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Speak now. Get your thoughts in
now on draft day, because after today

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and after this weekend a little bit
different, it's going to hit a little

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bit different. As So, we
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The Michigan Sports Network. Look,
we've got an open line available for

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you, and we're talking about the
draft. That's what's on tap. If

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you have a lion's prediction, or
if you have a thought on who they

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will draft, what you don't want
to happen. Those are the questions that

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I have for you to jump on
in. If there's something else regarding the

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draft that you want to go to
anywhere, I'm open for what you have

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out there. And if it's even
something not draft, go ahead, grab

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a line eight six six eight three
eight four eight four three. That's the

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buyer hotline eight sixty six eight three
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That's easy enough. Who will the
Lions draft? Your prediction? What

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don't you want to happen? What
don't you want to see happen? Now?

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I think the Lions are going to
end up. My prediction with Iowa

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was Cooper Dejen You're gonna have to
fall little bit or the Lions are going

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to have to move up a little
bit. Either could happen. Brad Holmes

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moved back last year. He moved
up the year before I could see it.

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He's in my sights. He's versatile, He's a chess piece, draft

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lingo, and that's why I want
to see now. Yesterday we were asking

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for predictions and who the people wanted
to see, and a lot of defensive

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ends. The two Robinson's chop from
Penn State had a few different votes,

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a lot to the defensive end from
UCLA. Mike Saine was still who wore

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number zero at Michigan the c converted
nickel. He would also fall under the

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category as a chess piece. Those
were some of the predictions. And as

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far as what you don't want to
see happen, like, I don't want

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to see JJ McCarthy go to the
Minnesota Vikings. This draft has the most

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intrigue of any draft ever because of
the quarterbacks. And it does go back

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to nineteen eighty three where you had
the Hall of famers Elway, Kelly and

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Marino, and then you had the
buss of Blackledge, Esen was Ken O'Brien

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the Jets selection in there, and
you think about the memorable drafts over the

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years. Just taking a step back
just a few years ago, Trevor Lawrence

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was supposed to be the most sure
thing since Andrew Luck and he's been.

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He's been all right, but it's
not like he's a sure thing right now.

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Zach Wilson an absolute bust, you
know, Broncos now, so's the

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number three pick of the twenty twenty
one draft, Trey Lance. So the

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first three quarterbacks that came off the
board, we're all like, whooh,

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Wilson and Trey Lance. You could
put those guys down. If we were

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a run on the biggest bus of
all time, you could just lead off

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with those guys. And oh yeah, Justin Fields was selected in the top

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ten and Mac Jones, who's no
longer, No, these guys are with

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their teams anymore. Mac Jones isn't
around Fields is in Pittsburgh, Lance is

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in Dallas, and Wilson is with
the Broncos. Show you how sure of

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the thing when you talk about these
qbs, these teams are gonna reach for

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them. They're gonna do it tonight. I was always fascinated by the twenty

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eighteen draft where you had, let's
see five quarterbacks go. But I did

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not think Baker Mayfield. That would
not have been my pick, but he

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was to pick. But I have
to admit it. My pick would have

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been Sam Darnald. And even worse, I thought that Josh Rosen. If

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Darnald was selected, I would have
picked Josh Rosen. Those guys were bus

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Now. Josh Allen, who played
at Wyoming, I didn't have a feel

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for him, strong armed quarterback out
of Wyoming. Who watched him? I

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watched Dan Orlovski, who wasn't with
ESPN yet, and dan Orlovski was adamant

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that Josh Allen just couldn't read a
defense, that Josh Allen couldn't walk and

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chew gum at the same time that
this guy and he had all of the

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videos that he was putting out there, And I thought if Daniel Orlovsky knows

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anything, he played in the league. Whatever, I'm going to ride with

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Dan Orlovsky on this one. Josh
Allen will be a bust. And then

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everyone bypassed Lamar Jackson who fell to
thirty two, And look at that is

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a two time MVP. Though.
Those are how things they're working. And

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as I look at this draft from
Williams to Daniels and May, I think

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Drake May has the highest bus potentials. We take a look at it and

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these first two qbs. I feel
more comfortable with Jaden Daniels being with the

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Commanders. It's just a nice fit. If I'm the Washington Commanders, that's

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an easy pick for me. Boom. The Bears, I think have already

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screwed this up, and the Bears
historically screw things up. The Bears don't

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know what they're doing with quarterbacks.
You had I had Jim McMahon for a

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year or two. Who else have
the Bears ever had under center? I

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oh, Sid Luckman. I knew
the Chicago Bears screwed it up when and

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I think every NFL draft analyst has
screwed this up when they were like,

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oh, yeah, you just got
to get rid of fields. If you're

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gonna take Caleb Williams. Now,
I don't know if the Bears went to

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Caleb Williams and said, hey,
Caleb, we're gonna give you the moon

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and stars. You're our guy,
we love you. Here's our plan.

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We're going to use the Patrick Mahomes
plan. Patrick Mahomes went to the Chiefs

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when they had Alex Smith and they
sat him for a year, and then

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Patrick Mahomes took over and Mahomes was
good with that. It was a first

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round pick, Alex Smith, a
former number one pick, and it worked

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out fabulously. Smith helped Mahomes.
The rest is history. Let's go with

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a proof in blueprint. We'll let
you compete with justin Fields, but we

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are we want you to be open
to the idea that you might not start

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the season, that you could if
you win the job out right, but

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also you could sit for an entire
year. That's not the worst thing in

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the world. Now, I don't
know if Williams camp who I take a

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shot at saying they didn't like that. You know that the dad who knows

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wanted a piece of the franchise that
he was going to already, So maybe

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they were like, we want everybody
to paint your their fingernails pink, and

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we want to start from the get
go. So I already don't like what's

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going on with Chicago and Fields to
give him away for nothing, essentially they

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did by getting just a sixth round
conditional pick for him. That's like one

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of the stupidest moves I've ever seen, and I have I have, I'd

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heard one of these analysts. They
were all like, oh, yeah,

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you gotta get rid of him.
You can't have two alphas, Yes you

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can. Sorry, you just had
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The Fields was going to be a
sour puss. Then you know what,

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benches ass and fine, but I
tell Fields, go out there.

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You can make it with Chicago.
Take us to the playoffs in year one.

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We're we're getting a first or second
round pick for you. So they've

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already botched it. That's just the
Chicago Bears. Hey, look, they're

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in the Lion's division. So good
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says Dennis, speaking of sitting QBS.

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What are your thoughts on Hooker in
his future with the Lions. Well,

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we don't know about Hooker, do
we. Ben We know that he can

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really fire it down the field,
but we haven't seen him. He had

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the knee injury and we don't know. I don't know if the Lions have

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a feel for him, with him
just rehabbing, coming back from injury and

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so thinking about that he could be
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I don't know if they know what
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I gotta see him. We gotta
see something nice prospect. Is there a

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chance that he could take over for
Jared Goff? And there is, but

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I would say it's a small chance, but that will we'll know a little

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bit. Can we see him in
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if he looks like that player that
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great arm, can move around a
lot of ice. Think fell in the

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draft a little bit because of the
injury concerns, but you know, so

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you're not ruling him out. I
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kind of a wild card that you
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be able to get a guy like
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a starting quarterback in the NFL.
Not too often, but hey, because

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Brad Holmes picked him, you feel
like, oh, maybe they're in with

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a chance there. But yeah,
this thing, you know, going back

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bench. Just for a second,
I asked for the first hour, just

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where the Lions playoff window is at? It is at? It is open

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with Jared Goff as their quarterback golf
at twenty nine years old, I would

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say for five years. I think
Jared Goff is going to be the Lions

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quarterback at least for the next two
or three years. He'll get his deal

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for five years and hopefully it is
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But two or three years and then
if Holmes could continue to do what he's

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doing, I'd say, work magic. But magic is one year, two

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years, you say, okay,
well, you know there's three years.

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Is a trend, He's a trend. It's a trend at Holmes being good

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at drafting and trading and working the
draft. So as long as Holmes continues

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to draft well and golf over the
next two or three years, and we'll

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see on hooker. You got you
got a shot with him, but I

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got to see him out there to
get a feel for what he looks like

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in the Honolulu Blue and Silver.
Any other texx Yeah, this one says

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I want Mike Sainer still with pick
twenty nine, infuse some more Michigan into

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the lineup. He's a hard worker
and will do whatever for the team.

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Well. He is an outstanding player
and he was a great player for Michigan

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in that he moves over from wide
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defense as a nickel, and that
doesn't happen very often. You'd think,

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hey, technique wise, you know
it's gonna take him now. It wasn't.

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He hit the ground running on the
defensive side, and then in his

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senior year he took off and was
even better. And Saint Risto is one

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of those guys any team is going
to like having him in their lineup because

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of how he plays the game and
how you quantify being a playmaker. You

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make big plays at big He did
it all throughout his Michigan career, especially

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in the championship season a year ago. Saint Rosto always coming up with a

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pick a big pick and a return
for a touchdown, a fumble return.

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He's a good tackler. Lions could
do worse than taking Saint Rastill at twenty

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nine. He's gonna be there.
He's one of those guys you think about,

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Oh, if he's in the second
a team's gonna get a real nice

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player if they take him in the
second round, first round, it seems

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to be he's good. Is there
a good enough player to be in the

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first round at the end of the
first round, And that might be where

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Brad Holmes thinks about, let me
get a couple other picks and drop back

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five. If he's got six players
that he's looking at and saying, I

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like any of those, and I
could see sand Restoll being in like one

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of those. You're sitting there at
twenty nine, You've got a list of

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ten guys that you're like, we
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That's where Holmes might pick up the
phone. If it's not ringing.

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Of course, if it's ringing,
he's gonna say, come on up.

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If it's not ringing, he might
call and say, hey, you want

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to come up here. Let's say
bo Nicks is still in the mix.

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Brad Holmes might tell a team,
hey, you get an extra year out

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of him because the first round pick. Maybe you want to come up here

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to twenty nine. However, it
coach, I only got that ten minutes

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to move and shake. I'm always
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and a sinra Still text. I'm
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from FTP that's Freddy the Pizza Man. He texts six things he wants to

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see left in this decade. So
he's not talking about the draft in particular,

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but he's got six things that he
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So we're twenty twenty four before twenty
thirty. Oh seems wild? All

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right. Here's what he says.
He wants to see happen. Lions win

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two Super Bowls. Yeah, I'm
focusing in on one. I haven't thought

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about multiple, but okay, things
to happen. He's just declaring it.

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That would be great. He wants
to see the Tigers win a World Series.

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It's been forty years. Okay,
I'm with you on that. Who

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wants to see the Red Wings when
a Stanley Cup? I'm ready for just

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the Red Wings to get into the
playoffs, playoffs, Cabrera to get into

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the Hall of Fame. Well,
he retired last year, first battlet Hall

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of Famer. I think that gets
done. He wants to see sweet Lou

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Whitaker get into the Hall of Fame. That could happen. Get the Veterans

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Committee, looking at the analytics,
looking at the war and he sticks out

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like a sore thumb. It a
good way that he's not in. Piston's

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win forty two games. So a
little comedy in there from the pizza man.

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You know, I was thinking about
it was earlier. It was Kagan

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who called in from Kzu and Kagan
said, I was thinking, who's got

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it better than Kagan? Kagan is
like, started off his call, I'm

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heading down to the draft, so
already I'm thinking that nobody's got it better

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than this guy. And then he's
talking about he was going with a bachelor

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party to the draft. What a
plan that is? My mind started racing

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party bus draft Thursday, Friday,
Saturday in Detroit. Now it just reminded

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me because I looked at this tweet
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Over the next six years. If
the Red Wings we all wanted to

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see them get into the playoffs this
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The Tigers are off tonight, but
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tomorrow and Saturday. So if you
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you had a room downtown, you
had the Red Wings in a playoff

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game, you had the Tigers playing. I mean, like this really could

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have been. Now I go get
the Red Wings, aren't it so?

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I mean that's just a dream scenario
that did not happen. The Tigers are

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there, they're about five hundred,
The draft is going on. You might

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have that party bus, you might
have that hotel room. Can you have

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it at the casino? You know? One time I had a friend who

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got bumped up to the top floor
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was something straight out of the hangover. I went up to see them on

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the elevator. You have to have
the VIP and the guy where but it

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was right out of the hangover.
I can't whoever's in that suite for these

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next three days. They did some
planning or just have unlimited funds. Maybe

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both. That's the way to do
it. Nobody's got it better than that

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guy top floor, hangover suite at
one of the casinos for three days.

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Maybe some Tiger tickets in the back
pocket for Saturday. Let's go to the

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phones at eight sixty six, eight
three, eight forty eight forty three.

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Here is a Freddy in Melvindale here
on Axes and Bros. Is that right,

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Freddy? Yes? Full disclosure,
I miss typed. It should have

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been twenty four wins, not forty
two wins. Hey, that's actually And

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when they trade for Joel Embiid or
Devin Hooker after these playoffs, after the

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Suns or Sixers get swept and the
Pistons land that number one pick in the

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lottery, you might change your mind. Well, I'll tell you, Denis,

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that wasn't a point in my call. But I like your Joe mb

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Idea. I actually was thinking about
that the other a couple of weeks ago,

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kind of just watching the basketball game. I said, you know what,

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I'm not sure they're tired of him
in Philly. They're gonna start throwing

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snowballs at him pretty soon. So
I said, why not bring him to

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Detroit and see what could happen?
Who knows? I mean, hey,

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listen, I'm the guy I'm the
guy that was calling the old host.

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Here go get John Moran's. You
know you think members don't want to keep

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him. I will take a chance
with John Moran's. I mean the guys,

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the guys to start, they need
a star. You never know.

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I don't know, but Freddy,
I'll take a chance if those guys have

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committed. If they've committed, Like, if you talk to John Moran,

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he's like, yeah, I want
to put all this behind me. I'm

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not waving any guns. I'm walking
the straight and narrow. If im Bead's

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like, yeah, I know the
health situation, I've got to lose weight.

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I mean, those are the starters
for even thinking about, you know,

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putting together some treasure trove to then
take the gamble with those guys.

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Yeah, what else? What else
are you looking at? So I want

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to talk about Jered Goff the NFL
draft, but you know you, I

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want to bring up a couple of
draft stories. You you brought up the

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eighty three drafts. I don't know
if you're read my touch, but I

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mean we're old enough to remember.
Only the Lions. You have to fall

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back in the first round, and
it happened in nineteen eighty three for guys

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that are now old enough and gals. They drafted James Jones, a fallback

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over Dan Marino and Jim Kelly,
only to Detroit Life. I couldn't do

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something like that, right, James
Jones out of Florida. I think,

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right, that's the that's Ben's that's
Ben's team. Absolutely, and then him

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and Billie Simmons was supposed to be
a combo for many years. And then

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Billy Simms got hurt the next year, and that was my other draft story.

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Monday, I was with Lomas Brown
and I sat with him. I

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looked at him. I said,
Lomas, you know you've become an icon

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in this town. You've been here
since eighty five. I said, have

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you ever sat down and realized that
the only reason your here is because Billy

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Simms got hurts? And again,
Dennis, you and I are enough to

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remember Billy Simms in Minnesota when he
got hurt, they won like three games

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the rest of the year. If
it wasn't for Billy Simms getting hurt,

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Lomas Brown wouldn't have been a Lion. He would them be picked that six.

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The Lions might would have been picking
fifteenth. And look and look at

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Lomas bro He's an icon in this
towndouts. It's just it's just crazy how

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things worked out, you know,
with the draft and you just never know.

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Now we're into the draft here and
you know, full disclosure. I

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like Jared Goff. I think he's
a good dude. I think he needs

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and personally, I think he needs
thicker skin. If you're really look into

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his interviews, he seems to dwell
on the negative a lot what people are

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saying, what they're not saying.
I've noticed that about him. But I

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think he's a good dude. I
think he's a pretty good quarterback. But

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you know, I think it's time
to shoot for the stars for a quarterback

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in this town and with Jared Goff. You know, do you think do

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you think that the Lions have I
mean non brit Holmes, Dan Campbell Hall.

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Do you think they've approached him or
ready and they know what he wants

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or they have asked him Dalton,
let's not sign the contract yet, because

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Pig twenty nine to be a team
wanting a quarterback that slips and we can

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get the trade value for that.
You think that could be happening behind the

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scenes. Well, I know that
they have at least approached it, and

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like you and I could sit around
and just look at the numbers of what

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Mahomes has and look at other the
top five quarterbacks, and we could come

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up with whether he wants forty five
or fifty and a five year deal with

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the guaranteed money, and we could
get pretty close to being in the ballpark,

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Freddy. But whether he has rabbit
ears or whether the you know,

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Homes and Campbell or are talking a
little bit too much about you know,

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the past and you know, getting
at the media or the fans or anything

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else. Uh, the biggest thing
is that these guys go out and continue

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to do what they've been doing,
and that is picking quality players in the

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draft. And then you know golf, you know you're gonna get interviewed and

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you're going to like everything is under
the microscope. So every single thing that

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you say, I don't want them
to be bland. I don't want them

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to just be like we're just taking
this one game at a time. We'd

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love the fact I want a little
bit of the personality. So I don't

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agree with where you're at there that
he's got a little bit too much rabbit

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ears and everything else, like say
some things his play is what is going

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to be important to me, not
not all the other stuff. You can

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say things that could be crazy.
It's the same thing with Holmes. I

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mean if he would have asked me
when he was going up to the podium,

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like you know, pulling out the
receipts and talking about the media,

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I would say, look a rule
of thumb, Brad. You know you're

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doing a great job in the draft, but let all those media members do

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whatever they want. You don't even
know what they're trying to do with whether

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it's getting calls or whether you know, their approach is just gonna be negative

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because they've been that way and that's
their job. Leave those guys alone.

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Roll a thumb, don't, you
know, stay away from the media that

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way. But you know, hey, these guys are human and and you

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know Holmes has probably listened too much
talk shows and reading too many uh you

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know, Detroit papers if he's over
there, fire and you know, back

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and stuff like that. So I
don't think they need to do that,

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just like I dont think Dan Campbell
freddie when he was like, hey,

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if you're not riding with us,
we don't want you. It's like,

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yeah, hey, I get you, but you know, don't don't you

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know, don't talk to the fans
like that. I don't know, but

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hey, I don't. I don't
think that should. I don't think that

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stuff should come out after you finally
win the division and you went a playoff

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game or two. I didn't guess
stuff should come out before. But anyways,

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I listened. I root for the
team. And if Jared Goff is

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a winning quarterback for the Super Bowl, that's great. I'm pulling for him.

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Is a good dude. I just
think they can do better at quarterback.

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I just think, uh I look, I go back to the Green

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Bay Packers. They always draft the
quarterbacks. They always getting better. I'm

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only the Kansas City Chiefs, you
know, the New England Patriots. They're

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always drafted quarterbacks. And and when
you lose the best one, now you

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can't win. And uh, I
you know, listen, I whatever happens

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today, I think it's gonna be
I think it's gonna be a good thing.

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It's a good thing for Detroit.
I think the Lions are gonna put

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those outs in a really good position. The draft the best available, the

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guy's gonna help them for the next
six, seven, eight, nine years

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and uh whoever they may be,
I'm looking forward to it. Then it's

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gonna be a fun your point,
I think we agree on that part.

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Like they've been close to sixty Super
Bowls and we look all the winners.

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There's only so many, uh Trent
Dilfers that that you have. You know,

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quarterbacks where you surround you have the
team and you surround the quarterback.

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It's mostly the hull all the fame
qbs, the premium qbs. That's a

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lot easier. Now that's also easier
said than done. Oh, the Lions

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don't have one of those guys.
So they're going the route of the of

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the Dilfer where they're not going to
have the Joe Flacco route, the Ravens

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route, put everything around them and
do it. That's more difficult than having

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the Patrick Mahomes Joe Montana type situations
where you get the quarterback and you can

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get it done that way. Good
call. I want to hear more from

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you. Coming up next, we
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