Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,
I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I
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This Friday, May the tenth. Good morning, everybody. Dennis fit the
end back again, filling in for Matt Shepherd. If this is the first
time you've heard my voice, welcome and it's nice to be talking at you
out there this morning. I filled in around the NFL Draft the day before
the NFL Draft a couple of weeks ago in Detroit and then NFL Draft Day,
and I was enthusiastic about the draft being in the state of Michigan and
specifically Detroit, with the Lions coming off their best season in damn near seventy
years. And you know what, it lived up to the hype. The
draft even exceeded my own lofty expectations. I loved it all the things that
you might say. It checked all the boxes. But you know, the
Lions did well, and Detroit and the state of Michigan seemed like they came
away and everybody liked what they saw. Everybody had a good time down there.
How about that. I even hear about any issues now. That was
awesome. It's great to be back here. Hope, wherever you are at,
your family and friends are recovering, missed, or are recovering from that
severe weather earlier this week that I think had all of us in the state
of Michigan at one point on our toes. Certainly if you were out in
it. I just was in a del huge driving in it, but didn't
have to deal with those high winds. Certainly not the tornadoes. Specifically that
tornado on the west side of the state that went through. So here we
are and we'll be here until nine o'clock on X's and Bros. On the
Michigan Sports Network. Why not just jump right into things. It's playoff time,
and you know you can dwell on the Wings and Pistons, having been
so long since either of those teams have been in the playoffs. I was
just looking for, you know, the Pistons because they've been in the playoffs
a few times, but they haven't won a playoff game in seventeen years,
so that's been a while. And the Wings, who had that incredible streak,
you know, twenty five twenty six, they kept going and then people
were like, I'm tired of this streak of just getting into the playoffs.
So it was understandable because they had made so many runs that they haven't made
the playoffs for eight years and it's been, you know, twelve years since
they've even won a series. Now, we had a little bit of Red
Wings fever late in the season where the Little Caesars Arena was alive and it
felt like it felt like twelve years ago or or fifteen years ago, and
everyone was looking forward to that. But as we all know now they did
not make it. If they did make it, they were going to have
to take the Blue Shirts the New York Rangers. And the Rangers have just
come out in the Stanley Cup playoffs and they just have not lost a game.
They won again last night in overtime, again three to two over Carolina.
The Rangers won in double overtime against the Canes on Tuesday, four to
three last night, Paneren had the winner, so a three to zero lead
for the New York Range. They are seven and oh in the playoffs.
It's the first time since two thousand and eight that a team has jumped out
to a seven oh perfect record in the postseason. That was the Penguins back
in eight. And we know that was the last time that the Red Wings
won the Stanley Cup. And so the last team to go and start out
perfect after seven games made it all the way to the Stanley Cup finals.
And now Carolina. If you are looking at the Canes and wondering why they're
in the spot that they are, they were the second best statistically power play,
They had the second best power play in the regular season. They were
oh for last night and they were over in the series. Oh for fifteen
on the power play for the Canes. So that's why they are looking up
at the New York Rangers, who are on the cusp now of making the
Eastern Conference finals. The other Stanley Cup playoff game last night was Dallas and
Colorado, and the Stars end up winning that one five to three. They
got up four to nothing, and you're thinking, no, you weren't thinking
that it was over, because if you have followed this series, the Avs
were down three to zero in Game one and they came back and won that
game. So the Stars go up four to nothing after forty minutes, and
then here comes Colorado again, getting within one goal late. Dallas scores in
the final minute to get that five to three margin, so that series is
tied at one. You like offense, and you do like if you're just
sitting back watching playoff hockey and it's not your team and you whatever, you're
just enjoying the sport. A lot of times you see a three, four
nothing lead and you're like, this is over, forget it. But in
this particular series, you're saying, Okay, I'm gonna have to hang around
here, because we've seen the firepower that Colorado has so you'll stay around and
watch a little bit of that. Now we'll take it over to the hardwood
and the NBA last night. Before I do that, I want to tell
you that I'm going to get into some Lions coming up straight ahead, and
I ask you the question something you can think about a little bit. What's
the biggest question mark for the Detroit Lions heading into the summer at six eighteen.
I'll answer that question myself. The biggest question mark for the Detroit Lions
heading into the summer. Maybe we're on the same page, maybe you're thinking
something else, but you know we're May tenth the draft of the rearview mirror.
OTA's the schedule next week, and you think about this team that made
it all the way to the NFC Championship Game, the biggest question mark in
your mind heading into the summer at eighteen, I'll answer that now. Basketball
a little bit of a surprise last night. If you have not heard the
result, the Calves the Cleveland Cavaliers in Boston. After losing by twenty five
points in Game one, flipped the script and won by twenty four points last
night Cleveland. They were tied at the half, but Cleveland wins it one
eighteen ninety four. The series is tied at one, and the Celtics,
you just look, I watched this game and it was there must have been
some late threes to even make it. It didn't look as bad. But
the Celtics they shot thirty five threes and only hit twenty three percent of them,
eight of them. And then on the other side, Cleveland was down
it up. They hit thirteen threes forty six percent from downtown. If a
team shoots forty six percent from downtown and you only shoot twenty three percent from
distance, you are not going to win the game. And that what happened
to Boston. If you're a Celtics fan, you can say, hey,
we lost the game and it was at the Garden in round one to the
heat, and then we just dispatched them on the road and probably thinking that.
I don't think anybody's thinking that, you know, Cleveland, they've made
it a series, but I don't think anybody's thinking that they have, you
know, Boston right where they want him. Dallas comes back, evens up
their series with OKC. At OKAC last night, Dallas look at Donchez limping
around, scored twenty nine points and Dallas wins by nine one. Nineteen won
ten, so that series is tied at one. So there's your playoffs.
We'll keep you up to speed on that and have some questions about that.
We'll get to that. Lion's question their biggest question mark heading into the summer
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done as fifthy in inframat Shepherd and this Morning and it's a great to be
with you. We got that lion's question and a little tiger's to dive into
this segment. If you're just tuning in, you had the Rangers in overtime
and Dallas beating the Dallas Stars taking the Avs down by two in the Stanley
Cup playoffs. And on the hardwood, it was the Calves over the Celtics
in Beantown and then the MAVs took down OKC. Both of those series are
tied at one. All right, I ask you what's the biggest question mark
for the Detroit Lions heading into the summer? And the phone number is eight
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Radio to twenty one thousand. I would enjoy hearing from you across the state
of Michigan to get your feelings on this, just how you are looking at
the Detroit Lions and the biggest question mark for them. Now, I'm going
to answer that question here straight ahead, which is the time right now?
And recently the Lions came up with big time extensions with their right tackle Panay
Sewel and Amna Saint Brown and their quarterback Jared Goff is heading into his final
year on his contract and twenty four the cap number is thirty two million,
and since, well, I'll back up. Before those extensions, there was
the thought that the Lions might not be able to if you were calling Sewell,
Saint Brown, and Golf the big three, that they might not be
able to sign the Big three to extensions. But they can do that.
They took care of Sewel. Everybody thought that that was the right move.
Same thing with Saint Brown Golf. Not everybody is one hundred percent convinced that
the twenty nine year old quarterback is ready for this gigantic extension to make him
one of the highest paid quarterbacks in the league. And you know, get
fifty million a year, you're like, oh, oh, is Brad Holmes
going to do that? And by Brad Holmes not doing it along with his
offensive linemen and wide receiver, the thought was, and the door was cracked
a little bit there, that hey, maybe the Lions are playing a little
bit of a hard ball all in negotiations with Jared Goff. Maybe even the
Lions would take the course that the Dallas Cowboys did a few years ago with
Dak Prescott and then a few years ago that Washington took with Kirk Cousins,
and that is this franchise tag your quarterback. The Lions could go into next
year with Jared Goff playing on the last year of his contract and then they
could simply put the franchise tag on him. And the pluses and minuses of
that are talked about quite a bit. The positives you're not tied up for
three four years with one hundred and fifty two hundred million dollars guaranteed. The
minus is that every day on shows like this and across the internet, the
topic of what are the Lions doing with Jared Goff and what are they going
to do at quarterback? And this is an unstable situation and he's gone and
who's next? And it's a call trade of just ivery of all of the
time focusing in the quarterback. No, the Lions don't want to do that.
And just yesterday Brad Holmes Allions GM was on Detroit Radio and Holmes said
that Jared Goff has earned an extension. He also said that it's a high
priority. He went on to say that he would have liked to have had
it done. The contract extension along with Paday Sewell and Amana Saint Brown.
Now we know that did not happen. Are we taking what Brad Holmes had
to say and believing him? I would say yes, I think that it
makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense to sign Jared
Goff and to look at this Lion's window whatever that contract is going to be
for five years, and you know the guaranteed money, and people will flip
out and they'll say, Jared Goff is not a top five quarterback. Why
are you paying him top five money? And he say, well, it
won't be long that he won't be a top five quarterback, and everybody will
jump in front of the line and that'll just push him back. But the
Lions don't have an answer necessarily at quarterback. It'd be a big gamble to
go into the final year and somebody say, well, what about Hendon Hooker.
Lions took him in the draft a couple of years ago, go in
the third round and if he would not have hurt his knee, the talk
was the projection. There are projections that Hooker could have been a first round
pick. So the Lions got great value and we're able to sit on Hooker
and then you know, maybe Hooker could just take over for Jared Goff after
next year. That's a gamble just thinking about it. Now. The Lions
have been able to see Hooker in practice, but again, he was coming
off of his knee surgery, So how much have they really seen him and
how much can they really know? Now Hennan Hooker is twenty six years old,
He's just a few years younger than Jared Goff. But if they really
thought, I mean, there's the idea if there isn't an extension sign,
and I would I think this that if there was not an extension sign by
the end of this month, so three weeks, that the Lions might want
to really put Hendon Hooker through the paces when they get the OT agent look
at the dates and really think, hey, should we play this out even
longer? Or is this going to help in our negotiations. Let's say they
look at Hooker they just say, man, you know this guy, we're
putting everything, We're throwing everything at him. He's one hundred percent healthy and
he just is he's it. We believe in him. Oh, then they
do play a little hardball. This is just a you know, the theory
and it is the possibility that they could be thinking this way, and the
thing that you would get if they did go that route for the next four
years, Hendon Hooker's cap number is under two million. It's one to seven,
I'm sorry, one three, one six, one six, one eight
over the next four years. That looks a lot different than thirty two forty
nine fifty two million, fifty five million that they're gonna have to cough up
for Jared Golf if they go that way. So that's the game that they're
playing, and they have to make that decision about the flyer that they took
on Hooker, and maybe that they can get a better look and better gauge
if they can, if they can get him out on the field and the
practice fields and put him through the paces a little bit to get a read
on that. And I don't think that's gonna happen, but it is the
biggest question mark for the Lions. I do believe that they'll get Jared Goff
signed and then this window with Golf I think for about three years, so
we'll be taking a look at it in terms of winning a Super Bowl.
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on X's and bro S. Dennis smithian in for Matt Shepard talking about the
Lions and the Tigers last night of the playoffs, Rangers and Stars win on
the ice, and the Calves and the MAVs the hardwood. Now, we
got the question out there with the Lions, the biggest question mark before this
team heading out into the summer, I said Jared Goff and signing him to
an extension. You want to jump in on that. I would like to
hear from you. Maybe I agree on that, and you get some questions,
you get some points on the Lions quarterback eight six six eight three eight
forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline eight six six eight three eight forty
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Text Sports Radio to twenty one thousand and get your thoughts in that way.
I'm also going to get to the Detroit Tigers this segment, and they have
a series that they're opening up at Colberica against the Astros starting tonight, and
that six point forty start time down at Comerica, which I like the earlier
start time. Now let's go to the text. Ben Zos is the producer,
and he's looking at the text. What did I say says if they
decide to sign Goff for me, I would only offer a two year extension
eighty four million guaranteed forty two million per if Goff says, no, fans
won't be cheering his name anymore. Yeah, now that would be the ultimate
hardball you're talking about forty two that's you could send that over to Jared Goff's
agent and he's not going to return your call. So, I mean,
there's reasonable expectations for a deal? Is there? To me, there's a
it's not an easy deal. As your Jared Goff's agent, and you're going
to want close to fifty and you're gonna want to between one hundred and fifty
and two hundred million guaranteed. That's what the going rate is. So you
know the Lions are in a good spot. They have to have golf.
You know, golf's the one that has the leverage on the Lions. Now
you're talking about a couple million here and there. Now, I know as
a Lions fan, and I sit back and I ranked the quarterbacks in the
NFL yesterday, and I saw a writer ranked the quarterbacks in the NFL,
and it had the wheels spinning and me thinking about the position. Just I
guess it's in a vacuum. You sit back, and if you have a
superstar, difference maker quarterback, it means everything for your team. If you
have Patrick Mahomes, if you have Lamar Jackson, if you have Josh Allen,
if you have Joe Burrow, those kind of guys. The Lions don't
have that, but they've got a nice quarterback that they can win a super
Bowl with. That's important. You have to ask that question, can you
win a Super Bowl with Jared Goff and the answer, are we all in
agreement. Yes, they should have got to the super Bowl last year,
but they blew that seventeen point halftime lead, as you know. But can
they use that experience? Can they get back there, win some playoff games,
win the NFC North, and then be in position and get to the
Super Bowl. Can they do that with this team that they have, with
the draft that just took place and the players to beef up to help out
that defense. Can they do that? They say? Yeah. The part
that you look over this window over the next couple of years, when that
money for the quarterback goes up and up and up, well, then the
rest of the team and the particular parts it goes down, down, down,
and then you need more from that quarterback. I mean, that's the
game that we're playing here. The X factor is Brad Holmes and his personnel
decisions. If Brad Holmes can continue to go out there and hit it out
of the park almost every time he's at bat like he did last year.
With the draft, well you could pay Jared Goff fifty million dollars and that's
where we're sitting at. You know, this this window of two to three
years you know, even if the contract it's going to be around five years
for golf, but after three it's one of those deals where if the thing
falls apart and you can move on, it's not totally crippling, where you're
just done. You're able to get out of it after three years. That's
where I'm looking at it right now. I think that's the what do you
call it a sweet spot? Those are the particulars they should sign Jared Goff.
I don't think they're they're playing this game to look at Hendon Hooker.
That is the the one part that we can all look at. We all
know that as sports fans, fans like the backup quarterback in general much more
than the team that actually is seeing them. He's never lost a game,
an incredible upside, a minuscule cap number, and you know there can be
a lot of excitement that way. Think about golf, and you know,
the fans obviously love him, and it was even pointed out in that text.
You know they can go cheer his name and everything else. But with
Brad Holmes, and even though Holmes said yesterday that this is a high priority
and that he's earned an extension, a couple of years ago, the Lion
said who was the running back from Green Bay? Jamal Williams. And everyone
loved Jamal Williams. He would stand there after the game, huge smile on
his face, connected with the town, the media there joking with him.
Everyone loved him. And what did Holmes do. Everyone's like, yeah,
I got to bring this guy back. No, he won another direction,
Oh, David Montgomery, And everybody's like, oh man, this guy was
perfect for our teams. David Montgomery's a better running back and that was the
right decision. The point there is that, you know, even though the
fans love Jared Goff and they chant his name and everything else, those those
cheers and those chants turn around pretty quickly if you're not getting it done on
the field. Golf has been getting it done on the field, and that's
why it's working like it's working for him right now. All right, open
line available for you. Now. Look, if you are not someone that
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three eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline eight six six, eight
three eight forty eight forty three. Now the question about the Tigers, how
do you feel about the Detroit Tigers? And my answer it's been a very
exciting answer, it's luke warm. Now. I mentioned that I filled in
for Shepp a couple of weeks ago around the NFL Draft, and I was
feeling different about the Tigers. Well, they were playing better, there was
more optimism. And right now now they haven't quite played forty games, but
they almost have. And that's the first mark where you say, all right,
what kind of team are we talking about here? What kind of grade
are we going to give them? And unfortunately, just for the Tigers this
morning, heading into this series and this home what six game homestand with the
Astros followed by a beatable Marlins team that's coming in that's nineteen games below five
hundred, they should be able to turn this thing around. But right now,
this is the low point of the season for the Detroit Tigers. They
are still about five hundred. But they went to New York and got swept
in some close games. I lost by what one run, two runs,
three runs in the three games in the Bronx. But then you focused in
on this game again, the Indians, and you looked at the Al Central
and it's surprising that the did I call them the Indians the Guardians. I
was going to the Guardians and the Royals and the Twins, and the Tigers
are pretty much all jumbled right in there, all of them. A four
horse race with them. So as big of a series for a starving Tigers
fan base that you could have in early May showdown against the Guardians, it
was at least the early litmus test two for one with games against Cleveland.
The Tigers went out there and they should have won two of three, and
instead they lost two out of three. Heck, you could make a case
they should have swept Cleveland. They lost two to one. They had that
lead in the first game, then they put up eleven runs and got a
victory. And then on Wednesday they lost in extras five to four, where
Cleveland scored one the seventh eighth, ninth, and ten to end up coming
back and winning that game. But everything that you don't like about the Tigers
showed up in that game against Cleveland on Wednesday. They didn't really hit,
they they didn't have the defense, they were kicking it around, and then
the bullpen let him down. The thing that has been their strength. You
know, they're pitching, and then in particular the bullpen, which had been
really good and let them down. That's a that's an early bruise. That's
a four game swing. Certainly a two game swing when you start thinking about
the way that they lost those games on the road against Cleveland, and I
say luke warm because this was a team that was pegged at five hundred entering
the season. This is a team that I thought would be five hundred.
Oh, we all make our predictions. I wasn't throwing a ninety win season
out there looking at this roster, but I did think since their number heading
into the season was right at five hundred. I don't like ties. I
don't like putting it right at five hundred. Said all right, I'll pick
eighty two games. Eighty two games is not going to get you to the
postseason. But as we sit here and they're what three games shy. Now
they'll get to that forty gay mark in this series against the Astros, and
that is the first one where you say, all right, what can you
do here? And the old forty game mark really resonates with Tiger fans.
It's been forty years since they've won a World Series. Sparky's number was forty
games, the old Tiger manager, and of course in eighty four they started
thirty five and five with that forty gay mark. So no, we're sitting
here and you give the Tigers a C, being five hundred getting a grade
of a C. That's why it's it's lukewarm to mean right now, pitching
great out the pitching is, you know, above average. I'd give them
a B, but they hitting a D. Balances that out bad way.
So as we sit here and I think for Tigers fan, if you're some
Tigers fans, there's somebody across the state of Michigan that eyeballed this series against
the Astros. They're making the long drive in and you're thinking, man,
I'm just gonna go enjoy some baseball. The Tigers. They're wearing their their
City connect jerseys, You're like, I'll drop a couple hundred on the City
connect Jerseys, another couple hundred the tickets, another couple one hundred on some
dog. It's just gonna be fun, fun trip for five or six whatever
you're gonna end up spending. You understand that, but you're just gonna enjoy
the ballpark. You a nice leisurely sit back and enjoy the weekend for one
of these games. And I got the Hana radio tell me that this is
a c team, a five hundred team, and the feeling is luke warm.
Where's the optimism? I think the optimism is that heading into the season,
there were some young players that I think you you looked at that you
were just hopeful that could that could do something that make you feel better about
their prospects. And somebody like Trek Scooble certainly has been able to do that.
And you know there have been some other the Jack Flaherty has has had
some nice outings, Reese Olsen certainly has some of those guys in the bullpen,
and you had the youngster Colt Keith, and you like Carry Carpenter if
you're a Tiger's fan, Riley Green, but you also see that these automatic
outs that have been there. But really you're you're Tigers fan in general heading
into this season and and how they felt about this team. It's hard for
your average Tiger fan to have the optimism because they don't have trust in the
ownership. Fans don't trust Chris Ilich. Now, they don't trust Chris Ilich
just because the Tigers have been bad since he took over for his late father.
They don't necessarily allough, this is one of the things that your average
Tiger fan isn't like that the Tigers did not spend any money. They have
the seventh lowest payroll their way under league average. When it comes down the
payroll, Tiger fans, you know, you're not gonna love that. But
they don't like Chris Ilich because they felt like they have been scammed by the
Tigers owner when it came down to the district of Detroit and you're going to
take a pessimistic look at Chris Ilich. When they came out and they they
had the hockey building, the Little Caesars Arena, and it was billed as,
oh, the neighborhoods and what this is going to do for the city
of Detroit and the building is fine for illach, but the surrounding area.
If I'm putting a grade out, it gets an F and everyone would give
Chris Ilich an F. Chris Ilich is giving himself. Has to wake up
in the morning and saying, you know what, I ain't got a big
F on that. And that's why Tiger fans don't trust me. He's got
to say that he looks at himself. So that's why I put him at
luke warm where I'm sitting right here. We'll get into this more in the
seven o'clock hour plus back to the Lions and back to the quarterback position and
just how much money that position is worth for the Lions. All of that,
I'm done. A Swiftian in for Matt Shepherd on Access and Bros.
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in for Matt Shepherd. It's great to be here with you as we forge
ahead this Friday. Get you ready for this standing weekend in the state of
Michigan. Yeah, we're talking about the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Lions,
and I'll get you some questions on both of those teams, and if you
know the numbers and you got the text, you could jump in on those
right away. Also, Kapan, you have to speed and we've got along
with the open line available for you. I'm saying open topics. If you're
somebody that's interested in what's going on on the ice or the hard wood in
the NBA and NHL playoffs, you can jump in on that. Where last
night you had the Rangers winning in overtime again they won the other night and
double overtime last night, just an ot penerin with the winner of the Rangers
have a three to zero lead over the Canes and the Blue Shirts are seven
to zero in the playoffs. In the nightcap, Dallas got out to a
four zip lead, they hang on to a five to three victory and they
tie up their series with the Avs. The Stars do at one game piece,
and then in basketball, the Calves lose Game one against the Celtics by
twenty five points. Cleveland comes back, turns the tables on Boston wins by
twenty four. Last night, Cleveland shoots well from downtown Boston does not.
That series is tied at one. And then late night in okac Luka,
Doncic limped around to a twenty nine to ten and seven stat line as the
MAVs were able to even up their series with Oka See by winning by nine.
So that's the way it goes in the playoffs right now. A lot
of different things that you could jump on if you're so inclined on the basketball
and hockey side now. At the first hour, I asked you what the
biggest question mark for the Detroit Lions is heading into the summer, and the
answer Jared Gauf and when and if and when the Lion signed him to this
gigantic extension. Brad Holmes, the Lions GM yesterday, says he's earned it,
golf has. He also said it's a high priority, and he said
he would like to have had it done a couple of weeks ago, along
with the Sewell and Saint Brown. Are you buying that? I think he's
trying to bide his time so they can look at their third round pick from
a couple of years ago, Hendon Hooker, and seeing if that can get
involved with the negotiations and would they really play it out with a last year
on his deal, thinking that, oh, if it works well, great,
we could just always make that decision, or we could just put the
franchise tag on him. I don't like the idea of the franchise tag on
Jared Goff. It protects the Lions with some guaranteed money, but also just
the way that they have it going right now I think that they'll find a
way to get this deal. Now a couple minutes. In a couple minutes,
I'll ask you and I'll tell you what I think where Jared Goff should
be ranked with other NFL quarterbacks. But I'm going to ask you what you
think an acceptable rating is for golf, and I'll give you that ranking myself
at seven nineteen as I went through that exercise, as I was driving around
yesterday ranking the NFL quarterbacks. It is that time of year, and I'll
see if you find it acceptable. That's an acceptable ranking, But I'll give
you that one. Coming up at seven nineteen, we talk about the Tigers
and we ask you how you feel about them. The number eight six six
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Also looking for those texts you tech sports radio to twenty one thousand. You
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and bros. Now, I put a tweet out about the Tigers, and
I said, at last hour home, it's not exciting when I ask somebody
says, hey, how you feeling about the Tigers? Got those Detroit City
connect jerseys at the Astros coming in, they're above five hundred. How you
feeling well after losing two of three to the Guardians. Not so hot.
I feel lukewarm after getting swept by the Yankees in the Bronx in a one,
two, three run game. Lukewarm with this team. I put that
tweet out, and Derek says he's seen nothing to suggest this team has improved
at all from last season. If anything, the offense and their young core
pieces have regressed save Riley Green. I got CW responding, as I just
put that tweet out, saying they could draft and develop a team full of
superstars, it won't matter. They'll all be Yankees or Dodgers when they become
free agents. Baseball needs a salary cap. Hmm. That's not happening.
And I get the pessimism about if you have a good player, they're all
just going to end up a big market team. And man, if I
was sitting over here, I guess I gotta go back twenty when Mike Ilitch
was alive, I would say that's not happening. Mike Ilitch is not letting
Riley Green, for instance, leave town just for the big money of New
York or LA. But you could say, yeah, we're not dealing with
Mike, We're dealing with Chris and the pessimism, as I went over in
the first hour, the overall trust and the Tigers owner Chris Ilich is it's
very low. He has shown it's next thing might be a little bit harsh,
but you know because he did. He did get a J. Green,
I mean a J. Hinch. Nice to bring in a J.
Green in his primate alliance as a wide receip but no, but Hinch,
that's what he's got. Anything else not really, So that's where it's at
when it comes down to it. Now. These uh, these Connect jerseys.
When I first saw them, I thought, well, there'll be a
ton of Tiger fans who will buy these up if the if the team comes
limping home and there This is before the season. You know, I knew
they were going to be one of the teams that are gonna have these alternate
jerseys, these city connect jerseys. Say, well, you know they'll if
the Tigers are doing good and they look good, you know people will be
snapping those up. And that they're just a little bit above five hundred and
one game. I have seen mixed reviews of these Connect jerseys, and the
people will people will be buying these things up. Now. You know,
you get a hat that says Detroit me and you could have gone out there,
the two of us, and we could have put together our jerseys and
people would say, oh, we hate them, but then they would snap
them up. That's kind of what I look. I don't know they they
put the creative minds behind these, but they're a little bit like the tea.
I'd give them a little bit above lukewarm because people like new things.
They get that, and they are new and they hadn't They don't look anything
like what the Tigers have going. So a little bit better than lukewarm.
W with the City Connect jerseys when it comes down to it, all right,
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I'm loving it in terms of the weather. Let's go now the playoffs.
Last night on the basketball side, you had the Cabs evening up their series
at one game peace, beating the Celtics in Boston by twenty four points.
And then you had the MAVs taking down the Thunder in OKC by nine points
and evening up that seria at one game apiece. And hockey the Stars like
the MAVs and also the Calves. They even up their series with the Aves
by downing the Colorado Avalanche five to three. And it doesn't fit the tied
up series or anything else, but the Rangers they win in overtime again over
the Hurricanes, three to two. I've watched those last two games, and
when you would look at you'd say, well, what's been the best series
in the Stanley Cup playoffs so far? It's actually been the Rangers and the
Canes. You wouldn't think that if you're just looking at the numbers, but
then you say, oh yeah, two double over, two overtime games,
one double overtime game, and man, it's the great thing. And then
also the frustra reading thing about hockey. These last two games, the Keynes
have been the better team the majority of the time and they have just not
been able to They've been shut out on the power play, and then the
great equalizer, as we all know, in goal Shasterkin. He's not gonna
He's not losing four games in a row. I'll guarantee that. Oh boy,
I'll guarantee that Igor Shasterkin isn't losing four games in a row for the
Rangers. But that's been a very entertaining series, although it's only been a
couple in the history of the NHL where you've seen a team come back from
three to zero. And I just made that guarantee that it's not happening.
What would I do if it happened, Uh, I would have to I
would have to take some recommendations on that. I don't put out many guarantees,
but I feel pretty safe in that one. Even though the Canes they've
all been one goal games and two of them have been in overtime, and
Carolina looks pretty good. I just I feel pretty good about the guarantee.
All right, So an acceptable ranking for Jared Goff? I ranked the first
thing. It was just perusing yesterday and I came upon a post draft quarterback
power ranking and it was on CBS and I had never heard of the author,
Cody Benjamin is his name from CBS Sports. But I'm like, well,
let's see. I thought, well, where's he going to have golf
after the draft? And so I went in there and I said, mahomes
at one, all right, Brock Party number two? What Brock Party?
It caught my attention. Now you see a lot of rankings of quarterbacks pretty
much by every service or any person that's following the NFL. Covering the NFL.
You're gonna do that, just like a power rankings for the teams,
post draft, all of it. But when I saw Brock Party, I
stopped and said, well, this guy, this guy must be one's forty
nine er guy too, trying to just you know, create some controversy.
And I just stopped at that. But as I was driving around yesterday,
I kept coming back to it. I'm like, how could anybody in their
right mind covering the NFL put Brock Party ranking quarterbacks as the number two quarterback
heading into the twenty twenty four season, Just driving around mad at this writer.
But then as I was driving, I was thinking about the Jared golf
and where I would put him in a ranking, and thinking about that cap
number and if it gets close to fifty million, how that's going to hurt
the Lions and the other areas unless they draft really well, continue to draft
really well. And then I thought, well, maybe this guy is looking
at the Brock pretty cap number and that's why he's putting Party number two.
Because that's a pretty nice situation if you're looking at making fifty million dollars a
year for these quarterbacks that are up towards the top, or if you're Brock
Party and your cap number is one million dollars or two million dollars over the
next two years, you've got fifty million to play with if you're the forty
nine ers, And you could say, well, that's why you would rank
him number two. And I thought, maybe this guy that I completely dismissed
looking at his rankings, upon further review, I thought, maybe this guy's
pretty sharp. Well he was writing why he had the rankings of the of
the quarterbacks. It wasn't just I mean, you could just rank them,
fine, but then you can also put your reasoning under any sense he had
reasoning, and I thought for sure he was going to say, well,
with rock Party, me and mister irrelevant and you're paying him peanuts for the
next two years. This is a great situation. That's why I've got him
number two. I thought that was going to be the reasoning and I thought,
oh, excellent, But he didn't put that at all in there.
So then so I don't know. So I came back to my original thought,
where this guy doesn't know what he's doing putting brock Party number two.
Now, all of that being said, as I was ranking the quarterbacks,
I said, I figured that with the realization or the thought that you must
incline how much you're paying this quarterback to put him in a ranking. And
then when I had Goff where I was going to fit him in, I
would say, would I trade this quarterback right now with their contract for Jared
Goff? So those were my parameters as I went through it, and like
everyone, I put my hoomes two and then I think the next three Joe
Burrow, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen two three, four. That's the
way I ranked him. If you wanted to say you thought Josh Allenen it
would be two or Lamar would be two. You know, I'm not gonna
kill anybody for that. It's subjective. I put Joe Burrow too because he's
had success the Bengals have against the Chiefs. That's why I did it.
Lamar was the MVP, Josh Allen's pretty good. And then so five six,
I went with Jalen Hurts. I think what we've seen from him and
the team that he has around him, how the offense is built for him.
At five, I've got Stroud after his outstanding year. To get Steph
Diggs Stefan Diggs, I put him at six. So those are the top
six. So then I put Jordan Love at seven. And that's where I'm
gonna ask you, like you're a Lions fan, can you admit or do
you think that this is not acceptable? Of having Jordan Love in front of
Jared Goff and a quarterback ranking, I got Justin Herbert at eight. Also
in front of Jared Goff, I've got Matt Stafford in front of Jared Goff's
I'll put those three guys right there, acceptable or not. As a Lion
fan, love Herbert and Stafford ranked above Jared Goff heading into the season.
That's out there for you. I'll give you the rest where Goff ended up
landing on that list. We've got the Tigers. We're talking a little bit
about the Lions and their quarterback situation and the NHL and NBA playoffs. That's
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of weeks ago, I was in for Sheppard in the NFL Draft, But
you know, being on on a Friday, it's always great. Like I
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Staring at a weekend in the spring in Michigan at this time of year,
it's uh, you know, you feel pretty good. I gotta imagine we'll
get you ready for that. Now we've talked about some some baseball. Actually,
we got all four more food groups going for you. We've got the
playoffs in basketball and hockey and what's going on there. Last night you had
Cleveland and Dallas winning on the hardwood, and then on the ice Dallas and
the New York Rangers getting the victories. And as always, I will dive
into those anything that's you know you're thinking about when it comes to the playoffs.
So and then you know, the Tigers, I'm going to get into
your feels. I've asked for your feeling the Tigers, but we'll get back
to the Tigers at eight oh one. I'll give you my feeling the Tigers,
and we'll get your feeling on the Tigers so far, and then how
you feel for the rest of the year. Right now, we're talking about
the Lions and their biggest question mark heading into the summer, Jared Goff and
what they're going to do at the quarterback position with as signing him to the
extension if we can all agree that it's going to happen and that it should
happen. And then I started ranking the QBS yesterday and I got Mahomes,
Burrow, Lamar, and Josh Allen one through four. I think there's the
tier Mahomes and a tier by himself, and then Burrow, Jackson and Allen
and their tier, and then this next tier I got Jalen Hurts and CJ.
Stroud. Thinking those thrilling, I think there's much controversy. You're a
Lions fan in here, an NFL fan, Maybe you want to put somebody
in there in this top six. I don't know. I don't know how
you can. But now you get to where it's a lot more subjective and
how you're just feeling about it when you watch these QBS and when you watch
these teams, and your fandom probably gets into it a little bit. And
that's where Jordan Love comes into play, the quarterback from the Packers. I
ranked him at seven heading into this season, and I ask you, as
a Lion fan, do you think that's an acceptable ranking. I get say
Jared Goff as a better quarterback than Jordan Love. You can say that he's
more proven. Golf went to a Super Bowl, he went to the NFC
Championship Game last year. We know that that could be your argument. My
argument could be that Love coming on as this first time starter, and what
we have seen from him and how he was improving, and what we saw
from him in the second half of last season. Now, if I put
the fan card into play a little bit here, I don't want to see
Jordan Love have success. The Green Bay Pass I've been the bane of my
existence since I've been alive, and certainly with Rogers and Farv over the last
twenty years. I was looking forward to the Packers going through it and searching
for the quarterback. But it appears that they You know, when I watched
Love man, guy looks a hell of a lot like Aaron Rodgers, and
he had a nice postseason. And with his age, that's where I would
put him. I would put him in front of Golf, and I'd say,
it's not like I'm really down on Jared Goff. Jared Golf. If
you have and what he has, which is an excellent offensive line, maybe
the best offensive line in the NFL, you have a weapons of plenty,
lapoor a Monra Saint Brown. You're like, just look at it. He's
got that, and oh yeah, a quarterback's best friend next to the offensive
line, a potent running game and it won two punch. I man,
this is great. What a great situation. If you're Jared Goff, you're
about to just get married, or he's getting ready to get married, he's
about to sign another gigantic deal and he's just got the perfect situation all around
him, and oh yeah, the fans love him. But I asked myself,
would I take these qbs in my own rankings over golf? And I
would take love. And I also would take Justin Herbert from the Chargers Stafford
who was traded for Jared Goff. Now Jared Goff head to head beat Matt
Stafford last year in the most entertaining to me, the greatest Lions playoff game
that I've ever seen, and it closes the victory over the Cowboys back in
the nineties. And I'm not going back to fifty seven. That's before my
time, but that was the greatest game. And this does it matter?
They had the head a little bit, but I would still at thirty six
a little bit of a nod to the veteran Matt Stafford. I have him
ranked at nine and Trevor Lawrence. Now, Trevor Lawrence has has he been
a disappointment since being selected number one overall? It certainly doesn't have the success
in the playoffs that Goff has had. But would you make that trade if
you could, if it all worked out? What would you actually make that
deal? I think I would. I would make that deal. You might
not like that. That's where that question comes in. Is this acceptable as
a Lion's fan if you're taking a look at it, of putting Trevor Lawrence
in front of Jared Goff, does that make you mad? I don't know.
This one I think can make you mad because I put I ended up
putting Golf at twelve, and so I put Dak Prescott in front of him.
Dak also, you know he has not had the the moments in the
postseason. I look at his play. I think he's just I mean,
they're right there. I think Dak's just a little bit and a little bit
more mobile as QB. I Prescott's a smidge better than Jared Goff. So
I put him at twelve. That's how I have ranked him. Now I
put Aaron Rodgers behind Jared Goff, And could you make an argument that Aaron
Rodgers at forty years old coming off a and achilles. No, I don't.
You could try to make that. Now. I would say that if
the the Jets they got into the season, this is you know, it's
always a fluid situation. If if Rogers comes out and plays the first few
games and looks like he did just a couple of years ago when he went
back to back MVPs, well you could say, yeah, but we're talking
about right here and right now and how we're ranking them. So that's where
I have the ranking. Is that acceptable to you? How do you see
that? When it comes down to the Lions and just the quarterbacks around the
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back to your fields with the Tigers as they bring the Astros in and they've
got their their city connect jerseys and all that. All right, When I
look at the NHL and NBA playoffs, I wanted to ask this question,
and across the state of Michigan, you have Anthony Edwards emerging through these playoffs
as not only a superstar but potentially the next face of the league. A
little bit premature, but they're up to to oh two games away from the
Western Finals. Obviously he is. You put him into a great category,
superstar category, and it just happens. You knew that. I mean,
the guy was the number one overall pick and you saw his talent. But
it's even blossomed, even quicker than I think most people expected. So he's
sitting there. But my question is for the State of Michigan or Piston fans,
and when it comes down to the great players over the last thirty years,
it's no argument. You've probably heard this argument is a Jordan or Lebron
that particular argument, but those are the two. But for Piston fans,
out of any fans in all of basketball, certly fans in the NBA,
the least amount of credit goes to Jordan and Lebron, because you know,
you're a Pistons fan, and those were your biggest rivals. The bad boys
had to hold off Jordan and Piston fans rightfully, so we're ticked off.
Pistons were playing a brand of basketball, of swarming, suffocating defense, one
of the best defensive teams ever, and man, you go back, they
won back to back. But you could easily talk about not throwing the ball
away to Berg. You could easily talk about a phantom foul against Lamber,
another trip to the finals, maybe another championship to be talking about one of
the greatest teams. But holding off Jordan after that, and Jordan used to
you know, he he's just everyone in the league was just, you know,
smitting, Oh my god, this guy's the most he's the greatest.
He's defying and all of that, except Piston fans were like, yeah,
he's getting he's a cry baby. He gets too many calls. And you
understand that a little bit of the same thing with Lebron James. Guys in
high school, he's the chosen one. Of course, he goes to his
hometown close enough to his hometown, from Akron to the Calves, and you
know, he's and he takes off wins the championships and we know the story.
But the Pistons had to deal with them again, just like they did
with Jordan. I remember being in the building. What was it. It
was the Eastern Conference finals, and I mean the turning point when it came
down to the going to Pistons, going to work Pistons. Lebron scores did
he did? He score twenty five straight, twenty nine of the thirty points
in the fourth quarter. Everybody even you know, even you know you're sitting
there with the Piston fans in the crowd, and everybody's just like, not
you can do. You're throwing up your hands. But you still like Jordan,
not giving him like the credit. But now you have Edwards. He's
not, you know, an already go Georgia, so in go to school
from around here. He goes out to the Western Conference. There's no history
with the Timberwolves. Timber Wolves have did really no history. You can go
back when they were the Lakers. They had some success where they had KG,
they had a year maybe, but the point is now you've got to
fairly look at without having the rival stuff with with Lebron and with MJ.
And you can say, hey, here's this this great player, and I'm
asking you, when it comes down to it, how are you looking at
Edwards and the chance for him to take over, grab the torch and be
this Uh. The next one I think it's good to do is for the
NBA myself. Nothing against Doncic, nothing against anybody else, the big dancing
bear in a Denver, great player, two MVPs championships and everything else.
But you just don't as a American sports fan, you just don't gravitate to
those guys like you do an American just say that's the way it is.
That's where the popularity is. It's a little bit like Show Hey, if
was you know, Show Smith from Indiana, we might spend every show every
day talking about how great this guy, and it gets brought up how great
he is, but most people are like, Okay, he's great. It's
a great pitcher, he's great hitter, greatest player since may Ruth. And
then that's kind of it we're witnessing in baseball. But if he was an
American born out of Indiana, we would I don't know, it would be
it would be talked about in the popular it would be exponentially more. But
that's what we're getting with with Edwards. Get your thoughts in on that one
as well. At eight six six eight three, eight forty eight forty three,
as we take you through and get you to the weekend here across the
state of Michigan. I got to tell you that something happened yesterday for me
that it's just it was pure joy. I've been dealing with his shoulder injury
and I've been doing some stretching with it. A couple of weeks ago,
I was back in the gym and I was just gonna shoot some baskets.
Nobody was in there, and I and I fired up, and it had
been a while since I had thrown up some jumpers. I and I threw
one up, and the pain in my shoulder was there, and it just
couldn't have if somebody would have had a camera on me, the body language
and it just saw me with my head down, you know, hunched over.
Just a huge disappointment. Tried it again, like it just I could
barely even get a shot up. Total disappointment. But then yesterday the same
thing, and you know, the shoulders, just deal with it, trying
to work with it. I fired one up and I was like, oh,
my gosh, no pain, and I fired another one. Fifteen minutes
went by of me shooting and it was just pure joy. And the shot
wasn't going in as much as I would like, but then anytime and to
fire it up there and watch it just go through the hoop, it was.
It was great. So a very good feeling of pure joy of sports
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We need your damn. It is showtime. As we get into the eight
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Rose on the Michigan Sports Network. I want to hear from you. I'm
asking you about the Tigers as they come home after an unsuccessful trip, a
road trip to the Bronx and to Cleveland where they were just able to pick
up one or just yeah, picked up one win. You got that one
right. We're getting your feeling on the Tigers so far, and how do
you feel about the rest of the year eight six six. How do you
feel about the team for the rest of the year eight six six, eight
three, eight four, eight four to three the Meyer Hotline again that is
eight sixty six eight three, eight four eight four three. We're checking the
texts. You can get involved there Tech Sports Radio to twenty one thousand,
and we'll see what you have to say now before we go to the phones
and get to the techs. Last night you had the Rangers in overtime over
the Canes three to two, three zero series lead there for the Blue Shirts,
who are seven to zero in the playoffs. Dallas evens up their series
with Colorado two better than the Abs five to three for the Stars who got
up four nothing and hung on for the five to three win. And then
Cleveland in a shocker, they beat the Celtics by twenty four points to even
up that series at one. And also Dallas and OKC is now tied at
one with Luka Doncents limping around and putting up twenty nine to ten and seven.
A couple things here locally mentioned the Tigers going to be in action.
Dan Campbell, the Allion's head coach, is going to miss rookie camp for
personal reasons. That's all we have right now. Personal reasons. Dan Campbell
gonna miss rookie camp. My thoughts there, Hope everything is okay with Dan
Campbell, not like he has needed at rookie camp. And when you see
personal issues, hey, hopefully he has a hangnail and or you know,
I don't know. You know, the best case scenario there is that it's
not that big of a deal and yeah, he'll be back up and running
in no time. All right, So you got the numbers out there,
you got the Tigers question. Also, I ranked Jared Goff, I had
him at number twelve. Is that just preposterous? I mean, what's an
acceptable ranking for you? And without going through all of them, you know
the guys that I put in front of golf in a dack, Trevor,
Lawrence, Stafford, Herbert and love the last few. Are you wanting to
push Jared Goff all the way up to like seven? I think that's where
he deserves to be after the kind of season he had last year and the
position that he is in this year with a team around him. The cap
number, everything you you involve as you're ranking these guys again eight six,
six, eight three, eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline,
let's go to the phones. Here is Freddy who joins us on exes and
bros. Hey, Freddy, good morning, Dennis. How are you,
sir? Oh it's goods good to here, good to hear your voice.
You too, buddy. I wanted to touch on the Lions and Tigers.
I sent to the text about the Lions. I'm glad you didn't read it
because I hit son too fast and I didn't word it right. And uh
we we all, we all do that, I think once in a while,
So real quick on the NBA, I gotta I gotta be honest.
I don't think I'm in the minority year. You know, when when you're
Lias, or excuse me, when you're Tigers, Pistons and red Wings suck
for ten years a decade, you know, you tend to tune out watching
other other teams other games because because you know, your teams just suck,
and it's just that's just the nature of the beast. And last night I
tuned into Dallas, Oklahoma City number one. What a scene in Oklahoma City,
everyone wearing the blue shirts. What a great season except that one guy
who had a red shirt on. I mean, he's stuck out like a
store thumb. Did he? Yeah? Oh, that one I missed,
but I you know, I have to. I have to admit this.
I really have never seen Luca Dodgers playing the game. I've seen the highlights
and everything, and I just thought, man, this guy has my body.
He is he's he's Larry Bird. He's he's my Larry Bird. I
Larry Bird has always been my favorite player in the NBA ever and Jordan,
but he's my Larry Bird. It was awesome to watching mesday. I watched
him about ten fifty minutes. I couldn't watch anymore because it wasn't the Pistons,
and I just thought it was kind of neat. Dennis. I just
wanted to I just wanted to bring that out because I don't think I'm in
the minority. When your team suck, it's hard to watch other teams.
I mean, I know the NFL doesn't have that problem, but the other
three sports leagues I think has that problem. But all right, the Lions
and the Tigers. Now, I know it's popular nowadays. You can't have
an opinion, you know. I know there's a lot of guys in the
media, you know, and I'm not pointing anyone out. Some people work
with teams and they can't have an opinion. It's just I don't think there's
anything wrong with opinions. And I'm not saying anything toward you. I'm not
saying this is just my opinion, you know, one with the Lions,
this Jared Golf situation. I don't think the fans chanting Jared Golf. This
is just my opinion. I don't think he's helped there. I don't think
they're helping Jared Golf sign long term here. I think what Brad Holmes did
yesterday, in my opinion, was very smart. He got out in front
of this. It's the first time he's got out in front of this and
said, hey, of course he deserves the extension and we want to sign
an extension. It just hasn't worked out yet. So what that tells me
and what in my opinion, what Brad Holmes is saying, so listen,
we offered a forty two forty three million, he wants fifty to fifty five
million. That's just my opinion. I don't have no no, I don't
know anything, and I just think he's getting it out there, and for
some reason Golf doesn't want to sign nats. The Lions ends up looking good
through this because then the fans what fans do, they'll turn on They'll turn
on the player. That's just that, that's just what they're gonna do.
So that's kind of my take on it. I wouldn't I sent the text
in about two years guaranteed. Yeah, the addition to what he's making this
year, this is what that's what I would do, Dennis. I wouldn't
give him a five year one hundred and fifty to two hundred million dollars because
listen, Jared GoF is a good dude, he's a good quarterback. I
just think his situation, Dennis, if they give him that kind of contract
and he doesn't win here or he throws a couple of picks, fans are
going to turn on him really quick. Dennis. That's that's kind of my
take on golf. So if we don't have time for the Tigers, that's
fine. But what do you think about my take? What's the situation with
brand Holmes yesterday? Yeah? Well, I think you're right. I don't
know if he's kicking the can down the road a little bit where if they
want to look at Hooker to feel like, you know, the comfort level
where they can they can at least take a look at him. I know
they got the rookie camp first before ot A's, but you know what else
could it be if if Golf and his agent loved the deal, or they
even like the deal, they say, okay, let's just get it done.
So you know the line. But I don't think it's that far apart
where uh, they can't find a deal before the season. Is it the
worst thing, Freddie in the in the world. If the Lions went into
having Jared Goff at thirty two million next year and then decided, look,
you can always sign him after that and if he has the good season,
well then you know he'll deserve the the fifty million or whatever it would be.
By then they hedge their bet and the downside would just be a lot
of negativity from the from the fans and the media about oh the you know,
they're ruining this franchise tag and everything else. But there is that option
that that's there. It's not the worst thing. Brad Holmes. But but
in my opinion, Grad Holmes and Dan Campbell can't do anything wrong in this
down They walk on water. There's no way they can lose this. Jared
golf situation. If they don't sign them, they people worship those two of
this town. And I think Brad Holmes was genius what he did yesterday.
I don't think they want to give him that much money. And listen,
I think Jared GoF is a good, doing, good quarterback. But I
could you could, I'll say it's all blue in the face. There is
not another situation in this in this in this league where he can be as
productive as he is right now. This is a petty for him. He
knows. Yeah, I love it. We're right up against it. I'm
going to come back and hit on that. Who's who's walking on water more?
Is it the quarterback? Is that the GM is at the coach?
And who will sink the fastest? We'll get to that. Axis and Bros.
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and the playoffs playoffs. I know the Rangers and the Stars win in the
NHL playoffs last night, and in the NBA they had the Cavs and the
MAVs both winning and tying up their series at one game apiece. Ask Pistons
fans they view Anthony Edwards. You're biased when it comes down to Lebron and
MJ. But I'm not that biased. You can just honestly assess Anthony Edwards
as a Pistons fan. We're getting your feel the Tigers and the Jared Goff
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thirty six, how college football will look this upcoming season. I've got some
thoughts and I'll give them to you. I want to dress a couple of
things, you know. Last segment we ended where the question of Brad Holmes
and Dan Campbell walking on water in this town, Jared Goff seemingly walking on
water as well with his name being chanted who would sink first, Well,
the quarterback is gonna sink first, and that situation homes last, and then
Campbell the I would say the funny part because it's not funny, but the
second half of the meltdown for the Lions, which quarterback, receivers, run
back, the defense, the all of the important pieces for the Detroit Lions.
Every one of them melted out, including the head coach and the offensive
coordinator, all of them. I mean, it was a total and complete
meltdown, as you know, and so is fantastic of a season the Lions
had last year. There were a couple of weeks after the NFC Championship game
where people were giving it to Dan Campbell, and some of it rightfully.
So I mean, if you if you have a way that you're coaching and
it's off the beaten path, and you go that route and you win,
you are a genius. But if you go that route and it doesn't work,
you're going to deserve some criticism. And he took some Lions fans,
you know, they fired back, and I think you know that's under standable
to give them some some rope there. That's one of those things that when
it comes to sports. I hear coaches say sometimes when they do something out
of the ordinary that doesn't work, and he said, well, if you
know it did work, you know, you guys would all be praising me.
Well, that's right, that's sports, and that's why we're giving it
to you. If you go off and it doesn't work. I never liked
the Yeah, we understand that. We understand that coaches. So all right,
the feel for the Tigers, they're sitting here coming home nineteen and eighteen.
This is I feel luke warm of this team that is pegged for five
hundred. How are you feeling about that? Let's get ben Zoe involved here.
He's looking at the text. That's right. We got a couple about
golf. Uh suggestion for the golf contract. Give him a three year deal
forty million, first year, forty five, the second. These two years
are guaranteed, third year fifty, but it's an opt out year for both
player and the team. Well that's nice. That sounds nice. But the
Jared Goff's agent is is not signing that kind of deal. So maybe that's
where we're you know, like the fans, I haven't heard, at least
yet, I haven't heard a fan say, yeah, you know what,
you got to give him a market value and he is going to get one
hundred and fifty million guaranteed, he's going to get close to fifty million dollars
a year, and he's going to sign a five year deal that looks like
two hundred and fifty three hundred million dollars. I haven't heard anybody say that
that's what he's the kind of deal that he's going to get. And maybe
that's where we're sitting here, where your Brad Holmes and if he is trying
to do what fans think that he should do and get a very reasonable it's
weird to say lowball, but compared to what other quarterbacks are getting, he
will not sign a deal. He will go into the upcoming season playing on
the last year of his deal. If those are the kind of contract numbers
that the Lions are saying, yeah, take it or leave it. That's
where we're at right now, and Holmes yesterday saying, yeah, you've earned
an extension, but here's the numbers. It's a high priority. It's a
high priority. Yeah, we would like you to sign this real team friendly
deal for these two years and then we can we can get out of it,
or we gonna just come back and you know, slap one more season
on it. It's it's not gonna work that way. But the Lions do
have you know, the Lions do have the leverage here. Certainly, they
they don't have much of a backup plan when it's just unknown when it comes
down to Hendon Hooker and you'd be sitting here with a team that is is
ready to compete in a window for the Super Bowl, and you could be
thinking, Wow, we're playing games with the quarterback. But you go into
this next year and you want it to go well for Jared Goff. He's
going to earn a little bit more money, but you can also put that
tag on him. The chances that the Lions would put the franchise tag on
Jared Goff As I sit here on May the tenth and think it out,
because Holmes has done things in his time here that doesn't fall in line with
what the fans want, what the fans think, what the experts want,
or what the experts think. I still think there's a chance that that is
could be the direction that he would go, But I think it's so you
have to put that at least in there. Anybody that comes out, I
know, it's the way things go. Certainly if you're running a talk show
to say absolutely there's no way that the Lions will go into next year without
having a golf sign of extension. There's zero chance. Well no, there's
more than a zero chance. You're just saying that has somebody who is has
an opportunity, it has a mic in front of him. But I would
put it at a a ten chance. Remember this is the same GM.
Let's say you can't take a running back, you're not taking tight ends and
running backs and mental linebackers. And then he did, and then he came
out, came out of the draft and was like, yeah, this is
what we did, this is who we are. Maybe uh, maybe after
next year, you know, he'll go in and talk about contract year or
something. He'll wear shirt talking about Brad Holmes. All right, looking ahead
to college football in the twenty twenty four season, just how will it look.
We'll get to that coming up at eight thirty five. More of your
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I'm Dennis Mithian. We've got it lined up for you here. We're
getting your feel on the Tigers, almost forty games to start this season so
far, your feel, how you feel about the rest of the year.
Eight six, six, eight three, eight forty eight forty three On the
Myer hot Line. We're also talking about the Lions and Jared Goff. You
had Brad Holmes yesterday saying that golf has earned an extension and it's a high
priority, and he said they would have liked to have had it done already,
along with sewel in Saint Brown. You know, however, you can
parse those words, you can do whatever you want. You could say,
sure, he's earned an extension to our liking. Yeah, here's a four
year extension at forty forty five and kind of spoon feeding it and Golf's agents
like, no, that's going to have to be closer to fifty and we're
going to need one hundred and fifty guaranteed. I mean, he said,
the negotiations that are playing out. If you're a Lions fan, you have
to ask yourself, and I think most Lione fans and I understand this.
I get this part where whatever they do, you say, we've got somebody
that's running things that we feel really good good about. And years past,
if you had this kind of situation and you'd say, well, the lines
are gonna screw it up no matter what happens. Now it's you feel the
exact opposite. You could back Brad Holmes. If they actually went into the
season they said they weren't going to have any contract negotiations during the season,
and they just went into the final year with Jared Goff, You'd say,
well, Holmes had his number, and they must they must like they must
like Hooker, and it does make you feel like they just must not really
trust. That's the the wrinkle in it. If it does play out there,
if they would take it all the way through next season, and it'd
be a gamble on both sides, But it does give you the feeling like,
yeah, we don't want to pay him top dollar as we feel like
we just don't believe he's that top five QB. That that's the kind of
vibes you get if it plays out that way, but you have that trust.
If you're a Lions fan, we're asking you about this situation, it's
unusual that you're sitting here talking about the Lions and having the trust. These
are the guys that you are now. Like at the you feel great about
with Brad Holmes and Jared Goff, But just like when you get to baseball
arbitration and you got to get over there and everything you say about the player
of your ownership, it's like, yeah, this guy can't do this,
he can't do that, We don't want to pay him this, and the
players are like, wow, man, these guys. It's a little bit
like this with Jared Goff until you get this signed. It's like, yeah,
we like you, but we don't like you. Fifty million dollars a
year. Yeah we'd like you, but you're gonna have to take a little
bit of a hometown discount. And he's not going to do that. As
much as Jared Goff loves it here and he's in the perfect situation, you
take a little bit of a hometown deal. I think once you have all
of that money and you have everything else and you're in this situation, I
think this is just my guess I think the golf. It's like with his
agent is like skip me where I won't be, where doesn't feel like I'm
getting taken advantage of, or it's going to be embarrassing whatever that number is
going to be, because yeah, he's not gonna find another situation at twenty
nine years old where he's sitting here where everything is lined up for him.
So there's that part. I said I would get to college football and grab
a line, send a text. We're looking for your thoughts here on baseball
with the Tigers, on the Lions situation as well on X's and bros.
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is just look ahead and we get a long way. It's you know,
under one hundred days, but hey, who's counting. It's never We've never
had more changes in the last couple of years and then right into where we're
at right now, and I'm on board with all of it. You know,
the big eighteen, you bring it in the West Coast teams and you
know the you got USC and he hat Oregon and Washington and UCLA. It
sounds crazy and it feels crazy to you on board where you're talking about the
Big Ten country. Let's talk about UCLA and all the travel and everything else
back and forth. But where it sits right now with coach and program,
USC and Oregon and Washington Man these are these are red letter games are This
is not Michigan State playing Northwestern. This is not Michigan Purdue. These are
games the history between Michigan and USC, Michigan in Washington for instance, same
thing with Michigan State when you look at some of this. So I like
that it's a bigger, big time games in the conference. I like that
the Big Ten championship game is gonna be a better championship game. The Big
Ten West they never won a Big Ten title. They never had a team
that could do it. Now you're gonna have a Big Ten championship game against
the top two and no divisions. I like that. Even if if it's
like let's say a Michigan Ohiose State one week and then a Michigan Ohiose State
in the following week, it's not gonna water it down enough where you're gonna
be like, oh, I'm not gonna watch this game now, you'll still
watch it. I'm not with that argument. And then a twelve team playoff
is pretty awesome, more than the four team now already talking about. Oh,
let's go on to sixteen. Let's go let's calm down a little bit
on that. Let's let this one play out for a little bit before we
start. They haven't even played this one and they're already like, let's jack
it up. That's the way things go now. I don't mind talking about
it, but let's stay with the twelve teamer and let that breathe for a
while. Let's see what it looks like. So I'm looking forward to the
changes in college football and how that is going to play out. Now,
let's go to the Tigers and the feeling on the team. It's tough when
the prospects are a five hundred for the team, that's how they've played.
And you know, they're sitting here one game above five hundred, which is,
you know, record wise, a little bit better than okay. But
they're coming off the you know, the their worst road trip, their biggest
series where they lost two out of three, and so it's tough to be
you get excited when you know, it's human nature. When they're sweep a
series or win two out of three against a divisional opponent, you got to
feel a little bit better. But overall, I feel luke warm to where
they're at. I've had some feedback on the Tigers and how people are feeling
about him on Twitter. Derek said he has seen nothing to suggest this team's
improved it all from last season. If anything, the offense and the young
corpieces have regressed. Safe for Green and then CW says he feels like,
even if they develop a team full of superstars, don't just leave for the
Yankees or Dodgers. And he's talking about the need for a cap. I
think that's a little bit extreme. Matt talking about the Tigers, says,
honestly, a mixed bag. It's like rolling a dice or rolling a die
to see which Tigers we get the low offense, stellar pitching team, the
high output offense, terrible pitching team, or the average offense, bullpens screwing
up team. Miz says hopefully that road trip was a slap in the face
for him. As much as Hinch wants Torque to work through his hitting issues
in the show, he still thinks to trip down to Triple A is necessary
that and he hopes that when Geo finishes his rehab that he can get the
defense and extra base bats going. Yeah, the thing about Torque, if
everybody else was rolling and Torque was the one that was sticking out like a
sore thumb, I think they may have been able to say, you know,
let's uh, let's go have him work it out. How much when
there's so many automatic outs, you can't send everybody now, And I think
that's where they're they're they're sitting right now when it comes down to Tork.
They already sent Meadals. Now, I send cold Keith down next then,
and I'm gonna send Tork. He's third in line there. That would have
really been something if they said, yeah, we're gonna swap out Keith Tork
Meadows, we're gonna bring up the mud Hens. That's the way we're gonna
go about it. Interesting. And then one more the Tigers from SPP.
He says, really good pitching, very weak hitting, defensive struggles due to
versatile players being below average due to playing multiple positions. The one thing about
baseball that I think is always held true is that it's good the way that
they've been able to perform on the mound this year. But when you don't
hit, what happens is, you know, it's boring to watch for sure.
It's not like the postseason where you love one nothing games or two to
one games. In the regular season, especially if you're going to the game,
you want a little offense. But what happens every single time when the
team goes through a lack of offensive production, it looks like they don't care.
And then if you combine a lack of hitting with kicking and around in
key moments with your defense, then it looks like you're poorly managed and don't
care. And some of that jumped up against the Yankees and the Guardians.
You know, almost every team that's made a name change, it takes a
little while to get it going, and you know, people still screw up.
You know, it's the San Diego Chargers. You still have people saying
that once in a while. You know, you still slip in the little
Indians. I think I did it even earlier today, but I'm just just
saying the Tribe over the Guardians. I've been talking about the Tigers now.
Earlier when I asked about the playoffs. It's Freddy that says, he just
it's been so long for the Pistons winning in the postseason and other Red Wings
as well. It just couldn't get into what's going on nationally. And I
really understand it. It really takes effort and you just have to find different
ways. If you're let's just say, like, if you're a Red Wings,
Pistons Tigers fan, they don't you don't have that problem with the NFL
because it's so popular. But I get it. I remember, I don't
know how many years ago it was now with the Nationals won the World Series.
So the Tigers that were down so bad that I thought, you know,
when I'm willing to find another team. This was my effort that I
put in. I'm going to say I'm gonna pick a team and I'm gonna
pick a player. And it just so happened. My friend, who is
really into collecting cards, baseball cards in particular, he had a Wan Soto
card and he gave it to me. He said, this is kind of
guy you want to get behind. So I said, all right, this
is my guy, Wan Soto, and I'm going to root for the Nationals.
And the Nationals went on they won the World Series, and Wan Soos
is a hell of a player. He's one of the best players in baseball.
But it compared to the Tigers doing something. If the Tigers getting to
the playoffs is a ten and the Tigers being the worst team in baseball as
a zero, the Nationals winning the World Series and Juan Soto, the guy
that I, you know, hand picked to be like my player and my
new team, or at least the team until the Tigers were competitive, it
barely rated. I don't know, would I give it even a one,
not really give it a half. Just he goes, hey, this was
my team. I traded with the Astros two of the year they won because
Verlander was there and I thought, eh, I'd like to see him what
a World Series? And he did it and I watched and I was kind
of like, but it didn't do anything. I mean, it was hard.
So I put that effort through and it just it didn't work. I've
I haven't really done the same thing with in terms of picking another team.
I've watched the Pistons these last couple of years, and a lot of what
happens is I watch, but it's very easy to turn off, and it's
very easy to miss games. A little bit like that with the Red Wings
too, pools, fantasy leagues. Oh yeah, gambling that can help a
little bit, you know, to get the interest. There were a couple
of years maybe you love hockey, you're gonna watch you love basketball, kind
of the same way. But it's just you've got to find some way somewhere
in there to find something rather than just like for for it to grab you,
to find that effort to go through it. You got to do that.
How those are some of the suggestions, you know, to get through
it. Somebody telling you. It's a little bit like I found out over
the years with the w n b A and let's say, oh I don't
this is oh the women's game, and it's just kind of like no thanks,
But then it just grabbed me last year with uh with Iowa, with
LSU. It certainly happened there. And you know, here I was today
when I was watching the highlights, They're like, here's the Fevers last preseason
game before they start the regular season. And in the years passed out if
tuned out of that so fast, and here I was like, eh,
Kaylen Claire they grabbed it, so it'd be nice to see the other sports
be able to do that for Detroit fans. I want to thank Ben Zost
on the Variable Resistors producing a show. Thank you very much, Ben,
great job. Thank Matt Sheppard for letting me pinch hit today when he needs
it. I will grab my bat and run up to the plate whenever he
needs me. And thanks so much for listening across the state of Michigan.
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