What makes the selection. With the first pick in the twenty twenty four NFL
Draft, the Chicago Bears select Caleb Williams quarterback Tela California. There he is,
Chicago Bear's your new hostess and dreams. Not a surprise that Caleb Williams
goes number one overall. What he is surprising though, was the uncomfortable phone
call that he had with his new general manager. I don't know if you've
over heard it, but it's it's very awkward, very awkward. There was
also then, I don't know if you saw this, There was also some
I don't know if it's true, so much crap out online and social media
and stuff, but someone said that he paints his nails and he's got a
pink phone. Yeah, I saw that. You saw that. Yeah.
The immediate thought is who cares? Right? Honestly, I mean, as
long as he wins, as long as he goes out there and does his
job, what difference does it make? And I think a lot of people
will immediately turn to Dennis Rodman. When Dennis Rodman was at an elite effort,
he wasn't doing that stuff, and he did it more for attention,
you know, So what I mean, who cares. I listened to rock
bands, and back in the eighties and nineties, a lot of those guys
wore makeup and lipstick and had is he hair and could pass for women too.
So and I still listen to the music. I don't think it.
I don't think it really matters. What matters is how you handle yourself in
the huddle, on the practice field, in the locker room, at the
podium, but more importantly on the field of play. Welcome back, third
hour and final hour of Exus and Bros. Across the Great State of Michigan.
Meyer hotline is eight sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three.
Lions had six players they needed. Over the last three years. Their
secondary has been terrible. I think that's fair to say. Brad Holmes did
what he possibly could to try and fix that with some free agents. Remember
he signed Camp Sutton, Emmanuel Moseley, CJ. Garter Johnson. He drafted
Brian Branch out of Alabama. That was a really good pick. This offseason
he traded for Carlton Davis. Now he adds Terry on Arnold and Ennis Rankstraw.
That's great. What do you expect from rookie corners. I've said this,
it's the second talking to scouts, the second hardest position to transition to
from college to pro. The hardest is quarterback. Then it's cornerback. You're
playing zones you're really not familiar with or as familiar with, and you're going
up against guys who you didn't see in college. Wide receivers that you just
didn't see in college. I think a lot of people what they're going to
do with Terry on Arnold, Well, maybe I'm jumping ahead here. I
think going to compare him to Darius Slay because he was Detroit's last elite corner,
but he was a second round pick. If they compare him to Jeff
Okudah, that's a good thing for Tyran. Arnold can't be any worse than
Jeff Acuda. But remember the pedigree Jeff Okudah had coming out of Ohio State,
played in a big conference, played against really good wide receivers, was
the number one corner on everybody's board, widely praised for what happened there,
and it didn't work out. Darius Slay when he came out of Mississippi State,
he came to the Lions, Jim Schwartz was the head coach. I
thought it was a really good pick. He's a really good player, but
he was a he was a man to man cornerback. He struggled in zone.
Terry on Arnold is widely viewed as a guy who excels him both and
that's a good sign. Let's go to the Meyer hotline eight sixty six eight
three eight forty eight forty three. Then who's on the line you have?
We got gr Scott, Hey, gr Scott, I'll worry buddy day,
Good morning, ship they good morning. Two points one on the Lions and
drafts and one on the figures. Let me get those out and then you
can comment afterwards if you would. First while on the Lion's draft. I
don't know that there's a lot of fanfare today just because it's sudden, we
expect now. I know it's tough for the media to see and everything else,
but it's just that Brad Holmes has done that. He's proven. He's
just proven. I don't I don't think maybe less than ten percent of those
real Liance fans question him anymore. So they're like, yeah, he did
what he's supposed to do. Yay, let's go and I mean, you
look at it now, we got five corners that are going to compete.
You got three safeties. If you include Brian Benson, you probably cancrew Brian
Bensch in the corners too, So I mean they've short up the back end.
We probably got eight to nine guys on the front line. They're not
everybody that we wanted, but people we can count on. Probably got eight
to nine on the offensive line. And when somebody drops, when somebody drops
a wide receiver, somebody cuts a wide receiver here this summer, or we'll
make a trade, he'll get it. He'll get the last he'll get the
last peat. It's just we we dis trust him. Then a comment about
the Tigers. I made a comment a couple of weeks ago about Parker,
and then I realized that I was doing the same thing that I did not
like what the Red Wings fans were doing, uh in evaluating this year,
if or the only complaint really that I've heard about what the Red Wings did
this year is that we weren't gonna win the Stanley Cup this year now with
a old tending the hat, and and the big complaint was going to be
why the big complaint has been why didn't we bring up some of that youth
that we've got, that we've accumulated and let them get some ice time with
the big boys. And that's a that's a that's a fair complaint. And
fighters are you know? We we we definitely have a number one and number
I think number two starter. I think case Mayes rounded in the shape now.
But in truth, what do we have maybe three professional hitters in Canada,
Vierling and Green, I mean guys that you trust with the bat and
are in out of fifteen guys. So keeping the youth up there, letting
them get there at bats? What I think? What you said, what'd
you say a couple of weeks ago that three hundred at bats before you can
evaluate her like that? Fifteen fifteen? Okay? But you know so the
Tigers, I'm not going to win the World Series this year, but well
we can make the playoffs. But but it's but but if I if I
kept that complain out there about meadows and cold teeth, that maybe they need
to go down for a few for a month or a few weeks, then
I'm being the same as what I was. The Red Wings fans were complaining
about about the Red Wings self. Yeah, I know, I appreciate it.
Scott have a great Monday, very interesting call. Basically it's all ohum
moment for Lions fans because of the trust and he used the word and it's
a keyword with with Brad Holmes. The Tiger's call is a little different,
so he he piques my interest there because I believe it's a winnable division.
I'm surprised at Cleveland's early success, especially under a first time manager in Steven
Vote. Stephen Votes, a guy who he had a long major league baseball
career, never managed, never even managed at the collegiate or minor league level.
And Cleveland's off too, and it's it's again early off to a nineteen
to nine start. They won seven dollir last ten. I'm surprised at Kansas
City and their success. This is a winnable division. I think Tigers fans
should expect them to win the division. I don't. I would argue this
If they don't, it's a disappointment. But he brought up some names that
are interesting on who he thinks are professional hitters. I'm going to pick it
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So on the Tigers and asking basically I almost calling himself out, saying,
look, I called a couple of weeks back, wanted to give up on
Parker Meadows. Didn't have enough at bats, and he doesn't. It's way
too early to judge Parker Meadows. It's a former second round pick. Do
I think he's going to be a great player. I think he's a really
good defensive player. I think he's going to be borderline great defensive player.
But I don't know, I really don't know if Parker Meadows is going to
be an All Star player. I don't think he can hit well enough to
do that, but he is young. And then Scott basically said, how
many players do you really trust with a bat in their hands? And he
mentioned Matt Vierling, who I like a lot, former fifth round pick out
of Notre Dame, Mark Kenna who's a one year stopgap right and Riley Green.
Now I would remind does this tell you the state of the Tigers or
not listen to this? Matt Vieling's twenty seven. Matt Verling has nine hundred
and fifty at bats in his career. He's a two sixty two hitter in
his career, with twenty home runs in his career, and he hit one
the other day to win it for him. And again this has nothing to
do with him. I like him a lot. Let me give you an
idea of who else is twenty seven? And I only bring this up because
Scott got piqued my interest. He got me thinking, so what I love
about doing the show with callers like Scott. That's an interesting point. He's
twenty seven and we consider him one of those guys you trust with a bat
in his hand, but he's a career two to sixty hitter with only twenty
home runs. You know, Wilch's twenty seven. Jordan Alvarez. Jordan Alvarez
is twenty seven, Ozzi Albis is twenty seven. Luis old Raise is twenty
seven. Rafael Devers is twenty seven, and Rafael Devers has won a couple
of Silver Sluggers, three All Star appearances, has one hundred and seventy five
home runs, and is a career two eighty hitter. Austin Reiley, who
had the game winning RBI for the Braves yesterday, is twenty seven. Kyle
Tucker, phenomenal player, is twenty seven. Those are the guys you want
with a bat your hand. Scott brings up Mark Canna just a one year
guy. He's thirty five. You know who's older than that, Paul Goldschmidt.
Now maybe that's unfair because Paul Goldschmidt is one of the best of his
generation, but still he's incredible. Seven time All Star, four time Gold
Glover, five times Silver Slugger. That's that's my point. Man. You're
trying you want to get to you need guys like that. It doesn't assure
you anything, but boy, it makes you a lot more comfortable, doesn't
it When you watch those guys dig into the box in a tight situation and
they're there, that's who you want. When Scott said who do you feel
comfortable with as a hitter for the Tigers? I started searching quickly the file
in my brain immediately went who do I want in that type of situation?
Who's coming through for me? I like Riley Green a lot, and he's
a really good player. What you got eight hundred and fifty at bets in
the majors? We have how shall I put this? We have lowered our
sites to a certain extent, gone from a Tigers team organization with guys like
Miguel Cabrera, Placido Polanco, magleordniez Ivon Rodriguez, Carlos Gien, Curtis Granderson.
I bring those names up, Tell me what you think, Tell me
who you want in a clutch hitting situation. Go. You could name any
of them. Most of you would go with Cabrera. But I could go.
I could talk to eight people. I might get six different answers.
I ask eight different people. Now, who's the answer, Scott saying Mark
Canna, Matt Vierling or Riley Green. Think about that. Now, maybe
this flies in the face of what I was saying and how I believe the
Tigers should win the division and it should be a disappointing season if they don't,
and don't tell me, don't give me. The front office coach speaks
stuff of well, this is not no. We tried to calm people down.
We tried to tell them that's not necessarily the case that we're not ready
to contect a bull crap man. You bring in Jack Flaherty, kent to
my Ada, sprinkle in the young guys. You're bringing in established players like
Canna, like Gio Rochella. Sprinkle in the young guys. Right, that's
the way teams compete. The division is weak. We all know that you
made great strides a year ago. You feel like, you know, if
last year, if the AL Central was one with eighty seven victories and it
was by the Minnesota Twins and you had seventy eight. I'm not saying every
year you got to go up, but many people felt like you're getting over
eighty wins. Right, Oh, big deal. Raise the flag that you've
got. You're gonna be near five hundred. You're trying to tell me the
Tigers shouldn't be expected to win eighty seven games, And I'm not saying that's
gonna win the division. I'm just asking you don't think the Tigers should be
expected to win eighty seven games like they did, like the division champion did
a year ago, or or ninety two in which Cleveland won. In twenty
twenty two, White Sox won the division with ninety three. You're probably gonna
need about ninety wins. You think the Tigers could get ninety wins in this
division? You should. You should think that. I've told you about how
disappointing it is that ownership has not committed financially. They should not rank where
they are not in this market. Sorry, they shouldn't. They should spend
more money than what they have spent. That doesn't always equate to victories,
It doesn't always equate division championships. But as sure as hell helps, Scott's
telling me and telling our listening audience he feels comfortable with Mark Canna, Matt
Verling, or Riley Green in the box in a tight situation. Nothing against
any of those guys. I don't know Canada that well Verling and Green.
I know them, love them. Wan am on my team, but listen
to what the other teams have to offer, even within the division. Jose
Ramirez, Salvador Perez. These are big time players and Perez is thirty three,
but going into the weekend he led the American League in robbiies. That
tells you. I mean, Scott's phone call tells you where this team is
at. We talk about the lines and what their needs are. Hikers need
some offense. They didn't do anything to go out and get it. Phone
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twenty one thousand. We got a phone call. That's right, Ben,
What do we got right, truck or b Hey, there we go,
old friend? What's up? Truck? Will be going a long time?
No talk to how you been. I want to piggyback on what you had
to say about the Tigers. You know, you know, really you know,
I agree with what you have to say. But there's still a lot
of young pieces there and I believe Carpenter can be that one. You know,
he's still didn't even have a postseason in foreres It's just lighting my eyes
up, like where's this kid coming from? And he's being a little more
selective bias is. Finally, he struck out the other day and I said
to my wife, that was a good strikeout, and there's no such thing.
But it was slider slider. He did not swing and they pinned the
fastball on the outside corner. It says, that tells me he's starting to
look at that outside pitch and let it go, and and he's starting to
get on base. And that was my biggest scripe was he needs to just
get on base because if he gets on first, he's gonna have second.
I know that. I know that, and that's what you know. So
of my problems with him is a defense. You know, obviously it's obviously
stand him, but we do have a lot of young pieces in there that
still has to grow. Riley, isn't it If I don't think it is
fully potential. There's sometimes I think, what ick you're doing? But I
do that a lot with the players. But but I think Carpenter could be
that superstar, I really do. And Keith, if he needs just to
get out of his own way, I think he's in his own head right
now. Yeah. I like Carrie a lot. I don't think I would
ever tab him as a potential superstar, but I do like him. Here's
my question, though, and I don't think I totally disagree with you.
Jake Rogers is twenty nine, Javier Bias is thirty one, Jae Rossell is
thirty two, Marcanna is thirty five, Zach McKinstry's twenty nine, Carson Kelly's
twenty nine, Matt Feeling, as I mentioned, is twenty seven. Do
you think they're really that young now? Granted, Cole Keith, Spencer Torkolsen,
he's twenty four, right, but he does he does have a few
years under his belt. Riley Green to a certain extent, and Parker Meadows.
I think it's a balance. I wouldn't call them young. I don't
think i'd call them old either, but they've got plenty of experience on that
team. Shelby Miller's thirty three, Kentomiadas thirty six, Jack Flaherty's almost twenty
nine, Andrew Chaffin's thirty four they got plenty of guys. I wouldn't say
that they're a young team, would you. No, But you know you're
talking about Flahery being twenty nine. With twenty nine think that kind of starting
to get into the prime as a pitcher. And he has seemed to have
done a lot better this year than he had as last years so far.
I mean he's yeah, for sure. I mean last year he was last
time, right, the last dounting was due to aerrors where they scored the
wrongs. I mean sure, they've been doing really well and then all of
a sudden they hit a wall and start getting some dumb airs again, which
is need to clean up obviously. But yeah, I take it with the
greatest soul. I agree with you. I'm not suggesting that they're they're old
by any stretch. I think they're experienced though, so there's I think there
is a difference between age and experience. You don't have to necessarily say,
well, he's an he's a young player at the age of twenty four if
he has started for four years, I don't know if that's necessarily young anymore.
If you're telling me that a guy is old at the age of twenty
seven, but he only has five hundred and eighty at bats, then he's
not necessarily old. I mean there should be a concern of yours and that's
no one will the Tigers, by the way, I mean, Matt Feverling's
twenty seven, he's got nine hundred and fifty at bats. I don't even
know if you can make a judgment on that just yet. But at age
twenty seven, I mean, you know, eventually you're gonna have to make
a decision on something like that because he's being viewed more as a role player
than he is as an everyday guy. Let me ask you this, What
is it about Farling that makes him so damn likable? He just he's not
the one where you go up there and think, okay, yeah, here
we go, here we go. But then you're not. Isn't there all
great? Here comes Rearling and he's got that I don't know, he's got
to I factor. I guess I want to say I did. He just
liked him from the word go. It's like that was a nice trait to
pick him off. Yeah, here's what I like him. Here's what I
like about him. Yeah, I'll tell you this and thanks, Thanks,
to the phone call. It's great to talk to you again. Call please
anytime, truck or by. Here's what this may sound too simplistic and pollyannish.
He's your typical Midwest person. He's happy, he smiles, he's down
to earth. He's from Missouri. He went to Notre Dame. He played
multiple positions at times. He was a pitcher. He was a back end,
kind of a closer guy at Notre Dame. He's versatile. I think
what you like about him, or what I like about him, he battles
his ass off, really good stuff. I do. I want him on
my team. This is what happens when you get versatile players. Though people
wonder what's his position. He's got a strong arm, he can play third.
Is he nimble enough. I'm not calling him Matt Chapman or Nolan Aronato,
Ryan McMahon. He could play right field for you and I'd have no
problem. He could play center field and no problem. Maybe not every day
because I think Meadows and Green are better center fielders than he is, but
I'd feel comfortable with him on a certain day in any of those three positions.
And I think he battles and then you have to ask yourself, where
do you fit in a lineup? And I think that's part of the problem
with Detroit. And it's funny because we're talking about this after a four to
one win and after a series win over a Kansas City team that had been
playing pretty damn good baseball. So I don't want to be negative. I'm
just thinking out loud. And Scott brought this up earlier in our conversations.
Matt Vierling is batting what fifth in the lineup had a really good team,
He's probably batting eighth or ninth, And therein lies the issue. You need
power in the middle of the lineup, and I don't think they possess it.
Let's go to another phone call on the Meyer hotline eight six six eight
three eight forty forty three, Ben, who's waiting for us? Gb Ritz?
Nice, g b Ritz? How are you my friend? Good to
talk to you again. I'm doing well, Matt, doing well, Matt,
thank you for taking the call. And uh, yes, don't be
negative. Ship never be negative on the show, don't We don't want negativity
in Detroit. Trying to be trying to be realistic though too. Yeah,
there's a difference, absolutely, So my point is the point I was going
to suggest is I think Brad Holmes draft this year was better than last year
on this point that that last year he had six picks in the top six
picks in the first three rounds last year. Easy to make a big splash
if you pick the right people, which he did in Laporta, Campbell,
Gibbs, and further on down the line he made he got high quality impact
players that helped the Lions last year. Well, this year he had two
picks in the first two rounds and they were low picks, and then he
traded our third round pick to move up in the second round, so we
were void of a pick till the fifth round until he maneuvered and got a
fourth round pick, and you know, fanagal his way through the later rounds
by getting you know, exchanging picks from next year to get picks this year.
He did a masterful job this year to get the talent to Phil Boyd's
on your theory of drafting the best player available but still getting players to fill
needs. So I think his this year was on the same pier as last
year. It's interesting I didn't look at it like that, but now that
you've opened my eyes a little bit, and thanks of the phone called gb
Ritz, I will have to investigate that. I've got a whole judgment only
because we don't know what these players are yet, and we do know how
effective last year's players were, especially the three you mentioned, and that may
not they may not continue at that rate, but their rookie seasons. Find
me a better rookie class that Detroit has had. Those four guys. Let's
let's talk four guys. Let's talk Gibbs and Laporta and Campbell and Branch.
I can't think of a better draft class the Lions have had. I'm going
to reserve judgment on this year's draft class because even though I like it,
I'm not going to claim to know what kind of player Manu was in British
Columbia. I do like the two picks, not because of need, because
of the player. I think Pittsburgh had arguably the best draft. You know,
Chicago with Williams at a Dunze is pretty damn strong, But with Pittsburgh
Fatanu. I told you this last week. He's one of my favorite players
in the draft. He's the tackle lot of Washington, I think, I
tweeted going into the second round. Zach Frasier might be there. He's the
center out of West Virginia, so I really like him. Pittsburgh drafted Roman
Wilson, the wide receiver out of Michigan. Raft I texted or tweeted,
I should say before the start of the third round, Colson is there or
the linebackers are still there. Colson, Wilson, Peyton Wilson. I think
I think Colson was taking the second round by the Chargers. But I love
Peyton Wilson. He's the linebacker at NC State. He's he's a mother trucker.
Part there is that he gets injured. And then they drafted Mason McCormick,
the South Dakota State offensive guard, highly rated. Those are really good
picks. That's five really good picks by Pittsburg. But they have more needs.
They have more needs than the Lions do. We need to keep that
in perspective, so we'll see. But I like that perspective gb Ritz.
From last year to this year, maybe at this time of year from now,
we would have a better understanding of it to see how these guys do.
I'm telling you right now, we got to be prepared. It's not
automatic, but we've got to be prepared for some disappointment with Rakestraw because he
may not start right away and Arnold because if he does start at times,
he's gonna get humbled. That's just the way that position is. The wide
receivers, the players, the quarterbacks, they're just too good in the National
Football lay Ben, do you have any texts we do? This one goes
back to the Tigers. It says the Detroit Tigers current sixteen and twelve record
projects to a season ending ninety two and seventy. That would be nice,
that would be it should be enough to win the division, although if Detroit
projects to have ninety two, Cleveland would project to have more. I don't
think a wild card's coming from the Al Central, but I hope that is
on par I would love to see that. But I think they got to
win the division. I truly believe they should feel like they are the best
team in the division. Pitching will be vital. You know that already.
It's going to be so important, so important, because look, Detroit,
I know Kansas City is just ahead of them. Detroit is better than Chicago.
That's obvious. They're better than Kansas City. The Royals are just not
ready yet they cannot. Don't believe they can sustain this. I like two
of their young players, maybe three, and Massy's got a long way to
go. I don't think he's an everyday player. But I love Bobby Witt
junior, and I really like Vinnie Pascentino. Outside of that. Not a
big MJ. Melendez guy, Kyle Isbel's just a guy Michael Massey, like
I said, come off the bench. Maybe for me spots start so on
and so forth. They're not ready for that. Cleveland scares me, and
maybe it's because of some balance that they have and because of their history.
But Detroit and Minnesota. Minnesota's got as much talent, if not. Minnesota
probably has the most talent in the division. But if Detroe can get their
pitching right and their defense right, they should win this division. And if
they don't, we should be disappointed. Thanks to the phone calls today on
the Meyer Hotline, thanks to all your techs as well. Thanks to be
our producer. We'll be back with you tomorrow morning. Exes and bros.
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