Right, happy Sunday morning. We are fired up this morning as usual,
but there is a buzz in the Motor City today like there hasn't been in
how many years? Uh god, it's gotta be since ninety one. That's
got Well, my name is Candy and I'm here on the South Florida Triune
YouTube channel and I am welcoming my other co host, mister Jeremy b.
How are you today, Jeremy fan frea fantastic. I bet you were in
the buzz City or around the buzz City and everything is I'll be honest.
So last night we were watching the Red Wing game and there were so many
chants for Jared Goff during that game. I mean, the Red Wings won.
It was a great game. They were playing the Vegas Vegas Golden Knights,
but and the announcers were saying that this is happening in a lot of
the sporting events. In fact, they actually showed one of the Pistons games
and you could hear the audio where the crowd was chanting Jared Goff. Oh
yeah, I've heard. So my question to you is, since you live
there is everybody talking about it, like if you're going to the stores,
do you hear people buzzing and talking, and I'm getting stopped when I'm walking
out my front door when I'm wearing my Lions that go to work. That's
how crazy it's been lately. That's just awesome. That's exciting for a whole
city, like, you know, to embrace a team that way, because
I'm guessing, you know, San Francis or San Francisco, I'm guessing even
Kansas City that they're not as into it as Detroit is right now. And
granted they've been there a couple of times in the past. Here, you
know, I just shared a screen with us, and this is what they're
saying. Bands across the country are rooting for Look at that, it's mostly
Lions. You got the West coast, which would be San Francisco. That's
to be expected. You got Virginia, West, Virginia, Maryland and DC
rooting for Baltimore. That's no surprise. The middle of the country Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska all rooting for Kansas City. Everybody else's rooting
Lions, including our rival state. This is nut. It is really doubt
that that section right underneath the UP actually halfway across the UP and right around
Green Bay, Wisconsin is actually rooting for the right. It's unheard of,
what I really do, I really out they are. It's just the majority
of the state. So that's what they're marking it as. You know what
I'm saying. But I would say that a lot of Midwest people maybe not,
but I'm originally from the Midwest, that we root for the teams within
our conference when they're in and we're not. Let's face it, when we're
going against each other, we're gonna, you know, die hard, you
hate me, and then it's over and then we're back to friends, exactly,
and I think, and then we root for you guys over these other
divisions, over the other you know, and the same I think would be
for college as well as pro because we were I mean, there was how
many people rooting for you for Michigan College. It's way different. Look at
that. Hello Indy and Jeremy. Hi Ralph, All right, Hi Ralph.
I'm just I'm ready for six thirty tonight. I can't wait for kickoff.
Do I expect to win? I expect a good game, That's what
I expect. I think it's going to come down to who had the ball
last and I pray to God that Rock Berdy and the forty nine ers can
get it closer than a fifty yard field goal. Because Jake Moody grew up
a Lions fan, well, let's hope you don't have the same fate that
the Packers have had against because they had the ball last Wow. Yeah,
but Jared Goff doesn't usually make that bonehead of a mistake. He does not
throw thirty yards downfield across this body. And it is going to be a
dogfight. And my suggestion is take the Lions and the points, regardless if
they win or not. I think it's a close game, right And now,
what point underdog seven and a half point underdogs seven and a half going
into San Francisco. That line move because the money's going more on Detroit.
They're trying to make it harder for the Detroit things. I agree with you.
I think it's going to be a tough game. I think it really
comes down to, and I said this on a previous broadcast, that when
you're in the playoffs like this, it's doing every little thing right because if
you start making little mistakes, they get magnified because you're playing up against teams
that are you know, really good too? They've beat how many other teams
to get to this point. You have to do the small things right to
win. And the weather is going to be sixty two degrees at kickoff,
which is three thirty this afternoon. It'll barely be dark when the game finishes,
so it's not going to be below forty degrees. The wind is mild,
at a five to eight mile an hour wind, which is nothing.
And so when everybody says, oh, but it's outdoors, and Jared Goff
sucks outdoors, he sucks outdoors in cold weather. If you forget, don't
forget. There was a storm that blew through Tampa the day before the game.
That field was wet conditions. It was not a hot day in Tampa
that day, and Jared Goff lit up that Tampa Bay vaunted defense that everybody
talked about. The only people they were missing were around offense. So I
don't want to hear that the Lions can't do this. GoF can't do that.
That's not the case this time. It's mild temperatures, mild wind,
which means that's not a factor. Seven to eight miles an hour, five
to eight miles an hour what that's gonna affect fifty yard field goals. That's
why I said, I hope whoever it is that has the ball last doesn't
have to count on a fifty yard field goal because it's harder to kick him.
With any win whatsoever. Two degrees isn't that much difference than what Ford
Field is, right. They set the heat at sixty five because you can't
have it set at seventy to eighty degrees when you got that many people in
there creating humidity. I mean, and if you if you don't think it's
hot down on that field when it's only set at sixty five degrees in Ford
Field, then those guys wouldn't be sweating like call girls next to a Navy
base after payday exactly exactly. I agree. I mean, so, I
don't think weather is really going to be a factor. Right. The weather's
not a factor. It's partly cloudy and there's no storm tracking in, So
I think it's going to be it's gonna come down to the trenches. Our
offensive line is better than their offensive line. Their defensive line is better than
our defensive line. One of them is going to break. And with the
James problems, actor James. The problem Houston is back playing after having to
sit for eighteen straight weeks. I think he's hungry, probably, probably,
And that's not until by weeks, you know what I mean. I'm not
including when we sat at home, so it was actually closer to nineteen twenty
weeks. He's been sitting waiting, and he's been active the last two and
a half weeks, waiting to get a chance to get back on the field.
M hm. So what kind of game do you think Christian McCaffrey's going
to have? Will? You know everybody has said every time we go up
against a great running back, oh, you got to watch out for this.
What did Kyrin Williams do, who's averaging fifty yards more a game than
Christian McCaffrey. He ran for under seventy five yards. Okay, so I
don't expect as much. This Lion's defense does well against the run. I'm
not expecting a big day out of mcaffe I expect him to score a touchdown
because that's what he does almost every game, and he's a good running back.
It's going to happen, right then. Don't break defense is working ever
since they got more aggressive when they were doing what they were doing from the
Chicago away game and before was not working. We were giving up points at
thirty a game in some of them, and now we haven't given up thirty
points this entire time. Ever since Dan Campbell said I'm going to put my
hands on this defense, your defense has definitely stepped it up, and come
they come to play. I I think as long as you rush Rock Purty
and he gets how should I say it, not scared, but like he's
hurried and he's rushed just like you did Jordan. I mean, I think
Jordan Loved that was one of his downfalls as they were pressuring him. The
first game we hit Jordan Love. I think it was eight times. We
sacked them twice, pressured to them even more than that. And the Lions
have been one of the top teams that creating pressure. And everybody's like,
oh, but pressure isn't sacked. I said, pressure gets to young quarterbacks.
Mhm. Rock Party experience wise is Jordan Love? Mhm. Jordan Love
sat for three years and played in a handful of games and now played a
full season. Right, that's equivalent. And the differences the Packers quit pressuring
about a third of the way through into the fourth quarter. Ok, they
went into that soft shell face defense that Joe Barry does and lost because of
it. You can say it was all the offensive woes they had the lead
at that point. It was the way the defense quit playing that lost that
game. It was a combination of both. You can't have turnovers. You
can't be punting the ball with only seven minutes less left and less than a
twenty point lead. Prevent events. I call it prevent yourself from winning defense.
When you play it that much. If it's the last drive of the
game, I get it, because then you've got a two score lead and
all you're trying to do is stop them from scoring, period, right right,
And I it would depend on how big of you have at that point
whether you could really let go of the pressure or not. Because I've said
that for a reason. And that two score that I like is twelve points.
Mm hmm, because at eleven that's technically a one and a half score
league a touchdown in a field goal with a two point version, correct.
Correct. I think you guys are in for a dog fight, But I
think it's going to be a good game, which is what we all hope
for. When we get to this time of year, and it's been confirmed
since Wednesday, we're rearing the all white Okay, that wore every primetime game
and the only one we lost. Did we really lose the Dallas game?
Mm hmm. Every primetime game we played, we wore the all white men.
Yeah. So, and this team plays different with those all whites on
You mean it, when they're on the road and they're wearing those all whites,
they play differently. And that's going back to last year because remember during
the bad stretch, we didn't wear the all whites. Mm hmm. We
got going good and we started wearing the all whites on the road and next
thing you know, hey man, we've got a winning streak. Where's this
coming from? So? Who do you think is gonna have a really good
game on the Lion's side? First, let's start with offense. I think
am On ROV's gonna get his Does he get a touchdown? I'm not sure,
but I think he's going to be getting his first. The Chiefs are
better at covering over the middle, but we have enough speed with Donovan People's
Jones, Josh Reynolds, and Jamison Williams to free up the middle, where
they can't do that zone as much in the middle that they like to do.
They like to run man on the outside and zone through the middle.
It's a modified Tampa too, So I don't think they're going to be able
to do that as much because we also have a very efficient run game behind
this whole line, and they're very good at stopping the run in the middle
and they're suspect to the outside. So in the run game, I think
it's going to be Jami Gibbs because once he turns a corner, I don't
think there's a guy on that defense fast enough to catch him. I mean,
and as far as passing the ball at every game, golf should just
survey the field before he hikes it, find out where Ambry Thomas is and
throw the ball that way. He has looked like absolute dog craft he has.
In the last two games he's played, he has been targeted twenty two
times and he's allowed eighteen receptions. Wow, then I guess, yeah,
throw his way all day long. And that's week eighteen. Because he technically
wasn't a starter, he was starting due to injury, so they wanted him
to get more playing time. His regular season grade as a corner was a
great grade. It's above average. Average is a sixty five. Through PFF
he had a seventy two point two, which means he had a great season.
But that was also while he was playing mostly slot corner and then he
had to switch to be the CB two due to injury. Wow. Okay,
So who on your defense is going to have I think it comes down
to that D line. I think the guy that's going to have the field
day he plays that right end. He's facing that right tackle. That has
been a revolving door for San Francisco because if you watch Purdy's getting sacked right
in his face. It's not as blind side because Trent Williams is great at
that, but he hasn't faced a guy with the bend like James Houston yet.
James Houston an explosive first half in that elite bend that he has as
a d N slash linebacker on the outside is going to be a problem for
a guy that's six foot five and three and forty pounds. So if he
could at that arm, I think he's got a free run. I agree.
I agree, if you pressure party, you'll you'll win. I think
this game so The Lions signed tight end this this week, zach Ertz,
but they're not activating him. They kept him on the practice squad. I
think he's not comfortable with the playbook. So we're going to be rolling a
lot of the eligible receiver stuff and pray to God that these refs get it
right. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, you watched prior to that play,
the only one that was doing this all the way over there and talking
to the ref was Taylor Decker. Mm hmm. Never once did Skipper do
this, And I noticed that he does it all flamboyant. Now did you
notice that that last game when he was the games? When Skipper or Decker
comes out as eligible, it's yeah, yeah, it's almost like the one
guy Eric Fisher used to do when he was tackled eligible for the Chiefs.
H I'm eligible, don't be stupid. Yikes, yikes. I can't imagine
being up in Detroit these days. It's been a buzz. Like I said,
the Red Wings game, the chance all around the stadium, you're talking
and you're going outside. Do you see more Lions gear? Are people wearing
more Lions gear? Even people talk to me while I'm outside smoking a cigarette
on my court just because I got a Lion's hat on. And thanks to
my buddy Dallas Doug Kelly, he has bought me two pairs, not one,
two pairs of personalized Lions Detroit shoes. Oh that's it, looking jere
me down the side of them, inside and out. One one has more
blue, one has more white. And that is my buddy, Christopher Smith,
the photographer, and he actually lives in Cheesehead Country and is a Lions
fan. That's okay. He can live in Cheesehead Country and be a Lions
fan. It's hard on a man times, but he's a truck driver so
he doesn't always have to stay home. I mean, let's face it,
I'm a Cheesehead, true and true, but I do not live in cheese
Land anymore. I'm in South Florida. So you were born and raised there,
and we forgive you the passion that we all have for our teams.
And that's what I love. That we respect each other because you you root
for the Lions, and yes, right now I'm rooting for the Lions.
But we respect each other and we have our boundaries. But I mean,
let's face it, my house is divided. I married a Lions guy,
we got married on on our wedding day, they played each other. He's
moved to Michigan. Congratulations, welcome home. There you go. But yeah,
as I was saying, on our wedding day, the Packers played the
Lions that night. As part of our reception, we had it on.
In fact, we put our respective jerseys over like my wedding dress and over
his tucks. Yes, exactly. So it's the passion that we have for
the game for our teams. But like I said, at least in the
NFL, I think most, not all, but most of us will root
for a respective team within our division before we Maybe I don't know about the
Bears. Some of us don't really like the Bears. But I'm just kidding.
But no, the Bears fans are absolutely delusional. They've been saying we
were going to be won and done the whole time. In the playoffs,
I was like, you don't know football. Well, you lost to us,
I said, on the road, what do we do to you at
home? We came back from a twelve point deficit with less than eleven minutes
to go. Because your team can't close out a game well, And there
was a rumor that the Packers, you know, fired Joe Berry, that
the Bears are actually interviewing him. So I'm like, well, that he's
going to go around the whole NFC like because he was with you guys before,
right, and then not us. There's a rumor and it's a scheduled
interview with Matt Patrisha for the Packers. I'm not trying to be mean.
I pray to God you guys don't hire him. If you do, Guton
Kerson needs to be fired immediately. But he wasn't that bad as a defensive
coordinator. It was when they put him on offense that did you not see?
He was defensive coordinating the last seven weeks in Philly. They went one
in six after they were in one. So he's awful. He's got awful
with the talent on that Eagles roster. That's a travesty to lose six games
because your defense couldn't stop a cold. That's true, that's true, And
I think we can beat the forty nine ers. I think this team,
the way it's played ever since we had that loss at Shang Chicago, the
way the defense has improved, the way the offense hasn't turned the ball over
in that stretch. That's the key right there. We've had two interceptions that
entire time and no fumble. If you play that type of football, that's
winning football. Yeah, I think it could come definitely come down to turnovers.
Whoever has obviously, I mean, and you can say that about any
anytime game, but I think, especially like when we get to these this
level, that the turnovers are key. So that's why it's key that if
you bring pressure to brock perty that sometimes he rushes, and every quarterback does
that sometimes. Ever since Hafanga got hurt, they're susceptible to the deep pass
over the middle now because the safeties don't seem to be able to keep up
with Itfanga, even though he was a later round pick last year, he
should have been a defensive Rookie of the Year the way he played last year.
That guy came out of nowhere. I love to a Panga or whatever
his name is. There's so many names that are longer than most people have
syllables. I know, I know, but I would say that there was
even some of the Packers receivers that were wide open that they I mean,
and you saw it way in the Dallas game. But you saw it even
in the San Francisco game that they weren't as close to some of those receivers.
So if you guys your speed, you can do it. I mean,
Romeo Dobbs is not a burner people. Neither is Jaden Reed. They're
quick, not bad, So that means that's the equivalent of Saint Brown.
And we have three guys on that roster that are playing that is faster than
Saint Brown. Mm hmmm, say what you want the deep ball, it
will be there. It's a question of when they want to use it and
how they want to use it. Me I'm busting them with the run till
they cheat those safeties up and then I'm going over the top of play acting,
which is what has been our bread and butter all season. Well,
you have to kind of do that against their D line because their D line
upfront especially is is good. So you're going to have to establish the running
game, establish the quick so that you can take a couple of long shots
down because if you don't, if you if you're handcuffed and that's all you've
got is the long it'll be a long day, right because then all they
gotta do is put him in two deep safety coverage, play man on everybody
else, and zone the middle with the linebackers, which is what they do
so well. There's a reason why Fred Wardner is one of the leading interception
leaders as a linebacker in the middle of that field. I mean, green
Law has got a strained achilles, so he's not going to be covering Sam
Laporta. I don't think he'll have that step to cover him. They're gonna
have to use Fred Werner and the other guy. And the other guy's a
rookie who's been good, but he's not great in past coverage, So that
means Laporta is gonna be able to eat a little bit more. Who's going
to be the other tight end? Peter Lemonzello for all I know, I
have no clue, make up any name, yep. A quick verse and
of the one thing that the lion the forty nine Ers defensive line does well
is stop the runs up the middle. But that doesn't mean you stop.
As we saw Aaron Jones, he didn't start to be successful, successful until
he went off tackle and around the edge. AJ Dillon did not have a
game at all. Right, Aaron Jones was your you know, keeping McCaffrey
and check isn't as big to me as everybody thinks, because that's what our
defense has done all year. We've kept every time somebody says, oh,
you're up against this running back, the look in their stat line fifty five
yards, seventy yards, sixty two yards, maybe a touchdown. I'll live
with it. It's been all year. And here's the other thing. When
you go to the advanced metrics, the Lions give up three point eight yards
in the run game. San Francisco forty nine ers give up five point two.
Big disparity in the past game. It's a lot closer. It's the
scoring defense that's the difference. But we have a different defense for the last
six seven weeks in a row than we had at the beginning. We haven't
given up more than twenty five I think, yeah, twenty five points.
I think the Rams were the highest scoring at twenty four since that time.
So why has your defense changed in the last Dan Campbell, I have no
one can tell me any different because ag didn't get this good overnight. As
soon as Dan Pemble said he was putting his hands on the defense after that
horrific loss in Chicago, we never should have lost that game. So that
being said, the forty nine ers defense gives up seven point two yards in
the passing game, we give up seven point eight, so that gives them
the slight edge there, But the edge is in the run game. They
give up more yards than run game. They don't have. They have a
great overall defense, but their run defense is porous. It can be exposed.
And the problem is teams let them get up to a big league and
then can't run the ball once they have that two score league, and they
don't care if it's ten points. They're gonna shut down your run game.
So the key is, and I don't care who wins the toss, you
want the Lions to receive the ball, come out and punch them in the
mouth, score a touchdown right off the rip, so they can't get off
to that thing, even if it's just a field goal. Take the league,
hold the lead, do exactly. We have not trailed in any playoff
game this year, and that should be exciting for a lot of fans.
And if you actually listen to some of those forty nine ers podcasts, they're
puffing their chests, but you can hear stuff under their breath. They are
slightly afraid of the Lions. It should be. Do you think if the
Lions win the toss, they're going to take the ball. Yes, they've
done it every game they've won the toss since that Chicago game. And if
somebody differs, Dan Campbell's over there looking like he's throwing the craft table.
All right, we got them all. Well, let's face it. Dan
Campbell has been the gambler, I would say of the NFL this year.
He's gambled on more fourth than however long calls and more trick calls too.
Then I say, eighteen yard line on the first drive and we go for
it on fourth and eighteen. What coach in the right mind does that?
Dan Campbell? That's the reason why he's there though, and we got it.
Was that's the crazy thing. We got that first out. I was
like, oh crap, here we go. You know what. The when
he was asked about his aggressive play calling on fourth down, he goes,
I tell my friends and family wear a diaper. That's funny. I was
like, I love this guy. It's why I show what I did.
You know, kneecap biting with the Motor City Lions. It's because it represents
exactly what our coach has preached since he'd been here. And I've heard other
analysts, even not in not in football talk about it, talk about kneecap
biting and how that's become so big and how Dan Campbell really represents the city
as well, you know, and as a former player that he is and
playing on that oh and sixteen team that he absolutely abhorred he was a part
of, but was still proud at the same time he was abhorred of the
record, he was proud of the team m hm. And when he came
back, he goes, I know you guys have been through it, man,
I know you're tired of that shit. Yep, he came out.
He poured his heart out in that first interview, and then after he poured
his heart out and got it going when he started talking about the players on
the team. I had so many laughs about that. I know the last
before the last game, they showed when the beginning of the season when he
brought the players into the room and he said, everybody stand up, now,
turn around and look at the back because on the back wall was those
four those dates of the championship, Like the time you won the last championship,
the time you won the last division and he goes, we're gonna change
those and just how moving that was, and that's awesome. Yeah, you
know, thank god Frank Ragnow was able to play because that it's the only
guy on our o line and everybody can say what they want if Frank Ragnow
doesn't play. Jared Goff as a turnover machine. Go back and look at
that three game stretch between the Bears, the Thanksgiving Day game and the one
right after. He was a turnover machine. I think it was atal of
four fumbles, three loss and six interceptions over that stretch. Frank Ragnow is
the key to this offensive line. It's amazing how what an impact one player
can have. Well, you're talking about the center who calls out the protections
for the quarterback. You know, the quarterback tells him, he calls it
out. He knows the verbiage, he knows how to signal it and everything
else. He also is very good at drawing people lost side because the center
is allowed one little twitch just before they hike the ball, and it's just
a helmet twitch. It's not a shoulder, it's not a leg, it's
not it's a little helmet twitch and he'll do this like two or three times.
As long as he doesn't move his shoulders, he's fine. He has
gotten bid a couple of times and got the false shart because he moved his
shoulders, which is something he normally doesn't do. But when you're dealing with
the back issue and knee ankle, knee ankle, and a toe all at
the same time, I'm quite sure he mentally laughs a little bit. Yeah,
well, that isn't the only NFL game today, although that might be
the one game that really is important I know in our household and I'm sure
yours. But there is another game with let's see the Kansas City Chiefs Patrick
Mahomes against Lamar and the Baltimore Ravens. I call him the Chefs, the
chefs. That's because that's that commercial that there's that but there is that commercial
on TV where Annie Reid and the guy paints and he paints the instead of
Chiefs on the field, he paints the Chefs. I call him the chefs
because the Chiefs and the rest versus the raven had a lot They've had a
lot of questionable calls go their way over this stretch. That put them to
where they won the division. And I'm not saying it's all bad calls or
no calls or any of that, because that's a crying mentality. But they
have had a little help. I mean, most of their wide receivers couldn't
catch a cold and move on China. Travis Kelsey's during the regular season.
He's had a great postseason. Don't get me wrong, he's doing good.
But during the regular season he was playing flatter than his girlfriend. His numbers
were the worst of his entire career. And everybody gives Pat Mahomes all this
credit. Where has he made a wide receiver better? Yet it's true,
at least you could say with Matt Star Stafford and Jared Goff they've made some
players better. M hm, I would agree with that. You can't say
that with Pat Mahomes because ever since theree Kills has left, he his numbers
have kept going down and he's not making people better. I would agree.
So this game is playing Baltimore, who do you give the edge to?
Because of the strip Zebras might be on the side of the red team and
the Colors match up better. And I set it preseason on inside the pigskin
with all of you there just before the season that that week one Thursday night
game between the Chiefs and Detroit might be the preview for the Super Bowl.
And here we are, both teams are in the conference championships. I'm going
for the Chiefs. I want I want him to let Kelsey play. I
want Jack Campbell to light his butt up when he comes across the middle.
There. I said it, you'd like a rematch. I want to rematch.
I want to prove to people that it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't
just because Travis Kelcey and Christian Jones didn't play. I understand, I understand.
I don't know that that'll happen, but it might. Like you said,
that's why they play the game, because we all talk about and you
know what, who should win? Who? You know, who might win,
who's expected to win? Oh who doesn't give them a chance to win.
But they play the game because any given Sunday, any team could beat
any other team. The ravens lamar. Jackson's playing for his contract. He
has something to prove. I mean he I know he has his contract,
but wait a minute, no, he has this contract. He's playing to
prove he's not a playoff for artist. Let's get it right, because that's
been the issue he's He's now won two playoff games and graduate get to the
big game. It doesn't get through the Chiefs this year, then he's going
to be another quarterback in the ASC suffering from DMSD Pat Mahomes stress disorder.
Oh that's funny, that's funny. Oh yes, I agree. I agree.
Someone's got to beat Mahomes because they're not I mean, they're good,
but they're not that good. That defense is that good. That's how they
got here. That defense is amazing. I don't care what anybody says.
They are a top five defense for a reason. It's funny because they were
obviously since I'm a Green Bay Packers fan, they were posting on and I'm
friends with and in a lot of groups with other fans. They were posting
pictures of when Holmgren held up the trophy and you mentioned defense because I'm like,
you know, it was really the defense that won that game for us.
It was the Reggie White, the Minister of Defense, coming and playing
and being on our team, and rookie Clay Matthews and a j Hawk in
his second or third year at that time. Plus then that's how returning kicks.
M Yes, but they that's what they always say, is the defense
wins the championships. It's true. Mm hmmm. True, it is because
the offense can be as good as they they are. But if if the
defense comes and you know, takes the takes the ball away, which let's
face it, that's one of the biggest takeaways. Like I said in the
beginning, it's the small things. If you do the small things right as
a defense, if you take the ball away, offense can't score. That
could be on both both games here, they're they're both susceptible to that.
But I think we're in some good games. So who So, what kind
of score do you think you're gonna you're gonna We're gonna see in the Baltimore
Kansas City game. Is it gonna be higher low scoring? Oh, it's
I think that one's gonna be higher scoring because it's gonna have to be a
shootout. Mahomes is gonna have to use Rashi Rice and Travis Kelcey and Noah
graymore because Kadarius Tony's out Nicole Harden and looks like he went to the same
school as to Darius Tony with that stone hands problem he has. I mean,
when you can hit a guy in the hands four times and they might
catch one, that's an issue. And Isaiah Pacheco is a little questionable too.
If he's out, they're gonna struggle. There's my thing. If he's
out, the Ravens are winning because I just don't think that defense can stop
that offense. I get it, I get it. I still say mar
wants respect. He got the contract, but I think he needs the wants
the respect of the league that he is an elite quarterback. And until he
gets more wins and gets to the big dance, he's never gonna have quite
the respect that I think he wants. So I think he's I think he's
more motivated this time. I could be wrong. It'll be interesting to see.
I'm looking forward to actually watching both games. And I don't have a
worse race, so I don't have to be stressed like I was last week.
I think it'll be It'll be good. Sunday, they Jojo. They
showed how crest you were about that game. You said, this game worries
me more than any other. You said it right here on this show.
But when we did our pre game by at one o'clock, and I'm gonna
say this one is the one that worries me as a Lions fan. Can
we beat the forty nine ers? Absolutely if we're playing smart football and do
it we're supposed to do. If we play bonehead bone ball, the bonehead
football with a lot of mental errors and a few turnovers, we're not winning
this game. The thing you do have for you, though, is Jared
Goff has been there before, so he has the experience on there for all
of eighteen places. M h. What we want that ucl All's that's going
to take is somebody hitting him from the right side and he's going to get
the yeps. And I don't mean the right side of the line. I
mean hitting him to where he lands on that elbow. It when it's that
game, that exact game a year ago that you had a major injury that
sidelined you and kept you out of a game, it's a mental issue.
Yes, I agree, I agree, Jeremy. What else is on your
mind today? Anything? Let's watch some good football, Let's have a great
day. Let's try to be a better person today than we were yesterday.
It's the only way to make the world a better place. You know,
it's the greatest time of year for fans that are involved in the playoffs,
and it's the worst time of the year for the fans that are not.
I understand it's hard to accept a team that's been great for decades starts to
fall down. But you guys will be back soon. I'm speaking specifically to
the Green Bay Packers man because of met or exceeded most expectations this year as
a guy who rested for three years and started a year four. He's already
under contract next year. You guys don't have to do anything. He's making
less than the fifth year option. You guys don't have to do a damn
thing. You can say, play your contract or ride to bind See what
and if they if he does that, if he tries the whole out role
with Sean Clifford because he didn't look bad in the preseason, That's all I
got. And what I would say is you said something about this is the
worst time of the year for fans that aren't in it, and I'm going
to say I tend to disagree, because the day after the Super Bowl is
when I think is the worst time of year because I have a love for
football, and so yes, there is a month off, and then I
believe we have I think it's is it are they calling themselves XFL this or
and they start playing in March UFL United Football League UFL that's what it is.
Thank YOUFL and the USFL combined to make it another thirty two team league.
So that'll be interesting. So that's that window there. Now, that's
where I fall off, I think somehow, because right after the draft,
that's the only thing they're not competing with because they have their draft the next
week, got of everybody who wasn't drafted to the NFL. Okay, okay,
So where is the draft this year? In Detroit? Another buzz for
the city, right right? Yep? I just think if the Packers wouldn't
have choked out the last seven minutes of that game, we'd be playing another
game in Detroit with another twenty plus million in revenue at Bardfield. But that
shared revenue, people, doesn't matter if it's concessions, tickets, whatever,
that is shared revenue. It goes across the league. But what about all
the hotel revenue? What about all the everything else that comes with it.
It's actually way more than just twenty million in revenue for the city. Is
those hotel rooms double? I know I was going to get one to go
down there to watch the game today. Mm hm yes. Wow. Those
twenty dollars seats at Fordfield to watch it on the big screen sold out in
less than twelve hours. Wow. That is crazy, But that's awesome.
That's going to be sixty five And if they put plate I don't think they're
doing the seats on the field. I think it's just in the stands and
they're going to be having the type stuff down on the ground. So I
think there's going to be like sixty six to seventy thousand fans at Fordfield again
watching and it's all Detroit. It's not going to be a bunch of San
Francisco forty nine ers fans people, And it is right comes out with scores
first, the roof might get blowed off of Fordfield. There'll be election.
It'll be electric for sure, that's for sure. Anybody who's going, please
send me photos. I want to see it. Send a video to me
personally. If you know me and personally you've got me on Facebook or Twitter,
send me that video. Send me that stuff. I want to hear
it. I want to see it, and I also want to see it
if it goes bad, how quiet it gets. I want all that stuff
because it's stuff I can use. I'm sure the feed, I bet you
they're going to be not that the TV cameras, but I bet you they'll
have somebody down there panning in Detroit and showing the crowd in the stands.
Right. But I don't want to use the Detroit Lions feed for my personal
use for my show. For our article, I understand exactly. I understand
somebody's personal cell phone use. It's perfectly legal. Yes, yes, send
it. Send it to Jeremy, send it to sull Florida Tribune. You
know, well, we'll put it on a show, on an episode.
Play it for everybody, especially especially if they go forward, right, And
I'll tell you what I'm putting all those You know, there's Packer fans and
then there's the ones we call pack card. It's the same with the Vikings
fans. It's the same with the Bears fans. I'm gonna let you know.
We make it to the super Bowl, the crap talking will not stop
till next season. Win or lose, because I'm done with hearing it.
It's the same old Lions, same old Lions died when we won the first
playoff game, and Minnesota hasn't been how long and neither of the Bears has
been a long time, So who can talk. Let's let's think about this.
The Lions over the last fifty or the Vikings over the last fifteen years,
have two playoff wins. The Lions have two this January. There you
go, well, jul how long has it been since the Vikings have been
to a Super Bowl? The seventies something like that has been long? And
the Bears haven't what it was Bears were back in the two thousand six or
seven, I think it was when they won or when they lost. They
won it in eighty five, and that's what they use is we're better than
the Lions. Well, it'll be an interesting conference next year. Let's let's
put it the interesting division next year. It will be an interesting division.
And if you add up the win totals and losses, this was the second
best division in football this year. It's the AFC North than the NFC North.
Both North divisions were the best in football. Mm hmm that's awesome.
You can't. You can't say that about another division in this league because hardly
any of them had two teams. Afse's had two teams. But they both
heard themselves to be frauds in their first playoff game. Not being mean,
I'm being factual. Yep, I get I get it. Any last,
let's have a great day. Let's watch some great football. Go enjoy your
game at FAU there candy with Scott, have fun, take lots of pictures,
post the articles, post the pictures. I know, and when we
win, yeah, I'm not going to be able to write for a half
hour, maybe an hour. I'm gonna be crying like the prom the cheerleader
that waited until the day before prom to get a date. That's how bad
I'm gonna be crying. I understand. I understand. Well, let's let's
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You're everywhere. It sounds of it between you and us, they were,
I think we've got it all covered, right. Yeah, I've actually
have improved my demographic. Even I'm getting comments from the female sports fans.
And I'm not just talking about you and Jen when you pop in and say
hi, it's amazing. I've seen some intelligent you know, other than the
podcasters that I know that are very intelligent and very knowledgeable about sports. I'm
talking about average sports fans that are females that know sports, and it's amazing
you have a big event happening on Monday. Why don't you tell us a
little bit about that. It is my one thousandth episode in the second anniversary
of starting my show, I am inviting Scott Candy, the podcast group that
got me into podcasting, Detroit Lions on the Prowl. You know Kurt Steele,
Valerie Bordeaux, the Queen of the Prowl. Mike Timber I met he
was then known as micro Mike means now going by his real name. I
just think he's to be in all the midget uh uh, Lorenzo Allen Neil,
the Bandit and the Bandit Villain Squad. And of course I'm gonna stop
and after I go through of everybody that's had a big part of my life,
I'm gonna give a little props to the new group that I joined because
if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be where I'm at now. To
you know, you guys, everybody, everybody has had a big everybody's either
a lesson or a blessing when it's come to podcasting. I only had one
lesson and I'll leave their names out of my mouth. I understand that that's
awesome. We're excited because I know Scott and I have both talked about we're
gonna be popping on the show on Monday because we are here to support you
as well and see you grow and I see all of us grow. Let's
face it, this is this is a new industry that a lot of people
will not as new because, like you said, you're having your two year
anniversary, but ten years ago you wouldn't have. You didn't know what we
None of us knew what podcasting or you know, coming on here and broadcasting
is. So it's an industry that's growing my leaps and bounds, and we
love supporting you because you support us. So it's a win win situation.
So everybody catch us on Monday night at what time. Like I said,
I'm going to bring in the people that started me off first, I'll send
the invites out all at nine thirty. There's gonna be a lot of people
in that green room they call it for backstage, because, uh, I've
got a list of about twenty people that want to come on and talk.
So I'm going to bring them in the order of importance, you know,
detail lions of the powel, because that's where I got my Smoking Jeremy Be
nickname, and where I got my start in podcasting. And it literally it's
because Jim Bordeaux joined my Facebook page right after we hired Dan Campbell. And
this is before I even knew you guys existed. M I used to do
every Monday just a live video chat right there on the page so fans could
talk football. And everybody's like, man, you have a lot of knowledge.
Were you a coach for this? Were you that? And I was
like, no, I'm just a guy that loves the game. And then
came on one time and he goes, I wanted you as a guest on
my podcast. I'm free for all Friday. Normally I have just podcasters,
not your average fan. He goes, You're not the average fan. There
you go. I've heard you spout off stats. I think I think I've
forgotten less information than you know. Mm hm and rest in heaven, Jeff,
we miss you. Oh yes, well, this has been a great
episode of Fire up in the Motor City. So on behalf of Smoking Jeremy
Be and I'm Candy. Thank you for joining us. And we'll see you
next time. Enjoy football today,