WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.519 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 --> 00:00:29.280 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.479 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.280 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football for everybody, I think this 6 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.679 is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. 7 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.799 Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same thing 8 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.759 for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play 9 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:56.359 to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.840 great thing about sports. You play to win. I don't care if you 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.680 don't have any wins. Do you go play to win? When you start 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:18.000 telling me it doesn't matter if you retire, get out for the matters Thursday 13 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:23.040 morning on Exues and Bros. We're with you Monday through Friday from six until 14 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:25.959 nine throughout the great state of Michigan. Ben is our producer. I'm Matt 15 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.120 Sheppard. Glad you're with us. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your Wednesday. 16 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:36.120 The Meyer Hotline is always open for you anything that might be on your 17 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.920 mind in the world of sports. We want to talk about at eight six 18 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.400 six, eight three eight forty eight forty three. You can always text the 19 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:52.159 program too. The text is sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Tiger split 20 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.040 a double dip with Pittsburgh yesterday. You know that by now they shut out 21 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.799 the Pirates eight zip. Matt Verlin continues to rule man. He has been 22 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.000 really impressive. Three run homer and four RBIs in the first game. Turk 23 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:14.919 Schooble more impressive, probably the most impressive Tigers so far, No probably about 24 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:20.039 it. He is incredible, improving to seven and one, toss seven scoreless 25 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.080 innings, allowed just three hits, struck out eight. He is the odds 26 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:29.919 on favorite from what I saw yesterday to win the American League. Say young, 27 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:36.319 long, long, long way to go. But shows you what nationally 28 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:42.479 people think of Trek's scouble, and they should. He's got everything you could 29 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:50.120 possibly want in his arsenal. So he strikes out eight, scatters three hits, 30 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:57.599 lasted seven innings through ninety three pitches. Couldn't help. But wonder a 31 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:05.599 little bit how Tiger fans we're feeling when Trek Scougle was pulled. Now Detroit 32 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:10.520 had a comfortable lead, so it probably didn't matter to you when they pulled 33 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.759 him. It was ate nothing when the game ended, it was ate nothing. 34 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.599 But watching Baltimore a little bit last night and you flip back and forth. 35 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:30.680 Baltimore's really good. I really like their team. But Corbyn Burns is 36 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:38.719 pitching for the Baltimore Orioles, a guy who I mean, he's got a 37 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:47.479 solid track record. They're playing Boston Division game and Corbyn Burns is out there, 38 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:57.039 keeps himself in, talks himself into staying in the game, and in 39 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:04.479 the seventh inning and he through one hundred eight pitches on the night he got 40 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:08.599 the win. So he's five and two, Baltimore gets the win. They're 41 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:14.479 thirty five and nineteen. They're really good. Gunner Henderson went yard yet again, 42 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.360 so he ties the major league lead in home runs. Who's got more 43 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:25.480 home runs, Gunner Henderson or Aaron Judge. Right, it's Gunner Henderson, 44 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.879 the twenty two year old second round pick out of high school. Now, 45 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.839 before people start to go, see that's why you should bring up Max Clark, 46 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:40.399 Gunner Henderson, what he did in the miners a little different. Okay, 47 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:46.120 so you get some you get some seasoning there. But Corman Burns talked 48 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:53.160 himself into it, talked to his manager, talked to his coaches. He's 49 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.959 like, you know what, I want to stay in this game. I'm 50 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.439 in this game. People love that stuff backfires, but I love it too. 51 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.879 One hundred and eight pitches and we make it sound like that's a huge 52 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:12.160 deal when it never used to be. But it never used to be was 53 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:18.040 a long long time ago. So here's what I was thinking while I was 54 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:31.639 watching this last night. We always refer to the past with certain statistics that 55 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:43.079 fit our narrative, but yet we want to adapt to the new analytics and 56 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:48.560 the various things that allow what we think athletes or why we think athletes are 57 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:58.000 better today than before. We really want to have it both ways. And 58 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:04.759 I don't think I don't think you're alone in that, because I'll take myself 59 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:11.879 up. I feel the same way I do. But I hear this all 60 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.240 the time. You know, guys are bigger, stronger, faster. Yeah, 61 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:21.560 okay, then why aren't they doing Why aren't they doing what these guys 62 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:30.879 used to do. I'm a little confused at that. I'm a little confused 63 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:39.600 at why we think today's athletes are so much better, so much bigger, 64 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.120 so much stronger. And by the way, I do believe they I do 65 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:47.720 believe they are, but they can't do what some of those guys did in 66 00:06:47.720 --> 00:07:00.199 the past. I'll give you an example. Mickey Lulich in nineteen seventy one 67 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:14.600 started forty five games, one twenty five of them and completed twenty nine. 68 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.680 In other words, he completed more games than most guys will start this year. 69 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:30.279 That's impressive, don't you think. Okay, well, Mickey Lolich's and 70 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.160 he was a horse. There's no doubt that he was one of the more 71 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:43.519 durable pitchers you could find. But when you look at his game log and 72 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:48.839 you see not just the innings pitched, but the number of pitches, you'll 73 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:56.079 be blown away at how often he threw a hundred pitches in a game. 74 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:09.160 It's amazing. And yet I'll rave about Corbyn Burns, not to take anything 75 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.600 away from Corbin Burns, because Corbyn Burns was really impressive. He really was. 76 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.759 You would want to see that out of your picture, wouldn't you. 77 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:30.160 Hell yeah, you would. Seth Lugo Kansas City Royals. Here's a guy 78 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:35.519 who I mean, not many people thought he would be in the situation that 79 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.919 he is in right now with Kansas City. Not many people thought Kansas City 80 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.120 would be for crying out loud. I mean, Kansas City is a team 81 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:48.600 that was dreadful, couldn't score a year ago. They just beat Minnesota six 82 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:54.000 to one. They banged out ten hits. Bobby with Junior continues to do 83 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.519 what he does. Salvador Perez finds the fountain of youth Seth Lugo yesterday one 84 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:05.399 hundred pitches in the victory over Minnesota. Now, it took him six innies 85 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.120 to do it, but he got to win. He's nine and one. 86 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.720 I bring this up only to make sure when you're having that conversation with your 87 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.039 buddies and they're like, oh, school is definitely going to get the cy 88 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.840 young as of right now, bring up Seth Lugo and how good he's been. 89 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:30.120 And when you have that conversation with your buddies and they say, well, 90 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.200 you got to get him out of there after ninety five pitches. I 91 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.200 don't know many guys who would say that, but you could have run into 92 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.320 that conversation. Bring up Seth Lugo one hundred pitches. Bring up Corbin Burns 93 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.919 one hundred and eight pitches. It's not that uncommon. Yes, unfortunately it 94 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.759 is our phone number on the Myer hotline eight six six eight three eight forty 95 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.080 eight forty three. Hello, hockey game last night. We'll get to that. 96 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:01.000 A lot more football to discuss, including are the lionsster Is the Lions 97 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.679 roster a top five roster? One website says no. We'll get into that 98 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.399 as we rolled on on a Thursday morning on Exus and Bros. After this 99 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.519 huge Here for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. You can stay up to 100 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:20.440 date on the latest from Lansing twenty four to seven at MHSAA dot com, 101 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:30.120 at MHSA on Twitter and MHSA on Facebook. 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Join us June thirteenth through the sixteenth at Blakefield Country 111 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.320 Club for fabulous food, discoveryland for kids, and of course, elite women 112 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.080 golfers from around the world competing to help feed our neighbors. Get your tickets 113 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:43.159 now at Meyer LPGA Classic dot com. Chris, your team comes out pretty 114 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.559 flat. You're down to nothing, you don't have a shaw eight minutes in. 115 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.879 What are you thinking on the bench and what changed for your group? 116 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.720 I was thinking it was going to be long night and it didn't look very 117 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.279 good. We you know, yeah, things weren't going our way. They 118 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:11.000 looked much sharper making plays and I'm not sure which line it was the kind 119 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.240 of got things going. Obviously, the big turning point was the McLeod goal, 120 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.000 but you know, you know, it wasn't the start. But you've 121 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:26.159 seen this right through the series where both teams have absolutely dominated and then the 122 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.279 other team is dominated like it's been back and forth, and you know, 123 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.519 we didn't have our start, and which is you know, hard to overcome 124 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.000 because you know you're down to nothing in a game like this, it's hard 125 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.559 to overcome. But you know, I think we just got back to where 126 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.720 we were supposed to be playing. You know, I think a lot of 127 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.240 it had to do with maybe the turnovers at the blue line where we weren't 128 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.240 getting pucks in deeper and they were just quick transition and then we're just, 129 00:12:52.399 --> 00:13:07.480 yeah, we're always in a bad position for that next shift. That's Chris 130 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:13.480 not Block, the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers. This is his first 131 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:20.000 playoffs because this is his first year. Actually one of the first changes among 132 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:26.200 the NHL Caroseol earlier this year. No Block, who was a junior's coach 133 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.919 of Conor McDavid, goes to Edmonton. McDavid takes off, the Oilers take 134 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.159 off and they're playing in the Western Conference finals. Team things up last night 135 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:43.000 for his team by making a few lineup changes and it paid off as they 136 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.840 win five to two. They scored five on answer to nothing Dallas early on 137 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.840 and you're thinking, oh, stars, better team, and here we go 138 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.240 and they're going to go back home up three games to one with a chance 139 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:01.039 to close it out until Edmonton responded. And that's part of being a really 140 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:07.480 good head coach, having a feel for what your team needs in that type 141 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:16.399 of situation, and it doesn't always work out. But he made the changes. 142 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.120 He felt it was really important. He did say this. He says, 143 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:24.799 there's not a decision I make without consulting five to twelve people. He's 144 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:30.120 got the final say, but he does have to talk to his staff. 145 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.519 He feels like that was important. He said, last night, I was 146 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.159 talking with Paul Coffee on the phone and we decided what we wanted to do. 147 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.919 Still hadn't made the decision that night. We made the decision this morning. 148 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:45.320 That was in regards to some of the changes. He reinserts Corey Perry 149 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:52.039 and Ryan McLeod for Warren Fogel and Sam Carrick. He brings in defenseman Philip 150 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.399 Broberg for Vincent de Charnay. Bro Berg had yet to play in the playoffs. 151 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:05.639 That's a risky, gutsy move, but it paid off. Connor McDavid, 152 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.519 by the way, had three assists now his twenty four in the playoffs. 153 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:20.440 This is exactly could the NHL really ask for anything more? Rangers Panthers 154 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:28.279 three straight games, overtime series tied to two, Dallas Edmonton a tug of 155 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.840 war back and forth series tied to two. Now, I know what a 156 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:37.279 lot of people probably think. Man, the NHL really wants the Rangers and 157 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:43.799 the Stars, two big markets, two American based teams. A Canadian based 158 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:50.279 team hasn't won the Cup since ninety three, right with the Canadians. Edmonton 159 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.840 might be the outlier there, Yeah, Toronto, that would be one thing 160 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:03.320 I'm not saying the NHL would be or the people who run their ratings would 161 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:06.960 be thrilled with a team like Calgary, for example, making the finals. 162 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:12.080 But you get Edmonton in there, and you use the best player in the 163 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:18.519 world as part of your marketing strategy, then you should be all right. 164 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:25.320 With Connor McDavid, I didn't get to the second game of the Tigers Pirates. 165 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:33.559 Paul Skeen's was a dominant force for Pittsburgh. They blow out Detroit ten 166 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:38.799 to two. Skiens celebrates his twenty second birthday by striking out nine and six 167 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:45.240 innings. Andrew McCutcheon, who I've always liked, I think he's a hell 168 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.799 of a player. He's been a hell of a pro over sixteen hundred career 169 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.000 hits. Now, not that that gets you in the Hall of Fame, 170 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:57.679 because it doesn't, but think about that for a moment. That's it's when 171 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:03.400 you hear about the three one thousand hit group, how long it would take 172 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:11.400 to get three thousand hits. It's it's simply amazing. Andrew McCutchen is now, 173 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:15.160 he's still productive. If he's thirty seven thirty seven, he's played sixteen 174 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:21.519 years. Her his first year he was a twenty two year old. That's 175 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.359 you're in the major leagues at age twenty two. That's pretty damn good, 176 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:26.799 don't you think. Yeah, And he hit two eighty six, so he's 177 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:33.119 he's twenty two when he enters. He's had a very productive career. For 178 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.200 the most part, he has been very healthy. Look at these games played, 179 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.640 one hundred and fifty four, one fifty eight, one fifty seven, 180 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.680 one fifty seven, one forty six, one fifty seven, on and on 181 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:47.920 and on. Right, I say, for the most part, dude's got 182 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:53.319 over sixteen hundred hits. It's a hell of an accomplishment. He's played sixteen 183 00:17:53.400 --> 00:18:02.559 years he's barely halfway there to three thousand. He ain't getting three thousand. 184 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.480 But Andrew McCutchen has been again one of the better players I think of his 185 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.720 generation. Gold Glover, four time Silver Slugger, five time All Star. 186 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:18.920 It's been an MVP again. Not a Hall of Famer, but I've always 187 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:26.839 liked him. He's got over sixteen hundred career hits. He homered yesterday for 188 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:32.319 his six one thousand, six hundredth hit, and in each of Paul Skeene's 189 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:41.319 starts, Andrew McCutchen has homered. Kind of a unique figure there. So 190 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.519 they went at ten to two, and as I mentioned, Skeens was phenomenal. 191 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.559 You want power pitchers, we get all enamored with them, and rightfully 192 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:56.960 so. Triple digits on a regular basis, and a guy who he's going 193 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.559 to be a force to be reckoned with. He's a really good story. 194 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.359 If you don't know about it, check it out. Really good story. 195 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:12.559 Transferring to LSU becoming the most outstanding player in their national championship run. Seems 196 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:21.480 like a really good kid. I don't know him, haven't interviewed him, 197 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.680 but how can you deny the stuff took him a little longer. You know, 198 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.279 he was a little I mean, while the strike zone was there, 199 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:40.160 ninety six pitches to get through six trying to put guys away, seventy pitches 200 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:47.480 were strikes. Gave up a home run to Matt Vierling, who has homered 201 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.119 in what four or five games. It's incredible what Vierling's been doing lately, 202 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.880 which goes to show, you know, now's the time right here where people 203 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.960 are probably saying, look, this guy's everyday player. He's hitting like one 204 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:07.400 I said earlier. As much as I like Matt Fielding, and I do, 205 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.839 I like him a lot. He's a really good dude. He's a 206 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:15.480 really good player at Notre Dame. Tigers did a nice job in getting him 207 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:23.839 from Philadelphia. Soto clements to Philly for Vereling, Nick Mayton, Donnie Sands, 208 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.839 and Donnie Sands is in the miners somewhere. I think it's the Giants 209 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:37.680 organization. Mayton no idea. Cody Clemens has been pretty good for Philadelphia, 210 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.640 trade work for both teams right for the most part, as hot as vere 211 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:49.519 League's been, and he has been hot in two eighty nine selection five oh 212 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:55.720 three. 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Glad you're with us and hope you have a great day 239 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:48.920 today. Wherever it is you may be listening great affiliates on x'es and bros. 240 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:55.039 And we appreciate everything they do for US in Flint WTRX, in Cadillac 241 00:23:55.200 --> 00:24:03.000 WKD in Grand Rapids WAX ninety six point one FM, and Krayling Gaylord WGRY 242 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.400 one o one point one FM, w LUN one hundred point nine serving Midlands 243 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:14.640 sagonaw On Bay City, Pataski and Charlavoy owned by the Ticket Northern Michigan WNBN 244 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:18.720 one oh four point seven FM, and in Traverse City WKAD ninety three point 245 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:26.319 seven FM as well. Tigers split with Pittsburgh yesterday. Eilers win five to 246 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.759 two over Dallas even their series and the Western Conference Finals in the NBA will 247 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:37.480 be taking place later on Today. Minnesota will host Dallas, with the Mavericks 248 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.920 up three to one. Again. It's pretty cool to be a Dallas sports 249 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.519 fan right now. They love to talk about their cowboys and you get it, 250 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:49.039 but their basketball and their hockey teams are pretty damn good as well, 251 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:57.680 Unlike those who follow the New York Mets. The Mets lost to the Dodgers 252 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:08.839 yesterday and afterwards expected two if they didn't already. It has not been confirmed, 253 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:15.640 but the belief is they're going to cut or hit Lopez because he was 254 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:25.079 part of a contingent from the bullpen that surrendered the loss to the Dodgers ten 255 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:30.039 to three. Lopez came in and gave up a two run bomb to Shojey 256 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:36.599 Otane and then on the next batter it was Freddy Freeman. There's never really 257 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:42.880 an easy out in that Dodgers lineup. Lopez had an argument with Ramon Dejeusu's 258 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:52.400 who is a third base umpire and ruled that Freddy Freeman checked his swing on 259 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:59.319 a possible strike. Lopez thought he went around, they argued. Lopez was 260 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:06.200 ejected. Lopez then threw his glove into the stands. After being ejected. 261 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:11.759 He would later say what I mean, why you say this? Who knows? 262 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:19.000 I mean, just a complete idiot apparently. But he basically said, 263 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:30.200 this team, it's the worst efing team in the entire Major League Baseball exact 264 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:41.200 quote, worst team probably the whole fing MLB. That's a guy who does 265 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.240 not care, right who in their right mind? Now we all get emotional. 266 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:51.960 I got emotional yesterday and we had a caller call in and say, 267 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.680 Ship, do you need a hug? Right? I mean, yeah, 268 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.160 it takes place every once in a while. This is going to happen. 269 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.720 I don't know if it was Jake or Scott or Maurice. I forget who 270 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:11.640 it was, Freddie whatever, Dave. Anyway, we all get emotional. 271 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:21.839 You want a cooling off period. If you've ever umpired or refereed anything, 272 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.559 if you ever coached anything. I used to be a co I coached my 273 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:32.079 kids in football when they were in seventh and eighth grade, fifth, sixth, 274 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:36.359 seventh and eighth grade, and I used to meet with parents before the 275 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:40.559 season began the very first practice on purpose, and I said, I would 276 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:45.759 say to them, you may have an issue with me at some point during 277 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:49.759 the season, me and other members of the coaching staff. All I ask 278 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:55.839 you to do is give it a beat, give it twenty four hours, 279 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.799 think about it for a moment, and then come and let's talk. Because 280 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:04.920 I've been there, done that. I can't say that I've always followed my 281 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:11.799 own advice, but for the most part I did as a parent, So 282 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:18.480 I get it, you know. So we all get emotional. Jorge Lopez 283 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:25.319 having microphones in his face right away after being ejected, having a glove thrown 284 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:30.559 up in the stands, and coming off reportedly what was a player's only meeting 285 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:37.160 while their manager is talking to the media. The players behind closed doors, 286 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:48.720 reportedly called by Francisco Lindor media comes in interviews Lopez, he still says something 287 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:53.400 as stupid. That's what it is. It's flat out stupidity as that. 288 00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:02.920 Do you really think that will endure you to that clubhouse, that organization, 289 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:08.799 that fan base, or any other team who may be in need of a 290 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:18.880 reliever. Honestly, idiocy, It's just flat out idiocy. I can't understand 291 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.119 why in the world any But again, I get the whole emotion part. 292 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:29.599 I really do. I can appreciate it. We have all been in something 293 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:36.200 similar regarding emotions. But this isn't a Seinfeld episode. It's not where George 294 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:40.079 is all ticked off because he can't use the boss's bathroom, goes in and 295 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:45.279 calls him a joke and gets fired and then tries to come back the next 296 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.000 day and say, you know what, you thought I was serious or after 297 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.880 the weekend you thought I was serious. I wasn't serious. No, that's 298 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.880 not the way it works, man. And here's the thing, Lopez. 299 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:06.640 For the most part, I mean, he's been an effective player. There 300 00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:14.400 are certain attributes that you would probably like to have coming out of your bullpen 301 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:21.640 had some success. He's not as good as Pablo Lopez from Minnesota as a 302 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:29.960 starter, but Hore Lopez has had a spell twenty twenty two, for example, 303 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:34.000 where he's been pretty effective, used pretty regularly, and could give you 304 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:41.839 some decent innings. Not now, who the hell's going to take a chance 305 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.720 on a guy like this? Now he's not so electric. Okay, he's 306 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.799 not Josh Hater for crying out loud. He's not so electric. That makes 307 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:55.640 you go, hmmm, yeah, I'm gonna throw him a lifeline there, 308 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.880 and it just boils over. I suppose to do what that team is really 309 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:07.039 dealing with. You're talking about a three hundred and seven million dollar payroll and 310 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:12.960 they've got twenty two wins. You want some perspective for that. Oakland has 311 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:21.200 a sixty four million dollar payroll. They have more wins. Cincinnati has a 312 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:26.240 one hundred two million dollar payroll. They have twenty four They have more wins. 313 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:29.920 Pittsburgh, who just left town with a split against Detroit, has an 314 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:34.319 eighty three million dollar payroll. They have twenty six wins, four more than 315 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:44.440 the Mets. Tampa's got twenty seven wins. Their payroll is ninety eight million 316 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:51.599 dollars compared to the Mets is three hundred and seven. I'm not saying we 317 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:59.680 shouldn't be disappointed with where our team is right now, because I think that's 318 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:05.160 a I think that's fair. But sometimes it's okay to put it in perspective 319 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:08.920 and what the Mets are going through, and then what what the Mets have. 320 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:13.079 Francisco Lindor. Somebody asked me this. I don't know if it was 321 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.200 last week, but they asked me what I thought of Francisco Lindor, and 322 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:22.279 I said, I really like the guy, really like him. He's having 323 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:30.839 a terrible year that in two eleven on base percentage of two seventy nine, 324 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:44.599 slugging three seventy two h Those are hard numbers to digest. League average for 325 00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.880 a team for a team, on base percentage is a three to eleven, 326 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:59.240 League average for a team slugging is a three to eighty seven. And yet 327 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:09.519 Lindor's giving you a two seventy nine OBP for a guy who is making the 328 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:22.400 amount of money that he makes thirty four million dollars. Starling Marte twenty one 329 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:30.839 million bucks, Peter Alonso injured twenty million bucks, Brandon Neimo twenty million bucks. 330 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:38.319 Brandon Neimo's betten a Chris two to fourteen man not a baby. Maybe 331 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:45.039 it's the wrong statistic to focus on. Maybe it's very convenient that I use 332 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:52.160 the low number because he has been that disappointing. I'm just giving you some 333 00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:57.920 numbers to try and put it in perspective for when we have our next Tigers 334 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.319 disappointing discussion. And the Tigers are in Boston tonight. It's the first of 335 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:07.159 four against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, and it is the first of 336 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:13.559 a seven game road trip for the Tigers. You'll hear this coming up a 337 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:20.039 little bit later on in the Den. But every time I think of Boston 338 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:24.920 and anytime I used to go there, and I would encourage anybody if you 339 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.519 want to go to a really good baseball park, if you are one of 340 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.800 those folks. I got a friend of mine at the gym. Every summer 341 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:39.400 he takes his grandkids to different ballparks. So he and I are talking constantly, 342 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:42.480 and he always says, you know, give me some ballparks. I 343 00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:45.039 really should take my kids too. Depends on how far you want to go, 344 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:52.079 but if you can, I mean Fenway Park is worth it. It 345 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:55.880 reeks of baseball. That's what you want, right, for some reason, 346 00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:01.360 more than any other sport. You go into a Bay baseball stadium and you 347 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:06.599 want it to feel like baseball. Football. We get that's all purpose. 348 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:13.679 Hockey and basketball arenas, they're all purpose. Even though concerts and other events 349 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:20.119 oftentimes are played at baseball parks, you still want the feel of a baseball 350 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:23.199 stadium. Am I right? That's how I at least that's what I want. 351 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:30.360 Fenway Park gives you that, Chavez Ravine Dodger Stadium gives you that, 352 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:36.840 Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City gives you that. Pittsburgh P and C Park gives 353 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:42.119 you that. There are certain places when you go you're like, this is 354 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:44.840 what it's all about. I know they've had an outdoor hockey game there. 355 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.039 I know they've had a bull game there. The point is, when you 356 00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:57.079 go into that ballpark, you feel like you're in a baseball stadium. Yes, 357 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:00.639 Wrigley Field is like that, absolutely, But I'm just telling you, 358 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:05.280 if you get the chance, go to Fenway Park. But when I think 359 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:10.199 of Fenway, I immediately think of Tiger Stadium. Now there's a lot of 360 00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:15.960 you listening to me who never went to Tiger Stadium, and I feel bad 361 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:21.159 for you. I do. It was all baseball, man, it was 362 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.719 for me. It was a bit of a haven. I loved going there 363 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:30.840 as a kid. Well. Tiger Stadium and Fenway Park opened April twentieth, 364 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:37.239 nineteen twelve. They opened on the same day, and they were the oldest 365 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:42.840 ballparks in baseball until nineteen ninety nine, when, of course, the last 366 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:46.320 game was played between the Tigers and the Royals in Detroit. One in dramatic 367 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:53.239 fashion and wore the throwback uniforms and Robert Fick hit a home run over the 368 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:59.199 roof, and it was it was magical, quite honestly, it was a 369 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:06.079 magical night when the Tigers beat the Royals that day, and when Tiger Stadium 370 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.760 closed, it was emotional for a lot of us. I always found it 371 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:20.159 a prideful thing for Detroit and the state of Michigan to have the oldest ballpark 372 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:25.280 in the country, as a charter member of the American Lake, an original 373 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:30.000 charter member of the American League, to have the oldest ballpark, to have 374 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:37.280 it have the different names, Bennett, Navin, Tiger, all that stuff. 375 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:44.159 It was. I just thought it was fantastic, and it was something 376 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:51.320 I used to brag about going around the country. Nothing against Komerica Park. 377 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:54.440 I do like co America Park. It just doesn't have the same feel to 378 00:37:54.480 --> 00:38:00.239 me. Why that is, huh, you know probably age right. I 379 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.920 mean for a lot of you young people, Comerica Park is that you have 380 00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:08.519 that feel. I don't know for me, if it's because of the Feriress 381 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:14.400 Wheel or the Merry Go Round or Big cac Cord or I don't know. 382 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:19.000 I can't explain it. I just know when you walked into Tiger Stadium, 383 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:24.920 you smelled the grass. You went in there, and just I can close 384 00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:28.920 my eyes and picture it now. You walk up a ramp and when you 385 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:36.760 see that ballpark, your heart just opens and you get goosebumps. I never 386 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:42.039 had that feel for Comerica anyway. It was something that I thought was very 387 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:47.079 prideful for Detroiter's the Tiger Stadium and Femway Park with the oldest, and then 388 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:54.000 of course Wrigley Field, and then it's Dodger Stadium that's been around a long 389 00:38:54.000 --> 00:39:00.559 time. You can't get that back. That doesn't mean that they should have 390 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.159 kept it. I mean, I remember I was kind of on the warpath, 391 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.920 saying I would like to see them renovate it. I get why they 392 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:14.800 moved where they moved, and it makes a ton of sense for downtown Detroit, 393 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:23.239 no question, totally get it. Very convenient for visitors, very cool 394 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:30.239 for fans, foot traffic and all that other stuff. So I understand it. 395 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:37.360 But Fenway Park is going to be mecca or is mecca for people in 396 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:44.239 Boston and people who watch baseball. The thing about Fenway Park that ownership group 397 00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:52.840 committed to renovations. Again, different scenario, it's a different situation. I'm 398 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:59.760 not blaming the Tigers here for building a new ballpark or taxpayers building a new 399 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:06.559 ball park and having the team play where it does. It's just that Boston 400 00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:15.239 chose to preserve what they felt was special to their baseball fans, and they 401 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:22.599 have renovated it so where it's still even though it has that old school feel, 402 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.920 it is still updated with the amenities that you would want in a new 403 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.800 ballpark, except for I mean, you're pretty crunched in there. But they 404 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:36.840 what did they do? They built seats above the Green Monster. Brilliant, 405 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:46.880 absolutely brilliant. They have made renovations that will keep Fenway Park usable through at 406 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:54.840 least two thy sixty one. And you can say what you want about certain 407 00:40:54.960 --> 00:41:02.519 organizations, certain cities, a certain fan base, but that lineage that linked 408 00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:07.960 the past to have it be the oldest ballpark and it's not going to lose 409 00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:17.239 that status anytime soon. You have to tip your cap to them. Meyer 410 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:21.320 Hotline eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. You could text 411 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.239 the show sports Ready to twenty one thousand. Told you we were going to 412 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.039 talk a little football. We are going to do that. One website says 413 00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.480 the Lions are not one of the more complete teams in football. We'll get 414 00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:35.119 your thoughts on that throughout the rest of the morning on the our hotline eight 415 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.199 six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. 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Ben is our producer. 432 00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.679 Call him on the Meyer hotline eight six six eight three eight forty eight 433 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:21.320 forty three. Football. Look, we're closing in on every day a little 434 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:28.719 bit closer to training camp. I believe it's under one hundred days now and 435 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:37.000 Pro Football Focus is a website up subscribe to a really really appreciate the in 436 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:44.639 depth numbers that they're able to provide that leads to their analysis. Doesn't mean 437 00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.440 I always agree with it, but they have reasons to back things up. 438 00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:54.960 They recently had an article about the NFL roster rankings. Look at the entire 439 00:43:55.039 --> 00:44:05.039 roster. They label strengths, they label weaknesses, and they recognize X factors 440 00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:10.079 just for the starting lineups. We're not talking about depth, heer, We're 441 00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:16.079 talking about the eleven on offense, the eleven on defense. I don't know 442 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:21.480 if they bring in special teams. It didn't seem like they did. But 443 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:30.000 anyway, it can be a kind of a misleading article only because we don't 444 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:36.039 know what every team's starting lineup is going to look like. Most of this 445 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:44.159 is based off last season. So Ben I would ask you this, who 446 00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:53.280 do you think are the top three teams Pro Football Focus ranks as the most 447 00:44:53.280 --> 00:45:01.119 complete rosters starting rosters in the National Football League for twenty twenty four. Oh 448 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:08.400 wow, let's see, are the Ravens one of them? The Ravens are 449 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:13.119 not in the top three. Okay, I'll give you two more guesses. 450 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:21.840 I'll say San Francisco, correct, and wow, Kansas City? Right? 451 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.559 All right, So San Francisco is one. Shouldn't surprise this, they reached 452 00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:30.280 the Super Bowl a year ago, but maybe a little surprising that they're one. 453 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:38.119 Overall, they love their offense because primarily they've got three guys who ranked 454 00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:44.360 in the top two in their position, Christian McCaffrey, Brandon Aiyuk and George 455 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:50.679 Kittle. Their weakness, they say, is their past protection. They have 456 00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:57.440 an X factor and it's a safety. Number two is Kansas City. You 457 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:00.559 get that right? I mean crying out loud. They've got but the Super 458 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.320 Bowl ring on their hand, on their fingers. They've got one of the 459 00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:12.320 best quarterbacks the game has seen in Patrick Mahomes. They have the best tight 460 00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:17.519 end in Travis Kelcey. Their X factor, though, is in a lot 461 00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:25.400 of trouble Raschi Rice, who can't be that intelligent, not when you're getting 462 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:31.639 in the trouble that he's gotten into all kinds of legal troubles. Probably gonna 463 00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:35.440 land him a suspension, sure as hell, should land him a suspension. 464 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:42.519 They have a weakness thrown. It's at the offensive tackle position, which to 465 00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:47.360 me is that's a significant weakness. If you can't protect your guy, you're 466 00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:52.960 going to have some serious problems. And I would guess that it should be 467 00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:59.760 downgraded from there. But because of their championship belt that they'll carry into twenty 468 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:04.079 twenty four, they're going to be in the top three and their ranked number 469 00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:09.280 two, number three is Philadelphia. Again, this is their offense and their 470 00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:14.280 defense is starting units. They give them an X factor and they give them 471 00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:17.559 a rookie to watch. So, for example, Philadelphia, the rookie is 472 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:24.960 Cooper Cooper de John. Kansas City, their rookie to watch is if you're 473 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:30.239 worthy. That's not that hard to figure out for Grand out Loud anyway. 474 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:37.440 So Philadelphia is number three. The Jets are at number four. Now we 475 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:42.960 told you this last week. It's crazy to me. Look, their defense 476 00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:52.239 is awesome, but it's crazy to me that people can think this highly of 477 00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:58.400 the New York Jets. Now, maybe Aaron Rodgers makes that big a difference. 478 00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:01.599 They think the combination of what they had led by Zach Wilson a year 479 00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:08.639 ago was that putrid and they still won seven games, and Rogers can make 480 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:13.920 that big a difference, and it's one of the best quarterbacks of his area. 481 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:17.440 I suppose he can, but he is forty. You want to believe 482 00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:22.159 in him. That's great. To put him at four is a little surprising 483 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:29.679 to me. Again, biggest weakness offensive line? Have you noticed something so 484 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:37.559 far? The biggest weakness for three of the top four teams has to do 485 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:45.639 with offensive line. What was the weakness for San Francisco pass protection? What's 486 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:51.960 the weakness for Kansas City offensive tackle? What's the weakness? As I just 487 00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:57.440 read for the New York Jets offensive line? They struggled to black people, 488 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:05.840 they had injuries, but their offensive line had the second worst overall grade in 489 00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:12.320 the league. They're number four. Where do you think the Lions rank, 490 00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:22.000 ben, let's say six. You are correct, okay, because just above 491 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:25.280 them as the Baltimore Ravens who you had mentioned, could be a top three 492 00:49:25.599 --> 00:49:30.239 And I understand why you would say that. They had home field advantage in 493 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:39.199 the AFC last year. So the number one record in football with tie breakers, 494 00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:44.119 but the number one record, and they took our business against Detroit pretty 495 00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:49.239 handily, didn't they? Damn right? They did. Pro Football Focus loves 496 00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:57.000 the Ravens ground game, don't like their receivers. Then they come to the 497 00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:01.760 Lions. The Lions are at number six, and here's what they write about 498 00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:07.000 their strength offense. You and I who follow this team out a day to 499 00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:10.719 day and especially a Sunday to Sunday basis, would be a little bit more 500 00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:19.559 specific than just offense, wouldn't we We would say offensive line either way, 501 00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:24.079 offensive line included in it. And here's what they write. Offensive coordinator Ben 502 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:30.079 Johnson has worked magic these last two seasons running Detroit's offense. The results have 503 00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:32.440 led to perhaps the best run the Lions have had in the Super Bowl era, 504 00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:39.519 which is really sad to say. The newly paid Jared Goff has been 505 00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:45.360 excellent, putting up an eighty four point three passer grade while throwing for over 506 00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:49.840 forty five hundred yards thirty touchdowns during the regular season. His top Pats catchers 507 00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:53.079 i'm on Ross Saint Brown and rookie sensation Sam Laporta. Saint Brown was one 508 00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:58.079 of the best receivers in the NFL. His receiving grade last season trailed only 509 00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:02.719 Tyreek Hill and Brandon Au. As for Laporta, his grade trailed only Kelsey 510 00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:09.559 Kittle TJ. Hockinson among tight ends. I said this when they traded TJ. 511 00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:15.920 Hockinson a couple of years ago. He's a really, really good offensive 512 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:27.480 player. He's not a complete offensive player he was. He's a substandard blocker, 513 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:34.079 but he can catch, and he can run routes, and he's a 514 00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:38.360 threat. There's no doubt about that anyway. It writes that you arguably have 515 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:43.719 the most dynamic running back duo in David Montgomery and Jamior Gibbs, both who 516 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:46.679 had rushing grades of at least eighty while rushing for at least nine hundred yards 517 00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:50.800 and ten tds a piece. The offensive line is also a major strength. 518 00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:54.719 Oh thanks for finally getting to that, as all five projected starters heading into 519 00:51:54.719 --> 00:52:00.599 this season had a Pro Football Focused grade of at least seven last year, 520 00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:06.679 led by Penney Stool's league leading ninety two point eight mark. We get to 521 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:12.920 their weakness and their X factor, and perhaps just as important, if not 522 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:19.440 more important, their over underwin total. Would you go over or under? 523 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:24.199 What Pro Football Focus has to say about the Lions in twenty twenty four That 524 00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:29.639 on the other side of Ex's and Bros. 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Always enjoyable 542 00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:30.800 to talk with you on the Myer hotline eight six six eighty three, eight 543 00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:35.000 forty three. You could text us Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. We 544 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:42.119 were talking just before the break about Pro Football Focus ranking the top teams or 545 00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:49.519 all teams based on starting lineups, and where the Lions rank. They rank 546 00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:55.039 sixth. We told you what their strengths were based on what Pro Football Focus 547 00:54:55.119 --> 00:55:00.320 is put together, it was their offense. Their biggest weakness, according to 548 00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:05.239 PFF, was that the Lions had one of the most productive offenses in the 549 00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:07.119 NFL. It often came as a result of having to keep pace with your 550 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:14.880 opponents. In other words, the biggest weakness is outside cornerback. The lions 551 00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:19.199 forty eight point three team coverage grade last season was third worst in the NFL. 552 00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:27.639 Now De Troy recognize this made it a priority in the offseason, spent 553 00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:32.440 two draft picks on corners, traded for Carlton Davis for the Buccaneers. They 554 00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:37.000 write, while on paper, this team has certainly improved at the corner spot. 555 00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:40.079 They will be relying a lot on young talent to step up try and 556 00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:46.960 take the next step in reaching the franchise's first ever Super Bowl. That's a 557 00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:52.679 fair critique. You're asking an awful lot of a couple of young players, 558 00:55:52.840 --> 00:56:00.159 specifically Terry On Arnold and Innosrakestraw. What do you think there X factor is? 559 00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:07.639 The X factor? They write this is a little surprising to me only 560 00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:14.440 because their biggest strength, as we noted, was their offense. So the 561 00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:21.519 X factor they right is Jamison Williams. Look, I think he's it's going 562 00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:29.199 to be an important piece for Detroit. There's no question he'll stretch the field. 563 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:35.039 You do have a few other guys who'll be able to catch rocks for 564 00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:44.639 you. Kevin Zeitler is a pretty big piece. Don't you think you lose 565 00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:51.159 Jonah Jackson to the Rams Zeitler's really important. Does that make him the X 566 00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:55.360 factor? I don't know. I mean, I think that's part of the 567 00:56:55.440 --> 00:57:04.400 discussion. Who's the opposite defense event Marcus Davenport. You don't think that's a 568 00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:13.679 big X factor. Detroit's ability to get to the quarterback opposite Aiden Hutchinson, 569 00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:20.920 somebody other than Aid Hutchinson it is going to be really important. I think 570 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:27.679 we all, including Pro Football Focus, in a lot of situations go to 571 00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:31.360 skill positions, which I just kind of broke one of my rules, but 572 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:35.960 because I hate it when they say skill positions and I just said it, 573 00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:40.039 but because it takes a lot of skill to play on the line too. 574 00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:46.840 Anyway, here's what they write about their X factor with Jamison Williams. Outside 575 00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:51.159 of Saint Brown, the Lions are very thin at the wide receiver position, 576 00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:54.559 especially after Josh Rend's departure. The first round pick from twenty twenty two, 577 00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:00.000 Jamison Williams has shown flashes of being able to be a playmaker in the league, 578 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:01.719 but he hasn't been able to put it all together for extended periods of 579 00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:06.920 time. He's entering year three, so time is running out on him to 580 00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:10.159 become the impact player the Lions thought he would be when they traded up for 581 00:58:10.280 --> 00:58:16.840 him. I do wonder if part of the reason he's an X factor is 582 00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:23.400 because he's going into year three. They write, However, if he reaches 583 00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:30.000 his potential, this already potent Lions offense could become unstoppable. Well, that'd 584 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:37.960 be fun the rookie to watch. Pretty obvious, right. I mean it's 585 00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:42.800 Arnold and Rekestraw, both guys they right should get the opportunities to play from 586 00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:46.599 day one. Rakestraw was a first round talent that fell to the second due 587 00:58:46.639 --> 00:58:51.960 to core and groin injuries, while Arnold was the top corner on a lot 588 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.719 of teams boards that the Lions were able to pick at twenty four. Both 589 00:58:54.800 --> 00:59:02.920 corners are coming off positional flexibil and can play each of the outside or the 590 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:07.840 nickel, which would allow Brian Branch to play safety full time. You're good 591 00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.960 with that, absolutely, I'd be good with that too, as long as 592 00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:15.400 Brian Branch is on the field. So I think he's a hell of a 593 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:22.280 player. Here's where it gets interesting and I would love to know and get 594 00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:32.880 your thoughts the over under. I want to know what you think the over 595 00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:39.039 under or are you taking the over or the under for the Lions in twenty 596 00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:46.440 twenty four when Pro Football Focus gives you drum roll ten and a half? 597 00:59:50.840 --> 01:00:01.760 Are you going over or are you going under? Is their schedule in case 598 01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:08.280 you've forgotten, In case you haven't done what so many people do. I've 599 01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:13.119 got a ton of friends as soon as the schedule comes out print it right 600 01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:16.480 w or l next to it. They were way off last year, by 601 01:00:16.519 --> 01:00:22.000 the way, But that's what a lot of Lions fans. I'm sure a 602 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:28.599 lot of football fans in every market do this. You have the Rams at 603 01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:37.519 home, Tampa at home, Arizona on the road, Seattle at home, 604 01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:51.239 Dallas on the road, Minnesota on the road, Tennessee at home, green 605 01:00:51.280 --> 01:01:00.119 Bay on the road, Houston on the road, Jacksonville home, Indie Road, 606 01:01:01.119 --> 01:01:08.920 home to Chicago, home to green Bay, home to Buffalo at Chicago 607 01:01:10.119 --> 01:01:17.360 at Frisco. Sorry if I went a little fast there, but I just 608 01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:21.599 wanted to remind you. I'm sure you already had it. The over under 609 01:01:21.719 --> 01:01:27.719 at ten and a half. Here's what they write. The Lions came so 610 01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:30.599 close to reaching the franchise's first Super Bowl last season before a late game collapse 611 01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:35.679 doomed them against the Niners. They year they're making a real run for it. 612 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:37.920 On paper, this might be the best Lions team of the Super Bowl 613 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:45.440 era. I would agree with that. With the rise of Jordan Love Green 614 01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:49.880 Bay, the Bears youth movement, and the Vikings potentially high flying offense, 615 01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.840 the NFC North is going to be much tougher than it was in twenty twenty 616 01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:57.960 three. However, the Lions appear to have a firepower to hold them off 617 01:01:58.119 --> 01:02:00.880 as they search for back to back division titles for the first time in franchise 618 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:07.039 history. Again, that is very sobering, isn't it, my goodness? 619 01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:14.280 And then they list the starters. I don't think there's much of a weakness 620 01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:22.800 outside of maybe your third wide receiver in Khalif Raymond on offense. On defense, 621 01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:27.239 You're gonna have to sell me a little bit more on Marcus Davenport. 622 01:02:28.119 --> 01:02:34.400 Sorry, it's really important. I think they need another defensive lineman. That's 623 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:37.519 just me. Is it enough to sway you one way or the other for 624 01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:44.440 ten and a half? Because that ten and a half is the over under 625 01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:50.320 your thoughts on that? The Meyer hotline eight six six eight three eight forty 626 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:53.320 eight forty three. You could text the show Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. 627 01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:57.559 We'll get to your phone calls, we'll get to your texts. I 628 01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:01.199 think it's a really cool exercise. Here. Here's another thing that surprises me 629 01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:08.679 a little bit. They also rank the top three players per team. 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Also their 672 01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:51.480 top three players according to Pro Football Focus, which personally I disagree with. 673 01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:56.280 We'll get to that coming up as well. Meyer Hotline is open for you. 674 01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:59.199 Eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. Doesn't have to 675 01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:02.320 be anything necessarily that we're talking about. If there's something else that's on your 676 01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:06.199 mind and you want to discuss it, that's where we're here. Okay, 677 01:07:06.599 --> 01:07:11.199 this shows your show as much as it is ours. Okay, let's get 678 01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:13.480 to those full lines. Ben. Who do we got? Yeah, we 679 01:07:13.519 --> 01:07:16.119 got Jake and Grand Rapids. Hi, Jake, how are you today? 680 01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:20.199 Thanks for listening in Grand Rapids on ninety six point one FM. The game. 681 01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:26.480 Yeah, doing well? How about stuff? All right? Yeah, 682 01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:30.599 so just a couple of quick thoughts, especially in the over under and the 683 01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:35.320 X factor. I mean, I think Jameis and Williams is post for a 684 01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:40.400 breakout without Reynolds being there. But like you said, we haven't seen him 685 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:44.639 put it all together. You saw flashes like in the Saints game on the 686 01:07:44.719 --> 01:07:49.239 road last year and the championship game, but for some of these guys, 687 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:54.639 it's I feel like it might be hard to see a full picture just because 688 01:07:54.639 --> 01:07:58.480 there's so many mouths defeat. I mean, basically, anybody in the offense 689 01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:02.360 did have really good games and other games. That's other players, you know, 690 01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:09.519 with Gibbs, Monty Laporta, all those guys, and hopefully Donovan people 691 01:08:09.639 --> 01:08:15.840 Jones can also be included in that. I guess the but the over under 692 01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:20.960 I think I would take the over just because you know they're playing only three 693 01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:25.640 outdoor games all year. I think that's gonna be huge for them. And 694 01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:30.159 the two games or one of the games that's on the road outside is against 695 01:08:30.199 --> 01:08:33.920 a rookie and Caleb Williams. I know everybody's super high on them, and 696 01:08:34.199 --> 01:08:41.000 you know their new found offense, but he's still a rookie, so that 697 01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:45.159 might be something where they can steal one on the road. And you had 698 01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:50.560 said that the there's three top players. I might be a little bit off 699 01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:55.279 from what other Lins fans would be, but I would go you know, 700 01:08:55.359 --> 01:09:00.560 first off would be Sewel, just a monster. Obviously I'm in raw and 701 01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:09.000 that I'd probably go Aiden Hutchinson over Golf as my third top lion. Obviously 702 01:09:09.159 --> 01:09:15.720 quarterbacks important, but I don't think he's one of our you know, he's 703 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:20.039 probably top five, don't get me wrong, but I'm not gonna say he's 704 01:09:20.159 --> 01:09:27.439 one of our top three players per se. Okay, it's interesting when you 705 01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:33.800 said only three games against teams outdoors. Why do you think that? Why 706 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:36.239 do you think that matters. I mean, last year they opened up in 707 01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:42.760 Kansas City outdoors and won in Kansas City, came home, lost indoors to 708 01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:46.279 Seattle. Granted they lost to Chicago, they lost at Green Bay. They 709 01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:51.359 lost to Dallas, and Dallas is for all intensive purposes, if you'll bear 710 01:09:51.399 --> 01:09:58.000 with me, all intensive purposes. That's an indoor stadium. They've won outdoors. 711 01:09:58.119 --> 01:10:03.279 They won at Carol right, so I guess I'm a little they wanted 712 01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:08.159 Denver. I'm a little confused why that matters the outdoor indoor thing. Do 713 01:10:08.159 --> 01:10:12.600 you think this team is strictly built for indoors? No, not necessarily, 714 01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:17.119 but I think it plays to their strengths more so than you know, all 715 01:10:17.159 --> 01:10:20.640 the outdoor games. I mean, obviously they won those games, don't get 716 01:10:20.680 --> 01:10:27.239 me wrong, But I think when you're you know, throwing the ball and 717 01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:30.840 perfect, you know, air conditioned dome, rather than you know, you 718 01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:34.439 might have some inclement weather or you know, kicking is a big thing. 719 01:10:34.880 --> 01:10:39.359 You know, don't want to get off on a tangent. But I think 720 01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:44.600 the Baits kid over it with the Michigan Panthers. I think I would definitely 721 01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:48.840 bring him into challenge badly. It's just it kind of almost puts your mind 722 01:10:48.880 --> 01:10:51.439 at ease, like, oh, we have an indoor game. Like I 723 01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:57.239 don't know if that's just like Lions of Old speaking, because like you said, 724 01:10:57.279 --> 01:11:00.079 they did win a bunch of games last year out. But I think 725 01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:04.319 just kind of the offense. You know, the offense is going to click 726 01:11:04.399 --> 01:11:08.800 because of what I just said. There's no in clement whether it's always going 727 01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:12.159 to be you know, perfect indoors. Yeah, I guess, yeah, 728 01:11:12.239 --> 01:11:15.800 No, I get that. Do you view this team more as a passing 729 01:11:15.800 --> 01:11:18.199 team than a running team? See? I think it's an excellent running team 730 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:23.279 because it's built up front. Look you and I I shouldn't say that me. 731 01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:26.399 I don't know how you feel, Jake. I'm a big believer in 732 01:11:26.439 --> 01:11:30.000 building from from from down in the trenches and then out. That's the way 733 01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:33.439 this team has done it. And when you are able to do that, 734 01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:38.319 that means you can run the football, which helps you in clement weather. 735 01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:42.159 I think that's the reason they're just as good outside as they would be inside 736 01:11:42.359 --> 01:11:45.640 it because their ability to have balance on their offense and be able to run 737 01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:48.399 run the football when they need to. Oh, yeah, for sure, 738 01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:55.199 I think like you just said, I mean you might have not trying to 739 01:11:55.239 --> 01:11:58.319 be a homer, but you might have one of the top two or three 740 01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:01.840 offensive backfields the league. I mean, Monty and Gibbs showed you last year 741 01:12:01.880 --> 01:12:05.600 what they can do together, and Gibbs was hurt for three or two or 742 01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:12.960 three games, and they both eclipsed ninety or nine hundred yards rushing. So 743 01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:16.760 I think doing it that way, but you also still have am and Ra 744 01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:20.520 Laporta, James and Williams gives out of the backfield. Even Monty out of 745 01:12:20.560 --> 01:12:28.479 the backfield is not as much as a weapon as Gibbs is. But yeah, 746 01:12:28.640 --> 01:12:31.119 you're gonna run behind your offensive line. That's what you built your offensive 747 01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:33.920 line for, is to run through the trenches, get that one yard you 748 01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:39.079 need on fourth and one, et cetera, et cetera. So yeah, 749 01:12:39.119 --> 01:12:44.760 I do agree with that, But also you have, you know, if 750 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:47.520 not the best slot receiver in the game, one of the best slot receivers 751 01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:51.159 in the game. And like we already talked, hopefully Jamison Williams can take 752 01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:57.279 that next step and be that solid number two like I you did with Debo 753 01:12:57.439 --> 01:13:01.760 a few years back, and then he overtook uh Debo in some people's eyes. 754 01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:05.720 So sure, okay, I just I was just wondering about the and 755 01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:09.159 thanks for the phone call. Really appreciated, Jake. Have a great day, 756 01:13:09.199 --> 01:13:13.920 I were. I just wonder about the whole indoor outdoor thing. I 757 01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:16.239 think that's a I think that's a fallback for a lot of people, not 758 01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:19.560 just you, but I think a lot of people view indoors. Certain indoor 759 01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:27.680 teams as strictly indoor their ability only to play or their strength is playing indoors, 760 01:13:27.720 --> 01:13:34.760 whereas teams like Pittsburgh and Baltimore and Cincinnati and Cleveland. I just mentioned 761 01:13:34.800 --> 01:13:39.920 the whole afc North Chicago, Green Bay. Oh boy, the thing if 762 01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:43.800 you could play outdoors, that means you could play indoors, right because look 763 01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:46.720 at what look what's going on there, and look at how they can look 764 01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:50.640 at how they can adjust. It's going to be an easier adjustment for them. 765 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:55.279 It might be. I'm not going to claim that it's not totally. 766 01:13:56.479 --> 01:14:03.600 I just don't buy. I thinking, as a way to make yourself as 767 01:14:06.760 --> 01:14:12.600 offensively potent as possible, you have to be able to do both, and 768 01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:16.600 a lot of it has to do with adapting to certain conditions. And the 769 01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:26.640 Lions can run the football. Chicago is a pretty good example. Chicago lost 770 01:14:26.720 --> 01:14:33.840 plenty of games outdoors, and they're an outdoor team. They lost at home 771 01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:38.279 to Green Bay, they lost to Tampa, they lost to Kansas City, 772 01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:42.359 they lost at home to Denver, oh And, by the way, they 773 01:14:42.399 --> 01:14:45.159 lost indoors too. They lost in New Orleans, they lost in Minnesota, 774 01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:50.239 they lost in LA. Maybe it's a bad example. I'm just telling you. 775 01:14:51.119 --> 01:14:57.039 Let's not get caught up in the fact that Detroit's home is a dome, 776 01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:05.520 and that means that they can not function as well outside of a dome. 777 01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:14.600 Because they can. That's why they're a good football team, really good 778 01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:17.760 football team. Back to the Meyer hotline eighty six eight three eight forty eight 779 01:15:17.880 --> 01:15:23.520 forty three Ben, who's up next? Yeah he had a go, But 780 01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:26.960 I do have a text. It says, this is back to the over 781 01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:30.439 under. If rag Noow gets hurt, there's no way they are going over 782 01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:39.319 ten wins. That's interesting. That might lead one to believe that Texter believes 783 01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:45.119 Frank Ragnow is one of their top three players. Who do you think are 784 01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:51.560 their top three players? Give me the three guys you believe our top three. 785 01:15:53.039 --> 01:15:59.319 This is hard to do for a team that has as much balance as 786 01:15:59.359 --> 01:16:02.560 the Lions. Jared Goff signed a contract that's gonna pay him fifty million dollars 787 01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:09.960 a year. You would hope he's one of their top three players. Jake 788 01:16:09.960 --> 01:16:15.640 and I were just talking about the combo of Montgomery and Gibbs, one of 789 01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:18.159 the best, if not the best, one two punch in the NFL. 790 01:16:20.439 --> 01:16:28.840 Sam Brown, Laporta, Decker, Glasgow, Ragnow, Zeitler, Sewel. 791 01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:39.239 There's your starters defensively, McNeil, Reeder, Hutchinson, Davenport, Campbell, 792 01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:46.640 An Sloney, Davis, Arnold, Branch, Melafan, Wu Joseph Those are 793 01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:56.520 your starters. Who are the top three guys for me? I would say, 794 01:16:56.880 --> 01:17:01.399 in not necessarily in disorder, Penny Sewel, I'm on Ross Saint Brown. 795 01:17:02.319 --> 01:17:05.439 Although he relies on a guy to get him the football to make him 796 01:17:05.439 --> 01:17:09.880 the best, but I love what he can do catching the football, making 797 01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:12.640 guys miss and so on and so forth. And I would say Frank Ragnow, 798 01:17:15.079 --> 01:17:20.359 Aiden Hutchinson and Jared Goff are right there with him. But I would 799 01:17:20.359 --> 01:17:24.840 say, Frank Ragnow, I think he's that important. I think he's that 800 01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:29.399 good. Here's how I look at it. This could be flawed logic. 801 01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:33.640 Feel free to call me out if you wish. Who is considered the best 802 01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:42.279 at their position with the Detroit Lions. Penna suel Is, I'm on, 803 01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:51.600 I'm on Ross Saint Brown is Frank ragnow when healthy is? If this is 804 01:17:51.640 --> 01:17:56.119 with all due respect to Aiden Hutchinson, because I said he's right there. 805 01:17:57.000 --> 01:18:00.439 But if you look at Aiden Hutchinson and I think he's a really good player, 806 01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:03.800 Okay, don't let's not just always look at sacks, look at quarterback 807 01:18:03.840 --> 01:18:08.640 pressures, things of that nature. Really important to take that into account, 808 01:18:08.680 --> 01:18:15.039 Okay, But defensive ends are measured by sacks. T J. Watt, 809 01:18:16.399 --> 01:18:24.760 Trey Hendrickson, Khalil Mack, Max Crosby, Miles Garrett, Micah Parson's different 810 01:18:24.800 --> 01:18:31.159 position, probably Montes Sweat. Those are just some of the guys that probably 811 01:18:31.239 --> 01:18:39.399 rank higher than Aiden Hutchinson. There's not many wide receivers. I'm not saying 812 01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:44.439 he's the best. I'm just saying there's not many wide receivers who are better 813 01:18:45.520 --> 01:18:49.079 then I'm on Ross Saint Brown. If I give you Tyreek Hill, if 814 01:18:49.079 --> 01:18:53.439 I give you Ceedee Lamb, if I give you a J. Brown, 815 01:18:54.239 --> 01:18:59.039 Okay, this doesn't go much further than that. I still think he's up 816 01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:05.600 there and an offensive lineman standpoint, there's no tackle better than penn A Suol 817 01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:13.319 a year ago, and when Frank Ragnow is healthy, the same can be 818 01:19:13.399 --> 01:19:16.359 made. Same argument can be made for Detroit Center. There's my logic. 819 01:19:18.039 --> 01:19:21.920 Meyer hotline eight six eight three eighty eight forty three. Back to those lines, 820 01:19:21.960 --> 01:19:26.760 Ben, Who's next? Yeah, we got Mitchell and Kalama zoo Hey, 821 01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:30.960 Mitchell, how are you man? Heany good? Are you good? 822 01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:35.000 What's on your mind today? I just wanted to kind of bring up that 823 01:19:35.119 --> 01:19:39.760 topic again about that into our outdoor. I think where a lot of people 824 01:19:40.199 --> 01:19:44.760 get that from is just if you just look at Goss Splits specifically just Gos 825 01:19:44.760 --> 01:19:48.199 you know, he just plays so much better indoors. I don't think it's 826 01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:51.439 like an attestment to the team, because I think running the ball can be 827 01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:55.560 done either way. I think if you look at something like the Baltimore game 828 01:19:55.600 --> 01:19:58.720 where we couldn't run the ball anymore and we had to come back, you 829 01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:01.199 know, I just a lot tougher on goth outdoor than it is indoors. 830 01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:05.520 I think that's where that kind of philosophy comes from, that having only three 831 01:20:05.520 --> 01:20:12.439 outdoor games. Really helps the Lions because that means Goth shouldn't have any issues 832 01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:19.119 indoor as statistically and historically he's been way better indoor than outdoor. Yeah, 833 01:20:19.119 --> 01:20:24.640 I think a lot of that has to do with the temperature too. It's 834 01:20:24.680 --> 01:20:29.640 not just outdoor. I think it's more about specifically about a certain degree, 835 01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:33.199 right, So outdoors for example, I don't know if this will surprise you 836 01:20:33.279 --> 01:20:38.840 or not, probably not, but outdoors he completed sixty four to a half 837 01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:47.119 percent of his passes compared to sixty nine percent indoors. Anything minus forty degrees 838 01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:53.600 he struggled mightily. So I'm not sure it's as much outdoors as it is 839 01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:59.279 the temperature in which you're playing. So if you're playing green Bay in December 840 01:20:59.840 --> 01:21:04.880 and you're getting twenty degrees, yeah, I'm My belief is that a guy 841 01:21:05.039 --> 01:21:09.359 like Jordan Love and Green Bay are probably going to have more success. I'm 842 01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:12.600 not going to disagree with that. They're more used to it. So I 843 01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:15.720 think it's a great point by you. I think any thanks for the phone 844 01:21:15.720 --> 01:21:19.479 call. Appreciate it very much, Mitchell. I think any quarterback playing indoors 845 01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:26.680 is going to be Any good quarterback is going to benefit don't you You've got 846 01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:32.359 those perfect conditions like Mitchell was referring to. Would not disagree with that at 847 01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:43.319 all. I just think we fall into a trap in sports where we think 848 01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:50.359 that certain players or certain teams cannot play because they're so used to one way 849 01:21:50.399 --> 01:21:57.920 or the other. Put it in perspective, Jordan Love a little more used 850 01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:01.479 to it now, remember Jordan Love maybe a little bit more used to it 851 01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:04.159 because he played at Utah State. I'm not sure how much that should matter, 852 01:22:04.600 --> 01:22:09.119 because you would think Tom Brady would get used to it, you know, 853 01:22:09.159 --> 01:22:12.359 playing at the University of Michigan. But he was from California. But 854 01:22:12.439 --> 01:22:15.880 he thrivednia at Michigan. He thrived in New England and in bad weather situations 855 01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:21.960 all the time. Jordan Love, conversely, of what Mitchell was referring to 856 01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:28.479 with Jared Goff and I brought up specifically under forty degrees, where he struggled 857 01:22:28.520 --> 01:22:32.720 mightily. Jordan Love completed sixty eight percent of his passes compared to fifty seven 858 01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:40.920 percent when the temper temperature was forty degrees or below. That tells you something. 859 01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:46.880 He's also more you know, used to it. But that's part of 860 01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:50.479 the reason you believe that GoF struggles. The numbers are there and he's not 861 01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:55.039 quite as used to it. That would be a factor for just about anybody 862 01:22:56.279 --> 01:23:01.640 who isn't used to playing in those types of conditions. Good call Meyer Hotlines 863 01:23:01.640 --> 01:23:05.239 open forty eight sixty six eight three eight four eight forty three. That's eight 864 01:23:05.319 --> 01:23:09.960 sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. You could text the program 865 01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:15.000 sports radio to twenty one thousand hour number three of Ex's and Bros. Right 866 01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:21.680 after this, we're teeming off our tenth year at the Meyer LPGA Classic for 867 01:23:21.800 --> 01:23:26.600 simply gives. Get ready for the best who are yet to help neighbors in 868 01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:30.560 need while enjoying golf, food and family fun. 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Get some facts and come back and Seedee. 893 01:25:40.199 --> 01:25:44.000 You can't handle the true I told our players you need a bit more 894 01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:46.319 like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats in here. Looking 895 01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:49.520 in the mirror, I look good. I got my extra bands on, 896 01:25:49.800 --> 01:25:54.920 I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We don't need no meals. 897 01:25:55.039 --> 01:25:58.119 We don't need no cats. We need more dolls. Way out a 898 01:25:58.199 --> 01:26:03.000 detain. At the time we weren't good. There's no sense asking me things 899 01:26:03.000 --> 01:26:05.359 about the game. I'm telling you we laid an egg. So I'm not 900 01:26:05.399 --> 01:26:10.359 going to break it down for you. He sucks, He sucked, but 901 01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:13.239 he laid an egg. That's all I have to say. Guys, I'm 902 01:26:13.239 --> 01:26:15.800 sorry. I'm not going to break it down for you. Nothing went well 903 01:26:15.800 --> 01:26:17.479 for us. It's on us. We have to figure it out, and 904 01:26:17.560 --> 01:26:24.760 we went jod It sure is and it's the final hour of Xus and Bros. 905 01:26:25.880 --> 01:26:28.039 Across the Great State of Michigan. Wherever it is, you may be 906 01:26:28.159 --> 01:26:32.439 listening Grand Rappids WMX ninety six point one FM, The Game in Cadillac, 907 01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:38.920 WKAD The Ticket ninety three point seven FL in Flint, WTRX Sports Extra thirteen 908 01:26:39.039 --> 01:26:44.319 thirty AM, Grayling and Gaylord on up North Sports Radio wg R Y one 909 01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:48.039 oh one point one FM, Midland Saganaw Bay City. We hit that Tri 910 01:26:48.119 --> 01:26:53.399 city area on the mid one hundred point nine fmw l U n and Potowski 911 01:26:53.479 --> 01:26:58.840 and Charlevoi w NBN one oh four point seven FM, The Ticket in Northern 912 01:26:58.880 --> 01:27:02.640 Michigan and in Traverse City on the Ticket there WKAD ninety three point seven. 913 01:27:03.720 --> 01:27:06.800 Honored to be with you on this Thursday. I'm Matt Sheppard the Meyer Hotline 914 01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:11.199 eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. Ben is our producer. 915 01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:14.960 You can text him Sports Radio to twenty one thousand as well if you 916 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:20.319 missed it. The Tigers split two with the Pirates yesterday. The opener went 917 01:27:20.359 --> 01:27:24.279 to Tarrek School in Detroit and an eight to nothing blow out. Matt Vierling's 918 01:27:24.319 --> 01:27:29.600 three run homer and four RBIs the difference. Schooble toss seven scoreless innings, 919 01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:32.439 allowing just three hits, striking out eight. He improved to seven and one 920 01:27:32.439 --> 01:27:40.359 on the year. Seth Lugo of Kansas City is better so far, has 921 01:27:40.399 --> 01:27:43.600 put together a better season, I should say, because he's nine to one 922 01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:46.680 with a one point seven to ninety RA after Kansas City one again yesterday they 923 01:27:46.760 --> 01:27:53.479 beat Minnesota Bobby Witt Junior Salvador Perez. I saw something on social media where 924 01:27:53.479 --> 01:28:00.399 people were kind of taking their shots at Salvador Perez. I thought to myself, 925 01:28:01.640 --> 01:28:05.079 Look, social media is the thing now. I totally understand where you 926 01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:08.640 know, it's where so many people get their news. It's where so many 927 01:28:08.640 --> 01:28:15.199 people get their information. Whether it's reliable or not, I'm not so sure. 928 01:28:15.840 --> 01:28:24.840 It's also just a way to just spew despise, discuss meanness, sad 929 01:28:25.000 --> 01:28:32.760 commentary, personal purgatory if you will, and people take a chance at Salvador 930 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:38.720 Perez. Look, I don't care whether or not you believe the guy who's 931 01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:43.640 thirty four, Oh he's probably older than I don't Who care? The dude 932 01:28:43.720 --> 01:28:53.079 is good. Ask yourself this thirty four or older. Would you take a 933 01:28:53.079 --> 01:28:56.720 guy who's betting three twenty five, having the three eighty six OBP and a 934 01:28:56.760 --> 01:29:02.239 slug of five thirty seven, absolutely hits another homer yesterday, He's got ten, 935 01:29:03.000 --> 01:29:08.000 he goes two for four, He's thirty four and Batton's second in the 936 01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:13.399 lineup for a team there is thirty five and twenty two on the year, 937 01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:19.479 for a team that is arguably the biggest surprise in baseball, and six just 938 01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:27.159 two and a half out thirteen games over five hundred. A team that was 939 01:29:28.399 --> 01:29:35.399 last year, this Kansas City team, even though it had Bobby Witt Junior, 940 01:29:35.720 --> 01:29:43.560 Vinnie Pascatino, Salvador Perez, they were still minus one eighty three in 941 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:47.439 the run differential. I use that number a lot. It's important the run 942 01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:54.680 differential. This year, Kansas City is a plus eighty one. Nobody in 943 01:29:54.680 --> 01:30:00.800 the division is better. Nobody in the American League Central Division is better. 944 01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:05.239 In fact, only one team in the American League is better in that category. 945 01:30:05.399 --> 01:30:11.439 That's the New York Yankees. Baltimore is not better, Cleveland's not better, 946 01:30:12.840 --> 01:30:18.640 Texas isn't better. Very strange, Texas is just a plus one in 947 01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:24.279 run differential, the team that leads the division, the AL West is a 948 01:30:24.319 --> 01:30:32.640 minus Seattle. That's a hell of an accomplishment. Anyway, I saw a 949 01:30:32.680 --> 01:30:38.079 lot of that on social media, and I thought that's ridiculous. First of 950 01:30:38.119 --> 01:30:41.800 all, Salvopro is a really good dude. Second of all, he's a 951 01:30:41.840 --> 01:30:47.239 hell of a player. And third maybe you're just angry just for the sake 952 01:30:47.279 --> 01:30:51.479 of being I ain't angry. I don't know, but I'd take him on 953 01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:57.720 my team. He's gott a howitzer, handles the staff real well, and 954 01:30:57.760 --> 01:31:04.800 produces offensively. Folks, there's not that many catchers in baseball who are the 955 01:31:04.840 --> 01:31:11.039 total package. You know what I mean? You want a guy? Look, 956 01:31:11.319 --> 01:31:15.079 we all gravitate back to the best of our childhood or the best in 957 01:31:16.199 --> 01:31:25.159 our favorite team's history. Is that fair enough? Okay? So who's the 958 01:31:25.199 --> 01:31:29.720 best the Tigers have ever had? If you're old enough, you remember Bill 959 01:31:29.760 --> 01:31:38.039 Freehan. If you're old enough, you remember Lance Parrish. I suppose if 960 01:31:38.039 --> 01:31:40.960 I'm Pudge, Rodriguez is in there too. I see him more as a 961 01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:49.880 ranger. That's just me. Everybody looks for a Salvador Perez an Adlie Rushman, 962 01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:59.359 Will Smith at JT Rilamuto. I think Jonah Him's a pretty good player 963 01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:03.600 for Texas. He's not having a great offensive year so far. He was 964 01:32:03.640 --> 01:32:09.119 originally committed to Michigan State, by the way, but he was drafted and 965 01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:15.359 signed with the Rangers. I think those three guys, those four guys Perez, 966 01:32:15.520 --> 01:32:18.520 who does say Perez, Rushman, Smith, Rila, Muto. For 967 01:32:18.600 --> 01:32:24.279 sure, those four throw in throwing him for me if you don't mind five 968 01:32:24.359 --> 01:32:30.239 guys who can do it offensively and defensively. It's the hardest position in the 969 01:32:30.279 --> 01:32:34.920 in the game catcher. You don't have that many great players who can do 970 01:32:35.039 --> 01:32:43.199 both. Those are it. So I'd take him every single day, and 971 01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:46.960 I would guess you would too. Game two went to Pittsburgh Paul Skeins celebrating 972 01:32:46.960 --> 01:32:53.880 his twenty second birthday. He struck out nine in six innings. Andrew McCutchen 973 01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:58.279 leaves the yard a home run. He's homered in every Paul Scheme start. 974 01:32:59.399 --> 01:33:01.439 Matt Homer it again for Detroit, so he's homered in three or four. 975 01:33:03.439 --> 01:33:09.960 What was interesting, I thought, there is that kider munter when anytime in 976 01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:13.640 baseball, if you've got a double header, you got a twenty six man 977 01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:15.560 roster, we know that, right, Okay, they expanded that a few 978 01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:18.720 years ago. They expanded twenty six mans rather than twenty five man roster. 979 01:33:19.319 --> 01:33:23.840 You have twenty six men, you have thirteen bullpen or thirteen pitchers, thirteen 980 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:28.920 position players when you have a double header, so it's not to have quote 981 01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:32.800 unquote wear and tear on people. You can add a twenty seventh player. 982 01:33:35.119 --> 01:33:41.079 So you're going to add a pitcher, now, why would you so? 983 01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:45.920 For example, Jack Flaherty was originally supposed to start one game of the doubleheader. 984 01:33:46.960 --> 01:33:49.039 The way the series was set up, it was going to be Scoobal 985 01:33:49.119 --> 01:33:56.439 and Flaherty against Jones and Schemes. Then the rain out a couple of days 986 01:33:56.439 --> 01:34:01.279 ago, forcing a doubleheader yesterday. Why not start Flaherty like you originally thought, 987 01:34:01.439 --> 01:34:05.159 instead of starting him today against Boston. My guess is, because you 988 01:34:05.359 --> 01:34:12.039 get a twenty seventh man in a doubleheader, why not take advantage of it? 989 01:34:13.039 --> 01:34:15.880 So use a pitcher there, save Flaherty, who's pitching Game one of 990 01:34:15.920 --> 01:34:21.159 the four game series against Boston tonight. What was interesting to me is that 991 01:34:21.239 --> 01:34:28.359 Kaider Montero is the one who was called up. He was called up from 992 01:34:28.359 --> 01:34:33.479 Toledo. He made his major League debut. You may ask, why is 993 01:34:33.479 --> 01:34:38.199 that surprises hip? What surprises me? Because they didn't call it Matt Manning. 994 01:34:40.079 --> 01:34:43.079 I would have guessed it would have been Manning who would have come up 995 01:34:43.279 --> 01:34:48.479 like he had been all season long. His issue is in his five starts. 996 01:34:49.079 --> 01:34:58.960 The era is close to five. AJ Hinch explained that. And we'll 997 01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:01.720 get into what Scott Harris said to say about hobby or bias when we come 998 01:35:01.760 --> 01:35:04.960 back after this ten After the Hour on Exus and Bros. Across the Great 999 01:35:04.960 --> 01:35:12.279 State of Michigan. In the ten step up to the play with Eagle Casino 1000 01:35:12.319 --> 01:35:15.720 in Sports, the mobile sports book app that you can bet on all your 1001 01:35:15.760 --> 01:35:18.279 favorites all year round, including of course, are national passed ONIME. So 1002 01:35:18.399 --> 01:35:23.760 download the app and start winning today at Eagle Casino in Sports Made in Michigan, 1003 01:35:23.880 --> 01:35:27.159 Made for Michigan. Must be twenty one years or older and in Michigan 1004 01:35:27.199 --> 01:35:30.279 to play. This is Matt Shepard. The Tigers begin a seven game road 1005 01:35:30.319 --> 01:35:32.640 trip at the first of a four game series in Boston's Fenway Park tonight. 1006 01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:36.359 Every time I think of Boston, I think of Fenway Park and Tiger Stadium. 1007 01:35:36.600 --> 01:35:40.920 The two iconic parks open the same day April twentieth, nineteen twelve. 1008 01:35:41.000 --> 01:35:45.319 Unfortunately, Detroit's Cathedral closed in September of nineteen ninety nine. While Boston's Baseball 1009 01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:48.840 Meccha remains intact and is the oldest in the country. It will keep that 1010 01:35:48.960 --> 01:35:54.479 distinction for a while since the ownership group has committed to renovations that will keep 1011 01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:59.159 it viable until at least twenty sixty one. 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I got way too caught up in golf videos, 1020 01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:20.279 like trying to improve golf videos, and I don't mean you know guys 1021 01:37:23.039 --> 01:37:26.880 tying a rubber snake to a string and put it on the back of somebody's 1022 01:37:26.920 --> 01:37:30.079 shirt and running around and making them scared while they're getting ready to tee off. 1023 01:37:30.640 --> 01:37:33.520 Those are funny videos, for sure, but I can do without those. 1024 01:37:33.560 --> 01:37:38.520 I'm talking about the ones that try to help your swing, help your 1025 01:37:38.520 --> 01:37:44.760 putting, help so many other things. Sometimes they get upset at myself because 1026 01:37:45.000 --> 01:37:49.560 it's not really helping my game. My game us where it is. Unfortunately, 1027 01:37:50.520 --> 01:37:54.800 it's one of those sports where you gotta play a lot. Welcome back 1028 01:37:55.359 --> 01:37:59.880 x'es and bros. By the way, this was making the rounds on social 1029 01:38:00.920 --> 01:38:08.840 Did anyone see what took place in Washington Awk County? I think it was 1030 01:38:09.800 --> 01:38:15.560 mid May. I think it was a couple of weeks ago. A dude 1031 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:26.880 is supposed to be on a zoom for getting his license reinstated. His lawyer 1032 01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:30.079 is at the courtroom talking before the judge, and the judge says, has 1033 01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:34.199 he joined us yet? And she said, he's about to your honor, 1034 01:38:34.880 --> 01:38:42.840 and he jumps on zoom. The driver or the person who's in trouble with 1035 01:38:42.920 --> 01:38:46.279 the law and says, I'm on my way to the doctor. I'm just 1036 01:38:46.359 --> 01:38:54.960 pulling in right now, and he's driving, and the judge says, wait 1037 01:38:55.000 --> 01:39:00.920 a minute, you're driving. In other words, you're driving with a suspended 1038 01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:06.560 license. And he's trying to get his license back. And what does he 1039 01:39:06.640 --> 01:39:15.640 do. He shows up to the virtual court hearing while driving. You wish 1040 01:39:15.720 --> 01:39:19.319 you could be making this stuff up. You would think it's almost a gaff 1041 01:39:19.439 --> 01:39:27.600 right, it's just a joke. It's not. There's video and audio to 1042 01:39:27.680 --> 01:39:32.680 support it, not to mention the reaction of the judge and the reaction of 1043 01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:39.760 the man who now loses his license or the chance to regain his license for 1044 01:39:39.800 --> 01:39:46.359 a while. It's classic stuff. Man. You think to yourself, how 1045 01:39:46.399 --> 01:39:50.199 the hell can somebody think this is a good idea? Honey, don't you 1046 01:39:50.279 --> 01:39:54.239 have a zoom call to try and get your license back today? Yeah, 1047 01:39:54.279 --> 01:39:58.640 I'll do it while I'm driving to the doctor's office. But doesn't that kind 1048 01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:00.800 of defeat the purpose? Honey, aren't you little word? Well, I'll 1049 01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:02.840 keep the camera off. I don't know what he was thinking. He's not 1050 01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:10.600 thinking at all. We think there are certain people in life who feel like 1051 01:40:10.640 --> 01:40:15.560 they are are privileged because of what they do for a living or how much 1052 01:40:15.600 --> 01:40:20.600 money they make. That's not always the case. Sometimes there are people who 1053 01:40:20.680 --> 01:40:26.520 feel like they just can't touch, they can't be touched, and even though 1054 01:40:26.840 --> 01:40:30.600 they even though they have a hearing, a chance to get their license back, 1055 01:40:30.760 --> 01:40:33.399 in all likelihood, it sure seemed like he was going to get his 1056 01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:44.520 license back until the camera on the dashboard of the car while he's driving clicks 1057 01:40:44.560 --> 01:40:55.079 on. Oops. I think I messed up there. It's awesome. We 1058 01:40:55.079 --> 01:40:59.720 were talking just before the break about Matt Manney was the guy who was not 1059 01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:02.960 called up as the twenty seventh man. It was Kyder Montero, who is 1060 01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:09.479 viewed as a decent prospect in the Tiger system. Manning has struggled. I 1061 01:41:09.520 --> 01:41:16.840 can't help but wonder I remember it was a twenty nineteen seen Mies and Manning 1062 01:41:17.640 --> 01:41:25.439 and Schooble all in camp and hearing so many different people try to guess who 1063 01:41:25.479 --> 01:41:32.560 they think would be the best of the bunch. There was no consensus in 1064 01:41:32.680 --> 01:41:40.840 Lakeland with all these people baseball people around. If you would say schoobl if 1065 01:41:40.880 --> 01:41:44.000 you would say Mice, if you would say Manning, that's how close the 1066 01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:49.199 three were. This was going to be what this team was built on. 1067 01:41:51.239 --> 01:42:01.760 These three hard throwing two of them high draft picks, optional talents, young 1068 01:42:01.840 --> 01:42:06.880 talents, and don't take this the wrong way. I'm not saying you give 1069 01:42:08.000 --> 01:42:12.920 up on Matt Manning, but I would say this. He is twenty six 1070 01:42:13.000 --> 01:42:19.119 years old. Not that it's old, because it's not. But from a 1071 01:42:19.159 --> 01:42:25.880 major league standpoint, the clock is ticking. He's only made fifty starts in 1072 01:42:25.920 --> 01:42:31.800 his major league career and he's twenty six. He was a hell of an 1073 01:42:31.840 --> 01:42:38.439 athlete. He was gonna go play basketball at Loyola Marrimount. Tigers signed him 1074 01:42:38.520 --> 01:42:47.039 ninth overall pick, first round, and it just hasn't clicked. What's the 1075 01:42:47.079 --> 01:42:58.680 most wins you think he's had in his major league career? Four? That 1076 01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:03.439 is? I hate the w or bust not fair. Kid works hard, 1077 01:43:05.000 --> 01:43:10.359 which is no excuse. Everybody works hard, man, I mean, at 1078 01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:15.199 least they're supposed to. Most people are working hard to get to where they 1079 01:43:15.239 --> 01:43:18.640 want to get to at that level, is what I'm saying. It's one 1080 01:43:18.640 --> 01:43:24.520 of my favorite things when we interview players' families. You know, how do 1081 01:43:24.520 --> 01:43:27.239 you feel in this moment? I'm so proud of him because he's worked so 1082 01:43:27.279 --> 01:43:31.039 hard. Yes, guess what, there are other people work hard to It 1083 01:43:31.079 --> 01:43:38.920 doesn't mean that you can't be outworked. Just means you do work hard. 1084 01:43:39.600 --> 01:43:44.880 But Matt Manning, it's just not clicking for him. He's made five starts. 1085 01:43:45.840 --> 01:43:54.520 Who's that on. There's a combination of people him, coaches, people 1086 01:43:54.560 --> 01:43:57.760 have got to be fixing him. People got to got to be able to 1087 01:43:57.800 --> 01:44:03.680 help him along. He had options, So it's not a huge deal, 1088 01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:09.680 but there's going to be a point in time, and it's coming quicker than 1089 01:44:09.720 --> 01:44:15.119 he may think where they have to decide on what to do. That's not 1090 01:44:15.199 --> 01:44:23.399 the case for Javier Bias. We talked yesterday about Scott Harris's interview on MLB 1091 01:44:23.479 --> 01:44:28.279 Network with Brian Kenny about the spending of this team, and it lasted a 1092 01:44:28.319 --> 01:44:32.159 good hour and a half, almost two hours. What we didn't get to 1093 01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:42.039 was what he said about Hoavi or Bias. Because so many people have suggested 1094 01:44:42.199 --> 01:44:50.319 eat the contract and move on. I've repeatedly said it's seventy three million dollars. 1095 01:44:51.039 --> 01:44:58.560 That is a massive amount of money to just chew up and burp out. 1096 01:45:01.520 --> 01:45:08.439 Scott Harris said, that's not a question for right now. Right now 1097 01:45:08.479 --> 01:45:12.159 we are focused on trying to get the most out of him. Okay, 1098 01:45:12.159 --> 01:45:16.760 I get that, and that's what you should be doing. Here's the quote 1099 01:45:16.800 --> 01:45:23.279 that bothers me a little bit. On the offensive side of the ball. 1100 01:45:23.560 --> 01:45:30.239 Harris said, he's going through adjustments right now. Do you know how many 1101 01:45:30.279 --> 01:45:40.399 times we've heard about Hobby or Bias in Detroit making adjustments? And let's get 1102 01:45:40.399 --> 01:45:45.960 it straight, every player is making adjustments. It's constant. It's one of 1103 01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:49.960 the beauties. But also the very difficult parts about baseball is how many adjustments 1104 01:45:50.000 --> 01:45:55.239 you do have to make. 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Check it out 1150 01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:47.319 today at Meyer Purty six. After the hour Welcome Back. Talked a lot 1151 01:49:47.319 --> 01:49:50.720 about the Lions earlier today. If you missed any of it, we'll put 1152 01:49:50.720 --> 01:49:56.800 it on the podcast. Ben sends it out on a daily basis. Pro 1153 01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:03.159 Football Focus ranking Detroit's top three players and ranking their starting unit. They have 1154 01:50:03.279 --> 01:50:09.640 them down as number six in the NFL. We disagree with that, but 1155 01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:17.159 that's what their numbers would tell you. San Francisco, Kansas City, Philadelphia 1156 01:50:17.680 --> 01:50:25.960 ahead of them are the top three anyway, and their top three players according 1157 01:50:26.000 --> 01:50:30.600 to their Pro Football Focus Amon Ross, Saint Brown, Aiden Hutchinson, Penney 1158 01:50:30.640 --> 01:50:34.399 Seol not in any particular order, just those three players. Mine were Seul 1159 01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:44.520 Brown and Ragnow with Hutchinson and golf being right there. We were also talking 1160 01:50:44.520 --> 01:50:47.880 about the Tigers Matt Manning didn't get the start in Game two as Kyder Montero 1161 01:50:48.039 --> 01:50:53.960 yesterday, as Detroit begins a four game series in Boston and a seven game 1162 01:50:54.039 --> 01:50:58.520 road trip overall, and then we were able to get to a little bit 1163 01:50:58.560 --> 01:51:01.720 about the hobby or bios comments made by President Scott Harris the other day on 1164 01:51:01.960 --> 01:51:09.479 MLB Network, Harris continuing to say that, well, Bias is going through 1165 01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:13.199 some adjustments. Offensively. They have said that in each of his three years 1166 01:51:13.199 --> 01:51:15.119 here, not that Harris has said it in each of the three years because 1167 01:51:15.119 --> 01:51:20.399 he hasn't been, but he said he's on the other side of thirty right 1168 01:51:20.439 --> 01:51:26.720 now. Doesn't make him old. Still has that fast twitch, still has 1169 01:51:26.920 --> 01:51:30.000 that athleticism. We have to find a way to help him make some adjustments 1170 01:51:30.279 --> 01:51:34.600 to get back to barreling balls and punishing mistakes like he did in a Cubs 1171 01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:42.439 uniform. That's great. Here is part of the issue. Part of the 1172 01:51:42.479 --> 01:51:45.800 issue is in the Cubs uniform. And he was good in twenty eighteen. 1173 01:51:45.800 --> 01:51:50.840 In twenty nineteen, that's a ways back. Man. How come we haven't 1174 01:51:50.880 --> 01:52:00.000 been able to notice why he hasn't gotten back to that form. What's prevailed 1175 01:52:00.399 --> 01:52:03.960 him? That's the question, that's the real question. What's preventing him from 1176 01:52:04.039 --> 01:52:11.039 getting to that form? What is he doing now that he didn't do four 1177 01:52:11.119 --> 01:52:17.279 or five years ago, Because that's what his best season was, twenty eighteen. 1178 01:52:18.000 --> 01:52:23.680 Even if you had a Javier Bias of twenty nineteen, you'd absolutely take 1179 01:52:23.720 --> 01:52:27.880 it to eighty one twenty nine bombs, eighty five stakes, no question. 1180 01:52:30.800 --> 01:52:34.159 Remember they signed him after twenty twenty one, when he led the league in 1181 01:52:34.199 --> 01:52:38.159 strikeouts with one hundred and eighty four. Oh, he also had thirty one 1182 01:52:38.159 --> 01:52:43.640 homers. He also had eighty seven runs driven in. They would argue, 1183 01:52:43.720 --> 01:52:46.840 that's just three years gone by. He is, he can get back to 1184 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:51.520 that. But they're also the people who just told you he's thirty years old, 1185 01:52:51.760 --> 01:52:59.600 which is an old but dot dot dot Meyer Hotline eight sixty six eight 1186 01:52:59.600 --> 01:53:01.960 three eight forty eight forty three. You could text us. You text Sports 1187 01:53:02.039 --> 01:53:05.239 Radio to twenty one thousand. I know we got a text. What's what's 1188 01:53:05.359 --> 01:53:09.760 with the text? Yeah, it says Manning is not a starter. He 1189 01:53:09.840 --> 01:53:15.439 can be and Andrew Miller. If the right transfigures that out. Manning stalls 1190 01:53:15.560 --> 01:53:20.960 after the second time through a lineup. Yeah, I don't know. I 1191 01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:25.199 would have to look up. That's that's insightful. I would have to look 1192 01:53:25.239 --> 01:53:30.439 up how many times he's actually had the chance to get through second time in 1193 01:53:30.479 --> 01:53:33.680 the lineup. I wouldn't guess it's very often. You're saying he's a bullpen 1194 01:53:33.760 --> 01:53:39.880 guy. Okay, I could see that. Guys have made that, plenty 1195 01:53:39.880 --> 01:53:45.840 of guys that made that transition. I don't think that is a bad thought 1196 01:53:45.880 --> 01:53:51.920 at all. Here's here's the only thing I would say to that is he 1197 01:53:51.960 --> 01:53:58.119 doesn't throw so hard. Okay. I mean he's ninety two ninety three. 1198 01:53:58.560 --> 01:54:00.640 I'm not saying I could stand in there against it. I'm just saying he's 1199 01:54:00.720 --> 01:54:06.319 ninety two ninety three. He doesn't throw so hard that it makes you go. 1200 01:54:08.199 --> 01:54:13.399 He's absolutely a closer. My guess is the Texter, it's well thought 1201 01:54:13.439 --> 01:54:16.000 out. The Texter is thinking he's more of an Alex Fayato type player. 1202 01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:24.439 Right. Remember, Fayato was a starter. Fayeto was the most outstanding player 1203 01:54:25.000 --> 01:54:30.000 in the World Series when he led Florida to the World Series Championship, College 1204 01:54:30.039 --> 01:54:40.600 World Series Championship. And now he's a middle reliever that can have a negative 1205 01:54:40.840 --> 01:54:47.079 connotation associated with a cannon. You're a middle reliever. In other words, 1206 01:54:47.159 --> 01:54:50.640 hey, you're not good enough to be a closer and you're not good enough 1207 01:54:50.640 --> 01:54:56.640 to be a starter. I don't think it shouldn't be negative. You are 1208 01:54:56.680 --> 01:55:00.680 important piece to the team. I think the Texter's right. I mean, 1209 01:55:00.880 --> 01:55:09.159 I think that's worth a shot. Now it does beg this question whose place 1210 01:55:09.199 --> 01:55:15.279 do you take? And I don't think me nor the text are suggesting that 1211 01:55:15.359 --> 01:55:19.760 you do anything right now, per se. But if we know he's not 1212 01:55:19.840 --> 01:55:25.359 a starter, or we don't think he is, so he's not going to 1213 01:55:25.439 --> 01:55:30.560 take Jack Flaherty's place. He's not taking Kent Tomata's place. He's not taking 1214 01:55:30.600 --> 01:55:35.039 Casey mies Rhee Solsen, Trek Scouobel. Right, he's not taking any other 1215 01:55:35.079 --> 01:55:39.600 places. You got to have some lefties, at least that's what some people 1216 01:55:39.640 --> 01:55:43.600 believe. I don't think that should be the way it is at all in 1217 01:55:43.640 --> 01:55:47.000 baseball. When the last time the Astros won the World Series, they didn't 1218 01:55:47.000 --> 01:55:55.000 have one lefty out of their bullpen, not one. They're alrighty's don't look 1219 01:55:55.039 --> 01:56:00.960 at righty lefty and then righty lefty matchup. People complain about me being old 1220 01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:05.920 school, That is old school thinking. Can you get the reverse splitz? 1221 01:56:08.359 --> 01:56:13.399 Can a righty get a lefty out? Can a lefty get a righty out? 1222 01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:21.640 See, that's what makes a guy like Andrew Chaffin rather attractive because of 1223 01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:28.960 the reverse splits. The same thing with Tyler Holton or a Jason Foley. 1224 01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:34.479 So then, but it does beg this question what would be who would be 1225 01:56:34.920 --> 01:56:43.800 your middle relief guys? So, if it's Fayato right now, if it's 1226 01:56:44.479 --> 01:56:48.359 Will Vest, it's Joey Wentz, it's Tyler Holton, it's Bowl Brisky. 1227 01:56:50.199 --> 01:56:59.520 Can Manning be the replacement to one of those guys Andrew Chaffin. I'm sure 1228 01:57:00.039 --> 01:57:02.560 it's about what you throw, where you throw it, and in what count 1229 01:57:02.640 --> 01:57:09.319 you can throw it. And that's part of the problem for Matt Manning right 1230 01:57:09.319 --> 01:57:13.800 now. I don't even think it's as much as him whether he's a starter 1231 01:57:13.960 --> 01:57:16.560 or not. I think the question now is is he a major leaguer? 1232 01:57:19.560 --> 01:57:25.600 Folks. That's why when you talk about draft picks and I get it where 1233 01:57:25.840 --> 01:57:31.279 you and I we don't watch enough college baseball or high school baseball to recognize 1234 01:57:31.600 --> 01:57:36.800 whether a guy like Gunner Henderson who came from high school is worth a second 1235 01:57:36.880 --> 01:57:43.199 round pick, or a Kevin McGonagall who's worth a second round pick, or 1236 01:57:43.239 --> 01:57:46.840 a Max Clark is worth a first round pick. Don't never watched Max Clark 1237 01:57:47.039 --> 01:57:54.319 in Indiana. Didn't watch him with Team USA or Kevin McGonagall with Team USA, 1238 01:57:54.920 --> 01:57:58.720 or Gunner Henderson. You may have watched Adlei Rushman. You may have 1239 01:57:58.800 --> 01:58:03.399 watched Spencer Torkelson. You may have watched Casey Mais or Paul Skeins or Alex 1240 01:58:03.439 --> 01:58:08.600 Bragman or guys who did go to college had high level of success. Maybe 1241 01:58:08.600 --> 01:58:14.800 you watch them one or two. I don't know, but it's hard to 1242 01:58:14.880 --> 01:58:18.119 judge that Manning coming out of high school takes a little more time, so 1243 01:58:18.159 --> 01:58:23.319 on and so forth than what do you have, not sure first round pick. 1244 01:58:23.960 --> 01:58:30.399 That's why you draft as many pitchers oftentimes as you can. Not saying 1245 01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:33.479 you take them over position players. I'm just saying that's why there's a lot 1246 01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:41.279 of pitchers chosen because more oftentimes than not guys, it's like quarterback guys are 1247 01:58:41.359 --> 01:58:48.680 not going to make it. You and I both know going into this coming 1248 01:58:48.760 --> 01:58:56.680 football season this will probably be This would be way too way too early, 1249 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:05.479 right to judge the rookie quarterback class. But you and I would both agree 1250 01:59:05.600 --> 01:59:13.560 that you don't expect all of them to make it right. You don't think 1251 01:59:13.600 --> 01:59:27.119 that Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, JJ McCarthy, Drake May, Michael Pennix, 1252 01:59:27.640 --> 01:59:34.960 and Bo Nicks are all going to be successful, do you? From 1253 01:59:35.039 --> 01:59:45.079 nineteen ninety three through twenty twenty two, the extension rate for the first quarterback 1254 01:59:45.159 --> 01:59:51.840 drafted was fifty seven percent. The second quarterback drafted, they got their extension 1255 01:59:53.039 --> 01:59:59.039 thirty five percent of the time, the third quarterback drafted thirty one percent, 1256 01:59:59.119 --> 02:00:05.880 the fourth drafted or teen percent, and so on. Now that doesn't sometimes 1257 02:00:06.239 --> 02:00:09.479 if you're the second quarterback draft of but you may not have been a first 1258 02:00:09.560 --> 02:00:15.880 round draft pick. So that's kind of unfair for this class. All I'm 1259 02:00:15.960 --> 02:00:21.319 suggesting is that you're not gonna You're not gonna connect on all of them. 1260 02:00:25.880 --> 02:00:30.560 Paxton Lynch was a first round draft pick. He was twenty sixth overall, 1261 02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:39.600 He's one in three. We could go over as many failures as we do 1262 02:00:39.800 --> 02:00:47.239 success stories at the quarterback position. JaMarcus Russell, Brady Quinn, We could 1263 02:00:47.279 --> 02:00:53.359 go on and on and on, Jake Locker, Johnny Manzel, Josh Rosen, 1264 02:00:53.960 --> 02:00:59.359 Dwayne Haskins, Tim Tebow. I don't have to get too deep into 1265 02:00:59.399 --> 02:01:04.600 it, ej. Manuel Brandon Whedon, but we could do that Matt Liner. 1266 02:01:05.640 --> 02:01:10.439 Same thing with quarterbacks, or the same thing with pictures. I should 1267 02:01:10.439 --> 02:01:15.680 say, there's first round picks out there left and right who aren't making it. 1268 02:01:16.600 --> 02:01:25.199 Why aren't they making it? It's not a universal reason. It just 1269 02:01:25.319 --> 02:01:30.640 happens, and it's the reason so many teams eventually get in their draft room 1270 02:01:30.640 --> 02:01:35.239 and say, let's get ready not to use every pick, but to use 1271 02:01:35.279 --> 02:01:45.880 a lot of picks on pictures. If Casey Mice one to one doesn't make 1272 02:01:45.920 --> 02:01:51.520 it, if Matt Manning ninth overall doesn't make it, are you going to 1273 02:01:51.600 --> 02:01:57.479 have the guys who you've used for draft picks to try and take their place? 1274 02:01:57.520 --> 02:02:01.920 Well, Ty Madden be a guy you figure might might be a starting 1275 02:02:01.960 --> 02:02:04.680 pitcher in this league for a long time. I mean, it's it's kind 1276 02:02:04.680 --> 02:02:11.840 of crazy. Trek Scooble's ninth round pick. A lot of that had to 1277 02:02:11.840 --> 02:02:16.760 do with where he was pitching and the fact that he had Tommy John But 1278 02:02:16.880 --> 02:02:26.720 still, who would have guessed a guy like that would would be over a 1279 02:02:26.760 --> 02:02:30.560 guy like Casey Mize, who pitched in the SEC and was the first team 1280 02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:43.720 All American Trek Scooble wasn't that at Seattle University. But that's the way it 1281 02:02:43.760 --> 02:02:49.640 works sometimes. In baseball, Meyer hotline eighty six six eight three eight forty 1282 02:02:49.640 --> 02:02:55.680 eight forty three, and the text line is sports radio to twenty one thousand. 1283 02:02:56.479 --> 02:02:59.840 Do appreciate it? The text today they're always good ones always gets us 1284 02:02:59.840 --> 02:03:05.239 thing a little bit keeps us on our toes, if you will. We 1285 02:03:05.640 --> 02:03:12.439 mentioned a little bit about the Edmonton game last night, which was really entertaining, 1286 02:03:12.760 --> 02:03:15.239 and the fact that the NBA will pick back up tonight Minnesota hosting Dallas 1287 02:03:15.279 --> 02:03:19.199 Game five of the Western Conference Finals, maps lead at three to one in 1288 02:03:19.319 --> 02:03:26.720 the series. It wasn't long ago I read this story on the Pistons and 1289 02:03:26.800 --> 02:03:30.039 what they need to do and who they should draft. I saw a mock 1290 02:03:30.119 --> 02:03:44.000 draft yesterday that they had the shooter from Tennessee connect going third overall, which 1291 02:03:44.079 --> 02:03:48.840 kind of bummed me out because I was really hoping I would He would be 1292 02:03:48.880 --> 02:03:54.640 intriguing. He would be an intriguing pick for me if I were the Pistons. 1293 02:03:55.079 --> 02:03:58.079 Yes, I know it's in need. I don't know how they're going 1294 02:03:58.119 --> 02:04:00.800 to work these guys out. I don't know how they feel, like, 1295 02:04:00.880 --> 02:04:03.199 Okay, this is the best player we've had in here for the workout, 1296 02:04:03.239 --> 02:04:10.800 so things could definitely change. But connect was he's such a good shooter. 1297 02:04:12.279 --> 02:04:16.640 I can't help but think how much that would improve Detroit if they keep that 1298 02:04:16.720 --> 02:04:27.039 pick. But I read this that somebody was hoping that the Pistons would use 1299 02:04:27.159 --> 02:04:35.520 some of their salary cap freedom and use it on some free agents. Right, 1300 02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:42.159 Okay, of course have to be the right free agent. Who would 1301 02:04:42.159 --> 02:04:45.800 it be? Somebody suggested, and I like this guy when he was here 1302 02:04:45.840 --> 02:04:53.880 before I did. Tobias Harris, the really good dude. He's a really 1303 02:04:53.920 --> 02:05:05.279 good teammate at times. He's been a really good player this year for Philadelphia. 1304 02:05:08.199 --> 02:05:11.960 Some would argue he helped lead them to the playoffs, averaging seventeen points 1305 02:05:12.000 --> 02:05:20.000 per game. Okay, let's keep this in perspective. Though he's going to 1306 02:05:20.039 --> 02:05:27.720 be thirty two, he's going to make a boatload of money, and on 1307 02:05:27.760 --> 02:05:33.239 a really good team, he's averaging seventeen a game. Would he be able 1308 02:05:33.279 --> 02:05:41.199 to do that with Detroit? For me, the answer would be no. 1309 02:05:41.199 --> 02:05:43.960 Now you could say, well, he's probably taken a lot of his shots 1310 02:05:43.960 --> 02:05:47.039 were taken away because of some of the talent on his team, and the 1311 02:05:47.159 --> 02:05:57.479 Chuckers Seinfeld reference Keith Hernandez would be that case would take away on this team. 1312 02:05:58.600 --> 02:06:04.319 He doesn't fix the issue of outside shooting, but he also straps you 1313 02:06:04.520 --> 02:06:13.159 with the contract and with the AH. It's not the right time, in 1314 02:06:13.239 --> 02:06:16.439 my opinion, to back to a guy just because he was really good for 1315 02:06:16.520 --> 02:06:26.319 you in his mid twenties, specifically twenty seventeen. Just my thought. Maybe 1316 02:06:26.359 --> 02:06:30.159 we can talk more about that in the coming days and next week. 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