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Where should the Lions look for their next left tackle?
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00:00all right it's friday let's get to business we had a lot to do um we'll start with the
00:04decker stuff we will then get to the nhl trade deadline touch on the pistons probably and
00:10apparently max clark's briefcase so we've got a lot is louis i don't know um i'm actually very
00:20good with this decker thing because if you go back to the day he announced hey i'm back and
00:25i'm like no please god go away but it is just you i think dan campbell felt the same way
00:31and that is
00:32how you end up with this today where he's asked for his release because they said you can come back
00:38but there's going to be some steep renegotiation why i don't know you have one arm dude you're not
00:44going to make it through the year now i could say it's a positive because i get 11.6 million
00:49back on
00:50the cap but taylor decker and glasgow were simple pieces of the offseason they still need in my
00:58opinion multiple restructures to get where they got to go but i want to go back to what i said
01:04i wanted this offseason and now to me they have absolutely no excuse i want panay sewell at left
01:12tackle please and thank you that's it and i know what you're gonna say but they'll all be
01:19playing new positions right yes they will okay mike's gonna imitate me
01:27i'm going to go join brendan shabazz he's in a good mood right all right no but you understand
01:33what i'm saying it is mike yeah but it's when you really think about it uh super bowl contending
01:39team now a hundred percent of your lines are going to be playing brand new positions now grant he can
01:45play the position he's the least of your worries at left tackle but it leaves now you have to find
01:51another tackle two guards at a center and you hope that it all works out and oh by the way
01:59you're also
01:59flirting with you know re-upping with your running back but dude if you don't fix this line
02:05nothing that to me has become priority one agree completely here is taylor decker's statement you do
02:13what you want with it things change 145 games started three playoff appearances two division
02:18titles and a decade carrying the shield i fully intended to do it again but my time as a lion
02:24is
02:25coming to an end in the weeks since notifying the team of my return there have been numerous
02:30discussions many of which were a surprise to me and we could not find common ground therefore i decided
02:36to request my release i am opting for a clean and amicable close to what has been such a beautiful
02:4210 years going to war as a lion it has been the absolute privilege of my life to be your
02:47left
02:48tackle the last 10 years and i'm grateful for the opportunity the ford family and lions organization
02:52afforded me taylor decker um yeah it just speaks to it they wanted him to restructure they weren't
02:59going to pay him 20 something million dollars and he gone i'm good with it didn't want him at that
03:05price
03:05didn't want him back and you could say well that's heartless it's a heartless business
03:11so my whole point is panay sewell's paid like a left tackle put him over there easier to find a
03:18right tackle i'd rather play a kid at right tackle than left or if you go in the free agent
03:24market the
03:25price differential between a right tackle and a left tackle it's two totally different universes
03:31so yeah that that would be my move it's been my move for months but yeah decker's gone i'm okay
03:37with
03:37it but i am in total agreement with my man over here like for people who want the defense the
03:43defense
03:43the deep if you don't fix this offensive line nothing else matters you do not have a quarterback
03:50that can simply make the best of it behind a decent line forget about below average jameer gibbs
03:58last year everybody priming their flagpole 71 yards a game he had 300 yard games the running game was not
04:06there when you needed it against who you needed it against so again fix the o-line is there a
04:12way to
04:13be better with decker gone there's a way i still don't understand not getting in the center market
04:18and it doesn't have to be linder bomb and obviously be odish is now with the chargers
04:24maybe it's a conor mcgovern maybe it's an ethan pochett maybe it's a cushion berry i don't know
04:29who the hell it is i don't care it could be mr sprinkles the mailman for mrs doubtfire just go
04:33get
04:33one it just you you need to go get a veteran center yeah um but we'll we'll see but where
04:38do you stand
04:39on decker uh kenny obviously i know you're coming for the nhl stuff and we'll just sit and wait i'm
04:45not
04:45gonna freak out now i mean there is a slight update by the way excuse me there is a slight
04:51update not
04:52break all right it's not breaking we've got breaking news from kenny cott hockey nista per uh darren
05:01drager very he's uh nhl insider darren drager uh he says i can't imagine that robert thomas gets traded
05:09at this point so that's another domino to fall off of the board thanks kenny way to bleep in the
05:21punch bowl uplifting news guy over here yeah yeah right after the wings traded for a guy and the
05:26pick is contingent on is he alive when the first statement is if he plays i can't wait for all
05:33the
05:33hockey nerds to call in oh but he's such a big voice in the room hear me now dorks you
05:40need talent
05:42oh man that goal in montreal a couple years ago
05:49david your thoughts on tech i'm just i know what i'm in for and i swear if anyone tries to
05:54defend
05:54this deadline if they don't do another move and it's david perron it's gonna be a day of anger for
06:00you i have a strong feeling no because you can't defend it right a hundred percent oh hey we got
06:05a
06:05fourth line center a fourth line winger great he's a good locker room guy oh the voice in the room
06:12great give him the c while you're at it david talk to me well so i was not here last
06:19week when he
06:19announced he was coming back um and i for one would have definitely cut him so the fact that he's
06:28asking for his outright release because he didn't want to restructure his deal which is
06:33reported that they asked him to do that okay but this does i mean you have one player on your
06:41offensive line that you can trust this is a huge offseason you guys are right they need to get a
06:46center first and foremost and then you can pair up whatever you want with that but there's a lot
06:52of questions with this offensive line now can i ask another question sure not to be provocative
06:57i'm asking we're just four doofuses talking sports because i was about to say something that
07:02he was going to hit the deflator thing so go ahead guess what i'll put the pin in the balloon
07:08because
07:08what i'm going to say is probably not going to be well received but i'm asking what happened to this
07:14lions culture what what happened to this whole you know team team team grit tough taylor decker
07:22you're 32 you got one arm you're barely healthy i'm not taking less why david montgomery so your
07:30carries go down a little bit you still had eight touchdowns you're still playing in a place you love
07:34clearly your teammates love you i want out why hey maybe something maybe nothing just strikes me
07:41as weird for a team that's very big on culture very big on the room okay two guys have kind
07:47of asked
07:47out now the hell is that costa saying grit okay i think culture mike you follow enough sports to know
08:00that culture comes with winning and when you win you can accept a lot of things when you win you
08:06can
08:06take a step back when you win you could get uh you know 40 of the carries when you win
08:12i can grind
08:13it out and if you so long as you give me some rest during the week i'll go out there
08:17with my bad arm
08:18but now you oh but we want some of the money back huh well yeah because you know we're we
08:24got the
08:24culture yeah i got bills to pay so how about no i'm just asking no i get what you're saying
08:30but
08:30when you're winning man everybody loves everybody but when things start to fall apart that little bit
08:37of that culture goes out the window and what i was going to say david is just i i hope
08:42that people
08:42understand revamping an offensive line on the fly requires a lot of luck it requires you know
08:51basically you got to hit every spot because one week link and we saw what that looked like
08:57in the green bay game early in the year where the problem is i'd ever view decker is filling a
09:03spot
09:03when dan campbell goes to the podium is like yeah i love him but uh we're still gonna need a
09:08guy i looked
09:09at him as his spot was he was gonna audition for a spot but now it's gonna be somebody totally
09:14new
09:14and it's not on the roster right at least i knew what i kind of got with him all right
09:20i'm gonna have
09:20to probably you'll you'll probably work out a day and a half all week i'll give you the other time
09:26off
09:26just because i know what you can do yeah but now i i don't because your offense is predicated on
09:33running the ball you can't run the ball you're not going to get all the fancy touchdown play i need
09:38to see the restructurings i'm happy to get the cap space back i'm happy he's gone because frankly i
09:42don't think he was going to be here for very long three weeks five weeks seven weeks whatever he was
09:47always going to be hurt and i don't want to waste resources on the insurance policy i'd rather just go
09:53get another version of him but make no mistake like we could talk about this i have no problem with
09:58him being gone are you better today than yesterday no and to me i don't understand look i have no
10:06idea what taylor decker's market would be because there are non-negotiables with him like i don't know
10:11where he thinks he's going and getting paid 20 million bucks and i don't know where he's going to go
10:15where people are going to give him the latitude of not practicing and not going out there and being
10:20with their teammates like you get that here because we know because who you are yeah you know the
10:25play son you know we know what you can do another team no we got a trade congratulations buddy
10:36the red wings have traded for pierre turgeon incorrect i got nothing who what have they got
10:42they they have nothing uh your team has acquired somebody the captain of the st louis blues brayden
10:48shen and that's very annoying because i hate that your team is trying harder than mine
10:54you're just mad you don't have schaefer so you're privileged yes yes he's the hockey privileged
11:01honestly they've had a really nice year considering they weren't supposed to be very good and are in
11:05salary cap hell it's weird it's almost like being creative and being right with your pro personnel
11:10can get you places they fall into a schaefer and then they start buying at the deadline imagine that
11:15hey uh yeah no all right wings have traded for brad delgaro no okay i will wait kenny picking up
11:24milan hey dude coming up next come on man listen we still have 46 minutes steve's got to do something
11:33there's just no way he doesn't in the meantime taylor decker has asked for his release the lions have
11:39granted it by the way it's the second weird version of this hey rag now's back put out the graphic
11:46hit
11:46the music cut scene he showed up and his hamstring was in a ziploc bag he didn't pack his physical
11:53pass the physical now it's right hey decker's back strike up the band cut scene i ain't taking less
12:01money what's tj up to maybe they bring him back i asked tj this once just as a joke i
12:07said i'm being
12:08totally serious you have no ramp up time how many reps could you give this team before you are
12:15ambulanced off the field he said i might get to third down not even i just we were joking about
12:24it
12:25and i said i'm being serious how many reps no warming up none of that crap like no three months
12:30you can go
12:30stretch and do what you got to do you might get the third down wow dead two four eight five
12:38three
12:38nine ninety seven ninety seven let's talk a little taylor decker and i'm fine if you want to hop into
12:43the
12:43trade deadline green room we have snacks we have beverages as we all just kind of wait for three
12:51o'clock kenny feverishly hitting refresh
12:54refresh
12:55refresh
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