00:03you know sometimes we come up here at practice who invariably we will see former lions come
00:09around uh to watch the practice and sometimes the guys look like they can just still play
00:17robert porche was here last year looks like the man can still play he was in ridiculously great
00:23shape and uh standing in front of us is uh watching practices cory schlesinger he just
00:29broke me over he just broke me over his knee yeah did you see that yeah i saw it it
00:33can happen
00:33absolute tree trunk in front of us it's still my god look at that i mean that's just some guys
00:40just
00:40still got it certain guys let themselves go and then there's cory schlesinger right right i've seen
00:46that see it go the other way as well but uh good to see former players coming around it's always
00:50good
00:50uh lions practice news cade mays the center if you haven't heard by now this is bad news he's out
00:58with
00:59the wrist injury uh indefinitely though other reporting is saying eight to ten weeks puts a
01:04spot halfway through the season right around the uh the bye week um i suppose that's the good news is
01:09that the bye week helps get the extra week i guess but the bad news is now they got to
01:15find another
01:15center you know it's uh it was something they explored last year remember when frank rag now was
01:20going to try to give it a go and then like two days later he's gone because of hamstring injury
01:25why wouldn't they kick the tires on that again is it because there's hurt feelings about the way that
01:32played out no i would imagine it's because that injury is probably one that can't recover from i don't
01:38know if if it's healed properly and and frank has been retired for a couple years now um i look
01:45what i
01:45ask i i certainly would ask and see what kind of condition he's in are you healthy are you you
01:50know in
01:50shape at all buddy anything there but i mean i wouldn't expect him to say yeah let's go uh or
01:57or that he would be in that kind of shape to play i think i think he's in retirement mode
02:03as he as he
02:03should be at this point look they just gotta they gotta find something else out somebody else in
02:07practice is gonna have to get the job done whether it's gonna be moving tate ratledge over to center
02:12or you know maybe you go with mclaughlin is another guy that they have that looks like he can get
02:18some
02:18reps in there um you know or or mike niece i mean there's a number of players they're gonna have
02:24to
02:24try out and and figure out not only practice but in that first preseason game on thursday
02:30i can see a number of players getting their opportunities and they're not going to be with
02:36jared golf on thursday he's not playing but this is just it's just where they're at and it's uh it's
02:41unfortunate but this is something that every team in the league has to deal with there's always
02:45injuries in the in the uh training camp now one thing i love about karshen anderson is you guys
02:50are the reasoned show reasonable opinions no hyperbole here on a one to ten well on a defcon
03:00scale with defcon one being the worst what is this news today first of all thank you very much for
03:05explaining defcon is it one or is it five which is the worst one we always get that mixed up
03:11right
03:11remember there's a movie in the 80s called defcon four and like then realizing that defcon one is
03:16the bad one defcon four it's like a walk in the park yeah what's that somebody made a your mama
03:21joke
03:21is that what that is i mean i don't know uh but okay so ask me the question again on
03:27us on a defcon
03:28scale where defcon one is sheer panic the tornado is imminent uh where are we what is the defcon level
03:36of your feeling with today's kade mays injury news it's nowhere near a doom and gloom i think this is
03:44still a playoff team even with him gone for perhaps half the season i i think they have a number
03:50of guys
03:50in the offensive line that i really like they have so many weapons offensively and guys gonna have to
03:55step it up but um i i expect there's going to be good growth from the two guards really we
04:01know what
04:02we have with panay sull he's the best in the business but you know it means that you're going
04:06to have to see hopefully a bigger a quicker trajectory for uh for miller at right tackle
04:12um and whoever's going to have to play center i i think they can get some some decent play out
04:18of
04:18it's not i can't imagine it's gonna be the level of kate mays otherwise that player would be starting
04:22over kate mays so there's going to be a drop-off there for sure um but if you do things
04:27you know it's
04:28easier to run block in some cases than it is to pass block if you want to be a find
04:32a mauler up
04:33there and and go ahead and run the football i think maybe we're going to see more of that more
04:37controlled offense in the meantime um but when it comes to center the biggest responsibility they
04:44have is calling out the defense calling out the coverages knowing who's got who you know you have
04:49to mix and match right there on the line you've got to make that determination you need somebody who's
04:53really smart up there and so that's the that's the really unknown adjustment that has to happen
04:58with this i'm going to put you at defcon 4 like the movie you're easy breezy beautiful well but i
05:04don't think everything's all you know bright skies and i think there's going to be so i don't know
05:07what the high scale is on that is it is it four is it five is it six i don't
05:11know what one is the
05:11worst right i got that okay so like four and five is some is five is like normal everyday life
05:17no it's
05:17not five i'm probably between a three and a four i'm probably a three i'm a two this is a
05:21big deal
05:22it's it's a big deal but it's i don't think it's debilitating enough and you went through the
05:26first part of the schedule and look but i mean at your own risk when you look at the schedule
05:32play the schedule game but i do like the start of the schedule i think they went though in my
05:35mind
05:36from four and one to three and two with this which is again it's not the end of the world
05:40seth
05:41mclaughlin's going to work with uh center to the first team today according to mike payton
05:45niece is going to get some reps tate ratledge will get a little work at center
05:49it's to me this has now become you're looking at preseason in terms of hey man let's let's keep
05:56the guys healthy to absolutely not we we have now a fire that needs to be put out and we've
06:03got to
06:03really get some answers the preseason now for this team in that position group becomes as critical for
06:11any group in the national football league 248-539-9797 is a telephone number do you think this changes
06:18anything for the game on thursday the first preseason game yeah we know we're not going to
06:21see jared goff but um is this just a situation where maybe tate ratledge does get reps uh where
06:29you weren't going to give him reps initially but maybe you will but do you want to give him the
06:32reps at center do you just try something that nobody's talked about and move somebody else there
06:37he's got the highest ceiling among the guys you're going to play and for for the constant news around
06:44him to be he could see some work at center you know he's got that you know he's got that
06:49ability
06:49yeah the question is what is that going to do to his development in what ways is that going to
06:55confuse
06:56and stunt his growth and that's what you gotta that's really what you've got to answer here and
07:02look you know with cade may is out who can keep the train on the tracks for these guys until
07:09he returns
07:09which now looks like it could be after the bye week early to mid-october this is not a end
07:16of the
07:17world sort of thing but it's an injury you flatly could not afford to have most indispensable players
07:23on this team right now i would have goff one i would have hutch two i might have gibbs three
07:31and
07:32then cade mays thereafter i mean is is that hyperbolic to say i think it is because i think a
07:38couple
07:38of players i put ahead of them i don't think it's what we say hyperbolic it i don't i i
07:43think it's a
07:44big deal yeah um i don't know if it's that much lately penesul would be a bigger deal um you
07:51got you're
07:51talking about the tackle to protect your your blind side of your quarterback that's big um i think if
07:57they were to lose i'm on rostain brown i think that that would be perhaps a bigger i get i
08:02get that
08:02they have receivers that can step up but i mean that's that's mr reliability right there but is he
08:08in the top 10 absolutely he's in the top eight probably i mean this is this is this isn't something
08:14to just brush off and i hope that's not the impression i'm giving off i think this is a big
08:18deal for this team but i'm curious more than anything to see what what comes out of this because
08:25if it is tate ratledge who that earns the stripes and plays center i think that they have other guys
08:31that
08:31can play guard right you got to find out who's going to be the best center well and this is
08:36a
08:37little bit of a catch 22 it's kind of like what they went through last year too do you play
08:41ratledge
08:41at center to be was he going to be the ultimate replacement for rag now or or was he always
08:48going
08:48to be the right guard i mean i don't know this goes back to last year's draft and what they
08:52envisioned
08:53for tate ratledge but they do have guys i think that could play guard you know barge is going to
08:59come
08:59back soon you got scruggs uh you got mason miller you got frazier all these guys that are kind of
09:05mix and match whether guard or tackle but i i guess i'm most curious about what happens with
09:12tate ratledge and where does he go 248-539-9797 uh same number to text us as well you want
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