00:00uh all right next up do you think the lions have a bright future not just the here in the
00:09now but
00:10say the next three four years yeah i think they have a window i do i think they've got a
00:15window
00:15and i think they've locked up the right players that makes sense here um and i do think there's
00:21a window uh that could go on for for several years but like everything else windows will close
00:28um it'll be fun to see how they decide to try to keep those windows open or you know go
00:34into
00:35hibernation for a year at some point and try to reopen them later because i think the one thing
00:40you don't want to do i think is try to keep that window open as long as you can even
00:45if it's just
00:46a crack like what the steelers did and properly in hindsight to their own detriment you know
00:52because they never advanced in the playoffs sure they made the playoffs but when you're just barely
00:56above nine uh above 500 and you're losing in the first round that's frustrating you don't see
01:01going making the moves to make yourselves better um i hope that they'll recognize and that point comes
01:07and and act accordingly but for right now when you've got the quarterback who's playing at a high
01:11level you've got the running back locked up two receivers locked up linebacker edge rusher
01:20uh and offensive lineman locked up and then you've got other young offensive linemen in fold i mean
01:26this is yeah this is a uh an opportunity here that's going to be present itself for three or four
01:32or more years kang do you think the lions have a bright future uh yeah i do i think the
01:38core is
01:39the real core is young enough i mean obviously it's easier said than done but that that's with any
01:44organization you know and i think the lines has has a bright enough future is as most as anyone else
01:49in
01:49the league that doesn't mean they're guaranteed to do anything good or win anything from it but i think
01:55they have their core is young enough and they're locked up most of these guys to build around so
02:02uh a major i guess i i want to ask the people who two four eight five three nine 97
02:0797 do you think
02:09the detroit lions not only have maybe not so much focused on the present do you really believe
02:17they're going to be around here competing at the highest level for a while two four eight five
02:22three nine 97 97 and we do it because there's a story about this uh put together by outside media
02:30meaning not you know not local yeah not a little bit but it is story done about this and i
02:36think
02:36people i have to ask myself okay how do you make sure that that happens to have the bright what
02:43do you
02:44need to have to have the bright future i think the first thing you have to have is a quarterback
02:50and and then i think the second thing you have to have is a head coach and you move from
02:54there and
02:55then you're going to have to have a star player on defense and i think you need to have an
02:59anchor on
02:59the offensive line then you need to have at least one stud offensive weapon and then you go from there
03:07and the lions check all those boxes um it may not be the quarterback that people would look at as
03:13the
03:13prototypical guy you got to have because he lacks mobility but what he lacks in mobility he more than
03:19makes up for between the years he is a cerebral assassin out there in the football field one of the
03:27good
03:27news is good news is yes it's been a week off one of the more than one something that's good
03:33news
03:33about jared golf is that age at the quarterback position guys can can compete into their mid-30s
03:42and suddenly you know if you're a quarterback that relies a lot on elite athleticism and you lose a
03:51step what are you that is not jared golf jared golf is a guy that that you know what will
03:58he be able
03:59to maintain his arm strength i guess is the is the is the question so he can make all the
04:04throws
04:04but he's not a guy that's ever trying to where they're game planning around him out running people
04:10so that's that's not going to be an issue um but you know at 31 he's still got several good
04:17years in
04:17front of him um you also the one thing about the lions is you think about what we've dealt with
04:25with our uh detroit tigers an acknowledgement and sort of a reality that the tigers are just going
04:33to lose their best player we just we've we've all kind of accepted it when he when he went in
04:40with
04:40boris and the way that sport works with the inequities in terms of what teams have to pay
04:46we've kind of known for a while here hey it is what it is the economics of the game tigers
04:52probably
04:53not going to have school ball and that's really not an issue with the lions no different sports
04:59one has a salary cap one doesn't and that's that's it in a nutshell right there um things will likely
05:07change dramatically the next collective bargaining agreement but i still don't think there's gonna be
05:11a salary cap uh but it might changes that happen to the cba might force teams to to act a
05:19different
05:19way yep be a little bit more restrictive um if baseball gets it right if they cancel the loopholes
05:25or they close the loopholes that give the dodgers that giant advantage because of their media deal
05:29if they make things more punitive for spending well above what everybody else is willing to spend
05:36and also on the bottom end if they were to put a cap floor which needs to be done as
05:41well to to keep
05:42teams honest that don't want to spend the money force them to spend money there's lots of ways that
05:47can work out but in the end it's still going to be different but this is this is the advantage
05:52of
05:53playing in a salary cap world is that all the teams are have the same playing field right everybody's got
06:00the same restrictions um and with the nfl it's a little fuzzier the nhl is black and white you know
06:08exactly what it is it's actually one of the great great sports business models in place right now i i
06:13love
06:13the nhl model and you know teams are starting to flirt with that they're understanding it there's a
06:18certain percentage that the top player can get on the cap and all this right the nba it's fuzzier
06:24because you have a luxury tax and then somewhere in between is the nfl now the nfl you finagle cap
06:30space throughout you cheat yourself one year to to get it another year you can restructure contracts
06:35and it makes a little fuzzier but it's not fuzzy like the nba is fuzzy so it's it's still a
06:41salary cap
06:42and you can still find ways to compete two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven
06:47tony on a cell hi tony hi good good good morning or afternoon morning what's up how are you i
06:54i was
06:55thinking about the lions and their their bright future i think their future has passed them i don't
07:00think that dan campbell can take them to where they need to go he had his opportunity with that 17
07:06point lead i think he's the rick carlisle of the lions compared to rick carlisle of the pistons when
07:13they had to bring in larry brown i think we need to bring in a championship coach that'll take us
07:18from
07:18here he's gotten us this far and i think this is as far as he can go why do you
07:22think he's shown us
07:23all he had because every playoff we go what we do we end up back home we got a 17
07:30point lead
07:30two years ago and he blew that and then he got on the mic and said hey we did what
07:37we always done
07:39and to get somewhere that you've never been you got to do something you never did and he is not
07:44willing to do that well he did that was the first year they went to the playoffs under dan campbell
07:49they won two previous games and then they they fell in the nfc championship but you but you got to
07:54embrace the significance of that opportunity and i don't think he did that because if he had
08:00there's no way you squandered that 17 point lead well you have to embrace that because the
08:06opportunities to get back to where he was you got a lot of things got to play out for you
08:11injuries
08:11players contracts so when you get to that point you have to take pull all the stops out to win
08:19that
08:19game you cannot plan on so what stops would you what mistakes were made there tony you said you got
08:26pull out all the stops to win that game what what stops were not pulled out offensive he should have
08:31went to his offensive coordinator at halftime and his defensive coordinator said listen we are going
08:36to do whatever we have to do right so i'm asking so what did they what did they not do
08:41tony what did
08:42they not do in the second half of that game they did not they became so dormant they became predictable
08:47dormant they went for it they didn't execute that's what cost them in that game they didn't
08:53execute exactly yeah but there's nothing to do with not going for it they went for it on fourth down
08:58a
08:58guy dropped the pass on a third and ten play they threw a perfect play and the same guy dropped
09:04the
09:04pass they had a bad exchange on a handoff they had some the weirdest interception face mask play
09:11on a on a deep pass that i can remember they had there were a handful of plays that happened
09:17in a
09:1710 minute period of time that completely torpedoed that game but you're going to say that they weren't
09:23going for it all i'm going to say is this all of that's part of coaching you should have had
09:29your
09:29team ready for that it's nothing to do with coaching a box handoff come on yeah interesting because
09:35i mean that's there was a problem all season long you can say yeah that's a problem with coaching
09:39that was like i don't i don't even know if they had a botched handoff the rest of the season
09:44prior to
09:44that he his the results didn't work he he is of the belief that is philosophical that dan campbell
09:53made decisions that cost them the game philosophically or didn't have them prepared for that moment i tend
10:01to think it was more execution like they the plays were there to be made they didn't make it well
10:05i mean
10:06we mentioned four that were massively that were game-changing plays the the one was a third down
10:14drop pass yeah and 10 that would have been a first the other was a fourth down drop pass
10:17the face mask interception by a guy who doesn't drop passes face mask interception touchdown play
10:24was was brutal off of kindle vildor's face mask went for a touchdown and the botched handoff
10:30these are extreme swings that you can almost make the argument that have one of those plays not
10:36happen but he he thinks that that showed that dan campbell can't do it i you know i think that's
10:42taking a a extreme opinion on this but he i mean he's entitled to his opinion do i think it's
10:49more than a little bit much yeah i think that's i'm not sure that i would say that he's making
10:53a
10:53logical conclusion but two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven okay the question
11:01was do the lions have a bright future he says no because of dan campbell there's an interesting
11:05story about teams and their futures that we will get to uh coming up and read you what they say
11:11about
11:11the lions this hour but we want to know if you think they've got a bright future it's karshan anderson
11:1690 someone
11:1790 someone
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