00:00Man, I'm bummed I didn't think of that comp.
00:02That was great.
00:0550 plus games, only missed a single practice, good character, work ethic.
00:11Yeah, I thought of it, but again, I'm never going to compare someone.
00:14I'm never going to put those type of limits on an individual.
00:19Because you said he's more athletic than you.
00:21Oh, yeah.
00:21I mean, I didn't have a 9-9 RAS score.
00:24You were an 8-8.
00:24I looked it up.
00:25Yeah, but what you can't measure is.
00:30Heart.
00:30But I think he's got that.
00:32Toughness.
00:32And I do too.
00:33I mean, again, I don't know.
00:35I haven't met him.
00:36I never played next to him, so I don't know what that heart is.
00:40And I don't think you can measure that until you actually are in the trenches with him.
00:45But the physical toughness, you can see it.
00:48There's a quote.
00:49Now, I'll have to find the exact phrase, but it's, I believe, from a teammate of his that says he
00:53hates to let his teammates down.
00:57Like, and that's probably where that comes from, this idea, like, I'm an Iron Man.
01:01I'm not going to take plays off.
01:02I'm not going to miss games.
01:03I'm not going to miss practices.
01:04Yeah, because your teammates are counting on you.
01:06They're counting on you to be out there.
01:09So they make the pick.
01:10They address the offensive line.
01:12Everybody's feeling good about it.
01:14Where do they go from here?
01:16Pick 50.
01:18Tom was kind enough to bring in the best available on the board.
01:21It's in one of these sheets of paper.
01:23The best players available, John.
01:26Denzel Boston, receiver Washington.
01:29No, no.
01:30Zion Young, edge out of Missouri.
01:33I think he'll be good, but I think you're going to have to go up too high to get him.
01:37CJ Allen, linebacker Georgia.
01:39Probably the same deal.
01:41He's not going to be there at 50.
01:42Right.
01:43Jermon McCoy.
01:45Clearly, the injury dropped him out of the first round.
01:48Uh-huh.
01:48Corner out of Tennessee.
01:50And that's going to go to...
01:53Someone's going to take him early in the second.
01:55Oh, there's no question someone's going to take him early, but it's going to go to the medicals.
02:00What do you believe?
02:01Is he a guy that...
02:02We saw him run at his pro day, which was...
02:06I mean, he was blazing.
02:08But if he has to have a cleanup surgery, how long does that lay him up?
02:13I don't want a guy that's going to have to redshirt in the second round.
02:18Eight of the top 10 available players, best available, are defensive players.
02:22Some other ones are R. Mason Thomas, edge out of Oklahoma.
02:26Caden McDonald, D. Tackle Ohio State.
02:28Jacob Rodriguez, linebacker Texas Tech.
02:31And Kristen Miller, defensive tackle out of Georgia.
02:36What do you want to see?
02:37Do you have a preference for what they do with their next pick?
02:39Yeah, I think they go edge.
02:40And I think R. Mason Thomas out of these guys is the best available for that.
02:46I like him better than I like Zion Young.
02:48I just don't think he fits the defense.
02:50You got Derek Barnes.
02:51You gave him the contract.
02:52They're kind of the same type of position.
02:55And that's not what you need.
02:57You need a pass rusher off the edge.
02:59That is a bona fide get after it.
03:03And I would go with a guy like we had talked about, Gabe Jakis, out of Illinois.
03:08I think you stay at 50, and you can get him right there.
03:12I'm looking at the same deal, the best available.
03:15And the Lions will pick 17th in this round.
03:17Yeah.
03:1823, T.J. Parker.
03:20Brought him up a couple days ago.
03:23Double up on Clemson players.
03:25You could.
03:26I think he's a three-down player.
03:27Can rush the passer.
03:29Responsible against the run.
03:30Give me T.J. Parker with the Lions' next pick.
03:32I wouldn't hate it.
03:33Let's get to John in Livonia.
03:34John, good morning.
03:35I love that I can't.
03:36Hey, what up?
03:37What up, guys?
03:37How are you doing?
03:39Is this Jim Jansen I'm talking to?
03:41A variation of it.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Hey, guys.
03:44That draft was pretty fun last night.
03:46But I can't help but think that Reuben Bain is the best player in this class, right?
03:52And he fell to pick 15.
03:54I thought that we should have traded up to get him and then traded a future 2027 first-round pick
04:01to go back up to get Miller or Monroe Freeling.
04:03Because if you think about it, that pick's probably going to be late 20s, hopefully, is
04:09what I'm hoping.
04:09I think we'll have a good season this year.
04:11And that sets up a Super Bowl-ready team for the start of the season.
04:15You know, Reuben Bain next to Hutch?
04:16Oh, my God.
04:17I thought I kept thinking, like, man, this might be a reality.
04:21But nope.
04:22But I thought we should have done that.
04:25I started to consider the possibility he'd be there for the Lions at 17.
04:29And I started to get really excited because you say you think he might have been the best
04:33player in the draft?
04:35He was breathing fire off the edge at Miami.
04:39I don't care about short arms.
04:40The guy was pressuring, sacking, affecting the quarterback.
04:43He could play the run.
04:44He could play the pass.
04:45I think he's going to be a hell of a football player in the NFL.
04:48He has probably the biggest impact on either side of the ball for any player drafted last
04:53night.
04:54I don't know if you guys watched the college football playoffs.
04:57Oh, yeah.
04:57He was all over.
04:58He was genuinely every single play all over those guys.
05:02You know, like that.
05:03I don't know.
05:03I thought he would have.
05:04Him and Hutch, man.
05:06But anyways, thanks for taking my call, guys.
05:09Hey, thanks, Jim.
05:10It's a natural question.
05:11We spent some time talking about would the Lions trade up?
05:14And only a couple spots in front of him goes one of these impact pass rushers.
05:20I'm at peace with the Blake Miller pick.
05:21I like the Blake Miller pick.
05:23Yeah.
05:23And I didn't want to sacrifice the next year's first.
05:26And I know he said, hopefully, late 20s.
05:28Yeah.
05:29At a minimum.
05:30Hopefully, it's 31 or 32.
05:32You wouldn't have to give up next year's first to move two slots.
05:35No.
05:35Would you?
05:35No.
05:36Three slots.
05:36No, no.
05:36He was talking about trading up to get him and then using next year's first to trade back
05:40into the first round to get Blake.
05:43So, my oldest son wanted to do the move up and get Bain above the Bucs.
05:48And I told him, I said, the offensive line had to be solidified.
05:51Like, I think there was a lot of angst going into this draft, Lions fans.
05:55That they weren't going to do it.
05:56That they weren't going to do it.
05:57And sometimes you just got to take care of business.
06:00Don't you feel a sense of relief this morning?
06:03Yeah.
06:03With the offensive line?
06:04That's a great word.
06:05Sense of relief.
06:06They've addressed this appropriately.
06:08Signing a center and drafting a tackle.
06:10Guys that will start day one for this football team.
06:12My frustration only is that this should have been done sooner so that you could have done
06:17something different last night and more creative, potentially.
06:20That because of past mistakes, you had to do this.
06:23Yeah, but then you wouldn't have Dennis Rakestraw.
06:25Yeah, exactly.
06:26You know, but the comp of Miller is to Rosengarten.
06:29The guy that went right after Rakestraw, which I've pounded the table about numerous times.
06:33And so you realize the capital you spent last night at 17 could have been spent in the
06:3960s two years ago.
06:41And you get the comp.
06:43Yeah.
06:44You know?
06:44And who knows how last year plays out, by the way?
06:46Right.
06:47And then you could take bigger swings last night.
06:50Right.
06:50But you had to.
06:52We're getting at least 80% positivity on this, I would say, this morning.
06:56And it's because there is a sense of relief now.
06:58You had to have this offensive line stable for Jared Goff to function.
07:02Now the offense can potentially get back to what it was.
07:05And now you have to focus on the defense.
07:07Yep.
07:07And I think that's what they need to be doing the rest of the way is almost exclusively defense.
07:13So the biggest needs going into the draft were offensive line.
07:19They addressed it with Blake Miller.
07:21Now the biggest needs, and just to simply feel the defense, are on defense.
07:26Whether it's edge, because you want somebody that can be more of an impact opposite Hutch,
07:32they still need multiple linebackers to fill out the roster and create depth.
07:38I still don't think you're going into the season with Malcolm Rodriguez as your starting
07:43linebacker, as a starting linebacker.
07:45No, but it may be a different Rodriguez.
07:47I mean, if Jacob Rodriguez is there at 50, I know he doesn't play edge, but he was all
07:52over the field at Texas Tech.
07:55Instinctive, off-ball linebacker.
07:57He's getting a little bit of buzz as like a dark horse Heisman.
08:00He was never going to win it as a linebacker, but people wanted to spotlight just how important
08:03a player he was.
08:05Right, and I wouldn't hate that.
08:06If they decided that, hey, we've got Wadham, we've got whatever we want and need to fill
08:12that edge opposite Hutch, fill out the defensive line, if they went with a guy like Rodriguez
08:19in the second round, I wouldn't hate it.
08:22A couple texts that want to know about this safety from Toledo.
08:29Emanuel, McNeil, Warren, who's one of Mel's five best available players.
08:34How would you feel if they got him or targeted safety with the next pick?
08:39So again, the safety position is clearly one of their needs.
08:48I don't necessarily think it's their biggest need because I don't know about Kirby Joseph.
08:55The only ones that know about him are going to be Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell, the medical
09:00staff, and what is he going to provide at the beginning of the year or throughout 17
09:06games?
09:07We know Brian Branch, when he comes back, he's going to be a good player.
09:10We have no idea if he gets back to the same level that he was, but I think he'll be
09:13a really
09:14good player.
09:16So I just don't see that as one of their biggest needs defensively.
09:22Okay, we should address this because we got a couple of texts that are calling us out.
09:26I guess maybe you more than me.
09:29Yesterday, John's dream scenario was Monroe Freeland.
09:33Yeah.
09:34Haven't heard him say Carolina got the better guy.
09:36Now it's glass slipper.
09:38Perfect fit.
09:40Guys, is it don't say anything negative so he'll come on the show?
09:43That's Jim in Livonia.
09:44And another says that your home's mouthpiece.
09:47All we heard was Freeling and now Miller's the man.
09:50Well, yeah, Freeling was available, and I was hoping they were going to take him.
09:55They didn't.
09:56And I also said I would be happy with Blake Miller.
10:01I said that when you brought it up six weeks ago.
10:04Well, that's the thing I point out.
10:05I've been on this guy's, he's been on my radar for six weeks.
10:08Yeah.
10:09I've been glazing him for a long time.
10:11Maybe I'll put it that way.
10:12But yeah, I really highlighted him.
10:14I always made sure to include him in the Freeling conversations.
10:17We always did.
10:18Because the athletic scores, they're both big, long tackles who move well.
10:22So I thought, well, one plays the left side, one plays the right side.
10:24I liked a bit of a mean streak and the 50-plus game resume of Blake Miller.
10:29And it turns out, so did Brad Holmes.
10:31And what we said earlier was, I think the ceiling for Monroe Freeling is much higher than Blake Miller.
10:40But then it also required you to have a left tackle that was a rookie.
10:43And I was okay with that.
10:44I thought, I think he's going to be a really good pro.
10:49248-539-9797.
10:51More feedback reacting to the pick last night.
10:53Looking ahead to tonight.
10:54We've got the cookie jar coming up at 735.
10:56And there is a question about Vrabel and Russini.
10:59Because that story, oh boy.
11:00It just won't go away.
11:02She named one of her kids Mike?
11:04Oh boy.
11:05You do the timeline?
11:07Who's your daddy?
11:08Oh no.
11:09Paternity test.
11:11It's 97-1.
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