00:00Breaking news you can use. Isaiah Pacheco to the IR. Weird. It's almost like you sign a guy who never
00:08can stay healthy and he's not going to be healthy.
00:11We need to have a conversation about it. I mean, look, you kept five running backs. You knew something was
00:18up.
00:19The guy missed all of training camp. Now he's going to miss the first 25 to 33 percent of the
00:24season.
00:25And right now in a year where you plan on using Jameer Gibbs until the wheels come off, your backup
00:33running back in Detroit is some guy named Pete Saylors.
00:39Who? You went through a whole offseason. Could have done whatever you wanted in the running back room.
00:44You traded Demo. You didn't go out and get someone anyone actually liked.
00:49You got Pacheco. It blew up in your face. And now we're sitting here and you are one ankle tweak
00:55away from having no running back room.
00:57And I don't care if Dan Campbell says I'm comfortable with Jacob Saylors is my number two running back.
01:03What's he supposed to say? We're effed.
01:06Jacob Saylors is nothing.
01:09It's a 26 year old journeyman from East Tennessee State.
01:13Did you upgrade your running back room in the draft?
01:16You did not.
01:17Have you successfully drafted another running back?
01:20You have not.
01:22And now you're here.
01:24In a year that I don't think it's crazy to suggest, Gibbs could approach 400 touches.
01:3280 receptions, 320 carries.
01:35That's not off the table.
01:38And now you're a tweak away from having essentially someone who should be starting in the USFL being your running
01:45back.
01:46Yeah, I think it's a big deal.
01:47But I didn't want Pacheco here in the first place.
01:50Just like I didn't want Ken Lee Jansen.
01:51If I say it the day you do it, I have a right to say it now.
01:56Unlike most people who were given, you know, sucking this guy's toes.
02:01I mean, I don't know what to tell you.
02:04The guy hasn't averaged even four yards of carry in three years.
02:09No, I got a feeling now you got to, well, I guess it may be a scour the waiver wires.
02:14Who are you bringing in?
02:16Who are you bringing in?
02:18Some running back who gets cut and used to be good.
02:22Man, you had all offseason where you could have brought in a legitimate back or better yet, drafted one.
02:27See, this is my beef.
02:28They had the ability to take one just like they had the ability to take a safety.
02:32They didn't do either.
02:34And now you're sitting here.
02:36You don't have a backup running back in a year where you're not doing RBBC.
02:40You need the plan is for Gibbs to never leave the field.
02:45Well, because now, but you've lived this with Christian McCaffrey or in other times you when you have everything rolled
02:52into one back.
02:53You know what happens right now?
02:56You know, is Petsing, is he good enough that he could turn just somebody off the street into a household
03:02name?
03:02I don't know.
03:03You've seen it with other offensive coordinators or coaches where, like, where'd this guy come from?
03:07And he ends up being a pretty decent backup.
03:11Because if not, I'm going to tell you, Jameer Gibbs is going to have to be on a pitch count.
03:15He can't do that much.
03:17And if you get a big lead, you better be thankful for this last play schedule.
03:21Because if you get the double digit lead, then that's when you kind of take some carries off of his
03:26plate to save his legs.
03:28Because he can't go out there and give you a ton of carries this season.
03:32If he's the only guy.
03:33This is the other problem, right?
03:35If everything's going to get comped to teams like the Rams, fine.
03:39Let's use the Rams as a case study.
03:40They already had Kyron Williams.
03:42They drafted Blake Corp.
03:44Okay.
03:44You go to Seattle.
03:46They already had Charbonnet.
03:48They took K-9.
03:50Now K-9 leaves.
03:51They take Jadarian Price.
03:53You have to have a level of pedigree.
03:56It's not good enough.
03:58Like, even when you are the Baltimore Ravens and you have Derrick Henry, they still rolled players in.
04:04Whether it was a Keaton Mitchell, the kid from ECU.
04:07Whether it was bringing people in.
04:10The Lions are still...
04:12Right now you got a UFL kicker who was 32nd by percentage last year.
04:17You got a UFL backup running back.
04:20Like, this is the crap I can't stand.
04:23And why Brad Holmes thinks it is kosher to continue to sign players who have no durability.
04:30This is simply a different version of Marcus Davenport.
04:33And I loved Pacheco when he came to the league as a rookie and he gave the Chiefs some juice
04:36and he runs angry.
04:38Very similar to Manungai with the Bears.
04:40But once he broke his leg, he has been non-functional, not durable, and it's two straight years.
04:47So why was that the plan?
04:49Why wouldn't you use some draft capital?
04:51Why wouldn't you sign him back?
04:54This is the problem I have, Rico.
04:56And now you're sitting here and you have another player who...
05:01I'm sorry.
05:02There's no world...
05:03Like, David, Rico, Corbin.
05:05In today's game, do you really...
05:09Even Christian McCaffrey, who probably takes more snaps than anybody else.
05:13What does San Francisco always have behind McCaffrey?
05:17Live bodies.
05:18Guys they would draft.
05:20Guys they developed.
05:22They have no UFL back in there.
05:24The last one did so well, he ended up going and becoming a starting back at Minnesota because they're like...
05:29Jordan Mason?
05:29Yeah, you're better than a backup, son.
05:31You can go and start someplace else.
05:33You're right because it's...
05:35The focus to me for the Lions and for Brad was to make all of his stars happy.
05:41That's great.
05:42But you don't have the forward thinking of bringing in new people to push your stars, to make your stars
05:49better, to use some capital on a corner, on a safety, on a running back.
05:55Because if you're going to let David Montgomery go, you need to replace David Montgomery.
06:01Let's do this exercise.
06:02And this is how it's done around the league and then there's you.
06:05Ready?
06:05Okay.
06:06Starter in Baltimore is Derrick Henry.
06:07They drafted Justice Hill.
06:09They drafted Keaton Mitchell.
06:11Okay, fine.
06:11Buffalo.
06:12James Cook.
06:13They drafted Ray Davis.
06:15Chase Brown.
06:16They brought in Samaj P. Ryan and drafted Taj Brooks.
06:20Okay, Cleveland.
06:20Gwenshawn Junkins.
06:22Backed up by Dylan Sampson.
06:24Drafted.
06:24Denver.
06:25It's J.K. Dobbins.
06:26Plus draft pick R.J. Harvey.
06:28Plus draft pick Jonah Coleman.
06:29Houston.
06:30Traded for Demo.
06:32Have Woody Marks, who they drafted.
06:34Like, I can keep going.
06:37Okay, Jacksonville.
06:38They lose Etienne.
06:39They have Bashal Tootin.
06:41Cool.
06:42They bring in Chris Rodriguez Jr.
06:44Like, go around the league and look.
06:47Right.
06:47You brought in an injured running back.
06:49Because they could.
06:50I know Lions fans were like, when we brought in Pacheco, you knew he wasn't going to make it.
06:54Hey, you had Ramonday Stevenson.
06:56You drafted Travion Henderson.
06:57You have Devon A-Chain.
06:58You drafted Jalen Wright.
06:59You have Ashton Gentry.
07:01You drafted Mike Washington Jr.
07:02You had Brees Hall.
07:04You drafted Braylon Allen.
07:05You had Jalen Warren.
07:06You signed Rico Dowdell.
07:08You signed Tony Pollard.
07:09You drafted Tajay Spears.
07:11I can do this all effing day.
07:13This is real, what I'm reading to you.
07:16Only the Lions are the smartest team in the league.
07:19Sign an injured back.
07:20Draft no one.
07:21And have a guy who should be selling paint as the backup now.
07:25It just pisses me off.
07:28I can't help it.
07:30Which leads me to, like, what did you do with your draft?
07:32Because you didn't draft for need.
07:35Because knowing your corner could be facing some serious time.
07:39And your other corner just can't stay healthy.
07:41That would have been a top priority.
07:43Safety.
07:45Probably neither one are going to start.
07:47You probably need to pick up one of them.
07:50And then, yeah, running back, you always draft a running back.
07:54Because it's, they're disposable.
07:56I know you, hey, you got one of the best in the league in Gibbs.
07:59But you can't just work him like that because he will get injured.
08:04Because he will wear down.
08:06Treat him special and limit him.
08:09You don't want him going out there with 400 touches.
08:11Look, I just, I don't like the idea that a team that's gunning after a Super Bowl has absolutely no
08:16legitimate running back depth.
08:17Please don't sell me Sione Bacchi.
08:19That's an idea.
08:20That's not even a person.
08:21Jacob Saylors?
08:24Fine.
08:24Like, you don't have any legitimate depth.
08:26You went from having the best running back room in the league, the duo of Gibbs and Demo, and you
08:31just let the bottom fall out.
08:33It's the same damn thing as starting the season when you know Terry and Arnold's going to jail, and you
08:37know both your safeties aren't going to play the first four or five games.
08:40And you did nothing.
08:42I leave it to the fans.
08:44Look, Pacheco might be able to help you at some point, but I can't count on it.
08:48Just like the day you signed him, I couldn't count on it.
08:51And you didn't do any.
08:52I don't know why they keep signing injured players and expecting a different outcome.
08:57Look at that Peyton Stewart guy they brought in.
09:00Former first-round pick.
09:01Always hurt.
09:02What happened?
09:03Got hurt?
09:03He's cut.
09:05Davenport?
09:05Dead.
09:06Bring him back again.
09:07Dead.
09:07Dead.
09:08I don't know why they do this.
09:12Because my friend Brad knows.
09:15Oh.
09:16He's smarter than you.
09:17He'll figure it out.
09:17He hasn't won a playoff game in two years.
09:19I don't want to hear it.
09:20Don't want to hear Brad knows.
09:2324 draft is shaping up to be one of the worst drafts in team history, and you're sitting here right
09:27now.
09:28What did we say in the offseason?
09:29I talked about bringing it back in during the draft.
09:31You have to keep adding pieces.
09:34And God willing, Gibbs stays healthy.
09:36But man, it is going to be Dylan Dingler 2.0.
09:40Oh, it's sweet.
09:40Dylan Dingler plays every day.
09:42Yeah, that's why he's eight for his last 80.
09:44You can't do that to catchers.
09:45It's going to be the same damn thing with Jameer Gibbs.
09:48If you run him into the ground, he won't be there for you in December.
09:51You're going to wear this kid out.
09:53Or get him hurt.
09:54Yeah, I'm looking at potential running backs that they could go after.
09:59Next.
10:00Yes.
10:00Next.
10:01Nah.
10:01Next.
10:02Okay.
10:03Hey, where's all the chuckleheads?
10:09Go ahead if you disagree.
10:12Nah, you're damn right I think it's a big deal.
10:15You have to have a rotation of backs in today's league.
10:17I don't care who your starter is.
10:20Jacob Saylors.
10:22Give me a break.
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