00:00Welcome in on a beautiful Reaction Monday, Rico Beard.
00:05Welcome.
00:06We had a lot to unpack league-wide.
00:09We'll save par usual for our listeners around the state that are new to this show.
00:14Generally, Tuesdays are a college football day unless one or both of the following happen.
00:19A, the Lions are ass for a long period of time.
00:22And B, something amazing happens in college football.
00:26Monday's NFL.
00:26So, where do you want to begin?
00:30I listened to a little bit of the mornings.
00:32I thought their approach was interesting with encouraged or discouraged.
00:37You tell me where you want to start.
00:39I have a zillion thoughts to get to before six.
00:42I like the encouraging, discouraging thing.
00:44But first of all, a tip of the hat to you.
00:47Why?
00:48The G-Men are back, baby.
00:50Yes!
00:51Oh, baby.
00:52Yes!
00:53They're back!
00:56Hot bread.
00:57They played well.
00:58They did.
00:59Look, it was the first time in three openers they've scored a touchdown.
01:03I mean, it's a low bar to clear.
01:05Yeah, no, they played well.
01:06John Harbaugh's fingerprints were all over it.
01:08I hate Dallas, so for me, that was a lovely opener.
01:11But no, as far as the Lions...
01:13Up next, Corbin's Rams.
01:15Well, you know, I was trying to take the high road as Corbin learned a valuable lesson.
01:23Perhaps you don't text people during the game.
01:26Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
01:28Oh, dear.
01:29Oh, my team lost.
01:30Uh-oh.
01:31That was strictly about Brock Purdy only.
01:33I kept the game out of it.
01:34It was just for that first interception you had.
01:37Where do we want to go with the Lions?
01:39I kind of want to let people speak before I do, because I don't know what you guys are
01:45thinking.
01:46I don't know what the audience is thinking.
01:48I don't.
01:49For me, it goes back to the late, great Denny Green.
01:53They are who I thought they were.
01:55They went out there.
01:56They won the game.
01:58I thought that they would win.
01:59I didn't think it would be easy.
02:01I thought the secondary would get exposed.
02:03It did.
02:04Tyler Shook, not Patrick Mahomes, not Josh Allen.
02:08Shook, 400-some yards.
02:10Okay, he had overtime, but still some over 400-some yards.
02:15Your offensive line looked okay, but you can see what that's going to be problematic.
02:23Now that Mahogany's going to be gone for at least on a short week, I'm going to assume
02:27he won't be back for the Buffalo Bills game.
02:31And it was going to be a lot of Jameer Gibbs.
02:34Jameer Gibbs, Jameer Gibbs, Jameer Gibbs.
02:35Well, see, okay.
02:39But they are who I thought they were.
02:40Well, they're okay.
02:41So you're just taking the, I'm similar.
02:44I had them at 10 and 7.
02:45They kind of look like a 10 and 7 team.
02:48Look, the storylines out of the North were negative for you, positive for Chicago, positive
02:55for Minnesota, negative for Green Bay.
02:58LaFleur's an idiot, but we can get to that later.
03:01You can't blow a 21-0 lead at home.
03:04You can't give up 400 yards passing.
03:06And you can't have your running back on a 578-touch pace.
03:13578 touches.
03:15There is no world Jameer Gibbs will be alive.
03:18Tilt in the rock 30 times a week.
03:20It's just not going to happen.
03:21And I know he came out and they're saying, well, you know, he'll be fine.
03:24You know, he wanted more.
03:26It was week one.
03:28Okay.
03:28You're not built like Derrick Henry.
03:29I'm going to continue.
03:30I'm going to say this.
03:31This will be a good lesson for people both today, but especially tomorrow.
03:36You'd be wise to look up the term pandering because that's what media does to you.
03:42You're being pandered to.
03:44I'll just tell you not what I really believe, but I'll just tell you what you want to hear.
03:49That's not this show.
03:51The day I start doing that, I'll just do something else in this world.
03:54I don't have to do this.
03:55I'll leave a commercial break and never come back.
03:58The point is, I'm not going to pander to Lions fans.
04:02Like if you think that's Super Bowl good or a win is a win or we'll clean it all up.
04:08No, no, no, no, no.
04:09We're going to talk about the games just like with Michigan and Bryce.
04:12Like we're going to talk about things.
04:14This is simple.
04:16You had a secondary that was bad.
04:19You didn't do enough to make it good.
04:22We have no idea if Kirby Joseph ever plays again.
04:26And Brian Branch is a massive question mark.
04:29He could come back looking like George Kittle.
04:31He could come back looking like 60% of what he was.
04:36When we look at what they had yesterday, the Saints had one healthy receiver in Chris Alave.
04:44They had a couple rookies, including Trey Lance's brother, which was like a fever dream.
04:51And that's it.
04:52And you knew where they were going to Alave.
04:55Yeah, you had the tight end Johnson.
04:57But you're right.
04:57And Alave pretty much did what he wanted to do.
05:01You couldn't stop him.
05:02And you knew that that was the main guy they were going to go to.
05:06They just feel similar to me.
05:07And here, I'm going to take it a step further.
05:08All right?
05:09No hot take.
05:10And I want to remind people we're talking sports.
05:12This really isn't that serious.
05:14No, I mean it.
05:16The brains of the operation left when Ben Johnson left.
05:20Like, I'm just convinced of it.
05:23I'm convinced because yesterday Ben Johnson put 60 in an opener on a playoff team on the road.
05:3160.
05:33Rico's right.
05:34I'm shocked he didn't go for two.
05:35Like, this offense, if I have to target Amon Ra 14 times to produce like 60 yards receiving on 10
05:43catches,
05:45the Tesla thing is a thing.
05:48To Rico, no, I mean this.
05:50They spent three draft picks to get him, and then he has no role.
05:58Week one of year two.
06:00You didn't get explosive plays.
06:03Look, Jameer Gibbs was great yesterday, but that was just a consistent, I'd hope you produce 160 yards on 34
06:12touches.
06:14So there's an element where I wasn't like, okay.
06:18And before people go, well, it was just Petsing's first game.
06:22It is.
06:23But it was Joe Brady's first game as the head coach of the Bills.
06:26And they went to Houston, and what did they do to the best defense in football?
06:29They de-pantsed them.
06:30They did.
06:31My point is, I need to see the Lions be the positive story a couple of times before I go
06:37from the 10-win deal.
06:39Yeah.
06:39Is that fair?
06:40No, it's very fair.
06:41Or should I pander?
06:42No.
06:42That seems to work well.
06:43Please, please don't, because we don't do that here.
06:45Or down the field, a win is a win, 2-4-8.
06:48You don't apologize for the win before we get that call.
06:52Nobody's asking you to.
06:53No, but you can talk about it.
06:55You can use your eyes, and you can see that, hey, J-Mo, maybe put some old-fashioned stick him
07:02on your hand.
07:03Oh, he had a nightmare afternoon.
07:04Thank God he caught the ball late.
07:06I mean, you can't, in the NFL, drop multiple passes in a game.
07:11You can't do it.
07:11It was a bad day for him.
07:12You fumbled that little reverse.
07:14You also look at, hey, Detroit, when you had a chance to put the game away on the one-yard
07:21line,
07:21you somehow worked and went backwards, and you didn't.
07:25And then, on top, yeah, we'll go back.
07:27How about multiple three-and-outs in the second half?
07:29It didn't happen.
07:30And let's just call it what it is.
07:32Be thankful you got this win, because, as my man Charles Ramsey says, something's wrong here.
07:39I still don't understand how a backwards pass is not a fumble.
07:45Okay.
07:45It should have been a scoop and score.
07:47It should have been 7-7 at the half.
07:50But the intent was there.
07:52No, I've never heard that.
07:53Because.
07:54I've never heard that, Rico.
07:56On every play, doesn't the offense intend to score a touchdown?
07:59So should we just give them the points?
08:00It was a fumble.
08:01The Lions.
08:02You know what?
08:03If you want to just say, well, we're owed some calls, and that's your mindset, you're welcome to it.
08:08Not mad at you in the least.
08:09It doesn't take away from the fact that was one of the worst-blown calls since the Saints endured one
08:17against Jared Goff,
08:18and it cost them a Super Bowl.
08:20That was horrific.
08:22Yeah.
08:23I mean, there is no world that's not a fumble.
08:26That went right up there with the secret clock the week before.
08:29Like, huh?
08:29No, but see, you're also hitting on something that's not Lions-specific.
08:33I'd love to do the conversation.
08:36The ref show in the NFL, it's just getting a bit much.
08:40Like, I watched long stretches of Minnesota Green Bay.
08:43I mean, Green Bay, they sack Wentz, force a punt, personal foul for not being a 300-pound ballerina bodyweight.
08:52Okay, knock a ball down, phantom P.I.
08:55Okay, interception.
08:57Nope, illegal contact.
08:59Where?
08:59We can't find it.
09:00Like, the ref show stuff.
09:03Like, last night, Giants and Cowboys.
09:05No one's tuning in to Sunday Night Football to watch 30 penalties.
09:10Guys, you've got to just rein it in a little.
09:12Illegal holding on the other side of the field.
09:16Where the quarterback's not even looking.
09:17Right.
09:18You might as well call that the bailout call.
09:21It's just worth a first down.
09:23It's only getting five yards, automatic first down.
09:25It was third and 18.
09:26I know, automatic first down.
09:28But it wasn't even to that side of the field.
09:30It ranks right up there without a kickoff or a punt, and somebody holes after the guy is 20 yards
09:37past them.
09:38It had nothing to do with the play.
09:40Let some stuff go.
09:41You have to, because it still is a TV product.
09:43But no, I know that's not a Lions thing.
09:45It's more of a league-wide thing.
09:47I want your feedback on what you watched.
09:50I'll always take a win over a loss, but no, I'm not excited.
09:54But I also would like to say this for certain people out there.
09:58Oh, you got a last-place schedule.
10:01Uh-huh.
10:03Uh-huh.
10:04Still massaging your plums?
10:06He may be asleep right now.
10:07He had a show this morning.
10:08By the way, last-place schedule means, oh, I get the cards.
10:12Uh-oh.
10:14Justin Herbert, go pick up your girlfriend at Will Call.
10:16Dear heavens.
10:18That also means you get the Jets and the Giants.
10:22Giants are going to go belt to ass if you're not careful.
10:25I don't know if you watched what you watched last night.
10:27Jackson Dart looks pretty good.
10:28You know what?
10:29Somebody on this show said over the summer, I think the Giants could be a sleeper team in the East.
10:33Listen, just go 1-0 next week.
10:37Rams are on the clock.
10:38Oh, the Rams are easy to beat.
10:40Come on.
10:40Okay.
10:41Who can't beat the Rams?
10:42Giants are 10-point dogs.
10:44No, I just make a point.
10:45Every game in the NFL is hard.
10:47And if you play really well, you earn the right to maybe blow somebody out.
10:50I got you.
10:51But this idea that a last-place schedule somehow, who are you?
10:56You know, you didn't play the way the Ravens played yesterday.
10:59You didn't play how Jacksonville played.
11:01You didn't play how the Bills played.
11:03You didn't play how the Bears played.
11:05I can rip off some teams.
11:07The operation was tight to start the season.
11:09Bruh.
11:10You better clean a lot up.
11:12Minnesota, after their quarterback dies, three plays in.
11:15Hyper impressive.
11:16It is impressive, Rico.
11:18And that defense, man, that's—
11:21Flores, by the fourth quarter, he had the Packers in a steel cage.
11:29The Packers were like, there's 15 people out there, sir.
11:32This is Wendy.
11:33This is Wendy.
11:34There's only 11.
11:3524, 8, 5, 3, 9, 97, 97.
11:38And the best thing about yesterday, starting quarterback, New York Jets.
11:42I do.
11:43Hey, line it up.
11:44You got lunch coming.
11:45Gino has taken a snap, and the Jets are undefeated.
11:49There we go.
11:50A.G.
11:51Hey, for all the slander about the Browns, I think the Titans were worse.
11:55At least the Browns are playing Jacksonville in suffocating heat.
12:00Tennessee, you were playing the Jets.
12:01Sir, this is Wendy's.
12:03And you have no pants on.
12:04I don't think the Jets will be that bad, but—
12:07No, no, the Browns were a joke.
12:10When you're sitting there saying, well, Shadour can't do any worse.
12:14He can't.
12:15I think what they do is they get through a road game at Tampa next week.
12:19Then they put Deshaun Watson in a pine box, and Shadour's your starter week three.
12:24Yeah.
12:24I truly believe that's just what they're going to do.
12:26Hey, Deshaun, here's Allen Iverson.
12:29Just go to the casino and spend money with him because—
12:31Oh, Bubba Chuck.
12:32You're not going to be playing here anymore.
12:33David, you okay?
12:34All right, we'll get with you and Corbin coming up.
12:36We'll get to the people as well.
12:37Let's get some week one feedback on what you watched.
12:41And again, where you're at, encourage, discourage, frame it however you like.
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