00:02Tigers win
00:05one game away from that playoff spot
00:07one game away from winning a series against the
00:10Guardians Valdez tonight
00:12good morning 97 one Jim Costa
00:14John Jansen Heather Park Gov and Greg behind the glass
00:16Lions season's gonna be
00:18right around the corner Thursday night tomorrow
00:20they play their first preseason game
00:23there's a shifting mindset
00:25this strictly
00:26business mantra
00:28Amon Ross St. Brown on Fox
00:302 talking about the motivation for
00:32the upcoming season
01:05all right I'm not gonna nitpick him too much
01:07never lost it but it's back
01:10where to go it's back
01:13and I don't think he wants to admit it but we can say it
01:15they lost their edge last year
01:16yeah and and should they have no because
01:19they didn't ultimately win the Super Bowl
01:21and I mean that's what
01:23that's what makes it hard to be a repeat Super Bowl champ
01:26and why it's so rare is because
01:28sometimes you do lose that edge
01:30you may lose that
01:32you know go full Rocky on you
01:33the eye of the tiger
01:36but they never accomplished that
01:38they accomplished a one seed
01:40yeah then it was a first round exit
01:42which I thought would have motivated them
01:43even more
01:44yeah I thought so too
01:4615 wins though clearly they came in
01:49and did not have the edge
01:50and I think some of that is tied to
01:52not being able to do the things you want up front
01:54right but they lost their edge last year
01:56and it's clear that there's this more of a workman's mentality for this season
02:00he says maybe we're flying under the radar a little more
02:01more that underdog
02:02that's how they like it
02:03Sheila Ford-Hamp
02:04what about the organization
02:05and the alignment
02:14so
02:21so
02:23so
02:42everybody pushing in the right direction same direction yeah and i think the part of the
02:47analysis of of it's somewhat stating the obvious our offensive line wasn't that good so what did
02:53they do they went out and they they signed cade mays but what if something happens one of the
02:59things that we have seen on both sides of the ball is when someone gets hurt do we have quality
03:04backups and yes i love the next man up mentality so every single team in the nfl every single
03:10professional team they're going to say next man up mentality but do you actually have that next man up
03:16that can perform and i think one of the things that we're going to see is what i was talking
03:22about
03:22yesterday the depth of the quality of depth on the offensive line now if penny seoul goes down
03:28all bets are off all bets are off but they go get blake miller and larry borum to me is
03:36is just
03:37another dan skipper he can go in there and get you out of a game he's like josh dobbs at
03:42quarterback
03:43right it's you're not gonna i don't think you're gonna go into a game thinking okay we have the
03:48advantage at this position but he's serviceable do i want him starting absolutely not
03:54cade mays goes down and now you have two guys in seth mclaughlin and juice scruggs juice i think is
04:01the one that ends up getting it because he has reps at the nfl level i don't know what it
04:07means going
04:07into the season or who that's ultimately going to be but i think they're better qualified to have
04:12somebody step in than they were at any point last year so it's not just we got to get better
04:17talent
04:18to start we've got to get better talent if something happens let's plan for a rainy day
04:23and have somebody that could step in and perform an adequate job so is that lessons learned from last
04:29year yeah absolutely yeah i mean look when we say they lost the reg they lost who they were up
04:36front
04:37they they didn't have frank rag now anymore they did not have the ability to move people off the
04:43ball and tough yardage big you know against the best defenses in those tough spots they struggled
04:47to identify blitzes jared goff was sacked a ton last year more than at any point in his career
04:52they lost their edge because they weren't the same team up front well it's two waves of investment
04:58it's starters and it's depth it's backups that's how you get your edge back also i do think there is
05:02something psychological they got humbled a season ago there was a a heaping of humble pie that this
05:10team had to stomach last in division yeah dead last i know sometimes tom goes i hate when we say
05:15last place because they had a winning record but i hope that they internalize you were the last place
05:19team you got a last place schedule everybody in this division was better than you a year ago
05:24how does that motivate them do you like strictly business by the way do you like that as a mantra
05:29i i know
05:29sometimes we can get too cute with slogans like dagger time was one of those you knew it was destined
05:34to fail from the second the old regime brought it out do you like strictly business it's fluff i don't
05:41care i really don't care all i care about are you going to take the field and are you going
05:47to be
05:48the team that imposes your will on the other team what's the opposite of fluff it's taking the fluff
05:54out it's dan campbell pinning the schedule with one tack and walking away nothing to talk about just go do
05:59it sure great okay it's fluff and it's anti-fluff yeah all at the same time yes i i you're
06:09saying the
06:09fact that you have to say it is fluff it's about what you do not what you say and so
06:16you could come
06:18up with any slogan you want it's what they're talking about in meetings it's what they talk about
06:23in the huddle it's ultimately going to be what they do on the field i just remember when dagger time
06:30came out in the patricia years collectively every lions fan thought at the same time this is going to
06:37blow up in their face so epically yeah i i just i i hate the thought of there's plenty of
06:44time in the
06:45off season to brainstorm these things i just hate the thought of wasting time what is our slogan going to
06:52be i don't think like jared goff is sitting there pen and paper in the off season no i don't
06:56think so
06:57i just i it's it's it's waste time and if it's something that hey just it it it organically
07:03happens then so be it i'm just picturing penne sewell in a focus group trying to get this right
07:09you know what the campbell's i guess i'll call it mind games or the culture the grit all that stuff
07:15has factored into the line success some people think to a degree people think it made uh especially
07:21that nine and eight 2022 team overachieve but i would say with stuff like this like what's the
07:27raven slogan this year you know they they failed last year they were top dog super bowl contender and
07:34missed the playoffs and i just wonder if other cities are doing this stuff like are they are they
07:42living a lie if they need these things are they not that talented we lost our edge do other teams
07:47need their edge why do you lose your edge i'm not going to kill them because strictly business
07:53has become a mantra it's okay to have a rallying cry and it's actually a pretty fitting one given
07:58what the task is at hand right and it could be as simple as hey you know our social media
08:03team needs
08:04something to socialize and so this is they came up with this is what we're going to do well you
08:10know
08:10what it might have been it might they might have tried to poke around i'm not saying the lions
08:13they probably took it to dan and said and dan was like uh whatever you want to do you're the
08:17social
08:18media people you take care of that stuff i'm going to take care of the football the marketing social
08:21media people probably search for this stuff and maybe they were hitting a bunch of dead ends and
08:26they said you know what there isn't one we're going back to work strictly business maybe it was one of
08:33those like i'm not getting a slogan from the team so we're going to create one going to work was
08:36already taken right i use grit too much but you guys have noticed the difference out there right
08:43a little more tightened up ship that relates to strictly business
08:50sure it's following the mantra it's it's the the social media team nailed it
08:57shout out the social media team 248-539-9797 we want to talk to lions fans this morning we got
09:03tigers
09:03in the mix i know bryce underwood spoke you would think he would know the ohio state rivalry better
09:09than to say what he said we'll mix that in the eight o'clock hour plus uh how about a
09:12little jj
09:13mccarthy update okay he's the backup yeah well hey kyler murray standing on a soapbox won the job
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