00:01hang on tight if you're on hold we've been asking you guys for the most frustrating of our four
00:05general manager executive types yes and stoney has made the comparison that they're all cut from
00:11the same cloth they all share some dna yes they do a 23 and me you'd see overlap so let's
00:18what
00:18maybe the funniest development has been this push of people defending eiserman this text says holy
00:24moly is this an eiserbot extravaganza these dudes are insane lou and shelby i don't i don't i don't
00:29get it another says i'm embarrassed for caller chris that you're going to call and defend the
00:33red wings at this point in time is pathetic chill guys we had more wins than vegas signed to dylan
00:39and royal oak yeah i can't believe all the eiserman supporters i said he's the most frustrating to me
00:45right because they've accomplished the least he's been here the longest right his name actually works
00:50against him to me right because he's tarnishing it and then the difference in what we're discussing
00:55is frustration it's not who's done a worse job either and we have langdon kind of on a back burner
01:01right this will be a big off season you said harris yes because of the inability to get a bat
01:06when they
01:06were very close and when they needed bullpen help and yeah finnegan was okay but the rest of the guys
01:12that they got last year were ridiculously you know effed up the eduardo rodriguez situation who by the way
01:18won last night right for the for the diamondbacks of course against the dodgers right yeah yeah and then the
01:24other name's brad holmes yes and his name is in the news right now because the miles garrett trade
01:28all right let me ask you a question here uh-huh what if i told you and i don't know
01:33if it's you know
01:35that the lions were interested in miles garrett uh but because of the extension that he did sign
01:43with the browns he has the rare thing that most football players do not have which is a no trade
01:49clause okay but we found out that uh detroit was one of his cities that he was not going to
01:55get
01:55traded to i mean it was certainly i'm not saying it's true i'm not trying to stick up for brad
02:02alms
02:02i just didn't realize that he had that shefter reported yeah shefter had it it's an important
02:07detail and you're right to raise it if it was true but everything we've read is right like i mentioned
02:12the commanders the bills the eagles those are the teams that were calling as well yeah but not the
02:19lions correct so that's the issue i raise my question is this the thing that keeps the lions
02:26from winning a super bowl this blind spot that brad holmes has he wasn't willing to make these kind of
02:31deals before he paid his guys he's certainly going to say i can't make these kind of deals after paying
02:37my guys his line of thinking is very different than what la does la made the stafford trade won a
02:46super bowl and now they're making the defensive version of the stafford trade in pursuit of a
02:50second super bowl their short-term thinking which i think is a cope from lions fans short-term thinking
02:58one yielded a super bowl two has put them in position better than anybody in the league to win
03:03another and in the middle they won more playoff games than the lions the lions who got up off the
03:09mat
03:10have all their all pros have dan campbell and grit and guts and going for it
03:14in that same time the rams post super bowl one have won three playoff games where the lions have
03:21only won two so them doing it stupid and dumb and reckless and short-term and it's going to bite
03:26them
03:26in the ass has actually led them to winning one then more playoff games and better position to win
03:32another this is the thing that holds you back when others are willing to play with both arms and you
03:38have one tied behind your back that's what makes it harder to win a super bowl and well what bradham
03:43went by the trade yesterday also is significant because uh uh garrett's girlfriend olympic uh
03:51snowboarder i think she is uh chloe kim she'll be the first guest on kelly stafford's uh podcast oh
03:58nice maybe i don't know what is that rigor filling in this morning the kelly stafford obsession no i'm
04:04not obsessed i just thought it was pretty funny he picked up a guest booking uh gig on the side
04:08he's
04:08helping book for uh the kelly pod yeah brad holmes is going to be on people's list i don't know
04:13if
04:13he's the most frustrating he's not my most frustrating because he's accomplished the most
04:17right that doesn't mean i don't have my gripes of course we all have gripes yeah i just think like
04:23people get it lost i think the lions have had a productive offseason i think their best position
04:28to win the nfc north i think they're going to be in the mix to make some noise come playoff
04:31time and
04:31at the same time i can look at what la did they traded a first to get trent mcduffie they
04:36traded
04:36another first to get miles garrett they didn't mind vaporizing and moving on from verse because
04:40it's an upgrade for them they have made only a couple picks in the first round since 2017
04:48one was verse who they traded the others ty simpson yes every other first has been shipped out and has
04:54it bit them in the ass no because no they've been better than us no because part of the reason
04:59is
04:59because of you know some of the guys they got in the trades including which we'll find out trent
05:04mcduffie this year and also just like brad holmes so i'm giving brad holmes credit here uh his mentor
05:10or we worked under les steed has drafted amazingly after the first round you know when you look at
05:17you know puka avila uh byron young yes fisk kobe turner if you nuked eight of brad holmes next 10
05:27first round picks would they be in super bowl contention because i know the rams answer is
05:33yes yeah no they wouldn't be well that's when we talk about envy and what what these other so not
05:38only is he more aggressive but it sounds like he's also doing a better job drafting outside the first
05:42round he's well brad's done a pretty good job better because again the goal is not to be good
05:48the goal is to be the best yes you're right yeah let's get to the phones tony and ferndale tony
05:52good
05:52morning hey morning guys uh hey i don't know why we're wasting time talking about steve eiserman
05:58this guy he is i'll put it like this with the gms across the board we're at the point with
06:06steve
06:06eiserman where i just we just deal with it he just neglected it whatever until he is gone that franchise
06:12will not win plain and simple we're approaching that i feel with brad holmes and even scott harris
06:19trajan langan's on a little bit of a pass just because he's still kind of a newer face this
06:23season is big for him in this off season coming up to see what he's going to do to adjust
06:27but scott
06:28harris and brad holmes are at this like middle ground of like we still have hope that they can
06:33pull something out of their butt but like brad holmes man pick up the phone make a call that this
06:39season if it doesn't go as intended he is going to be in the steve eiserman world of uh we
06:44ain't
06:44winning anything until he's gone it just won't happen in in with the red wings and i hope that
06:50it doesn't happen with the lions the football in this town means so much yeah we've seen that in
06:55the past six seven years that you know we are at a point to where he he if he doesn't
07:00make a move
07:01that works people are just going to start saying just like uh uh what's his name or one of our
07:06old
07:06gm uh matt millen until he's gone this ain't gonna work until he is gone and i do not want
07:12that to
07:12happen to the lions no and please don't put brad holmes in the matt millen category that better
07:18not happen people will have lost their mind i don't think they're i don't think they're there
07:22right now absolutely not but we are approaching that territory no no no we're not no we're not
07:26even close tony you call all the time but you've had better points this is he is nowhere near the
07:31category of matt millen no i mean look giovanna manu may be his uh kika lama francis but no no
07:40it's not
07:41even close who could forget tom's head is in his hands uh let's get to ty in detroit ty good
07:48morning
07:49what is the deal good morning everyone how are you good hey listen uh i've been on the i've been
07:55waiting for you guys for about maybe 10 12 minutes or so and i told you call screener it's unfair
08:01uh
08:01reporting when no one talks about the fact that you know everybody's getting on our gm from the lions
08:08uh brad and everybody's getting on him but i told the call screener that miles garrett had a trade
08:15clause where he had to sign off on the trade i haven't heard you guys speak about it all day
08:20i just
08:21did you just said it though you just said it while i was on the hold that's ironic but i
08:26digress
08:27here's what i'm saying though but ty we have no reporting that says the lions were even interested
08:32no no no no no you're right you're right that's not what i'm saying it's not you guys it's the
08:37argument that's going to be on your airwaves all day today with other other sports uh stars that's
08:43on your network which i love who's going to talk about what brad did not do and how he couldn't
08:48get it done the man has to sign off on the trade that's one as well as his girlfriend chloe
08:54kim
08:54lives in los angeles this man wasn't coming to detroit but getting but rest assured you're going to have
09:00everybody calling in today talking about what brad couldn't get done and didn't do and things of that
09:05nature to me it's bigger i know and you're trying to fight an entire narrative and not just us but
09:10what i'm telling you is it's not even about brad had to make this move or he's a no it's
09:15the overall
09:16line of thinking correct that they weren't even inquiring they weren't on the short list of teams
09:20that were beaten down the door that these moves will not be made while he's the general manager
09:25of this team weren't made before aren't being made now won't be made in the future that it's not
09:29even about this specific deal i'm sure that brad holmes last year when all the miles garrett rumors
09:34started even max crosby as well i'm sure i don't know not factual but i my belief is yeah he
09:40picked
09:40up the phone made the call see what it would you know take you know preliminary whatever and he
09:46whatever he was told he didn't want to do or whatever or whatever or the no no trade thing
09:52existed i have no idea but wouldn't you feel differently if shefter in a following tweet an
09:57hour or two later said brad holmes was hot on the tail but i'm told miles garrett would not wave
10:01his no trade clause to detroit of course we don't have that reporting right i know i know
10:05this guy wishes we did that caller wanted that to be but we don't have that report and garrett
10:10didn't want to come to detroit because he didn't think he can win with jared golf there you go what
10:13if that came there you go hey i want to address one text here i know we have a bunch
10:16more and a
10:16bunch more calls but real quick it says the idiot hosts at 97 one that's you and me stoney okay
10:23act like garrett guarantees a super bowl football is not about one player it's a full roster
10:27vegas has la at plus 600 i think that's the favorite yes so i don't think any of us have
10:33said it guarantees you a super bowl it best positions them which is the job of a general
10:38manager is to best position his team for a championship la and less need have better
10:43position themselves for a championship than brad holmes and the detroit lions period
10:48underline italicize copy paste send to your friend right that's the truth doesn't guarantee
10:53him anything no but it best positions them and that's all i can ask of a general manager
10:57see the opposite is the guy who sends this text and because the rams might not win the super bowl
11:03that'll make brad right because if the rams don't win the super bowl brad wins that's how some people
11:09in this city well they should they should lose that mentality because the rams have already won a super
11:16bowl because of a trade that they made with the lions and look it was stoney stoney the packers added
11:21parsons they didn't win a super bowl so we were actually right even though we finished last in the
11:25division that is how some people in this city act but i think it's a i mean a minority okay
11:31maybe i
11:32rip up more no no i love i love them i love reacting to them but sorry i saw that
11:39one it stuck out
11:40we got better better texts better calls we'll keep the conversation rolling and if you're hanging
11:44on hold to complain about a different gm if one of them is more frustrating than holmes we'll get to
11:48you it's 97.1
Comments