00:00all right let's get to business i'm going to do a psa for you guys because we live in if
00:04we work
00:05in a place where nothing works uh phone lines are down to start the show today so i don't want
00:10you
00:10wasting your time and getting flustered and then you're cursing bobby out or cursing kenny out
00:15phone lines don't work so rico and i it's going to be like a little orphan annie show 1943 we're
00:21just going to talk to you uh you can text you can do whatever the hell you like i'll let
00:26you know
00:26when the phones are back up hi michael hey buddy how are you i mean we do talk radio and
00:32your phone
00:32lines don't work that seems to be a bit goofy you know what you're a professional yeah i'm not worried
00:39about that um look we can go a bunch of different directions i know later we're going to get into
00:43the wings a little bit and i i'm done calling anything a big game right now they're all big
00:50games these are all playoff games but after todd mcclellan dropped a bomb on his team i think this
00:55is a captain's game we're going to talk about that we can get into verlander because i don't care
01:01about last night i don't i mean it's game four it's no big deal um he didn't pitch well but
01:06i have
01:06a different set of expectations for justin verlander and i wonder if it aligns with people we'll talk
01:13about that yes we can do the rag now stuff hell we can do it right now if you want
01:18i'm just going
01:19to warn you i am not going to lie to you and tell you i'm overly passionate about it i
01:25have a lean
01:26to what side i would be on but there's no yelling and there's no screaming and we can get to
01:33that so
01:34look we have a lot oh and abs in in baseball because i mean the yankees last night go five
01:39for
01:40five in reviews and when you think about total number of pitches i mean five instances where a
01:46goofball ump got it wrong that man and i love abs i love it mike it's gotten to the point
01:54with abs
01:54it's that 10 seconds of okay wait let's see who's right let's see who's wrong yes you got it but
02:00it's
02:01the way they've implemented it i love it we'll get to it but if you want to start with rag
02:05now we can
02:05we can so look the lions have always had a policy right wrong or otherwise their policy is they're
02:13going to go after your signing bonus if you retire before your contract's up they did it to barry they
02:19did it to calvin and they're doing it to rag now now look i can see both sides of this
02:26and i'm not
02:26trying to be stony i'm not trying to shake both hands if i ran a franchise and i had a
02:34barry sanders
02:34walk away i had a calvin walk away and while he's not those players frank rag now had a decorated
02:40career if i have a frank rag now walk away no i'm i'm not asking for their money i'm just
02:46not
02:47and that's three million right and before you call in and waste my time about cap savings what the hell
02:54would your gm even know what to do with it anyways got any other dead bodies we could sign
02:58if you wanted the three if you were that hard up for three more million dollars guess what leave
03:0610 million on goff's deal not 13 during the restructure so just how about we save that one
03:12not that you're able to call me anyways so look let's just it's bad optics mike that's what i see
03:20it's terrible it's so you can't sit here i'm sorry i didn't mean to interrupt no you're fine i don't
03:25you can't sit here i'll call you and have a grievance hey yes michael
03:32michael from troy it's me if you're live it's me from across the table go ahead it's bad optics you
03:38can't sit here and talk about how you know you want to bury same old lions you want to you
03:44want
03:45to put that stuff in the past we're a new team new regime we're about grit we're about family we're
03:51about all of this stuff and then you go back to your same old lion ways of oh wait give
03:57us back our
03:58money okay i get it he's not there think of it as a breakup are you really going to sweat
04:04this
04:04person over the stereo you left at their house because that's what this seems like it's three
04:09million dollars really this man went out there and played for you on a bad toe a fractured throat i
04:17didn't know you could fracture a throat but he played through it and now you're going to sweat
04:22him for three million and think about it it took a while for you to repair you know and get
04:29and get
04:29a relationship back with barry it took a while for you to repair things with calvin and this is just
04:35wash rinse repeat you're about to do the same thing again well and it goes deeper than that and this
04:40is
04:40again this is where i've i've just really not like this offseason and it doesn't mean you won't have a
04:46good year but we're living in the moment i i don't like anything that's coming out alan park i mean
04:52decker situation yeah okay he comes back you ask for a pay cut and then you ghost him i mean
04:58that's
04:58that's a pretty ugly story that's played out now over the course of a couple of weeks now you've got
05:03alex anzalone and you can think whatever you want i i didn't want alex back i was fine that he
05:08was gone
05:09but it's not a good look when a guy who was one of your team leaders blasts the team quote
05:14played
05:15through a fractured throat one week post meniscus cleanup with stitches barely out inoperable toe
05:20etc hey let me get that prorated signing bonus back do business as business is being done close
05:26quote and again none of it matters if the team goes out and wins a super bowl and we're not
05:33going to
05:33look back at this stuff after a week five win but in the moment yeah i i think it's small
05:40by the lions
05:41now i i also do see their side the problem is if it's 51 49 for me i side with
05:48the player who
05:49sacrificed his body who almost factually will die 10 to 15 years younger than someone who doesn't
05:55play football who i've just accepted now absolutely has incurred brain damage and did it for the logo
06:03and for the team and yes that's what the money's for the other thing i need to go back and
06:07look at is
06:08you know was this signing bonus part of any restructure where it's frank trying to help the team
06:13and now all of a sudden you're asking for three million bucks back like i'm sorry if you're that
06:18bricked up for three million bucks come on man just be better the play he's a damn good player i
06:24know he
06:24left do you really need that three mil because i'm with you i think optics is the right word but
06:29i'm
06:29also not yelling and screaming about it because it's not like frank rag now's life is somehow
06:35irreparably different and he's eating bush's baked beans for dinner i like bushes but i get what you're
06:40saying give him the recipe no but you can't sit here and tell me you've moved on and you know
06:47with sheila's now in control and we're doing things differently no you're doing things exactly the same
06:52correct you're sweating them over three million which to you and then to this organization it's like
06:59asking somebody for a quarter you know you went to the store mike and you bought me something and it
07:05was nine dollars and 75 cent i hand you a 10 and i'm like hey where's my quarter yes what
07:11do you
07:11mean well the other part we get into a fight over a quarter we talked about this yesterday but at
07:15what
07:16point will they put a gag order on rod wood rod you're walking out the door nobody needs to hear
07:21from you anymore did you hear the the straw man he tried to pull well it's like if we signed
07:26jameer
07:27gibbs to a 20 million dollar signing bonus and he retired friday no no rod actually that's this is
07:33nothing like that right this player played the vast majority of his deal sacrificed his body was a leader
07:42on that team it isn't 20 million bucks it's three can someone walk rod out of the room please get
07:52him
07:52back to his room no more microphones because between yesterday's show with the max crosby trey
07:58hendrickson stuff which i'm sure brad holmes isn't thrilled that rod the bod was out there just kicking
08:04it into this today yeah you know what rod rod we've got an urgent phone call for you back in
08:13the hotel
08:13lobby we need you to leave this room yeah right go ahead and start that vacation your retirement early
08:18now yeah go with the members of congress right okay go to disneyland yeah just don't say no i i
08:23just
08:24that's my thing so please i don't want anyone to take it like i'm there's no yelling and screaming
08:28about it do i side with the player i do am i also gonna sit here and vilify no i
08:34can say something's
08:35bad optics i don't think it makes the lion some corn cob operation but it's just a bad look but
08:41it's
08:42one they've always had they've never learned from it and to rico's point you know if you want to
08:46change the past behave differently in the present like you just you have to do different things no
08:52the fact that rod went back and let it let it be known hey we've done this to barry and
08:59calvin like
08:59yeah rod we kind of forgotten about that because it took a while to repair those relationships and now
09:05you're just bringing it back to the light that how cheap you guys are that a person who gives it
09:12all
09:12for your team when they leave you know you you were all bricked up when he was coming back you
09:18put
09:19the photo out hey he's coming through the tunnel and then he failed a physical and that's maybe on
09:25your part because you didn't really you signed him before you actually made him go through the physical
09:30and now you want to no no no just you know what here's our gift to you keep the money
09:35we're gonna move
09:36on yeah you're not gonna miss the money and and that's just that's how real teams do it now yes
09:43it's their money they can nickel and dime all they want it's a bad look and to and to back
09:49rico up guys
09:50look i'm not telling you the lions are the only one but a vast majority of teams do not do
09:57this
09:58now i'll say it again if a player walked away in a week like rod wood had said that is
10:03a completely
10:04different conversation we're talking the vast majority of the deal we're talking a guy who
10:10attained all pro pro bowl status we're talking about a guy who's probably the best center in
10:15detroit lions football history okay you don't do that to that player most teams don't a vast majority
10:22don't your team does is this going to cause me to lose any sleep absolutely not i think i'm more
10:29pissed about the phone lines but with this why do it yeah why why if you wanted the three mil
10:37that bad
10:39jared's contract was right there for you instead of leaving 13 in savings just leave 10 i don't want
10:45to hear it don't you dare call this phone line and cape up for brad just so he could go
10:50sign another
10:51dead body don't do that pick another lane or call another show oh wait uh 248 just kidding all right
11:01so let's take care of some business and we are going to go to the exclusive text communications hotline
11:10after this all right here's rico thank you
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