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Oh that music is rolling. That
means the Chicago Bears are on the clock.

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That means on this Thursday, April
the twenty fifth, the Detroit City

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is on the clock. Hi there, Happy NFL Draft Day. I'm Dennis

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Fithian in Formatt Shepherd Day two on
Access and Brows on the Michigan Sports Network.

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It's my pleasure to be here.
Fenzos is on all the ones and

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twos and answering your calls and looking
at your text and we're fired up.

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This is one of those days that
you wait for annually all year long,

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and here it is. Happy NFL
Draft Day. Hopefully I'm the first one.

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Yeah, maybe you never know.
Hopefully I'm the first one to welcome

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you in to NFL Draft Day.
That's the big news as we get this

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show underway. Not only is at
the NFL Draft, but it is taking

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place right here in the state at
Michigan, in Detroit City and everyone seemingly

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has converged on the Motor City and
is doing a show down there. And

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it is great. And that's great
to have a teeming city with the bright

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lights and everybody looking at Detroit and
talking of it with the NFL Draft going

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on the Lions sitting with the number
twenty nine pick. But I I'm gonna

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say it at the beginning here,
just like you know, all of the

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years that we have spent watching and
talking about the Detroit Lions. Today around

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these parts was always deemed dubbed the
Lions super Bowl, and it was not

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said and enduring terms. It was
said because when the regular season started there

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was no chance for the Detroit Lions. And sure, you know every season,

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you know, you have optimism,
and then it would happen. However

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it would happen, it would happen
with the Detroit Lions. You'd come crashing

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down to earth. Sometimes in the
very first game, you think about,

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what was it the DeAndre Swift the
Lions are right there. They threw a

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touchdown to him in the corner and
he dropped it. I mean there's been

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I could sit here for the next
three hours and talking about that. But

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no, that is just a setup
for today. We knew that the Lions

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draft was or the NFL Draft was
happening in the city, and like,

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oh, well, this will be
the Lions super Bowl. The Lions had

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a super Bowl. They've had two
super Bowls in Detroit, but no,

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their super Bowl was happening with the
draft, and it just so happens that

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they have turned this thing around.
No, they're not going to be one

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of the first teams picking. We
don't think they're gonna be one of the

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last teams picking, because they were
one of the last four teams standing.

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Now the idea is to get there, into that big game and then ultimately

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win it. And for years,
even saying that, I still feel it

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feels a little weird. I'm getting
more used to it. But if I

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was sitting here in this seat two, three, five, ten, fifteen,

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twenty years ago and was talking about
Super Bowl, I would say it

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like you Jim Morrow would say,
practice or playoffs? Allen iverson practice,

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we're talking about Lions the super Bowl. Then, in fact, Lions would

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draft a rookie and inevitably he'd go
down there and one of them would say,

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well, we're gonna We're going to
the super Bowl. You know you'd

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stand there and say, all right, you know a young kid, great

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optimist, you don't know you know
anybody. You just looked at him and

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said you'll find out pretty soon.
But guys that had been around and then

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they would say it, you'd have
to say, come on, now,

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let's let's talk about winning the NFC
Central the North before you start talking about

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how about winning a playoff game,
playoff game? And then they went out

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there and what night playoff game last
year in the greatest game of my lifetime,

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beating the Rams, most entertaining game, and best game, most exciting

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game, most energizing game. It
was everything beating the Rams. I say

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everything it was, you know,
with the Super Bowl it felt like it

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and then it was validated and say, yeah, well, what about the

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Cowboys when that was just as big? Well it was, but then you

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know they lost the next week.
This time around, they actually went out

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validated a little bit more by beating
the Box. And then I don't know

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if the think they validated it by
having the big lead in the first half

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against the forty nine ers. That's
another story. So that's the headline with

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this morning. As you make your
way and get ready for the draft tonight,

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let's take a look at what else
is happening in the world of sports.

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Most of the air is about the
oxygen being taken up, is no

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doubt going to be about the draft. But the Tigers, they were in

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action last night, and they had
taken the first two games on the road.

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They were finishing up their six game
road trip down in Tampa at the

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trop and the Tigers play an entertaining
game and a seesaw affair with the race,

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only to fall to Tampa seven to
five. Now, sweeps are difficult

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in Major League Baseball. The hard
to come by, even if you're a

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really bad team. I don't know, maybe the White Sox, that's pretty

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easy. It's pretty easy to say, hey, we're gonna we expect to

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broom of the White Sox. You
expect to take two out of three or

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three out of four against the White
Sox or you'll be disappointed. But sweeps

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are difficult, and the Rays are
generally a pretty good team, even though

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they're payroll is in the basement annually
in Major League Baseball, they still find

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a way. But the Tigers overall
now is they're off today. They have

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a successful road trip. They go
four and two on the trip. That

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is a very positive for this team
and this Tigers team, and it has

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happened since opening day against in their
first series. They are playing very close

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games. They are playing one run
games, two run games. Last night,

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a two run game. I counted
it up at the conclusion of last

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night's game. The Tigers have now
played twenty five games. They are fourteen

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and eleven, and fifteen of those
twenty five games the margin has been two

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runs or less. Like last night
they lost by two runs. Fifteen twenty

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five. That's something that stands out
early on in the season. And we

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are just in the beginning of this
season as the Tigers now come home tomorrow

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for a six game homestand when they
will take on the Royals and the Cards,

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So they will be entertaining the state
of Missouri for the next six games

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with the Cardinals and then the Royals, and the Royals actually in front of

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the Tigers in the standings, which
is pretty interesting. You think that about

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KC. But again it is early. No you get that around here.

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If you're a Tigers fan, if
you're old enough, you know about that

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forty game mark that Sparky always talked
about. Hey wouldn't have any how's Sparky,

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how you doing it? Let's wait
to forty games. But in nineteen

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eighty four the Tigers got out to
a thirty five and five start, so

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that forty game mark resonates with people. And also for Sparky, let's tip

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our cap to him. It's been
forty years nineteen eighty four since the Tigers

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won the World Series. So the
forty game mark, that's the first time

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you really judge him. According to
Sparky, you had that thirty five and

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five start at eighty four and it's
been forty years. All right, we'll

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get jump to date on the NHL
and NBA playoffs. We're talking a lot

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about the draft and oh yeah,
the big news last night happened even though

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the draft was going on, that
the Lions ink two of their best to

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gigantic deals. Money well spent.
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NHL Playoffs another over time add one
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fifthe in here Day two, happy
NFL Draft. We are going to talk

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about the Lions inking their two best
players to gigantic deals coming up here in

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one minute. I do want to
put a question out there for you.

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What do you think the Lions championship
window is? How long will it last?

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That plays right into Sewel and the
Sun God getting their big deals.

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You can get in on that at
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one thousand on that topic or anything. It's open for you. If something

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else with the NFL Draft, let's
hit on the other playoff games just to

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get job to speed, just a
case they're like, hey, what else

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is going on there? There's some
good games last night in the playoffs,

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the defending Stanley Cup champions v g
K, the Vegas Golden Knights. They

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just go down the Big d and
they beat Dallas. They're up two to

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oh in the series. They won
three to one last night. And then

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the Boston Bruins they double up the
Toronto Maple Leafs to take a two to

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one series lead for to two the
final there for the Bruins. Brad Marshan

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with the winner for the Bruins.
And I say it like that because he's

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my least favorite NHL player currently,
Brad Marshan. I'm not a violent person.

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I don't condone fighting, but and
I don't even know how if I

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could stand up on skates right now, but I'd like to take a run

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at Brad Marshan. Meanwhile, in
the NBA playoffs, the shocker of the

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night took place in Beantown as the
Celtics. Everyone's like, the Celtics are

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gonna breeze right through the Eastern Conference. No problems especially with the Heat,

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the Zombie Heat without their leader,
and no problem as the Miami Heat beat

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the Boston Celtics one to eleven,
one oh one, no, Jimmy Butler,

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I know, you know that.
It's just you gotta say it.

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So that series is tied at one. That's already a dub for the Miami

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Heat, Sands Butler in that series. And then the Thunder the number one

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seed out West. No close game
this time with the Pelicans. They pound

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the Pels one ninety two, take
a two to zero series lead. There

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games tonight. We know that the
NFL Draft. You probably know that it's

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starting at eight with the Bears on
the clock. What do they They mess

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around for about five to ten minutes
and everyone's like, let's get it going.

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We waited all year, you know, and then they're like, yeah,

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they're gonna milk it a little bit. And then they'll put the Bears

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on the clock at like eight point
fifteen. Their pick probably comes in at

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eight thirty. When is the Lions
pick gonna take place at midnight? But

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there's some basketball to watch it the
meantime. Tonight is definitely a two to

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three TV type setup. You've got
the Cabs and the Magic with the Cleveland

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Cavaliers up two oh in that series, and then the Knicks and seventy six

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ers in that memorable second game with
the furious comeback by the Nicks and New

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York leads it too. Oh.
Now they'll be in Philly tonight seven thirty

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jump and then late tonight ten o'clock
you've got the Nuggets, the NBA defending

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champs. That was a member game
too that they won with Jamal Murray hitting

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that jumper overround the right wing and
falling into the stands with the camera.

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It was great highlight of the NBA
playoffs so far. They'll play the Lakers

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in La tonight at ten o'clock,
so some late night action there. Meanwhile,

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in the NHL there's also a pair
of games Florida and Tampa, the

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series shifting there to Tampa Bay,
with Florida up to oh and then Carolina

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heading into New York up to OH. And of all those games, I've

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been watching Carolina and the New York
Islanders all right, So not a huge

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surprise. There's been a lot of
talk if you follow the Lions that they

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were looking to extend and get big
time contracts to Amna Saint Brown, Pina

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Sual, and Jared Goff. Well
they get two of those three done.

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First up was the sun God four
year deal more than one hundred and twenty

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million seventy seven guaranteed for the Sun
Gods. That makes them the highest paid

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wide receiver in the NFL. And
my thoughts on that is that this is

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good timing by the Lions. You
knew you had to pay a monoras A

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Brown, you knew you had to
get them an extension. You've got Justin

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Jefferson out there, and you got
Chase for the Bengals, and those two

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are seeing who's gonna blink they want
to. You know, they're looking for

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not only the they'll get. They'll
they'll easily go past Amnora Saint Brown,

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but they're looking to go past each
other. And you know they agents of

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those two are just going to rock
out these gigantic deals and then soon Amano

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Saint Brown will be sitting there looking
up at those two and then you know

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that's how it works. But this
was something that we knew was going to

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happen, It was inevitable, and
the Lions signed Brown. They should have

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signed him, and there's no argument
the other way. The same thing goes

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with All Pro offensive tackle today.
Sewell, you get a tackle that is

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an All Pro that you drafted,
that is worth its weight in gold.

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So yeah, you are going to
pay him if you're going to pay anyone

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four years, one twelve on his
extension, and he is the highest paid

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offensive lineman in the NFL, and
he gets eighty five million dollars guaranteed.

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And this was inevitable. It's a
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car. Are you get in that
new car? Your friends are checking it

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out every time you get in.
You're like, oh man, this smells

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nice, drives nice. You're driving
around, and then at the end of

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the month that payment hits, and
that's yours answer. You're like, now

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you're like ooh, You're like,
you know what, you know that it's

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gonna happen. You know you gotta
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the question of the Lions championship window
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at some point you know you're paying. You got the highest paid tackle,

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you get the highest paid wide receiver. And now Jared Goff Adam Schefter.

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Yesterday, when all of this was
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receiver and their right tackle too extensions, Schefter comes out and there says there's

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no deal imminent for Jared Goff.
Everybody's like, hey, stop here,

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full stop. What do you mean, It's just a guy that we chant

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has name everywhere at the grocery store. They'll be chanting Jared Goff's name all

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night tonight. A, you're telling
me that there's no deal imminent for Jared

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Goff despite the fact that Amana Saint
Brown and Penay Sewell now have landed new

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record breaking deals. What's going on
there? Schefter says, the Lions and

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Golf have spoken about a new deal
this offseason, but no deal is close

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at this time. That means nothing
to me. I mean, it could

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mean something to you, and it's
nice for a schefter to, you know,

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get a bunch of retweets and everything
else. But Jared Goff, what

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that number is going to be,
whatever it ends up happening, however,

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that you're going to finagle that.
You know, Jared Goff is going to

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four three. I'm also going to
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all NFL drafts this segment, but
the Lions Championship window. If you immediately

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just said ten years, that's it, I think that's gonna be. That's

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a big window. That as a
big window. And last year I did

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not expect the Lions to get to
the precipice of the Super Bowl. I

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did not expect them to get to
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the forty nine ers and look super
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and not get there. So they
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Didn't think that they were gonna win
the Central like most other people,

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but I didn't win. If you
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They had to play Matt Stafford and
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whether it was a break or not, you know, I wanted the Cowboys.

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We saw the Lions beat the Cowboys
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and that would have been nice payback
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the Cowboys. For a lot of
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the two point conversion the last time, what was that twenty fourteen were the

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referees. And I'm not generally speaking
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oh, they screwed us, but
us being Detroit in that playoff game

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down in Dallas. If you just
were casually you met me, I like

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say, down at the draft tonight
and you came home and said, hey,

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Dennis, what are the three worst
screw jobs by the officials and the

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history of sports? I'd say the
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where they had the new rule with
a face guarding and it was like the

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definition of it. And then also
you had what was his name, Dez

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Bryant with his helmet off out of
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It's also an automatic flag. Neither
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yeah, the Lions had the ball
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time out their pocket, they weren't
able to win. They put it out

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a fourth and one, which I
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well. But nobody else did,
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it. So all of those things, but yeah, that was the screwjob.

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What else goes in there? It
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seventy two Olympics, there's a number
of boxing gold medals that I could go

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to and talk about. But the
USA basketball team against Russia has to be

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there. You watch the replays of
that or if it whatever, out of

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the actual replay of the game,
but you just see that it's front and

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center. They just kept giving the
ball back. How many times did they

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do it? Four or five times? They just kept giving it back.

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Dug Collins I believe, was on
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His son now the head basketball coach
at Northwestern. But yeah, the USA

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got screwed in that game, all
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but it opened up last year and
now it is wide open. I

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like, this thing is wide open. But you got to look at the

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Lions, and then you also have
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and all of those things play into
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ers number one in the in the
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Lions right there on their tail,
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Cowboys. However you want to mix
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the Rams in there, all right, you can go ahead and do that.

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I know Lions only beat them by
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did beat them, and the Lions
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have beat the Cowboys and the Eagles. They look like they're they were having

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this conversation about their championship window two
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you kidding, Jalen Hurts. Look
at all this offensive and defensive line we're

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in business for. We're gonna be
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ten year window again. And last
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that window. There's your lesson.
That window could look like it's going to

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be open for ten years and then
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Or you could be like Dallas Cowboy
fans who always think their championship window is

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open and actually it's painted shut.
They get over there, they're like,

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oh, this window and they're actually, oh wait, that window is actually

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shut and it's stuck shut. We
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open. But as long as the
Lions have this current setup of Golf and

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Sewell and Brown, who they just
took care of, and the biggest thing

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that they have going for them,
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superpower. It is their offensive line. As long as they continue to have

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whether it's the best certainly one of
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they're gonna be there. They're gonna
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it's a lot easier. This is
the discussion that happens every day, non

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draft day, talking about how to
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Well, they say it's all about
the quarterbacks. And I agree with that.

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and how they will be overdrafted,
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be six quarterbacks drafted, and these
gms will sit around and they'll look at

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these windows and they'll say, well, we want Patrick Mahomes, we want

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our Josh Allen, we want our
Lamar Jackson. This is what we want

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about our CJ. Stroud. I
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You get one of those guys Joe
Burrow. Oh, when you get a

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difference maker quarterback, your super Bowl
window seemingly is open for as long as

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those guys are in their prime.
Nobody's going to argue that the Chief's super

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Bowl window is going to be as
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think the same thing with the Bills, Bengals, Ravens and Texans. Now

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I know it's only been one year, but you know Stroud was that good.

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The weird one is the forty nine
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Lance at number three for their difference
maker and they ended up getting mister Irrelevant

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over there. But it's working for
them, So how about that? Different

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ways to find your quarterback? All
right? What's the Lions championship window?

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How long will it last? X'es
and bros? Michigan Sports Network eight six

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six eight three eight forty eight forty
three. That is the Meyer hotline.

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Let's go to is it? Kegan
in Kalamazoo? What's up? Hey?

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A going? Hey? How's it
going? Thanks for having men? Yeah?

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What's going on out there at Kazu? Hey? Not much. I

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was supposed to be at the draft. I've overhead to work right now.

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But no, I think the I
think the Lions window realistically is as long

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as they have Jared Goff there.
I think they'll do a great job putting

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talent around him. Kind of like
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your guy like a C. J. Strau A josh Alamar Jackson. Your

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windows open as long as they're there. It's just interesting to see how long

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this contract will be for him or
how long to lock him up. Yeah,

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you know, I know this sounds
like I'm on the Internet or I'm

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on Twitter, But as long as
Holmes keeps cooking in the draft, I

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would also think that that's going to
be part of this window. If he

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can go out there and he can
continue to pull in the kind of players

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that he has, liking a Modera
Saint Brown in the fourth row, you

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know, get the best tight end
of the second round. The pick a

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an all pro tackle. When you
get the chance, when you when you

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have your pick, make it count. As long as Holmes continues to do

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this, I would say that that
championship that's almost obvious, but sometimes we

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need to state the obvious. If
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Yeah, quarterback, it's a hendon
hooker. We don't know what they think

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of him, but it's not like
they're going to go and say, well,

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let's just play hardball with golf and
we're just going to look for another

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quarterback. Because they they do have
a championship window. To your point,

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you know, oh yeah, definitely, and I mean looking for another quarterback

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should be possibility. But I think
they're definitely have a lot of faith in

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Hendon Hooker. But I have faith
to lock him up for at least four

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to five years and we'll keep this
thing open for a few. Yeah,

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he's twenty nine years old golf,
so and you know you can get those

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you sign him to a five year
deal, but then you look at it

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and in two or three years you
can get out of it where it's until

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you can get another QB in there. So sign him to the five year

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do you get yourself where Yeah,
it's gonna be pretty bad, but not

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super bad after two years and then
more palatable if you need to get out

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of it after three. That looks
like it's the direction, higin. How

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could you you You said you were
supposed to go to the draft, but

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now you're heading to work. I
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kind of a Debbie downer. Yeah, you know, just priority and just

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I'll be able to say the home
comfort and watch the draft. I had

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a bunch of guy who's going out
there for a bachelor party, so they'll

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be enjoying it to nails, be
enjoying it from the comper of my own

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home. Wow, now you come
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not only were you going now you're
going to work, but you were going

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with a bachelor party. Wow,
that's nice. Yeah, yeah, just

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a friends of a friend. Basically
I wasn't a part of their bachelor party.

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They graciously invited me, but unfortunately
this wasn't able to make it.

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Yeah, I hear you. And
now you know life sometimes intersection there we

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all can't just you know, I
jumping a limo drive across the state with

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a million fans at a bachelor party
while the NFL drafts going on. Wow,

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all right, man, have a
great morning, Thanks for dialing in.

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That's how it's done. As we
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how long it'll last, that's right, Golf, you're gonna get him to

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that five year deal, but really
a two three years where then you can

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look to another QB if you could
find one, and then he gets all

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of that money. There's a spot
whatever it ends up being. You wanna

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say, you're gonna be forty five
million a year, it's closer to fifty.

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I'm not gonna argue with you there. Whatever it ends up being,

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he's got to be. I wouldn't. I don't think he's gonna they can

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ask. I don't think his agent
is gonna be say, okay, here's

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my home steal. We want more
than him. There's a nice number to

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be had for golf. But he
knows this is the spot for him.

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He knows that the Lions will give
him those those two three years of that

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guaranteed money once again, to get
one hundred and fifty million guaranteed. I

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know it's always sounds really like,
what's the difference between one fifty and one

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sixty out of ten million? That's
the difference that ability to get in via

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the text? Is you Tech Sports
Radio to twenty one thousand. I like

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taking your text on the draft open
topics as we talk about what's transpiring tonight

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in Detroit. How about a bachelor
party and the NFL Draft. Wow,

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I can just imagine said if it's
if it's taking off from Grand Rapis And

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I said it might not be,
but you know, you get the party

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boss across the state staying people that
were looking to the hotels. You know,

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they get the casinos there walking distance
to the draft, and then you're

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not just doing it today, but
you're doing it for the entire weekend.

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That's nice, you know, it's
underscore nice there. But right here,

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right now, this is the greatest
NFL draft of all time. And over

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forty years ago it started the reason
that this one is. And there's no

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argument about locally this not being the
greatest draft. It's in Detroit, first

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time ever. The Lions, who
every year looked at this day as their

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super Bowl, and then now they
went to the NFC Championship game and here

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they are their best season almost ever. They've completely flipped things around and have

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everybody with a big smile on their
face, and now they're hosting this event.

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The weather looks like it's going to
be just fine for tonight. Everything

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has set up where this is the
greatest NFL Draft all time locally for sure,

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but nationally. You have six quarterbacks
that I believe will be taken in

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the first round. You can argue
that, but my argument nobody is going

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to argue with the fact that there
is going to be three taken right out

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of the gate, and maybe four
with McCarthy, and then there's going to

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be another two taken in the teens. When you think about Michael Pennix and

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now maybe in the mix for Nicks, maybe he falls to the twenties,

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just like maybe McCarthy falls to the
teens. But those are the six qbs

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and these gms. If they were
listening today and we're talking about championship draft

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windows, all of these teams have
the qbs in place. The Chiefs,

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the Bills will go over them again, Bengals, Ravens, who else Dixon's

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over in the AFC. If we
wanted to talk who else there and extend

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it, you might talk about Trevor
Lawrence and the Jags, or Tua in

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the Dolphins, although you know,
I'm not putting them in the conversation of

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a championship window right now. But
with the Lions and their very division,

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as we look at it, what
we saw with unfortunately, I say unfortunately,

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because they are there, Nemesis,
the Green Bay Packers with Jordan Love,

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they look like they may I don't
know. Am I ready to say

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he is a bona fide star quarterback. I'm very close to that. He

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really in the second half of the
season came out. They have to see

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it one more year. But yeah, I mean he's right there. I'm

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putting him. If I'm a Packer
fan, I'm giddy. And they they

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put it together. They get a
very young team and then you know,

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Love looked the part and then they
wanted the playoffs. I mean, what

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else do you do want to say
except let's wait for one more year.

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That is the only thing you can
say. But the Eagles with Hurts have

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their cute quarterback. The forty nine
ers are the interesting one because, uh,

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you know, Purty's a little bit
of a lightning rod. And that

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is why you might talk about the
Rams being in that championship window because of

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one Matt Stafford who's sitting there,
and we saw what he was able to

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do last year. And they got
one of the top coaches as well.

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So you know, I put the
Rams just a little bit on the outside

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of the forty nine Ers, Lions, Eagles, and Backers. I put

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them there at the Cowboys, even
though I was just racking on the Cowboys.

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All right, I'm gonna I've got
more on this draft and just why

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this first round and just why tonight
I think is you know when I said

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the greatest, most entertaining NFL Draft
as we lead up to it, and

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we'll get an idea on what the
Lions will do. So all of that

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at pick number twenty nine if that's
where they stay. I'm Dennis Fifthian.

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now on draft day, because after
today and after this weekend's a little bit

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different. It's gonna hit a little
bit different. So we are here.

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It is NFL Draft twenty twenty four. Detroit is our I'm going to's fit

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the in in for Matt Shepherd.
BZ is here, ben Zos producing.

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It's EXAs and Bros. The Michigan
Sports Network. Look, we've got an

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open line available for you, and
we're talking about the draft. That's what's

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on tap. If you have a
lion's prediction, or if you have a

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thought on who they will draft,
what you don't want to happen. Those

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are the the questions that I have
for you to jump on in. If

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there's something else regarding the draft that
you want to go to anywhere, I'm

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open for what you have out there. If it's even something not draft,

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go ahead, grab a line eight
six six eight three eight four eight four

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three. That's the buyer hotline eight
six six eight three eight forty eight forty

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three. We have some text we're
gonna ge to in a moment. You

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can get involved there by texting Sports
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to twenty one thousand. That's easy
enough. Who will the Lions draft?

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Your prediction? What don't you want
to happen? What don't you want to

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see happen? Now? I think
the Lions are going to end up.

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My prediction with Ia was Cooper dejen
He going to have to fall a little

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bit or the Lions are going to
have to move up a little bit.

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Either could happen. Brad Holmes moved
back last year. He moved up the

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year before I could see it.
He's in my sights. He's versatile,

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He's a chess piece, draft lingo, and that's why I want to see

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now. Yesterday we were asking for
predictions and who the people wanted to see

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and know a lot of defensive ends, the two Robinson's chop from Penn State

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00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:10.519
had a few different votes. Lot
to the defensive end from UCLA. Mike

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00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:19.199
Saine was still who wore number zero
at Michigan the crew converted nickel, he

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would also fall under the category as
a chess piece. Those were some of

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the predictions and as far as what
you don't want to see happen, like,

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I don't want to see JJ McCarthy
go to the Minnesota Vikings. This

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draft has the most intrigue of any
draft ever because of the quarterbacks. And

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it does go back to nineteen eighty
three where you had the Hall of famers

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Elway, Kelly and Marino, and
then you had the bus of Blackledge,

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e Sen was Ken O'Brien the Jets
selection in there, and you think about

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00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:08.199
the memorable drafts over the years.
Just taking a step back just a few

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00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:15.360
years ago, Trevor Lawrence was supposed
to be the most sure thing since Andrew

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Luck and he's been He's been all
right, but it's not like he's uh

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00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:30.239
a one sure thing right now.
Zach Wilson an absolute bost you know,

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he's with the Broncos now. So's
the number three pick of the twenty twenty

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one draft, Trey Lance. So
the first three quarterbacks that came off the

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board, we're all like, Woo, Wilson and Trey Lance. You could

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00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.079
put those guys down. If we
were a run on the biggest bus of

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all time, you could just lead
off with those guys. And oh yeah,

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Justin Fields was selected in the top
ten and Mac Jones, who's no

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longer, No, these guys are
with their teams anymore. Mac Jones isn't

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around Fields is in Pittsburgh, Lance
is in Dallas, and Wilson is with

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the Broncos. Show you how sure
of the thing when you talk about these

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qbs, these teams are gonna reach
for them. They're gonna do it tonight.

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I was always fascinated by the twenty
eighteen draft where you had, let's

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see five quarterbacks go. But I
did not think Baker Mayfield. That would

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not have been my pick, but
he was to pick. But I have

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to admit it. My pick would
have been Sam Darnald. And even worse,

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I thought that Josh Rosen. If
Darnald was selected, I would have

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picked Josh Rosen. Those guys were
bus Now. Josh Allen, who played

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at Wyoming, I didn't have a
feel for him, strong armed quarterback out

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00:48:55.559 --> 00:49:00.800
of Wyoming. Who watched him?
I watched Dan Orlovski, who wasn't with

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ESPN yet, and Dan Rolovski was
adamant that Josh Allen just couldn't read a

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defense, that Josh Allen couldn't walk
and chew gum at the same time that

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this guy, and he had all
of the videos that he was putting out

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there, And I thought, if
Daniel Orlovsky knows anything and he played in

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the league. Whatever I'm going to
ride with Dan Orlovsky on this one.

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Josh Allen will be a bust.
And then everyone bypassed Lamar Jackson who fell

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to thirty two, and look at
that, he's a two time MVP.

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THO. Those are how things they're
working. And as I look at this

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draft from Williams to Daniels and May, I think Drake May has the highest

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bus potentials. We take a look
at it and these first two qbs.

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I feel more comfortable with Jaden Daniels
being with the Commanders. It's just a

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nice fit. If I'm the Washington
Commanders, that's an easy pick for me.

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Boom. The Bears, I think
have already screwed this up, and

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00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:12.679
the Bears historically screw things up.
The Bears don't know what they're doing with

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quarterbacks. You had I had Jim
McMahon for a year or two. Who

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else have the Bears ever had under
center? I oh, Sid Luckman.

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I knew the Chicago Bears screwed it
up. When every and I think every

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NFL draft analyst has screwed this up. When they were like, oh,

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yeah, you just gotta get rid
of fields. If you're gonna take Caleb

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

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

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You're our guy, we love you. Here's our plan. We're going to

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use the Patrick Mahomes plan. Patrick
Mahomes went to the Chiefs when they had

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Alex Smith and they sat him for
a year, and then Patrick Mahomes took

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over and Mahomes was good with that. It was a first round pick,

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00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:23.159
Alex Smith, a former number one
pick, and it worked out fabulously.

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Smith helped Mahomes. The rest is
history. Let's go with a proven blueprint.

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We'll let you compete with justin fields, but we are we want you

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to be open to the idea that
you might not start the season, that

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you could if you win the job
out right, but also you could sit

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for an entire year. That's not
the worst thing in the world. Now,

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I don't know if Williams camp who
I take a shot at saying they

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didn't like that. You know that
the dad who knows wanted a piece of

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the franchise that he was going to
already, So maybe they were like,

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we want everybody to paint their fingernails
pink, and we want to start from

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the get go. So I already
don't like what's going on with Chicago and

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Fields to give him away for nothing, essentially they did by getting just a

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sixth round conditional pick for him.
That's like one of the stupidest moves I've

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ever seen, and I have not
heard one of these analysts. They were

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all like, oh, yeah,
you gotta get rid of him. You

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00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:38.880
can't have two alphas, Yes you
can. Sorry, you just had it

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play out in Kansas City like that. The Fields was going to be a

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00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:52.440
sour puss. Then you know what
benches ass and find it. But I

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00:52:52.559 --> 00:53:00.519
tell Fields, go out there,
you can make it with Chicago. Take

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us to the playoffs in year one. We're we're getting a first or second

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00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:07.360
round pick for you. So they've
already botched it. That's just the Chicago

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Bears. Hey, look they're in
the Lions division. So good as we

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talk about the NFL Draft with you, eight sixty six, eight three,

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eight forty eight forty three, that's
the number to join us and enjoy hearing

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from you. We're getting some of
those text will read those coming up straight

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Dennis fitting an in for Matt Shepherd
checking your calls on this NFL Draft

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Day twenty twenty four in Detroit.
Yes, we have made it. We

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are here. We are talking about
it with you at eight six six eight

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three, eight forty eight forty three. That's the Meyer hotline eight sixty six

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eight three eight forty eight forty three. We're looking for your allion's prediction on

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what they will do, what you
don't want to see happen in this draft

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tonight, anything else that you want
to look at. You can also use

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the text text sports Radio to twenty
one thousand, Sports Radio to twenty one

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thousand. That is the way you
get it done. Ben Zos is the

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producer. He is looking at the
text. What's going to feel for where

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the people are at? Via text? Ben Yeah, this one, says

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Dennis, speaking of sitting QBS,
what are your thoughts on Hooker in his

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future with the Lions. Well,
we don't know about Hooker, do we

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ben We know that he can really
fire it down the field, but we

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haven't seen him. He had the
knee injury and we don't know. I

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don't know if the Lions have a
feel for him, with him just rehabbing,

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coming back from injury and so thinking
about that he could be the heir

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apparent to Jared Goff. I don't
know if they know what they have with

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Hooker right now. So I gotta
see him, We gotta we gotta see

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something nice prospect. Is there a
chance that he could take over for Jared

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Goff? And there is, but
I would say it's a small chance.

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But the will you will know a
little bit. Can we see him in

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the exhibition season to see, you
know, if he looks like that player

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that he was at Tennessee. Got
a great arm, can move around a

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lot of ice. Think fell in
the draft a little bit because of the

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injury concerns, but you know,
so you're not ruling him out. I

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just look at him as you know, kind of a wild card that you

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know, how many times are you're
gonna be able to get a guy like

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that where you think about he could
be a starting quarterback in the NFL,

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not too often, but hey,
because Brad Holmes picked him, you feel

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like, oh, maybe they're in
with a chance there. But yeah,

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this thing, you know, going
back benches for a second, I asked

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for the first hour, just where
the Lions playoff window is at? It

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is at. It is open with
Jared Goff as their quarterback golf at twenty

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nine years old, I would say
for five years. I think Jared Goff

652
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is going to be the Lion's quarterback
at least for the next two or three

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years. He'll get his deal for
five years and hopefully it is five years

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that means he's playing well. But
two or three years and then if Holmes

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could continue to do what he's doing, I'd say, work magic. But

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magic is one year, two years. You say, okay, well,

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you know there's three years. Is
a trend. He's a trend. It's

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a trend at Holmes being good at
drafting and trading and working the draft.

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So as long as Holmes continues to
draft well and golf over the next two

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or three years, and we'll see
on hooker. You got, you got

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a shot with him, but I
got to see him out there to get

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a feel for what he looks like
in the Honolulu Blue and Silver. Any

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other techs. Yeah, this one
says, I want Mike Sainer still with

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pick twenty nine and fuse some more
Michigan into the lineup. He's a hard

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worker and will do whatever for the
team. Well. He is an outstanding

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player and he was a great player
for Michigan in that he moves over from

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wide receiver and immediately was an impact
on Michigan's defense as a nickel, and

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that doesn't happen very often. You'd
think, hey, technique wise, you

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know it's gonna take him now.
It wasn't. He hit the ground running

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on the defensive side, and then
in his senior year he took often was

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even better. And Saint Ristoll is
one of those guys any team is going

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to like having him in their lineup
because of how he plays the game and

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how you quantify being a playmaker.
You make big plays at big He did

674
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:28.159
it all throughout his Michigan career,
especially in the championship season a year ago.

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Saint Risto always coming up with a
big pick a big pick and a

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01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:39.159
return for a touchdown, a fumble
return. He's a good tackler. Lions

677
01:00:39.199 --> 01:00:45.800
could do worse than taking Saint Rostoll
at twenty nine. He's going to be

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01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:47.440
there. He's one of those guys
you think about, Oh, if he's

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01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:52.639
in the second a team's gonna get
a real nice player if they take him

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01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:55.599
in the second round, first round, it seems to be he's good.

681
01:00:55.679 --> 01:00:59.119
Is there a good enough player to
be in the first round at the end

682
01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:04.000
of the first round. That might
be where Brad Holmes thinks about, let

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01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:12.280
me get a couple other picks and
drop back five. If he's got six

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01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:14.719
players that he's looking at and saying, I like any of those, and

685
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I can see sand Resto being in
like one of those. You're sitting there

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at twenty nine. You've got a
list of ten guys that you're like,

687
01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:27.000
we like any of these guys at
twenty nine. That's where Holmes might pick

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01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:30.199
up the phone. If it's not
ringing. Of course, if it's ringing,

689
01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:32.719
he's going to say, come on
up. If it's not ringing,

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01:01:34.079 --> 01:01:36.559
he might call and say, hey, you want to come up here.

691
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:43.840
Let's say bo Nicks is still in
the mix. Brad Holmes might tell a

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01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:45.480
team, hey, you get an
extra year out of them because the first

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01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:50.400
round pick. Maybe you want to
come up here to twenty nine. However

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it coach, you know they got
that ten minutes to move and shake.

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01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:59.760
I'm always good with some texts.
A Hooker text and a Sandra Still text.

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01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:05.559
I'm looking at Twitter and here is
a tweet from FTP that's Freddy the

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01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:13.159
Pizza Man. He texts six things
he wants to see left in this decade.

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01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:16.079
So he's not talking about the draft
in particular, but he's got six

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01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:20.679
things that he wants to see left
in this decade. So we're twenty twenty

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four before twenty thirty. Oh seems
wild? All right. Here's what he

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01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:30.719
says. He wants to see happen. Lions win two Super Bowls. Wow,

702
01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:36.400
yeah, I'm focusing in on one. I haven't thought about multiple,

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01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:40.360
but okay, things to happen.
He's just declaring it. That would be

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01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:45.239
great. He wants to see the
Tigers win a World Series. It's been

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01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:46.920
forty years. Okay, I'm with
you on that. Who wants to see

706
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:52.400
the Red Wings when a Stanley Cup? I'm ready for just the Red Wings

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01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:58.039
to get into the playoffs, playoffs, Cabrera to get into the Hall of

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01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:02.159
Fame. He retired last year,
first battlet Hall of Famer. I think

709
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that gets done. He wants to
see sweet lou Winaker get into the Hall

710
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:13.519
of Fame. That could happen.
You get the Veterans Committee looking at the

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01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:15.679
analytics, looking at the war,
and he sticks out like a sore thum.

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It a good way that he's not
in. Pistons win forty two games.

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01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:27.000
So a little comedy in there from
the pizza man. You know,

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I was thinking about it was earlier. It was Kagan who called in from

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01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:39.880
Kzu and Kagan said, I was
thinking, who's got it better than Kagan?

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01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:45.400
Kagan is like, started off his
call, I'm heading down to the

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01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:51.000
draft, so already I'm thinking that
nobody's got it better than this guy.

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01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:58.119
And then he's talking about he was
going with a bachelor party to the draft.

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What a plan? And that is
my mind started racing party bus draft

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Thursday, Friday, Saturday in Detroit. Now it just reminded me because I

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looked at this tweet about the Red
Wings winning a Stanley Cup over the next

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01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.800
six years, if the Red Wings
we all wanted to see them get into

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01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:27.000
the playoffs this year. Just think
about this weekend. The Tigers are off

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01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:32.000
tonight, but they are in action
hosting the Royals about tomorrow and Saturday.

725
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:36.199
So if you had the party bus
for the bachelor party, you had a

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01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:41.639
room downtown, you had the Red
Wings in a playoff game, you had

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01:04:41.679 --> 01:04:45.599
the Tigers playing. I mean,
like this really could have been. Now

728
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:46.960
I gook at the Red Wings,
aren't it so? I mean that's just

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01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:53.760
a dream scenario that did not happen. The Tigers are there, they're about

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01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.360
five hundred, The draft is going
on. You might have that party bus,

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you might have that hotel room.
Can you have it at the casino?

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01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:06.800
You know? One time I had
a friend who got bumped up to

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the top floor at one of the
casinos and this was something straight out of

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01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:16.559
the hangover. I went up to
see it on the elevator. You have

735
01:05:16.679 --> 01:05:23.320
to have the VIP, you know
the guy where, but it was right

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01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:29.159
out of the hangover. I can't
whoever's in that suite for these next three

737
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.440
days. They did some planning or
just have unlimited funds. Maybe both.

738
01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:39.920
That's the way to do it.
Nobody's got it better than that guy top

739
01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:45.159
floor hangover suite at one of the
casinos for three days. Maybe some Tiger

740
01:05:45.239 --> 01:05:49.880
tickets in their back pocket for Saturday. Let's go to the phones at eight

741
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:57.440
sixty six eight three, eight forty
eight forty three. Here is a Freddy

742
01:05:57.639 --> 01:06:02.679
in Melvindale here, ons and bros. Is that right Freddy? Yes?

743
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:06.639
Full disclosure. I miss typed It
should have been twenty four wins, not

744
01:06:06.719 --> 01:06:16.800
forty two wins. Hey, that
that's actually And when they trade for Joel

745
01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:20.920
Embiid or Devin Hooker after these playoffs, after the Suns or Sixers get swept

746
01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:25.599
and the Pistons land that number one
pick in the lottery, you might change

747
01:06:25.639 --> 01:06:29.800
your mind. Well, I'll tell
you, Dennis, there wasn't a point

748
01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:31.840
in my call, but I liked
your Joe mb Idea. I actually was

749
01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:36.440
thinking about that the other a couple
of weeks ago, kind of just watching

750
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:39.960
the basketball game. I said,
you know what, I'm not sure they're

751
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:43.199
tired of him in Philly. They're
gonna start throwing snowballs at him pretty soon.

752
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:46.119
So I said, why not bring
him to Detroit and see what could

753
01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:49.000
happen? Who? Who knows?
I mean, hey, listen, I'm

754
01:06:49.039 --> 01:06:53.559
the guy. I'm the guy that
was calling the old host. Here go

755
01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:57.320
get John Moran's. You know you
think members don't want to keep him.

756
01:06:57.360 --> 01:07:00.719
I would take a chance with John
Moran's. I mean, the guys to

757
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:03.000
start, they need a star.
You never know. I don't know,

758
01:07:03.199 --> 01:07:11.440
but Freddie, I'll take a chance
if those guys have committed. If they've

759
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:13.800
committed, Like if you talk to
John Moran, he's like, yeah,

760
01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:15.920
I want to put all this behind
me. I'm not waving any guns.

761
01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:19.119
I'm walking the straight and narrow.
If Impade's like, yeah, I know

762
01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:23.880
the health situation, I've got to
lose weight. I mean, those are

763
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:28.440
the starters for even thinking about,
you know, putting together some treasure trove

764
01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:30.400
to then take the gamble with those
guys. But yeah, what else?

765
01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:35.800
What else are you looking at?
So I want to talk about Jered Goff

766
01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:39.239
the NFL draft, but you know
you, I want to bring up a

767
01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:42.280
couple of draft stories. You you
brought up the eighty three drafts. I

768
01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:45.360
don't know if you're run my tux, but I mean we're old enough to

769
01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:47.719
remember. Only the Lions. You
have the fullback in the first round,

770
01:07:48.119 --> 01:07:51.519
and it happened in nineteen eighty three
for guys that are now old enough and

771
01:07:51.880 --> 01:07:57.800
gals. They drafted James Jones,
a fallback over Dan Marino and Jim Kelly

772
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:03.239
only short life. He couldn't do
something like that, right, James Jones

773
01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:06.480
out of Florida. I think,
right, that's the that's Ben's that's Ben's

774
01:08:06.519 --> 01:08:12.159
team, absolutely, and that him
and Billy Simms was supposed to be a

775
01:08:13.400 --> 01:08:16.000
combo for many years. And then
Billy Simms got hurt the next year,

776
01:08:16.119 --> 01:08:19.039
and that was my other draft story. Monday, I was with Lomas Brown

777
01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:21.560
and I sat with him. I
looked at him. I said, Lolas,

778
01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:25.840
you know you've become an icon in
this town. You've been here since

779
01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:30.359
eighty five. I said, have
you ever shot down and realized that the

780
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:33.680
only reason you're here is because Billy
Simms got hurts? And again, Dennis,

781
01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:38.159
you and I are enough to remember
Billy Simms in Minnesota when he got

782
01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:42.079
hurts, they won like three games
the rest of the year. If it

783
01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:45.760
wasn't for Billy Simms getting hurt,
Lomas Brown wouldn't have been a Lion.

784
01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:48.039
He wouldn't have been picked US six. The Lions might would have been picking

785
01:08:48.079 --> 01:08:53.039
fifteenth and look at Lomas bro He's
an icon in this towndouts. It's just

786
01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:56.640
it's just crazy how things worked out, you know, with the draft and

787
01:08:57.039 --> 01:09:00.840
you just never know. Now we're
into the draft here and you know,

788
01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:05.520
full disclosure. I like Jared Golf. I think he's a good dude.

789
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:10.279
I think he needs and personally,
I think he needs thicker skin. If

790
01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:15.800
you're really look into his interviews,
he seems to dwell on the negative a

791
01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:18.840
lot, what people are saying,
what they're not saying. I've noticed that

792
01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:21.439
about him. But I think he's
a good dude. I think he's a

793
01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:27.000
pretty good quarterback. But you know, I think it's time to shoot for

794
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:31.760
the stars for a quarterback in this
town. And with Jared Golf, you

795
01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:40.079
know, do you think do you
think that the Lions have I mean Norm

796
01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:44.800
Brandons and Dan Campbell, how do
you think they've approached him or ready and

797
01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:48.840
they know what he wants or they
have asked him. Don't let's not sign

798
01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:56.359
a contract yet, because pick twenty
nine could be a team wanting a quarterback

799
01:09:56.399 --> 01:09:59.800
that slips and we can get some
trade value for that. You think that

800
01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:04.159
can be happening behind the scenes.
Well, I know that they have at

801
01:10:04.279 --> 01:10:08.199
least approached it, And like you
and I could sit around and just look

802
01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:12.359
at the numbers of what Mahomes has
and look at other of the top five

803
01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:15.079
quarterbacks, and we could come up
with whether he wants forty five or fifty

804
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:19.119
and a five year you know,
deal with the guaranteed money, and we

805
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:25.800
could get pretty close to being in
the ballpark, Freddy. But whether he

806
01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:30.039
has rabbit ears or whether the you
know Homes in Campbell are talking a little

807
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:33.279
bit too much about you know,
the past and you know, getting at

808
01:10:33.319 --> 01:10:38.199
the media or the fans or anything
else. The biggest thing is that these

809
01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:41.199
guys go out and continue to do
what they've been doing, and that is

810
01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:45.640
picking quality players in the draft.
And then you know, golf, you

811
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:51.960
know you're gonna get interviewed and you're
going to like everything is under the microscope.

812
01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:55.560
So every single thing that you say, I don't want them to be

813
01:10:55.720 --> 01:10:59.520
bland. I don't want them to
just be like we're just taking this one

814
01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:02.800
game and a time we'd love to
I want a little bit of the personality.

815
01:11:03.520 --> 01:11:06.119
So I don't agree with where you're
at there that he's got a little

816
01:11:06.119 --> 01:11:11.079
bit too much rabbit ears and everything
else, Like say, some things his

817
01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:14.760
play is what is going to be
important to me, not not all the

818
01:11:14.800 --> 01:11:17.279
other stuff. You can see things
that could be crazy. It's the same

819
01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:23.000
thing with Holmes. I mean,
if he would have asked me when he

820
01:11:23.159 --> 01:11:26.560
was going up to the podium,
like you know, pulling out the receipts

821
01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:29.760
and talking about the media, I
would say, look, a rule of

822
01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:30.960
thumb, Brad. You know you're
doing a great job in the draft,

823
01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:34.199
but let all those media members do
whatever they want. You don't even know

824
01:11:34.359 --> 01:11:40.920
what they're trying to do with whether
it's getting calls or whether you know,

825
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:45.520
their approach is just going to be
negative because they've been that way and that's

826
01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:48.039
their job. Leave those guys alone. Rule of thumb, don't you know,

827
01:11:48.199 --> 01:11:50.319
stay away from the media that way. But you know, hey,

828
01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:55.359
these guys are human, and you
know Holmes has probably listened to too much

829
01:11:55.399 --> 01:11:59.920
talk shows and reading too many you
know, Detroit papers if he's over there,

830
01:12:00.079 --> 01:12:01.680
fire and you know, back and
stuff like that. So I don't

831
01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:04.399
think they need to do that,
just like I don think Dan Campbell Freddie

832
01:12:04.439 --> 01:12:06.199
when he was like, hey,
if you're not riding with us, we

833
01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:09.279
don't want you. It's like,
yeah, hey, I get you,

834
01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:13.479
but you know, don't don't you
know, don't talk to the fans like

835
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:15.439
that. I don't. I don't. I don't think that should. I

836
01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:18.560
don't think that stuff should come out
after you finally win the division and you

837
01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:21.880
win a playoff game or two.
I think that stuff should come out before.

838
01:12:23.239 --> 01:12:25.439
But anyways, listen, I listened. I root for the team.

839
01:12:25.880 --> 01:12:29.319
And if Jared Goff is the winning
quarterback for the Super Bowl, that's great.

840
01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:30.800
I'll pull him for him. I
think he's a good dude. I

841
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:34.800
just think they can do better at
quarterback. I just think, uh I

842
01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:40.199
look, I go back to the
Green Bay Packers. They always drafted quarterbacks.

843
01:12:40.239 --> 01:12:43.680
They always getting better. I'm only
the Kansas City Chiefs, you know,

844
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.880
the New England Patriots. They're always
drafted quarterbacks. And and when you

845
01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:50.079
lose the best one, now you
can't win. And uh, I you

846
01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:55.439
know, listen, I whatever happens
today, I think it's gonna be I

847
01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:57.640
think it's gonna be a good thing. It's a good thing for Detroit.

848
01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:00.399
I think the Lions are gonna put
those offs in a really good position.

849
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:03.119
The draft, the best available,
the guy's going to help him for the

850
01:13:03.199 --> 01:13:06.479
next six to seven, eight,
nine years and whoever they may be,

851
01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:12.159
I'm looking forward to it. Then
it's gonna be a fun Hey your point.

852
01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:15.199
I think we agree on that part. Like there's been close to sixty

853
01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:18.720
Super Bowls and we look all the
winners. There's only so many Trent Dilfhers

854
01:13:19.760 --> 01:13:26.159
that that you have. You know, quarterbacks where you surround, you have

855
01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:30.880
the team and you surround the quarterback. It's mostly the Hall of Fame qbs,

856
01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:35.800
the premium qbs. That's a lot
easier. Now that's also easier said

857
01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:40.760
than done. Oh, the Lions
don't have one of those guys. So

858
01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:45.920
they're going the route of the of
the Dilfer where they're not going to have

859
01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:51.319
the Joe Flacco route, the Ravens
route, put everything around them and do

860
01:13:51.479 --> 01:14:01.520
it. That's more difficult than having
the Patrick Mahomes Joe Montana type situations where

861
01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:04.680
you got the quarterback and you can
get it down that way. Good call.

862
01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:10.319
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Is today that you have had circled
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891
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of bed and here it is it
is the NFL Draft in Detroit or the

892
01:16:58.319 --> 01:17:05.239
Detroit Lions holding the the pick at
number twenty nine. The Detroit Lions who

893
01:17:05.239 --> 01:17:09.640
won twelve games this year and went
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here in just one minute, we'll
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895
01:17:15.359 --> 01:17:19.239
his thoughts on what the Lions are
gonna do in the draft. Let's run

896
01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:24.079
over the headlines, and that headline
has to do with the draft being in

897
01:17:24.239 --> 01:17:31.640
Detroit. Also the Tigers. They
take the series against the Rays, but

898
01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:36.279
they lose last night seven to five
down in Tampa. But four and two

899
01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:41.760
on the road trip for the Tigers, who now begin a six game homestand

900
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:45.680
they're off today, but they have
the Royals and the Cards coming up the

901
01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:50.760
Battle of Missouri over the next six
days, starting tomorrow at Comerica Park.

902
01:17:50.840 --> 01:17:57.960
Your winners. In the NHL,
they had Boston over Toronto, the defending

903
01:17:58.039 --> 01:18:01.279
Cup champs of Vegas. They get
it done in Dallas again three to one

904
01:18:02.399 --> 01:18:11.239
the Kings andse Copatar overtime winner five
four LA over Edmonton. And then in

905
01:18:11.399 --> 01:18:15.560
the NBA, with no Jimmy Butler, the Heat beat Boston one eleven one

906
01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:19.079
oh one. That's the biggest surprise
of the night, the Thunder taking care

907
01:18:19.119 --> 01:18:25.800
of the Pelicans one twenty four ninety
two out west to take a two to

908
01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:29.920
old lead there and tonight this is
I don't know how your setup is.

909
01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:36.119
Maybe you're taking a party bus and
you've got a hangover type suite at one

910
01:18:36.159 --> 01:18:41.640
of the casinos and you've got Tiger
tickets in your back pocket. That all

911
01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:45.119
sounds pretty good to me. It
also sounds pretty good having your own TV

912
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:51.199
and then a couple other TVs set
up, because you've got three basketball playoff

913
01:18:51.279 --> 01:18:58.479
games and two NHL games, Panthers
and Lightning Canes and Isles Calves and Magic

914
01:18:58.840 --> 01:19:02.640
Knicks and seventy six and the Nuggets
and Lakers. All of that going off.

915
01:19:02.800 --> 01:19:05.960
Eight o'clock is when the draft gets
going. We'll see when they actually

916
01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:11.359
put the Bears on the clock.
Who's on the clock right now is the

917
01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:15.479
host of the Locked On Lions pod, and that is Matt Derry, who

918
01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:18.800
joins us here on Exes and Bros. On the Michigan Sports Network. Matt,

919
01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:25.039
how are you, Dennis? Are
we gonna play guess what's in fifth

920
01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:29.880
and or what? Well? We're
gonna play. Guess what's in Brad Holmes's

921
01:19:29.920 --> 01:19:32.439
back pocket. I want to know, you know, the excitement of the

922
01:19:32.520 --> 01:19:36.760
draft is out of sight. I
want to start with the Amana, Saint

923
01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:43.279
Brown and Piney Sewel. They get
those guys done, But why not golf

924
01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:47.000
done prior to tonight? Is that
leverage on the golf side or the Lions

925
01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:50.640
trying to leverage him a little bit
with that twenty ninth pick. Let's start

926
01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:56.920
there. Why I don't, Dennis, I don't think that tonight has anything

927
01:19:57.000 --> 01:20:01.159
to do with golf. I don't
then he leverage with the pick. What

928
01:20:01.319 --> 01:20:06.159
I do think is you're getting Amen
Rot thirty a year. DeVante Smith signed

929
01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:11.279
for twenty five, so you knew
Saint Brown's a better player than Smith.

930
01:20:11.960 --> 01:20:14.720
Smith's not even the number one receiver
on his own team in Philly, so

931
01:20:15.520 --> 01:20:17.640
he kind of knew that was going
to be around the number. So I

932
01:20:17.760 --> 01:20:21.960
think that's the steal. Getting him
for four at one twelve and getting that

933
01:20:23.119 --> 01:20:26.640
done now, I think that's awesome. As far as the golf situation,

934
01:20:27.560 --> 01:20:30.800
Jared's gonna want fifty, right,
Dennis. I mean he's gonna want that

935
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:33.600
five in front of that zero.
And I think the Lions are thinking more

936
01:20:33.640 --> 01:20:38.960
in the fours, and so they
know they've got him for this year at

937
01:20:39.000 --> 01:20:42.840
a good price, and if they
tag him next year, it's what forty

938
01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:47.159
two forty three million, that's still
below with Deshaun Watson and Kyler Murray make

939
01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:50.760
so they kind of have golf.
They know they have them at least for

940
01:20:50.840 --> 01:20:55.840
two more years with that tag.
Now, you don't want to alienate him.

941
01:20:55.880 --> 01:20:59.520
You want to show him the love. But I think that the agent's

942
01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:02.640
going you want Jalen Hurd's money around
fifty to fifty one. I think the

943
01:21:02.720 --> 01:21:08.000
Lions are probably and this is just
speculation, probably around forty six forty seven,

944
01:21:08.159 --> 01:21:11.680
just above Watson and Murray. So
it's probably where we're at right now.

945
01:21:12.479 --> 01:21:15.000
Makes sense to me. You know, he'll be hearing the love from

946
01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:17.439
the fans at the draft tonight as
they'll be channing his name. I think

947
01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:20.479
the answer to this question is yes, the Brad Holmes at twenty nine.

948
01:21:20.479 --> 01:21:23.840
You think he's moving up, you
think he's moving down. Do you think

949
01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:28.600
he's staying at twenty nine? What's
your feel right now as you look to

950
01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:31.600
what the Lions might do tonight?
You know, Dennis, I don't want

951
01:21:31.600 --> 01:21:36.479
to get over dramatic, right,
But like, if you're going downtown tonight

952
01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:40.479
and you're gonna be out there in
the cold, and it's midnight or whatever

953
01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:44.119
it is, and the Lions are
on the clock and you're so excited and

954
01:21:44.159 --> 01:21:49.800
you've been drinking since sport, get
prepare yourselves for when it says Raiders on

955
01:21:49.960 --> 01:21:55.079
the clock or Bill's on the clock, and it's like, wait, what,

956
01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:59.359
I've waited all night for our pick. I think he's trading back.

957
01:21:59.479 --> 01:22:02.000
I really, I don't think it's
the lock. I don't think there's but

958
01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:08.920
I just think there's probably fifteen twenty
guys on their board with the first round

959
01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:13.279
grade. And if they're all gone, and let's say this kool aid McKinstry

960
01:22:13.359 --> 01:22:17.279
foot injury is real and maybe he's
slide, maybe you can get kool aid

961
01:22:17.399 --> 01:22:23.840
later and accumulate picks. I mean, that's just a sense that I get.

962
01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:26.399
When you're at twenty nine, we
know they're right in front of them.

963
01:22:26.439 --> 01:22:30.079
The Bills have got to take a
wide receiver. Well what if Brad

964
01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:33.079
loves ad Mitchell and he goes to
pick before then what do they do?

965
01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:36.800
So a lot of intrigued there.
But if I had a guess, I

966
01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:42.399
would say maybe a trade down and
getting a couple more second rounders, because

967
01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:45.319
as we know, Brad Holmes the
last couple of years has feasted on second

968
01:22:45.399 --> 01:22:50.159
rounders. At Dari speaks on Twitter. He is the host of the Locked

969
01:22:50.199 --> 01:22:55.760
On Lions pod. I hope that
there's a guy with a nickname Cornbread.

970
01:22:55.800 --> 01:22:58.720
They can get a kool Aid and
a Cornbread would be off and running.

971
01:22:58.880 --> 01:23:03.720
What if you've probably have been asked
a few times to participate in mock drafts

972
01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:08.439
and you don't have the opportunity to
move back or move up. Who are

973
01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:13.800
the players or the player that you
continue to select when you are put under

974
01:23:13.840 --> 01:23:18.199
the gun and have to pick at
twenty nine knowing what Holmes may do to

975
01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:24.159
give people the gauge. And you
mentioned a few names already. Yeah,

976
01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:28.600
you know. We did a lockdown
host mock draft that we do every year

977
01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:31.960
with all the hosts from all the
shows around the league and kool Aid.

978
01:23:32.039 --> 01:23:36.079
McKinstry was my pick at twenty nine
because he fell to them, and really

979
01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:41.720
because he visited here because they could
use another corner. Who couldn't use another

980
01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:46.520
corner after the Cam Sutton incident and
releasing I just that was who I took.

981
01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:55.119
I've seen the name Brayden Fisk a
lot lately as a possibility, and

982
01:23:55.439 --> 01:24:00.239
there's a lot of talk around the
league about Johnny Newton from Illinois dropping somehow

983
01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:04.600
dropping to twenty nine. And if
that's the case, I think Brad Holmes

984
01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:10.319
would run the card up there quickly
because Newton for some teams is the top

985
01:24:10.399 --> 01:24:15.840
fifteen player. But that could be
intriguing A's alignment. We know Brad loves

986
01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:18.800
to stock up on offensive and defensive
linemen, so those are some names that

987
01:24:18.880 --> 01:24:23.439
I think to keep an eye on
if they're gonna stay at twenty nine.

988
01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:26.960
But again, I think Brad likes
to throw a curveball at us. I

989
01:24:27.000 --> 01:24:30.159
mean, who had Jamiir Gibbs and
Jack Campbell last year at twelve and eighteen?

990
01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:34.960
Then nobody, right, So no, there's always going to be a

991
01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:38.800
surprise with Brad. But he's done
so well in the draft. I said

992
01:24:38.840 --> 01:24:41.880
it on my show the other day, twenty three picks he's made in three

993
01:24:41.960 --> 01:24:45.159
years, twenty two of them are
still on the ross. So that's insane.

994
01:24:45.159 --> 01:24:47.600
That is well, we're out of
time, But you know, I

995
01:24:47.680 --> 01:24:50.520
think that you've nailed it. When
you look at the different positions they could

996
01:24:50.560 --> 01:24:56.560
go back. But you've mentioned defensive
end, defensive tackle, corner, of

997
01:24:56.640 --> 01:25:01.279
the possibility of taking alignman, even
a enter, a wide receiver. It

998
01:25:01.479 --> 01:25:09.479
is a real blank canvas here for
Holmes. But if I'm pinning you down

999
01:25:09.560 --> 01:25:14.239
final thing, you think that it's
likely that Holmes is going to move back

1000
01:25:14.239 --> 01:25:16.880
a little bit because of the clut
of players that he'll have on his board,

1001
01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:23.880
and he'll be able to pick up
an extra selection and pick tomorrow.

1002
01:25:25.640 --> 01:25:28.600
I do, And I think if
Pennix and Knicks are still on the board

1003
01:25:28.600 --> 01:25:30.239
at twenty nine, and you've got
the Raiders and one of these other teams

1004
01:25:30.279 --> 01:25:34.479
that needs a quarterback, you might
be able to really leverage that into maybe

1005
01:25:34.520 --> 01:25:39.800
an extra couple of picks and their
second rounder. So keep an eye on

1006
01:25:39.880 --> 01:25:42.159
that. And you just bring up
a very good point, Dennis. What

1007
01:25:42.279 --> 01:25:45.279
about the future of Frank rag Now, what about the future of Taylor Decker.

1008
01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:48.920
Decker's contract is up after this year. You know, the Lions love

1009
01:25:49.039 --> 01:25:53.399
him and he loves them. But
that was not a Brad Holmes draft pick.

1010
01:25:53.439 --> 01:25:58.560
Taylor Decker was drafted by the previous
regime, So you know, you

1011
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never know rag now to ask here
with kind of playing retirement to of all

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the injury, So stocking up on
a good interior old lineman or tackle for

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the future. Keep an eye on
that as well wells keep an eye on

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your Twitter feed. Look like you're
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fanciest restaurant in town. I'd love
that. We love you DS. You're

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doing a great job on the Lockdown
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us this morning on exis and bros. All. He's good to chat with

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you, Dennis. OK. You
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back home too, buddy, Thank
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He'd be limited to just thirteen more
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of his injuries shortened career. He
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didn't last long enough for Tigers or
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about the draft, with the draft
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one pick. We just talked with
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predicts a trade back. I want
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Now. Look, I am okay
with a trade back. I get sitting

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there and wanting a selection, but
just walk yourself through it. You're down

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there, you're enjoying the entire day, whatever libations, maybe you're just eating

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hot dogs pizza, waiting for the
draft. But you get to the very

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end, and if the commissioner comes
up there at twenty nine and says there's

1066
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a trade, you know that the
possibility is going to be there. I

1067
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think you'll know even before that what
happens at the end of the draft.

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Every year we have looked at ten, twenty maybe even more mock drafts,

1069
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and so we all have these ideas
of where these players are going to be

1070
01:30:55.479 --> 01:31:00.880
picked, and inevitably there's three or
four players that drop, and you'll be

1071
01:31:00.960 --> 01:31:08.600
sitting there and you'll be thinking,
wow, I can't believe that this Cooper

1072
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Dejeene is sitting right there for the
Lions to take. This is going to

1073
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be the easiest selection ever. They
will sprint the card up there and they

1074
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will take it, and they will
take the gene and they'll be happy and

1075
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they'll get an A plus and you
know you're going to go into the night

1076
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feeling great. But the thing is
as that Brad Holmes the part of the

1077
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things, and we find this out
during the draft, and then thereafter when

1078
01:31:39.159 --> 01:31:42.319
you start having guys falling on what
happens Usually they say, oh, it's

1079
01:31:42.359 --> 01:31:46.079
medicals. There's going to be a
couple of these guys that are being talked

1080
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about, you know, Matt Dry
are talked about, kool Aid, mckinstreet,

1081
01:31:49.119 --> 01:31:58.640
maybe a foot. The Lions list
is going to look vastly different with

1082
01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:01.520
what they know with their medicals on
the players, what have they brought them

1083
01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:04.640
in, whether they've had a chance, and you know, the guys that

1084
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they're targeting to feel like they have
got the clean medicals. And it just

1085
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gets to where you're in the catbird
seat when you're one of the last picks.

1086
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Certainly it's nice to be a top
five pick. You're getting the superstars

1087
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and all that. You're going,
goy, god, you need a quarterback.

1088
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You're flipping out. It's you know, here's the future all that.

1089
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But when you're at the back of
the draft, the draft just comes to

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you and you sit there. There's
gonna be a bevy of players, and

1091
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then the chance with other teams because
you get that extra year if you're a

1092
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first round pick. Teams that want
to come back up late in the first

1093
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round, and so seeing the Lions
just moving back, and because it's at

1094
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the very tail end, now you
know, if the Lions were picking ten

1095
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and they moved out of the first
round, well then it's like it's over.

1096
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Just this Lions fan. You're excited, Hey, number ten pick,

1097
01:33:03.319 --> 01:33:05.800
there's been a train and then you
find out that the Lions have moved out,

1098
01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:08.920
and of course they can always move
back in. But you're just sitting

1099
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back and you're like, oh,
this sucks. But if you've waited all

1100
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night and then you're sitting there,
then you just only have to wait a

1101
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couple more picks, and then it
makes tomorrow not much more exciting because then

1102
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you're gonna be flushed and you're gonna
have more picks and You're also reminded pretty

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quickly that the Lions moved back last
year took Jamir Gibbs, picked up an

1104
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extra selection from the Cardinals early in
the second round, where the Detroit Lions

1105
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selected Sam Laporta, who is now
the best tight end in the NFL.

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So you talk yourself through all of
that and you understand exactly what the Lions

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01:33:56.800 --> 01:34:01.239
are gonna do. It's tough to
do when you sit there when it gets

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to be about, you know,
twenty five, and you're looking at five

1109
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players and you're like, wow,
the Lions are gonna get a great player.

1110
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These guys are being talked about in
the early teens. This guy was

1111
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talked about as a top ten pick. I don't know if that's gonna be

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01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:18.039
the case, but there's gonna be
a few of the guys gonna be there,

1113
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and you're gonna look and you can
say, wow, all of these

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guys nobody thought was gonna be there, and they're there, and then Holmes

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can you know, do what Holmes
does and make that move? How about

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that? That's where we're said,
not you know, the the buzz in

1117
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general about this draft, of course, is gonna be the quarterbacks. I

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think it's easily locked in where we
know Caleb Williams, that is a one

1119
01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:54.840
chance that he is being selected by
the Bears. I also think that Daniels.

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Daniels makes you so much sense for
the commanders everything when you look at

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what he was able to do at
LSU last year. Those guys have separated,

1122
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So now we're talking about the m
and ms. May and McCarthy and

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the Pats. You certainly they could
talk about moving out. When you get

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a shot to get a franchise quarterback, as we have discussed all morning,

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you don't have one and you're in
position to get one, you take them.

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So whether they like May or McCarthy, whatever, they're thinking, whatever

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Mayo, the other M there,
the head coach now is thinking along with

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the front office there in New England. It could be Jj, it could

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be May. But I think we're
all pretty sure that it's going to be

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three quarterbacks to come off the board. So then you go to Arizona.

1131
01:35:50.479 --> 01:35:59.439
Arizona, if there was just this
one wide receiver, I certainly could use

1132
01:35:59.479 --> 01:36:06.880
a wide rest receiver for Kyler Murray. But since this particular draft has three

1133
01:36:08.520 --> 01:36:17.520
for sure things in wide receivers and
Marv Harrison Junior, A Doonsay, and

1134
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the player that seemingly every every UH
Draftnick, every GM telling people behind the

1135
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scenes Malik Neighbors might be better than
all of them. It behooves the Cardinals

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01:36:33.960 --> 01:36:39.880
to move. Someone's coming up to
four to get either may or McCarthy.

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I'm gonna lock that in for you. I'm gonna lock four quarterbacks one,

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two, three and four. I'm
gonna lock that in for you. Another

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intriguing part, and it's not just
that he was the coach at Michigan,

1140
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but it is Captain Khaki who's sitting
there at five. If four quarterbacks go,

1141
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then Jim Harbaugh company are sitting there. Are they going to take?

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Is Jim Harbaugh gonna take Maserati Buckeye? Marvin Harrison. Now you can say,

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yeah, well you know it's quarterback
Justin Herbert, the guy rid of

1144
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Keenan Allen. They need a wide
receiver. But again, there's three of

1145
01:37:19.920 --> 01:37:24.399
them there. I'd see Harbaugh moving
out, not just because he's a buck

1146
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eye. I just think he's moving
out. All right, I'll give you

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some more predictions on how this thing
is going to go. Of course,

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spit you. We are taking your
call. How okay? Are you at

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a trade down for the Detroit Lions. That and anything else as you're thinking

1178
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about with this draft tonight, eight
sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty

1179
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three on the Meyer hotline eight six
six eight three eight four eight four to

1180
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three. As we draw closer to
the Bears making their selection of Caleb Williams,

1181
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Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, it's
going to be either Drake may or

1182
01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:42.359
JJ McCarthy at three. I predict
that four that the Cardinals are moving out

1183
01:40:42.439 --> 01:40:51.239
in whichever quarterback that the Pats don't
take. You've got the g Men,

1184
01:40:53.359 --> 01:41:00.319
the Vikings, the Broncos, the
Raiders. You could make a case maybe

1185
01:41:00.359 --> 01:41:02.720
for the Saints, all trying to
move up. Teams are going to be

1186
01:41:02.800 --> 01:41:08.640
moving up, trying to get one
of the This is a four quarterback draft

1187
01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:13.880
up towards the top. And then
you're looking at Nicks being in the mix,

1188
01:41:14.159 --> 01:41:17.479
with Pennix also being in the mix. Whether that's going to be then

1189
01:41:17.600 --> 01:41:23.880
in the teams or if one of
those guys falls into the twenties. But

1190
01:41:24.119 --> 01:41:30.039
I'm thinking that it is going to
be six quarterbacks selected. And then I

1191
01:41:30.159 --> 01:41:36.680
also think with the Chargers sitting there
at five. Knowing Jim Harbaugh, I

1192
01:41:36.760 --> 01:41:43.680
don't think he wants to take a
wide receiver necessarily at five. I think

1193
01:41:43.800 --> 01:41:46.680
Jim Harbaugh wants an offensive lineman,
and I think that he can sell that

1194
01:41:47.800 --> 01:41:51.520
to Justin Herbert saying, look,
yeah, this is a three wide receiver

1195
01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:56.279
draft, and there are some great
ones right there, but we're running the

1196
01:41:56.319 --> 01:42:02.880
football to protect you, and I
think Harbaugh sells. I think Harbaugh is

1197
01:42:03.039 --> 01:42:12.600
going to sell Herbert on an offensive
lineman and then the possibility of looking at

1198
01:42:12.640 --> 01:42:15.920
the tight ends in this draft.
I think Harbaugh could try to just move

1199
01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:20.479
back a little bit. I think
a guy I don't know how much he's

1200
01:42:20.520 --> 01:42:25.560
being talked about. We know that
he's a great player. One thing about

1201
01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:28.560
Harbaugh is that we've known that he
has game plan, that he has seen

1202
01:42:28.680 --> 01:42:34.439
Marvin Harrison Junior up front and center
seeing Ohio State for the last couple of

1203
01:42:34.520 --> 01:42:42.880
years. I also think o doonsay
for Washington, whether you think he's better

1204
01:42:42.920 --> 01:42:45.319
than neighbors or not, three wide
receivers, whatever you know, your taste

1205
01:42:45.520 --> 01:42:49.079
is a doonsay. Playing for Washington, he had to game plan for him

1206
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and the other player to think about
that Harbaugh saw front and center was Brock

1207
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:08.199
Bowers. I think Bowers ends up
with a lightning bolt on the side of

1208
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his helmets. All right, Before
we read some of the texts, let's

1209
01:43:13.640 --> 01:43:19.359
get to the phones and we welcome
in John on ex'es and bros. On

1210
01:43:19.399 --> 01:43:25.840
the Michigan Sports Network. Hey John, Hey, how's it going? What

1211
01:43:26.000 --> 01:43:28.479
can't be going any better? John? As I wait for the draft?

1212
01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:32.439
You know, yeah, I totally
agree. I'm actually driving out there right

1213
01:43:32.479 --> 01:43:38.960
now. Now you're talking, John, You're on your way to the draft

1214
01:43:39.000 --> 01:43:41.640
at eight thirty nine in the morning. That's what I'm That's what I like

1215
01:43:41.720 --> 01:43:45.720
to hear. Yeah, I'm I'm
actually media credentialed. I'm an NFL draft

1216
01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:49.239
The handle is so getting out there, getting set up. I'll be on

1217
01:43:49.399 --> 01:43:54.640
media row. I'm ready to go. I'm Jazz. They have my coffee.

1218
01:43:55.279 --> 01:43:59.399
I've been studying these prospects for months. I'm ready. Let's do it.

1219
01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:02.720
Well, let me ask you.
I just gave you my thoughts here

1220
01:44:02.760 --> 01:44:06.399
at the top of the draft.
I think that the four quarterbacks that includes

1221
01:44:06.560 --> 01:44:12.159
JJ McCarthy, they're gonna go one
through four, and then I think the

1222
01:44:12.319 --> 01:44:15.159
Chargers are moving out. How do
you think about that prediction? How does

1223
01:44:15.199 --> 01:44:19.000
that sit with you? I think
it's I think it's a great fit.

1224
01:44:19.479 --> 01:44:25.680
I've been talking about the Chargers of
the trade down candidate for a while.

1225
01:44:25.960 --> 01:44:30.520
You know, whether the Cardinals sticke
at for and take Marvin Harrison's junior and

1226
01:44:30.600 --> 01:44:34.760
then the team like Minnesota is super
aggressive and moving up to get JJ McCarthy.

1227
01:44:36.119 --> 01:44:40.960
I think there's gonna be a market
for the fifth overall pick. I

1228
01:44:41.079 --> 01:44:44.039
think that what the Chargers need,
like you were just talking about, I

1229
01:44:44.079 --> 01:44:47.399
think they need offensive line. So
I think they would be happy to move

1230
01:44:47.520 --> 01:44:54.600
down to that like ten to twelve
range, pick up some added capital to

1231
01:44:54.800 --> 01:45:00.239
kind of retool for Jim Harbaugh and
get a really really solid offensive lineman to

1232
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:05.159
go at right tackle, because what
tackles set for the Chargers. So a

1233
01:45:05.239 --> 01:45:10.720
name to watch for the Chargers,
in my opinion, to leave Schulaga offensive

1234
01:45:10.760 --> 01:45:14.720
tackle out of Oregon State. He's
been a career right tackle, but a

1235
01:45:14.920 --> 01:45:17.439
very very very good one. I
think it would be a natural fit for

1236
01:45:17.560 --> 01:45:21.720
him to plug in on the right
side for Justin Herbert to protect him.

1237
01:45:23.640 --> 01:45:27.159
I think you're on it. And
the only thing that Jim Harbaugh likes more

1238
01:45:27.279 --> 01:45:30.880
than a big fat tackle is a
big fat, you know, defensive lineman.

1239
01:45:31.279 --> 01:45:33.640
That's what he wants, and I
think that's where the focus is going

1240
01:45:33.680 --> 01:45:36.439
to be. And as much as
we can sit around. Yeah, you

1241
01:45:36.520 --> 01:45:43.000
know, great players win in wide
receivers. Harbaugh, he knows that you

1242
01:45:43.199 --> 01:45:49.000
win and the way he wants to
win is with line play and a quarterback

1243
01:45:49.039 --> 01:45:51.520
and even know that wide receiver.
You say, what about Herbert? He

1244
01:45:51.600 --> 01:45:58.119
needs one and you'd like to have
one of those top three or you would

1245
01:45:58.199 --> 01:46:01.880
like to have Bowers. I'm with
you on that. I think he's moving

1246
01:46:01.920 --> 01:46:05.119
out. What about the Lions,
John, what do you think they do

1247
01:46:05.279 --> 01:46:11.159
at twenty nine? They could go
defensive tackle, defensive ends, safety,

1248
01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:15.479
quarter offensive line, wide receiver.
You know your pick. What do you

1249
01:46:15.520 --> 01:46:21.640
want? Yeah? The Lions are
a super interesting team because they are really

1250
01:46:21.680 --> 01:46:26.159
good all of a sudden, and
I've been you know, I've been really

1251
01:46:26.199 --> 01:46:29.600
impressed with what they've done for the
last couple of years. They've built from

1252
01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:32.960
the trenches out, which is how
I think Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers are

1253
01:46:33.000 --> 01:46:35.960
going to do it. Like you
said that same conversation, you built from

1254
01:46:35.960 --> 01:46:40.840
the trenches out. The Lions are
a great model of success for having done

1255
01:46:40.920 --> 01:46:44.680
that. Now they're competing and they're
young. I think it's great. I

1256
01:46:44.720 --> 01:46:46.359
think that the Chargers they're going to
look at that and be like, Yeah,

1257
01:46:46.399 --> 01:46:48.880
this is a it's what we need
to do. You got to build

1258
01:46:48.880 --> 01:46:53.640
some of the trenches out and get
on line that first. So that's why

1259
01:46:53.640 --> 01:46:56.159
I like them to go offensive doc, which especially if they can straight down

1260
01:46:56.199 --> 01:47:00.399
at Pepig. The Lions are interesting
because now you're in Now you're a team

1261
01:47:00.439 --> 01:47:04.000
that's being talked about as arguably the
best team in the NFC, if not

1262
01:47:04.079 --> 01:47:09.960
one of the top three teams in
the conference. I still like them to

1263
01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:14.840
go trenches. I just I can't
shape the feeling. I think the interior

1264
01:47:14.920 --> 01:47:19.479
offensive line is an interesting conversation for
the Lions and Jackson Power as Johnson career

1265
01:47:19.640 --> 01:47:26.199
starters center for University of Oregon is
a name that I like for them because

1266
01:47:26.319 --> 01:47:29.920
the interior offensive line is set.
But you've got a couple of guys just

1267
01:47:30.079 --> 01:47:32.840
on one year deals. I think
that he can start day one at guard,

1268
01:47:33.079 --> 01:47:36.560
or he can learn and be a
rotational guy in case of injury and

1269
01:47:36.760 --> 01:47:42.279
ends up taking over at center or
guard as early as next year. To

1270
01:47:42.359 --> 01:47:45.680
be a franchise cornerstone on the offense
line is that and you put him with

1271
01:47:45.720 --> 01:47:48.399
his college team made pinet zuel,
which is just pretty fun. Yeah,

1272
01:47:48.439 --> 01:47:51.119
it sounds like a prudent pick.
The only thing I don't like about that

1273
01:47:51.479 --> 01:47:57.640
is it it almost feels like you're
accepting that Frank rag Now is going to

1274
01:47:57.720 --> 01:48:01.399
retire, which he might know he's
have difficulties with his foot or his toe.

1275
01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:06.359
And as much as Swell is the
anchor and the you know, the

1276
01:48:06.800 --> 01:48:11.359
big time player on that line,
rag Now is there right behind him.

1277
01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:15.159
And yeah, I know you got
to prepare for the future and everything else,

1278
01:48:15.199 --> 01:48:17.039
but a very prudent pick if it
ends up going that way, John,

1279
01:48:17.079 --> 01:48:19.359
give me one, Give me one
more. I got another question for

1280
01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:23.800
you. Now, give me a
bust, give me a sleeper. As

1281
01:48:23.880 --> 01:48:27.199
you take a look at tonight,
a guy that you would not take because

1282
01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:29.880
you think he's gonna be a bust. And then somebody didn't have to be

1283
01:48:30.359 --> 01:48:33.239
in the thirty two that are mentioned
often, but certainly can be somebody you

1284
01:48:33.359 --> 01:48:41.880
think just as an absolute lock.
Yeah, so I'm always pro player,

1285
01:48:42.079 --> 01:48:45.479
right, I'm rooting for success for
all these guys. You hope that all

1286
01:48:45.520 --> 01:48:47.920
of them live out their dreams.
Right, they make it to the NFL,

1287
01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:53.439
they're able to be a long bench
starter. I was very high on

1288
01:48:53.560 --> 01:48:58.079
the Amman Roth Saint Brown Hypes trained
in that pre draft cycle. I thought

1289
01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:00.079
he should have gone in his second
round. Getting him in the fourth was

1290
01:49:00.159 --> 01:49:04.960
a steal for the Lions. A
wide receiver that I think is being hyped

1291
01:49:05.039 --> 01:49:10.359
up a little bit too much in
this draft class is ad Mitchell at a

1292
01:49:10.479 --> 01:49:15.399
University of Texas. I like him. I think he's he's obviously over athletic.

1293
01:49:15.520 --> 01:49:19.039
He had a great combine, but
I think that he's still a little

1294
01:49:19.039 --> 01:49:24.720
bit of raw to be talked about
as a first round take a sleeper.

1295
01:49:25.560 --> 01:49:30.520
If I'm the Lions and they want
to wait on offensive line on the interior,

1296
01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:35.439
that's tough. I say it's the
name of being talked about a lot,

1297
01:49:35.479 --> 01:49:40.600
but I'm really high on Zach Frazier
as well as an interior offensive lineman

1298
01:49:40.840 --> 01:49:44.279
for the Lions. In particular,
I think Brad Holmes showed last year that

1299
01:49:44.399 --> 01:49:46.720
he doesn't care what anyone else thinks
and he's gonna do what he thinks gives

1300
01:49:46.760 --> 01:49:50.119
his team the best chance to win. So I wouldn't be surprised if we

1301
01:49:50.199 --> 01:49:54.000
saw him be aggressive tonight. Didn't
move up in the draft, I know

1302
01:49:54.079 --> 01:49:59.520
a trade down kadaboutly happen to occur
some more value and the Jackson powers Johnson

1303
01:49:59.560 --> 01:50:03.159
conversation is a prudent choice, like
you said, but I wouldn't be surprised

1304
01:50:03.199 --> 01:50:06.399
to see him be aggressive and move
off for a defensive fact that he really

1305
01:50:06.600 --> 01:50:12.199
likes. And I like Terry on
Arnold a lot out of Alabama, so

1306
01:50:12.319 --> 01:50:15.439
that could be a name where if
he starts slipping a little bit gets into

1307
01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:19.600
the mids to eight teams. I
can see Brad Holmes getting a little bit

1308
01:50:19.640 --> 01:50:24.439
of an ischy trigger and going up
and getting them. John. I love

1309
01:50:24.479 --> 01:50:27.640
it. I can tell that you
do know what you're talking about when it

1310
01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:30.560
comes to the draft. Enjoy it, and I think what we have on

1311
01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:40.159
tap is the most intriguing draft of
all time and certainly nationally with it being

1312
01:50:40.479 --> 01:50:43.760
in Detroit for the first time,
there's going to be no argument there.

1313
01:50:44.239 --> 01:50:48.760
Great job and enjoy yourself tonight in
Detroit. Safe travels. And you know,

1314
01:50:48.920 --> 01:50:53.840
as I look at it and thinking
about I see Peter Schrieger, who

1315
01:50:54.279 --> 01:51:00.760
has just released his final mock draft. He has the Lions, and the

1316
01:51:00.279 --> 01:51:05.920
one thing about Schreger is that he's
not somebody that's just making his picks by

1317
01:51:05.960 --> 01:51:13.199
watching film and watching the college game. He makes his picks based on who

1318
01:51:13.279 --> 01:51:18.760
he's talking with from these cities for
personnel that is working with these teams.

1319
01:51:18.840 --> 01:51:26.920
That's his thing, and not that
you know he's nailing this draft or anything,

1320
01:51:27.039 --> 01:51:30.960
but I find it interesting as I
look at Schreger's final mock that has

1321
01:51:31.039 --> 01:51:35.239
just been put out, that he
has the Detroit Lions moving up from twenty

1322
01:51:35.359 --> 01:51:45.000
nine to twenty one and taking the
defensive end from Florida State Jared Verse.

1323
01:51:45.279 --> 01:51:49.960
Now, just over these last two
days of being here and talking with the

1324
01:51:50.039 --> 01:51:57.359
people and asking about players that they
wanted to see, the majority of the

1325
01:51:57.439 --> 01:52:02.399
people have picked defensive end. Whether
it's either of the Robinson Darius Robinson or

1326
01:52:02.560 --> 01:52:10.640
Chop Robinson or the defensive end from
UCLA LTTWO. These are ben the Jared

1327
01:52:10.760 --> 01:52:15.239
Verse has been mentioned, and here's
Jared Verse Schrager thinking that the Lions would

1328
01:52:15.359 --> 01:52:20.279
move up. Now, my own
pick was Cooper dejen from Iowa, the

1329
01:52:20.359 --> 01:52:25.359
safety who could come down and play
Nickel. Who you leave them at safety,

1330
01:52:25.399 --> 01:52:28.920
you can put them over at corner. I like that flexibility. I

1331
01:52:29.039 --> 01:52:31.119
know a lot of teams are gonna
like that as well. Would the Lions

1332
01:52:31.159 --> 01:52:36.520
want to move up for CD.
Is he gonna fall in their lap at

1333
01:52:36.560 --> 01:52:42.000
twenty nine? Probably? Maybe?
I mean I say probably not, but

1334
01:52:42.159 --> 01:52:49.399
maybe I look at it like that. Let's hit that text at when you

1335
01:52:49.520 --> 01:52:54.840
text Sports Radio to twenty one thousand, Ben Zost is reading those Ben,

1336
01:52:54.960 --> 01:52:58.239
what are the people saying via text? Says? How do we know that

1337
01:52:58.399 --> 01:53:01.079
Hendon Hooker isn't that guy? We
need to wait and see what he can

1338
01:53:01.159 --> 01:53:05.119
do before we go on to another
quarterback. Goff has done a great job

1339
01:53:05.399 --> 01:53:12.560
and the Lions don't need to rebuild
the quarterback quarterback position right now. Yeah,

1340
01:53:12.640 --> 01:53:15.399
well, you're right about Hooker.
There's a couple things about Hooker.

1341
01:53:16.520 --> 01:53:21.520
The first thing that jumps out at
you if you watched him, whether it

1342
01:53:21.600 --> 01:53:26.880
was at Virginia Tech or Tennessee where
in his final year he was the SEC

1343
01:53:27.039 --> 01:53:30.960
Offensive Player of the year. You
know he's got the size, and you

1344
01:53:30.079 --> 01:53:34.000
know that he has the arm.
You also know that he got hurt and

1345
01:53:34.680 --> 01:53:40.159
that's why he fell a little bit
in the draft, and so the Lions

1346
01:53:40.199 --> 01:53:43.319
could be patient with him. You
just wonder how much work that he has

1347
01:53:43.399 --> 01:53:45.439
really had. The other thing is
that he is twenty six years old,

1348
01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:50.279
so It's not like we're sitting here
talking about Hndon Hooker who came out early,

1349
01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:54.640
who's been around for a year and
he's twenty two. Linshit of a

1350
01:53:54.680 --> 01:53:59.640
pretty good idea where that knee is
at and what he is going to do

1351
01:54:00.000 --> 01:54:06.119
now. It is just I look
at it like this. Sure certainly they

1352
01:54:06.199 --> 01:54:12.239
got some value there, a guy
that you could have argued could have been

1353
01:54:12.479 --> 01:54:16.079
a first round of certainly a second
rounder if he didn't have that knee injury.

1354
01:54:16.159 --> 01:54:20.159
So they're gonna, you know,
see what they've got there. This

1355
01:54:20.399 --> 01:54:29.279
is a chance that they might have
something here. But I think with the

1356
01:54:29.399 --> 01:54:34.720
discussion earlier about Jared Goff going into
this final year, if he doesn't want

1357
01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:41.199
to go with a number at forty
five and he's dead set on something in

1358
01:54:41.319 --> 01:54:48.520
the fifty millions range, that the
Lions could play the game of all right,

1359
01:54:49.840 --> 01:54:53.760
let's let this play out, and
then they could tag him. Now

1360
01:54:54.560 --> 01:55:03.640
tagging quarterbacks, tagging any position,
there's some risk involved tagging a quarterback,

1361
01:55:06.880 --> 01:55:10.600
just with everything that goes into it. Every time the guy throws it a

1362
01:55:10.680 --> 01:55:15.319
complete pass, eight, don't tag
him, or we're getting rid of him.

1363
01:55:15.119 --> 01:55:20.800
Not having the security, it just
opens up the questions you think people

1364
01:55:20.920 --> 01:55:26.520
are pouncing on Jared Golf talking about
Oh, people are being a little bit

1365
01:55:26.600 --> 01:55:31.199
negative now he's walking it back or
Brad Holmes pulling out receipts about people are

1366
01:55:31.279 --> 01:55:35.600
gonna we'll flip. If he's going
into his final year and they don't have

1367
01:55:35.680 --> 01:55:40.479
a contract, that's all anybody's gonna
be talking about left and right when it

1368
01:55:40.560 --> 01:55:45.239
comes down to golf. That's why
teams like to get those guys done before

1369
01:55:45.359 --> 01:55:50.359
that. But the ability to possibly
tag him talking about golf next year is

1370
01:55:50.560 --> 01:55:57.960
out there. If they don't want
to say Lions friendly, I mean it

1371
01:55:58.159 --> 01:56:03.000
just golf friendly. It's friendly to
everyone, maybe not to the agent who

1372
01:56:03.760 --> 01:56:11.199
is going to be dead set on
fifty mil. Hey, don't forget Matt

1373
01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:17.159
Sheppard, who is normally the voice
you hear coming through your radio. He

1374
01:56:17.359 --> 01:56:24.800
is going to be the MC at
Soaring Eagle Casino tonight for an NFL draft

1375
01:56:24.880 --> 01:56:30.760
party. He will also be live
from there tomorrow morning as he conducts and

1376
01:56:30.960 --> 01:56:35.920
he is the MC of this very
program, axes and bros and reacts to

1377
01:56:36.399 --> 01:56:44.279
whatever he sees and how it all
plays out in the NFL draft of Detroit

1378
01:56:44.359 --> 01:56:49.000
tonight. Interesting to me when I
just think about Shep and I think about

1379
01:56:49.000 --> 01:56:53.399
this draft. It's just going to
start a little bit after eight o'clock and

1380
01:56:53.479 --> 01:56:58.239
the Lion's picking at twenty nine,
And then I think about him opening the

1381
01:56:58.479 --> 01:57:05.239
mic at six o'clock in the morning
and then being up at Mountpleasant. That's

1382
01:57:05.279 --> 01:57:15.520
not a lot of hours for Shep
to sleep. How Shep goes about getting

1383
01:57:15.640 --> 01:57:21.479
rest for tomorrow's show while taking in
everything in the draft is a topic in

1384
01:57:23.000 --> 01:57:28.840
and of itself. I want to
thank everyone for calling, texting, listening

1385
01:57:28.920 --> 01:57:31.680
over these last two days. Has
been my pleasure to be here. Really

1386
01:57:31.720 --> 01:57:35.600
want to thank ben Zos. Ben
great job. You're a progum. I

1387
01:57:35.680 --> 01:57:40.880
had fun working with you. Maybe
we'll be able to do it again down

1388
01:57:41.000 --> 01:57:47.279
the line. Thanks to Matt Shepherd
for calling me in from the bullpen.

1389
01:57:47.920 --> 01:57:54.279
That is going to do it.
Enjoy the draft tonight. I'm going to

1390
01:57:54.439 --> 01:57:58.239
you know, I know I'm not
in a limo, headed down in a

1391
01:57:58.479 --> 01:58:04.520
suite or anything else credentialed NFL media. I'll have my TV with a couple

1392
01:58:04.640 --> 01:58:10.279
extra TVs watching the playoffs as well. All right, take care. That's

1393
01:58:10.319 --> 01:58:14.119
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