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 --> 00:00:29.199 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.520 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.280 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football fun everybody. I think this 6 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.640 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 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:49.759 for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play 9 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:56.359 to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.000 great thing about sports. You play to win. I don't care you don't 11 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:04.040 have any wins. You go play to win. When you start telling me 12 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:15.760 it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the matters Classics six o two 13 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:21.840 This Friday, May the tenth. Good morning, everybody. Dennis fit the 14 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:26.400 end back again, filling in for Matt Shepherd. If this is the first 15 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:33.480 time you've heard my voice, welcome and it's nice to be talking at you 16 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:37.400 out there this morning. I filled in around the NFL Draft the day before 17 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:42.879 the NFL Draft a couple of weeks ago in Detroit and then NFL Draft Day, 18 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:49.599 and I was enthusiastic about the draft being in the state of Michigan and 19 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:57.120 specifically Detroit, with the Lions coming off their best season in damn near seventy 20 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.599 years. And you know what, it lived up to the hype. The 21 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:08.159 draft even exceeded my own lofty expectations. I loved it all the things that 22 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:12.400 you might say. It checked all the boxes. But you know, the 23 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:17.400 Lions did well, and Detroit and the state of Michigan seemed like they came 24 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:24.080 away and everybody liked what they saw. Everybody had a good time down there. 25 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:30.680 How about that. I even hear about any issues now. That was 26 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:35.680 awesome. It's great to be back here. Hope, wherever you are at, 27 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:40.680 your family and friends are recovering, missed, or are recovering from that 28 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:46.800 severe weather earlier this week that I think had all of us in the state 29 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.759 of Michigan at one point on our toes. Certainly if you were out in 30 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.680 it. I just was in a del huge driving in it, but didn't 31 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:01.719 have to deal with those high winds. Certainly not the tornadoes. Specifically that 32 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.840 tornado on the west side of the state that went through. So here we 33 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:12.719 are and we'll be here until nine o'clock on X's and Bros. On the 34 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:16.599 Michigan Sports Network. Why not just jump right into things. It's playoff time, 35 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:23.520 and you know you can dwell on the Wings and Pistons, having been 36 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:29.639 so long since either of those teams have been in the playoffs. I was 37 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.960 just looking for, you know, the Pistons because they've been in the playoffs 38 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:39.520 a few times, but they haven't won a playoff game in seventeen years, 39 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:46.439 so that's been a while. And the Wings, who had that incredible streak, 40 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.199 you know, twenty five twenty six, they kept going and then people 41 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.479 were like, I'm tired of this streak of just getting into the playoffs. 42 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.800 So it was understandable because they had made so many runs that they haven't made 43 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.400 the playoffs for eight years and it's been, you know, twelve years since 44 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:06.560 they've even won a series. Now, we had a little bit of Red 45 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:15.120 Wings fever late in the season where the Little Caesars Arena was alive and it 46 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:20.360 felt like it felt like twelve years ago or or fifteen years ago, and 47 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:26.240 everyone was looking forward to that. But as we all know now they did 48 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.240 not make it. If they did make it, they were going to have 49 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:33.800 to take the Blue Shirts the New York Rangers. And the Rangers have just 50 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:39.040 come out in the Stanley Cup playoffs and they just have not lost a game. 51 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:46.680 They won again last night in overtime, again three to two over Carolina. 52 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:54.319 The Rangers won in double overtime against the Canes on Tuesday, four to 53 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:58.920 three last night, Paneren had the winner, so a three to zero lead 54 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.879 for the New York Range. They are seven and oh in the playoffs. 55 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:06.639 It's the first time since two thousand and eight that a team has jumped out 56 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:13.439 to a seven oh perfect record in the postseason. That was the Penguins back 57 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.000 in eight. And we know that was the last time that the Red Wings 58 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:23.079 won the Stanley Cup. And so the last team to go and start out 59 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:27.399 perfect after seven games made it all the way to the Stanley Cup finals. 60 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:31.279 And now Carolina. If you are looking at the Canes and wondering why they're 61 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:38.759 in the spot that they are, they were the second best statistically power play, 62 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:42.560 They had the second best power play in the regular season. They were 63 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.639 oh for last night and they were over in the series. Oh for fifteen 64 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.439 on the power play for the Canes. So that's why they are looking up 65 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:56.600 at the New York Rangers, who are on the cusp now of making the 66 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:02.879 Eastern Conference finals. The other Stanley Cup playoff game last night was Dallas and 67 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:08.839 Colorado, and the Stars end up winning that one five to three. They 68 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.800 got up four to nothing, and you're thinking, no, you weren't thinking 69 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.519 that it was over, because if you have followed this series, the Avs 70 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.519 were down three to zero in Game one and they came back and won that 71 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:23.480 game. So the Stars go up four to nothing after forty minutes, and 72 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:30.519 then here comes Colorado again, getting within one goal late. Dallas scores in 73 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.439 the final minute to get that five to three margin, so that series is 74 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:41.120 tied at one. You like offense, and you do like if you're just 75 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:46.240 sitting back watching playoff hockey and it's not your team and you whatever, you're 76 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:51.839 just enjoying the sport. A lot of times you see a three, four 77 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:56.000 nothing lead and you're like, this is over, forget it. But in 78 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.560 this particular series, you're saying, Okay, I'm gonna have to hang around 79 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:04.240 here, because we've seen the firepower that Colorado has so you'll stay around and 80 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.959 watch a little bit of that. Now we'll take it over to the hardwood 81 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:13.560 and the NBA last night. Before I do that, I want to tell 82 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.639 you that I'm going to get into some Lions coming up straight ahead, and 83 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.199 I ask you the question something you can think about a little bit. What's 84 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:29.480 the biggest question mark for the Detroit Lions heading into the summer at six eighteen. 85 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.439 I'll answer that question myself. The biggest question mark for the Detroit Lions 86 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.879 heading into the summer. Maybe we're on the same page, maybe you're thinking 87 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:43.000 something else, but you know we're May tenth the draft of the rearview mirror. 88 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:50.839 OTA's the schedule next week, and you think about this team that made 89 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:56.759 it all the way to the NFC Championship Game, the biggest question mark in 90 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:03.040 your mind heading into the summer at eighteen, I'll answer that now. Basketball 91 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:07.560 a little bit of a surprise last night. If you have not heard the 92 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:15.399 result, the Calves the Cleveland Cavaliers in Boston. After losing by twenty five 93 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:20.720 points in Game one, flipped the script and won by twenty four points last 94 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.920 night Cleveland. They were tied at the half, but Cleveland wins it one 95 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:30.399 eighteen ninety four. The series is tied at one, and the Celtics, 96 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:35.320 you just look, I watched this game and it was there must have been 97 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.159 some late threes to even make it. It didn't look as bad. But 98 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:46.279 the Celtics they shot thirty five threes and only hit twenty three percent of them, 99 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.159 eight of them. And then on the other side, Cleveland was down 100 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.960 it up. They hit thirteen threes forty six percent from downtown. If a 101 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.879 team shoots forty six percent from downtown and you only shoot twenty three percent from 102 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:05.159 distance, you are not going to win the game. And that what happened 103 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.279 to Boston. If you're a Celtics fan, you can say, hey, 104 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:11.559 we lost the game and it was at the Garden in round one to the 105 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:16.440 heat, and then we just dispatched them on the road and probably thinking that. 106 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:18.799 I don't think anybody's thinking that, you know, Cleveland, they've made 107 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.840 it a series, but I don't think anybody's thinking that they have, you 108 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.480 know, Boston right where they want him. Dallas comes back, evens up 109 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:33.360 their series with OKC. At OKAC last night, Dallas look at Donchez limping 110 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:39.279 around, scored twenty nine points and Dallas wins by nine one. Nineteen won 111 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.360 ten, so that series is tied at one. So there's your playoffs. 112 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.399 We'll keep you up to speed on that and have some questions about that. 113 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:52.759 We'll get to that. Lion's question their biggest question mark heading into the summer 114 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.080 straight ahead. I'll answer that on X's and Rose and the Michigan Sports Network. 115 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:01.399 Bill Simonson here from my good friend Josh Garvey. Now he's a managing 116 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:07.600 shareholder at dorm Rockets. Office headquarters are in Troit, Michigan, the east 117 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.840 side of the state, and they have locations all around the world. 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I've 135 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.799 done as fifthy in inframat Shepherd and this Morning and it's a great to be 136 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.399 with you. We got that lion's question and a little tiger's to dive into 137 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:07.440 this segment. If you're just tuning in, you had the Rangers in overtime 138 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:13.480 and Dallas beating the Dallas Stars taking the Avs down by two in the Stanley 139 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.480 Cup playoffs. And on the hardwood, it was the Calves over the Celtics 140 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:28.000 in Beantown and then the MAVs took down OKC. Both of those series are 141 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:33.840 tied at one. All right, I ask you what's the biggest question mark 142 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:39.120 for the Detroit Lions heading into the summer? And the phone number is eight 143 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:45.159 six six eight three eight forty eight forty three, the Meyer Hotline eight six 144 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:50.279 six eight three eight four eight four three, and you can utilize the text 145 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.000 text Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. They'll give you that prompt and then 146 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:00.679 you send your text in and we deal with it that way. Tech Sports 147 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:05.559 Radio to twenty one thousand. I would enjoy hearing from you across the state 148 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:11.279 of Michigan to get your feelings on this, just how you are looking at 149 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:16.879 the Detroit Lions and the biggest question mark for them. Now, I'm going 150 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:22.000 to answer that question here straight ahead, which is the time right now? 151 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:33.600 And recently the Lions came up with big time extensions with their right tackle Panay 152 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:41.399 Sewel and Amna Saint Brown and their quarterback Jared Goff is heading into his final 153 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:50.440 year on his contract and twenty four the cap number is thirty two million, 154 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:58.039 and since, well, I'll back up. Before those extensions, there was 155 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:07.679 the thought that the Lions might not be able to if you were calling Sewell, 156 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.080 Saint Brown, and Golf the big three, that they might not be 157 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:18.519 able to sign the Big three to extensions. But they can do that. 158 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.840 They took care of Sewel. Everybody thought that that was the right move. 159 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:28.639 Same thing with Saint Brown Golf. Not everybody is one hundred percent convinced that 160 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:35.679 the twenty nine year old quarterback is ready for this gigantic extension to make him 161 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.879 one of the highest paid quarterbacks in the league. And you know, get 162 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.600 fifty million a year, you're like, oh, oh, is Brad Holmes 163 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:50.559 going to do that? And by Brad Holmes not doing it along with his 164 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.200 offensive linemen and wide receiver, the thought was, and the door was cracked 165 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.279 a little bit there, that hey, maybe the Lions are playing a little 166 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:05.480 bit of a hard ball all in negotiations with Jared Goff. Maybe even the 167 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.879 Lions would take the course that the Dallas Cowboys did a few years ago with 168 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:18.279 Dak Prescott and then a few years ago that Washington took with Kirk Cousins, 169 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:26.720 and that is this franchise tag your quarterback. The Lions could go into next 170 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:33.720 year with Jared Goff playing on the last year of his contract and then they 171 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:43.000 could simply put the franchise tag on him. And the pluses and minuses of 172 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:50.240 that are talked about quite a bit. The positives you're not tied up for 173 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:58.399 three four years with one hundred and fifty two hundred million dollars guaranteed. The 174 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:07.600 minus is that every day on shows like this and across the internet, the 175 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.399 topic of what are the Lions doing with Jared Goff and what are they going 176 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:17.679 to do at quarterback? And this is an unstable situation and he's gone and 177 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:22.440 who's next? And it's a call trade of just ivery of all of the 178 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.080 time focusing in the quarterback. No, the Lions don't want to do that. 179 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:36.360 And just yesterday Brad Holmes Allions GM was on Detroit Radio and Holmes said 180 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:45.759 that Jared Goff has earned an extension. He also said that it's a high 181 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:51.480 priority. He went on to say that he would have liked to have had 182 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:56.639 it done. The contract extension along with Paday Sewell and Amana Saint Brown. 183 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:03.279 Now we know that did not happen. Are we taking what Brad Holmes had 184 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:11.480 to say and believing him? I would say yes, I think that it 185 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:15.599 makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense to sign Jared 186 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:22.200 Goff and to look at this Lion's window whatever that contract is going to be 187 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.799 for five years, and you know the guaranteed money, and people will flip 188 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.480 out and they'll say, Jared Goff is not a top five quarterback. Why 189 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.039 are you paying him top five money? And he say, well, it 190 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:37.240 won't be long that he won't be a top five quarterback, and everybody will 191 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:42.440 jump in front of the line and that'll just push him back. But the 192 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:51.920 Lions don't have an answer necessarily at quarterback. It'd be a big gamble to 193 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.680 go into the final year and somebody say, well, what about Hendon Hooker. 194 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.440 Lions took him in the draft a couple of years ago, go in 195 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.559 the third round and if he would not have hurt his knee, the talk 196 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:11.119 was the projection. There are projections that Hooker could have been a first round 197 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:15.279 pick. So the Lions got great value and we're able to sit on Hooker 198 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:22.160 and then you know, maybe Hooker could just take over for Jared Goff after 199 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.000 next year. That's a gamble just thinking about it. Now. The Lions 200 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.680 have been able to see Hooker in practice, but again, he was coming 201 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:37.880 off of his knee surgery, So how much have they really seen him and 202 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:44.759 how much can they really know? Now Hennan Hooker is twenty six years old, 203 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.279 He's just a few years younger than Jared Goff. But if they really 204 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.519 thought, I mean, there's the idea if there isn't an extension sign, 205 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:59.759 and I would I think this that if there was not an extension sign by 206 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:07.400 the end of this month, so three weeks, that the Lions might want 207 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:12.240 to really put Hendon Hooker through the paces when they get the OT agent look 208 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:18.440 at the dates and really think, hey, should we play this out even 209 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:22.720 longer? Or is this going to help in our negotiations. Let's say they 210 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.240 look at Hooker they just say, man, you know this guy, we're 211 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.920 putting everything, We're throwing everything at him. He's one hundred percent healthy and 212 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:37.160 he just is he's it. We believe in him. Oh, then they 213 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:40.880 do play a little hardball. This is just a you know, the theory 214 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:45.559 and it is the possibility that they could be thinking this way, and the 215 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:52.480 thing that you would get if they did go that route for the next four 216 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:59.400 years, Hendon Hooker's cap number is under two million. It's one to seven, 217 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:04.079 I'm sorry, one three, one six, one six, one eight 218 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:11.480 over the next four years. That looks a lot different than thirty two forty 219 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:18.960 nine fifty two million, fifty five million that they're gonna have to cough up 220 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:23.680 for Jared Golf if they go that way. So that's the game that they're 221 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:32.920 playing, and they have to make that decision about the flyer that they took 222 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.000 on Hooker, and maybe that they can get a better look and better gauge 223 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:45.200 if they can, if they can get him out on the field and the 224 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.359 practice fields and put him through the paces a little bit to get a read 225 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:52.519 on that. And I don't think that's gonna happen, but it is the 226 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.200 biggest question mark for the Lions. I do believe that they'll get Jared Goff 227 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:02.079 signed and then this window with Golf I think for about three years, so 228 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:07.079 we'll be taking a look at it in terms of winning a Super Bowl. 229 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.079 All right, how are you feeling about the Tigers they come home for six 230 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:17.839 games, starting tonight against the Astros. We'll take a look at the Detroit 231 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:22.640 Tigers along with the Lions. Question straight ahead here on Access and Pros and 232 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.839 the Michigan Sports Network Huge here for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. You 233 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:33.119 can stay up to date on the latest from Lansing twenty four to seven at 234 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:41.960 MHSAA dot com, at MHSA on Twitter and MHSA on Facebook. 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Dennis smithian in for Matt Shepard talking about the 252 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:47.039 Lions and the Tigers last night of the playoffs, Rangers and Stars win on 253 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:55.000 the ice, and the Calves and the MAVs the hardwood. Now, we 254 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:59.279 got the question out there with the Lions, the biggest question mark before this 255 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:07.000 team heading out into the summer, I said Jared Goff and signing him to 256 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:11.680 an extension. You want to jump in on that. I would like to 257 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:14.559 hear from you. Maybe I agree on that, and you get some questions, 258 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:19.559 you get some points on the Lions quarterback eight six six eight three eight 259 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:26.920 forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline eight six six eight three eight forty 260 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:33.079 eight forty three, or you can text sports Radio to twenty one thousand, 261 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:37.000 Text Sports Radio to twenty one thousand and get your thoughts in that way. 262 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:44.039 I'm also going to get to the Detroit Tigers this segment, and they have 263 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:51.559 a series that they're opening up at Colberica against the Astros starting tonight, and 264 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:55.640 that six point forty start time down at Comerica, which I like the earlier 265 00:24:55.759 --> 00:25:02.559 start time. Now let's go to the text. Ben Zos is the producer, 266 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:07.359 and he's looking at the text. What did I say says if they 267 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:11.160 decide to sign Goff for me, I would only offer a two year extension 268 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:15.960 eighty four million guaranteed forty two million per if Goff says, no, fans 269 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:21.759 won't be cheering his name anymore. Yeah, now that would be the ultimate 270 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:32.200 hardball you're talking about forty two that's you could send that over to Jared Goff's 271 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:41.079 agent and he's not going to return your call. So, I mean, 272 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:48.599 there's reasonable expectations for a deal? Is there? To me, there's a 273 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:56.799 it's not an easy deal. As your Jared Goff's agent, and you're going 274 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.559 to want close to fifty and you're gonna want to between one hundred and fifty 275 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:06.119 and two hundred million guaranteed. That's what the going rate is. So you 276 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.599 know the Lions are in a good spot. They have to have golf. 277 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:17.240 You know, golf's the one that has the leverage on the Lions. Now 278 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:21.240 you're talking about a couple million here and there. Now, I know as 279 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:27.480 a Lions fan, and I sit back and I ranked the quarterbacks in the 280 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:36.599 NFL yesterday, and I saw a writer ranked the quarterbacks in the NFL, 281 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:44.720 and it had the wheels spinning and me thinking about the position. Just I 282 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:51.359 guess it's in a vacuum. You sit back, and if you have a 283 00:26:51.519 --> 00:27:00.480 superstar, difference maker quarterback, it means everything for your team. If you 284 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:07.279 have Patrick Mahomes, if you have Lamar Jackson, if you have Josh Allen, 285 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:11.519 if you have Joe Burrow, those kind of guys. The Lions don't 286 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.920 have that, but they've got a nice quarterback that they can win a super 287 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:22.559 Bowl with. That's important. You have to ask that question, can you 288 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.000 win a Super Bowl with Jared Goff and the answer, are we all in 289 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:32.759 agreement. Yes, they should have got to the super Bowl last year, 290 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:37.039 but they blew that seventeen point halftime lead, as you know. But can 291 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.720 they use that experience? Can they get back there, win some playoff games, 292 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.160 win the NFC North, and then be in position and get to the 293 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:48.039 Super Bowl. Can they do that with this team that they have, with 294 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:56.440 the draft that just took place and the players to beef up to help out 295 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.799 that defense. Can they do that? They say? Yeah. The part 296 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.599 that you look over this window over the next couple of years, when that 297 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:08.279 money for the quarterback goes up and up and up, well, then the 298 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:12.839 rest of the team and the particular parts it goes down, down, down, 299 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.440 and then you need more from that quarterback. I mean, that's the 300 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:25.960 game that we're playing here. The X factor is Brad Holmes and his personnel 301 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:32.799 decisions. If Brad Holmes can continue to go out there and hit it out 302 00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:36.319 of the park almost every time he's at bat like he did last year. 303 00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:45.079 With the draft, well you could pay Jared Goff fifty million dollars and that's 304 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.519 where we're sitting at. You know, this this window of two to three 305 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.640 years you know, even if the contract it's going to be around five years 306 00:28:52.279 --> 00:29:02.559 for golf, but after three it's one of those deals where if the thing 307 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:07.759 falls apart and you can move on, it's not totally crippling, where you're 308 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:15.759 just done. You're able to get out of it after three years. That's 309 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.200 where I'm looking at it right now. I think that's the what do you 310 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:26.160 call it a sweet spot? Those are the particulars they should sign Jared Goff. 311 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:30.599 I don't think they're they're playing this game to look at Hendon Hooker. 312 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:37.319 That is the the one part that we can all look at. We all 313 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:48.119 know that as sports fans, fans like the backup quarterback in general much more 314 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:55.200 than the team that actually is seeing them. He's never lost a game, 315 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:02.079 an incredible upside, a minuscule cap number, and you know there can be 316 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:06.599 a lot of excitement that way. Think about golf, and you know, 317 00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:11.759 the fans obviously love him, and it was even pointed out in that text. 318 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.599 You know they can go cheer his name and everything else. But with 319 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:19.720 Brad Holmes, and even though Holmes said yesterday that this is a high priority 320 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:23.400 and that he's earned an extension, a couple of years ago, the Lion 321 00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:32.759 said who was the running back from Green Bay? Jamal Williams. And everyone 322 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:40.599 loved Jamal Williams. He would stand there after the game, huge smile on 323 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:45.559 his face, connected with the town, the media there joking with him. 324 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.680 Everyone loved him. And what did Holmes do. Everyone's like, yeah, 325 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.839 I got to bring this guy back. No, he won another direction, 326 00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:59.359 Oh, David Montgomery, And everybody's like, oh man, this guy was 327 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:04.920 perfect for our teams. David Montgomery's a better running back and that was the 328 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:10.400 right decision. The point there is that, you know, even though the 329 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:17.359 fans love Jared Goff and they chant his name and everything else, those those 330 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:21.759 cheers and those chants turn around pretty quickly if you're not getting it done on 331 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:26.359 the field. Golf has been getting it done on the field, and that's 332 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.400 why it's working like it's working for him right now. All right, open 333 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:34.599 line available for you. Now. Look, if you are not someone that 334 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:37.960 wants to talk about the Lions and their biggest question mark, and I'm going 335 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:41.960 to jump into the Tuggerts right here, I put it out there for you 336 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:47.039 with open topics. I'm watching the playoffs. There's something that you want to 337 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:53.960 look at there in hockey or basketball. I'm talking football and baseball right now, 338 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.519 that's wide open for you. You can get on in. We can 339 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:01.279 handle it. We do want to hear from you. Eight six six eight 340 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:07.480 three eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline eight six six, eight 341 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:15.720 three eight forty eight forty three. Now the question about the Tigers, how 342 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:30.240 do you feel about the Detroit Tigers? And my answer it's been a very 343 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:38.240 exciting answer, it's luke warm. Now. I mentioned that I filled in 344 00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:45.720 for Shepp a couple of weeks ago around the NFL Draft, and I was 345 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:50.799 feeling different about the Tigers. Well, they were playing better, there was 346 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:55.720 more optimism. And right now now they haven't quite played forty games, but 347 00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.680 they almost have. And that's the first mark where you say, all right, 348 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.960 what kind of team are we talking about here? What kind of grade 349 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:12.039 are we going to give them? And unfortunately, just for the Tigers this 350 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:17.920 morning, heading into this series and this home what six game homestand with the 351 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:29.559 Astros followed by a beatable Marlins team that's coming in that's nineteen games below five 352 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:34.640 hundred, they should be able to turn this thing around. But right now, 353 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:42.000 this is the low point of the season for the Detroit Tigers. They 354 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:47.119 are still about five hundred. But they went to New York and got swept 355 00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:52.799 in some close games. I lost by what one run, two runs, 356 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:59.039 three runs in the three games in the Bronx. But then you focused in 357 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:02.839 on this game again, the Indians, and you looked at the Al Central 358 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:14.280 and it's surprising that the did I call them the Indians the Guardians. I 359 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:21.440 was going to the Guardians and the Royals and the Twins, and the Tigers 360 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:25.559 are pretty much all jumbled right in there, all of them. A four 361 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:34.440 horse race with them. So as big of a series for a starving Tigers 362 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:44.519 fan base that you could have in early May showdown against the Guardians, it 363 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:52.760 was at least the early litmus test two for one with games against Cleveland. 364 00:34:52.400 --> 00:35:01.559 The Tigers went out there and they should have won two of three, and 365 00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:05.840 instead they lost two out of three. Heck, you could make a case 366 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:09.239 they should have swept Cleveland. They lost two to one. They had that 367 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:16.639 lead in the first game, then they put up eleven runs and got a 368 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:22.159 victory. And then on Wednesday they lost in extras five to four, where 369 00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:28.480 Cleveland scored one the seventh eighth, ninth, and ten to end up coming 370 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:32.039 back and winning that game. But everything that you don't like about the Tigers 371 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:37.360 showed up in that game against Cleveland on Wednesday. They didn't really hit, 372 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:45.719 they they didn't have the defense, they were kicking it around, and then 373 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.360 the bullpen let him down. The thing that has been their strength. You 374 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.119 know, they're pitching, and then in particular the bullpen, which had been 375 00:35:52.119 --> 00:36:00.880 really good and let them down. That's a that's an early bruise. That's 376 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.960 a four game swing. Certainly a two game swing when you start thinking about 377 00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:13.159 the way that they lost those games on the road against Cleveland, and I 378 00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:19.400 say luke warm because this was a team that was pegged at five hundred entering 379 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:24.360 the season. This is a team that I thought would be five hundred. 380 00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:32.599 Oh, we all make our predictions. I wasn't throwing a ninety win season 381 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:40.320 out there looking at this roster, but I did think since their number heading 382 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:45.559 into the season was right at five hundred. I don't like ties. I 383 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.039 don't like putting it right at five hundred. Said all right, I'll pick 384 00:36:49.079 --> 00:37:00.280 eighty two games. Eighty two games is not going to get you to the 385 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:07.360 postseason. But as we sit here and they're what three games shy. Now 386 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:10.480 they'll get to that forty gay mark in this series against the Astros, and 387 00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:15.760 that is the first one where you say, all right, what can you 388 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:22.480 do here? And the old forty game mark really resonates with Tiger fans. 389 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:28.239 It's been forty years since they've won a World Series. Sparky's number was forty 390 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.920 games, the old Tiger manager, and of course in eighty four they started 391 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:36.920 thirty five and five with that forty gay mark. So no, we're sitting 392 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:46.920 here and you give the Tigers a C, being five hundred getting a grade 393 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:52.280 of a C. That's why it's it's lukewarm to mean right now, pitching 394 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:57.480 great out the pitching is, you know, above average. I'd give them 395 00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.559 a B, but they hitting a D. Balances that out bad way. 396 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:06.000 So as we sit here and I think for Tigers fan, if you're some 397 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:12.039 Tigers fans, there's somebody across the state of Michigan that eyeballed this series against 398 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:15.760 the Astros. They're making the long drive in and you're thinking, man, 399 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:20.880 I'm just gonna go enjoy some baseball. The Tigers. They're wearing their their 400 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:24.679 City connect jerseys, You're like, I'll drop a couple hundred on the City 401 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:30.599 connect Jerseys, another couple hundred the tickets, another couple one hundred on some 402 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:36.360 dog. It's just gonna be fun, fun trip for five or six whatever 403 00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.199 you're gonna end up spending. You understand that, but you're just gonna enjoy 404 00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:45.400 the ballpark. You a nice leisurely sit back and enjoy the weekend for one 405 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:50.320 of these games. And I got the Hana radio tell me that this is 406 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.760 a c team, a five hundred team, and the feeling is luke warm. 407 00:38:53.760 --> 00:39:00.800 Where's the optimism? I think the optimism is that heading into the season, 408 00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.360 there were some young players that I think you you looked at that you 409 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:15.960 were just hopeful that could that could do something that make you feel better about 410 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:22.840 their prospects. And somebody like Trek Scooble certainly has been able to do that. 411 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:31.360 And you know there have been some other the Jack Flaherty has has had 412 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:36.440 some nice outings, Reese Olsen certainly has some of those guys in the bullpen, 413 00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:43.960 and you had the youngster Colt Keith, and you like Carry Carpenter if 414 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:49.840 you're a Tiger's fan, Riley Green, but you also see that these automatic 415 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:57.199 outs that have been there. But really you're you're Tigers fan in general heading 416 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:04.719 into this season and and how they felt about this team. It's hard for 417 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:12.800 your average Tiger fan to have the optimism because they don't have trust in the 418 00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:20.199 ownership. Fans don't trust Chris Ilich. Now, they don't trust Chris Ilich 419 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:24.480 just because the Tigers have been bad since he took over for his late father. 420 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.920 They don't necessarily allough, this is one of the things that your average 421 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:35.159 Tiger fan isn't like that the Tigers did not spend any money. They have 422 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:38.840 the seventh lowest payroll their way under league average. When it comes down the 423 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:45.039 payroll, Tiger fans, you know, you're not gonna love that. But 424 00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:52.039 they don't like Chris Ilich because they felt like they have been scammed by the 425 00:40:52.119 --> 00:41:02.039 Tigers owner when it came down to the district of Detroit and you're going to 426 00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.519 take a pessimistic look at Chris Ilich. When they came out and they they 427 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:15.280 had the hockey building, the Little Caesars Arena, and it was billed as, 428 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.920 oh, the neighborhoods and what this is going to do for the city 429 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:27.559 of Detroit and the building is fine for illach, but the surrounding area. 430 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:32.920 If I'm putting a grade out, it gets an F and everyone would give 431 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.239 Chris Ilich an F. Chris Ilich is giving himself. Has to wake up 432 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.000 in the morning and saying, you know what, I ain't got a big 433 00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:45.519 F on that. And that's why Tiger fans don't trust me. He's got 434 00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:47.440 to say that he looks at himself. So that's why I put him at 435 00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:52.599 luke warm where I'm sitting right here. 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Yeah, we're talking about the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Lions, 466 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:00.400 and I'll get you some questions on both of those teams, and if you 467 00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:05.480 know the numbers and you got the text, you could jump in on those 468 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:08.960 right away. Also, Kapan, you have to speed and we've got along 469 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:14.440 with the open line available for you. I'm saying open topics. If you're 470 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:19.239 somebody that's interested in what's going on on the ice or the hard wood in 471 00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:23.920 the NBA and NHL playoffs, you can jump in on that. Where last 472 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:30.320 night you had the Rangers winning in overtime again they won the other night and 473 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:37.039 double overtime last night, just an ot penerin with the winner of the Rangers 474 00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.840 have a three to zero lead over the Canes and the Blue Shirts are seven 475 00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:45.800 to zero in the playoffs. In the nightcap, Dallas got out to a 476 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:53.400 four zip lead, they hang on to a five to three victory and they 477 00:45:53.440 --> 00:46:00.559 tie up their series with the Avs. The Stars do at one game piece, 478 00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:07.639 and then in basketball, the Calves lose Game one against the Celtics by 479 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:12.800 twenty five points. Cleveland comes back, turns the tables on Boston wins by 480 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:17.440 twenty four. Last night, Cleveland shoots well from downtown Boston does not. 481 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:23.360 That series is tied at one. And then late night in okac Luka, 482 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:31.519 Doncic limped around to a twenty nine to ten and seven stat line as the 483 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:36.480 MAVs were able to even up their series with Oka See by winning by nine. 484 00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:42.199 So that's the way it goes in the playoffs right now. A lot 485 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:47.039 of different things that you could jump on if you're so inclined on the basketball 486 00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:51.320 and hockey side now. At the first hour, I asked you what the 487 00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:55.679 biggest question mark for the Detroit Lions is heading into the summer, and the 488 00:46:55.760 --> 00:47:09.039 answer Jared Gauf and when and if and when the Lion signed him to this 489 00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:14.679 gigantic extension. Brad Holmes, the Lions GM yesterday, says he's earned it, 490 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.679 golf has. He also said it's a high priority, and he said 491 00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:22.719 he would like to have had it done a couple of weeks ago, along 492 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:27.960 with the Sewell and Saint Brown. Are you buying that? I think he's 493 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.400 trying to bide his time so they can look at their third round pick from 494 00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:36.280 a couple of years ago, Hendon Hooker, and seeing if that can get 495 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:45.559 involved with the negotiations and would they really play it out with a last year 496 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.880 on his deal, thinking that, oh, if it works well, great, 497 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:55.079 we could just always make that decision, or we could just put the 498 00:47:55.119 --> 00:48:02.480 franchise tag on him. I don't like the idea of the franchise tag on 499 00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:08.159 Jared Goff. It protects the Lions with some guaranteed money, but also just 500 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:13.199 the way that they have it going right now I think that they'll find a 501 00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:21.320 way to get this deal. Now a couple minutes. In a couple minutes, 502 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:30.360 I'll ask you and I'll tell you what I think where Jared Goff should 503 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:35.880 be ranked with other NFL quarterbacks. But I'm going to ask you what you 504 00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:42.280 think an acceptable rating is for golf, and I'll give you that ranking myself 505 00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:45.199 at seven nineteen as I went through that exercise, as I was driving around 506 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:51.760 yesterday ranking the NFL quarterbacks. It is that time of year, and I'll 507 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:54.840 see if you find it acceptable. That's an acceptable ranking, But I'll give 508 00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:59.159 you that one. Coming up at seven nineteen, we talk about the Tigers 509 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:02.800 and we ask you how you feel about them. The number eight six six 510 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:09.400 eight three eight forty eight forty three across Michigan on the Meyer Hotline with the 511 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:15.360 open topics for you eight six six eight three eight four eight four three. 512 00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:21.199 Also looking for those texts you tech sports radio to twenty one thousand. You 513 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:29.320 get that prompt and then you shoot something out to talk about here on X's 514 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:35.559 and bros. Now, I put a tweet out about the Tigers, and 515 00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:39.440 I said, at last hour home, it's not exciting when I ask somebody 516 00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:44.320 says, hey, how you feeling about the Tigers? Got those Detroit City 517 00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:50.360 connect jerseys at the Astros coming in, they're above five hundred. How you 518 00:49:50.400 --> 00:50:00.000 feeling well after losing two of three to the Guardians. Not so hot. 519 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:06.800 I feel lukewarm after getting swept by the Yankees in the Bronx in a one, 520 00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:15.480 two, three run game. Lukewarm with this team. I put that 521 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:23.840 tweet out, and Derek says he's seen nothing to suggest this team has improved 522 00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:29.639 at all from last season. If anything, the offense and their young core 523 00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:37.840 pieces have regressed save Riley Green. I got CW responding, as I just 524 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:42.920 put that tweet out, saying they could draft and develop a team full of 525 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:50.079 superstars, it won't matter. They'll all be Yankees or Dodgers when they become 526 00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:59.840 free agents. Baseball needs a salary cap. Hmm. That's not happening. 527 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:07.679 And I get the pessimism about if you have a good player, they're all 528 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:14.599 just going to end up a big market team. And man, if I 529 00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:19.960 was sitting over here, I guess I gotta go back twenty when Mike Ilitch 530 00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:22.360 was alive, I would say that's not happening. Mike Ilitch is not letting 531 00:51:24.719 --> 00:51:32.800 Riley Green, for instance, leave town just for the big money of New 532 00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:37.679 York or LA. But you could say, yeah, we're not dealing with 533 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:44.559 Mike, We're dealing with Chris and the pessimism, as I went over in 534 00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:53.440 the first hour, the overall trust and the Tigers owner Chris Ilich is it's 535 00:51:53.559 --> 00:52:00.199 very low. He has shown it's next thing might be a little bit harsh, 536 00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:05.000 but you know because he did. He did get a J. Green, 537 00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:08.960 I mean a J. Hinch. Nice to bring in a J. 538 00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:15.199 Green in his primate alliance as a wide receip but no, but Hinch, 539 00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:22.559 that's what he's got. Anything else not really, So that's where it's at 540 00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:24.800 when it comes down to it. Now. These uh, these Connect jerseys. 541 00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:34.800 When I first saw them, I thought, well, there'll be a 542 00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:40.440 ton of Tiger fans who will buy these up if the if the team comes 543 00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:45.840 limping home and there This is before the season. You know, I knew 544 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:49.719 they were going to be one of the teams that are gonna have these alternate 545 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:52.960 jerseys, these city connect jerseys. Say, well, you know they'll if 546 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:58.400 the Tigers are doing good and they look good, you know people will be 547 00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:02.920 snapping those up. And that they're just a little bit above five hundred and 548 00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:15.320 one game. I have seen mixed reviews of these Connect jerseys, and the 549 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:20.280 people will people will be buying these things up. Now. You know, 550 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:24.920 you get a hat that says Detroit me and you could have gone out there, 551 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:30.159 the two of us, and we could have put together our jerseys and 552 00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:32.800 people would say, oh, we hate them, but then they would snap 553 00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:37.920 them up. That's kind of what I look. I don't know they they 554 00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:44.679 put the creative minds behind these, but they're a little bit like the tea. 555 00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:47.559 I'd give them a little bit above lukewarm because people like new things. 556 00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:52.559 They get that, and they are new and they hadn't They don't look anything 557 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.400 like what the Tigers have going. So a little bit better than lukewarm. 558 00:53:55.440 --> 00:54:00.719 W with the City Connect jerseys when it comes down to it, all right, 559 00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:05.119 So we had some Tigers, we got some Lions. Where what'd you 560 00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:08.159 rank Jared Goff with the other NFL quarterbacks? And I've got that answer. 561 00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:15.280 We'll see if that is acceptable to you as a Lion fan. Straight ahead 562 00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:22.239 here on X's and Bros. On the Michigan Sports Network, Bill Simonson here 563 00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:25.400 from my good friend Josh Garvey. Now he's a managing shareholder at Dorn may 564 00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:30.480 Who is Grand Rapids office. Their world headquarters are in Troy, Michigan, 565 00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:32.559 on the east side of the state, and they have locations all around the 566 00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:39.360 world. 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You have ben Zos producing this show, 584 00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:29.559 and we're looking for your calls. As we talked a little bit about 585 00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:35.960 the Lions and their quarterback position, and we've talked about some Tigers. You 586 00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:40.239 can jump in on either of those two items, or if there's something off 587 00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:45.199 the board, like in the playoffs that you wanted to touch on, I'm 588 00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:51.519 all ears the number eight sixty six eight three eight four eight four three. 589 00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:57.199 That's the Meyer hotline. Open topics on that eight six six eight three eight 590 00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:04.239 four eight four three. Use that text. I like the text your text 591 00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:09.880 Sports Radio to twenty one thousand and you can get your thoughts in that way, 592 00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:19.519 and they are appreciated. Now, give me the weather like it is 593 00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:23.280 right now, forties at night, sixties during the day. Now, if 594 00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:28.159 I could bump it up a little bit, high forties, high sixties, 595 00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:31.639 I would take that all the time. Well in a groove right now, 596 00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:38.320 I'm loving it in terms of the weather. Let's go now the playoffs. 597 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:44.960 Last night on the basketball side, you had the Cabs evening up their series 598 00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:50.360 at one game peace, beating the Celtics in Boston by twenty four points. 599 00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:57.559 And then you had the MAVs taking down the Thunder in OKC by nine points 600 00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:06.760 and evening up that seria at one game apiece. And hockey the Stars like 601 00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:15.840 the MAVs and also the Calves. They even up their series with the Aves 602 00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:24.079 by downing the Colorado Avalanche five to three. And it doesn't fit the tied 603 00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:30.400 up series or anything else, but the Rangers they win in overtime again over 604 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:34.920 the Hurricanes, three to two. I've watched those last two games, and 605 00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:40.360 when you would look at you'd say, well, what's been the best series 606 00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:46.639 in the Stanley Cup playoffs so far? It's actually been the Rangers and the 607 00:58:46.639 --> 00:58:50.679 Canes. You wouldn't think that if you're just looking at the numbers, but 608 00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:53.079 then you say, oh yeah, two double over, two overtime games, 609 00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:59.159 one double overtime game, and man, it's the great thing. And then 610 00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:04.719 also the frustra reading thing about hockey. These last two games, the Keynes 611 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:13.440 have been the better team the majority of the time and they have just not 612 00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:19.679 been able to They've been shut out on the power play, and then the 613 00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:27.599 great equalizer, as we all know, in goal Shasterkin. He's not gonna 614 00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:30.559 He's not losing four games in a row. I'll guarantee that. Oh boy, 615 00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:37.320 I'll guarantee that Igor Shasterkin isn't losing four games in a row for the 616 00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:44.599 Rangers. But that's been a very entertaining series, although it's only been a 617 00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:50.039 couple in the history of the NHL where you've seen a team come back from 618 00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:53.320 three to zero. And I just made that guarantee that it's not happening. 619 00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:58.480 What would I do if it happened, Uh, I would have to I 620 00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:01.960 would have to take some recommendations on that. I don't put out many guarantees, 621 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:07.840 but I feel pretty safe in that one. Even though the Canes they've 622 01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:14.119 all been one goal games and two of them have been in overtime, and 623 01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:19.920 Carolina looks pretty good. I just I feel pretty good about the guarantee. 624 01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:27.280 All right, So an acceptable ranking for Jared Goff? I ranked the first 625 01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:32.719 thing. It was just perusing yesterday and I came upon a post draft quarterback 626 01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:40.079 power ranking and it was on CBS and I had never heard of the author, 627 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:45.440 Cody Benjamin is his name from CBS Sports. But I'm like, well, 628 01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:49.119 let's see. I thought, well, where's he going to have golf 629 01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:54.119 after the draft? And so I went in there and I said, mahomes 630 01:00:54.159 --> 01:01:00.119 at one, all right, Brock Party number two? What Brock Party? 631 01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:10.159 It caught my attention. Now you see a lot of rankings of quarterbacks pretty 632 01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:16.639 much by every service or any person that's following the NFL. Covering the NFL. 633 01:01:17.039 --> 01:01:20.760 You're gonna do that, just like a power rankings for the teams, 634 01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:24.679 post draft, all of it. But when I saw Brock Party, I 635 01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:30.480 stopped and said, well, this guy, this guy must be one's forty 636 01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:35.000 nine er guy too, trying to just you know, create some controversy. 637 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:40.280 And I just stopped at that. But as I was driving around yesterday, 638 01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:44.039 I kept coming back to it. I'm like, how could anybody in their 639 01:01:44.119 --> 01:01:49.880 right mind covering the NFL put Brock Party ranking quarterbacks as the number two quarterback 640 01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:55.280 heading into the twenty twenty four season, Just driving around mad at this writer. 641 01:01:55.639 --> 01:02:00.119 But then as I was driving, I was thinking about the Jared golf 642 01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:05.840 and where I would put him in a ranking, and thinking about that cap 643 01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:09.000 number and if it gets close to fifty million, how that's going to hurt 644 01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:14.599 the Lions and the other areas unless they draft really well, continue to draft 645 01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:20.599 really well. And then I thought, well, maybe this guy is looking 646 01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:27.119 at the Brock pretty cap number and that's why he's putting Party number two. 647 01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:34.599 Because that's a pretty nice situation if you're looking at making fifty million dollars a 648 01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:38.599 year for these quarterbacks that are up towards the top, or if you're Brock 649 01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:47.519 Party and your cap number is one million dollars or two million dollars over the 650 01:02:47.519 --> 01:02:52.760 next two years, you've got fifty million to play with if you're the forty 651 01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:54.920 nine ers, And you could say, well, that's why you would rank 652 01:02:54.960 --> 01:03:00.480 him number two. And I thought, maybe this guy that I completely dismissed 653 01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:07.039 looking at his rankings, upon further review, I thought, maybe this guy's 654 01:03:07.079 --> 01:03:13.599 pretty sharp. Well he was writing why he had the rankings of the of 655 01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:15.320 the quarterbacks. It wasn't just I mean, you could just rank them, 656 01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:19.880 fine, but then you can also put your reasoning under any sense he had 657 01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:22.760 reasoning, and I thought for sure he was going to say, well, 658 01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:28.199 with rock Party, me and mister irrelevant and you're paying him peanuts for the 659 01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:30.480 next two years. This is a great situation. That's why I've got him 660 01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:32.880 number two. I thought that was going to be the reasoning and I thought, 661 01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:36.960 oh, excellent, But he didn't put that at all in there. 662 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:40.000 So then so I don't know. So I came back to my original thought, 663 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:45.960 where this guy doesn't know what he's doing putting brock Party number two. 664 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:51.800 Now, all of that being said, as I was ranking the quarterbacks, 665 01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:59.679 I said, I figured that with the realization or the thought that you must 666 01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:03.840 incline how much you're paying this quarterback to put him in a ranking. And 667 01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:06.679 then when I had Goff where I was going to fit him in, I 668 01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:15.119 would say, would I trade this quarterback right now with their contract for Jared 669 01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.199 Goff? So those were my parameters as I went through it, and like 670 01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:25.039 everyone, I put my hoomes two and then I think the next three Joe 671 01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:29.000 Burrow, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen two three, four. That's the 672 01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:30.719 way I ranked him. If you wanted to say you thought Josh Allenen it 673 01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:34.199 would be two or Lamar would be two. You know, I'm not gonna 674 01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:39.320 kill anybody for that. It's subjective. I put Joe Burrow too because he's 675 01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:44.199 had success the Bengals have against the Chiefs. That's why I did it. 676 01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:48.000 Lamar was the MVP, Josh Allen's pretty good. And then so five six, 677 01:04:48.119 --> 01:04:53.159 I went with Jalen Hurts. I think what we've seen from him and 678 01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:56.440 the team that he has around him, how the offense is built for him. 679 01:04:56.440 --> 01:05:00.760 At five, I've got Stroud after his outstanding year. To get Steph 680 01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:04.360 Diggs Stefan Diggs, I put him at six. So those are the top 681 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:10.440 six. So then I put Jordan Love at seven. And that's where I'm 682 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:15.440 gonna ask you, like you're a Lions fan, can you admit or do 683 01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:20.840 you think that this is not acceptable? Of having Jordan Love in front of 684 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:28.119 Jared Goff and a quarterback ranking, I got Justin Herbert at eight. Also 685 01:05:28.440 --> 01:05:33.039 in front of Jared Goff, I've got Matt Stafford in front of Jared Goff's 686 01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:36.679 I'll put those three guys right there, acceptable or not. As a Lion 687 01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:43.280 fan, love Herbert and Stafford ranked above Jared Goff heading into the season. 688 01:05:43.559 --> 01:05:46.920 That's out there for you. I'll give you the rest where Goff ended up 689 01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:51.039 landing on that list. We've got the Tigers. We're talking a little bit 690 01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:59.280 about the Lions and their quarterback situation and the NHL and NBA playoffs. 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You know, it's always a great time being on And thanks 709 01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:16.159 to Matt Shepherd for letting me pinch hit for him this Friday. A couple 710 01:08:16.199 --> 01:08:19.560 of weeks ago, I was in for Sheppard in the NFL Draft, But 711 01:08:19.960 --> 01:08:23.720 you know, being on on a Friday, it's always great. Like I 712 01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:27.000 said, to be on. But then, let me just think about your 713 01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:34.600 regular sports fan in the state of Michigan, mondays you kind of understand. 714 01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:41.000 Oh, you gotta put that brave face on and get into work with Friday 715 01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:47.039 Staring at a weekend in the spring in Michigan at this time of year, 716 01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:54.000 it's uh, you know, you feel pretty good. I gotta imagine we'll 717 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:59.239 get you ready for that. Now we've talked about some some baseball. Actually, 718 01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:02.520 we got all four more food groups going for you. We've got the 719 01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:10.439 playoffs in basketball and hockey and what's going on there. Last night you had 720 01:09:11.640 --> 01:09:18.479 Cleveland and Dallas winning on the hardwood, and then on the ice Dallas and 721 01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:27.560 the New York Rangers getting the victories. And as always, I will dive 722 01:09:27.600 --> 01:09:30.079 into those anything that's you know you're thinking about when it comes to the playoffs. 723 01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:33.720 So and then you know, the Tigers, I'm going to get into 724 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:40.159 your feels. I've asked for your feeling the Tigers, but we'll get back 725 01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:45.279 to the Tigers at eight oh one. I'll give you my feeling the Tigers, 726 01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:48.920 and we'll get your feeling on the Tigers so far, and then how 727 01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:51.239 you feel for the rest of the year. Right now, we're talking about 728 01:09:51.239 --> 01:09:59.760 the Lions and their biggest question mark heading into the summer, Jared Goff and 729 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.880 what they're going to do at the quarterback position with as signing him to the 730 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:11.319 extension if we can all agree that it's going to happen and that it should 731 01:10:11.359 --> 01:10:18.159 happen. And then I started ranking the QBS yesterday and I got Mahomes, 732 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:24.439 Burrow, Lamar, and Josh Allen one through four. I think there's the 733 01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:28.600 tier Mahomes and a tier by himself, and then Burrow, Jackson and Allen 734 01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:30.920 and their tier, and then this next tier I got Jalen Hurts and CJ. 735 01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:38.239 Stroud. Thinking those thrilling, I think there's much controversy. You're a 736 01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:42.479 Lions fan in here, an NFL fan, Maybe you want to put somebody 737 01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:44.840 in there in this top six. I don't know. I don't know how 738 01:10:44.840 --> 01:10:51.039 you can. But now you get to where it's a lot more subjective and 739 01:10:51.239 --> 01:10:57.000 how you're just feeling about it when you watch these QBS and when you watch 740 01:10:57.039 --> 01:11:01.840 these teams, and your fandom probably gets into it a little bit. And 741 01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:05.720 that's where Jordan Love comes into play, the quarterback from the Packers. I 742 01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:12.119 ranked him at seven heading into this season, and I ask you, as 743 01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.199 a Lion fan, do you think that's an acceptable ranking. I get say 744 01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:21.560 Jared Goff as a better quarterback than Jordan Love. You can say that he's 745 01:11:21.560 --> 01:11:27.119 more proven. Golf went to a Super Bowl, he went to the NFC 746 01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:32.560 Championship Game last year. We know that that could be your argument. My 747 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:43.079 argument could be that Love coming on as this first time starter, and what 748 01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:46.600 we have seen from him and how he was improving, and what we saw 749 01:11:46.640 --> 01:11:49.880 from him in the second half of last season. Now, if I put 750 01:11:49.960 --> 01:11:55.840 the fan card into play a little bit here, I don't want to see 751 01:11:56.159 --> 01:12:01.640 Jordan Love have success. The Green Bay Pass I've been the bane of my 752 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:10.560 existence since I've been alive, and certainly with Rogers and Farv over the last 753 01:12:10.600 --> 01:12:17.199 twenty years. I was looking forward to the Packers going through it and searching 754 01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:20.199 for the quarterback. But it appears that they You know, when I watched 755 01:12:20.239 --> 01:12:28.840 Love man, guy looks a hell of a lot like Aaron Rodgers, and 756 01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:34.560 he had a nice postseason. And with his age, that's where I would 757 01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:40.279 put him. I would put him in front of Golf, and I'd say, 758 01:12:40.319 --> 01:12:43.680 it's not like I'm really down on Jared Goff. Jared Golf. If 759 01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:49.039 you have and what he has, which is an excellent offensive line, maybe 760 01:12:49.079 --> 01:12:56.439 the best offensive line in the NFL, you have a weapons of plenty, 761 01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:04.560 lapoor a Monra Saint Brown. You're like, just look at it. He's 762 01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:10.760 got that, and oh yeah, a quarterback's best friend next to the offensive 763 01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:13.920 line, a potent running game and it won two punch. I man, 764 01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:19.600 this is great. What a great situation. If you're Jared Goff, you're 765 01:13:19.640 --> 01:13:26.079 about to just get married, or he's getting ready to get married, he's 766 01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:32.119 about to sign another gigantic deal and he's just got the perfect situation all around 767 01:13:32.199 --> 01:13:41.640 him, and oh yeah, the fans love him. But I asked myself, 768 01:13:41.680 --> 01:13:45.039 would I take these qbs in my own rankings over golf? And I 769 01:13:45.039 --> 01:13:51.720 would take love. And I also would take Justin Herbert from the Chargers Stafford 770 01:13:53.520 --> 01:14:00.560 who was traded for Jared Goff. Now Jared Goff head to head beat Matt 771 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:08.600 Stafford last year in the most entertaining to me, the greatest Lions playoff game 772 01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:15.279 that I've ever seen, and it closes the victory over the Cowboys back in 773 01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:20.680 the nineties. And I'm not going back to fifty seven. That's before my 774 01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:25.520 time, but that was the greatest game. And this does it matter? 775 01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:32.840 They had the head a little bit, but I would still at thirty six 776 01:14:34.640 --> 01:14:41.880 a little bit of a nod to the veteran Matt Stafford. I have him 777 01:14:41.960 --> 01:14:49.199 ranked at nine and Trevor Lawrence. Now, Trevor Lawrence has has he been 778 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:56.239 a disappointment since being selected number one overall? It certainly doesn't have the success 779 01:14:56.279 --> 01:15:04.479 in the playoffs that Goff has had. But would you make that trade if 780 01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:08.640 you could, if it all worked out? What would you actually make that 781 01:15:08.760 --> 01:15:13.880 deal? I think I would. I would make that deal. You might 782 01:15:13.920 --> 01:15:18.279 not like that. That's where that question comes in. Is this acceptable as 783 01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:26.520 a Lion's fan if you're taking a look at it, of putting Trevor Lawrence 784 01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:28.720 in front of Jared Goff, does that make you mad? I don't know. 785 01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.760 This one I think can make you mad because I put I ended up 786 01:15:33.800 --> 01:15:40.720 putting Golf at twelve, and so I put Dak Prescott in front of him. 787 01:15:41.239 --> 01:15:45.880 Dak also, you know he has not had the the moments in the 788 01:15:45.880 --> 01:15:49.760 postseason. I look at his play. I think he's just I mean, 789 01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:56.159 they're right there. I think Dak's just a little bit and a little bit 790 01:15:56.159 --> 01:16:05.840 more mobile as QB. I Prescott's a smidge better than Jared Goff. So 791 01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:12.920 I put him at twelve. That's how I have ranked him. Now I 792 01:16:12.960 --> 01:16:18.840 put Aaron Rodgers behind Jared Goff, And could you make an argument that Aaron 793 01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:28.680 Rodgers at forty years old coming off a and achilles. No, I don't. 794 01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:32.319 You could try to make that. Now. I would say that if 795 01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:36.000 the the Jets they got into the season, this is you know, it's 796 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:42.439 always a fluid situation. If if Rogers comes out and plays the first few 797 01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.359 games and looks like he did just a couple of years ago when he went 798 01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:48.640 back to back MVPs, well you could say, yeah, but we're talking 799 01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:55.720 about right here and right now and how we're ranking them. So that's where 800 01:16:55.760 --> 01:17:01.279 I have the ranking. Is that acceptable to you? How do you see 801 01:17:01.319 --> 01:17:06.600 that? When it comes down to the Lions and just the quarterbacks around the 802 01:17:06.680 --> 01:17:13.039 league, it's eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three On the 803 01:17:13.039 --> 01:17:17.399 Meyer Hotline eight six six eight three eight four eight four three. We have 804 01:17:17.560 --> 01:17:25.359 open topics and you can also text in Tech Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. 805 01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:29.439 You can get your thoughts in that way as we have it set up 806 01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:33.680 for you on the Lions and coming up at eight oh one, we get 807 01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:42.159 back to your fields with the Tigers as they bring the Astros in and they've 808 01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:54.680 got their their city connect jerseys and all that. All right, When I 809 01:17:54.720 --> 01:18:00.000 look at the NHL and NBA playoffs, I wanted to ask this question, 810 01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:09.279 and across the state of Michigan, you have Anthony Edwards emerging through these playoffs 811 01:18:09.479 --> 01:18:15.920 as not only a superstar but potentially the next face of the league. A 812 01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:20.880 little bit premature, but they're up to to oh two games away from the 813 01:18:20.880 --> 01:18:29.439 Western Finals. Obviously he is. You put him into a great category, 814 01:18:30.039 --> 01:18:36.880 superstar category, and it just happens. You knew that. I mean, 815 01:18:36.920 --> 01:18:42.039 the guy was the number one overall pick and you saw his talent. But 816 01:18:43.119 --> 01:18:47.199 it's even blossomed, even quicker than I think most people expected. So he's 817 01:18:47.239 --> 01:18:56.079 sitting there. But my question is for the State of Michigan or Piston fans, 818 01:18:57.079 --> 01:19:03.279 and when it comes down to the great players over the last thirty years, 819 01:19:05.079 --> 01:19:13.319 it's no argument. You've probably heard this argument is a Jordan or Lebron 820 01:19:13.520 --> 01:19:17.279 that particular argument, but those are the two. But for Piston fans, 821 01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:25.119 out of any fans in all of basketball, certly fans in the NBA, 822 01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:31.840 the least amount of credit goes to Jordan and Lebron, because you know, 823 01:19:31.880 --> 01:19:39.720 you're a Pistons fan, and those were your biggest rivals. The bad boys 824 01:19:39.720 --> 01:19:46.359 had to hold off Jordan and Piston fans rightfully, so we're ticked off. 825 01:19:46.359 --> 01:19:54.159 Pistons were playing a brand of basketball, of swarming, suffocating defense, one 826 01:19:54.199 --> 01:20:00.319 of the best defensive teams ever, and man, you go back, they 827 01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:05.279 won back to back. But you could easily talk about not throwing the ball 828 01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:12.079 away to Berg. You could easily talk about a phantom foul against Lamber, 829 01:20:12.840 --> 01:20:15.920 another trip to the finals, maybe another championship to be talking about one of 830 01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:21.079 the greatest teams. But holding off Jordan after that, and Jordan used to 831 01:20:21.199 --> 01:20:26.039 you know, he he's just everyone in the league was just, you know, 832 01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:29.720 smitting, Oh my god, this guy's the most he's the greatest. 833 01:20:29.760 --> 01:20:31.279 He's defying and all of that, except Piston fans were like, yeah, 834 01:20:31.319 --> 01:20:36.560 he's getting he's a cry baby. He gets too many calls. And you 835 01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:43.000 understand that a little bit of the same thing with Lebron James. Guys in 836 01:20:43.199 --> 01:20:45.520 high school, he's the chosen one. Of course, he goes to his 837 01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:51.880 hometown close enough to his hometown, from Akron to the Calves, and you 838 01:20:51.920 --> 01:20:57.439 know, he's and he takes off wins the championships and we know the story. 839 01:20:57.479 --> 01:21:00.880 But the Pistons had to deal with them again, just like they did 840 01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:08.800 with Jordan. I remember being in the building. What was it. It 841 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:17.039 was the Eastern Conference finals, and I mean the turning point when it came 842 01:21:17.159 --> 01:21:25.279 down to the going to Pistons, going to work Pistons. Lebron scores did 843 01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:30.720 he did? He score twenty five straight, twenty nine of the thirty points 844 01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:34.680 in the fourth quarter. Everybody even you know, even you know you're sitting 845 01:21:34.680 --> 01:21:38.479 there with the Piston fans in the crowd, and everybody's just like, not 846 01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:45.000 you can do. You're throwing up your hands. But you still like Jordan, 847 01:21:45.239 --> 01:21:50.439 not giving him like the credit. But now you have Edwards. He's 848 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:55.920 not, you know, an already go Georgia, so in go to school 849 01:21:55.920 --> 01:22:04.479 from around here. He goes out to the Western Conference. There's no history 850 01:22:05.600 --> 01:22:11.319 with the Timberwolves. Timber Wolves have did really no history. You can go 851 01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:17.279 back when they were the Lakers. They had some success where they had KG, 852 01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:25.840 they had a year maybe, but the point is now you've got to 853 01:22:26.039 --> 01:22:32.479 fairly look at without having the rival stuff with with Lebron and with MJ. 854 01:22:33.279 --> 01:22:41.399 And you can say, hey, here's this this great player, and I'm 855 01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:45.520 asking you, when it comes down to it, how are you looking at 856 01:22:46.199 --> 01:22:55.319 Edwards and the chance for him to take over, grab the torch and be 857 01:22:55.439 --> 01:23:00.640 this Uh. The next one I think it's good to do is for the 858 01:23:00.720 --> 01:23:11.720 NBA myself. Nothing against Doncic, nothing against anybody else, the big dancing 859 01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:18.039 bear in a Denver, great player, two MVPs championships and everything else. 860 01:23:18.079 --> 01:23:28.439 But you just don't as a American sports fan, you just don't gravitate to 861 01:23:28.479 --> 01:23:35.760 those guys like you do an American just say that's the way it is. 862 01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:45.199 That's where the popularity is. It's a little bit like Show Hey, if 863 01:23:46.680 --> 01:23:55.199 was you know, Show Smith from Indiana, we might spend every show every 864 01:23:55.279 --> 01:24:01.399 day talking about how great this guy, and it gets brought up how great 865 01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:04.079 he is, but most people are like, Okay, he's great. It's 866 01:24:04.119 --> 01:24:09.479 a great pitcher, he's great hitter, greatest player since may Ruth. And 867 01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:15.159 then that's kind of it we're witnessing in baseball. But if he was an 868 01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:17.760 American born out of Indiana, we would I don't know, it would be 869 01:24:19.439 --> 01:24:26.720 it would be talked about in the popular it would be exponentially more. But 870 01:24:26.760 --> 01:24:29.840 that's what we're getting with with Edwards. Get your thoughts in on that one 871 01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:35.600 as well. At eight six six eight three, eight forty eight forty three, 872 01:24:35.800 --> 01:24:44.239 as we take you through and get you to the weekend here across the 873 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:50.359 state of Michigan. I got to tell you that something happened yesterday for me 874 01:24:50.600 --> 01:24:56.880 that it's just it was pure joy. I've been dealing with his shoulder injury 875 01:24:58.399 --> 01:25:02.359 and I've been doing some stretching with it. A couple of weeks ago, 876 01:25:02.600 --> 01:25:08.000 I was back in the gym and I was just gonna shoot some baskets. 877 01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:11.720 Nobody was in there, and I and I fired up, and it had 878 01:25:11.760 --> 01:25:15.479 been a while since I had thrown up some jumpers. I and I threw 879 01:25:15.520 --> 01:25:19.560 one up, and the pain in my shoulder was there, and it just 880 01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:24.000 couldn't have if somebody would have had a camera on me, the body language 881 01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:27.840 and it just saw me with my head down, you know, hunched over. 882 01:25:28.199 --> 01:25:30.920 Just a huge disappointment. Tried it again, like it just I could 883 01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:38.520 barely even get a shot up. Total disappointment. But then yesterday the same 884 01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:41.720 thing, and you know, the shoulders, just deal with it, trying 885 01:25:41.720 --> 01:25:45.840 to work with it. I fired one up and I was like, oh, 886 01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:49.039 my gosh, no pain, and I fired another one. Fifteen minutes 887 01:25:49.079 --> 01:25:55.439 went by of me shooting and it was just pure joy. And the shot 888 01:25:55.520 --> 01:26:00.800 wasn't going in as much as I would like, but then anytime and to 889 01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:04.640 fire it up there and watch it just go through the hoop, it was. 890 01:26:05.159 --> 01:26:12.399 It was great. So a very good feeling of pure joy of sports 891 01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:20.000 that happened with me yesterday. Now that's me getting into my feelings. I 892 01:26:20.079 --> 01:26:26.399 want to get your feeling the Tigers so far as they come home limp home 893 01:26:26.880 --> 01:26:30.880 after their their series against the Guardians. How are you feeling so far about 894 01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:33.680 this team? How you feel about the rest of the year. 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I look 927 01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:24.840 good. I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes. 928 01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:28.920 Be a doll. We don't need no meals. We don't need no cats, 929 01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:32.079 we need more dolls. I am not a detainer. Ah, you're 930 01:29:32.159 --> 01:29:36.159 not that detained. We weren't good. There's no sense asking me things about 931 01:29:36.199 --> 01:29:39.560 the game. I'm telling you we laid an egg. So I'm not gonna 932 01:29:39.560 --> 01:29:43.800 break it down for you. He sucks. He sucked, but he laid 933 01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:45.439 an egg. That's all I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. 934 01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:48.159 I'm not going to break it down for you. Nothing went well for us. 935 01:29:48.439 --> 01:29:50.800 It's on us. We have to figure it out and we will. 936 01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:57.800 We need your damn. It is showtime. As we get into the eight 937 01:29:57.800 --> 01:30:01.600 o'clock hour, Dennis fitting An Inn four, Matt Shepherd here on X's and 938 01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:05.479 Rose on the Michigan Sports Network. I want to hear from you. I'm 939 01:30:05.560 --> 01:30:12.039 asking you about the Tigers as they come home after an unsuccessful trip, a 940 01:30:12.199 --> 01:30:15.399 road trip to the Bronx and to Cleveland where they were just able to pick 941 01:30:15.479 --> 01:30:19.399 up one or just yeah, picked up one win. You got that one 942 01:30:19.439 --> 01:30:25.159 right. We're getting your feeling on the Tigers so far, and how do 943 01:30:25.199 --> 01:30:28.319 you feel about the rest of the year eight six six. How do you 944 01:30:28.359 --> 01:30:31.199 feel about the team for the rest of the year eight six six, eight 945 01:30:31.399 --> 01:30:36.079 three, eight four, eight four to three the Meyer Hotline again that is 946 01:30:36.199 --> 01:30:42.239 eight sixty six eight three, eight four eight four three. We're checking the 947 01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:46.800 texts. You can get involved there Tech Sports Radio to twenty one thousand, 948 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:50.039 and we'll see what you have to say now before we go to the phones 949 01:30:50.039 --> 01:30:55.439 and get to the techs. Last night you had the Rangers in overtime over 950 01:30:56.479 --> 01:31:00.520 the Canes three to two, three zero series lead there for the Blue Shirts, 951 01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:04.640 who are seven to zero in the playoffs. Dallas evens up their series 952 01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:13.439 with Colorado two better than the Abs five to three for the Stars who got 953 01:31:13.560 --> 01:31:15.880 up four nothing and hung on for the five to three win. And then 954 01:31:16.520 --> 01:31:24.159 Cleveland in a shocker, they beat the Celtics by twenty four points to even 955 01:31:24.279 --> 01:31:28.720 up that series at one. And also Dallas and OKC is now tied at 956 01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:35.640 one with Luka Doncents limping around and putting up twenty nine to ten and seven. 957 01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:41.880 A couple things here locally mentioned the Tigers going to be in action. 958 01:31:43.239 --> 01:31:48.279 Dan Campbell, the Allion's head coach, is going to miss rookie camp for 959 01:31:48.439 --> 01:31:55.239 personal reasons. That's all we have right now. Personal reasons. Dan Campbell 960 01:31:55.920 --> 01:32:00.479 gonna miss rookie camp. My thoughts there, Hope everything is okay with Dan 961 01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:03.439 Campbell, not like he has needed at rookie camp. And when you see 962 01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:09.800 personal issues, hey, hopefully he has a hangnail and or you know, 963 01:32:09.960 --> 01:32:13.600 I don't know. You know, the best case scenario there is that it's 964 01:32:13.720 --> 01:32:17.760 not that big of a deal and yeah, he'll be back up and running 965 01:32:18.520 --> 01:32:21.399 in no time. All right, So you got the numbers out there, 966 01:32:21.439 --> 01:32:27.479 you got the Tigers question. Also, I ranked Jared Goff, I had 967 01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:30.319 him at number twelve. Is that just preposterous? I mean, what's an 968 01:32:30.319 --> 01:32:35.079 acceptable ranking for you? And without going through all of them, you know 969 01:32:35.199 --> 01:32:41.439 the guys that I put in front of golf in a dack, Trevor, 970 01:32:41.560 --> 01:32:47.239 Lawrence, Stafford, Herbert and love the last few. Are you wanting to 971 01:32:47.319 --> 01:32:51.720 push Jared Goff all the way up to like seven? I think that's where 972 01:32:51.720 --> 01:32:55.880 he deserves to be after the kind of season he had last year and the 973 01:32:55.960 --> 01:32:59.920 position that he is in this year with a team around him. The cap 974 01:33:00.119 --> 01:33:04.800 number, everything you you involve as you're ranking these guys again eight six, 975 01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:09.800 six, eight three, eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline, 976 01:33:10.279 --> 01:33:15.119 let's go to the phones. Here is Freddy who joins us on exes and 977 01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:17.800 bros. Hey, Freddy, good morning, Dennis. How are you, 978 01:33:17.960 --> 01:33:20.960 sir? Oh it's goods good to here, good to hear your voice. 979 01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:27.479 You too, buddy. I wanted to touch on the Lions and Tigers. 980 01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:29.880 I sent to the text about the Lions. I'm glad you didn't read it 981 01:33:29.960 --> 01:33:32.920 because I hit son too fast and I didn't word it right. And uh 982 01:33:33.279 --> 01:33:35.920 we we all, we all do that, I think once in a while, 983 01:33:38.840 --> 01:33:43.720 So real quick on the NBA, I gotta I gotta be honest. 984 01:33:43.760 --> 01:33:45.319 I don't think I'm in the minority year. You know, when when you're 985 01:33:45.359 --> 01:33:49.119 Lias, or excuse me, when you're Tigers, Pistons and red Wings suck 986 01:33:49.239 --> 01:33:54.199 for ten years a decade, you know, you tend to tune out watching 987 01:33:54.279 --> 01:33:58.920 other other teams other games because because you know, your teams just suck, 988 01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:02.279 and it's just that's just the nature of the beast. And last night I 989 01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:09.439 tuned into Dallas, Oklahoma City number one. What a scene in Oklahoma City, 990 01:34:09.960 --> 01:34:13.680 everyone wearing the blue shirts. What a great season except that one guy 991 01:34:13.720 --> 01:34:15.359 who had a red shirt on. I mean, he's stuck out like a 992 01:34:15.560 --> 01:34:19.560 store thumb. Did he? Yeah? Oh, that one I missed, 993 01:34:19.800 --> 01:34:24.199 but I you know, I have to. I have to admit this. 994 01:34:24.399 --> 01:34:30.439 I really have never seen Luca Dodgers playing the game. I've seen the highlights 995 01:34:30.479 --> 01:34:33.000 and everything, and I just thought, man, this guy has my body. 996 01:34:33.760 --> 01:34:39.199 He is he's he's Larry Bird. He's he's my Larry Bird. I 997 01:34:39.479 --> 01:34:43.319 Larry Bird has always been my favorite player in the NBA ever and Jordan, 998 01:34:43.399 --> 01:34:45.720 but he's my Larry Bird. It was awesome to watching mesday. I watched 999 01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:50.920 him about ten fifty minutes. I couldn't watch anymore because it wasn't the Pistons, 1000 01:34:51.600 --> 01:34:55.680 and I just thought it was kind of neat. Dennis. I just 1001 01:34:55.720 --> 01:34:57.680 wanted to I just wanted to bring that out because I don't think I'm in 1002 01:34:57.760 --> 01:35:00.800 the minority. When your team suck, it's hard to watch other teams. 1003 01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:02.800 I mean, I know the NFL doesn't have that problem, but the other 1004 01:35:02.920 --> 01:35:09.159 three sports leagues I think has that problem. But all right, the Lions 1005 01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:13.479 and the Tigers. Now, I know it's popular nowadays. You can't have 1006 01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:16.760 an opinion, you know. I know there's a lot of guys in the 1007 01:35:16.880 --> 01:35:20.279 media, you know, and I'm not pointing anyone out. Some people work 1008 01:35:20.319 --> 01:35:24.960 with teams and they can't have an opinion. It's just I don't think there's 1009 01:35:24.960 --> 01:35:30.760 anything wrong with opinions. And I'm not saying anything toward you. I'm not 1010 01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:34.560 saying this is just my opinion, you know, one with the Lions, 1011 01:35:35.920 --> 01:35:43.399 this Jared Golf situation. I don't think the fans chanting Jared Golf. This 1012 01:35:43.520 --> 01:35:45.000 is just my opinion. I don't think he's helped there. I don't think 1013 01:35:45.039 --> 01:35:49.600 they're helping Jared Golf sign long term here. I think what Brad Holmes did 1014 01:35:49.720 --> 01:35:55.560 yesterday, in my opinion, was very smart. He got out in front 1015 01:35:55.600 --> 01:35:58.800 of this. It's the first time he's got out in front of this and 1016 01:35:58.840 --> 01:36:02.399 said, hey, of course he deserves the extension and we want to sign 1017 01:36:02.439 --> 01:36:06.760 an extension. It just hasn't worked out yet. So what that tells me 1018 01:36:08.359 --> 01:36:11.359 and what in my opinion, what Brad Holmes is saying, so listen, 1019 01:36:11.840 --> 01:36:15.119 we offered a forty two forty three million, he wants fifty to fifty five 1020 01:36:15.199 --> 01:36:18.119 million. That's just my opinion. I don't have no no, I don't 1021 01:36:18.159 --> 01:36:23.479 know anything, and I just think he's getting it out there, and for 1022 01:36:23.640 --> 01:36:29.760 some reason Golf doesn't want to sign nats. The Lions ends up looking good 1023 01:36:29.800 --> 01:36:33.159 through this because then the fans what fans do, they'll turn on They'll turn 1024 01:36:33.239 --> 01:36:36.199 on the player. That's just that, that's just what they're gonna do. 1025 01:36:38.039 --> 01:36:42.760 So that's kind of my take on it. I wouldn't I sent the text 1026 01:36:42.840 --> 01:36:46.439 in about two years guaranteed. Yeah, the addition to what he's making this 1027 01:36:46.600 --> 01:36:49.840 year, this is what that's what I would do, Dennis. I wouldn't 1028 01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:56.359 give him a five year one hundred and fifty to two hundred million dollars because 1029 01:36:57.079 --> 01:37:00.359 listen, Jared GoF is a good dude, he's a good quarterback. I 1030 01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:06.600 just think his situation, Dennis, if they give him that kind of contract 1031 01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:11.159 and he doesn't win here or he throws a couple of picks, fans are 1032 01:37:11.199 --> 01:37:15.199 going to turn on him really quick. Dennis. That's that's kind of my 1033 01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:17.359 take on golf. So if we don't have time for the Tigers, that's 1034 01:37:17.439 --> 01:37:20.640 fine. But what do you think about my take? What's the situation with 1035 01:37:20.720 --> 01:37:25.520 brand Holmes yesterday? Yeah? Well, I think you're right. I don't 1036 01:37:25.680 --> 01:37:28.640 know if he's kicking the can down the road a little bit where if they 1037 01:37:28.680 --> 01:37:31.520 want to look at Hooker to feel like, you know, the comfort level 1038 01:37:31.840 --> 01:37:33.880 where they can they can at least take a look at him. I know 1039 01:37:33.920 --> 01:37:38.760 they got the rookie camp first before ot A's, but you know what else 1040 01:37:38.840 --> 01:37:42.880 could it be if if Golf and his agent loved the deal, or they 1041 01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:45.199 even like the deal, they say, okay, let's just get it done. 1042 01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:47.840 So you know the line. But I don't think it's that far apart 1043 01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:55.720 where uh, they can't find a deal before the season. Is it the 1044 01:37:55.840 --> 01:37:58.920 worst thing, Freddie in the in the world. If the Lions went into 1045 01:37:59.600 --> 01:38:04.880 having Jared Goff at thirty two million next year and then decided, look, 1046 01:38:04.960 --> 01:38:09.680 you can always sign him after that and if he has the good season, 1047 01:38:10.039 --> 01:38:14.600 well then you know he'll deserve the the fifty million or whatever it would be. 1048 01:38:15.199 --> 01:38:18.039 By then they hedge their bet and the downside would just be a lot 1049 01:38:18.079 --> 01:38:23.479 of negativity from the from the fans and the media about oh the you know, 1050 01:38:23.600 --> 01:38:29.279 they're ruining this franchise tag and everything else. But there is that option 1051 01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:33.800 that that's there. It's not the worst thing. Brad Holmes. But but 1052 01:38:33.960 --> 01:38:38.640 in my opinion, Grad Holmes and Dan Campbell can't do anything wrong in this 1053 01:38:38.760 --> 01:38:42.560 down They walk on water. There's no way they can lose this. Jared 1054 01:38:42.600 --> 01:38:45.640 golf situation. If they don't sign them, they people worship those two of 1055 01:38:45.680 --> 01:38:50.239 this town. And I think Brad Holmes was genius what he did yesterday. 1056 01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:53.640 I don't think they want to give him that much money. And listen, 1057 01:38:54.279 --> 01:38:57.600 I think Jared GoF is a good, doing, good quarterback. But I 1058 01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:01.439 could you could, I'll say it's all blue in the face. There is 1059 01:39:01.520 --> 01:39:05.239 not another situation in this in this in this league where he can be as 1060 01:39:05.319 --> 01:39:09.560 productive as he is right now. This is a petty for him. He 1061 01:39:09.680 --> 01:39:12.840 knows. Yeah, I love it. We're right up against it. I'm 1062 01:39:12.840 --> 01:39:15.920 going to come back and hit on that. Who's who's walking on water more? 1063 01:39:15.039 --> 01:39:19.039 Is it the quarterback? Is that the GM is at the coach? 1064 01:39:19.159 --> 01:39:24.319 And who will sink the fastest? We'll get to that. Axis and Bros. 1065 01:39:24.520 --> 01:39:31.359 On the Michigan Sports Network In the Den with Dan Dickerson, Hey, 1066 01:39:31.399 --> 01:39:36.399 Tiger's Fans in new baseball season means a new season on Michigan's favorite island destination, 1067 01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:43.039 Mackinawe Island Baseball Spring and mackinaw Island things that return every year, reminding 1068 01:39:43.119 --> 01:39:45.319 us what a great state we live in. Shake off the winter blaus, 1069 01:39:45.439 --> 01:39:49.439 taking a game and playing your trip to America's top summer destination, Macinaw Island 1070 01:39:49.520 --> 01:39:54.319 dot org. Aj hitch socks all the time about the need for hitters to 1071 01:39:54.399 --> 01:39:57.840 be timed up for the fastball. Good lineups are full of players who can 1072 01:39:57.920 --> 01:40:00.359 hit the fastball and get the ball in the air. The Tigers haven't had 1073 01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:04.079 a good offense for years because year after year they do not hit fastballs. 1074 01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:08.560 The offense this year is still bottom five, but there are some signs it 1075 01:40:08.600 --> 01:40:11.680 could be a lot better this summer. The Tigers are getting the ball in 1076 01:40:11.760 --> 01:40:15.399 the air with the sixth best hard hit rates, and they're hitting the pass 1077 01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:18.720 ball. They ring fourth against fastballs. This offense has struggled most of the 1078 01:40:18.800 --> 01:40:21.920 year, but the Tigers have scored eleven runs twice in the last ten days, 1079 01:40:21.960 --> 01:40:41.640 and maybe, just maybe the things are about to turn. Axes and 1080 01:40:41.920 --> 01:40:46.720 Bros. Michigan Sports Network, I'm Dennis fifty and Infmatt Shepherd here on this 1081 01:40:46.840 --> 01:40:53.359 Friday. We're taking your calls. We're talking about the Tigers and the Lions 1082 01:40:54.279 --> 01:41:00.359 and the playoffs playoffs. I know the Rangers and the Stars win in the 1083 01:41:00.479 --> 01:41:05.359 NHL playoffs last night, and in the NBA they had the Cavs and the 1084 01:41:05.479 --> 01:41:13.760 MAVs both winning and tying up their series at one game apiece. Ask Pistons 1085 01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:20.720 fans they view Anthony Edwards. You're biased when it comes down to Lebron and 1086 01:41:21.079 --> 01:41:28.439 MJ. But I'm not that biased. You can just honestly assess Anthony Edwards 1087 01:41:28.520 --> 01:41:35.720 as a Pistons fan. We're getting your feel the Tigers and the Jared Goff 1088 01:41:35.800 --> 01:41:43.760 situation on when he will sign an extension eight six six eight three, eight 1089 01:41:43.960 --> 01:41:46.239 forty eight forty three. That's the buyer hotline where you can join us. 1090 01:41:47.199 --> 01:41:49.840 You don't like those topics, you don't want to bring one to the table, 1091 01:41:50.079 --> 01:41:55.560 do it eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. You 1092 01:41:55.760 --> 01:42:00.520 can get involved via the text by texting Sports Radio to twenty one thousand will 1093 01:42:00.560 --> 01:42:05.079 reach some of those texts. Coming up shortly. Also coming up at eight 1094 01:42:05.159 --> 01:42:10.560 thirty six, how college football will look this upcoming season. I've got some 1095 01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:14.439 thoughts and I'll give them to you. I want to dress a couple of 1096 01:42:14.439 --> 01:42:21.039 things, you know. Last segment we ended where the question of Brad Holmes 1097 01:42:23.079 --> 01:42:29.159 and Dan Campbell walking on water in this town, Jared Goff seemingly walking on 1098 01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:33.399 water as well with his name being chanted who would sink first, Well, 1099 01:42:33.520 --> 01:42:41.920 the quarterback is gonna sink first, and that situation homes last, and then 1100 01:42:42.199 --> 01:42:48.359 Campbell the I would say the funny part because it's not funny, but the 1101 01:42:48.720 --> 01:42:59.800 second half of the meltdown for the Lions, which quarterback, receivers, run 1102 01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:06.319 back, the defense, the all of the important pieces for the Detroit Lions. 1103 01:43:06.439 --> 01:43:11.720 Every one of them melted out, including the head coach and the offensive 1104 01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:14.800 coordinator, all of them. I mean, it was a total and complete 1105 01:43:14.880 --> 01:43:24.319 meltdown, as you know, and so is fantastic of a season the Lions 1106 01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:30.880 had last year. There were a couple of weeks after the NFC Championship game 1107 01:43:30.880 --> 01:43:33.720 where people were giving it to Dan Campbell, and some of it rightfully. 1108 01:43:33.800 --> 01:43:39.319 So I mean, if you if you have a way that you're coaching and 1109 01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:45.279 it's off the beaten path, and you go that route and you win, 1110 01:43:45.960 --> 01:43:49.279 you are a genius. But if you go that route and it doesn't work, 1111 01:43:49.359 --> 01:43:55.520 you're going to deserve some criticism. And he took some Lions fans, 1112 01:43:55.800 --> 01:44:00.600 you know, they fired back, and I think you know that's under standable 1113 01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:06.079 to give them some some rope there. That's one of those things that when 1114 01:44:06.119 --> 01:44:13.239 it comes to sports. I hear coaches say sometimes when they do something out 1115 01:44:13.279 --> 01:44:15.039 of the ordinary that doesn't work, and he said, well, if you 1116 01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:17.840 know it did work, you know, you guys would all be praising me. 1117 01:44:18.479 --> 01:44:21.159 Well, that's right, that's sports, and that's why we're giving it 1118 01:44:21.239 --> 01:44:26.359 to you. If you go off and it doesn't work. I never liked 1119 01:44:26.399 --> 01:44:32.760 the Yeah, we understand that. We understand that coaches. So all right, 1120 01:44:35.560 --> 01:44:45.079 the feel for the Tigers, they're sitting here coming home nineteen and eighteen. 1121 01:44:46.600 --> 01:44:54.039 This is I feel luke warm of this team that is pegged for five 1122 01:44:54.159 --> 01:45:00.039 hundred. How are you feeling about that? Let's get ben Zoe involved here. 1123 01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:04.039 He's looking at the text. That's right. We got a couple about 1124 01:45:04.079 --> 01:45:10.079 golf. Uh suggestion for the golf contract. Give him a three year deal 1125 01:45:10.439 --> 01:45:15.039 forty million, first year, forty five, the second. These two years 1126 01:45:15.039 --> 01:45:18.960 are guaranteed, third year fifty, but it's an opt out year for both 1127 01:45:19.079 --> 01:45:28.399 player and the team. Well that's nice. That sounds nice. But the 1128 01:45:28.520 --> 01:45:32.640 Jared Goff's agent is is not signing that kind of deal. So maybe that's 1129 01:45:32.640 --> 01:45:36.159 where we're you know, like the fans, I haven't heard, at least 1130 01:45:36.279 --> 01:45:39.399 yet, I haven't heard a fan say, yeah, you know what, 1131 01:45:40.000 --> 01:45:45.520 you got to give him a market value and he is going to get one 1132 01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:49.520 hundred and fifty million guaranteed, he's going to get close to fifty million dollars 1133 01:45:49.560 --> 01:45:55.279 a year, and he's going to sign a five year deal that looks like 1134 01:45:55.439 --> 01:45:58.920 two hundred and fifty three hundred million dollars. I haven't heard anybody say that 1135 01:45:59.000 --> 01:46:03.880 that's what he's the kind of deal that he's going to get. And maybe 1136 01:46:03.920 --> 01:46:13.439 that's where we're sitting here, where your Brad Holmes and if he is trying 1137 01:46:13.479 --> 01:46:19.720 to do what fans think that he should do and get a very reasonable it's 1138 01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:26.920 weird to say lowball, but compared to what other quarterbacks are getting, he 1139 01:46:27.000 --> 01:46:32.560 will not sign a deal. He will go into the upcoming season playing on 1140 01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:36.399 the last year of his deal. If those are the kind of contract numbers 1141 01:46:36.600 --> 01:46:41.720 that the Lions are saying, yeah, take it or leave it. That's 1142 01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:45.760 where we're at right now, and Holmes yesterday saying, yeah, you've earned 1143 01:46:45.800 --> 01:46:50.600 an extension, but here's the numbers. It's a high priority. It's a 1144 01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:57.000 high priority. Yeah, we would like you to sign this real team friendly 1145 01:46:57.199 --> 01:47:03.000 deal for these two years and then we can we can get out of it, 1146 01:47:03.319 --> 01:47:08.279 or we gonna just come back and you know, slap one more season 1147 01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:14.039 on it. It's it's not gonna work that way. But the Lions do 1148 01:47:14.199 --> 01:47:17.760 have you know, the Lions do have the leverage here. Certainly, they 1149 01:47:19.159 --> 01:47:25.159 they don't have much of a backup plan when it's just unknown when it comes 1150 01:47:25.199 --> 01:47:30.479 down to Hendon Hooker and you'd be sitting here with a team that is is 1151 01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:33.239 ready to compete in a window for the Super Bowl, and you could be 1152 01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:41.840 thinking, Wow, we're playing games with the quarterback. But you go into 1153 01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:48.600 this next year and you want it to go well for Jared Goff. He's 1154 01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:50.960 going to earn a little bit more money, but you can also put that 1155 01:47:51.119 --> 01:48:00.079 tag on him. The chances that the Lions would put the franchise tag on 1156 01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:05.960 Jared Goff As I sit here on May the tenth and think it out, 1157 01:48:09.560 --> 01:48:16.199 because Holmes has done things in his time here that doesn't fall in line with 1158 01:48:16.319 --> 01:48:20.800 what the fans want, what the fans think, what the experts want, 1159 01:48:20.920 --> 01:48:27.960 or what the experts think. I still think there's a chance that that is 1160 01:48:28.119 --> 01:48:31.359 could be the direction that he would go, But I think it's so you 1161 01:48:31.479 --> 01:48:34.760 have to put that at least in there. Anybody that comes out, I 1162 01:48:34.840 --> 01:48:41.119 know, it's the way things go. Certainly if you're running a talk show 1163 01:48:41.159 --> 01:48:45.520 to say absolutely there's no way that the Lions will go into next year without 1164 01:48:45.600 --> 01:48:49.399 having a golf sign of extension. There's zero chance. Well no, there's 1165 01:48:49.439 --> 01:48:56.479 more than a zero chance. You're just saying that has somebody who is has 1166 01:48:56.560 --> 01:48:58.880 an opportunity, it has a mic in front of him. But I would 1167 01:48:58.920 --> 01:49:06.239 put it at a a ten chance. Remember this is the same GM. 1168 01:49:06.800 --> 01:49:10.680 Let's say you can't take a running back, you're not taking tight ends and 1169 01:49:10.800 --> 01:49:15.079 running backs and mental linebackers. And then he did, and then he came 1170 01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:19.199 out, came out of the draft and was like, yeah, this is 1171 01:49:19.239 --> 01:49:25.319 what we did, this is who we are. Maybe uh, maybe after 1172 01:49:25.439 --> 01:49:28.600 next year, you know, he'll go in and talk about contract year or 1173 01:49:28.680 --> 01:49:34.560 something. He'll wear shirt talking about Brad Holmes. All right, looking ahead 1174 01:49:34.800 --> 01:49:41.039 to college football in the twenty twenty four season, just how will it look. 1175 01:49:42.199 --> 01:49:45.399 We'll get to that coming up at eight thirty five. More of your 1176 01:49:45.479 --> 01:49:48.039 text, your calls. We talk about the Lions, the playoffs, and 1177 01:49:49.199 --> 01:49:56.479 you know Freddy said something about you it he just can't enjoy the NHL and 1178 01:49:56.560 --> 01:50:00.920 the NBA Playoffs. I'll dive into that a little bit straight ahead. I'm 1179 01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:04.720 Dennis Fithian. It's Ex's and Bros. On the Michigan Sports Network. Hey 1180 01:50:04.800 --> 01:50:11.960 Michigan, let's go baby. 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You 1198 01:51:56.560 --> 01:52:04.159 had Brad Holmes yesterday saying that golf has earned an extension and it's a high 1199 01:52:04.239 --> 01:52:08.159 priority, and he said they would have liked to have had it done already, 1200 01:52:09.520 --> 01:52:13.520 along with sewel in Saint Brown. You know, however, you can 1201 01:52:14.199 --> 01:52:17.159 parse those words, you can do whatever you want. You could say, 1202 01:52:17.239 --> 01:52:23.560 sure, he's earned an extension to our liking. Yeah, here's a four 1203 01:52:23.680 --> 01:52:33.079 year extension at forty forty five and kind of spoon feeding it and Golf's agents 1204 01:52:33.239 --> 01:52:38.600 like, no, that's going to have to be closer to fifty and we're 1205 01:52:38.640 --> 01:52:41.359 going to need one hundred and fifty guaranteed. I mean, he said, 1206 01:52:41.359 --> 01:52:46.680 the negotiations that are playing out. If you're a Lions fan, you have 1207 01:52:46.840 --> 01:52:51.479 to ask yourself, and I think most Lione fans and I understand this. 1208 01:52:51.760 --> 01:52:57.399 I get this part where whatever they do, you say, we've got somebody 1209 01:52:58.239 --> 01:53:01.439 that's running things that we feel really good good about. And years past, 1210 01:53:01.560 --> 01:53:04.880 if you had this kind of situation and you'd say, well, the lines 1211 01:53:04.920 --> 01:53:09.359 are gonna screw it up no matter what happens. Now it's you feel the 1212 01:53:09.439 --> 01:53:15.920 exact opposite. You could back Brad Holmes. If they actually went into the 1213 01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:23.640 season they said they weren't going to have any contract negotiations during the season, 1214 01:53:23.880 --> 01:53:27.079 and they just went into the final year with Jared Goff, You'd say, 1215 01:53:27.119 --> 01:53:34.039 well, Holmes had his number, and they must they must like they must 1216 01:53:34.159 --> 01:53:43.680 like Hooker, and it does make you feel like they just must not really 1217 01:53:44.039 --> 01:53:47.279 trust. That's the the wrinkle in it. If it does play out there, 1218 01:53:47.319 --> 01:53:53.560 if they would take it all the way through next season, and it'd 1219 01:53:53.600 --> 01:53:58.079 be a gamble on both sides, But it does give you the feeling like, 1220 01:53:58.279 --> 01:54:02.960 yeah, we don't want to pay him top dollar as we feel like 1221 01:54:05.279 --> 01:54:11.079 we just don't believe he's that top five QB. That that's the kind of 1222 01:54:11.199 --> 01:54:15.039 vibes you get if it plays out that way, but you have that trust. 1223 01:54:15.079 --> 01:54:19.880 If you're a Lions fan, we're asking you about this situation, it's 1224 01:54:19.960 --> 01:54:25.399 unusual that you're sitting here talking about the Lions and having the trust. These 1225 01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:30.760 are the guys that you are now. Like at the you feel great about 1226 01:54:30.800 --> 01:54:35.640 with Brad Holmes and Jared Goff, But just like when you get to baseball 1227 01:54:35.720 --> 01:54:41.359 arbitration and you got to get over there and everything you say about the player 1228 01:54:43.039 --> 01:54:45.199 of your ownership, it's like, yeah, this guy can't do this, 1229 01:54:45.359 --> 01:54:46.840 he can't do that, We don't want to pay him this, and the 1230 01:54:46.920 --> 01:54:49.840 players are like, wow, man, these guys. It's a little bit 1231 01:54:49.960 --> 01:54:55.800 like this with Jared Goff until you get this signed. It's like, yeah, 1232 01:54:55.880 --> 01:54:58.920 we like you, but we don't like you. Fifty million dollars a 1233 01:54:59.039 --> 01:55:03.199 year. Yeah we'd like you, but you're gonna have to take a little 1234 01:55:03.199 --> 01:55:08.000 bit of a hometown discount. And he's not going to do that. As 1235 01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:15.840 much as Jared Goff loves it here and he's in the perfect situation, you 1236 01:55:15.920 --> 01:55:21.880 take a little bit of a hometown deal. I think once you have all 1237 01:55:21.960 --> 01:55:25.520 of that money and you have everything else and you're in this situation, I 1238 01:55:25.600 --> 01:55:30.359 think this is just my guess I think the golf. It's like with his 1239 01:55:30.439 --> 01:55:33.760 agent is like skip me where I won't be, where doesn't feel like I'm 1240 01:55:33.800 --> 01:55:39.000 getting taken advantage of, or it's going to be embarrassing whatever that number is 1241 01:55:39.039 --> 01:55:45.199 going to be, because yeah, he's not gonna find another situation at twenty 1242 01:55:45.279 --> 01:55:48.439 nine years old where he's sitting here where everything is lined up for him. 1243 01:55:50.720 --> 01:55:58.399 So there's that part. I said I would get to college football and grab 1244 01:55:58.439 --> 01:56:02.800 a line, send a text. We're looking for your thoughts here on baseball 1245 01:56:03.199 --> 01:56:09.600 with the Tigers, on the Lions situation as well on X's and bros. 1246 01:56:09.720 --> 01:56:13.880 Eight sixty six, eight three, eight forty eight forty three. That's the 1247 01:56:13.920 --> 01:56:19.960 myor hotline and a text. Sports radio to twenty one thousand. College football 1248 01:56:20.000 --> 01:56:23.439 is just look ahead and we get a long way. It's you know, 1249 01:56:23.560 --> 01:56:30.319 under one hundred days, but hey, who's counting. It's never We've never 1250 01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:38.000 had more changes in the last couple of years and then right into where we're 1251 01:56:38.000 --> 01:56:43.119 at right now, and I'm on board with all of it. You know, 1252 01:56:43.239 --> 01:56:47.800 the big eighteen, you bring it in the West Coast teams and you 1253 01:56:47.920 --> 01:56:56.159 know the you got USC and he hat Oregon and Washington and UCLA. It 1254 01:56:56.600 --> 01:57:00.840 sounds crazy and it feels crazy to you on board where you're talking about the 1255 01:57:00.920 --> 01:57:05.840 Big Ten country. Let's talk about UCLA and all the travel and everything else 1256 01:57:05.880 --> 01:57:12.800 back and forth. But where it sits right now with coach and program, 1257 01:57:14.840 --> 01:57:25.039 USC and Oregon and Washington Man these are these are red letter games are This 1258 01:57:25.239 --> 01:57:32.640 is not Michigan State playing Northwestern. This is not Michigan Purdue. These are 1259 01:57:32.720 --> 01:57:43.000 games the history between Michigan and USC, Michigan in Washington for instance, same 1260 01:57:43.039 --> 01:57:46.600 thing with Michigan State when you look at some of this. So I like 1261 01:57:47.079 --> 01:57:59.640 that it's a bigger, big time games in the conference. I like that 1262 01:58:00.159 --> 01:58:09.159 the Big Ten championship game is gonna be a better championship game. The Big 1263 01:58:09.239 --> 01:58:15.159 Ten West they never won a Big Ten title. They never had a team 1264 01:58:15.239 --> 01:58:21.199 that could do it. Now you're gonna have a Big Ten championship game against 1265 01:58:21.239 --> 01:58:28.640 the top two and no divisions. I like that. Even if if it's 1266 01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:33.520 like let's say a Michigan Ohiose State one week and then a Michigan Ohiose State 1267 01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:39.119 in the following week, it's not gonna water it down enough where you're gonna 1268 01:58:39.119 --> 01:58:44.640 be like, oh, I'm not gonna watch this game now, you'll still 1269 01:58:44.680 --> 01:58:50.680 watch it. I'm not with that argument. And then a twelve team playoff 1270 01:58:53.960 --> 01:59:00.960 is pretty awesome, more than the four team now already talking about. Oh, 1271 01:59:00.039 --> 01:59:03.000 let's go on to sixteen. Let's go let's calm down a little bit 1272 01:59:03.079 --> 01:59:08.159 on that. Let's let this one play out for a little bit before we 1273 01:59:08.279 --> 01:59:11.079 start. They haven't even played this one and they're already like, let's jack 1274 01:59:11.159 --> 01:59:13.920 it up. That's the way things go now. I don't mind talking about 1275 01:59:13.960 --> 01:59:16.520 it, but let's stay with the twelve teamer and let that breathe for a 1276 01:59:16.600 --> 01:59:23.399 while. Let's see what it looks like. So I'm looking forward to the 1277 01:59:23.960 --> 01:59:28.640 changes in college football and how that is going to play out. Now, 1278 01:59:30.159 --> 01:59:39.119 let's go to the Tigers and the feeling on the team. It's tough when 1279 01:59:41.600 --> 01:59:45.800 the prospects are a five hundred for the team, that's how they've played. 1280 01:59:46.039 --> 01:59:49.760 And you know, they're sitting here one game above five hundred, which is, 1281 01:59:49.960 --> 01:59:56.239 you know, record wise, a little bit better than okay. But 1282 01:59:56.319 --> 02:00:00.159 they're coming off the you know, the their worst road trip, their biggest 1283 02:00:00.239 --> 02:00:04.840 series where they lost two out of three, and so it's tough to be 1284 02:00:06.079 --> 02:00:12.880 you get excited when you know, it's human nature. When they're sweep a 1285 02:00:13.000 --> 02:00:17.279 series or win two out of three against a divisional opponent, you got to 1286 02:00:17.359 --> 02:00:23.000 feel a little bit better. But overall, I feel luke warm to where 1287 02:00:23.000 --> 02:00:31.880 they're at. I've had some feedback on the Tigers and how people are feeling 1288 02:00:31.960 --> 02:00:38.560 about him on Twitter. Derek said he has seen nothing to suggest this team's 1289 02:00:39.239 --> 02:00:42.680 improved it all from last season. If anything, the offense and the young 1290 02:00:42.720 --> 02:00:48.840 corpieces have regressed. Safe for Green and then CW says he feels like, 1291 02:00:49.239 --> 02:00:54.039 even if they develop a team full of superstars, don't just leave for the 1292 02:00:54.159 --> 02:00:58.000 Yankees or Dodgers. And he's talking about the need for a cap. I 1293 02:00:58.039 --> 02:01:02.840 think that's a little bit extreme. Matt talking about the Tigers, says, 1294 02:01:02.960 --> 02:01:09.920 honestly, a mixed bag. It's like rolling a dice or rolling a die 1295 02:01:10.119 --> 02:01:15.199 to see which Tigers we get the low offense, stellar pitching team, the 1296 02:01:15.319 --> 02:01:19.560 high output offense, terrible pitching team, or the average offense, bullpens screwing 1297 02:01:19.640 --> 02:01:29.000 up team. Miz says hopefully that road trip was a slap in the face 1298 02:01:29.039 --> 02:01:33.079 for him. As much as Hinch wants Torque to work through his hitting issues 1299 02:01:33.119 --> 02:01:38.039 in the show, he still thinks to trip down to Triple A is necessary 1300 02:01:38.199 --> 02:01:43.039 that and he hopes that when Geo finishes his rehab that he can get the 1301 02:01:43.119 --> 02:01:47.520 defense and extra base bats going. Yeah, the thing about Torque, if 1302 02:01:47.600 --> 02:01:58.159 everybody else was rolling and Torque was the one that was sticking out like a 1303 02:01:58.199 --> 02:02:02.920 sore thumb, I think they may have been able to say, you know, 1304 02:02:03.039 --> 02:02:14.079 let's uh, let's go have him work it out. How much when 1305 02:02:14.119 --> 02:02:25.279 there's so many automatic outs, you can't send everybody now, And I think 1306 02:02:25.319 --> 02:02:29.319 that's where they're they're they're sitting right now when it comes down to Tork. 1307 02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:33.560 They already sent Meadals. Now, I send cold Keith down next then, 1308 02:02:33.600 --> 02:02:41.880 and I'm gonna send Tork. He's third in line there. That would have 1309 02:02:42.000 --> 02:02:45.880 really been something if they said, yeah, we're gonna swap out Keith Tork 1310 02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:50.600 Meadows, we're gonna bring up the mud Hens. That's the way we're gonna 1311 02:02:50.640 --> 02:03:00.600 go about it. Interesting. And then one more the Tigers from SPP. 1312 02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:04.720 He says, really good pitching, very weak hitting, defensive struggles due to 1313 02:03:05.079 --> 02:03:13.560 versatile players being below average due to playing multiple positions. The one thing about 1314 02:03:13.560 --> 02:03:21.239 baseball that I think is always held true is that it's good the way that 1315 02:03:21.399 --> 02:03:29.159 they've been able to perform on the mound this year. But when you don't 1316 02:03:29.279 --> 02:03:34.720 hit, what happens is, you know, it's boring to watch for sure. 1317 02:03:35.720 --> 02:03:40.079 It's not like the postseason where you love one nothing games or two to 1318 02:03:40.119 --> 02:03:43.399 one games. In the regular season, especially if you're going to the game, 1319 02:03:43.520 --> 02:03:47.479 you want a little offense. But what happens every single time when the 1320 02:03:47.560 --> 02:03:53.800 team goes through a lack of offensive production, it looks like they don't care. 1321 02:03:55.880 --> 02:04:02.079 And then if you combine a lack of hitting with kicking and around in 1322 02:04:02.239 --> 02:04:09.239 key moments with your defense, then it looks like you're poorly managed and don't 1323 02:04:09.319 --> 02:04:16.760 care. And some of that jumped up against the Yankees and the Guardians. 1324 02:04:20.319 --> 02:04:25.600 You know, almost every team that's made a name change, it takes a 1325 02:04:25.640 --> 02:04:31.560 little while to get it going, and you know, people still screw up. 1326 02:04:31.640 --> 02:04:38.399 You know, it's the San Diego Chargers. You still have people saying 1327 02:04:38.479 --> 02:04:42.319 that once in a while. You know, you still slip in the little 1328 02:04:42.319 --> 02:04:45.359 Indians. I think I did it even earlier today, but I'm just just 1329 02:04:45.479 --> 02:04:58.279 saying the Tribe over the Guardians. I've been talking about the Tigers now. 1330 02:04:59.039 --> 02:05:05.399 Earlier when I asked about the playoffs. It's Freddy that says, he just 1331 02:05:06.720 --> 02:05:13.640 it's been so long for the Pistons winning in the postseason and other Red Wings 1332 02:05:13.640 --> 02:05:20.039 as well. It just couldn't get into what's going on nationally. And I 1333 02:05:20.199 --> 02:05:27.640 really understand it. It really takes effort and you just have to find different 1334 02:05:27.720 --> 02:05:32.199 ways. If you're let's just say, like, if you're a Red Wings, 1335 02:05:32.439 --> 02:05:38.279 Pistons Tigers fan, they don't you don't have that problem with the NFL 1336 02:05:38.319 --> 02:05:43.520 because it's so popular. But I get it. I remember, I don't 1337 02:05:43.560 --> 02:05:47.000 know how many years ago it was now with the Nationals won the World Series. 1338 02:05:47.079 --> 02:05:50.840 So the Tigers that were down so bad that I thought, you know, 1339 02:05:50.960 --> 02:05:55.800 when I'm willing to find another team. This was my effort that I 1340 02:05:55.840 --> 02:06:00.520 put in. I'm going to say I'm gonna pick a team and I'm gonna 1341 02:06:00.600 --> 02:06:03.000 pick a player. And it just so happened. My friend, who is 1342 02:06:03.199 --> 02:06:11.640 really into collecting cards, baseball cards in particular, he had a Wan Soto 1343 02:06:11.920 --> 02:06:14.000 card and he gave it to me. He said, this is kind of 1344 02:06:14.039 --> 02:06:16.680 guy you want to get behind. So I said, all right, this 1345 02:06:16.920 --> 02:06:20.880 is my guy, Wan Soto, and I'm going to root for the Nationals. 1346 02:06:21.760 --> 02:06:26.560 And the Nationals went on they won the World Series, and Wan Soos 1347 02:06:26.920 --> 02:06:29.159 is a hell of a player. He's one of the best players in baseball. 1348 02:06:29.239 --> 02:06:40.000 But it compared to the Tigers doing something. If the Tigers getting to 1349 02:06:40.079 --> 02:06:44.680 the playoffs is a ten and the Tigers being the worst team in baseball as 1350 02:06:44.680 --> 02:06:48.880 a zero, the Nationals winning the World Series and Juan Soto, the guy 1351 02:06:48.960 --> 02:06:53.520 that I, you know, hand picked to be like my player and my 1352 02:06:53.640 --> 02:06:58.039 new team, or at least the team until the Tigers were competitive, it 1353 02:06:58.199 --> 02:07:00.279 barely rated. I don't know, would I give it even a one, 1354 02:07:01.279 --> 02:07:05.000 not really give it a half. Just he goes, hey, this was 1355 02:07:05.079 --> 02:07:09.119 my team. I traded with the Astros two of the year they won because 1356 02:07:09.520 --> 02:07:12.479 Verlander was there and I thought, eh, I'd like to see him what 1357 02:07:12.680 --> 02:07:15.600 a World Series? And he did it and I watched and I was kind 1358 02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:17.359 of like, but it didn't do anything. I mean, it was hard. 1359 02:07:18.640 --> 02:07:28.159 So I put that effort through and it just it didn't work. I've 1360 02:07:29.119 --> 02:07:33.039 I haven't really done the same thing with in terms of picking another team. 1361 02:07:36.279 --> 02:07:40.039 I've watched the Pistons these last couple of years, and a lot of what 1362 02:07:40.199 --> 02:07:43.920 happens is I watch, but it's very easy to turn off, and it's 1363 02:07:44.039 --> 02:07:45.800 very easy to miss games. A little bit like that with the Red Wings 1364 02:07:45.840 --> 02:07:55.560 too, pools, fantasy leagues. Oh yeah, gambling that can help a 1365 02:07:55.640 --> 02:08:01.399 little bit, you know, to get the interest. There were a couple 1366 02:08:01.439 --> 02:08:05.760 of years maybe you love hockey, you're gonna watch you love basketball, kind 1367 02:08:05.800 --> 02:08:11.399 of the same way. But it's just you've got to find some way somewhere 1368 02:08:11.560 --> 02:08:18.520 in there to find something rather than just like for for it to grab you, 1369 02:08:20.159 --> 02:08:24.239 to find that effort to go through it. You got to do that. 1370 02:08:24.840 --> 02:08:30.159 How those are some of the suggestions, you know, to get through 1371 02:08:30.199 --> 02:08:35.920 it. Somebody telling you. It's a little bit like I found out over 1372 02:08:37.000 --> 02:08:41.920 the years with the w n b A and let's say, oh I don't 1373 02:08:41.199 --> 02:08:46.600 this is oh the women's game, and it's just kind of like no thanks, 1374 02:08:46.640 --> 02:08:52.920 But then it just grabbed me last year with uh with Iowa, with 1375 02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:56.319 LSU. It certainly happened there. And you know, here I was today 1376 02:08:58.279 --> 02:09:01.000 when I was watching the highlights, They're like, here's the Fevers last preseason 1377 02:09:01.119 --> 02:09:05.720 game before they start the regular season. And in the years passed out if 1378 02:09:05.760 --> 02:09:07.760 tuned out of that so fast, and here I was like, eh, 1379 02:09:07.680 --> 02:09:16.119 Kaylen Claire they grabbed it, so it'd be nice to see the other sports 1380 02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:24.000 be able to do that for Detroit fans. I want to thank Ben Zost 1381 02:09:24.479 --> 02:09:26.600 on the Variable Resistors producing a show. Thank you very much, Ben, 1382 02:09:26.800 --> 02:09:33.439 great job. Thank Matt Sheppard for letting me pinch hit today when he needs 1383 02:09:33.520 --> 02:09:37.960 it. I will grab my bat and run up to the plate whenever he 1384 02:09:37.119 --> 02:09:41.239 needs me. 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