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What Decker Release Means For Lions
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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 louie 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 wasn't just you i think dan campbell felt the same
00:31way
00:31and that is how you end up with this today where he's asked for his release because they said you
00:37can come back but there's going to be some steep renegotiation why i don't know you have one arm
00:43dude you're not going to make it through the year now i could say it's a positive because i get
00:4811.6
00:49million back on the cap but taylor decker and glasgow were simple pieces of the offseason
00:56they still need in my opinion multiple restructures to get where they got to go but i want to go
01:02back
01:03to what i said i wanted this offseason and now to me they have absolutely no excuse i want panace
01:11sewell at left tackle please and thank you that's it and i know what you're going to say but they'll
01:19all be playing new positions right yes they will okay mike's gonna imitate me i'm going to go join
01:29brendan shabazz he's in a good mood all right no but you understand what i'm saying it is mike yeah
01:35but
01:35it's when you really think about it uh super bowl contending team now 100 of your line is going
01:43to be playing brand new positions now grant he can play the position he's the least of your worries at
01:48left tackle but it leaves now you have to find another tackle two guards at a center and you hope
01:55that it all works out and oh by the way you're also flirting with you know re-upping with your
02:02running
02:02back but dude if you don't fix this line nothing else that that to me has become priority one agree
02:10completely here is taylor decker's statement you do what you want with it things change 145 games
02:16started three playoff appearances two division titles and a decade carrying the shield i fully
02:22intended to do it again but my time as a lion is coming to an end in the weeks since
02:26notifying the
02:27team of my return there have been numerous discussions many of which were a surprise
02:32to me and we could not find common ground therefore i decided to request my release i am opting for
02:39a
02:40clean and amicable close to what has been such a beautiful 10 years going to war as a lion it
02:45has
02:45been the absolute privilege of my life to be your left tackle the last 10 years and i'm grateful for
02:50the opportunity the ford family and lions organization afforded me taylor decker um yeah it just speaks to
02:56it they wanted him to restructure they weren't going to pay him 20 something million dollars
03:01and he gone i'm good with it didn't want him at that price didn't want him back and you could
03:08say
03:08well that's heartless it's a heartless business so my whole point is panay sewell's paid like a left
03:15tackle put him over there easier to find a right tackle i'd rather play a kid at right tackle than
03:22left
03:22or if you go in the free agent market the price differential between a right tackle and a left tackle
03:28it's two totally different universes so yeah that that would be my move it's been my move for months
03:35but yeah decker's gone i'm okay with it but i am in total agreement with my man over here
03:40like for people who want the defense the defense the deep if you don't fix this offensive line
03:46nothing else matters you do not have a quarterback that can simply make the best of it behind a decent
03:55line forget about below average jameer gibbs last year everybody priming their flagpole
04:0171 yards a game he had 300 yard games the running game was not there when you needed it against
04:07who
04:08you needed it against so again fix the o-line is there a way to be better with decker gone
04:14there's a way
04:15i still don't understand not getting in the center market and it doesn't have to be linder bomb
04:21and obviously be oddish is now with the chargers maybe it's a conor mcgovern maybe it's an ethan
04:27pochett maybe it's a cushionberry i don't know who the hell it is i don't care it could be mr
04:31sprinkles the mailman for mrs doubtfire just go get one it just you need to go get a veteran center
04:35yeah um but we'll we'll see but where do you stand on decker uh kenny obviously i know you're
04:42combing for the nhl stuff and we'll just sit and wait i'm not gonna freak out now i mean there
04:48is a
04:48update by the way excuse me there is a slight update not break all right not breaking we've
04:55got breaking news from kenny kott hockey nista per uh darren drager very he's uh nhl insider
05:04darren drager uh he says i can't imagine that robert thomas gets traded at this point so that's
05:11another domino to fall off of the board
05:19thanks kenny way to bleep in the punch bowl uplifting news guy over here yeah yeah right
05:24after the wings traded for a guy and the pick is contingent on is he alive when the first statement
05:30is if he plays i can't wait for all the hockey nerds to call in oh but he's such a
05:36big voice in
05:37the room hear me now dorks you need talent oh man that goal in montreal a couple years ago
05:49david your thoughts on that 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
06:29for his outright release because he didn't want to restructure his deal which is reported that they
06:35asked him to do that okay but this does i mean you have one player on your offensive line that
06:42you can
06:43trust this is a huge offseason you guys are right they need to get a center first and foremost and
06:49then you can pair up whatever you want with that but there's a lot of questions with this offensive line
06:53now can i ask another question sure not to be provocative i'm asking we're just four doofuses
07:00talking sports because i was about to say something that he was going to hit the deflator thing so go
07:04ahead guess what i'll put the pin in the balloon because what i'm going to say is probably not going
07:10to be well received but i'm asking what happened to this lions culture what what happened to this whole
07:18you know team team team grit tough taylor decker you're 32 you got one arm you're barely healthy
07:25i'm not taking less wow david montgomery so your carries go down a little bit you still had eight
07:32touchdowns you're still playing in a place you love clearly your teammates love you i want out
07:37why hey maybe something maybe nothing just strikes me as weird for a team that's very big on culture
07:44very big on the room okay two guys have kind of asked out now
07:50the hell is that costa saying grit
07:56okay i think culture mike you've followed enough sports to know that culture comes with winning
08:01and when you win you can accept a lot of things when you win you can take a step back
08:07when you win
08:07you could get uh you know 40 of the carries when you win i can grind it out and if
08:14you so long as you
08:15give me some rest during the week i'll go out there with my bad arm but now you oh but
08:20we want some of
08:20the money back huh well yeah because you know we're we got the culture yeah i got bills to pay
08:26so how
08:27about no i'm just asking no i get what you're saying but when you're winning man everybody loves
08:32everybody but when things start to fall apart that little bit of that culture goes out the window
08:38and what i was going to say david is just i i hope that people understand revamping an offensive line
08:46on the fly requires a lot of luck it requires you know basically you got to hit every spot because
08:55one week link and we saw what that looked like in the green bay game early in the year where
09:00the
09:01problem is i'd ever view decker is filling a spot when dan campbell goes to the podium is like
09:05yeah i love him but uh we're still gonna need a guy i looked at him as his spot was
09:10he was gonna
09:11audition for a spot but now it's gonna be somebody totally new and it's not on the roster right at
09:16least i knew what i kind of got with him all right i'm gonna have to probably you'll you'll probably
09:22work out a day and a half all week i'll give you the rest of the other time off just
09:27because i
09:27know what you can do yeah but now i i don't because your offense is predicated on running the
09:34ball you can't run the ball you're not going to get all the fancy touchdown play i need to see
09:38the
09:39restructurings i'm happy to get the cap space back i'm happy he's gone because frankly i don't think
09:43he was going to be here for very long three weeks five weeks seven weeks whatever he was always going
09:47to be hurt and i don't want to waste resources on the insurance policy i'd rather just go get another
09:53version of him but make no mistake like we could talk about this i have no problem with him being
09:58gone are you better today than yesterday no and to me i don't understand look i have no idea what
10:06taylor 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
10:15to go where people are going to give him the latitude of not practicing and not going out there
10:20and being with their teammates like you get that here because we know because who you are yeah you
10:24know the play son you know we know what you can do another team nah we got a trade congratulations
10:34buddy the red wings have traded for pierre turgeon incorrect i got nothing who what have they got they
10:43they have nothing uh your team has acquired somebody the captain of the st louis blues brayden shen
10:48and 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 delgarno 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 and i said i'm being serious how many reps no warming up none of that crap like no three
12:30months
12:30you can go stretch and do what you got to do you might get the third down wow dead two
12:37four eight
12:37five three nine ninety seven ninety seven let's talk a little taylor decker and i'm fine if you
12:42want to hop into the trade deadline green room we have snacks we have beverages as we all just kind
12:49of wait for three o'clock kenny feverishly hitting refresh
12:54refresh
12:55refresh
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