00:01New uniforms for the Lions.
00:04Summer helmet.
00:05The helmet, most people like it.
00:07The jersey looks like the Carolina Panthers.
00:09It does.
00:11All right, I applaud them for effort, I guess.
00:20Are they going to have to pay royalties to the Carolina Panthers?
00:23I think that's how this works.
00:25We asked people best and worst uniforms in Detroit.
00:28We'll get to Kirby Joseph update and then names.
00:30We're talking names for the Red Wings general manager job,
00:33but one of the most prominent NHL insider names names 702.
00:37The Teal Pistons jerseys are the best in sports.
00:41No argument.
00:43I guess if you like puke, the Vipers and Orange Tigers uniforms,
00:49big John on his way to work.
00:52Orange Tigers uniforms, the ones that the new ones.
00:55Yeah, I like the Navy ones.
00:56They have more than the orange ones.
00:58They must like pumpkins.
01:01Almost a season.
01:02Lions Thanksgiving Day jerseys are my favorite.
01:05Does he mean like the throwback?
01:06The throwback gray pants and blue jersey.
01:10The minimalist look.
01:10Yeah.
01:12Let's go Detroit Panthers.
01:13LOL.
01:14Hot garbage.
01:15MS Drew green and white makes them look like a high school team.
01:19Sometimes it's their play that makes them look like a high school team.
01:21The jokes write themselves.
01:23Best jerseys ever.
01:24Oh, three to oh, eight red Pistons.
01:26Mike in a Ram.
01:29Good jersey.
01:30The Tigers orange bad.
01:31Their city connect jersey and the Pistons teal bad, bad, bad.
01:36Unpopular opinion.
01:37I hate the Tigers traditional white home jerseys.
01:40Such a boring uniform, and I'm 42 years old.
01:46What?
01:47Looks like you just spit in John's face.
01:51You don't like the white uniforms?
01:55The old English D on the...
01:57A clean classic?
01:58Yeah.
01:58I mean, it doesn't get any more classic than that.
02:01Wow.
02:03On the subject of John and loving tradition, relations with your spouse should only be missionary
02:10signed to John Jansen.
02:18You go on one of your classic takes.
02:20Here goes missionary John again.
02:21Oh, God.
02:29Okay.
02:30Kirby Joseph.
02:31Do we have an update on...
02:32I'm very religious.
02:33Okay.
02:35You're done?
02:37I don't need to think about you.
02:38I know.
02:39Oh, no.
02:42We'll get to hockey in 10 minutes.
02:44Kirby Joseph.
02:46An update, if anything, is that he's still not with the team.
02:53I don't know.
02:54And I don't want to speculate as to what Dan Campbell keeps saying.
02:57It's a personal issue.
02:59And, I mean, we've had the story.
03:01I have no idea what...
03:04And I don't even want to speculate as to what the personal issue is.
03:08And I just hope that everyone is safe, healthy, and if they're not, that they're recovering
03:14and will be safe and healthy.
03:16I don't know what it is.
03:17It is odd, though, how much time he's missed and the fact that he hasn't practiced at all.
03:22You know, some stuff off to the side when he was here, but this is unusual for a player
03:26who would be playing this season.
03:27So then I start to wonder, are we going to see this guy play football again?
03:31Ever.
03:31Yeah.
03:32I mean, it does raise those questions.
03:33But, again, we have no idea what the personal issue is.
03:36Right.
03:36And without speculating on what the personal issue is, I just think there's enough going on
03:40with his knee.
03:41Maybe, like, when we hear he's on the branch plan, which is like, well, probably won't
03:46start the season with us, but should be back soon.
03:50Is that the branch plan?
03:51Well, at least with the branch plan, I know there's a treatment.
03:55He's coming off of an Achilles.
03:57There's a roadmap.
03:57There's a rehab plan.
03:59There's steps that you hit along the way.
04:01None of this is odd for Brian Branch.
04:03It's an Achilles injury.
04:04John, you had one.
04:05You know this.
04:06And there's going to be steps along the way, and he'll progress, and then he'll play.
04:09Hey, with Kirby Joseph, there's no roadmap.
04:13So that's, I think, what's so challenging is if you knew, oh, he's going to put one foot
04:15in front of the other, and he's going to start doing this, and then this, and then he'll
04:18be back playing football.
04:19There is none of that with Kirby Joseph.
04:22Yeah.
04:22I don't know what to make of it.
04:24And I think I was originally of the mindset that, hey, he'd start the season on the pup.
04:31And when he came back, there would be, of the remaining, what, 13 games, we would see
04:40him in, you know, maybe nine of them as they manage the knee.
04:45I'm becoming less and less of the mindset that we really see much of Kirby Joseph ever
04:51again.
04:51Has not practiced this summer because of a degenerative knee condition that kept him out
04:56most of last year.
04:57Campbell's quote yesterday was, nothing new, he's doing well.
05:02Previously, it said it's a personal issue that has him away from the team.
05:08I don't even know how you make that determination that he's doing well if your trainers, your
05:15doctors aren't hands-on in the moment.
05:18Campbell said he's not currently with the team, but, quote, he will be, though.
05:22Okay.
05:24In what capacity, I think, is everybody's question.
05:27There's just a lot of question marks.
05:28Yeah.
05:30And for Campbell, it's kind of an awkward spot to be in.
05:33You're not going to disclose someone's personal business.
05:35At the same time, you understand why people want to know if your former All-Pro safety
05:38is here or not, practicing or not, playing at any point or not.
05:43And I just start to get to a point where I'm just assuming they're not going to have him
05:47this season.
05:48And it would be a pleasant surprise if he plays.
05:51And that might be what it is, a pleasant surprise if he plays.
05:54And the bigger thing is now, when is Branch going to be back?
05:59Will he be back after the first four games?
06:02And then what does he look like coming off of that Achilles injury?
06:06Having him in the secondary is a game changer.
06:10Oh, yeah.
06:11And so, can you then supplement with everyone else that is on the roster and make those guys
06:20better because Branch is there?
06:22Yeah.
06:23Branch is going to have to play in space, quick twitch, off of an Achilles.
06:27You've talked about the differences in your recovery.
06:29First of all, the way it was then in terms of treatment, but also the position he plays.
06:34Well, yeah, and I don't know at all what it's like for a quick – I was not a quick
06:41twitch
06:41guy.
06:42And so, I don't know what that means for his position.
06:45I can only speak to what it was for me in regards to the recovery and when I actually
06:52felt like I was back to, quote-unquote, 100%.
06:56Duke, give you a minute.
06:58You're on 97.1.
07:01The baseball a long time ago, I was a little mad.
07:04Sorry.
07:05But, I just wanted to say with the Kirby Joseph thing, do you remember when Coach Campbell
07:10said he was basically on the Branch program?
07:14And I just – John, you know football.
07:16I just don't think they want him to go through camp.
07:18I think they will wear his knee out in camp.
07:21So, they don't want him to go through camp.
07:23And they said he was going to wrap him up around September.
07:27That very well could be, yeah.
07:29But don't you need camp to get ready for football season?
07:32I don't think – I think if he's in rehab – he's basically doing – he's in rehab
07:37right now.
07:38And they're trying to keep as much strain off his knee as possible.
07:42And then I could see them revving him up in September or probably like the fourth game
07:47of the season.
07:47My concern is – my concern, Duke, and you may be right.
07:49My concern is if he's going to ruin his knee for two weeks of practicing, he's not making
07:53it through this season.
07:55Right.
07:56And it – he's taking up a roster spot right now either way.
08:00Yeah.
08:02Got some names for the Red Wings GM spot.
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