Get some facts and come back and Seebee. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't throw out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
Way out a detain why you're not That day we weren't good. There's
no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling you. We
laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for you. He
sucks. He sucked, but we laid an egg. That's all I have
to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break it down for
you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us. We have to
figure it out everyway, eh Jodan the final hour of the program. Hope
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the text line open. Before you want to get to that, we were
just we had left off in Casey mishead lines last night. Tigers lose to
the Twins five to three, Casey Meis goes on the IL and Tyler Mott
signs a one year deal with the Red Wings. It's pretty basic about what's
going on right now. We talked briefly a little baseball earlier, but we're
into the football mode right now, and we were talking about how this NFC
North could possibly shake out and the keys for the lines and what they did
in the offseason to justify I think people even outside Detroit and Michigan, justify
the belief of why this team is good enough to repeat as division champions,
to repeat as a playoff contender, and what many people feel like they should
be getting to the super Bowl. It's the next step, right, I
mean people feel like there's a logical step. You make it this point,
then the next step has to be at least one step further. I've never
been a proponent of that. Ever, I don't believe just because you look
when Peyton Manning won his first Super Bowl against the Bears, did the Bears
make it the next year? No? They did not. Now you might
feel like that's too much of a different scenario, but I truly believe that
just because you reach it one year doesn't mean you automatically get there the next
year or kick the door in now, Buffalo Bills would have won a Super
Bowl by now, right. How about the Eagles from two seasons ago to
last year? Dada? What about the Panthers when they lost a Kurt Warner?
Heck, the Panthers when they went with Cam Newton, and then I
think the next year shift. They started zero to five that season in twenty
sixteen. Wow, yeah, it's I don't think it's just the logical next
stuff for us. I think it's fair to expect it. And here's here's
the caveat. I mean, you got to too healthy. But the caveat
is this, The Lions did it with a young corps, and that corps
has remained intact. But what Trent and I were talking about just before the
break is the three things they really needed that are big concern yours in mind.
I say this collectively our big concern for the Lions going into the off
season. Uh oh, did they miss their window because their offensive coordinator is
going to be named a head coach somewhere? No, he stayed, how
will this team address its biggest weakness its secondary? Well they did by getting
a pretty damn good one in Carlton Davis and by drafting two highly thought of
cornerbacks, Terry Arnold from Alabama, who nobody thought would be there for Detroit
and Anus Rakestraw from Missouri, who the Lions tell us we can only take
him at their word. I suppose tell us was their second rated cornerback on
their board, and nonetheless, at any rate, it's two SEC corners,
and what do we know about SEC corners? Well, yeah, I guess
I mean again, Occuda is a big ten corner. I'm not sure what
we mean by that. Why Why is Aha Clinton Dix Green Bay twenty fourteen
Alabama corner? How's that working out? It was all right for a minute.
I guess My point is just that seems like Brad Holmes knows what he's
he knows what he's after, he knows what he wants, and he's got
three years of a body of work now where I'll trust it. Yeah,
me too, But that's that's a different argument. I'll take Brad Holmes's two
eyes of talent over quote unquote and SEC corner. That's all that's fair.
Because when when you say SEC corner at what's the cutoff for an SC?
What if it's a Kentucky corner? What if it's a Vanderbilt corner? They're
both SEC guys right? To me that that doesn't mean as much. I
think the Big twelves a passing league, right has been for a long time.
So you would think anybody who comes out of there who's a first team
All American, who's a really good player? Anybody who comes out of there
who turns your head, You're like, whoa this dude? Is it right?
Justin Gilbert, Oklahoma State. He was a high draft pick by the
Cleveland Browns back in twenty fourteen. He was traded to Pittsburgh two years after
he was drafted. It was ninth overall. I would think that would have
made a lot of people in Cleveland pretty damn happy. Let's keep it local.
You're a big spartan guy. How good do you think Trey Wayns was
at MSU? Awesome? No flies on damn right? He was the eleventh
overall pick I believe by the Minnesota Vikings in twenty fifteen. How did his
professional career turn out? Solid? But not? He was not anything special?
Yeah, he was just a guy. Do we think that Vernon Hargroves,
the third who played in the SEC at Florida, turned out to be
a really good player at least eleventh overall. Call back from earlier too.
I mean Terry Fair went to Tennessee and I did check on it. He
was the twentieth overall pick. Twentieth Okay, yeah, I knew it was
between eighteen and twenty three, I didn't know exactly when, and he was
drafted ahead of Randy Moss. I guess my point is just this. I
have to be very careful because I've seen it and you've seen it too often,
where we get giddy over a guy and immediately we insert them into a
starting lineup at it at a position like that, and that position's hard,
at a position like that, and we think automatically they're going to be successful.
I think we've got to prepare ourselves. I hope I'm dead wrong here.
I think we've got to prepare ourselves for a learning curve that as talented
as this young man may be, and he is that many scouts can't be
wrong. Okay, but there were a lot of teams that passed too.
A young man like this who's accomplished as much he did at the collegiate level,
in the most highly respected conference at the collegiate level, for the highest
respected coach at the collegiate level, drafted by a guy you and I both
trust because of his track record in Brad Holmes, coached by a guy like
Dan Campbell, and others who we have seen the results from right, All
those things add up to a plus. This is where the culture is so
important. Yeah, it all adds up to a win. Win, There's
no doubt about it. I just don't want to get too carried away because
I expect him to have some slip ups and that's okay. That doesn't make
him a bad pick. It just means that he is going to have to
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eight sixty six, eight three, eight forty eight forty three. The text
line sports Radio to twenty one thousand. By the way, speaking of golf,
and I want to get to some text here, but I have to
give you this real quick. This is so funny. It was a really
clever feature on SSI dot Com. They went to a lot of the players
on the PGA Tour and they said, when's the last time you had to
pay to play golf? These guys can go just about anywhere and get it
comped. They'd love to go to Tullymore Saint Ives. I can promise you
that because it's a hell of a challenge. But they asked them when's the
last time you had to pay? Stuart Sink said Pebble Beach twenty twenty with
my son, so four years ago. For four years. And it's not
like the only time they play is on the PGA Tour, all right,
So for four years that dude has gone without paying any greens fees. Keegan
Bradley, I just paid twenty seven bucks for mini golf with my kids.
Thanks Keegan, that wasn't the question. Jason Day said, every time I
play Mount Vernon back home, I pay a cart fee. Oh you pay
twenty bucks. You pay a cart fee twenty bucks. Adam Scott said I
paid fifty five bucks Australian last January at a public course. That's not a
bad deal. Ryan Palmer said, I took my son to play Pebble beachs
last Thanksgiving. Wow, I know exactly what that cost. Like, he's
surprised that he's got a This is what it's almost like. Politicians. Ask
a politician how much is a wolf of bread? How much is a box
of cereal? They can't tell you, right. The running theme here is
every answer is last January, last Thanksgiving. It's been a minute for all
these guys. Imagine having those resources at your disposal. Yeah, it's incredible.
Jordan Speed said, I'm not sure about a Greens fee, but I
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in Arlington near my house. This is the best one of them all,
Trent, listen to this. Matt Kocher, who unfortunately was seen as a
little bit of a cheap skate because he kind of sure changed his caddy on
a couple of different occasions, he said this, Hum, it would have
to be before college. I think probably the mid nineteen nineties. Yeah,
that's what at a round of golf cost back then. Are you kidding me?
That's outrageous. I've got a buddy who's been in sales for his entire
life. He's never had a car payment. He's never had a car payment
because it's his company pays for his car. I think it's awesome. I'm
not jealous. I'm happy for him. I think it's great. He doesn't
know what it's like to pay X amount one hundred dollars a month for a
car payment. Yeah, that's what you call a distorted perception of reality.
To put it lightly, Probably the best answer was Aaron Badley. He said
last year, and I was happy to do it. That's the right response.
Yeah, you know who's going to be reading this, people like you
and I who pay for it all the time. For Matt Coocher to go
ah, probably, I mean, do me a favor, Matt, I
mean, no one can really check this a lot. Do me a favor,
and humorous and exaggerate just a little bit. Perhaps maybe something along the
line say, oh yeah, last year, I think I played a public
course with a buddy of mine. I think I did nineteen nineties. Yeah,
I mean almost anything would have been a better response than saying you haven't
paid for golf in thirty years. I mean, that is ridiculous for the
common man to hear that. Kevin Streielman said I paid a cart fee to
play in a US Open, qualifier recently. That was a first for me.
Oh, first time you had to pay. Huh, Welcome to the
club again. Not being jealous or anything with these guys, but these guys
make millions of dollars playing the game you and I play on the weekend if
we're lucky as paying customers. Yeah, and in Michigan we're doing it for
five decent months if we're lucky, Okay, some of us. If you're
playing, depending on the course, you're saving up a little bit, right,
you're excited, you're fired up. These guys make millions of dollars to
do this. They get an additional hundreds of thous well into six figures for
the sponsors that they have. And they're telling us they're not having to pay
for any type of golf even when they're not playing on the PGA Tour,
Because what are those what are those courses saying? Are you kidding me?
I would love to have Jason Day out of my course? Can I get
a picture? Go right ahead? Right? And it's an added bonus if
they have a good thing or two to say about your course afterwards. Right,
can't I give it? Right? Can you give us a like?
Exactly? Right? That's so funny. That is a great story idea though.
I mean it just really it really is. I mean, that was
one of the more enjoyable stories that I saw. I just I was so
interested to hear what they had to say because I really thought, naively,
I thought maybe they were a little bit like you and I. Hey,
if I'm not playing at this track the Travelers or I'm not playing the Rocket
Mortgage Classic and I'm playing on a week off, yeah I gotta pay.
I guess they don't. It wasn't a huge sample size, but it was
big enough for me to get a laugh out of it. Let's get to
some texts you can text us at sports Radio to twenty one thousand. We
did have that conversation about the cornerbacks and how the Lions have addressed that need,
which is great. But I'm going to try and keep it in perspective
and not get too far ahead of myself. I expect things from Terry on
Arnold. I expect him to start. I expect us Rakestraw to be a
contributor and a key one, and I think they're both going to help Detroit's
secondary that was an issue a year ago that hopefully will become a strength this
year. But I'm trying to keep it in perspective. So I know.
We got a couple other names texted to us. Who are they? Bryant
Westrook number five overall, jeff Alkouda number three as we talked about, but
shep quickly before we hit a break here. I think this is in response
to you and I calling Justin Jefferson the best player in the NFC North.
This texter says, give me Sewell over Jefferson all day. Receivers don't win
titles. Offensive line and quarterbacks do. I think that's good point. That's
a great point. That's the first name I thought of when you said Justin
Jefferson. I thought Penny Suol, but I didn't want to be too much
of a homer. I love the answer, though, and gotta love the
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when this song comes on, Trent, I have not so this guy is
sitting by himself and it's he's not the most masculine dude out there. Okay,
he doesn't look like he's a former athlete, but that's who cares,
right But the bottom I'm just trying to give you a description. And so
he's got the black room glasses, he's got the hair that looks a little
bit dated, the outfit that looks a little dated, and he's just kind
of sitting by himself. I don't know how the camera caught him, but
this song comes out and he goes absolutely nuts and starts breaking out of his
shell, dancing up and down the aisle talking to people, you know,
mouthing the words to the bon Jovi song, and it's an absolute classic.
Now, he could have been a plant, right, It could have been
planted there and then they just happen to catch him. But either way,
whether it's planet or not, it's hysterical and it's it's a lot of fun
to watch. If you can possibly find it, I don't know how you
would, but if you can possibly find it's it's really good stuff. I
want to get to I want to finish up some of the text. I
know there's just some names, but you and I were talking, Trent and
I were talking about the cornerbacks for the Lions in how they're going to be
hopefully helping this defense get better, helping this team in general get better.
And I want to make sure we get anybody who took the time to send
in some texts, We want to make sure that they're able to get those
Reds. So give me just a couple of the other names and then we'll
move on. Yeah, I already gave you Brian Westbrook and Jeff Okuda unfortunately,
but do you know who Brian Restbook is by the way, Yes?
You know? Okay, So in case people don't know, I think he
was the fifth overall pick out of Texas. Yes, Now, he did
not necessarily have your typical cornerback build. He looked like he was more of
a safety. He was a big, strong kid, but he was He
had high grades coming out of the Longhorn's football program, and he just did
not work in Detroit, which I guess really shouldn't surprise many of us at
all. Okay, continue, Well, someone does bring up and I think
this is a good point, Sauce Gardner fourth overall. That's the flip side,
right, that's an example of it working out. Yeah, I think
it's I'm glad they did that. I'm not saying, please if it came
across like I'm saying it's a dangerous position to take super high, I'm not.
I think it's a it's a vital position. I'm what I'm saying is
I want to and Sauce Gardner's at Detroit or I want to make sure that
we are understanding that it can be a very difficult transition, that's all.
And some people shep call cornerback the most difficult position to play in the entire
sport. So I think you're concern, for lack of a better term,
as well founded. Yeah, I wouldn't say I don't think it's the most
difficult. I think quarterback is the most difficult. The amount of things I
don't know. If you saw a recent interview with Tom Brady, it's fascinating,
simply fascinating that while while you and I, while Trent and I look
at it was successful if he completed the play, if he completed the pass,
quarterbacks look at it like was I reading it properly? Was it the
right thing to do to make the pass in the first place. That's one
of the biggest challenges you walk it. It's hard to put into words For
people who don't play the position. I would strongly encourage you to go back
and try to find it. Just it happened within the last month. Tom
Brady and the interview where he's explaining the success of the position, where he
is making the call going up to the line of scrimmage, looking at the
various things, the various reads, changing the protection, changing the protection from
the backfield, as well again reading the defense, knowing their tendencies, knowing
what play he has, knowing what he can audible into. Then as he
drops back, another read takes place. He sees that they were disguising something.
He had to go to a certain place, and then he had to
put the ball in a certain place for his receiver to make the play.
Those are all the things before the play is actually completed. And I'm not
really doing it justice. It is simply spectacular. Yeah, you want to
talk about multitasking. Oh fulkus. Yeah, I'm not saying corner is easy.
It's not. None of it is easy. Not one position on the
field of play, in my mind, is easy. All I'm saying is
at a cornerback position, whether you're man to man or whether your zone,
your your reads are much less than what a quarterback has to do. So
I think quarterback is the most difficult position. I think I think corner is
a very hard position to transition into from college to the pro. And my
guess would be the offensive tackle. I think those are the three hardest.
Again, I'm I never played them at the NFL level, so I'm I'm
basing it off of what coaches and players have told me in the past.
And the reason it's tackle is because there is a certain guy inside. There's
a certain guy, a fast the fastest guy you've faced, you know,
going from college to the pro, the fastest guy you faced about to come
at you. You've got twists, you've got stunts, you've got clubs.
All these guys doing what they're trying to do to get to your quarterback,
and you're doing everything you can without clutching, grabbing, holding, understanding you
know, the line of scrimmage call that was made by the center listening to
what the quarterback is doing. There's making sure you don't go downfield too or
whatever, all those things, and you're doing it against guys who were two
hundred and seventy pounds and stronger. So I think that's I think that's part
of the reason I think tackle might be for me the second hardest, and
then cornerback for sure, but whatever, I mean, look, those were
good. That's a good example Sauce Gardner of how a guy was drafted highly
and he was successful I love that again, not not the cornerbacks can't be
successful. I'm hoping Terry on Arnold. I loved them at Alabama. I
love the pick. I have high expectations for him, just like he has
of himself and the coaching staff and all fans do for him. I'm just
telling you, I want to be sure to give this kid a little bit
of wiggle room because I know it's going to be challenging. And are we
aut of text or are we're all set? Yeah, we're all set.
Okay, good, let me get to this. This is and it's funny
because one of the Texas just before the break, brought up Trent said Justin
Jefferson best wide reserve, best player in the division, which made me pause
for an extended period of time, saying I never looked at it like that.
Originally I would have said Penny soool, but I didn't want to be
a homer And be quite honestly, I mean, when you're when you're looking
at an offensive lineman, are you viewing them as the can they be the
best player in their division? If you're an offensive lineman, I don't care
who you are. You can tell me till you're blue in the face that
you love linemen, you don't watch them very often. You are watching the
football. And that's okay. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying
it's hard for us to truly judge offensive linemen because the only time we're recognizing
them is if they're getting a penalty called. Well, and also, shep
there is that flavor of fan out there that just kind of looks at stats,
and that's what. Offensive linemen don't have stats, right, Well,
they have pressures, there's metrics and stuff. Yeah, they're a metrics,
but you and I have to dig really deep to find them right, right,
They're not as easily accessible you and I can just look, Hey,
you know, Justin Jefferson had nine rocks for one hundred and thirty yards and
two touchdowns. That's a hell of a day. But we can't tell that
Penney Sewel didn't allow any pressures because we don't know what's determined as a pressure
and not and we're too busy watching the football go down the field rather than
watch number fifty eight keep his quarterback clean. Right, And not to say
this is the biggest indicator, but I mean, offensive linemen are often the
unsung hero. You don't see many kids running around wearing a Frank Ragnew jersey.
You see him wearing Jamison Williams or Amen Ross Saint Brown. How many
kids did you grow up with when you said, hey, what position do
you play? Hey man, I'm the center, I'm the right guard.
I'm excited about it. You're not. They want the ball, Yeah,
they want the ball. My oldest son was a guard in high school.
He was a big, strong kid. I loved it. I think I
thought it was great, and they were really successful. His team went to
the state semi finals and division and I think they were Division one. But
anyway, bottom line is, I've always watched the lineman. I've always watched
guards. If their head pops up, it's generally a pass. If it
stays down, it's a run. That's kind of where I begin, because
you can get fooled by play fakes and so on and so forth from the
quarterback. So I try as best I can to watch the interior part of
the offensive line. Folks. It's I mean, football can be really difficult
to follow. It can, and when you're watching the interior of the offensive
line, are you're noticing the wide receivers. Are you noticing the tight end?
You can't watch every position, so I understand why a lot of people
aren't watching the offensive line. I just thought that text was fantastic when somebody
said I think Penne Sewel is the best, and I applaud that. I
applaud that Texter for challenging me on that, and look at it. It's
not I don't think you need to tear one down to prop the other up,
if you know what I'm saying, And if you think Penney Sewell is
the best player in the NFC North, I got no issue with that.
I am just simply looking at it from I mean, I watched Nick Mullins
almost beat the Lions last season when they were trying to clinch the NFC North
because Justin Jefferson was going nuclear. It's not a matter of Rene Sewell's not
close to number one. It's just I think Justin Jefferson is as good as
they get a soul to that point. But then you qualified it by saying,
look, I mean we're talking about you know, you hesitate to use
skill positions, but you know the guys who are responsible for putting up some
points like that, so I get it. But I again I applaud the
Texter for thinking that way too, because I think more football fans need to
take that into consideration. But but speaking of Penny School, there was a
recent poll done where it's they were looking at the offensive tackle rankings. I
mean, this is where football stays top mind awareness, right, I mean
it's it's always in your face, because there are so many different things to
talk about. Oh yeah, when it comes to football and rankings. Last
year, the number one offense of tackle going into last season was Trent Williams
and then Lane Johnson. I remember Philly was coming off of Super Bowl appearance.
Johnson got a lot of love, and rightfully so. Pennay Seul was
ranked the tenth best tackle in the league that was going into last season.
This year, I don't know why. I'm not saying he doesn't belong there,
but I do believe Trent Williams, who is ranked number one is again
it's based off reputation. Last year did a really good job against guys like
Micah Parsons and Miles Garrett and the like. And he's made eleven of the
past twelve Pro Bowls, so there is something to be said, for a
man who has done it as consistently well as Trent Williams has in what will
be a Hall of Fame career, He's the number one ranked tackle. Number
two is Penny Seel And what they write about him as a profile is that
he's the biggest threat to the top spot, that he's already one of the
elite tackles in the game, a first team All Pro last year allowed just
And here's this is Trent. You and I were just talking about this.
How do you decipher those statistics that are most important? We'll hear you go
ready. Sewell allowed just one sack in six hundred and forty three pass blocking
snaps last season. That doesn't jump out at you on Twitter or social media
or even in the game notes. It's not in anybody's postgame article. It's
something you've got to dig deep for. It's something you probably don't even notice
unless you're told, because I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, Chef.
I feel like Sewell almost has some of that element where he's were numb
to his greatness and how yeah stable and consistent he is. He's awesome,
right, He's so good, he's almost boring, right, He's Scottie Scheffler
in golf, so consistent and so good. So the article continues and says,
the best rate tackle in the league last year allowed Just not there's another
one ready. Nineteen pressures while playing seventeen games. Domination dominating performance. In
other words, the pressure rate per drop back is three percent. Jared Goff
does not have to worry when he looks to his right the hair on the
back of his neck is not standing up because Penny Sewell is anchoring the right
side. How many people give the Lions on line credit as they should.
It's the anchor of this team. Panney Seules, the spearhead, the figurehead
of that offensive line. Thinks he's twenty three years old, barely scratching the
NFL surface of his career, and he's a superstar. He is. He's
a superstar in the NFL. Would you recognize him if he were walking down
the streets of Grand Rapids. You would look at him and say, my
goodness, what a big man. Right, you'd say that dude, I
wouldn't want to mess with that guy. He's a bad cat. But I
don't know if people would recognize him, not from a superstar status, and
I want to get to the pole question and the results of yesterday's pole question.
So we've got one for you today. It's a pretty simple one.
Is it time to start questioning the iSER plan, not bailan, just question
it, yes or no. You can vote as often as you want on
Axes and Bros, on Twitter or on X Yesterday we asked you this which
team has had the better free agent signing period? Is it the Red Wings,
the Pistons or neither? Trent Belly. What are the final results of
yesterday's poll question? More than half of you are less than please you say
neither. Fifty five percent of people who voted say neither. Red Wings got
twenty nine percent of the vote. Pistons excuse me, sixteen percent. So
all in all, Chef, I think that speaks to people's impatience, and
people are starting to get a little upset, and rightfully so, with the
lack of a splash in the offseason for teams that really have I mean,
neither one of these teams made the playoffs in years. Here's my only question
with that. You tell me that not you, but I mean fans tell
me all the time free agents aren't going to come here. What's your expectation.
See, I don't buy that. I don't either don't buy that.
I don't buy that they won't come here. I think you have to give
them a winning environment. I think I think you have to give them a
little bit of a belief and you've got to sell that to them. Not
every organization has to sell it. It comes automatically with the territory. I
think you have to sell it here in Detroit. How many players would want
to play for Dan Campbell Rad Holmes, Right, but they're not coaching or
running the Red Wings or the Pistons. Right. But I'm just saying Detroit
as the destination to your point. Yeah, it's not always about the city
in the weather. Yeah, Kevin Zeitler is one of the top interior alignment
and he wanted to come here. It's good stuff. Hey, Trent,
thanks for all your help. As always, we appreciate the texts. I
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