00:01and fuego five straight games of the homer for torque ties a franchise record he had one yesterday
00:07in their win against the reds good morning jim costa john jansen at gov and greg behind the
00:12glass the word to describe the lions draft i said identity trying to restore that identity by going
00:17to the trenches and getting those kind of football players they lost their edge a year ago clearly
00:21wanted to get back to it yeah do you have a word solid i think it's a solid draft and
00:27it's one
00:28where you're looking at okay not a lot of sex appeal in this draft it okay it's just an offensive
00:35tackles can't be sexy john hey no hey it depends on uh on on whatever fetish you might have but
00:41um yeah
00:42we could be certainly sexy but it's in terms of the positions and i don't even know like if you
00:48take an
00:48edge in the second round like it's not necessarily a sexy pick but it could end up being with the
00:57edge
00:57opposite hutch and we all know hutch is going to get all the attention can derrick moore win some
01:03one-on-one battles i think he can i think it's a solid pick jimmy rolder uh abney the second
01:08like
01:09you mentioned it he was a third round grade they get him in the fifth and i think it's because
01:12he's
01:13undersized but i look at like amik these tough physical corners well now it's up to calvin shepherd
01:19okay what positions are you going to put him in okay he's a little undersized you put him in a
01:24nickel
01:24position you know i wouldn't want him to be a bump and run corner he just doesn't have that but
01:30if you're going to play a little bit more zone how can you best utilize his talents and i think
01:36there's
01:36some there's some upside there let's get to the phones craig and chesterfield craig good morning
01:43good
01:49that we had on the offseason board we didn't waste a pick getting a tight end or a running back
01:55or
01:55anything crazy like that you know espn shows every every team what they need and we i think we checked
02:01off every box it's interesting that you said we didn't pick a running back because there was a lot
02:06of mocks if you look at the several round mocks and they had us taking a running back at some
02:10point
02:11but with pacheco obviously gibbs i didn't feel like they needed one either and i'm glad they didn't
02:17waste a pick on somebody that's just that really had no chance of making the roster
02:22no i think the run or the wide receiver from kentucky i might he he might swing in a little
02:27bit as a
02:28running back i saw him line up at wildcat every once in a while um but i i was very
02:33happy with it
02:34yeah he's probably a guy that will be a special teamer and has some gadget like hey
02:40throw him the ball in space get him in some open areas and again it's a day three pick yeah
02:46you know
02:46i think everybody's got a role text says my word would be satisfied they addressed every need everyone
02:54saw the clear and obvious needs and they did it with players that fit our mold satisfying is a good
02:59word
03:02uh my word would be faith my faith and brad holmes has been restored a little after the draft not
03:08completely but i am happy with what they did texas i've seen a couple articles that keith abney
03:14corner from asu might be the steal the draft at his position and then a couple texts that go with
03:21the
03:21michigan picks it says i can't find an honest report because all the reports are from michigan fans
03:25glazing them can we get some honest feedback and jimmy rolder is a garbage pick take the maize
03:30glasses off john well it's not a garbage pick it's there's some risk involved but when you look i mean
03:37he was the most reliable and best linebacker that michigan had last year and i mean just look at the
03:43michigan state game and i know they're not going to get against a prolific offense but he was he's a
03:50sideline to sideline type of linebacker he's downhill i think he's going to be a really good
03:56fit if he could stay healthy that's the biggest knock on him
04:02tom you had one maybe minor gripe with the draft oh i don't even know if it's a i'm asking
04:09the
04:09question did they mess up not taking a safety it's not a gripe but it's more of a just a
04:13question okay
04:14right it it must be tell it's telling to a degree that joseph's gonna be ready to play yeah i
04:21mean
04:21branch isn't for he'll probably start on the pop um i so i don't know about brian branch and not
04:31taking a safety kind of leads me to believe that to your point kirby joseph will at least be a
04:37part
04:37of the equation a larger part than maybe we thought with all of the reports coming out that maybe his
04:43is a degenerative knee issue all this stuff but i was i went back i know it's this is a
04:49little bit
04:49apples to oranges because this was 20 plus years ago when i did my achilles and i was 28 brian
04:57branch is 24 and i kept thinking to myself i'm like okay when was when could i have come back
05:02now
05:02the ir rules were different as soon as it happened in the hall of fame game they put me on
05:05ir i was
05:06done for the rest of the year i was pushing sleds and i actually thought if they had made the
05:11playoffs that i could have played an nfl game in december or early january he's four years younger
05:21the difference being his position now i was back for minicamp with no restrictions and that to me was
05:29april so that was nine months and i was i was back to basically full speed now when did he
05:38have his
05:38achilles december okay and so august is nine months okay so there i think there is a chance maybe he
05:44starts on the pup which means he was out the first four games there is a chance that he could
05:51be playing
05:52week one of the nfl season it's just like this the position has been such an unknown all off season
05:58and it remains that way until we get to camp and they must be a little more comfortable than we
06:04are
06:04from afar they have more intel than we do but you also have free agency i would expect to see
06:09them
06:09yeah acquire a tweener backup guy that can plug and play yeah because my concern isn't that kirby
06:16joseph would play week one my concern is that kirby joseph is going to be playing in december and january
06:21right right how do they manage it throughout the course of the year yeah and obviously the management
06:26starts in training camp so that he's available week one but 17 weeks we know it's a grueling season
06:33what does that look like in december and january and hopefully into february brian branch it's the
06:40same thing like i mentioned you know i'm trying to compare him to my injury but he's four years
06:46younger so that's a positive for him but he is at a much more let's just say explosive quick twitch
06:53position obviously than an offensive lineman how does that affect him i have no idea i mean in theory
07:00it's more like an nba player dealing with the injury just because of the start and stop and the
07:05jumping and all those things so it's again the way branch plays is not shy he's not bashful i mean
07:10he
07:10is explosive it's on a dime it's it's breaking on the football so like someone like jason tatum would
07:15be a better comparison right who came back but will even tell you right now he said i'm not a
07:21hundred
07:21percent right and and branch may not be a hundred percent throughout the course of the year
07:24like i was better obviously a year post than i was the year i came back i see i i
07:32don't want to
07:32return until he is a hundred percent that's why i brought up the pup i i'm thinking long game because
07:37what no what i'm saying is a hundred percent not he'll be healthy and ready to go but the further
07:45removed you are from the injury and we talk about like acl say the first year back is okay yeah
07:49he's
07:49100 but he's not what he was in terms of performance pre-injury i want them to handle
07:57him precautiously because i want him there in november and december when you just said jim
08:02about the unknown with joseph being there or john you said it if both those guys are are limping late
08:08in the year i don't i'm more concerned about kirby joseph's knee than i am about the achilles for
08:15brian branch okay you're saying specifically by the end of the season oh sure i i don't think what
08:21if if they say yeah doctor says you're good to go it's it's a matter of of strength and explosion
08:28versus a chance of re-injuring nathaniel you're next you're on 97.1 good morning how are you guys doing
08:38good so two things one i want to get what you guys think on choosing the wide receiver um my
08:45opinion is i think he was chosen mainly as a punt returner um that's just what he did in college
08:52and
08:52he seemed to be okay with it uh i don't know what else his value it would be on the
08:59detroit lions i mean
09:00our wide receiver room is pretty deep and then two uh i'm not going to say where but i work
09:05at chipotle
09:06and kirby joseph comes in all the time and i serve him and you know if you looked at him
09:13and you saw
09:13him he his he looks great he's walking he there's no limp it doesn't look like he's ill at all
09:20hey that chipotle order it's ready to go what's he get yeah exactly yeah what's he order
09:27uh typically brown rice and all the meat yeah that sounds right gotta get those fajita vegetables too
09:35by the way those are great no no no from khalil max limo driver to kirby joseph's chipotle server i
09:41get john the biggest grin we're getting the diagnosis not from a doctor or medical professional
09:45walking into to get some some lunch okay all right that's that's okay thank you so when he's making
09:53his way from the rice station to the queso there's no noticeable limp right so let's just talk about
09:58kendrick law for just a moment the wide receiver did we not i think we discussed this off air on
10:05friday but when you're talking about a receiver who's his who's replacing kalif raymond yes so if
10:13he is the returner he's a younger version and i don't know i don't know what his return capabilities
10:19will be at the nfl level we'll find out brad holmes obviously thinks it's going to be serviceable
10:26to begin with but how did they use kalif raymond they used him as sometimes a third when guys were
10:31dinged up a fourth option at receiver and the three options at receiver right now are jamo tesla and
10:37amon ross say brown so he fits the mold of you lose one you replace it with a younger maybe
10:43better
10:43version have you noticed what they did here with the draft and free agency so they signed band-aid
10:49one-year players and then drafted players at the same position so that they have the ability to
10:54address the need in the short term and hopefully more long term with the guys they drafted so
10:59borum is a band-aid you take blake miller dj wonham comes in and can play ideally it's derrick
11:06more but you hit it with both to address the need the part returner spot greg dorch is here at
11:11least
11:11temporarily to be that kalif raymond but maybe it's kendrick law again hitting it from both sides so that
11:17you address the position to need and don't get left with your pants down because that's what happened to
11:21them last year is they got lost well and and you think about okay taking in that into account the
11:26one-year band-aid hey you got some veteran experience now the offensive line you're looking
11:30at it going all right sewell and miller at tackles mahogany and ratledge at guards cade mays at center
11:35sounds pretty good larry boreham swing tackle you've got some depth there ben barch juice grugs you got
11:42some depth on the interior miles fraser like you you you were able to solidify not just the starting
11:52five and improve that but now through free agency when you see more of the picture being painted
11:57now you also have depth
12:02yeah i realize i made some drops in there too i'm sorry guys
12:07248-539-9797 we'll take your phone calls i mentioned we talked pistons it's not only the
12:16good from the weekend but the bad as well your phone calls on the lions we'll mix in the pistons
12:20and we
12:21got to mix it a little bit of brad holmes audio because the way he came out after their second
12:25pick
12:25was hilarious it's 97 one
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