WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:29.359 Right, happy Sunday morning. We are fired up this morning as usual, 2 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:34.200 but there is a buzz in the Motor City today like there hasn't been in 3 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:42.799 how many years? Uh god, it's gotta be since ninety one. That's 4 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:49.119 got Well, my name is Candy and I'm here on the South Florida Triune 5 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:54.039 YouTube channel and I am welcoming my other co host, mister Jeremy b. 6 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:59.679 How are you today, Jeremy fan frea fantastic. I bet you were in 7 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:08.000 the buzz City or around the buzz City and everything is I'll be honest. 8 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:15.359 So last night we were watching the Red Wing game and there were so many 9 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:22.760 chants for Jared Goff during that game. I mean, the Red Wings won. 10 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:26.719 It was a great game. They were playing the Vegas Vegas Golden Knights, 11 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.799 but and the announcers were saying that this is happening in a lot of 12 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:36.120 the sporting events. In fact, they actually showed one of the Pistons games 13 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:42.439 and you could hear the audio where the crowd was chanting Jared Goff. Oh 14 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:49.319 yeah, I've heard. So my question to you is, since you live 15 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.159 there is everybody talking about it, like if you're going to the stores, 16 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.640 do you hear people buzzing and talking, and I'm getting stopped when I'm walking 17 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:02.519 out my front door when I'm wearing my Lions that go to work. That's 18 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:07.240 how crazy it's been lately. That's just awesome. That's exciting for a whole 19 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.800 city, like, you know, to embrace a team that way, because 20 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:17.240 I'm guessing, you know, San Francis or San Francisco, I'm guessing even 21 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:23.919 Kansas City that they're not as into it as Detroit is right now. And 22 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:28.719 granted they've been there a couple of times in the past. Here, you 23 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.560 know, I just shared a screen with us, and this is what they're 24 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:37.280 saying. Bands across the country are rooting for Look at that, it's mostly 25 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.439 Lions. You got the West coast, which would be San Francisco. That's 26 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:45.039 to be expected. You got Virginia, West, Virginia, Maryland and DC 27 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:49.759 rooting for Baltimore. That's no surprise. The middle of the country Iowa, 28 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.319 Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska all rooting for Kansas City. Everybody else's rooting 29 00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:01.400 Lions, including our rival state. This is nut. It is really doubt 30 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:07.120 that that section right underneath the UP actually halfway across the UP and right around 31 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.280 Green Bay, Wisconsin is actually rooting for the right. It's unheard of, 32 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.280 what I really do, I really out they are. It's just the majority 33 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:19.960 of the state. So that's what they're marking it as. You know what 34 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.639 I'm saying. But I would say that a lot of Midwest people maybe not, 35 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:30.520 but I'm originally from the Midwest, that we root for the teams within 36 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:37.400 our conference when they're in and we're not. Let's face it, when we're 37 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:42.960 going against each other, we're gonna, you know, die hard, you 38 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.439 hate me, and then it's over and then we're back to friends, exactly, 39 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.719 and I think, and then we root for you guys over these other 40 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:53.960 divisions, over the other you know, and the same I think would be 41 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:59.400 for college as well as pro because we were I mean, there was how 42 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:06.960 many people rooting for you for Michigan College. It's way different. Look at 43 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:14.360 that. Hello Indy and Jeremy. Hi Ralph, All right, Hi Ralph. 44 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.199 I'm just I'm ready for six thirty tonight. I can't wait for kickoff. 45 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:23.160 Do I expect to win? I expect a good game, That's what 46 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:26.000 I expect. I think it's going to come down to who had the ball 47 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.720 last and I pray to God that Rock Berdy and the forty nine ers can 48 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.360 get it closer than a fifty yard field goal. Because Jake Moody grew up 49 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.879 a Lions fan, well, let's hope you don't have the same fate that 50 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:42.959 the Packers have had against because they had the ball last Wow. Yeah, 51 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:47.879 but Jared Goff doesn't usually make that bonehead of a mistake. He does not 52 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:53.199 throw thirty yards downfield across this body. And it is going to be a 53 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:59.560 dogfight. And my suggestion is take the Lions and the points, regardless if 54 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.720 they win or not. I think it's a close game, right And now, 55 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:09.040 what point underdog seven and a half point underdogs seven and a half going 56 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:13.279 into San Francisco. That line move because the money's going more on Detroit. 57 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:20.399 They're trying to make it harder for the Detroit things. I agree with you. 58 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:24.439 I think it's going to be a tough game. I think it really 59 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:29.480 comes down to, and I said this on a previous broadcast, that when 60 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:33.920 you're in the playoffs like this, it's doing every little thing right because if 61 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:40.000 you start making little mistakes, they get magnified because you're playing up against teams 62 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.079 that are you know, really good too? They've beat how many other teams 63 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:48.120 to get to this point. You have to do the small things right to 64 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:53.480 win. And the weather is going to be sixty two degrees at kickoff, 65 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.240 which is three thirty this afternoon. It'll barely be dark when the game finishes, 66 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.920 so it's not going to be below forty degrees. The wind is mild, 67 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.439 at a five to eight mile an hour wind, which is nothing. 68 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:09.120 And so when everybody says, oh, but it's outdoors, and Jared Goff 69 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:13.759 sucks outdoors, he sucks outdoors in cold weather. If you forget, don't 70 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.519 forget. There was a storm that blew through Tampa the day before the game. 71 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.319 That field was wet conditions. It was not a hot day in Tampa 72 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:28.160 that day, and Jared Goff lit up that Tampa Bay vaunted defense that everybody 73 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.879 talked about. The only people they were missing were around offense. So I 74 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:36.279 don't want to hear that the Lions can't do this. GoF can't do that. 75 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:41.319 That's not the case this time. It's mild temperatures, mild wind, 76 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.079 which means that's not a factor. Seven to eight miles an hour, five 77 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.240 to eight miles an hour what that's gonna affect fifty yard field goals. That's 78 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:53.759 why I said, I hope whoever it is that has the ball last doesn't 79 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.199 have to count on a fifty yard field goal because it's harder to kick him. 80 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:02.079 With any win whatsoever. Two degrees isn't that much difference than what Ford 81 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:06.439 Field is, right. They set the heat at sixty five because you can't 82 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:11.199 have it set at seventy to eighty degrees when you got that many people in 83 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:15.040 there creating humidity. I mean, and if you if you don't think it's 84 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.519 hot down on that field when it's only set at sixty five degrees in Ford 85 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:23.680 Field, then those guys wouldn't be sweating like call girls next to a Navy 86 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:30.160 base after payday exactly exactly. I agree. I mean, so, I 87 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.839 don't think weather is really going to be a factor. Right. The weather's 88 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:39.959 not a factor. It's partly cloudy and there's no storm tracking in, So 89 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.160 I think it's going to be it's gonna come down to the trenches. Our 90 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.519 offensive line is better than their offensive line. Their defensive line is better than 91 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:54.639 our defensive line. One of them is going to break. And with the 92 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:01.120 James problems, actor James. The problem Houston is back playing after having to 93 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:09.360 sit for eighteen straight weeks. I think he's hungry, probably, probably, 94 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.399 And that's not until by weeks, you know what I mean. I'm not 95 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.839 including when we sat at home, so it was actually closer to nineteen twenty 96 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:20.959 weeks. He's been sitting waiting, and he's been active the last two and 97 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.759 a half weeks, waiting to get a chance to get back on the field. 98 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.200 M hm. So what kind of game do you think Christian McCaffrey's going 99 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:37.360 to have? Will? You know everybody has said every time we go up 100 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.759 against a great running back, oh, you got to watch out for this. 101 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:43.000 What did Kyrin Williams do, who's averaging fifty yards more a game than 102 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:52.240 Christian McCaffrey. He ran for under seventy five yards. Okay, so I 103 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:58.120 don't expect as much. This Lion's defense does well against the run. I'm 104 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.799 not expecting a big day out of mcaffe I expect him to score a touchdown 105 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.919 because that's what he does almost every game, and he's a good running back. 106 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:11.159 It's going to happen, right then. Don't break defense is working ever 107 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:15.600 since they got more aggressive when they were doing what they were doing from the 108 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:22.200 Chicago away game and before was not working. We were giving up points at 109 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:28.759 thirty a game in some of them, and now we haven't given up thirty 110 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:33.360 points this entire time. Ever since Dan Campbell said I'm going to put my 111 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:39.600 hands on this defense, your defense has definitely stepped it up, and come 112 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:46.080 they come to play. I I think as long as you rush Rock Purty 113 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.279 and he gets how should I say it, not scared, but like he's 114 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.720 hurried and he's rushed just like you did Jordan. I mean, I think 115 00:09:54.919 --> 00:10:01.639 Jordan Loved that was one of his downfalls as they were pressuring him. The 116 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.320 first game we hit Jordan Love. I think it was eight times. We 117 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:09.320 sacked them twice, pressured to them even more than that. And the Lions 118 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.440 have been one of the top teams that creating pressure. And everybody's like, 119 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:18.679 oh, but pressure isn't sacked. I said, pressure gets to young quarterbacks. 120 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:26.679 Mhm. Rock Party experience wise is Jordan Love? Mhm. Jordan Love 121 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.399 sat for three years and played in a handful of games and now played a 122 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:37.399 full season. Right, that's equivalent. And the differences the Packers quit pressuring 123 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.879 about a third of the way through into the fourth quarter. Ok, they 124 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.960 went into that soft shell face defense that Joe Barry does and lost because of 125 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.480 it. You can say it was all the offensive woes they had the lead 126 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.679 at that point. It was the way the defense quit playing that lost that 127 00:10:54.759 --> 00:11:00.159 game. It was a combination of both. You can't have turnovers. You 128 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:05.159 can't be punting the ball with only seven minutes less left and less than a 129 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:11.480 twenty point lead. Prevent events. I call it prevent yourself from winning defense. 130 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:15.799 When you play it that much. If it's the last drive of the 131 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.799 game, I get it, because then you've got a two score lead and 132 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.360 all you're trying to do is stop them from scoring, period, right right, 133 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.279 And I it would depend on how big of you have at that point 134 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:31.840 whether you could really let go of the pressure or not. Because I've said 135 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.039 that for a reason. And that two score that I like is twelve points. 136 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.720 Mm hmm, because at eleven that's technically a one and a half score 137 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.879 league a touchdown in a field goal with a two point version, correct. 138 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.639 Correct. I think you guys are in for a dog fight, But I 139 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.799 think it's going to be a good game, which is what we all hope 140 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.240 for. When we get to this time of year, and it's been confirmed 141 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:03.600 since Wednesday, we're rearing the all white Okay, that wore every primetime game 142 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.600 and the only one we lost. Did we really lose the Dallas game? 143 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:16.960 Mm hmm. Every primetime game we played, we wore the all white men. 144 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.279 Yeah. So, and this team plays different with those all whites on 145 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.240 You mean it, when they're on the road and they're wearing those all whites, 146 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.320 they play differently. And that's going back to last year because remember during 147 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.519 the bad stretch, we didn't wear the all whites. Mm hmm. We 148 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.600 got going good and we started wearing the all whites on the road and next 149 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:41.559 thing you know, hey man, we've got a winning streak. Where's this 150 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:48.000 coming from? So? Who do you think is gonna have a really good 151 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:54.799 game on the Lion's side? First, let's start with offense. I think 152 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.000 am On ROV's gonna get his Does he get a touchdown? I'm not sure, 153 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:03.840 but I think he's going to be getting his first. The Chiefs are 154 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.320 better at covering over the middle, but we have enough speed with Donovan People's 155 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.960 Jones, Josh Reynolds, and Jamison Williams to free up the middle, where 156 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.720 they can't do that zone as much in the middle that they like to do. 157 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.600 They like to run man on the outside and zone through the middle. 158 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:24.720 It's a modified Tampa too, So I don't think they're going to be able 159 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.279 to do that as much because we also have a very efficient run game behind 160 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.799 this whole line, and they're very good at stopping the run in the middle 161 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:35.320 and they're suspect to the outside. So in the run game, I think 162 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.120 it's going to be Jami Gibbs because once he turns a corner, I don't 163 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.759 think there's a guy on that defense fast enough to catch him. I mean, 164 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:48.639 and as far as passing the ball at every game, golf should just 165 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.200 survey the field before he hikes it, find out where Ambry Thomas is and 166 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:58.399 throw the ball that way. He has looked like absolute dog craft he has. 167 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:03.200 In the last two games he's played, he has been targeted twenty two 168 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:09.759 times and he's allowed eighteen receptions. Wow, then I guess, yeah, 169 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:15.360 throw his way all day long. And that's week eighteen. Because he technically 170 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.320 wasn't a starter, he was starting due to injury, so they wanted him 171 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:22.320 to get more playing time. His regular season grade as a corner was a 172 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.279 great grade. It's above average. Average is a sixty five. Through PFF 173 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:30.679 he had a seventy two point two, which means he had a great season. 174 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.320 But that was also while he was playing mostly slot corner and then he 175 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:39.639 had to switch to be the CB two due to injury. Wow. Okay, 176 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.600 So who on your defense is going to have I think it comes down 177 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:48.720 to that D line. I think the guy that's going to have the field 178 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.600 day he plays that right end. He's facing that right tackle. That has 179 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:58.600 been a revolving door for San Francisco because if you watch Purdy's getting sacked right 180 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.120 in his face. It's not as blind side because Trent Williams is great at 181 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.759 that, but he hasn't faced a guy with the bend like James Houston yet. 182 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:11.279 James Houston an explosive first half in that elite bend that he has as 183 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.519 a d N slash linebacker on the outside is going to be a problem for 184 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.720 a guy that's six foot five and three and forty pounds. So if he 185 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:26.519 could at that arm, I think he's got a free run. I agree. 186 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:30.799 I agree, if you pressure party, you'll you'll win. I think 187 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:39.440 this game so The Lions signed tight end this this week, zach Ertz, 188 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:45.720 but they're not activating him. They kept him on the practice squad. I 189 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.879 think he's not comfortable with the playbook. So we're going to be rolling a 190 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.360 lot of the eligible receiver stuff and pray to God that these refs get it 191 00:15:54.440 --> 00:16:02.480 right. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, you watched prior to that play, 192 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:04.720 the only one that was doing this all the way over there and talking 193 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:11.120 to the ref was Taylor Decker. Mm hmm. Never once did Skipper do 194 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:17.360 this, And I noticed that he does it all flamboyant. Now did you 195 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:21.440 notice that that last game when he was the games? When Skipper or Decker 196 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:32.720 comes out as eligible, it's yeah, yeah, it's almost like the one 197 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:37.919 guy Eric Fisher used to do when he was tackled eligible for the Chiefs. 198 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:48.919 H I'm eligible, don't be stupid. Yikes, yikes. I can't imagine 199 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:55.080 being up in Detroit these days. It's been a buzz. Like I said, 200 00:16:55.240 --> 00:17:00.000 the Red Wings game, the chance all around the stadium, you're talking 201 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.160 and you're going outside. Do you see more Lions gear? Are people wearing 202 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:08.000 more Lions gear? Even people talk to me while I'm outside smoking a cigarette 203 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:12.759 on my court just because I got a Lion's hat on. And thanks to 204 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:18.279 my buddy Dallas Doug Kelly, he has bought me two pairs, not one, 205 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:27.079 two pairs of personalized Lions Detroit shoes. Oh that's it, looking jere 206 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:32.200 me down the side of them, inside and out. One one has more 207 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.519 blue, one has more white. And that is my buddy, Christopher Smith, 208 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.880 the photographer, and he actually lives in Cheesehead Country and is a Lions 209 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.920 fan. That's okay. He can live in Cheesehead Country and be a Lions 210 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:47.039 fan. It's hard on a man times, but he's a truck driver so 211 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:52.559 he doesn't always have to stay home. I mean, let's face it, 212 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.240 I'm a Cheesehead, true and true, but I do not live in cheese 213 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.200 Land anymore. I'm in South Florida. So you were born and raised there, 214 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:07.680 and we forgive you the passion that we all have for our teams. 215 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.119 And that's what I love. That we respect each other because you you root 216 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:14.559 for the Lions, and yes, right now I'm rooting for the Lions. 217 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:19.119 But we respect each other and we have our boundaries. But I mean, 218 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.599 let's face it, my house is divided. I married a Lions guy, 219 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:29.240 we got married on on our wedding day, they played each other. He's 220 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:36.400 moved to Michigan. Congratulations, welcome home. There you go. But yeah, 221 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:38.319 as I was saying, on our wedding day, the Packers played the 222 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:42.400 Lions that night. As part of our reception, we had it on. 223 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:48.599 In fact, we put our respective jerseys over like my wedding dress and over 224 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:53.319 his tucks. Yes, exactly. So it's the passion that we have for 225 00:18:53.759 --> 00:19:00.440 the game for our teams. But like I said, at least in the 226 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:04.720 NFL, I think most, not all, but most of us will root 227 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:11.640 for a respective team within our division before we Maybe I don't know about the 228 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.880 Bears. Some of us don't really like the Bears. But I'm just kidding. 229 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:21.839 But no, the Bears fans are absolutely delusional. They've been saying we 230 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.599 were going to be won and done the whole time. In the playoffs, 231 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:26.440 I was like, you don't know football. Well, you lost to us, 232 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:29.440 I said, on the road, what do we do to you at 233 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:33.960 home? We came back from a twelve point deficit with less than eleven minutes 234 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:37.599 to go. Because your team can't close out a game well, And there 235 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:42.079 was a rumor that the Packers, you know, fired Joe Berry, that 236 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:47.880 the Bears are actually interviewing him. So I'm like, well, that he's 237 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:49.799 going to go around the whole NFC like because he was with you guys before, 238 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:55.119 right, and then not us. There's a rumor and it's a scheduled 239 00:19:55.119 --> 00:20:00.640 interview with Matt Patrisha for the Packers. I'm not trying to be mean. 240 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.680 I pray to God you guys don't hire him. If you do, Guton 241 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:12.960 Kerson needs to be fired immediately. But he wasn't that bad as a defensive 242 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:18.720 coordinator. It was when they put him on offense that did you not see? 243 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.279 He was defensive coordinating the last seven weeks in Philly. They went one 244 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:29.519 in six after they were in one. So he's awful. He's got awful 245 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:34.640 with the talent on that Eagles roster. That's a travesty to lose six games 246 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:40.400 because your defense couldn't stop a cold. That's true, that's true, And 247 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:44.240 I think we can beat the forty nine ers. I think this team, 248 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.680 the way it's played ever since we had that loss at Shang Chicago, the 249 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.799 way the defense has improved, the way the offense hasn't turned the ball over 250 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:59.319 in that stretch. That's the key right there. We've had two interceptions that 251 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:04.079 entire time and no fumble. If you play that type of football, that's 252 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:08.960 winning football. Yeah, I think it could come definitely come down to turnovers. 253 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:12.240 Whoever has obviously, I mean, and you can say that about any 254 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:17.039 anytime game, but I think, especially like when we get to these this 255 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:21.559 level, that the turnovers are key. So that's why it's key that if 256 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:26.039 you bring pressure to brock perty that sometimes he rushes, and every quarterback does 257 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:33.920 that sometimes. Ever since Hafanga got hurt, they're susceptible to the deep pass 258 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.279 over the middle now because the safeties don't seem to be able to keep up 259 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.920 with Itfanga, even though he was a later round pick last year, he 260 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.440 should have been a defensive Rookie of the Year the way he played last year. 261 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:51.319 That guy came out of nowhere. I love to a Panga or whatever 262 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:56.680 his name is. There's so many names that are longer than most people have 263 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.359 syllables. I know, I know, but I would say that there was 264 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:06.160 even some of the Packers receivers that were wide open that they I mean, 265 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:08.119 and you saw it way in the Dallas game. But you saw it even 266 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:14.200 in the San Francisco game that they weren't as close to some of those receivers. 267 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:18.920 So if you guys your speed, you can do it. I mean, 268 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.240 Romeo Dobbs is not a burner people. Neither is Jaden Reed. They're 269 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:27.279 quick, not bad, So that means that's the equivalent of Saint Brown. 270 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:32.920 And we have three guys on that roster that are playing that is faster than 271 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:37.279 Saint Brown. Mm hmmm, say what you want the deep ball, it 272 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.359 will be there. It's a question of when they want to use it and 273 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:44.319 how they want to use it. Me I'm busting them with the run till 274 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:47.480 they cheat those safeties up and then I'm going over the top of play acting, 275 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:51.480 which is what has been our bread and butter all season. Well, 276 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.519 you have to kind of do that against their D line because their D line 277 00:22:55.599 --> 00:23:00.000 upfront especially is is good. So you're going to have to establish the running 278 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.440 game, establish the quick so that you can take a couple of long shots 279 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.599 down because if you don't, if you if you're handcuffed and that's all you've 280 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:12.200 got is the long it'll be a long day, right because then all they 281 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:15.960 gotta do is put him in two deep safety coverage, play man on everybody 282 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:19.359 else, and zone the middle with the linebackers, which is what they do 283 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:23.640 so well. There's a reason why Fred Wardner is one of the leading interception 284 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:29.400 leaders as a linebacker in the middle of that field. I mean, green 285 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:34.680 Law has got a strained achilles, so he's not going to be covering Sam 286 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.200 Laporta. I don't think he'll have that step to cover him. They're gonna 287 00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:41.119 have to use Fred Werner and the other guy. And the other guy's a 288 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:45.839 rookie who's been good, but he's not great in past coverage, So that 289 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:49.720 means Laporta is gonna be able to eat a little bit more. Who's going 290 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:56.039 to be the other tight end? Peter Lemonzello for all I know, I 291 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.839 have no clue, make up any name, yep. A quick verse and 292 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:04.319 of the one thing that the lion the forty nine Ers defensive line does well 293 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.960 is stop the runs up the middle. But that doesn't mean you stop. 294 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:14.440 As we saw Aaron Jones, he didn't start to be successful, successful until 295 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:18.920 he went off tackle and around the edge. AJ Dillon did not have a 296 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:26.160 game at all. Right, Aaron Jones was your you know, keeping McCaffrey 297 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.240 and check isn't as big to me as everybody thinks, because that's what our 298 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:34.480 defense has done all year. We've kept every time somebody says, oh, 299 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:41.839 you're up against this running back, the look in their stat line fifty five 300 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:47.519 yards, seventy yards, sixty two yards, maybe a touchdown. I'll live 301 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:51.599 with it. It's been all year. And here's the other thing. When 302 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:55.000 you go to the advanced metrics, the Lions give up three point eight yards 303 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.079 in the run game. San Francisco forty nine ers give up five point two. 304 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:03.559 Big disparity in the past game. It's a lot closer. It's the 305 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.559 scoring defense that's the difference. But we have a different defense for the last 306 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:12.200 six seven weeks in a row than we had at the beginning. We haven't 307 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.920 given up more than twenty five I think, yeah, twenty five points. 308 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:22.119 I think the Rams were the highest scoring at twenty four since that time. 309 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:29.319 So why has your defense changed in the last Dan Campbell, I have no 310 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:34.240 one can tell me any different because ag didn't get this good overnight. As 311 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:38.519 soon as Dan Pemble said he was putting his hands on the defense after that 312 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:47.599 horrific loss in Chicago, we never should have lost that game. So that 313 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:51.640 being said, the forty nine ers defense gives up seven point two yards in 314 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:53.759 the passing game, we give up seven point eight, so that gives them 315 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:57.839 the slight edge there, But the edge is in the run game. They 316 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.359 give up more yards than run game. They don't have. They have a 317 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:07.720 great overall defense, but their run defense is porous. It can be exposed. 318 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.759 And the problem is teams let them get up to a big league and 319 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:18.880 then can't run the ball once they have that two score league, and they 320 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:22.119 don't care if it's ten points. They're gonna shut down your run game. 321 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:26.000 So the key is, and I don't care who wins the toss, you 322 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:27.599 want the Lions to receive the ball, come out and punch them in the 323 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:32.440 mouth, score a touchdown right off the rip, so they can't get off 324 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:36.680 to that thing, even if it's just a field goal. Take the league, 325 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:41.920 hold the lead, do exactly. We have not trailed in any playoff 326 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:45.480 game this year, and that should be exciting for a lot of fans. 327 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:49.240 And if you actually listen to some of those forty nine ers podcasts, they're 328 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:56.160 puffing their chests, but you can hear stuff under their breath. They are 329 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:02.119 slightly afraid of the Lions. It should be. Do you think if the 330 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:07.319 Lions win the toss, they're going to take the ball. Yes, they've 331 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.920 done it every game they've won the toss since that Chicago game. And if 332 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:17.920 somebody differs, Dan Campbell's over there looking like he's throwing the craft table. 333 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.480 All right, we got them all. Well, let's face it. Dan 334 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:26.079 Campbell has been the gambler, I would say of the NFL this year. 335 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:34.279 He's gambled on more fourth than however long calls and more trick calls too. 336 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:40.559 Then I say, eighteen yard line on the first drive and we go for 337 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:45.400 it on fourth and eighteen. What coach in the right mind does that? 338 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.240 Dan Campbell? That's the reason why he's there though, and we got it. 339 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:55.640 Was that's the crazy thing. We got that first out. I was 340 00:27:55.680 --> 00:28:00.400 like, oh crap, here we go. You know what. The when 341 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.319 he was asked about his aggressive play calling on fourth down, he goes, 342 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:11.799 I tell my friends and family wear a diaper. That's funny. I was 343 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.480 like, I love this guy. It's why I show what I did. 344 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:19.519 You know, kneecap biting with the Motor City Lions. It's because it represents 345 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:26.240 exactly what our coach has preached since he'd been here. And I've heard other 346 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:33.599 analysts, even not in not in football talk about it, talk about kneecap 347 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:38.920 biting and how that's become so big and how Dan Campbell really represents the city 348 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:45.319 as well, you know, and as a former player that he is and 349 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:51.880 playing on that oh and sixteen team that he absolutely abhorred he was a part 350 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:55.640 of, but was still proud at the same time he was abhorred of the 351 00:28:55.680 --> 00:29:00.359 record, he was proud of the team m hm. And when he came 352 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:03.960 back, he goes, I know you guys have been through it, man, 353 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.799 I know you're tired of that shit. Yep, he came out. 354 00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:11.680 He poured his heart out in that first interview, and then after he poured 355 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.640 his heart out and got it going when he started talking about the players on 356 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:22.920 the team. I had so many laughs about that. I know the last 357 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:29.680 before the last game, they showed when the beginning of the season when he 358 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.799 brought the players into the room and he said, everybody stand up, now, 359 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:37.000 turn around and look at the back because on the back wall was those 360 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.400 four those dates of the championship, Like the time you won the last championship, 361 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.880 the time you won the last division and he goes, we're gonna change 362 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:56.160 those and just how moving that was, and that's awesome. Yeah, you 363 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.599 know, thank god Frank Ragnow was able to play because that it's the only 364 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.640 guy on our o line and everybody can say what they want if Frank Ragnow 365 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.880 doesn't play. Jared Goff as a turnover machine. Go back and look at 366 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:15.400 that three game stretch between the Bears, the Thanksgiving Day game and the one 367 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:22.640 right after. He was a turnover machine. I think it was atal of 368 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:30.079 four fumbles, three loss and six interceptions over that stretch. Frank Ragnow is 369 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:37.079 the key to this offensive line. It's amazing how what an impact one player 370 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:41.759 can have. Well, you're talking about the center who calls out the protections 371 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:44.519 for the quarterback. You know, the quarterback tells him, he calls it 372 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.599 out. He knows the verbiage, he knows how to signal it and everything 373 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:55.960 else. He also is very good at drawing people lost side because the center 374 00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.279 is allowed one little twitch just before they hike the ball, and it's just 375 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.759 a helmet twitch. It's not a shoulder, it's not a leg, it's 376 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:10.000 not it's a little helmet twitch and he'll do this like two or three times. 377 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:12.079 As long as he doesn't move his shoulders, he's fine. He has 378 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.680 gotten bid a couple of times and got the false shart because he moved his 379 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.839 shoulders, which is something he normally doesn't do. But when you're dealing with 380 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:23.039 the back issue and knee ankle, knee ankle, and a toe all at 381 00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:30.200 the same time, I'm quite sure he mentally laughs a little bit. Yeah, 382 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.319 well, that isn't the only NFL game today, although that might be 383 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.480 the one game that really is important I know in our household and I'm sure 384 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:45.119 yours. But there is another game with let's see the Kansas City Chiefs Patrick 385 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:51.599 Mahomes against Lamar and the Baltimore Ravens. I call him the Chefs, the 386 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:56.720 chefs. That's because that's that commercial that there's that but there is that commercial 387 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.680 on TV where Annie Reid and the guy paints and he paints the instead of 388 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:04.519 Chiefs on the field, he paints the Chefs. I call him the chefs 389 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:12.920 because the Chiefs and the rest versus the raven had a lot They've had a 390 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:17.079 lot of questionable calls go their way over this stretch. That put them to 391 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:22.279 where they won the division. And I'm not saying it's all bad calls or 392 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:28.759 no calls or any of that, because that's a crying mentality. But they 393 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.599 have had a little help. I mean, most of their wide receivers couldn't 394 00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:37.480 catch a cold and move on China. Travis Kelsey's during the regular season. 395 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:39.000 He's had a great postseason. Don't get me wrong, he's doing good. 396 00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:45.119 But during the regular season he was playing flatter than his girlfriend. His numbers 397 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:51.559 were the worst of his entire career. And everybody gives Pat Mahomes all this 398 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:57.839 credit. Where has he made a wide receiver better? Yet it's true, 399 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:02.640 at least you could say with Matt Star Stafford and Jared Goff they've made some 400 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:08.559 players better. M hm, I would agree with that. You can't say 401 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:13.039 that with Pat Mahomes because ever since theree Kills has left, he his numbers 402 00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:19.680 have kept going down and he's not making people better. I would agree. 403 00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:23.799 So this game is playing Baltimore, who do you give the edge to? 404 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.799 Because of the strip Zebras might be on the side of the red team and 405 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:37.880 the Colors match up better. And I set it preseason on inside the pigskin 406 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.920 with all of you there just before the season that that week one Thursday night 407 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:45.680 game between the Chiefs and Detroit might be the preview for the Super Bowl. 408 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.680 And here we are, both teams are in the conference championships. I'm going 409 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:55.000 for the Chiefs. I want I want him to let Kelsey play. I 410 00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:59.359 want Jack Campbell to light his butt up when he comes across the middle. 411 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:05.839 There. I said it, you'd like a rematch. I want to rematch. 412 00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:07.800 I want to prove to people that it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't 413 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:15.599 just because Travis Kelcey and Christian Jones didn't play. I understand, I understand. 414 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:20.039 I don't know that that'll happen, but it might. Like you said, 415 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.079 that's why they play the game, because we all talk about and you 416 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:27.880 know what, who should win? Who? You know, who might win, 417 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.840 who's expected to win? Oh who doesn't give them a chance to win. 418 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.840 But they play the game because any given Sunday, any team could beat 419 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:44.039 any other team. The ravens lamar. Jackson's playing for his contract. He 420 00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.239 has something to prove. I mean he I know he has his contract, 421 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:51.239 but wait a minute, no, he has this contract. He's playing to 422 00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:54.320 prove he's not a playoff for artist. Let's get it right, because that's 423 00:34:54.360 --> 00:35:00.440 been the issue he's He's now won two playoff games and graduate get to the 424 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:07.480 big game. It doesn't get through the Chiefs this year, then he's going 425 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:15.519 to be another quarterback in the ASC suffering from DMSD Pat Mahomes stress disorder. 426 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:22.519 Oh that's funny, that's funny. Oh yes, I agree. I agree. 427 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:29.480 Someone's got to beat Mahomes because they're not I mean, they're good, 428 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:32.280 but they're not that good. That defense is that good. That's how they 429 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:37.400 got here. That defense is amazing. I don't care what anybody says. 430 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:43.199 They are a top five defense for a reason. It's funny because they were 431 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:49.000 obviously since I'm a Green Bay Packers fan, they were posting on and I'm 432 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.559 friends with and in a lot of groups with other fans. They were posting 433 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:58.280 pictures of when Holmgren held up the trophy and you mentioned defense because I'm like, 434 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:00.280 you know, it was really the defense that won that game for us. 435 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:06.679 It was the Reggie White, the Minister of Defense, coming and playing 436 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:10.639 and being on our team, and rookie Clay Matthews and a j Hawk in 437 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:19.360 his second or third year at that time. Plus then that's how returning kicks. 438 00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:23.559 M Yes, but they that's what they always say, is the defense 439 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:30.159 wins the championships. It's true. Mm hmmm. True, it is because 440 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.239 the offense can be as good as they they are. But if if the 441 00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:37.920 defense comes and you know, takes the takes the ball away, which let's 442 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:42.920 face it, that's one of the biggest takeaways. Like I said in the 443 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.760 beginning, it's the small things. If you do the small things right as 444 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:50.719 a defense, if you take the ball away, offense can't score. That 445 00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:55.480 could be on both both games here, they're they're both susceptible to that. 446 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:05.559 But I think we're in some good games. So who So, what kind 447 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:07.280 of score do you think you're gonna you're gonna We're gonna see in the Baltimore 448 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:13.599 Kansas City game. Is it gonna be higher low scoring? Oh, it's 449 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.199 I think that one's gonna be higher scoring because it's gonna have to be a 450 00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:22.599 shootout. Mahomes is gonna have to use Rashi Rice and Travis Kelcey and Noah 451 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.679 graymore because Kadarius Tony's out Nicole Harden and looks like he went to the same 452 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:32.079 school as to Darius Tony with that stone hands problem he has. I mean, 453 00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:35.639 when you can hit a guy in the hands four times and they might 454 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:43.280 catch one, that's an issue. And Isaiah Pacheco is a little questionable too. 455 00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:49.000 If he's out, they're gonna struggle. There's my thing. If he's 456 00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:53.679 out, the Ravens are winning because I just don't think that defense can stop 457 00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:01.800 that offense. I get it, I get it. I still say mar 458 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:07.400 wants respect. He got the contract, but I think he needs the wants 459 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:12.000 the respect of the league that he is an elite quarterback. And until he 460 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:15.960 gets more wins and gets to the big dance, he's never gonna have quite 461 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:21.840 the respect that I think he wants. So I think he's I think he's 462 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:25.719 more motivated this time. I could be wrong. It'll be interesting to see. 463 00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:31.960 I'm looking forward to actually watching both games. And I don't have a 464 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.719 worse race, so I don't have to be stressed like I was last week. 465 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.760 I think it'll be It'll be good. Sunday, they Jojo. They 466 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:45.639 showed how crest you were about that game. You said, this game worries 467 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:47.599 me more than any other. You said it right here on this show. 468 00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:51.679 But when we did our pre game by at one o'clock, and I'm gonna 469 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:54.679 say this one is the one that worries me as a Lions fan. Can 470 00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:59.760 we beat the forty nine ers? Absolutely if we're playing smart football and do 471 00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:02.880 it we're supposed to do. If we play bonehead bone ball, the bonehead 472 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.800 football with a lot of mental errors and a few turnovers, we're not winning 473 00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:12.320 this game. The thing you do have for you, though, is Jared 474 00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:19.360 Goff has been there before, so he has the experience on there for all 475 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:25.239 of eighteen places. M h. What we want that ucl All's that's going 476 00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:29.360 to take is somebody hitting him from the right side and he's going to get 477 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:32.719 the yeps. And I don't mean the right side of the line. I 478 00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:37.599 mean hitting him to where he lands on that elbow. It when it's that 479 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:42.639 game, that exact game a year ago that you had a major injury that 480 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:46.280 sidelined you and kept you out of a game, it's a mental issue. 481 00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:52.679 Yes, I agree, I agree, Jeremy. What else is on your 482 00:39:52.679 --> 00:40:00.320 mind today? Anything? Let's watch some good football, Let's have a great 483 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:02.679 day. Let's try to be a better person today than we were yesterday. 484 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:06.639 It's the only way to make the world a better place. You know, 485 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:13.159 it's the greatest time of year for fans that are involved in the playoffs, 486 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:15.960 and it's the worst time of the year for the fans that are not. 487 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:25.239 I understand it's hard to accept a team that's been great for decades starts to 488 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:31.519 fall down. But you guys will be back soon. I'm speaking specifically to 489 00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:38.800 the Green Bay Packers man because of met or exceeded most expectations this year as 490 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:43.840 a guy who rested for three years and started a year four. He's already 491 00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:46.880 under contract next year. You guys don't have to do anything. He's making 492 00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:52.239 less than the fifth year option. You guys don't have to do a damn 493 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:57.679 thing. You can say, play your contract or ride to bind See what 494 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.039 and if they if he does that, if he tries the whole out role 495 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:06.320 with Sean Clifford because he didn't look bad in the preseason, That's all I 496 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:12.800 got. And what I would say is you said something about this is the 497 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.760 worst time of the year for fans that aren't in it, and I'm going 498 00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:22.719 to say I tend to disagree, because the day after the Super Bowl is 499 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:24.280 when I think is the worst time of year because I have a love for 500 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:29.559 football, and so yes, there is a month off, and then I 501 00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:35.239 believe we have I think it's is it are they calling themselves XFL this or 502 00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:40.599 and they start playing in March UFL United Football League UFL that's what it is. 503 00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.840 Thank YOUFL and the USFL combined to make it another thirty two team league. 504 00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:53.480 So that'll be interesting. So that's that window there. Now, that's 505 00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:59.320 where I fall off, I think somehow, because right after the draft, 506 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.480 that's the only thing they're not competing with because they have their draft the next 507 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:09.480 week, got of everybody who wasn't drafted to the NFL. Okay, okay, 508 00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:16.960 So where is the draft this year? In Detroit? Another buzz for 509 00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:22.360 the city, right right? Yep? I just think if the Packers wouldn't 510 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:25.599 have choked out the last seven minutes of that game, we'd be playing another 511 00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:30.559 game in Detroit with another twenty plus million in revenue at Bardfield. But that 512 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:37.079 shared revenue, people, doesn't matter if it's concessions, tickets, whatever, 513 00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:42.400 that is shared revenue. It goes across the league. But what about all 514 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:46.000 the hotel revenue? What about all the everything else that comes with it. 515 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.800 It's actually way more than just twenty million in revenue for the city. Is 516 00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:54.199 those hotel rooms double? I know I was going to get one to go 517 00:42:54.239 --> 00:43:01.360 down there to watch the game today. Mm hm yes. Wow. Those 518 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:06.079 twenty dollars seats at Fordfield to watch it on the big screen sold out in 519 00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:10.920 less than twelve hours. Wow. That is crazy, But that's awesome. 520 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.199 That's going to be sixty five And if they put plate I don't think they're 521 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:19.360 doing the seats on the field. I think it's just in the stands and 522 00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.719 they're going to be having the type stuff down on the ground. So I 523 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:29.159 think there's going to be like sixty six to seventy thousand fans at Fordfield again 524 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.000 watching and it's all Detroit. It's not going to be a bunch of San 525 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.800 Francisco forty nine ers fans people, And it is right comes out with scores 526 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:44.800 first, the roof might get blowed off of Fordfield. There'll be election. 527 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:50.119 It'll be electric for sure, that's for sure. Anybody who's going, please 528 00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:52.679 send me photos. I want to see it. Send a video to me 529 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:59.920 personally. If you know me and personally you've got me on Facebook or Twitter, 530 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:02.719 send me that video. Send me that stuff. I want to hear 531 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:06.719 it. I want to see it, and I also want to see it 532 00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:09.920 if it goes bad, how quiet it gets. I want all that stuff 533 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:15.320 because it's stuff I can use. I'm sure the feed, I bet you 534 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.719 they're going to be not that the TV cameras, but I bet you they'll 535 00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:25.000 have somebody down there panning in Detroit and showing the crowd in the stands. 536 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:30.599 Right. But I don't want to use the Detroit Lions feed for my personal 537 00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:36.760 use for my show. For our article, I understand exactly. I understand 538 00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:43.760 somebody's personal cell phone use. It's perfectly legal. Yes, yes, send 539 00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:46.079 it. Send it to Jeremy, send it to sull Florida Tribune. You 540 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:50.639 know, well, we'll put it on a show, on an episode. 541 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:58.199 Play it for everybody, especially especially if they go forward, right, And 542 00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:05.440 I'll tell you what I'm putting all those You know, there's Packer fans and 543 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:09.760 then there's the ones we call pack card. It's the same with the Vikings 544 00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:14.159 fans. It's the same with the Bears fans. I'm gonna let you know. 545 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:16.920 We make it to the super Bowl, the crap talking will not stop 546 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:27.119 till next season. Win or lose, because I'm done with hearing it. 547 00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:32.440 It's the same old Lions, same old Lions died when we won the first 548 00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:39.519 playoff game, and Minnesota hasn't been how long and neither of the Bears has 549 00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:44.880 been a long time, So who can talk. Let's let's think about this. 550 00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:49.760 The Lions over the last fifty or the Vikings over the last fifteen years, 551 00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:54.679 have two playoff wins. The Lions have two this January. There you 552 00:45:54.719 --> 00:46:00.719 go, well, jul how long has it been since the Vikings have been 553 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:06.920 to a Super Bowl? The seventies something like that has been long? And 554 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:10.599 the Bears haven't what it was Bears were back in the two thousand six or 555 00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.440 seven, I think it was when they won or when they lost. They 556 00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:22.760 won it in eighty five, and that's what they use is we're better than 557 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:30.840 the Lions. Well, it'll be an interesting conference next year. Let's let's 558 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.840 put it the interesting division next year. It will be an interesting division. 559 00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:38.760 And if you add up the win totals and losses, this was the second 560 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:45.800 best division in football this year. It's the AFC North than the NFC North. 561 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:54.559 Both North divisions were the best in football. Mm hmm that's awesome. 562 00:46:55.719 --> 00:47:00.440 You can't. You can't say that about another division in this league because hardly 563 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:05.559 any of them had two teams. Afse's had two teams. But they both 564 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:12.039 heard themselves to be frauds in their first playoff game. Not being mean, 565 00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:16.320 I'm being factual. Yep, I get I get it. Any last, 566 00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.280 let's have a great day. Let's watch some great football. Go enjoy your 567 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:27.360 game at FAU there candy with Scott, have fun, take lots of pictures, 568 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:32.559 post the articles, post the pictures. I know, and when we 569 00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:36.360 win, yeah, I'm not going to be able to write for a half 570 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:42.440 hour, maybe an hour. I'm gonna be crying like the prom the cheerleader 571 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.000 that waited until the day before prom to get a date. That's how bad 572 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:52.440 I'm gonna be crying. I understand. I understand. Well, let's let's 573 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.519 go over some station identification because I haven't done that yet. 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We have so many different shows we're going to be starting back 582 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:38.519 up are one hundred and eight, such as Baseball Talk since it's almost baseball 583 00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:45.039 season. Inside the Pigskin, we talk about football, the likes of college 584 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:52.039 pros, you name it. You know there's big changes in Michigan. You 585 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:58.920 of them changed their head football coach. Yes, we talk about your Lions. 586 00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:05.320 If you want to advertise, call Scott nine five four three oh four 587 00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:09.360 four nine four one. We broadcast live on Facebook, LinkedIn Twitter or x 588 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:15.719 in YouTube. Scott wrote a book which he is my husband and he is 589 00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:20.119 the Lions fan in the family. He wrote a book, Lessons from the 590 00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:23.920 Microphone. It is available on Amazon and Kindle. It talks about his over 591 00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:29.920 forty four years in the media business and how media has changed. It has 592 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:36.079 talks about his how he's interviewed numerous people, from the likes of Muhammad Ali 593 00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:40.760 to all the way to me, and I'm trying to think now all kinds 594 00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:47.840 of people. He's talked to sports broadcasters, he's talked to sports person personnel, 595 00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:52.639 But why I would say one of his I mean he's talked, he 596 00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:58.800 interviewed. His first interview was Tommy Lasorda. Can you imagine that? Anyways? 597 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.880 Go out and buy his book again. It's available on Amazon or Kindle. 598 00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:07.880 We have a website ww dote Tribune dot com. It's where you can 599 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:14.159 find articles from Smoking Jeremy b my husband, Scott, George Iicorn. You 600 00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:20.119 can see my pictures, my photography on there, and you can see our 601 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:25.239 shows. We put all of them on there as well. Jeremy, Where 602 00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:32.639 can people find you everywhere? I'm on Instagram at Smoking Jeremy b One. 603 00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:39.360 I'm on Facebook at Jeremy Balrick, the MotorCity Necatbiters, the Lions Villain Squad, 604 00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:44.519 and Detroit Lions on the PROWL fan page. You can also find me 605 00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:50.119 on this YouTube channel anytime you want. You can see my ugly face with 606 00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:55.079 the voice for radio. We talked football all the time, but we talk 607 00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:59.840 a lot of sports at the same time. I mean, we've even talked 608 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:07.639 MLS we've talked about and w A NBA hockey. The only thing we haven't 609 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:12.239 covered is water polo or polo that I know of. We've talked about race 610 00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:16.760 car driving, whether it's the Rolex Series or whether it was NASCAR even I 611 00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:21.920 think we even covered a little n h R a back when John Forst and 612 00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:25.960 his daughter had the argument if I remember right. So we talked a lot 613 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:31.920 of sports and it's so much fun. Then you can find me on my 614 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:37.400 channel, which is the MotorCity Kneecat biting with the MotorCity Lions, or on 615 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.480 the main event three six five, and my writings, of course are on 616 00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:51.000 the Florda Tribune dot com. A non x at smoking Jeremy, I'm everywhere. 617 00:51:51.559 --> 00:51:54.559 You're everywhere. It sounds of it between you and us, they were, 618 00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:59.920 I think we've got it all covered, right. Yeah, I've actually 619 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:06.519 have improved my demographic. Even I'm getting comments from the female sports fans. 620 00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:09.519 And I'm not just talking about you and Jen when you pop in and say 621 00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:15.840 hi, it's amazing. I've seen some intelligent you know, other than the 622 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:21.880 podcasters that I know that are very intelligent and very knowledgeable about sports. I'm 623 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:27.480 talking about average sports fans that are females that know sports, and it's amazing 624 00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:31.679 you have a big event happening on Monday. Why don't you tell us a 625 00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:37.440 little bit about that. It is my one thousandth episode in the second anniversary 626 00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:45.119 of starting my show, I am inviting Scott Candy, the podcast group that 627 00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:50.239 got me into podcasting, Detroit Lions on the Prowl. You know Kurt Steele, 628 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:54.679 Valerie Bordeaux, the Queen of the Prowl. Mike Timber I met he 629 00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:59.360 was then known as micro Mike means now going by his real name. I 630 00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:07.000 just think he's to be in all the midget uh uh, Lorenzo Allen Neil, 631 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:12.119 the Bandit and the Bandit Villain Squad. And of course I'm gonna stop 632 00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:15.840 and after I go through of everybody that's had a big part of my life, 633 00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:20.079 I'm gonna give a little props to the new group that I joined because 634 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:23.320 if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be where I'm at now. To 635 00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:30.360 you know, you guys, everybody, everybody has had a big everybody's either 636 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:34.920 a lesson or a blessing when it's come to podcasting. I only had one 637 00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:40.320 lesson and I'll leave their names out of my mouth. I understand that that's 638 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:44.440 awesome. We're excited because I know Scott and I have both talked about we're 639 00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:47.800 gonna be popping on the show on Monday because we are here to support you 640 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.679 as well and see you grow and I see all of us grow. Let's 641 00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:54.559 face it, this is this is a new industry that a lot of people 642 00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:58.639 will not as new because, like you said, you're having your two year 643 00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:02.199 anniversary, but ten years ago you wouldn't have. You didn't know what we 644 00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:07.599 None of us knew what podcasting or you know, coming on here and broadcasting 645 00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:13.400 is. So it's an industry that's growing my leaps and bounds, and we 646 00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:16.840 love supporting you because you support us. So it's a win win situation. 647 00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:25.280 So everybody catch us on Monday night at what time. Like I said, 648 00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:29.800 I'm going to bring in the people that started me off first, I'll send 649 00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.280 the invites out all at nine thirty. There's gonna be a lot of people 650 00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:37.239 in that green room they call it for backstage, because, uh, I've 651 00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:39.039 got a list of about twenty people that want to come on and talk. 652 00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:44.400 So I'm going to bring them in the order of importance, you know, 653 00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:47.159 detail lions of the powel, because that's where I got my Smoking Jeremy Be 654 00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:53.840 nickname, and where I got my start in podcasting. And it literally it's 655 00:54:53.880 --> 00:55:00.880 because Jim Bordeaux joined my Facebook page right after we hired Dan Campbell. And 656 00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:04.880 this is before I even knew you guys existed. M I used to do 657 00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:10.960 every Monday just a live video chat right there on the page so fans could 658 00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:15.400 talk football. And everybody's like, man, you have a lot of knowledge. 659 00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:16.840 Were you a coach for this? Were you that? And I was 660 00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:21.119 like, no, I'm just a guy that loves the game. And then 661 00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:24.639 came on one time and he goes, I wanted you as a guest on 662 00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:29.880 my podcast. I'm free for all Friday. Normally I have just podcasters, 663 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:34.840 not your average fan. He goes, You're not the average fan. There 664 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:38.440 you go. I've heard you spout off stats. I think I think I've 665 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:47.480 forgotten less information than you know. Mm hm and rest in heaven, Jeff, 666 00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:52.960 we miss you. Oh yes, well, this has been a great 667 00:55:53.000 --> 00:56:00.440 episode of Fire up in the Motor City. So on behalf of Smoking Jeremy 668 00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:05.039 Be and I'm Candy. Thank you for joining us. And we'll see you 669 00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:24.320 next time. Enjoy football today,