00:00It's Dan Miller on the call.
00:02It's a victory Monday.
00:05And I say that because I want to preface everything that comes after with,
00:09it's better to discuss this with a win.
00:13I was discouraged by what I saw.
00:16That's a nine and eight performance.
00:18That's enough to win the game, but not enough to win anything important.
00:22You're up 21, nothing.
00:23Put your running back on ice.
00:25No, you're going to sweat this out and come down to the final play,
00:28a one point win in overtime.
00:30At home, the defense and obvious pass can't get off the field.
00:34Chunk play after chunk play, fourth down here, fourth down here.
00:37A lot of a wide open.
00:38That's discouraging to me.
00:40I'm happy they won.
00:41I'd rather be doing the show after a win.
00:43Last year, they didn't win enough games,
00:46but that felt like a nine and eight performance to me.
00:54I kind of don't know how to feel about that game
00:57because a lot of what we had been excited about,
01:01some of the ifs were actually good.
01:04Like, if the offensive line is better.
01:07And I think with Ben Bartsch and not Mahogany,
01:10it was better.
01:11Now, it'll be better with Cade Mays than Juice Scruggs.
01:14And I mean, you could even look to the first couple of plays
01:17where Juice doesn't get up on the linebacker.
01:20And there were some things where I'm like, okay, sufficient.
01:25But the run game was there.
01:27They were able to protect golf for the most part,
01:29as long as Sione Vachy isn't trying to chip our own linemen.
01:33Yeah, don't hump your left tackle.
01:34A bit of advice.
01:37I've been in that position before.
01:39It is absolutely maddening.
01:41But it happens.
01:43And we can talk about that as the show goes on.
01:46But when the defense is appearing to play well,
01:53but if you just look at why they're playing well,
01:56it was because Tyler Shuck couldn't hit the broadside of a barn
02:01early in the game.
02:02Like the first half, you're looking at it going,
02:04I mean, you might as well have John Mateer out there
02:07throwing the ball.
02:08It was kind of the same thing.
02:10So this is interesting.
02:11You're conflicted.
02:12I am.
02:13On our question, encouraged or discouraged.
02:14I'm not going to sit here and force you to a side.
02:16What I'm going to ask is that our listeners try to convince you.
02:20Yeah.
02:20That's how we should do this.
02:21So I'll put a percentage on it.
02:23I'm kind of 60-40.
02:24Which way?
02:2560 positive 40.
02:27Eh.
02:28They won.
02:29Yeah.
02:29So is that what's tipping the scale a little bit one way?
02:32It does play a factor in it.
02:33Winning is good.
02:34Yes.
02:35Let's go to the phones,
02:35and I want to see if people can convince you,
02:39encouraged, discouraged, where are they at?
02:40Lions won,
02:41but there was plenty that can keep you up at night.
02:45This is early to hear from Dean Milford.
02:47Dean, good morning.
02:50Doing all right.
02:51How are you this morning?
02:53Good morning.
03:00Good morning.
03:06Good morning.
03:38Hmm.
03:52Sure.
03:54Dean, I'm just a little surprised because I don't know in the history of at least me being on the
03:58show that you've ever called in with a neutral opinion.
04:08Oh, yeah.
04:24Yep.
04:25I just think it's so funny, the idea of Dean calling in and being like, yeah, both sides have a
04:28good point.
04:29Yeah.
04:29It's kind of, yeah.
04:30Yeah.
04:32Dean, we need passion on either side.
04:35Throw him under the bus or say it looked great.
04:37No.
04:38Meh.
04:39Meh.
04:40We kind of looked at the, because on this call screen, right, Greg puts a little bit of what they're
04:44going to say.
04:45And we thought with the way it was typed out, is there a different Dean from Milford?
04:53Is there another guy that's going to call in from Milford named Dean?
04:56Or is there, you know, is this a burner account?
04:59And somebody's going to call up not his voice and be like, yeah, eh.
05:04It's a more like meek and meagered, mild-mannered.
05:07I also live in Milford.
05:08My name is Dean.
05:09Yes.
05:11Text coming in, phone calls to get to.
05:12Q in Detroit.
05:13Q, good morning.
05:14It's a Victory Monday.
05:15You're on 97.1.
05:21Yes, sir.
05:23Yes, sir.
05:40It might be a shootout, because the way our secondary played, I think all of the games are going to
05:44be a shootout.
05:45But I just feel confident that the Lions can hold up with the easy schedule and get in the playoffs.
05:50That's the goal.
05:51Get in the playoffs.
05:52Anything can happen.
05:53As long as we're healthy, we can beat anybody.
05:56Anyway, so that's – and another thing, before you guys let me go, I'm discouraged and Brad Holmes making a
06:03move to make this team better.
06:05Because he got to make a move.
06:06Joey Porter out there.
06:07Go get somebody.
06:08We need another piece back there to help out the secondary.
06:11So, Q, let me ask you this question before you go.
06:15Did you hear that on Saturday they restructured Amon Ross, St. Brown, and Penesul to clear up $30 million?
06:23And did you have the reaction of, hmm, I wonder what is afoot?
06:30Hopefully, he's going to go out there and get somebody.
06:33But everybody keeps saying, Sam LaPorta and Brian Branch, that might be for them.
06:36But hopefully, he make a move.
06:39We need somebody like Joey Porter.
06:40He'd be excellent to put back there.
06:43And then you get your big second day – I mean, your safety's back.
06:46Oh, man.
06:47They'd be a team to beat, I feel like.
06:49Yeah, I think it's going to end up going to Branch and LaPorta, just kind of the track record of
06:54Brad Holmes.
06:55I think it'll go to LaPorta.
06:58I think for Branch, it's still a wait and see.
07:01Oh, he's got to come back.
07:01And maybe it's earmarked for him.
07:03That's how I view it.
07:04But on the flip side, you could be looking at it going, well, he's got this war chest.
07:10And Joey Porter, not happy in Pittsburgh.
07:14And the way that they played, maybe they feel he's expendable.
07:19He's a target at the trade deadline.
07:22And you have the space to do it.
07:25Do I trust the follow-through to give up?
07:27What do you think it would take to get Joey Porter Jr.?
07:30Oh, some picks.
07:31Like day one?
07:33Oh, yeah.
07:33Day one picks.
07:34Yeah, I would think it would be probably a first and maybe a third.
07:37And we know that we could throw around third-round picks like nobody's business.
07:41Right.
07:42Interesting.
07:43Clearly, I would be for trying to fix one of the team's weaknesses.
07:46I just don't think that's their plan of attack.
07:51Who knows, though?
07:52More performances like Sunday kind of forces your hand.
07:55Here's the thing.
07:55You can say we're going to get the safeties back.
07:57I don't know that you're getting both safeties back.
08:00And I don't know that Kirby Joseph is going to play at all or will survive the season.
08:04Right.
08:04I think we're very confident that at some point we'll get one of them back.
08:09Texas Bears are going to go belt to ass on everyone in this division.
08:13Dropped 59 points.
08:15I feel good about the Lions.
08:17Second half, Saints receivers made great catches with DBs right on them.
08:20J-Mo's dropped passes made it look closer than it should have been, Stephen, at work.
08:24Yeah, I was really frustrated with that after we heard.
08:27And I think I'm sure Goff was as well.
08:29Everybody was because he dropped a dime on J-Mo in that and it should have been a big play.
08:37And I talked about it last week.
08:39If you listen to Goff when he was on with the midday show, he said J-Mo is going to
08:45have
08:46I think he's going to have one of those seasons because he's running all the routes.
08:48Well, he ran all the routes.
08:50The ball was there on time.
08:53And even the one where he was kind of come across the middle and yeah, there was a hand
08:58there.
08:58You've got to be able to catch those contested balls.
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09:05We'll get phone calls in the mix.
09:06We got overreact gyms coming up at seven oh two.
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