Oh that music is rolling. That means the Chicago Bears are on the clock.
That means on this Thursday, April the twenty fifth, the Detroit City
is on the clock. Hi there, Happy NFL Draft Day. I'm Dennis
Fithian in Formatt Shepherd Day two on Access and Brows on the Michigan Sports Network.
It's my pleasure to be here. Fenzos is on all the ones and
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This is one of those days that you wait for annually all year long,
and here it is. Happy NFL Draft Day. Hopefully I'm the first one.
Yeah, maybe you never know. Hopefully I'm the first one to welcome
you in to NFL Draft Day. That's the big news as we get this
show underway. Not only is at the NFL Draft, but it is taking
place right here in the state at Michigan, in Detroit City and everyone seemingly
has converged on the Motor City and is doing a show down there. And
it is great. And that's great to have a teeming city with the bright
lights and everybody looking at Detroit and talking of it with the NFL Draft going
on the Lions sitting with the number twenty nine pick. But I I'm gonna
say it at the beginning here, just like you know, all of the
years that we have spent watching and talking about the Detroit Lions. Today around
these parts was always deemed dubbed the Lions super Bowl, and it was not
said and enduring terms. It was said because when the regular season started there
was no chance for the Detroit Lions. And sure, you know every season,
you know, you have optimism, and then it would happen. However
it would happen, it would happen with the Detroit Lions. You'd come crashing
down to earth. Sometimes in the very first game, you think about,
what was it the DeAndre Swift the Lions are right there. They threw a
touchdown to him in the corner and he dropped it. I mean there's been
I could sit here for the next three hours and talking about that. But
no, that is just a setup for today. We knew that the Lions
draft was or the NFL Draft was happening in the city, and like,
oh, well, this will be the Lions super Bowl. The Lions had
a super Bowl. They've had two super Bowls in Detroit, but no,
their super Bowl was happening with the draft, and it just so happens that
they have turned this thing around. No, they're not going to be one
of the first teams picking. We don't think they're gonna be one of the
last teams picking, because they were one of the last four teams standing.
Now the idea is to get there, into that big game and then ultimately
win it. And for years, even saying that, I still feel it
feels a little weird. I'm getting more used to it. But if I
was sitting here in this seat two, three, five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years ago and was talking about Super Bowl, I would say it
like you Jim Morrow would say, practice or playoffs? Allen iverson practice,
we're talking about Lions the super Bowl. Then, in fact, Lions would
draft a rookie and inevitably he'd go down there and one of them would say,
well, we're gonna We're going to the super Bowl. You know you'd
stand there and say, all right, you know a young kid, great
optimist, you don't know you know anybody. You just looked at him and
said you'll find out pretty soon. But guys that had been around and then
they would say it, you'd have to say, come on, now,
let's let's talk about winning the NFC Central the North before you start talking about
how about winning a playoff game, playoff game? And then they went out
there and what night playoff game last year in the greatest game of my lifetime,
beating the Rams, most entertaining game, and best game, most exciting
game, most energizing game. It was everything beating the Rams. I say
everything it was, you know, with the Super Bowl it felt like it
and then it was validated and say, yeah, well, what about the
Cowboys when that was just as big? Well it was, but then you
know they lost the next week. This time around, they actually went out
validated a little bit more by beating the Box. And then I don't know
if the think they validated it by having the big lead in the first half
against the forty nine ers. That's another story. So that's the headline with
this morning. As you make your way and get ready for the draft tonight,
let's take a look at what else is happening in the world of sports.
Most of the air is about the oxygen being taken up, is no
doubt going to be about the draft. But the Tigers, they were in
action last night, and they had taken the first two games on the road.
They were finishing up their six game road trip down in Tampa at the
trop and the Tigers play an entertaining game and a seesaw affair with the race,
only to fall to Tampa seven to five. Now, sweeps are difficult
in Major League Baseball. The hard to come by, even if you're a
really bad team. I don't know, maybe the White Sox, that's pretty
easy. It's pretty easy to say, hey, we're gonna we expect to
broom of the White Sox. You expect to take two out of three or
three out of four against the White Sox or you'll be disappointed. But sweeps
are difficult, and the Rays are generally a pretty good team, even though
they're payroll is in the basement annually in Major League Baseball, they still find
a way. But the Tigers overall now is they're off today. They have
a successful road trip. They go four and two on the trip. That
is a very positive for this team and this Tigers team, and it has
happened since opening day against in their first series. They are playing very close
games. They are playing one run games, two run games. Last night,
a two run game. I counted it up at the conclusion of last
night's game. The Tigers have now played twenty five games. They are fourteen
and eleven, and fifteen of those twenty five games the margin has been two
runs or less. Like last night they lost by two runs. Fifteen twenty
five. That's something that stands out early on in the season. And we
are just in the beginning of this season as the Tigers now come home tomorrow
for a six game homestand when they will take on the Royals and the Cards,
So they will be entertaining the state of Missouri for the next six games
with the Cardinals and then the Royals, and the Royals actually in front of
the Tigers in the standings, which is pretty interesting. You think that about
KC. But again it is early. No you get that around here.
If you're a Tigers fan, if you're old enough, you know about that
forty game mark that Sparky always talked about. Hey wouldn't have any how's Sparky,
how you doing it? Let's wait to forty games. But in nineteen
eighty four the Tigers got out to a thirty five and five start, so
that forty game mark resonates with people. And also for Sparky, let's tip
our cap to him. It's been forty years nineteen eighty four since the Tigers
won the World Series. So the forty game mark, that's the first time
you really judge him. According to Sparky, you had that thirty five and
five start at eighty four and it's been forty years. All right, we'll
get jump to date on the NHL and NBA playoffs. We're talking a lot
about the draft and oh yeah, the big news last night happened even though
the draft was going on, that the Lions ink two of their best to
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fifthe in here Day two, happy NFL Draft. We are going to talk
about the Lions inking their two best players to gigantic deals coming up here in
one minute. I do want to put a question out there for you.
What do you think the Lions championship window is? How long will it last?
That plays right into Sewel and the Sun God getting their big deals.
You can get in on that at eight six six eight three eight four eight
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one thousand on that topic or anything. It's open for you. If something
else with the NFL Draft, let's hit on the other playoff games just to
get job to speed, just a case they're like, hey, what else
is going on there? There's some good games last night in the playoffs,
the defending Stanley Cup champions v g K, the Vegas Golden Knights. They
just go down the Big d and they beat Dallas. They're up two to
oh in the series. They won three to one last night. And then
the Boston Bruins they double up the Toronto Maple Leafs to take a two to
one series lead for to two the final there for the Bruins. Brad Marshan
with the winner for the Bruins. And I say it like that because he's
my least favorite NHL player currently, Brad Marshan. I'm not a violent person.
I don't condone fighting, but and I don't even know how if I
could stand up on skates right now, but I'd like to take a run
at Brad Marshan. Meanwhile, in the NBA playoffs, the shocker of the
night took place in Beantown as the Celtics. Everyone's like, the Celtics are
gonna breeze right through the Eastern Conference. No problems especially with the Heat,
the Zombie Heat without their leader, and no problem as the Miami Heat beat
the Boston Celtics one to eleven, one oh one, no, Jimmy Butler,
I know, you know that. It's just you gotta say it.
So that series is tied at one. That's already a dub for the Miami
Heat, Sands Butler in that series. And then the Thunder the number one
seed out West. No close game this time with the Pelicans. They pound
the Pels one ninety two, take a two to zero series lead. There
games tonight. We know that the NFL Draft. You probably know that it's
starting at eight with the Bears on the clock. What do they They mess
around for about five to ten minutes and everyone's like, let's get it going.
We waited all year, you know, and then they're like, yeah,
they're gonna milk it a little bit. And then they'll put the Bears
on the clock at like eight point fifteen. Their pick probably comes in at
eight thirty. When is the Lions pick gonna take place at midnight? But
there's some basketball to watch it the meantime. Tonight is definitely a two to
three TV type setup. You've got the Cabs and the Magic with the Cleveland
Cavaliers up two oh in that series, and then the Knicks and seventy six
ers in that memorable second game with the furious comeback by the Nicks and New
York leads it too. Oh. Now they'll be in Philly tonight seven thirty
jump and then late tonight ten o'clock you've got the Nuggets, the NBA defending
champs. That was a member game too that they won with Jamal Murray hitting
that jumper overround the right wing and falling into the stands with the camera.
It was great highlight of the NBA playoffs so far. They'll play the Lakers
in La tonight at ten o'clock, so some late night action there. Meanwhile,
in the NHL there's also a pair of games Florida and Tampa, the
series shifting there to Tampa Bay, with Florida up to oh and then Carolina
heading into New York up to OH. And of all those games, I've
been watching Carolina and the New York Islanders all right, So not a huge
surprise. There's been a lot of talk if you follow the Lions that they
were looking to extend and get big time contracts to Amna Saint Brown, Pina
Sual, and Jared Goff. Well they get two of those three done.
First up was the sun God four year deal more than one hundred and twenty
million seventy seven guaranteed for the Sun Gods. That makes them the highest paid
wide receiver in the NFL. And my thoughts on that is that this is
good timing by the Lions. You knew you had to pay a monoras A
Brown, you knew you had to get them an extension. You've got Justin
Jefferson out there, and you got Chase for the Bengals, and those two
are seeing who's gonna blink they want to. You know, they're looking for
not only the they'll get. They'll they'll easily go past Amnora Saint Brown,
but they're looking to go past each other. And you know they agents of
those two are just going to rock out these gigantic deals and then soon Amano
Saint Brown will be sitting there looking up at those two and then you know
that's how it works. But this was something that we knew was going to
happen, It was inevitable, and the Lions signed Brown. They should have
signed him, and there's no argument the other way. The same thing goes
with All Pro offensive tackle today. Sewell, you get a tackle that is
an All Pro that you drafted, that is worth its weight in gold.
So yeah, you are going to pay him if you're going to pay anyone
four years, one twelve on his extension, and he is the highest paid
offensive lineman in the NFL, and he gets eighty five million dollars guaranteed.
And this was inevitable. It's a little bit you like, get that new
car. Are you get in that new car? Your friends are checking it
out every time you get in. You're like, oh man, this smells
nice, drives nice. You're driving around, and then at the end of
the month that payment hits, and that's yours answer. You're like, now
you're like ooh, You're like, you know what, you know that it's
gonna happen. You know you gotta do it. But that does bring up
the question of the Lions championship window and how long it will last, because
at some point you know you're paying. You got the highest paid tackle,
you get the highest paid wide receiver. And now Jared Goff Adam Schefter.
Yesterday, when all of this was going on with the Lions getting their wide
receiver and their right tackle too extensions, Schefter comes out and there says there's
no deal imminent for Jared Goff. Everybody's like, hey, stop here,
full stop. What do you mean, It's just a guy that we chant
has name everywhere at the grocery store. They'll be chanting Jared Goff's name all
night tonight. A, you're telling me that there's no deal imminent for Jared
Goff despite the fact that Amana Saint Brown and Penay Sewell now have landed new
record breaking deals. What's going on there? Schefter says, the Lions and
Golf have spoken about a new deal this offseason, but no deal is close
at this time. That means nothing to me. I mean, it could
mean something to you, and it's nice for a schefter to, you know,
get a bunch of retweets and everything else. But Jared Goff, what
that number is going to be, whatever it ends up happening, however,
that you're going to finagle that. You know, Jared Goff is going to
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Dennis Fithian in for Matt Shepherd ben Zos back in the control room. You
could join us on the Meyer Hotline at eight six six eight three eight forty
eight forty three. We're asking you, what's the Lions championship window? How
long will it last? In your opinion? Get goes techs into Sports Radio,
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or you dial up that hotline at eight six six eight three eight four eight
four three. I'm also going to talk about why this is the goat of
all NFL drafts this segment, but the Lions Championship window. If you immediately
just said ten years, that's it, I think that's gonna be. That's
a big window. That as a big window. And last year I did
not expect the Lions to get to the precipice of the Super Bowl. I
did not expect them to get to the NFC Championship game and be up on
the forty nine ers and look super and then melt out on the second half
and not get there. So they took this. It was a gigantic step.
Didn't think that they were gonna win the Central like most other people,
but I didn't win. If you have a home playoff game, win it.
They had to play Matt Stafford and they got it done. And then
whether it was a break or not, you know, I wanted the Cowboys.
We saw the Lions beat the Cowboys and then get robbed by the officials,
and that would have been nice payback for the Lions going down and beating
the Cowboys. For a lot of reasons. That the shenanigans that happened with
the two point conversion the last time, what was that twenty fourteen were the
referees. And I'm not generally speaking someone who points to the referees and said,
oh, they screwed us, but us being Detroit in that playoff game
down in Dallas. If you just were casually you met me, I like
say, down at the draft tonight and you came home and said, hey,
Dennis, what are the three worst screw jobs by the officials and the
history of sports? I'd say the Lions at twenty fourteen down there in Dallas
where they had the new rule with a face guarding and it was like the
definition of it. And then also you had what was his name, Dez
Bryant with his helmet off out of the hash marks, screaming in the officials.
It's also an automatic flag. Neither of those things were called. Oh
yeah, the Lions had the ball with under two minutes to go on a
time out their pocket, they weren't able to win. They put it out
a fourth and one, which I agreed with because the defense was playing so
well. But nobody else did, especially after the fact that they didn't make
it. So all of those things, but yeah, that was the screwjob.
What else goes in there? It was before my time, but the
seventy two Olympics, there's a number of boxing gold medals that I could go
to and talk about. But the USA basketball team against Russia has to be
there. You watch the replays of that or if it whatever, out of
the actual replay of the game, but you just see that it's front and
center. They just kept giving the ball back. How many times did they
do it? Four or five times? They just kept giving it back.
Dug Collins I believe, was on that team, the former Pistons coach.
His son now the head basketball coach at Northwestern. But yeah, the USA
got screwed in that game, all right. So no, not ten years,
but it opened up last year and now it is wide open. I
like, this thing is wide open. But you got to look at the
Lions, and then you also have to look at their conference, and then
I also think you need to look at the North, the NFC North,
and all of those things play into it. I would put the forty nine
ers number one in the in the NFC, but I'm gonna put the Detroit
Lions right there on their tail, along with the Eagles, Packers, and
Cowboys. However you want to mix it, you want to try to throw
the Rams in there, all right, you can go ahead and do that.
I know Lions only beat them by a point last year, but they
did beat them, and the Lions did split with the Packers. They should
have beat the Cowboys and the Eagles. They look like they're they were having
this conversation about their championship window two years ago and they're like, Oh,
you kidding, Jalen Hurts. Look at all this offensive and defensive line we're
in business for. We're gonna be in business for ten years. There's that
ten year window again. And last year it looked like that window. Who
that window. There's your lesson. That window could look like it's going to
be open for ten years and then he can slam on your fingers quickly.
Or you could be like Dallas Cowboy fans who always think their championship window is
open and actually it's painted shut. They get over there, they're like,
oh, this window and they're actually, oh wait, that window is actually
shut and it's stuck shut. We just looked at it and thought it was
open. But as long as the Lions have this current setup of Golf and
Sewell and Brown, who they just took care of, and the biggest thing
that they have going for them, the Detroit Lions, if you say they're
superpower. It is their offensive line. As long as they continue to have
whether it's the best certainly one of the best offensive lines in all of football,
they're gonna be there. They're gonna be in with a chance. Now
it's a lot easier. This is the discussion that happens every day, non
draft day, talking about how to win. And what does everyone say,
Well, they say it's all about the quarterbacks. And I agree with that.
And that's why when you get to the draft and you look towards tonight
and how they will be overdrafted, and I do think that there's going to
be six quarterbacks drafted, and these gms will sit around and they'll look at
these windows and they'll say, well, we want Patrick Mahomes, we want
our Josh Allen, we want our Lamar Jackson. This is what we want
about our CJ. Stroud. I mean, that's what they're looking for.
You get one of those guys Joe Burrow. Oh, when you get a
difference maker quarterback, your super Bowl window seemingly is open for as long as
those guys are in their prime. Nobody's going to argue that the Chief's super
Bowl window is going to be as long as Patrick Mahomes is playing. I
think the same thing with the Bills, Bengals, Ravens and Texans. Now
I know it's only been one year, but you know Stroud was that good.
The weird one is the forty nine ers. They were going for Trey
Lance at number three for their difference maker and they ended up getting mister Irrelevant
over there. But it's working for them, So how about that? Different
ways to find your quarterback? All right? What's the Lions championship window?
How long will it last? X'es and bros? Michigan Sports Network eight six
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Let's go to is it? Kegan in Kalamazoo? What's up? Hey?
A going? Hey? How's it going? Thanks for having men? Yeah?
What's going on out there at Kazu? Hey? Not much. I
was supposed to be at the draft. I've overhead to work right now.
But no, I think the I think the Lions window realistically is as long
as they have Jared Goff there. I think they'll do a great job putting
talent around him. Kind of like you stated, as long as you have
your guy like a C. J. Strau A josh Alamar Jackson. Your
windows open as long as they're there. It's just interesting to see how long
this contract will be for him or how long to lock him up. Yeah,
you know, I know this sounds like I'm on the Internet or I'm
on Twitter, But as long as Holmes keeps cooking in the draft, I
would also think that that's going to be part of this window. If he
can go out there and he can continue to pull in the kind of players
that he has, liking a Modera Saint Brown in the fourth row, you
know, get the best tight end of the second round. The pick a
an all pro tackle. When you get the chance, when you when you
have your pick, make it count. As long as Holmes continues to do
this, I would say that that championship that's almost obvious, but sometimes we
need to state the obvious. If he continues to do what he's doing.
Yeah, quarterback, it's a hendon hooker. We don't know what they think
of him, but it's not like they're going to go and say, well,
let's just play hardball with golf and we're just going to look for another
quarterback. Because they they do have a championship window. To your point,
you know, oh yeah, definitely, and I mean looking for another quarterback
should be possibility. But I think they're definitely have a lot of faith in
Hendon Hooker. But I have faith to lock him up for at least four
to five years and we'll keep this thing open for a few. Yeah,
he's twenty nine years old golf, so and you know you can get those
you sign him to a five year deal, but then you look at it
and in two or three years you can get out of it where it's until
you can get another QB in there. So sign him to the five year
do you get yourself where Yeah, it's gonna be pretty bad, but not
super bad after two years and then more palatable if you need to get out
of it after three. That looks like it's the direction, higin. How
could you you You said you were supposed to go to the draft, but
now you're heading to work. I mean that sounds like the ultimate and then
kind of a Debbie downer. Yeah, you know, just priority and just
I'll be able to say the home comfort and watch the draft. I had
a bunch of guy who's going out there for a bachelor party, so they'll
be enjoying it to nails, be enjoying it from the comper of my own
home. Wow, now you come over the top with a bachelor Not only
not only were you going now you're going to work, but you were going
with a bachelor party. Wow, that's nice. Yeah, yeah, just
a friends of a friend. Basically I wasn't a part of their bachelor party.
They graciously invited me, but unfortunately this wasn't able to make it.
Yeah, I hear you. And now you know life sometimes intersection there we
all can't just you know, I jumping a limo drive across the state with
a million fans at a bachelor party while the NFL drafts going on. Wow,
all right, man, have a great morning, Thanks for dialing in.
That's how it's done. As we talk about the Lions championship window and
how long it'll last, that's right, Golf, you're gonna get him to
that five year deal, but really a two three years where then you can
look to another QB if you could find one, and then he gets all
of that money. There's a spot whatever it ends up being. You wanna
say, you're gonna be forty five million a year, it's closer to fifty.
I'm not gonna argue with you there. Whatever it ends up being,
he's got to be. I wouldn't. I don't think he's gonna they can
ask. I don't think his agent is gonna be say, okay, here's
my home steal. We want more than him. There's a nice number to
be had for golf. But he knows this is the spot for him.
He knows that the Lions will give him those those two three years of that
guaranteed money once again, to get one hundred and fifty million guaranteed. I
know it's always sounds really like, what's the difference between one fifty and one
sixty out of ten million? That's the difference that ability to get in via
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taking your text on the draft open topics as we talk about what's transpiring tonight
in Detroit. How about a bachelor party and the NFL Draft. Wow,
I can just imagine said if it's if it's taking off from Grand Rapis And
I said it might not be, but you know, you get the party
boss across the state staying people that were looking to the hotels. You know,
they get the casinos there walking distance to the draft, and then you're
not just doing it today, but you're doing it for the entire weekend.
That's nice, you know, it's underscore nice there. But right here,
right now, this is the greatest NFL draft of all time. And over
forty years ago it started the reason that this one is. And there's no
argument about locally this not being the greatest draft. It's in Detroit, first
time ever. The Lions, who every year looked at this day as their
super Bowl, and then now they went to the NFC Championship game and here
they are their best season almost ever. They've completely flipped things around and have
everybody with a big smile on their face, and now they're hosting this event.
The weather looks like it's going to be just fine for tonight. Everything
has set up where this is the greatest NFL Draft all time locally for sure,
but nationally. You have six quarterbacks that I believe will be taken in
the first round. You can argue that, but my argument nobody is going
to argue with the fact that there is going to be three taken right out
of the gate, and maybe four with McCarthy, and then there's going to
be another two taken in the teens. When you think about Michael Pennix and
now maybe in the mix for Nicks, maybe he falls to the twenties,
just like maybe McCarthy falls to the teens. But those are the six qbs
and these gms. If they were listening today and we're talking about championship draft
windows, all of these teams have the qbs in place. The Chiefs,
the Bills will go over them again, Bengals, Ravens, who else Dixon's
over in the AFC. If we wanted to talk who else there and extend
it, you might talk about Trevor Lawrence and the Jags, or Tua in
the Dolphins, although you know, I'm not putting them in the conversation of
a championship window right now. But with the Lions and their very division,
as we look at it, what we saw with unfortunately, I say unfortunately,
because they are there, Nemesis, the Green Bay Packers with Jordan Love,
they look like they may I don't know. Am I ready to say
he is a bona fide star quarterback. I'm very close to that. He
really in the second half of the season came out. They have to see
it one more year. But yeah, I mean he's right there. I'm
putting him. If I'm a Packer fan, I'm giddy. And they they
put it together. They get a very young team and then you know,
Love looked the part and then they wanted the playoffs. I mean, what
else do you do want to say except let's wait for one more year.
That is the only thing you can say. But the Eagles with Hurts have
their cute quarterback. The forty nine ers are the interesting one because, uh,
you know, Purty's a little bit of a lightning rod. And that
is why you might talk about the Rams being in that championship window because of
one Matt Stafford who's sitting there, and we saw what he was able to
do last year. And they got one of the top coaches as well.
So you know, I put the Rams just a little bit on the outside
of the forty nine Ers, Lions, Eagles, and Backers. I put
them there at the Cowboys, even though I was just racking on the Cowboys.
All right, I'm gonna I've got more on this draft and just why
this first round and just why tonight I think is you know when I said
the greatest, most entertaining NFL Draft as we lead up to it, and
we'll get an idea on what the Lions will do. So all of that
at pick number twenty nine if that's where they stay. I'm Dennis Fifthian.
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It is NFL Draft twenty twenty four. Detroit is our I'm going to's fit
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to twenty one thousand. That's easy enough. Who will the Lions draft?
Your prediction? What don't you want to happen? What don't you want to
see happen? Now? I think the Lions are going to end up.
My prediction with Ia was Cooper dejen He going to have to fall a little
bit or the Lions are going to have to move up a little bit.
Either could happen. Brad Holmes moved back last year. He moved up the
year before I could see it. He's in my sights. He's versatile,
He's a chess piece, draft lingo, and that's why I want to see
now. Yesterday we were asking for predictions and who the people wanted to see
and know a lot of defensive ends, the two Robinson's chop from Penn State
had a few different votes. Lot to the defensive end from UCLA. Mike
Saine was still who wore number zero at Michigan the crew converted nickel, he
would also fall under the category as a chess piece. Those were some of
the predictions and as far as what you don't want to see happen, like,
I don't want to see JJ McCarthy go to the Minnesota Vikings. This
draft has the most intrigue of any draft ever because of the quarterbacks. And
it does go back to nineteen eighty three where you had the Hall of famers
Elway, Kelly and Marino, and then you had the bus of Blackledge,
e Sen was Ken O'Brien the Jets selection in there, and you think about
the memorable drafts over the years. Just taking a step back just a few
years ago, Trevor Lawrence was supposed to be the most sure thing since Andrew
Luck and he's been He's been all right, but it's not like he's uh
a one sure thing right now. Zach Wilson an absolute bost you know,
he's with the Broncos now. So's the number three pick of the twenty twenty
one draft, Trey Lance. So the first three quarterbacks that came off the
board, we're all like, Woo, Wilson and Trey Lance. You could
put those guys down. If we were a run on the biggest bus of
all time, you could just lead off with those guys. And oh yeah,
Justin Fields was selected in the top ten and Mac Jones, who's no
longer, No, these guys are with their teams anymore. Mac Jones isn't
around Fields is in Pittsburgh, Lance is in Dallas, and Wilson is with
the Broncos. Show you how sure of the thing when you talk about these
qbs, these teams are gonna reach for them. They're gonna do it tonight.
I was always fascinated by the twenty eighteen draft where you had, let's
see five quarterbacks go. But I did not think Baker Mayfield. That would
not have been my pick, but he was to pick. But I have
to admit it. My pick would have been Sam Darnald. And even worse,
I thought that Josh Rosen. If Darnald was selected, I would have
picked Josh Rosen. Those guys were bus Now. Josh Allen, who played
at Wyoming, I didn't have a feel for him, strong armed quarterback out
of Wyoming. Who watched him? I watched Dan Orlovski, who wasn't with
ESPN yet, and Dan Rolovski was adamant that Josh Allen just couldn't read a
defense, that Josh Allen couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time that
this guy, and he had all of the videos that he was putting out
there, And I thought, if Daniel Orlovsky knows anything and he played in
the league. Whatever I'm going to ride with Dan Orlovsky on this one.
Josh Allen will be a bust. And then everyone bypassed Lamar Jackson who fell
to thirty two, and look at that, he's a two time MVP.
THO. Those are how things they're working. And as I look at this
draft from Williams to Daniels and May, I think Drake May has the highest
bus potentials. We take a look at it and these first two qbs.
I feel more comfortable with Jaden Daniels being with the Commanders. It's just a
nice fit. If I'm the Washington Commanders, that's an easy pick for me.
Boom. The Bears, I think have already screwed this up, and
the Bears historically screw things up. The Bears don't know what they're doing with
quarterbacks. You had I had Jim McMahon for a year or two. Who
else have the Bears ever had under center? I oh, Sid Luckman.
I knew the Chicago Bears screwed it up. When every and I think every
NFL draft analyst has screwed this up. When they were like, oh,
yeah, you just gotta get rid of fields. If you're gonna take Caleb
Williams. Now, I don't know if the Bears went to Caleb Williams and
said, hey, Caleb, we're gonna give you the moon and stars.
You're our guy, we love you. Here's our plan. We're going to
use the Patrick Mahomes plan. Patrick Mahomes went to the Chiefs when they had
Alex Smith and they sat him for a year, and then Patrick Mahomes took
over and Mahomes was good with that. It was a first round pick,
Alex Smith, a former number one pick, and it worked out fabulously.
Smith helped Mahomes. The rest is history. Let's go with a proven blueprint.
We'll let you compete with justin fields, but we are we want you
to be open to the idea that you might not start the season, that
you could if you win the job out right, but also you could sit
for an entire year. That's not the worst thing in the world. Now,
I don't know if Williams camp who I take a shot at saying they
didn't like that. You know that the dad who knows wanted a piece of
the franchise that he was going to already, So maybe they were like,
we want everybody to paint their fingernails pink, and we want to start from
the get go. So I already don't like what's going on with Chicago and
Fields to give him away for nothing, essentially they did by getting just a
sixth round conditional pick for him. That's like one of the stupidest moves I've
ever seen, and I have not heard one of these analysts. They were
all like, oh, yeah, you gotta get rid of him. You
can't have two alphas, Yes you can. Sorry, you just had it
play out in Kansas City like that. The Fields was going to be a
sour puss. Then you know what benches ass and find it. But I
tell Fields, go out there, you can make it with Chicago. Take
us to the playoffs in year one. We're we're getting a first or second
round pick for you. So they've already botched it. That's just the Chicago
Bears. Hey, look they're in the Lions division. So good as we
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Day twenty twenty four in Detroit. Yes, we have made it. We
are here. We are talking about it with you at eight six six eight
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eight three eight forty eight forty three. We're looking for your allion's prediction on
what they will do, what you don't want to see happen in this draft
tonight, anything else that you want to look at. You can also use
the text text sports Radio to twenty one thousand, Sports Radio to twenty one
thousand. That is the way you get it done. Ben Zos is the
producer. He is looking at the text. What's going to feel for where
the people are at? Via text? Ben Yeah, this one, says
Dennis, speaking of sitting QBS, what are your thoughts on Hooker in his
future with the Lions. Well, we don't know about Hooker, do we
ben We know that he can really fire it down the field, but we
haven't seen him. He had the knee injury and we don't know. I
don't know if the Lions have a feel for him, with him just rehabbing,
coming back from injury and so thinking about that he could be the heir
apparent to Jared Goff. I don't know if they know what they have with
Hooker right now. So I gotta see him, We gotta we gotta see
something nice prospect. Is there a chance that he could take over for Jared
Goff? And there is, but I would say it's a small chance.
But the will you will know a little bit. Can we see him in
the exhibition season to see, you know, if he looks like that player
that he was at Tennessee. Got a great arm, can move around a
lot of ice. Think fell in the draft a little bit because of the
injury concerns, but you know, so you're not ruling him out. I
just look at him as you know, kind of a wild card that you
know, how many times are you're gonna be able to get a guy like
that where you think about he could be a starting quarterback in the NFL,
not too often, but hey, because Brad Holmes picked him, you feel
like, oh, maybe they're in with a chance there. But yeah,
this thing, you know, going back benches for a second, I asked
for the first hour, just where the Lions playoff window is at? It
is at. It is open with Jared Goff as their quarterback golf at twenty
nine years old, I would say for five years. I think Jared Goff
is going to be the Lion's quarterback at least for the next two or three
years. He'll get his deal for five years and hopefully it is five years
that means he's playing well. But two or three years and then if Holmes
could continue to do what he's doing, I'd say, work magic. But
magic is one year, two years. You say, okay, well,
you know there's three years. Is a trend. He's a trend. It's
a trend at Holmes being good at drafting and trading and working the draft.
So as long as Holmes continues to draft well and golf over the next two
or three years, and we'll see on hooker. You got, you got
a shot with him, but I got to see him out there to get
a feel for what he looks like in the Honolulu Blue and Silver. Any
other techs. Yeah, this one says, I want Mike Sainer still with
pick twenty nine and fuse some more Michigan into the lineup. He's a hard
worker and will do whatever for the team. Well. He is an outstanding
player and he was a great player for Michigan in that he moves over from
wide receiver and immediately was an impact on Michigan's defense as a nickel, and
that doesn't happen very often. You'd think, hey, technique wise, you
know it's gonna take him now. It wasn't. He hit the ground running
on the defensive side, and then in his senior year he took often was
even better. And Saint Ristoll is one of those guys any team is going
to like having him in their lineup because of how he plays the game and
how you quantify being a playmaker. You make big plays at big He did
it all throughout his Michigan career, especially in the championship season a year ago.
Saint Risto always coming up with a big pick a big pick and a
return for a touchdown, a fumble return. He's a good tackler. Lions
could do worse than taking Saint Rostoll at twenty nine. He's going to be
there. He's one of those guys you think about, Oh, if he's
in the second a team's gonna get a real nice player if they take him
in the second round, first round, it seems to be he's good.
Is there a good enough player to be in the first round at the end
of the first round. That might be where Brad Holmes thinks about, let
me get a couple other picks and drop back five. If he's got six
players that he's looking at and saying, I like any of those, and
I can see sand Resto being in like one of those. You're sitting there
at twenty nine. You've got a list of ten guys that you're like,
we like any of these guys at twenty nine. That's where Holmes might pick
up the phone. If it's not ringing. Of course, if it's ringing,
he's going to say, come on up. If it's not ringing,
he might call and say, hey, you want to come up here.
Let's say bo Nicks is still in the mix. Brad Holmes might tell a
team, hey, you get an extra year out of them because the first
round pick. Maybe you want to come up here to twenty nine. However
it coach, you know they got that ten minutes to move and shake.
I'm always good with some texts. A Hooker text and a Sandra Still text.
I'm looking at Twitter and here is a tweet from FTP that's Freddy the
Pizza Man. He texts six things he wants to see left in this decade.
So he's not talking about the draft in particular, but he's got six
things that he wants to see left in this decade. So we're twenty twenty
four before twenty thirty. Oh seems wild? All right. Here's what he
says. He wants to see happen. Lions win two Super Bowls. Wow,
yeah, I'm focusing in on one. I haven't thought about multiple,
but okay, things to happen. He's just declaring it. That would be
great. He wants to see the Tigers win a World Series. It's been
forty years. Okay, I'm with you on that. Who wants to see
the Red Wings when a Stanley Cup? I'm ready for just the Red Wings
to get into the playoffs, playoffs, Cabrera to get into the Hall of
Fame. He retired last year, first battlet Hall of Famer. I think
that gets done. He wants to see sweet lou Winaker get into the Hall
of Fame. That could happen. You get the Veterans Committee looking at the
analytics, looking at the war, and he sticks out like a sore thum.
It a good way that he's not in. Pistons win forty two games.
So a little comedy in there from the pizza man. You know,
I was thinking about it was earlier. It was Kagan who called in from
Kzu and Kagan said, I was thinking, who's got it better than Kagan?
Kagan is like, started off his call, I'm heading down to the
draft, so already I'm thinking that nobody's got it better than this guy.
And then he's talking about he was going with a bachelor party to the draft.
What a plan? And that is my mind started racing party bus draft
Thursday, Friday, Saturday in Detroit. Now it just reminded me because I
looked at this tweet about the Red Wings winning a Stanley Cup over the next
six years, if the Red Wings we all wanted to see them get into
the playoffs this year. Just think about this weekend. The Tigers are off
tonight, but they are in action hosting the Royals about tomorrow and Saturday.
So if you had the party bus for the bachelor party, you had a
room downtown, you had the Red Wings in a playoff game, you had
the Tigers playing. I mean, like this really could have been. Now
I gook at the Red Wings, aren't it so? I mean that's just
a dream scenario that did not happen. The Tigers are there, they're about
five hundred, The draft is going on. You might have that party bus,
you might have that hotel room. Can you have it at the casino?
You know? One time I had a friend who got bumped up to
the top floor at one of the casinos and this was something straight out of
the hangover. I went up to see it on the elevator. You have
to have the VIP, you know the guy where, but it was right
out of the hangover. I can't whoever's in that suite for these next three
days. They did some planning or just have unlimited funds. Maybe both.
That's the way to do it. Nobody's got it better than that guy top
floor hangover suite at one of the casinos for three days. Maybe some Tiger
tickets in their back pocket for Saturday. Let's go to the phones at eight
sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three. Here is a Freddy
in Melvindale here, ons and bros. Is that right Freddy? Yes?
Full disclosure. I miss typed It should have been twenty four wins, not
forty two wins. Hey, that that's actually And when they trade for Joel
Embiid or Devin Hooker after these playoffs, after the Suns or Sixers get swept
and the Pistons land that number one pick in the lottery, you might change
your mind. Well, I'll tell you, Dennis, there wasn't a point
in my call, but I liked your Joe mb Idea. I actually was
thinking about that the other a couple of weeks ago, kind of just watching
the basketball game. I said, you know what, I'm not sure they're
tired of him in Philly. They're gonna start throwing snowballs at him pretty soon.
So I said, why not bring him to Detroit and see what could
happen? Who? Who knows? I mean, hey, listen, I'm
the guy. I'm the guy that was calling the old host. Here go
get John Moran's. You know you think members don't want to keep him.
I would take a chance with John Moran's. I mean, the guys to
start, they need a star. You never know. I don't know,
but Freddie, I'll take a chance if those guys have committed. If they've
committed, Like if you talk to John Moran, he's like, yeah,
I want to put all this behind me. I'm not waving any guns.
I'm walking the straight and narrow. If Impade's like, yeah, I know
the health situation, I've got to lose weight. I mean, those are
the starters for even thinking about, you know, putting together some treasure trove
to then take the gamble with those guys. But yeah, what else?
What else are you looking at? So I want to talk about Jered Goff
the NFL draft, but you know you, I want to bring up a
couple of draft stories. You you brought up the eighty three drafts. I
don't know if you're run my tux, but I mean we're old enough to
remember. Only the Lions. You have the fullback in the first round,
and it happened in nineteen eighty three for guys that are now old enough and
gals. They drafted James Jones, a fallback over Dan Marino and Jim Kelly
only short life. He couldn't do something like that, right, James Jones
out of Florida. I think, right, that's the that's Ben's that's Ben's
team, absolutely, and that him and Billy Simms was supposed to be a
combo for many years. And then Billy Simms got hurt the next year,
and that was my other draft story. Monday, I was with Lomas Brown
and I sat with him. I looked at him. I said, Lolas,
you know you've become an icon in this town. You've been here since
eighty five. I said, have you ever shot down and realized that the
only reason you're here is because Billy Simms got hurts? And again, Dennis,
you and I are enough to remember Billy Simms in Minnesota when he got
hurts, they won like three games the rest of the year. If it
wasn't for Billy Simms getting hurt, Lomas Brown wouldn't have been a Lion.
He wouldn't have been picked US six. The Lions might would have been picking
fifteenth and look at Lomas bro He's an icon in this towndouts. It's just
it's just crazy how things worked out, you know, with the draft and
you just never know. Now we're into the draft here and you know,
full disclosure. I like Jared Golf. I think he's a good dude.
I think he needs and personally, I think he needs thicker skin. If
you're really look into his interviews, he seems to dwell on the negative a
lot, what people are saying, what they're not saying. I've noticed that
about him. But I think he's a good dude. I think he's a
pretty good quarterback. But you know, I think it's time to shoot for
the stars for a quarterback in this town. And with Jared Golf, you
know, do you think do you think that the Lions have I mean Norm
Brandons and Dan Campbell, how do you think they've approached him or ready and
they know what he wants or they have asked him. Don't let's not sign
a contract yet, because pick twenty nine could be a team wanting a quarterback
that slips and we can get some trade value for that. You think that
can be happening behind the scenes. Well, I know that they have at
least approached it, And like you and I could sit around and just look
at the numbers of what Mahomes has and look at other of the top five
quarterbacks, and we could come up with whether he wants forty five or fifty
and a five year you know, deal with the guaranteed money, and we
could get pretty close to being in the ballpark, Freddy. But whether he
has rabbit ears or whether the you know Homes in Campbell are talking a little
bit too much about you know, the past and you know, getting at
the media or the fans or anything else. The biggest thing is that these
guys go out and continue to do what they've been doing, and that is
picking quality players in the draft. And then you know, golf, you
know you're gonna get interviewed and you're going to like everything is under the microscope.
So every single thing that you say, I don't want them to be
bland. I don't want them to just be like we're just taking this one
game and a time we'd love to I want a little bit of the personality.
So I don't agree with where you're at there that he's got a little
bit too much rabbit ears and everything else, Like say, some things his
play is what is going to be important to me, not not all the
other stuff. You can see things that could be crazy. It's the same
thing with Holmes. I mean, if he would have asked me when he
was going up to the podium, like you know, pulling out the receipts
and talking about the media, I would say, look, a rule of
thumb, Brad. You know you're doing a great job in the draft,
but let all those media members do whatever they want. You don't even know
what they're trying to do with whether it's getting calls or whether you know,
their approach is just going to be negative because they've been that way and that's
their job. Leave those guys alone. Rule of thumb, don't you know,
stay away from the media that way. But you know, hey,
these guys are human, and you know Holmes has probably listened to too much
talk shows and reading too many you know, Detroit papers if he's over there,
fire and you know, back and stuff like that. So I don't
think they need to do that, just like I don think Dan Campbell Freddie
when he was like, hey, if you're not riding with us, we
don't want you. It's like, yeah, hey, I get you,
but you know, don't don't you know, don't talk to the fans like
that. I don't. I don't. I don't think that should. I
don't think that stuff should come out after you finally win the division and you
win a playoff game or two. I think that stuff should come out before.
But anyways, listen, I listened. I root for the team.
And if Jared Goff is the winning quarterback for the Super Bowl, that's great.
I'll pull him for him. I think he's a good dude. I
just think they can do better at quarterback. I just think, uh I
look, I go back to the Green Bay Packers. They always drafted quarterbacks.
They always getting better. I'm only the Kansas City Chiefs, you know,
the New England Patriots. They're always drafted quarterbacks. And and when you
lose the best one, now you can't win. And uh, I you
know, listen, I whatever happens today, I think it's gonna be I
think it's gonna be a good thing. It's a good thing for Detroit.
I think the Lions are gonna put those offs in a really good position.
The draft, the best available, the guy's going to help him for the
next six to seven, eight, nine years and whoever they may be,
I'm looking forward to it. Then it's gonna be a fun Hey your point.
I think we agree on that part. Like there's been close to sixty
Super Bowls and we look all the winners. There's only so many Trent Dilfhers
that that you have. You know, quarterbacks where you surround, you have
the team and you surround the quarterback. It's mostly the Hall of Fame qbs,
the premium qbs. That's a lot easier. Now that's also easier said
than done. Oh, the Lions don't have one of those guys. So
they're going the route of the of the Dilfer where they're not going to have
the Joe Flacco route, the Ravens route, put everything around them and do
it. That's more difficult than having the Patrick Mahomes Joe Montana type situations where
you got the quarterback and you can get it down that way. Good call.
I want to hear more from you. Coming up next, we will
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Detroit Lions holding the the pick at number twenty nine. The Detroit Lions who
won twelve games this year and went to the NFC Championship Game. Coming up
here in just one minute, we'll connect with Matt Darry from Lockdown Lions get
his thoughts on what the Lions are gonna do in the draft. Let's run
over the headlines, and that headline has to do with the draft being in
Detroit. Also the Tigers. They take the series against the Rays, but
they lose last night seven to five down in Tampa. But four and two
on the road trip for the Tigers, who now begin a six game homestand
they're off today, but they have the Royals and the Cards coming up the
Battle of Missouri over the next six days, starting tomorrow at Comerica Park.
Your winners. In the NHL, they had Boston over Toronto, the defending
Cup champs of Vegas. They get it done in Dallas again three to one
the Kings andse Copatar overtime winner five four LA over Edmonton. And then in
the NBA, with no Jimmy Butler, the Heat beat Boston one eleven one
oh one. That's the biggest surprise of the night, the Thunder taking care
of the Pelicans one twenty four ninety two out west to take a two to
old lead there and tonight this is I don't know how your setup is.
Maybe you're taking a party bus and you've got a hangover type suite at one
of the casinos and you've got Tiger tickets in your back pocket. That all
sounds pretty good to me. It also sounds pretty good having your own TV
and then a couple other TVs set up, because you've got three basketball playoff
games and two NHL games, Panthers and Lightning Canes and Isles Calves and Magic
Knicks and seventy six and the Nuggets and Lakers. All of that going off.
Eight o'clock is when the draft gets going. We'll see when they actually
put the Bears on the clock. Who's on the clock right now is the
host of the Locked On Lions pod, and that is Matt Derry, who
joins us here on Exes and Bros. On the Michigan Sports Network. Matt,
how are you, Dennis? Are we gonna play guess what's in fifth
and or what? Well? We're gonna play. Guess what's in Brad Holmes's
back pocket. I want to know, you know, the excitement of the
draft is out of sight. I want to start with the Amana, Saint
Brown and Piney Sewel. They get those guys done, But why not golf
done prior to tonight? Is that leverage on the golf side or the Lions
trying to leverage him a little bit with that twenty ninth pick. Let's start
there. Why I don't, Dennis, I don't think that tonight has anything
to do with golf. I don't then he leverage with the pick. What
I do think is you're getting Amen Rot thirty a year. DeVante Smith signed
for twenty five, so you knew Saint Brown's a better player than Smith.
Smith's not even the number one receiver on his own team in Philly, so
he kind of knew that was going to be around the number. So I
think that's the steal. Getting him for four at one twelve and getting that
done now, I think that's awesome. As far as the golf situation,
Jared's gonna want fifty, right, Dennis. I mean he's gonna want that
five in front of that zero. And I think the Lions are thinking more
in the fours, and so they know they've got him for this year at
a good price, and if they tag him next year, it's what forty
two forty three million, that's still below with Deshaun Watson and Kyler Murray make
so they kind of have golf. They know they have them at least for
two more years with that tag. Now, you don't want to alienate him.
You want to show him the love. But I think that the agent's
going you want Jalen Hurd's money around fifty to fifty one. I think the
Lions are probably and this is just speculation, probably around forty six forty seven,
just above Watson and Murray. So it's probably where we're at right now.
Makes sense to me. You know, he'll be hearing the love from
the fans at the draft tonight as they'll be channing his name. I think
the answer to this question is yes, the Brad Holmes at twenty nine.
You think he's moving up, you think he's moving down. Do you think
he's staying at twenty nine? What's your feel right now as you look to
what the Lions might do tonight? You know, Dennis, I don't want
to get over dramatic, right, But like, if you're going downtown tonight
and you're gonna be out there in the cold, and it's midnight or whatever
it is, and the Lions are on the clock and you're so excited and
you've been drinking since sport, get prepare yourselves for when it says Raiders on
the clock or Bill's on the clock, and it's like, wait, what,
I've waited all night for our pick. I think he's trading back.
I really, I don't think it's the lock. I don't think there's but
I just think there's probably fifteen twenty guys on their board with the first round
grade. And if they're all gone, and let's say this kool aid McKinstry
foot injury is real and maybe he's slide, maybe you can get kool aid
later and accumulate picks. I mean, that's just a sense that I get.
When you're at twenty nine, we know they're right in front of them.
The Bills have got to take a wide receiver. Well what if Brad
loves ad Mitchell and he goes to pick before then what do they do?
So a lot of intrigued there. But if I had a guess, I
would say maybe a trade down and getting a couple more second rounders, because
as we know, Brad Holmes the last couple of years has feasted on second
rounders. At Dari speaks on Twitter. He is the host of the Locked
On Lions pod. I hope that there's a guy with a nickname Cornbread.
They can get a kool Aid and a Cornbread would be off and running.
What if you've probably have been asked a few times to participate in mock drafts
and you don't have the opportunity to move back or move up. Who are
the players or the player that you continue to select when you are put under
the gun and have to pick at twenty nine knowing what Holmes may do to
give people the gauge. And you mentioned a few names already. Yeah,
you know. We did a lockdown host mock draft that we do every year
with all the hosts from all the shows around the league and kool Aid.
McKinstry was my pick at twenty nine because he fell to them, and really
because he visited here because they could use another corner. Who couldn't use another
corner after the Cam Sutton incident and releasing I just that was who I took.
I've seen the name Brayden Fisk a lot lately as a possibility, and
there's a lot of talk around the league about Johnny Newton from Illinois dropping somehow
dropping to twenty nine. And if that's the case, I think Brad Holmes
would run the card up there quickly because Newton for some teams is the top
fifteen player. But that could be intriguing A's alignment. We know Brad loves
to stock up on offensive and defensive linemen, so those are some names that
I think to keep an eye on if they're gonna stay at twenty nine.
But again, I think Brad likes to throw a curveball at us. I
mean, who had Jamiir Gibbs and Jack Campbell last year at twelve and eighteen?
Then nobody, right, So no, there's always going to be a
surprise with Brad. But he's done so well in the draft. I said
it on my show the other day, twenty three picks he's made in three
years, twenty two of them are still on the ross. So that's insane.
That is well, we're out of time, But you know, I
think that you've nailed it. When you look at the different positions they could
go back. But you've mentioned defensive end, defensive tackle, corner, of
the possibility of taking alignman, even a enter, a wide receiver. It
is a real blank canvas here for Holmes. But if I'm pinning you down
final thing, you think that it's likely that Holmes is going to move back
a little bit because of the clut of players that he'll have on his board,
and he'll be able to pick up an extra selection and pick tomorrow.
I do, And I think if Pennix and Knicks are still on the board
at twenty nine, and you've got the Raiders and one of these other teams
that needs a quarterback, you might be able to really leverage that into maybe
an extra couple of picks and their second rounder. So keep an eye on
that. And you just bring up a very good point, Dennis. What
about the future of Frank rag Now, what about the future of Taylor Decker.
Decker's contract is up after this year. You know, the Lions love
him and he loves them. But that was not a Brad Holmes draft pick.
Taylor Decker was drafted by the previous regime, So you know, you
never know rag now to ask here with kind of playing retirement to of all
the injury, So stocking up on a good interior old lineman or tackle for
the future. Keep an eye on that as well wells keep an eye on
your Twitter feed. Look like you're having dinner with like thirty people at the
fanciest restaurant in town. I'd love that. We love you DS. You're
doing a great job on the Lockdown Lions pod continues success and thanks for joining
us this morning on exis and bros. All. He's good to chat with
you, Dennis. OK. You and Mab and the crew are doing well
back home too, buddy, Thank you have fun tonight. There he is
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Now. Look, I am okay with a trade back. I get sitting
there and wanting a selection, but just walk yourself through it. You're down
there, you're enjoying the entire day, whatever libations, maybe you're just eating
hot dogs pizza, waiting for the draft. But you get to the very
end, and if the commissioner comes up there at twenty nine and says there's
a trade, you know that the possibility is going to be there. I
think you'll know even before that what happens at the end of the draft.
Every year we have looked at ten, twenty maybe even more mock drafts,
and so we all have these ideas of where these players are going to be
picked, and inevitably there's three or four players that drop, and you'll be
sitting there and you'll be thinking, wow, I can't believe that this Cooper
Dejeene is sitting right there for the Lions to take. This is going to
be the easiest selection ever. They will sprint the card up there and they
will take it, and they will take the gene and they'll be happy and
they'll get an A plus and you know you're going to go into the night
feeling great. But the thing is as that Brad Holmes the part of the
things, and we find this out during the draft, and then thereafter when
you start having guys falling on what happens Usually they say, oh, it's
medicals. There's going to be a couple of these guys that are being talked
about, you know, Matt Dry are talked about, kool Aid, mckinstreet,
maybe a foot. The Lions list is going to look vastly different with
what they know with their medicals on the players, what have they brought them
in, whether they've had a chance, and you know, the guys that
they're targeting to feel like they have got the clean medicals. And it just
gets to where you're in the catbird seat when you're one of the last picks.
Certainly it's nice to be a top five pick. You're getting the superstars
and all that. You're going, goy, god, you need a quarterback.
You're flipping out. It's you know, here's the future all that.
But when you're at the back of the draft, the draft just comes to
you and you sit there. There's gonna be a bevy of players, and
then the chance with other teams because you get that extra year if you're a
first round pick. Teams that want to come back up late in the first
round, and so seeing the Lions just moving back, and because it's at
the very tail end, now you know, if the Lions were picking ten
and they moved out of the first round, well then it's like it's over.
Just this Lions fan. You're excited, Hey, number ten pick,
there's been a train and then you find out that the Lions have moved out,
and of course they can always move back in. But you're just sitting
back and you're like, oh, this sucks. But if you've waited all
night and then you're sitting there, then you just only have to wait a
couple more picks, and then it makes tomorrow not much more exciting because then
you're gonna be flushed and you're gonna have more picks and You're also reminded pretty
quickly that the Lions moved back last year took Jamir Gibbs, picked up an
extra selection from the Cardinals early in the second round, where the Detroit Lions
selected Sam Laporta, who is now the best tight end in the NFL.
So you talk yourself through all of that and you understand exactly what the Lions
are gonna do. It's tough to do when you sit there when it gets
to be about, you know, twenty five, and you're looking at five
players and you're like, wow, the Lions are gonna get a great player.
These guys are being talked about in the early teens. This guy was
talked about as a top ten pick. I don't know if that's gonna be
the case, but there's gonna be a few of the guys gonna be there,
and you're gonna look and you can say, wow, all of these
guys nobody thought was gonna be there, and they're there, and then Holmes
can you know, do what Holmes does and make that move? How about
that? That's where we're said, not you know, the the buzz in
general about this draft, of course, is gonna be the quarterbacks. I
think it's easily locked in where we know Caleb Williams, that is a one
chance that he is being selected by the Bears. I also think that Daniels.
Daniels makes you so much sense for the commanders everything when you look at
what he was able to do at LSU last year. Those guys have separated,
So now we're talking about the m and ms. May and McCarthy and
the Pats. You certainly they could talk about moving out. When you get
a shot to get a franchise quarterback, as we have discussed all morning,
you don't have one and you're in position to get one, you take them.
So whether they like May or McCarthy, whatever, they're thinking, whatever
Mayo, the other M there, the head coach now is thinking along with
the front office there in New England. It could be Jj, it could
be May. But I think we're all pretty sure that it's going to be
three quarterbacks to come off the board. So then you go to Arizona.
Arizona, if there was just this one wide receiver, I certainly could use
a wide rest receiver for Kyler Murray. But since this particular draft has three
for sure things in wide receivers and Marv Harrison Junior, A Doonsay, and
the player that seemingly every every UH Draftnick, every GM telling people behind the
scenes Malik Neighbors might be better than all of them. It behooves the Cardinals
to move. Someone's coming up to four to get either may or McCarthy.
I'm gonna lock that in for you. I'm gonna lock four quarterbacks one,
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but it is Captain Khaki who's sitting there at five. If four quarterbacks go,
then Jim Harbaugh company are sitting there. Are they going to take?
Is Jim Harbaugh gonna take Maserati Buckeye? Marvin Harrison. Now you can say,
yeah, well you know it's quarterback Justin Herbert, the guy rid of
Keenan Allen. They need a wide receiver. But again, there's three of
them there. I'd see Harbaugh moving out, not just because he's a buck
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Draft Day, twenty twenty four of the Michigan Sports Network, I'm going to
spit you. We are taking your call. How okay? Are you at
a trade down for the Detroit Lions. That and anything else as you're thinking
about with this draft tonight, eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty
three on the Meyer hotline eight six six eight three eight four eight four to
three. As we draw closer to the Bears making their selection of Caleb Williams,
Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, it's going to be either Drake may or
JJ McCarthy at three. I predict that four that the Cardinals are moving out
in whichever quarterback that the Pats don't take. You've got the g Men,
the Vikings, the Broncos, the Raiders. You could make a case maybe
for the Saints, all trying to move up. Teams are going to be
moving up, trying to get one of the This is a four quarterback draft
up towards the top. And then you're looking at Nicks being in the mix,
with Pennix also being in the mix. Whether that's going to be then
in the teams or if one of those guys falls into the twenties. But
I'm thinking that it is going to be six quarterbacks selected. And then I
also think with the Chargers sitting there at five. Knowing Jim Harbaugh, I
don't think he wants to take a wide receiver necessarily at five. I think
Jim Harbaugh wants an offensive lineman, and I think that he can sell that
to Justin Herbert saying, look, yeah, this is a three wide receiver
draft, and there are some great ones right there, but we're running the
football to protect you, and I think Harbaugh sells. I think Harbaugh is
going to sell Herbert on an offensive lineman and then the possibility of looking at
the tight ends in this draft. I think Harbaugh could try to just move
back a little bit. I think a guy I don't know how much he's
being talked about. We know that he's a great player. One thing about
Harbaugh is that we've known that he has game plan, that he has seen
Marvin Harrison Junior up front and center seeing Ohio State for the last couple of
years. I also think o doonsay for Washington, whether you think he's better
than neighbors or not, three wide receivers, whatever you know, your taste
is a doonsay. Playing for Washington, he had to game plan for him
and the other player to think about that Harbaugh saw front and center was Brock
Bowers. I think Bowers ends up with a lightning bolt on the side of
his helmets. All right, Before we read some of the texts, let's
get to the phones and we welcome in John on ex'es and bros. On
the Michigan Sports Network. Hey John, Hey, how's it going? What
can't be going any better? John? As I wait for the draft?
You know, yeah, I totally agree. I'm actually driving out there right
now. Now you're talking, John, You're on your way to the draft
at eight thirty nine in the morning. That's what I'm That's what I like
to hear. Yeah, I'm I'm actually media credentialed. I'm an NFL draft
The handle is so getting out there, getting set up. I'll be on
media row. I'm ready to go. I'm Jazz. They have my coffee.
I've been studying these prospects for months. I'm ready. Let's do it.
Well, let me ask you. I just gave you my thoughts here
at the top of the draft. I think that the four quarterbacks that includes
JJ McCarthy, they're gonna go one through four, and then I think the
Chargers are moving out. How do you think about that prediction? How does
that sit with you? I think it's I think it's a great fit.
I've been talking about the Chargers of the trade down candidate for a while.
You know, whether the Cardinals sticke at for and take Marvin Harrison's junior and
then the team like Minnesota is super aggressive and moving up to get JJ McCarthy.
I think there's gonna be a market for the fifth overall pick. I
think that what the Chargers need, like you were just talking about, I
think they need offensive line. So I think they would be happy to move
down to that like ten to twelve range, pick up some added capital to
kind of retool for Jim Harbaugh and get a really really solid offensive lineman to
go at right tackle, because what tackles set for the Chargers. So a
name to watch for the Chargers, in my opinion, to leave Schulaga offensive
tackle out of Oregon State. He's been a career right tackle, but a
very very very good one. I think it would be a natural fit for
him to plug in on the right side for Justin Herbert to protect him.
I think you're on it. And the only thing that Jim Harbaugh likes more
than a big fat tackle is a big fat, you know, defensive lineman.
That's what he wants, and I think that's where the focus is going
to be. And as much as we can sit around. Yeah, you
know, great players win in wide receivers. Harbaugh, he knows that you
win and the way he wants to win is with line play and a quarterback
and even know that wide receiver. You say, what about Herbert? He
needs one and you'd like to have one of those top three or you would
like to have Bowers. I'm with you on that. I think he's moving
out. What about the Lions, John, what do you think they do
at twenty nine? They could go defensive tackle, defensive ends, safety,
quarter offensive line, wide receiver. You know your pick. What do you
want? Yeah? The Lions are a super interesting team because they are really
good all of a sudden, and I've been you know, I've been really
impressed with what they've done for the last couple of years. They've built from
the trenches out, which is how I think Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers are
going to do it. Like you said that same conversation, you built from
the trenches out. The Lions are a great model of success for having done
that. Now they're competing and they're young. I think it's great. I
think that the Chargers they're going to look at that and be like, Yeah,
this is a it's what we need to do. You got to build
some of the trenches out and get on line that first. So that's why
I like them to go offensive doc, which especially if they can straight down
at Pepig. The Lions are interesting because now you're in Now you're a team
that's being talked about as arguably the best team in the NFC, if not
one of the top three teams in the conference. I still like them to
go trenches. I just I can't shape the feeling. I think the interior
offensive line is an interesting conversation for the Lions and Jackson Power as Johnson career
starters center for University of Oregon is a name that I like for them because
the interior offensive line is set. But you've got a couple of guys just
on one year deals. I think that he can start day one at guard,
or he can learn and be a rotational guy in case of injury and
ends up taking over at center or guard as early as next year. To
be a franchise cornerstone on the offense line is that and you put him with
his college team made pinet zuel, which is just pretty fun. Yeah,
it sounds like a prudent pick. The only thing I don't like about that
is it it almost feels like you're accepting that Frank rag Now is going to
retire, which he might know he's have difficulties with his foot or his toe.
And as much as Swell is the anchor and the you know, the
big time player on that line, rag Now is there right behind him.
And yeah, I know you got to prepare for the future and everything else,
but a very prudent pick if it ends up going that way, John,
give me one, Give me one more. I got another question for
you. Now, give me a bust, give me a sleeper. As
you take a look at tonight, a guy that you would not take because
you think he's gonna be a bust. And then somebody didn't have to be
in the thirty two that are mentioned often, but certainly can be somebody you
think just as an absolute lock. Yeah, so I'm always pro player,
right, I'm rooting for success for all these guys. You hope that all
of them live out their dreams. Right, they make it to the NFL,
they're able to be a long bench starter. I was very high on
the Amman Roth Saint Brown Hypes trained in that pre draft cycle. I thought
he should have gone in his second round. Getting him in the fourth was
a steal for the Lions. A wide receiver that I think is being hyped
up a little bit too much in this draft class is ad Mitchell at a
University of Texas. I like him. I think he's he's obviously over athletic.
He had a great combine, but I think that he's still a little
bit of raw to be talked about as a first round take a sleeper.
If I'm the Lions and they want to wait on offensive line on the interior,
that's tough. I say it's the name of being talked about a lot,
but I'm really high on Zach Frazier as well as an interior offensive lineman
for the Lions. In particular, I think Brad Holmes showed last year that
he doesn't care what anyone else thinks and he's gonna do what he thinks gives
his team the best chance to win. So I wouldn't be surprised if we
saw him be aggressive tonight. Didn't move up in the draft, I know
a trade down kadaboutly happen to occur some more value and the Jackson powers Johnson
conversation is a prudent choice, like you said, but I wouldn't be surprised
to see him be aggressive and move off for a defensive fact that he really
likes. And I like Terry on Arnold a lot out of Alabama, so
that could be a name where if he starts slipping a little bit gets into
the mids to eight teams. I can see Brad Holmes getting a little bit
of an ischy trigger and going up and getting them. John. I love
it. I can tell that you do know what you're talking about when it
comes to the draft. Enjoy it, and I think what we have on
tap is the most intriguing draft of all time and certainly nationally with it being
in Detroit for the first time, there's going to be no argument there.
Great job and enjoy yourself tonight in Detroit. Safe travels. And you know,
as I look at it and thinking about I see Peter Schrieger, who
has just released his final mock draft. He has the Lions, and the
one thing about Schreger is that he's not somebody that's just making his picks by
watching film and watching the college game. He makes his picks based on who
he's talking with from these cities for personnel that is working with these teams.
That's his thing, and not that you know he's nailing this draft or anything,
but I find it interesting as I look at Schreger's final mock that has
just been put out, that he has the Detroit Lions moving up from twenty
nine to twenty one and taking the defensive end from Florida State Jared Verse.
Now, just over these last two days of being here and talking with the
people and asking about players that they wanted to see, the majority of the
people have picked defensive end. Whether it's either of the Robinson Darius Robinson or
Chop Robinson or the defensive end from UCLA LTTWO. These are ben the Jared
Verse has been mentioned, and here's Jared Verse Schrager thinking that the Lions would
move up. Now, my own pick was Cooper dejen from Iowa, the
safety who could come down and play Nickel. Who you leave them at safety,
you can put them over at corner. I like that flexibility. I
know a lot of teams are gonna like that as well. Would the Lions
want to move up for CD. Is he gonna fall in their lap at
twenty nine? Probably? Maybe? I mean I say probably not, but
maybe I look at it like that. Let's hit that text at when you
text Sports Radio to twenty one thousand, Ben Zost is reading those Ben,
what are the people saying via text? Says? How do we know that
Hendon Hooker isn't that guy? We need to wait and see what he can
do before we go on to another quarterback. Goff has done a great job
and the Lions don't need to rebuild the quarterback quarterback position right now. Yeah,
well, you're right about Hooker. There's a couple things about Hooker.
The first thing that jumps out at you if you watched him, whether it
was at Virginia Tech or Tennessee where in his final year he was the SEC
Offensive Player of the year. You know he's got the size, and you
know that he has the arm. You also know that he got hurt and
that's why he fell a little bit in the draft, and so the Lions
could be patient with him. You just wonder how much work that he has
really had. The other thing is that he is twenty six years old,
so It's not like we're sitting here talking about Hndon Hooker who came out early,
who's been around for a year and he's twenty two. Linshit of a
pretty good idea where that knee is at and what he is going to do
now. It is just I look at it like this. Sure certainly they
got some value there, a guy that you could have argued could have been
a first round of certainly a second rounder if he didn't have that knee injury.
So they're gonna, you know, see what they've got there. This
is a chance that they might have something here. But I think with the
discussion earlier about Jared Goff going into this final year, if he doesn't want
to go with a number at forty five and he's dead set on something in
the fifty millions range, that the Lions could play the game of all right,
let's let this play out, and then they could tag him. Now
tagging quarterbacks, tagging any position, there's some risk involved tagging a quarterback,
just with everything that goes into it. Every time the guy throws it a
complete pass, eight, don't tag him, or we're getting rid of him.
Not having the security, it just opens up the questions you think people
are pouncing on Jared Golf talking about Oh, people are being a little bit
negative now he's walking it back or Brad Holmes pulling out receipts about people are
gonna we'll flip. If he's going into his final year and they don't have
a contract, that's all anybody's gonna be talking about left and right when it
comes down to golf. That's why teams like to get those guys done before
that. But the ability to possibly tag him talking about golf next year is
out there. If they don't want to say Lions friendly, I mean it
just golf friendly. It's friendly to everyone, maybe not to the agent who
is going to be dead set on fifty mil. Hey, don't forget Matt
Sheppard, who is normally the voice you hear coming through your radio. He
is going to be the MC at Soaring Eagle Casino tonight for an NFL draft
party. He will also be live from there tomorrow morning as he conducts and
he is the MC of this very program, axes and bros and reacts to
whatever he sees and how it all plays out in the NFL draft of Detroit
tonight. Interesting to me when I just think about Shep and I think about
this draft. It's just going to start a little bit after eight o'clock and
the Lion's picking at twenty nine, And then I think about him opening the
mic at six o'clock in the morning and then being up at Mountpleasant. That's
not a lot of hours for Shep to sleep. How Shep goes about getting
rest for tomorrow's show while taking in everything in the draft is a topic in
and of itself. I want to thank everyone for calling, texting, listening
over these last two days. Has been my pleasure to be here. Really
want to thank ben Zos. Ben great job. You're a progum. I
had fun working with you. Maybe we'll be able to do it again down
the line. Thanks to Matt Shepherd for calling me in from the bullpen.
That is going to do it. Enjoy the draft tonight. I'm going to
you know, I know I'm not in a limo, headed down in a
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