00:02the car scott anderson 97 one great to be with you here on a friday big game tonight pistons
00:07and calves obviously we will get back to that today at 12 30 uh you know lions schedule is
00:15out now and um you know look it is it is impossible not to look at it and start thinking
00:21about what you think is going to happen this season it's also something that we have learned
00:25over the years to judge a schedule before season starts as easy or tough as a dangerous game
00:31because it is such an unpredictable league injuries lead to massive swings and expectations for teams
00:39but the lions will open against new orleans in week one they travel to buffalo to open up their
00:44new stadium in week two home to the jets in week three at carolina in week four at arizona in
00:51week
00:51five by week in week six i think it's pretty safe to say that the lions will be favored in
00:57four of those five games a chance to get off to a very good start and we know that we
01:03probably
01:03shouldn't do that but if you take vegas win totals okay the the uh people don't know what a win
01:11total
01:12is this is a way you can gamble on a team to exceed or come short of an expectation vegas
01:18puts out a win
01:18total on a 17 game schedule for every team and you can bet over or under that win total
01:25so for instance the best teams the winningest teams in football are expected to be the ravens and rams
01:31they both have win totals of 11 and a half you can bet over or under 11 and a half
01:37the lions win total
01:39is 10 and a half tied with a bunch of teams including the green bay packers the buffalo bills the
01:46kansas
01:46city chiefs the los angeles chargers the philadelphia eagles the san francisco 49ers and
01:50the seattle seahawks it's a pretty healthy group and a healthy number to have but when you line up
01:57the entire league from one to 32 from the ravens and rams at 11 and a half all the way
02:01down to the
02:02cardinals and dolphins at four and a half if you draw a line in the middle well you draw the
02:08line in
02:08the middle of the nine and a half group so there are 17 teams that are nine and a half
02:16wins or more
02:17which is projected to be over 500 nine and eight or eight nine there's your line of delineation
02:23so nine and a half or more those teams are all projected to win nine games or 10 games in
02:31the
02:31case of the nine and a half team so 17 teams expected to be above 500 15 teams expected to
02:37be
02:37below 500 the detroit lions of the 15 teams that are projected to be below 500 the lions play
02:4812 games of their 17 it is one of the most lopsided schedules i can remember
02:57it is gloriously lopsided for the lopsided for the lions in a data point that unfortunately doesn't
03:04mean as much as we want it to we want this to say that this should be an easy schedule
03:09hell they should wake up in the morning roll out of bed and win 12 games but that's not how
03:13it works
03:15we know better i made the analogy earlier this probably is something that doesn't play as much
03:20of a role in this day and age with social media and social media posts but there was an era
03:24where you
03:25might be talking to a person of the other sex this could be true of any any male or female
03:31and you think she sounds hot never met her but she sounded hot the schedule sounds hot
03:39it's miss it can be misleading well i mean we're looking at it at the schedule from across the bar
03:44you know and from a distance whoa whoa whoa whoa who's all we see is a silhouette who's that chick
03:49with the long blonde hair over there she she she looks like she could be hot is she hot i
03:54don't know
03:54i think take a closer look and right now i'm just i just entered the bar so look i'm trying
04:00not to
04:01get carried away but this this does look like fast start is it's not a given but man it looks
04:11looks
04:12pretty healthy doesn't it it does it does um i'm more reluctant to play this game because of um of
04:20what
04:21we've seen happen in the past we know the injuries can really play a role i don't mind playing the
04:25schedule game i just like to wait until september go through a training camp see who's healthy before
04:29i do it but right now you like hold on you like to do it the responsible way yeah i'm
04:35not as dangerous
04:36as you i'm just not as dangerous as you um but for the sake of discussing it now i will
04:42yeah you have
04:43to concede i mean we know that the schedule is going to be easier because lions are the last place
04:47finish so they're going to have a leg up with a few opponents that are going to be easy for
04:51them
04:51the fact that they take on the nfc south is also telling you that it's an easier schedule um you
04:59play
04:59minnesota twice even though the vikings beat the lions twice last year but you know on paper you're
05:04like how does that happen with those quarterbacks well how does it happen again this year with these
05:09quarterbacks so i will concede that the schedule does look lighter and easier for this team and when
05:16you look at it specifically just like the first five games go into the bye week when you got home
05:21games against new orleans and the jets and your road games are at buffalo which would be really tough
05:26but at carolina and at arizona now carolina they can be a good team if they continue to progress that
05:32looks like a team that's that's you know on the rise they're over under seven and a half but at
05:37any
05:37given time you just do you believe in bryce young or not so you've got what i look at is
05:43four
05:43pretty winnable games to start the first five before the bye week the lions could get off to
05:49a really good start at first blush i'm not calling for it i'm just i'm conceding that yes the schedule
05:55looks looks light compared to what the teams were last year guys it's ai generated she's not that hot
06:01she's not even real we don't even know damn you ai but we don't know who you're talking to man
06:10it's a catfish schedule it could be like i admit with you guys on paper yes but i've been the
06:17guy
06:17who always says don't play that game always play that game you just mentioned the vikings easy wins
06:23right oh and two versus them the giants was supposed to be an easy one james winston as quarterback
06:29they did win that game but it took everything out of them to win that game james winston actually
06:33caught a touchdown pass by the way in that game um but yeah so last year alone the the patriots
06:39were last in their division they went to the super bowl okay the the chiefs everyone penciled in at
06:45least afc championship right because that's where they always been didn't even make the playoffs and
06:50my point is that it changes every year and although on paper right now it looks great it looks soft
06:56it
06:56looks like hey at least 10 wins you just don't know and the nfl loves that by the way they
07:01do love
07:02that so we have to do the responsible thing guys i think we should do the responsible thing
07:07and you just take it week by week and injuries are always an x factor of course uh all right
07:13so we got
07:14some feedback here on the big old tub of pretzels and i got a question about um about the lion's
07:20schedule uh feedback coming in here arm fell asleep so bad it was on my chest i woke up thinking
07:28it was
07:28my wife's hand right on me like this or why is my wife's hand on me like this next text
07:33from chris
07:34in a truck i have to admit i had a butt cheek fall asleep truly train a strange sensation adam
07:41and
07:41clausen southwest egg rolls are amazing hey you don't like that gator i like i love egg rolls but
07:49you're telling me i got just an egg roll and burrito bro i don't even think i gave you the
07:53other
07:54options you just married burrito i forgot what they were because i got one burrito here we go
08:00uh make some breakfast egg rolls they'll change your life that's from an unnamed texture make a
08:04breakfast burrito it changes your life ron says doug will get a tattoo of lance armstrong with a helmet
08:10uh guys love the show mark and royal oak my arm fell asleep so bad at night while i was
08:15asleep that
08:15i turned over and my arm hit my face i thought someone slapped me across my face i jumped out
08:21of bed
08:21looking for someone that hit me wow gator will get a zach wilson tattoo in the shower not anymore
08:31okay did you see what the most expensive ticket and now that the schedule's out the most expensive
08:35ticket next year did you see what it is uh no we mean for the lions in terms of the
08:41whole league
08:41oh the whole league and is the first week of the season nope it's lions at bills oh because like
08:49a
08:49new stadium yep and the first game at the new stadium the average did you say the average price
08:54was over two thousand dollars yeah that's the average ticket price and did you see that delta
09:01put out extra round trip flights to munich from dtw for the lions game against new england in munich
09:10did you see that i did not three thousand dollars for those flights
09:17no thank you let's do 10 texts right now which would you rather go to spend the two thousand
09:24dollars and go to buffalo or spend the three thousand dollars and go to munich
09:33248-539-9797 text us over which you'd rather go to and why make sure you sign your text
09:44spend two thousand dollars and go to the lions buffalo game that's just for a ticket
09:49yep or spend the three thousand dollars on the airfare and go to the lions patriots game
09:54in munich text us at 248-539-9797 the most expensive regular season game happens to be a
10:03lions game the most exotic and maybe not the most exotic there is a game in brazil and australia but
10:09one of the more exotic games of course is the lions playing at munich
10:12which would you rather spend your money on text us over right now we'll read the best answers the
10:19first 10 actually that come in we'll read those on the air make sure you sign your text it's carson
10:25anderson 97 one
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