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Do you agree with Jon that the Lions will return to form in 2026?
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00:05okay i really like this conversation because i think anybody can jump in it's july 1st we're
00:10at the midpoint of the year and we want to know what the biggest story in detroit sports will be
00:14the rest of the way some of the options the lions getting back to blowing people out kings of the
00:21north a dominant season remember the postseason would be in 27 right so i could see the regular
00:29season going real well for detroit with this schedule with this offense just getting back to
00:33beating people down another storyline could be the pistons blockbuster move and ushering them into
00:37true title contention it could be the tigers and the handling of tarek skuble do they lose him is it
00:42at the end of this month is it at the end of the season and what does the season amount
00:48to that
00:49could be the big story in detroit the rest of the way or it could be this ever-evolving saga
00:53with the
00:54captain both of them iserman and larkin does it become toxic to where it's spilling out into the
01:00arena and on the ice does iserman save face is zach rowinski here what is the story that wraps us
01:07up
01:08for the rest of 2026 248-539-9797 which is the one you want it to be like i think
01:16you're your fanboy
01:17wings guy i think it's at alliance i think they got a real shot if they can get this right
01:24the wings feels like too much of a tangled mess i feel like you know whether it's steve or the
01:29next
01:29guy you got to diffuse a bomb to get out of this i mean the one you want it does
01:32have to be the
01:33lines there yeah that makes them a tier one super bowl threat yeah and then you get to the playoffs
01:39and you see how healthy you are and can you do it and and they'll get a chance to prove
01:43it early
01:44because you look at the schedule and you're like well it's a last place schedule and what we could
01:48be doing the same thing we did a couple of years ago where oh well they're just beating all the
01:51bad
01:52teams they just smoke the jaguars or they just smoke the titans but when they play buffalo in buffalo
01:58they open up high mark stadium they're going to get a chance to prove and make a statement
02:04early in this season what's week three right uh week two week tuesday night football but let me just
02:09paint the picture because you know people going i the lions ended last year on a sour note i don't
02:13know
02:13we missed our window whatever saints week one at home buffalo week two whatever it is even called
02:20a loss jets panthers arizona four and one going to the bye week right but the question is going to
02:27be
02:28well they've beat a bunch of bad teams right what you're saying is though john you said 2024 form
02:33dominant okay if they do that early against that schedule people will say it's the schedule right
02:38it's closing the season with three divisional road games in four weeks and looking like 2024
02:45but can you imagine if they had the 2024 dominant look on the road and winning these divisional games
02:51two out of three of them even well that's just what i was going to say coming out of the
02:54bye is when we
02:55get our taste of the division you get two weeks to prepare for green bay and that game is in
02:58detroit
02:58and then you're hosting minnesota in detroit you start six and one you start really throwing
03:04logs on the fire the 2024 lions won by an average of 11 points per game the majority of their
03:11wins were
03:11double digits if detroit is all jokes about the disco aside if they are blowing people out every
03:17single week and they are six and one in the division like six and one on the schedule and beating
03:21teams
03:22in the division you'll get some doubters but the city's going to be alive yeah oh there's no
03:28question the city to be alive it'll be it'll generate some excitement by the way after that
03:31is miami so make it seven and one you know i'm saying like what if they win 10 of their
03:35first 12
03:36games the patriots in germany even if you call that a loss i still feel like they're going to
03:41rattle losing to all the good teams i'm saying even if you call it a loss and they could win
03:46these
03:46games john my point is if they go on some tear where they rattle off 10 of 12 or 12
03:51of
03:5215 there are they're going to be the story of 2026 more so than anything that happens in the
03:58other sports because football's king right no and the appetite for the lions i know it was your thing
04:02too i don't have to sell you on it so the 2024 team before hutch got hurt i thought they
04:07were
04:07physically pummeling teams yeah it wasn't the points the margin of victory it was the way they
04:14looked remember when they went to green bay on the thursday night it was 27 to 3 at the half
04:19i think it
04:19was the same score in dallas and then hutch got hurt in the third uh the tampa game the jamo
04:24long
04:25touchdown game lines had some struggles tampa's defense has done some tricks on the lions offense
04:31compared to some teams over these years but they physically pummeled the bucks the bucks scored
04:36six points like if they have that look their number their tier one i don't know if they can
04:43get to that because i don't think they're i have to see the offensive line prove it yeah i get
04:48to see
04:48the offensive line prove it i've talked about that but i also need to see what the defense looks like
04:53you can outscore a lot of these teams on their schedule but when they play buffalo when they play
04:58new england when they play tampa yeah when they play some of the better teams and i'll even throw in
05:04there depending on what the vikings look like i mean i got a lot of respect for kevin o'connell
05:07with a new quarterback with the opportunity to go out there and you know if they look that way
05:13against the vikings and green bay who knows on october 25 if micah parsons is back or not yet
05:19but that'll be that that to me is going to be if he is that'll be a big test for
05:24the offensive line
05:24the 2024 lions started 11 and 1 yeah i mean if you're doing that stuff i know that's that that's
05:33the year where you wouldn't even get on the bus i said 14 wins oh you're ridiculous you're a homer
05:39and then then i went up to to 15 yeah well you tried to let's get to the phones adam
05:45and gibraltar
05:46then a bunch of texts adam good morning hey good morning guys how you doing good good i think one
05:53of the biggest stories this year is the rest of the year is going to be the tigers potentially getting
05:56back into that division race i mean the central is so bad and if you look at their schedule going
06:02into august and september they play 23 division opponents if they can cut that lead down to like
06:10let's say four or even like to six games i would say maybe even five they kind of control their
06:18own
06:18destiny because you play cleveland a bunch you play the white socks all these six or seven games you have
06:24that makeup against cleveland and then obviously the royals too but they kind of control their own
06:30destiny if they can have a decent month of july and then roll it off into august and september um
06:35september so i mean and then with that being said i mean i if you're going to get the haul
06:42bag that
06:43they're saying you're going to get from scoobal i just i would just try to resign him just give him
06:48what he wants i mean you're going to lose him for nothing basically at that point um and then like
06:53a side
06:53note with the whole larkin thing um that you mentioned uh stevie why has done this before
06:59he did it with johnson drew in in tampa he waited over a year to trade him um so he's
07:06he's not new
07:06to this he's gonna wait he might and at the same time his hockey team's not going to get any
07:13better
07:14no yeah you're you're not you're not wrong there i mean so it's kind of like cutting off your nose
07:20despite your face like another rebuild though well no but that's why i say i i don't i don't feel
07:27like
07:27he's in this this this spot where he's going to win optically or on the ice losing still yeah and
07:35honestly this free agents class is really bad right um besides maybe like one or two guys but
07:41you're not going to add anyone really because no one's going to want to come here knowing the
07:47unknown of larkin and franken and you know even king right hey going back to the the tigers part of
07:54this john you know he says hop skipping a jump basically you win a few in july you close the
08:00gap
08:00you play the division well the issue is you have to do more than a hop in july because you
08:10you're going
08:10to have to be within striking distance by the end of july for for any of us to be convinced
08:15that
08:15they shouldn't sell scoobal and i'm not even sure what that looks like in a position where you're not
08:23selling scoobal you're 12 back now is do you have to be or 12 back to 500 i'm even talking
08:30about i'm
08:30just talking about getting back to 500 yeah yeah are you does this is this a month where it has
08:36to be
08:37eight over 500 so you're four they don't play as many games in july well that's that's what i'm
08:42saying yeah so i mean it needs to be a perfect month i'm a little with adam like i said
08:47i i would
08:48say it's the tiger selling and selling scoobal but i don't trust them to not compete i because of
08:52their streaky nature the last few years that's going to get answered super quick here in the next
08:56week or well it's up to the all-star break i mean if they make movement it opens the door
09:01to them
09:01not selling i mean yeah at the same time there's bipolar is the word of the day for them they
09:07could
09:07beat the yankees today they get swept by the the texas rangers the very next series they can sweep
09:13one team and get swept by the next that's just who they've been yeah uh in terms of what adam
09:18said
09:18about potentially keeping scoobal and re-signing him this is interesting there is a window of free
09:26agency before the lockout begins right which he will be on the tour the the so the lock the seat
09:33the free agency begins the day after the world series at 5 p.m teams that have free agents have
09:39five days to exclusively exclusively negotiate it puts it on the table i don't think it's going to
09:46happen because again what do we think boris is going to take any offer and use it as the starting
09:51point for when everybody else can phone a friend right and try to get a deal done but school you
09:55know
09:56doesn't want to stay here just you know the dodgers are going to get i just want to see what
09:59the other offers are there's that window of 25 days before the lockout starts where he can get his bag
10:06what's i'm saying if i'm him like it's i'm i'm going to frame it as it's not a disrespected detroit
10:10i'll take your offer in stride but i'm a free agent i want to see what's out there i want
10:14to see what
10:15dollars are available and if that number is larger than detroit's number yeah bye-bye bye the interesting
10:23thing though is like okay so you're heading into a lockout december 1st and so if you if scoobo
10:31takes free agency to the lockout he has no idea what world he's coming out of he'll sign before
10:36the lockout exactly and teams will want to sign him so they're grandfathered in before any potential
10:41rule changes will teams collude to not to no there's only it only takes a couple we saw it once
10:47before we've seen collusion before okay you're telling me that the dodgers it is the reason
10:52kurt gibson left was collusion i agree but you're telling me the dodgers aren't going to sit there
10:56and say well yeah we'll give you a you know 450 million we'll defer it down the road because
11:01that might be one of the things that actually comes out of the cba that we can't defer money anymore
11:07but
11:07if we do this before then i agree with you simply adam like nobody thinks they're keeping scoobo
11:14adam thinks there's a chance they could i was trying to create the timeline so good good effort
11:19a for effort yes pedro good morning you're on 97 one you know it's like if the tires keep school
11:28it's gonna drive me nuts because sure maybe they can find a way to get a wild card sure maybe
11:32they
11:33can find a way to get back into the division but isn't the goal to win a world series yeah
11:37i don't
11:38think there's a world of this roster can win a world series so if we're not good enough to win
11:41a
11:41world series why are we keeping him why are we not flipping him for the most amount of money that
11:46we can i just like these gms just just blow my mind and i don't understand why we're not moving
11:51him so we can try to move forward and maybe get something in return or we can try to win
11:54a world
11:55series you know later and think about it you know if they trade scoobo they have a six-man
12:00well they're choosing not to have a six-man rotation right now with montero in the bullpen
12:03but they have enough arms to round out the year especially with jackson job coming back
12:08they could be responsible and get something for scoobo while keeping this rotation largely
12:13intact and right if they catch lightning in a bottle great if they don't it's all coming back
12:17next year well mys you have to sort out flarity you'd have to sort out but the the nucleus is
12:22here
12:22from a pitching standpoint flarity the the keyword is out yeah yeah and the thing too like like you
12:30said there's enough arms we really lack that so maybe you move scoobo at the deadline for a bat and
12:35now you're actually better because you're fine pitching wise like the starting pitching
12:38even when scoobo was out was not the reason we're losing no so one it's not going to hurt your
12:43playoff run two you're not winning your world series this is not a world's caliber team i mean we
12:47i think we all know that yeah pedro i'm with you he's got hair scoobo to look himself in the
12:52mirror
12:52and say okay this is this is going nowhere really at the end goal i need to shift scoobo now
12:57appreciate the phone call pedro we got text coming in what will be the story for the second
13:01half of 2026 in detroit sports it's 97 one
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