00:00All right, Jack Campbell's contract is official.
00:02Where does he rank for most important players on the Lions?
00:06You may think I'm crazy.
00:09You already do.
00:10Yeah.
00:11Seventh, because I have no particular order,
00:15but Gibb, Goff, Cade Mays is going to be crucial to this team.
00:21Sewell, Aiden, any cornerback, because they have none.
00:27Then Gibbs, and then I have Amon Ra, and then Campbell,
00:31because the position is not that important a position.
00:35I know he's the captain of the defense, but.
00:38Stoney, you're crazy.
00:40Is that what you wanted me to say?
00:41I have him seventh, too.
00:43Really?
00:43Wow.
00:45I put quarterback, Goff, Sewell, Gibbs, St. Brown, Hutch, McNeil,
00:52and then Jack Campbell.
00:54The McNeil and Campbell thing is a pretty interesting argument.
00:56Yeah.
00:57Nobody, nobody's into the Cade Mays thing, huh?
01:00Because I think Cade Mays, if he's decent,
01:03that opens up everything else, including the answer to the next question.
01:07All right.
01:07Which Lions player is poised for a big year?
01:10So the obvious answer is Gibbs.
01:12Yes.
01:12Because they've revamped this O-line, and there's no timeshare,
01:15and he's going to go hog wild.
01:16He's going to have 2,000 all-purpose yards.
01:18It feels like minimum.
01:20But I think Ali McNeil's a guy to watch because he's full year healthy,
01:24and with such a disruptor on that D-line, they need him to have a big year, too.
01:28Oh, yeah.
01:28Need and poise, I think, are two different things.
01:31So I'm going to say I'll be Captain Obvious on this one.
01:33I think it's Gibbs.
01:35All right.
01:35Which Lions position battle has your attention?
01:39I'm going to go with the offensive line, the Larry Borum-Blake Miller battle for right tackle
01:46because that's going to be very important.
01:48Is that actually a battle?
01:49Isn't it Blake's job?
01:50Well, who knows?
01:52I mean, you're talking about a guy who hasn't played a snap in the NFL.
01:55If they drafted him in the first round and he's holding a clipboard.
01:58They hope, well, you know, he's going to play, but not necessarily start.
02:02I don't know.
02:03So what, they're playing three tackle looks?
02:05He's a skipper, report ineligible.
02:06He's going to catch a touchdown?
02:07No.
02:08He's going to be their starting right tackle.
02:10I hope so.
02:11When you said O-line, I thought you were going to say left guard.
02:12Oh, okay.
02:13But to me, it's corner.
02:15I'm fascinated to see how this corner room shakes out.
02:17So Terryon Arnold's a question mark.
02:19Yes.
02:20But beyond that, the nickel spot, right?
02:21So Rakestraw, McCreary on a one-year deal, Abney, who people really like, the fifth-round corner
02:26out of Arizona State.
02:27The corner position I'm fascinated with.
02:28I think a wild card on this roster right now is Rakestraw.
02:31I mean, with all due respect to the ripping we've given him for two years for not playing, really.
02:34He's hurt.
02:35Right.
02:36We don't know how good he is.
02:37I mean, he could be decent.
02:39Yeah, right.
02:39All right.
02:40Which quarterback position battle around the league are you most interested in?
02:44Atlanta.
02:45Pair of lefties with a good offensive coach and weapons galore.
02:48Bijon, Pitts, London, who takes the reins?
02:51There you go.
02:52As I wrote down, Tua slash panics.
02:54I mean, yeah, Kevin Stefanski, we'll see what he can do with a real quarterback.
02:59But we don't know if they're really quarterbacks anymore.
03:02You know, Tua, I think, will be better getting away from that situation.
03:06But, yeah, it's going to be fascinating.
03:08It's not Murray and JJ?
03:09There's no quarterback controversy there.
03:11That's Kyler's job.
03:13Yep.
03:13Should Travis Hunter be a two-way player in year two?
03:16No, he should be a one-year player.
03:18He could be really good at something first.
03:21One-year player.
03:22One-way.
03:23One-way player.
03:24Yeah, one-way for one year.
03:26Which position?
03:28Cornerback.
03:29Okay.
03:30So, I think when you trade up and give up what they gave up, you have dreams of much more
03:35than just one side of the ball.
03:36Right, I know.
03:37I would make him a full-time corner, and then I would give him packages on offense.
03:41I think he should still play offense.
03:42I think that's why they took him, whether it's, you know, five targets a game or just
03:47a couple designed plays, he should play both ways.
03:50Let's get him good at one thing first.
03:53A.J. Brown's expected to be traded next week, according to Diana Rossini.
03:58What do you think the return will be?
04:01Okay, so he went for a first and a third when he was dealt to Philly, but he was 24
04:06years
04:06old.
04:06It's a different situation, which is a much different contract.
04:09Yep.
04:10D.K.
04:10Metcalf last offseason was a second.
04:12I think it's give or take a second-round pick.
04:14I'm going to just basically go with the Philly trade the first time and just go around lower
04:19on both a two and a four.
04:21The SEC made a little noise yesterday, and I saw this first.
04:25I'm going to mention before what we're going to get to about seceding from the NCAA or separating
04:30or whatever, which is just crazy in my mind.
04:33Did we fight a war over Southern succession before?
04:35Yeah.
04:35I don't know.
04:37All right, though.
04:38I couldn't believe this.
04:38I didn't see this yesterday.
04:39So sometimes we walk in in the morning, and you see something and you're just like, really?
04:44I mean, what is this?
04:45So SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said on Wednesday that the SEC is the better football conference
04:51by far.
04:52That's a quote.
04:53By far over the Big Ten.
04:55Is this a dumber quote than Kenny Atkinson's analytics comment?
05:00No, it's wrong, but it's not as dumb as Kenny Atkinson's, because Kenny Atkinson's, there
05:05was actually facts right there to show it.
05:08Sankey's stuff is really opinionated.
05:11How?
05:11They're 4-0 against them in the playoff the last three years.
05:13I understand that, but it's top to bottom.
05:15Three national titles.
05:17But it's not as blatant as Kenny Atkinson's.
05:19He's wrong.
05:20It's spin.
05:22Both were spin.
05:22They're both spin.
05:24They're both spin.
05:25I think Atkinson's is more in fact than Sankey.
05:29I mean, they're still playing according to him, so.
05:31Yeah.
05:31I mean, I think the Sankey thing is right up there, because it is a fact it's staring you
05:35in the face.
05:36They've won the last three national titles.
05:37It'd be like me telling you, this guy's red right now.
05:39I'm not saying he's wrong.
05:40I just think Atkinson's was so outlandish.
05:43The only argument you could make, and he didn't say it this way, is that the bottom's better.
05:48Right.
05:48But what a great argument about that is our awful teams are better than your awful team.
05:51The NFC North's bottom was better last year than we didn't make the playoffs, so.
05:55All right.
05:55Finally, the only team Aaron Rodgers hasn't beaten is the Green Bay Packers.
05:59If this is going to happen in what's supposed to be Rodgers' last season, it would have
06:04to happen with the Packers and Steelers playing each other in the Super Bowl.
06:10Do you give that a 0.0% chance of happening?
06:13If this happens, I just concede scriptwriters are real.
06:17I don't think 0.0, but it's maybe 1%, if that.
06:22They were both playoff teams last year.
06:23Yes, exactly.
06:24So, it is possible.
06:26You know, there could be some Mike McCarthy, Aaron Rodgers magic again.
06:31But if there were scriptwriters, this is what they'd want, right?
06:33Oh, absolutely.
06:34It would be nauseating.
06:35Oh, of course.
06:36To experience Aaron Rodgers going out as a champion.
06:40Oh.
06:40How nauseating would that be?
06:41How nauseating will it be the two weeks if they're in the Super Bowl, too?
06:44The whole season's going to be Aaron Rodgers' nausea.
06:48At least he's not going to...
06:49They don't give gifts for goodbye tours in football like they do sometimes in the NBA.
06:56I don't think when he goes into Baltimore or wherever, they're going to give him any, like, parting gifts, so
07:01to speak.
07:02It'd be, you know, on Valentine's Day, that Super Bowl.
07:06Oh, that's...
07:07Oh, wow.
07:07You're right.
07:07Make it even better.
07:08Maybe he would let us know who his wife is, or if he has a wife.
07:13Does he play any, like...
07:14If he goes to another school, you wouldn't know her.
07:16Do they play any NFC North teams, the Steelers, at all?
07:20I don't know off the top of my head.
07:21That would be wild.
07:23What's your thought there?
07:24Why?
07:25I don't know that, because that would be the one.
07:27He's going back to, let's say it's Minnesota, a team that he's played, you know, 15, 20 times.
07:32That would be more interesting to me than any of the other things.
07:36Who cares?
07:39I don't know if he plays in NFC North teams, don't he?
07:42So that storyline will have to wait.
07:44Go away.
07:44Yeah.
07:45Until he comes back.
07:46Well, if he pulls a Favre, he's got to have a really bad interception in the postseason, right?
07:51Correct.
07:53And it's not Detroit.
07:55It's the Super Bowl.
07:56It's the Thursday touchdown.
07:58It's 97-1.
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