Get some facts and come back and Seebee. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't throw up salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true I 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. But 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 dolls.
Why you're not a detain Oh you're not. At the 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, Yo, Dad, All right, things
went well for the Tigers yesterday and their win over Cleveland. Offensively, it
went well. You see, sometimes in baseball, sometimes the offense is good
and the pitching not so good. Sometimes the pitching's really good, the offense
not so good. The beauty of baseball for teams that play well on a
regular basis is they get both. We want that. It's not always easy
to achieve, but that's what you strive for. Welcome to the Final Hour
of ex'es and Bros. Monday through Friday, six till nine throughout the great
State of Michigan. I'm Matt Shepard. Ben is our producer. You can
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forty three. You can text US Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Tigers
do win eleven to seven over Cleveland yesterday. Andy Abanye is the offensive hero
four for four, a walk, four runs or drives in for two home
runs and he was on base five times. The concern has to be Kent
Tomieta two innings, seven runs allowed, the era just under seven in seven
starts. And we said this in the six o'clock hour in case you missed
it. This is a guy who, you know, the most starts since
his rookie year, most starts he's had his twenty six, he's at seven
right now. If you get twenty two like he got a year ago.
You're almost at thirty three percent of your starts. When are you going to
judge Slash recognize who he is and what he is capable of. That's up
to you. I'm not going to necessarily do that right now, but I'm
going to tell you that this is a growing concern. Guy makes fourteen million
bucks. He's not a two year deal. He's got to get right.
It's important. Rangers beat the Hurricanes in double overtime, four to three.
Vincent Trocheck with the game winner. Colorado comes from three goals down, uses
overtime to beat Dallas for three. Miles Wood the hero san ose the worst
team in the NHL rewarded for it, they are. They're gonna get the
number one pick in the draft. The three finals for the Hard Trophy Nathan
McKinnon Colorado, Connor McDavid Edmonton, and Tampa's Nikita kuchirov No Austin Matthews.
Despite scoring a league high sixty nine goals in the NBA Boston beats up Cleveland
won twenty to ninety five. Derek White is such an interesting story. A
late round draft pick. Twenty eight triples over a six game playoff span,
which is the most in Boston Celtics playoff history. I would have guessed Paul
Piercer, Larry Bird. I wouldn't have gone so far as to say Chris
Ford. I would have said the other two. But the answer is Derek
White. He is the franchise leader in that category. And Shay gilgis Alexander,
who's a better player than most of it. If he didn't play in
OKC, dot dot dot. We hear that all the time, don't we
If he didn't if he played in Boston or New York or Los Angeles,
Well, he plays in Oka. See this, dude is awesome. Twenty
nine points, nine boards, nine dimes. He and OKC handled Dallas one
seventeen ninety five. Would not be surprised if that series is a sweep because
OKC plays both ends of the floor and they're deep. Dallas is more of
an offensive minded team and they're not deep. And Rudy Gobert wins a Defensive
Player of the Year award. That's the fourth time that's happened in his career,
the other three with Utah, this one with Minnesota. There's only two
other players in the history of the NBA who have won the Defensive Player of
the Year award four time times. And one of them's a piston and it's
Ben Wallace. The other guy, by the way, is to Kenny mcdumbo,
let's get to some techs because Ben's been waiting and chomping at the bit
to give it to us. Yeah, and then we got some great players
that were texted in Charlie Ward, Tony Gwynn, JJ Evans, and Carl
Weathers. Carl Weather's the actor a little bit of a cup of coffee.
Tony Gwynn good point. But Tony Gwynn is baseball and basketball, not football
and basketball. Otherwise you can go Kenny Lofton. Kenny Lofton was point guard
at Arizona, so we weren't necessarily focused on dual athletes. There's plenty of
those. We were focused on football and basketball. Because Austin Rivers told Pat
McAfee in a podcast or on his TV show, I should say that he
could name thirty players right now in the NBA who could play in the NFL.
I'd love to know who those thirty players are. So if he were
on my show and he said that, I would say go right away,
I'd say, all right, go, who are they? I know who
the first name is going to be. It's going to be Lebron James.
I'd love to know who else? Who else is it going to be?
Now, keep in mind, this is not a knock on Lebron James.
He's an amazing athlete, arguably the best you've ever seen, because what he
did in high school and the recruiting. The letters he got for football speak
for themselves. His numbers in high school amazing, one hundred rocks, you
know, two thousand yards, getting letters from Miami and Alabama and Auburn and
Georgian places like that. I've told you this story Byron Buxton, who plays
in Major League Baseball from the Minnesota Twins. He was a highly recruited wide
receiver for Georgia but chose to focus on baseball. The point is, I'd
love to know from Austin Rivers, who, besides Lebron James, who else.
Don't just give me a guy who's well, he was athletic. A
lot of NBA guys are athletic, super athletic. I don't think Luka Doncic
could play in the NBA or in the NFL. He's a hell of a
player in the NBA, and he's really athletic. Now Anthony Edwards, Yeah,
I could buy that. I don't know what his background is. I
don't know if Anthony Edwards played high school football, and if he did,
I don't care. Did Kirby Smart? Do you think there's ever a time
when Anthony Edwards was at Georgia that Kirby Smart thought, let's see if this
kid can play football? I don't know that, but I doubt you can
name thirty and JJ Watt pushback. That's the reason for the text. What
else we got, Ben? Yeah, it says I want to see rag
Now on the Pistons. They need a player who can lead and play every
game through tough times. Yeah. I'd love to see Frank Ragnow too,
because he'd clear space. Now, here's the smart alec in me. He
didn't play every game. He got hurt too. Might might not be the
best example. Penney School. Maybe how about that? Can we do that
instead? Jack Campbell? I mean, big tough, strong guys. Here's
the problem, though, we're not being too serious about this. What the
Pistons needs a shooter. They don't need they don't need a space cleaner.
They need a shooter more than anything else. But that's funny. That's a
good one. Anybody else on a text Yeah, it says for multi sports.
I think of three guys, Gibby, Dave Winfield, and probably the
best Bo Jackson. Yeah. Bo Jackson was just an amazing Dean Sanders was
really good too then, and that's why I brought up Brian Jordan too.
I mean, he's the forgotten guy. Brian Jordan played for the Braves and
played for the Falcons. He's the forgotten guy he was. He's a safety
and he was an outfielder and he was pretty damn good man. He didn't
have the highlight reel plays in football that Dion Sanders had or Bo Jackson had,
and Bo Jackson had him in football and in baseball because Bo Jackson possessed
a howitzer like you would not believe, one of the best arms you've ever
seen. Quick time out on Axes and Bros. Back with more of your
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I've said this for a long time, and the reason I've said it is
because it is It's true, and that's the NFL is better at marketing themselves,
their product, and their athletes than any other league. It's not even
close. Why leagues don't copy them more, I don't know, but they
keep themselves in the news on a regular basis, and writers write about them
all the time, right about the league, and I mean update it.
You'll go to some websites and you'll look at the other leagues and it'll be
kind of the same headlines from the day before. The NFL is fresh.
There's always an opinion on something. It's captivating. They're still breaking down the
best drafts. They are still breaking down who people feel will have the best
rookie year. A recent article I read seven rookies were selected to the NFL
Pro Bowl a year ago, who has that chance this year? And then
they break down various categories who had the most success during the draft. A
lot of people feel like it's Chicago. When you can put together a Dunzee
in Williams, that's pretty impressive. I would argue, and I think others
have said the same, that the Pittsburgh Steelers probably had the best draft.
Troy Fatano, Zach Frasier, Roman Wilson, Peyton Wilson, Mason McCormick.
Primarily the trenches front seven if you want to include a linebacker. So of
their what one, two, three, four, five, five first picks,
I think it's fair to say four were in the trenches, and actually
five of their first six were in the trenches, So I would argue that.
But if people want to say the Bears, that's cool. Some people
feel like Washington, Jayden Daniel, Johnny Newton, Mike Sanders still out of
Michigan, Luke McCaffrey wide receiver. They break down who had the worst Who
do they think is going to be offensive rookie of the Year. I would
side a little bit toward Malik neighbors personally. But that's because I really like
neighbors. I have to remember, somebody's got to be able to get them
the ball. How confident do you feel that Daniel Jones would be able to
do that? I don't know. When they wrote Defensive Rookie of the Year,
Terry On Arnold's name was the first mentioned. And here's what Josh Edwards
of CBS Sports wrote about Terry On Arnold. The decision boiled down to either
the Colts pass Rusher out to Lafu lat too rather and Arnold, and he
said, I want to provide this perspective when it comes to Rookie of the
Year on ours. You're looking for an impact performer who's ready to contribute from
week one. I'm sure a lot two will be ready to contribute week one
for the Colts too. But whatever, he says, Arnold plays for a
Detroit team that should make a run in the playoffs. Okay, that's a
wasted sentence. I mean, what's your first reaction to that? No,
blank, no kidding. He said, it also has an attacking front,
which should allow him to capitalize on the back end. Not great insight,
but the thought that of all the defensive players taken, and this takes everybody
into account, not just first rounders, of all the defensive players taken,
he did think highly enough of Detroit's Terry on Arnold to do that. That's
cool, we like that. I'm sure you expect the same. Not necessary
a rookie of the year, but from week one he'll be a starter.
I don't think there's any question about that. I think it's a pretty valid
point. When you're talking about an attacking front, find me a defense who's
front four doesn't attack. If you've got a defense who's front four doesn't attack,
you're not playing football, or you're sure as hell not playing successful football.
Right. Those are words just to take up some space. As far
as I'm concerned, Detroit should make a run in the playoffs, No kidding.
They made the NFC Championship Game a year ago. They got better in
the offseason. Yes, there's no question they should make a run in the
playoffs. And if they don't, and many would argue in Detroit, if
you don't make the super Bowl, it's not a successful season. Now you
may shake your head, some may shake their head and say, come on,
man, I mean a lot of things have to go right, so
on and so hey, when your franchise has never been there, when you've
got that window of opportunity, when you have an architect like Brad Holmes as
a coach who demands respect and appreciation in Dan Campbell, and you've got the
talent Detroit has, and it's relatively young, and there's a perfect mix,
we think, a perfect mix, and they're going to do whatever they can,
especially at the trade deadline, to fill in the holes. You're damn
right, you have high expectations. That's a good thing. It's a really
good thing to say. You know what, we're on the right track now.
We've reached what we think will be the pinnacle. It's not the Orlando
Magic basketball team. We talked about it on Monday, Paula Ben Carl What
did he say. There's a lot of reasons to be optimistic. They were
okay, not that they wanted this, but they understand the situation. So
they were okay reaching the postseason and losing in Game seven to Cleveland. They're
dealing with it because they feel like it's the footprint, it's the start of
what they consider to be something big Lions fans have already gone through that.
They went through that two years ago, not this past year, but two
years ago. Last year was the next step. This year needs to be
the final voyage and what they hope will be the start of something big.
A nice little run here, not saying a Kansas City Chiefs run where you're
winning super Bowls, you know, and playing super Bowls and four out of
five or three out of four whatever we're talking about getting there and then you
feel like, yeah, got a chance to win it. Other teams have
had that opportunity San Francisco under Kyle Shanahan and not been able to kick in
the door. But don't give me this is a team that should make a
run in the playoffs. No, this is a team that expects to make
the Super Bowl. What a refreshing feeling that is going into training camp this
year. A team that other teams want to be like, a team a
fan base that other fans wish they could be, or even better or just
as good, I should say, a fan base where others would go,
yeah, I want to see them do well. Now. Some of that,
unfortunately has to do with the past ineptitude of this franchise, but they
still feel I think a lot of people around the NFL. If my team
can't win, I wouldn't mind seeing this team do just that. And I
think that's that's a pretty cool feeling that Lions fans can embrace, and I
think they will. And it starts, you know, with the established veterans
that they have, but some of this new blood that they have in camp
soon and it starts with Terry on Arnold. Now there's a really cool story,
a special story about another Lions draft pick. I don't know if you've
heard this one yet, but we'll get to that when we come back.
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two run. Jalen Brad what I still have it ahead of the answer defensive
one for you. I'm not shooting that. He's kind of pushing that that
jump book there, there's got to be a little more committed to it.
Jalen Brown snaps another through the men to kind of just settle the nerve for
this young Chad's group. So it's an eleven point Game seven three of the
Niger Garland. Jalen blown. I'll call hit three to six from beef in
first half. Jalen Brown knife sin trying to challenge mold late master for his
team in tight good driving kick into the quarter. Three point at that time,
I'll go from old corrals. Jalen Brown stops on a dime and he
burries another triple. It was amazing last night. Jalen Brown got to see
a TNT by the way. Jalen Brown taking control leading the Celtics of the
Caws one twenty to ninety five. Brown out of the University of California last
night, thirty four minutes twelve for eighteen four from six from deep thirty two
points to lead all scorers, and Boston takes Game one Welcome back, Exes
and Burros Monday through Friday six till nine. Brown the third overall pick in
the NBA draft back in two thousand sixteen. Would you take Jaylen Brown over
Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram. This is what we do all the time.
I do it constantly. Looking back, I remember that draft and thinking,
man, buddy healed can shoot, he can flat out get it done.
And I liked the kid by the name of Tarian Prince out of Baylor.
Now with the top five pick, I'm just saying I really liked him.
Jaylen Brown has been the best player. Well, Jamal Murray was in that
draft too. Jamal Murray was pretty damn good. Would take any of those
guys. I talked about this the other day. That's the year the Pistons
wisely took Henry Ellenson, who played one year at Marquette. Needed a shooter,
got to take him. Karris LeVert was there for them, but so
was Pascal Siakam. Hostal Siakam has been damn good. You'd take him in
a minute. Guys drop for whatever reason they fall. Jalen Brown didn't,
but he's been the better of the top three picks. And you could argue
the best player in that draft, Murray would probably be right behind him.
Welcome back, Exus and Bros. The Meyer Hotline eight six six eight three
eight forty eight forty three. Let we said this regarding the NFL Draft and
the Lions in the last segment, and how a website predicted Terryan Allen Arnold
rather being a Rookie of the Year candidate defensive Rookie of the Year candidate.
I don't know if Ennis Rakestraw will be I don't even know if he's going
to start. The scouting report on him is that he's got really good length.
He's got a really good start and stopability, which is kind of an
deraded trait for corners because guys, do you know, double moves all the
time, does a really good job of mirroring receivers. He's got great instincts,
good he reads things really well. He's really tough as a run defender,
fights off blocks really well, tackles well, all things that you definitely
want. And it's a reason he was taken, you know, in the
second round, twenty ninth in the second round. Here's another cool thing about
Ausrakestraw, who was born in Texas, but grew up just outside of Dallas.
When he was selected, he fulfilled. Every kid's dream is to do
this, right. I mean, if you play football is a little leager
and you have some type of success, you're probably thinking of yourself, Man,
I want to do this for the rest of my life. Who doesn't
want to be a professional athlete. All these kids playing in playgrounds, I
mean, they they got dreams. Not all of them are realistic, and
maybe not all of them are for quote unquote the sport that they're playing.
But there's a fleeting moment there where you envision yourself doing that. I know
me and my friends did well. We were playing baseball. We wanted to
be a Tiger. When we go to a baseball game, we wanted to
be a Tiger when we went to a football game. We wanted to play
for the Detroit Lions. At some point, realism kicks in and you're like,
this is never going to happen. But it's still fun to dream,
right, Who in the backyard doesn't feel like I want to make the winning
play. I want to direct the winning drive. All that stuff, right,
all the stuff that Joe Burrow has lived and Josh Allen has lived,
and Pat Mahomes has lived all that stuff well. When Rakestraw was in fourth
grade, he wrote a letter to one of his teachers because Rakestraw had some
tough times growing up. I don't know if you saw this, but it's
pretty awesome that he's chasing a dream. I get kind of choked up thinking
about it and reading about it. But he wrote a letter to his teacher
that he still hans, and this is what he wrote. You're the best
teacher ever. Her name is or the name is mister Gammont. Teacher is,
mister Gammont. You always had my back. You gave me confidence.
When my little brother had a seizure, you gave me food and snacks.
I wish I didn't want to leave you, but I have to. I
hope you come and see me. Please come see me, I hope because
I miss you. You know again. He's in fourth grade, so he's
writing. It's a little awkward and not exactly perfect, but who cares,
He says. He wrote, I hope you're alive because if I make it
to a professional football player, I will talk about you. Please give me
your phone number, And he's doing that. His former elementary school teacher caught
wind of this because he posted it on social media and responding talking about the
great pride that he has. You put it out there ten years old and
made it happen. I have no words how proud I am of you telling
everyone I played with you and against you through multiple touchdowns. You and you.
Yes it was recess, but it was technically true. You know.
It's kind of a funny aspect of it. The impact, you know,
what you get out of this dream? For sure, this is one of
the many things I love about sports. The dream is there, Absolutely the
encouragement, the impact you have, in this case a grade school teacher,
a grade school teacher in Dallas by the name of mister Gammon for inness,
Rakestraw, or a coach. If you are a coach and you impact a
player, whether that player makes it to the highest level or not, really
is not as significant as the impact you're having on that person. Whether it
be tough love. Some guys don't mind being coach tough Terry on Arnold,
That's a big reason I loved that draft pick. Sure he's really talented.
Sure he's one of the best cover corners in the draft. Mitchell for Toledo,
Quinion Mitchell or terry On Arnold take your pick, but Arnold apparently was
number one on the Lions board. Yeah. I love that about him.
But I love the fact that he doesn't mind being coached hard. While he
was at Alabama, Rekestraw has had to fight for everything he's gotten, like
many players in many sports. But the appreciation that he has from way back
when he was ten years old, and then the impact that that teacher had,
it's a beautiful story. I'm sure there's a lot of people who are
listening who are coaches themselves, little league coaches, and I hope we all
keep it in perspective. I hope you recognize that you're not winning the Vince
Lombardi Trophy in football. Okay, it'd be great to lead your team,
your little league team, your travel team, or your house league or your
whatever league team to a championship, But how do you lead them number one
and number two? Who gets an opportunity to be part of it? I
sure hope it's everybody. I sure hope that you take the approach of playing
all your players. I've always said this, once you get divarsity in high
school, all bets are off. You're playing the best players, there's no
doubt about that. But while you're coaching kids early on in life, what
is the coach's job. You're there as a volunteer. Kudos. Your job
isn't first and foremost to make your son or daughter better. Your job,
I think, is to make all players better. But all players enjoy the
sport they're playing, so they want to keep playing it and hopefully one day
they give back as long as you're not putting them in harm's way. I
coached all my kids in football and baseball to a certain point. At some
point you've got to let them go, right. But the impact you can
have, I think is everlasting because you make those relationships with young men who
then go on and play high school. One of the better compliments friends of
mine and I ever received while coaching kids in grade school football is those kids
went to high school and we didn't win a championship in grade school. It's
not like we were out there celebrating. Hey, here we go. Now,
this is what it's all about. We get to put a trophy in
the school's trophy case. That'd be great, it would be it'd be a
lot of fun. And that was part of the reason you're out there competing.
You want to compete, you want to win. Not a big believer
in the runners up trophies and all that other stuff. But when the kids
get to high school. At a high school coach says you've been well coached,
That to me meant more than anything else. And the fact that every
kid played and participated, knowing that the week's worth of practices were worth it
to him or her, that was most important. Being fair with all your
kids and wanting them or hoping that they want to play. Hey, you're
going to playing high school. Absolutely, that tells you something. They don't
just love the sport, but they loved being coached by you. That's awesome.
It's not about the parents, it's about the kids, you know.
At some point, I mean, you've had your time as a parent to
be who you are. Now you get a chance to dive into your kid's
life and let them be who they're going to be. I coach my daughter
too in the off season in lacrosse, and some of those girls, I
coached a lot of them, just like I coached the boys. Strict,
tough at times, have some fun. Absolutely, but this was high school.
Now, in the off season when coaches can't be part of them.
I remember bringing the girls together and saying, listen, if it's too much,
if you do I don't like how I'm pushing you, if you don't
like how I'm coaching, let's talk about it. Let's make sure that you're
all right with the direction we're taking these practices, because the last thing I
want you to do is come in on a Sunday morning indoors in the winter
time, when it's chilly, You're getting up early and dreading coming to practice.
Now, we love it, We want to be pushed, so on
and so forth. That's the beauty of it. That's the impact you have.
And then when you have kids come up to you later on in life
and saying you're one of my favorite coaches, or when you have a parent
come up to you and say, you know, little Ben said still talks
about you as one of your best coaches. Doesn't that make it more worth
it than having some trophy that's in the school showcase when they're in seventh grade.
To me, it does. The impact this school teacher made on Inness
Rakestraw is immense and pretty cool. Love that story. Hope we get more
of those, not just for the Lions, but for sports in general.
The impact people make on others and then the give back. So my hope
from that would be Rakestraw's benefited from it and at some point, and he
sure seems like the kind of kid who would do this. Kid's probably unfair.
The young man who's going to do this. He's going to use the
experience he had with that teacher and try to make an impact with another young
player or a young fan. At some point he's going to be a deciding
factor in that child's life. Doesn't have to be his child, just like
it wasn't in his situation. I mean, you've got a grade school teacher
making that type of impact and it's a little thing, but it's a big
thing to him at the time time. Such a cool story, such a
feel good story. And there's so many of them in sports, so many.
I remember when I was a coach, I used to in baseball.
I used if I were trying to describe or tell a young boy what he
should be doing in the type of form he should have in pitching or hitting,
or fielding or catching a fly ball, I would find one of my
many baseball cards because I still have them. I still have a ton of
them. I would find one of my baseball cards that kind of explains through
picture what I mean, and I would give them that baseball card. This
is what I'm talking about. It gives them a visual reference. I mean,
kids today are more in a visual medium, right. They're constantly on
their phones, They're on their iPads, they're on their laptops, they're looking.
They're thirsting for information, but visual information. So trying to describe how
you're supposed to hit the ball, how you're supposed to swivel your hips as
a cornerback, how you're supposed to have a swim move as a football player,
sometimes doesn't necessarily work. But if you show them, this is the
way Reggie White clubbed his offensive lineman to get to the quarterback. This is
the way Dion Sanders would swivel his hips when he was guarding a wide receiver.
This is how Alan Trammel fielded a ground ball. And you show them
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