Get some facts and come back and seebe. Get some facts and come back
and seebe. Don't fill out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no mouns. We don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
W a detain. Oh you're not a deday. We weren't good.
There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling you.
We laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for you.
He sucks. He sucked. He laid an egg. That's all I have
to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not going to break it down
for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us. We have
to figure it out. And we went eight yodad, Yes it is.
It is showtime, the final hour of X's and Ros on this Tuesday again,
our thanks to Day Riquette of the Detroit Free Press, Fucking Lions draft
the NFL in general, he joined us at seven thirty five. Really good
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Florida moves on. The Stars and Knights are deadlocked at two wins a
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the NBA playoffs. The other was Minnesota over Phoenix, and then you saw
what happened with Phoenix right another disappointing season for them. Kevin Durant upset.
Here's a report. Sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic that Durant never
felt comfortable with his role in Phoenix's offense alongside Booker and Beale this year.
Those sources said Durant had persistent issues with the offense, feeling that he was
being relegated to the corner far too often and not having the proper designs to
play his strengths as an offense built around pick and rolls. Here's my question,
why does it take this long for something like this to come out?
The reason these things come out, folks, is because certain people want them
out. In this case, it might be the player, or it might
be the organization trying to distance themselves from the player. But either way,
somebody makes it known that the reason that they were swept, the reason they
had another disappointing season. Kevin Durant is not happy. Here we go again.
It's always something, isn't it refreshing? Once in a while when you
finally hear an athlete or an organization say, hey, man, it's on
me like a hero. Vetchkin, the Washington Capitol Star, was really good.
He was terrible in the playoffs, but he was really good afterwards.
He didn't have a point in the playoffs. And when people said what happened
against the Rangers, what did he say? I wasn't good enough. I've
got to be better, instead of pointing fingers, instead of making the excuses,
you don't want to hear it. One of the best lines I ever
heard from one of the bosses I worked for. He said, own your
own blank. Reminds what kind of sounds like pitts. Own your own blank.
Don't make excuses. It's on you. Kevin Durant, it's on him.
Hey, think of this before something like that gets out. He did
take the most corner threes in his career. He took sixty eight of them.
Does that seem like a lot to you? Before this year he averaged
about twenty three. Remember he is older, he does have different weapons around
him. You do have to play to more than one player's strength. Would
you suggest that he's the best player on their team. I wouldn't. I
think it's Devin Booker. Kevin Durant's a Hall of Fame player, but just
because he's a Hall of Fame player doesn't mean he's right at everything. I
think Phoenix he really got hurt on the Grayson Allen injury. But it just
gets so old when you hear stuff like this disgruntled blame game, same stuff.
It's crazy. It really is our phone number on the Meyer hotline eight
sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three. You could text us
at sports Radio to twenty one thousand the worst and best grade, just coming
off of what we were talking about with Dave brikettit the Free Press who joined
us here on Ex's and Bros. A little bit ago, some of the
best and worst grades. You know, you go through. This is what
football brings you, and it's pretty cool. You get as soon as the
super Bowl is over, and maybe even in some cases before the super Bowl
is over, you're getting mock draft after mock draft after mock draft, which
look, sports Radio is lives on that stuff. To me, it gets
a little old. It's constantly changing. You're getting a mock draft, and
then you go to the combine and then you get in another mock draft,
and then you're noticing some signings and then you're getting another mock draft. I
mean, it's it's constant, but you got to fill space. Sports radio's
gotta fill time, and people like it, so it's okay, it's cool.
But right after the draft you get all the breakdowns. I mean you
get breakdowns for every pick, you get breakdowns for every round, and you
get breakdowns for every team great, giving teams great. It's really hard to
do. It's almost it's it's borderline ridiculous because you don't know what these players
are going to do. You don't know how good they're going to be.
So, for example, one writer gave the Falcons a C minus. Why
do you think what Dave and I were just talking about it's Michael Pennix.
How do you know? Like they said that was the worst pick? It
was a surprise pick? Was it the worst pick? What if he turns
out to be a Pro Bowl quarterback? A multi I'm not saying he is,
I'm just saying what if? How do you know? You don't So
you read this stuff and you're like, Okay, this is what this guy
thinks. Great, so on and so fourth for what it's worth. That's
key for what it's worth. CBS Sports gave the Lions a B. They
thought the best pick was Si Vaki. Why because this writer had him,
as you know, before the draft, on his better than team. This
guy's better than his team. He's better than you think he is. He's
better than most people have him projected. So in order to support what I
originally thought, I've got to at least bring that up. You think that
was their best pick, that's when you should stop reading. You should stop
reading the or I should have stopped reading the article as soon as this guy
wrote. The best pick the Lions had was their fourth round pick, safety
running back Vaki No. No. The best pick was Terry on Arnold.
He's going to be an immediate starter and is expected to make a massive impact
because of all the things that Daybreak had just brought up, his strength,
his filling of a need, and his desire to wear a Hall of Fame
gold jacket. Someday. That's the best pick, not the pick that you
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We were just talking before the break about the various draft grades. I
don't know how you could give the Lions anything less than ab Here's the reason
I say that, neither you nor I. Now I know lot A lot
of these people have great experience in watching a lot of film. I don't
know many people who had anything on Giovanni Manu. He's that mountain of a
man from British Columbia. You take a running back slash safety in the fourth
round, one hundred and thirty second pick overall, Sioni Vaki. This isn't
baseball, man. I mean, I don't want a guy who's versatile and
it's not alignment. Guy's either a running back or a safety. My hope
is that he's safety. I don't think they need a running back. I
do like the Wingo pick from the inside. I'm not going to have claimed
it to have watched Christian Mahogany. I haven't. So there's three guys on
the draft, three of the six half the draft I truly know, and
I think can be contributors this coming season. That works for me. So
giving them anything less than to be would be a little surprising. I think
I think there are certain teams and said I said this after day one.
This is not me talking armchair quarterback Day one. I liked what the Pittsburgh
Steelers did, Absolutely love it. Fatano was one of my favorite players.
Zach Frazier one of my favorite players. And yes, I'm not afraid to
admit it. I've said it for as long as I've done this show.
For two decades. I've said you build from the inside out in football.
I like Liman. I think they're so important. Doesn't mean i'd take them
at the top five pick. I'm just telling you I think they're really really
important, and I think too many times we just watch where the ball goes.
We just want the skill guys. Offensive lineman is a skill too.
So I love Fatanu, I love Zach Frasier, love Peyton Wilson. He's
the linebacker at NC State. The problem there is he gets injured quite a
bit. He was a third round pick after they chose Roman Wilson. I
think they hit four home runs. And if you're afraid of Wilson Peyton Wilson
being injured, okay, then call it a triple. Even if it's a
double. I think you got three home runs at a double. If you
want to look at it from that standpoint. That's why I would give them
an a phone numbers eight six six, eight three, eight forty eight forty
three. Let's go to the phone lines, the Meyer hot Line. Who's
up next, Ben? Yeah, we got Robin Rockford? Nice, the
Rockford Rams? Hi Rob, How you doing good? Matt? How you
doing good? Thanks for the call? Good good and joining the show.
Yeah, I heard someone complain. You know, the draft. I've been
well, I'm sixty six years old, so I've been following the draft since
the late seventies. And when the draft first came on nineteen eighty with ESPN,
I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I couldn't believe my You
know, that was a year they drafted Billy Simms. But one thing with
the draft is you I mean, it has become so over blown and so
big. It's all it's it's you know, it's just a life form of
itself. But one thing I did like with the lines, I don't mind
them double dipping at cornerback. You can't have too many defensive backs. You
know, we were in a division where there's nothing but weapons that were going
up against Green Bay is full of them. Minnesota, Chicago now is full
of them. We got to have defensive backs. And also it's a position
that has a lot of attrition. A lot of defensive defensive backs and offensive
linemen always seemed to get hurt, so you can't have too many of them.
So I agree one hundred percent with you. I mean, you remember
last year in the playoff game against Dallas, what was everybody complaining about ceed
lamb over two hundred yards receiving? Right? Yeah, so it was absolutely
a Yeah, it was a position of need. You're one hundred percent right
about that. I likened it to pitching in baseball. You can't have enough
of it, right, Yeah, you can't have too much pitching. You
can't have too many defensive acts. Right, Amen, appreciate the phone call.
Great stuff. Look, here's the deal. Do you believe the NFL
is a passing league? He said. The first draft he watched was Billy
Simms, when the Lions took the Heisman Trophy winner out of Oklahoma. It's
great stuff. Think about how many heismand Trophy winners they've had, Billy Simms,
Steve Owens also from Oklahoma, right, Andre Ware, Oh god,
Barry Sanders. Then they ended up having a guy like Ty Detmer. They
didn't draft him, but they had him on their team. They've had a
lot of Heisman Trophy winners on their team. Billy Simms was unbelievable, folks.
I promise him, man. I mean, if it were today and
he injured his knee, that way you could get by it because of today's
technology. Back in the early eighties, he didn't couldn't overcome it. He
was just an He was so much fun to watch. It's different than Barry
God. He could catch out of the backfield. He was big, he
was strong, he was fast, he was awesome. I loved watching Billy
Simms. Here's a good little story for you real quick. A few years
back, more than a few years, probably about six years or so,
saw him at Ford Field, had a chance to visit with him in one
of the offices. Just sit down, talk with him for a long time.
You know why he wore number twenty. He's a big baseball fan and
he loved lou Brock, and lou Brock was number twenty. It's an interesting
story anyway, Yeah, one hundred percent regarding the cornerbacks. And the other
interesting comment he just made was how it's how the draft has gotten overblown.
It's gotten so big. I think everything in sports, but especially the NFL,
and it's not necessarily a negative thing, has gotten so big, has
gotten overblown. It has become it's not just the games that are big any
longer. It's the discussion. It's the commentary, it's the film breakdown,
it's the play breakdown, it's the press conferences, it's the off season,
it's everything associated with it. And here's the real kicker. We don't get
tired of it. Think of another sport. Hell, think of another topic.
Think of something that you just roll your eyes and say enough is enough.
Not in football, you don't. You don't do that with football.
You don't, at least in this country. We can't get enough of it.
I'm not saying the UFL. I think that's a little different because you
don't recognize as many players. I mean, maybe you do with Adrian Martinez.
I think he plays for Birmingham and they're off to think they're four and
one or they're five and ohther' At the midway point of the UFL, you
might recognize a name or two. But I'm talking about the NFL. Things
that are associated with a National Football League you can't get enough of and I
don't know what the endgame is with it. That's the weird thing. Like
you're gonna go play in Mexico, You're playing in London, You're playing all
over the place. Are you creating You might be creating more football fans?
Are you creating more football players? Do you? You never envisioned a time
when the National Football League and whoever the next commissioner is, stands at the
podium in whatever city and says, with the first pick of the second round,
the Detroit Lyons select so and so out of London. No, folks,
I called NFL Europe for three consecutive years. I went over to Germany
and it was mandated where you had to have at least a couple of nationals
on their team. Those guys are so far behind, and people just don't
gravitate to it over there as much as obviously we do here. We can't
get enough of sports here. They can't get enough of their sport over there.
I'm not sure how much they want our sport, but it's great stuff,
and that was a really good call. We got some texts and we'll
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I know somebody has recently texted and what do you get right? It's about
the question from earlier about franchise players. It says, uh, it was
meant to be only between Osgood or Joe Dumars. Oh, I'm sorry,
Yeah, who meant the most to their franchise. Oh okay, I would
say Joe Dumars. Chris Osgood was a third round pick. Not that that's
a bad thing. I think he should be in the Hall of Fame.
He's got four hundred and one wins. He's he was a third round pick.
Mark think about that draft. Marten LaPoint was drafted the first round for
the Red Wings that year. That was nineteen ninety one. That was the
year Eric Lynn us as number one. That was a really good draft.
Scott Niedermeyer was in that draft. Aaron Ward, Peter Forsburg was in that
draft. Not to compare Aaron Ward with Scott Niedermeyer and Eric lind Russ and
Peter Forsburg, but it's just a name. Brian Ralston was part of it.
To Pat Peak was drafted by Washington. But people forget that martenella Point
was the first round pick for Detroit. Their second round pick was Jamie Pusher,
he was a big defenseman. Then Chris Osgood and then Mike Knuble out
of the University of Michigan was drafted. All those guys played in the NHL
and had find careers. I think Chris Od's good to Hall of Famer,
but he was drafted in the third round. What did he mean to their
franchise? You know they they went out and felt like they needed to get
Mike Vernon for their first Cup. Dominic kashik as well. Again, you
know how I feel about about Chris Osgod. I think he belongs in the
Hall of Fame. Joe Dumars already is in the Hall of Fame. Joe
Dumars was a first round pick of the Pistons in a draft that back then
nineteen eighty five had seven rounds, had one hundred and sixty two players taken.
Now you have sixty four players taken. Joe Dumar's draft was Patrick Ewing
and Wayman Tisdale and Ben wib Benjamin Xavier McDaniel, Detla shremp Charles Oakley,
guys like that. John Konkak and Joe Klein were taken ahead and Chris Mullen
taken ahead of Joe Dumars. Blair Rasmussen was taken ahead of Joe Dumars.
Keith Lee, Ed Pinkney Kenny Green were taken ahead of Karl Malone and Joe
Dumars, who a blob and Bill Wennington were taking the head of Joe Dumars.
What were we just talking about with Dave Briquette. You need a little
luck, don't you? Yes? A. C. Green was a really
good player. Terry Porter helped his team get to an NBA title. Both
those men were taken after Joe Dumars. But after all the names that we
just brought up, Karl Malone was the thirteenth overall pick. Who takes ben
Wa Benjamin out of Creighton over Karl Malone? Sometimes you just don't know.
You know who else the Pistons drafted that year who turned out to be a
hell of a player? Spud Web? Yeah, they drafted spud Web in
the fourth round. Spud Webb went on to have twelve solid years, mostly
with Atlanta. Never played for the Pistons, but he was a fourth round
pick by Detroit. You know who else was really good from that draft,
and I mean really good, played eleven years, won some championships. Mario
l Do you remember him? Won some championships in Houston, played at American
International College. What. Yeah, those are good names. And sometimes I
look at a sports talk show and I think, what am I learning today?
Besides a host opinion. What else can you share with me? What
do you I picture people? This is kind of strange, probably, but
I picture people at an outdoor barbecue or in a sports conversation and they're they're
talking with their friends, and the friends bring up the same names all the
time of players who are taken later in drafts who ended up being really good
players, surprise picks. Did you know this where a guy finished his career?
For example, when you're thinking what Mark Fidrick finished his career in Boston?
Yes, but what do you always Tom Brady was a six round draft
pick? You know Mario Elli, Not that he comes front and center as
a Hall of Famer, because he's not a Hall of Famer. He was
a seventh round draft pick, but he played eleven years in the NBA and
won championships with Houston. And did you know that Spladweb was a Pistons draft
pick. That's kind of how I look at it. But yeah, I
think a long winded answer, I think Joe Dumarsy's a Hall of Famer right,
five time on the all time defensive Team, one of the greatest Pistons
in the history of the franchise, Steady Long career, what was it,
fourteen years? Fifteen years or so, all with one team, as well
as a pretty damn good general manager. I know he made some mistakes,
for sure, absolutely, making certain draft Find me a general manager who's bat
in a thousand, You can't Jerry West was a great general manager? Is
that fair to say? I mean, this guy's in the Hall of Fame
as a player, as a general manager and as a contributor. Right.
Absolutely, you don't think he made mistakes, You better believe he did.
He absolutely did. Some people believe that he was opposed to drafting certain really
good players like Magic Johnson, for example. Some people believe that, remember
he passed on Zion Williamson two. So there are there are certain things that
even the best of who's ever done it, have made mistakes with. There
are certain franchises. I think there are certain franchise franchises I can say it
that we view as mistake free almost all. Right, Seriously, there are
certain we look at them. They are the they are the white they are
the blueprint, they are the ultimate. There are plenty of teams, plenty
of teams who have achieved great success but missed made big mistakes. I say
this all the time that the New England Patriots have been incredible in their success,
most people, most franchises, and most fan bases would at one point
say, you know what, I really think it's important we kind of model
ourselves after that. Well, they made mistakes. They used a first round
draft pick. I'm a kid by the name of Nikhil Harry played just three
seasons in New England, had just fifty seven picks. So just it's going
to happen. But I think Joe Dumars is the answer to it, and
I think he's I think he did a hell of a job for the most
part. Hey, there's a there's a new contract for mister Travis Kelce out
there. The Kansas City Chiefs come to an agreement on a two year extension
with him, and rightfully so, one of the best tight ends in the
history of the sport. It got me thinking last night when I was reading
this, and there's a lot of really good tight end. George Kittle's a
hell of a tight end, right Is he as good as Mark Bavarro or
Dallas Clark or Jy novichk Riley odoms with the Denver Broncos way back in the
day, Greg Olsen was a hell of a player. Ben Coates was good.
Keith Jackson, I'm telling you, man, Keith Jackson with Philadelphia back
in the day, hell of a player. Todd Christensen hell of a player.
Right? Is Kelsey a top ten tight end of all time? Yeah?
I think he probably is. Whether you think he's we can always have
the debate if he's better than Nasie Newsom or Charlie Sanders or Dave Casper.
I really like Dave Casper. Shannon Sharp, right, he's probably involved there.
Who else would be involved there? Detroit's own Toyo Gates. I would
guess Jason Witten, Kellen Winslow, Rob Grinkowski, guys like that. They
named a trophy after John Mackie. So he's got to be involved in the
conversation somewhere. Tony Gonzalez, for sure, he could be the best for
our Bears. Head coach Mike Dick is probably involved in that too. But
when reading this article, I'm thinking to myself, did he change people's perception
of the value of that position. I've always felt tight end is really important.
I think it's a really big position. There are some people who have
said in the past it's a luxury position. No, it's not. If
you think it's a luxury position, you don't follow the follow the sport of
football. It's really important. It's mismatches. Get downfield, underneath coverages,
create mismatches, Like I said, with either safeties for size or speed with
linebackers. Don't tell me that a guy who has three one thousand yard seasons
is a luxury position. That's Shannon Sharp. Don't tell me that a guy
for a six year span who averaged eighty catches per year and nine hundred yards
per season is a luxury pick. That's Jason Witten, because he's not.
Don't tell me a guy who had three straight All Pro seasons in Antonio Gates
and had nine hundred plus yards in each of those seasons is luxury. He's
not. Kellen Winslow had eighty five rocks in over one thousand yards in three
straight seasons. You think that's luxury. Rob Gronkowski had four to one yard
seasons in a five year span with at least ten touchdowns. Luxury, No
way, bull crap. Really important. But I do wonder at one point,
at what point did a player change his position? Definition slash importance and
who was it. I love Charlie Sanders, God rest his soul. I
was really fortunate I had a chance to work with him for years. He
was a third round pick out of Wyoming, never caught more than fifty passes,
never reached more than seven hundred yards. That you can't say he changed
the position because the numbers weren't there to support it in the sport. Doesn't
make him any less than anybody else. It just tells you that back then
they didn't throw the ball that much. They didn't have guys who could throw
as much, and defenses were different, and so on and so for rules
were completely different. They didn't throw that much with Ozzie Knewsome either. Even
Dave casper As I brought up at some point, like John Elway used Channon
Sharp a lot in the mid nineties and late nineties, Jason Whitten in the
early two thousands. Kelsey probably made it even cooler than it was with Gonzales
and probably Grinkowski. It wasn't John Mackie phenomenal player, but sorry, in
the late sixties, they just weren't. And Johnny I a suspending it actually,
so he actually was thrown quite a bit, but not like today today.
I mean, I think there's there are young kids now playing football who
don't mind saying, yeah, I'll be the tight end because you know why,
because they flexed the tight end a lot. It's not always just staying
in and blocking and then oh, by the way, on third down,
we might look your way. You're our third or fourth option. A lot
of times they're the first option. Kelsey could be the first. You don't
think Sam Laporta change people's minds, absolutely, but it's not like Sam Laporta
is going to change the position. Kelsey did it before him. Gonzalez did
it before Kelsey, Winslow did it before Gonzales. Somehow, it just,
you know, kind of evolves a little bit. So the extension for Kelsey
warranted for sure. Patrick Mahomes is thrilled with it. Who wouldn't be.
But he did change something. I think. I think he was part of
a changing movement. Maybe it's just football that changed the position. But you
do have to get when you're in this situation, when you're playing that position
in today's football, you do have to be a lot more athletic. There's
a lot of guys who've played that position who are a lot more athletic than
you give them credit for, including a guy like Mike Ditka. Remember Antonio
Gates was a hell of a basketball player. That's what I'd be doing.
If I were coaching kids at certain positions and they really liked those positions,
they felt like, yeah, you know what I mean. I want to
be the next Jimmy Graham is another good tight end. Right, If you
want to be some have them play certain sports. That's going to allow them
to excel in their favorite sport. So when you're not playing football, play
some basketball. Be a rebounder, forces you to use your footwork box guys
out. You're gonna have to box guys out when you're going down catching passes,
right, I say that in lacrosse all the time. Be a wide
receiver because you got to get off the line with foot movement, shoulder shaking,
head movement, swim moves exactly what you do in lacrosse or hockey,
hockey lacrosse two My boys did those two sports. They played hockey and lacrosse.
It's very similar movements. You're trying to get around, trying to outdeek
a certain defender by using the same type of motion. Ones on skates,
ones on feet, tight ends. I bet you most of them are really
good basketball players at some point, not saying in college, but in the
high school level, because you're using similar moves, similar movement, similar skill
sets to do the very same thing. Good stuff. We appreciate the phone
calls today. We appreciate the text as well, especially the one about the
you know who's the most important to their franchise or changed their franchise. I
thought that was a really good one. I love those conversations. I love
those topics. I don't always look I say this all the time on this
show. I'm not the one who comes up with all the great content.
A lot of times you do, Ben does. It's open. That's what
we'd love about hosting the show and talking with you on a day to day
basis. Hope you'll be back with us tomorrow our thanks to Dave Briquette.
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