie
year. I know he did, he had like nine hundred. But the
next two years, his last two seasons of which he was a pro bowler.
He was a pro bowler in twenty twenty two, and he was a
Pro Bowler this past season. And he was an All Pro first teamer this
past season. Pro Bowls sometimes can be a little misleading, right if you're
an All Pro. So here's the All pros and just so people put in
perspective. Lamar Jackson and Dak Prescott and Josh Allen, those are the All
Pros. At the quarterback position, the running back was Christian McCaffrey, Derrick
Henry, Kyron Williams, Raheem Moster. Those were your running backs. Your
wide receivers were ceed Lamb, Tyreek Hill, Brandon Ayuk, Nico Collins,
A J. Brown, Puka Nakua, DJ Moore, Mike Evans, and
Aman Ross Saint Brown. The tight ends George Kittle, Travis Kelce, TJ.
Hockinson, Sam Laporta Lofty Company, Frank Ragnow All Pro, Right,
Penn Subel All Pro. This is what it takes, folks, This is
what it takes to be a great team. I don't care how good your
coach is. You've got to have great players, gotta have dogs you do.
Tom Landry is a Hall of Fame coach. He's one of the greatest
NFL coaches in history. Right, he was a defensive coordinator for New York.
Vince Lombardi was the offensive coordinator. Okay, this is early on.
This has been talking about a staff anyway, Tom Landry, I think he'd
lost I think he didn't have a winning season. Is for six years in
Dallas. Now it's an expansion team. He needed players, he had the
system, felt like he had the right system. And that might have been
part of his demise, is the fact that he always felt like players were,
you know, interchangeable. Otherwise, why do you rotate Roger Staubach on
every play with another quarterback? Why wouldn't you just keep Roger Stauback taking every
single snap. It's ridiculous. But I don't want to digress to that.
My point is that you've got to you need great players. I'm on Ross
Saint Brown. I think we over use the word great. You know that.
But I'm on Ross Saint Brown based on his numbers, based on his
achievements Pro Bowlers, all pros over one thousand yards, you fifteen hundred yards
receiving. That's that's nothing to sneeze about. Man, When you're hauling in
ten touchdowns and you've got one hundred and sixty four rocks one hundred and forty
six catches. I mean, those are huge numbers. Those are really impressive
numbers. Or targets. I'm sorry I said catches. I mean one hundred
and nineteen catches, one hundred and six. You're over one hundred catch You're
over ninety catches. Every single year he's played in the league, he's gotten
ninety catch or more. And let's face it, when you're in year two
after a season you catch ninety balls, people know you're going to be a
target. That's why he was targeted one hundred and forty six times, and
yet he still had one hundred and six catches. And Jared Goff trusts him,
maybe more than any other player on this roster. Sam Laporta, Yeah,
I mean he would tell you, he would tell you. I trust
them all. But yeah, look, I don't care if it's Jared Goff
or Dan or Latsky under center, it's you need a key catch. Where
are you looking? First fourteen? Yeah? Absolutely, that's who did Goff
go to to seal the playoff game against the Rams? Yeah? Yeah,
he's going to i'man Ross Saint Brown because he knows he's gonna like flawlessly and
he's gonna catch it because he's got great hands. Yeah, you know,
he's gonna secure it. And even if he had a drop, and it's
gonna happen every great player, it happens, you're gonna go back to him.
But think about that. He is a guy who had ninety catches his
rookie year. Teams know that one hundred and six the next year. Teams
know that, they know you're going to him, they know the trust factor,
they know how good he is. And yet he ups the annie and
has one hundred and nineteen this past year. That's great stuff. He is
a really borderline great player in the NFL. And what's worth studying here.
And we're gonna play this yere in a moment when we come back from break.
Aman Ross Saint Brown has turned his entire career around in a place where
he did not want to be. He sat down with Ryan Clark of ESPN
and had a really good interview about his whole mindset. This is when we
come back, We're gonna play this. But I want you to think about
this for a second. When there are tough times in life, we all
have it, Okay, the mindset of trying your best to not just make
the best out of a situation, but to turn things around. Understanding that
you're not well respected as a team, how do you change that? You
hear the phrase change the culture. Coaches can do that, players can do
that too, and i'm ros Saint Brown is a big reason why Detroit has
changed the culture. Yes, Dan Campbell, Brad Holmes get a lot of
credit, and rightfully so, but players like i'm on Ras Saint Brown are
just as impactful and important. We'll play that for you when we come back
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say. Black album's pretty awesome. I don't know if there's a bad song
on it. We could talk rock and roll heavy metal all day, but
we're not going to. What makes you want to run through a wall is
attitude, all right, A belief in something. I'm on Ross Saint Brown
and the Lions have people in this state believing. And I would argue this,
they have people who play in the NFL believing too. They the players
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Hasn't happened in our lifetime. Enjoy this, grab hold of it, and
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Let's not forget that Aaron Glenn on the defensive side, Ben Johnson on
the offensive side. But it's more than just that. Their coaching staff,
whether it be quarterbacks on Mark Brunell or whatever, these guys developed a lot
of these players. So give him a ton of credit. I'm on Ron
Saint Brown, when he was originally drafted as a fourth round wide receiver out
of USC in the twenty twenty one draft, was not thrilled that he was
going to Detroit. He recently sat down with an extended, elongated conversation with
Ryan Clark of ESPN, and it was very very good and very telling and
very revealing. Here's some of what he had to say on that podcast.
How proud are you to be such a huge part of what's happening in Detroit
with that team. I remember getting drafted seeing the three year on Tesset.
The one team I told my brother like, I do not want to go
to is Detroit. I want to play. I want to go to the
Pack. I want to go to Pack with Tayohim, Aaron go to the
chief play with Mahomes, cowboy, is any like a big team? Go
quarterback? And I saw the three or three, I said, it's overweight,
Like, I don't know what I'm gonna do. It's gonna be in
the middle of nowhere. The team isn't good. I probably know two players
on the roster like it was. It was terrible and me going fourth round.
It was all bad. I mean, looking back on I was hot,
Like when I got drafted, I wasn't even excited. I was.
I was mad at the situation, at what happened. But looking back on
it now, it's like it completely flipped for me, completely different. I
love the honesty. I think a lot of players feel like that. I
don't care if you're the first overall pick. I don't care if you're Caleb
Williams. Here, you're like, yeah, Chicago's probably gonna take me.
Who wouldn't want to play in certain markets, whether it be weather or history.
Green Bay with their history, Dallas with their history, right, I
mean Kansas City because of Mahomes. Yeah, I mean in his case as
a receiver, he came out and said, I'd love to play with Aaron
Rodgers or Mahomes. Yeah, why wouldn't you, Right, they're two Hall
of Fame quarterbacks. Absolutely, Now that's not a slight at Jared Goff,
but he did not want to go to Detroit. Is that because the Lions
and their horrible history? Is it because of the city, Is it because
of the weather. Is it a combination of all of those We can read
into it. That's fine. You and I have talked about this before.
When when you come here and you recognize and you were here for a while,
you see exactly what Michiganders are most proud of. The passion, the
friendliness, and the things this state has to offer that you just don't know
about until you're actually here. I'm sure there's a lot of states like that.
Sure, there's a lot of states that say, you know what,
if you were here, you would appreciate it a lot more fair enough,
So maybe Detroit is not too different in that regard. But the point is
this is a team that has grown on him. This is a team that
he feels is now championship caliber. And it's not just him believing in his
team and his teammates and the organization, it's him hearing it from others around
the NFL. Part of that podcast also revealed that he runs into players now
and what do they say. They say, you know what, you guys
are the real deal. That's a good place to be. I want to
play with you guys. I want to play for that coach. I want
to play for those fans, right, I want to play in that building.
Terry and Arnold couldn't wipe the smile off his face. Granted, that's
a special occasion because the draft was in Detroit, but he got to raise
his arms up, embrace that crowd and say I'm home. And he was
excited. Brian Branch the year before, he was excited. He was that
only second rounder left in the green room. He was fired up. You're
seeing and that's I mean, it's legit. It's not like you said.
It's not just hey, you know what, I'm getting drafted. That's part
of the enthusiasm and the excitement going to a team that is on the rise
with more and more rock solid, very good, borderline great players should excite
everybody. And I'm on, it's not close to the vest. Like Bill
belichicker, you get to wear your heart on your sleeve. You get to
go be passionate. I think there's a huge difference there. Some players would
much prefer that. Yeah, you know when he said that. When I
first heard this, here's where my mind went. Would you want to go
to a historical, historically great franchise, an iconic franchise, pick it out
whatever sport. It could be the Canadians, Red Wings, Maple Leafs,
Bruins in hockey, it could be the Lakers, Celtics in basketball, maybe
the Yankees in baseball? Or do you want to go to a place where
you help make it iconic? You are the reason for helping put that team
on the proverbial league MAP. I got news for you, man. Isaiah
Thomas had the same mindset when he was drafted by the Pistons. Detroit couldn't
wait to get him here. He's just like, are you kidding me?
Chicago born and raised, I gotta go to Detroit and look at what's what
happened with him? Love the honesty, and I love how the Lions this
city and he himself has changed his own mind about what this team has to
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eight thirty five on this Wednesday morning. Welcome back to exes and bros who
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text line sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Hey, before we get into
this next topic about college football, let me ask Trent to go over the
results from yesterday's poll question. You can vote as often as you like on
our Twitter handle XB Mornings on X or you can follow us on Facebook.
Please do it, give us a follow, Exes and Bros. Okay,
and that's where we put our poll question. We have them for you every
single day, and today yesterday's was what's the best golf event to watch?
Is it? Any of the four majors? And you got one of them
coming up this weekend, the Open Championship or the British Open, whatever the
hell they call it now, which I saw yesterday. I saw the odds.
Who's the favorite? Tommy Fleetwood is up there, which you know,
not that he's not a great golfer. I just I didn't see in the
top four. I don't think. I don't think I saw Scotti, Scheffler.
Anyway, any of the four majors, Ryder Cup or President's Cup,
and the Ryder Cup will take place this year too, in September, So
what's the best golf event to watch? Of those choices, what are the
final results? This was pretty interesting, chef. Fifty nine percent said Ryder
Cup fifty nine percent, Yes, okay, forty one percent said one of
the four majors. Not a single person voted for the President's Cup. Do
you think most people look at the President's Cup and say, it's just a
way to have the Ryder Cup extended? Kind of? But I also think
this These results make sense to me, to be honest, because I think
most people are either picking Ryder Cup, which won, or they're thinking the
Masters, which is lumped in with all four majors. So I don't know
these results make sense to me. What's your answer? By the way,
Ryder cop me too. How about you? It feels a little more special
every two years? Is that competitive edge to it? Yeah? I think
I love the I'm gonna watch them all, don't get me wrong, but
I love the pageantry that's associated with it, the love for one's country and
the camaraderie. I think it's awesome. I have. Yeah, I covered
the one at Oakland Hills and it was it was awful. Not not the
event, but the results. The US didn't show up. Yeah, they
just didn't show up. It was. It was horrid. I really there
are so many people let down, So it's it's unfortunate, it really is.
But you can vote as often as you want on our our new our
new pole question, which is about free agents. Who's the best free agent
acquisition in Detroit? Vladimir Terrasinko the Red Wings, Tobias Harris of the Pistons
DJ or Kevin Zeidler of the Lions. You can vote as often as you
like, and we'll give the results in the eight o'clock hour tomorrow. Somebody
had tweeted at me when I tweeted this out, and they had said,
what, you know, basically, what a sorry state it is that these
are our choices? Okay? Well, I mean, look, we got
a text along those lines too, shep. If you want me to read
that off real quick, I do. Let me just say this Readers not
a pro bowler, but he's gonna help Zeitler is a former pro bowler and
considered still one of the top five to eight guards in football. Tarasenko just
won a cop and he's going to provide you he's a top six forward.
And Tobias Harris disappears in the postseason. De Tread's not going to make the
postseason should help them an awful lot. I'm not going to sit there and
try to convince you that the Pistons are a playoff team, because they're not.
But the players that they've acquired and won in Fontechio that they've held on
to with Hardaway, Junior and Harris will help them greatly in their three point
shooting. That's part, if not in one of the most important parts of
basketball. Today is the ability to shoot from the outside. The Pistons stunk
a year ago. And when you've got a point like Cade, who you
just locked up for the foreseeable future. You're building around him, you've committed
to that, you need shooters for him to swing it too. Absolutely,
don't you think that's don't you think that is today's game When we look at
we look at every sport and we say, oh, you know, football
is more of a pass you play fantasy football. Football is more of a
passing sport than it has ever been. When you play fantasy football, it
used to be running backs. I'm not saying they're not important this year.
I'm just telling you they're They're they're not as important as they used to be.
Right, Maybe that's not the be all end all. I'm just telling
you I think it's. I think it's really important. That's the way it's.
That's the way it is. The Boston Celtics who just won the championship,
the reigning champions, of course, they led the NBA and three pointers
made last season game beautiful love it. That's the that's and and they've got
do you look at them as a prolific like, who's the guy on their
team. You're like, oh my god, that guy's that guy's the second
coming of Reggie Miller or Steph Curry or things of that. No, you
don't. Yeah, Ray Allen's not still playing in Boston, is he.
No, he's not. But they do it collectively as a team, right,
I think I think the ability to keep teams honest in that regard three
point shooting. Look, take it a step further. Who's who is the
best three point shooting team in the NBA last year? Oklahoma City? The
teams that shoot the three really well are making the postseason? And where was
Detroit twenty ninth? And three pointers made per game? And three point shooting
bump middle of the pack. So they're not making many. They're they're they're
taking plenty, but they're not making many, all right, So what they've
acquired, what they have acquired is going to help them in that aspect of
the game. So really important. And for the record too, I mean,
Kate Cunningham, if people want to jump on his case, he's a
thirty five percent three point shooter last season. That's that's pretty pretty good.
Yeah, And what did we say? It's same as basically Jaylen Brown,
Right, so get them some help, right, And that's when I think,
yeah, and I think they've done that. That's the reason we put
that up in our pole question. Okay, so you can vote as often
as you like via Facebook or on Twitter, and we'll give you the results
around this time tomorrow. College football it's closing in on us quickly and we
can't wait. There are two new coaches in or in the Big ten Michigan
teams obviously, so you've got these guys taken over and high expectations. Expectations
for Michigan because they're coming off a national championship. I don't think they're going
to get stagnant. I do believe that they will be a force to be
reckoned with. They're obviously not as good as Ohio State going in, but
what they'll do is they'll be if you're going to be part of the college
football playoff, or if you're going to be part of the playoffs in general,
right, the twelve teams, you're going to be a force to be
reckoned with? Is that fair? You got a chance, of course,
So I think they're going to be in that mix. A recent article cbsports
dot Com came out with all the coaches in America, who's on the hot
seat, who's secure? And they had it ranked. Okay, they used
a rating and they used a definition of that rating. So you better win
or you're going to be fired. You've got to start improving right now.
The pressure is mounting. All good for now? Safe and secure or untouchable.
Those were the categories. Five different categories. One coach was win or
be fired. Okay, can I guess what it was? Well, no,
I'm just saying one a one. If you're given a one, it's
safe and secure. But at number five your win or be fired. So
in other words, it's a one right next to you. Okay, there's
only one coach, only one coach in America based on this that they feel
must win right now or they're gone now. It is not Michigan. It
is not Michigan State. And this is look with all due respect because I
think you know Scott Wooster and Grand Valley is all excited and they should be.
Steady. Program in Grand Valley, Tony and Nice and farri State are
fired up. They should be. This is just focusing on the Division one
schools, all the schools and their head coaches. So you've got, of
course, in the great State of Michigan. You've got is creating an Eastern
Michigan. And look, he's done a phenomenal job there. They were awful
in the Bowl game last year. But the ranking for him is a one.
So in other words, as a one, you are safe and secure.
Okay, you've got Western Michigan, of course, and Western Michigan is
they've gone through some transitions as of late, there's still a program that is
trying to get back to where they once were. Lance Taylor's in his first
year. He's a two. He's fine. Central Michigan. Jim mckilwain,
Middle of the State, my alma mater, he's been there five years now,
he is a two. What is a two? All good? For?
Now? Michigan and Michigan State. Where do you think they have them
ranked? Do you think the head coaches for let's say, Jonathan Smith and
Sharon Moore? Where are they? Michigan State. Jonathan Smith, that's got
to be a one because it's his first year and he's taken over that mess
Smeltucker left. And I'll honestly, I think Sharon Moore, even though they're
coming off a championship. He's a one as well. It's his first year.
Yeah, you're right, you're right on both of them and Sharon Moore.
Look, say what you want about how they went about their business in
hiring him. He was pretty damn good when he filled in last year.
It's hard to deny that. But getting back to the five, it's win
or you're gone. Now, I'm sure immediately you think what Alabama? Maybe,
even though Caitlyn de Bor is just there? Is it one of those
situations where you're you're coming into a massive, big name program and if you
don't get it done, then you're out of there. You're going to shift
gears quickly. You've got to remember there are first of all, there aren't
many zeros on this list either, in other words, untouchable like Dan Lanning
for Oregon is an untouchable. He's not going anywhere. I think he's one
of the better coaches in America, don't you? Yeah, oh, Oregon.
He was sought after for the Alabama job. Yeah, he would have
been a good get for any of the other big You know, he's in
the Big ten now, but any of the Big ten school That thing a
while to get used to that. By the way, Hey, listen,
that's going to be a challenge, don't you think, Oh yeah, matching
wits with him is going to be is not going to be easy. And
I mean yeah, maybe this is a separate discussion, but Lincoln Riley at
USC now he's back in the back in the Big ten. That's an explosive
offense. You got to deal with changing the math a little bit on how
Big ten teams are playing football. Sorry, chef, go ahead, that's
okay. There is anyway there is one head coach who has a five next
to his name when now or you're gone? Who do you think it is?
I wouldn't have guessed this. My guess is Ryan Day at Ohio States.
That's an excellent guess. Excellent guests, especially because there was so much
talk in the offseason about that Ryan Day, believe it or not. I
mean, remember he's fifty nine and eight for crying out loud, right,
Ryan Day is an all good for now? Okay? Wow, yeah,
I would have thought at least it would have been the pressure is mounting,
okay, but they've got him as Actually I'm sorry, I saw two in
the parentheses. It's actually three. Pressure is mounting. Okay, See,
you can't throw him under start improving now because they have improved. I mean
they're basically they're they're pretty steady, don't you think about Yeah, the Ohio
State's almost anomaly in this discussion, right because, yeah, he's fifty nine
and eight. That's his record there. Yeah, what three straight losses to
Michigan, you lose a fourth? Are they really going to keep him around?
You wouldn't have thought that they would have kept him around for a third
in a row. I didn't think. And he gets and he gets Michigan
at home this year, So yeah, I think I don't think the pressure
is mounting. I think I think he's almost between pressure is mounting and winner
be fired, but not start improving. Start improving is between start improving now?
Is a number four? That's between pressure is mounting three and winner be
fired five. I think you take out start improving now because they have improved
except for the one game against Michigan. They're a pretty damn legitimate national title
contender every single year until the last regular season game of the year over the
last three seasons. So I think the pressure is mounting. But on the
other hand, he's gonna win. He's gonna win that game. There's one
coach in America who CBS Sports has listed as a five win or be fired.
It's Sam Pittman of Arkansas. Wow wows. I guess would not have
guessed that. Now. That's because he's been there four years. He's two
games under five hundred. It's not Arkansas State, it's Arkansas. I keep
in mind Arkansas. As Trent just said, they're in the SEC. They're
in the most challenging conference in America, fair to say. I mean,
I know the Big Ten won the championship last year, but give me a
break. Yeah, until everyone otherwise is the SEC. Yeah, I think
so. And I get you and I both probably get a little tired of
all the SEC honk that is constantly taking place, right everybody, everybody lathers
up and jumps all over that SEC bandwagon. There's a reason for that though.
But when you've got Alabama, and you've got Florida, and you've got
Georgia, and you've got LSU, and you've got Mississippi State at times,
so you know, that's sort of that's kind of what I appreciate about that
conference a little bit. You've got you've got some consistence Alabama and Georgia,
and then you've got some other teams that sometimes they're up, sometimes they're down.
Tennessee, Mississippi State, Florida, Auburn, sometimes up, sometimes down.
And remember this year, that's why it kills me that Pittman's on this
list. This year, there's no divisions anymore. It's just one all conference.
In addition to those continuously difficult and challenging teams. Texas is part of
it, Oklahoma's part of it. Hell, Missouri was good last year.
It's difficult stuff. Man, that is really challenging stuff. And you're gonna
put him in. Like I love the Big ten two and I think it's
really hard to play Michigan State when they're when they're on and they'll be back.
And obviously Michigan and Ohio State. Now you've got Oregon part of it.
You got UCLA, you got USC, you got Washington, Penn State
maybe yeah, Wisconsin on occasion. Iowa's defense. You've also got plenty where
you're just going on. This is a win. Fan bases are going Illinois,
thanks Indiana, Thanks Purdue, Minnesota, you bet Northwestern, no problem,
Purdue, thank you very much interesting poll. Good show. Thanks for
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