00:01you know rick i just realized something maybe i can view this as a positive that my quarterback's
00:06dead i don't have to watch a game there see like i kind of do because i do the national
00:13football
00:13stuff but like is there really a reason to watch like when you think about it like the nfl
00:20unlike cookies i live in the real world you can get beat by anybody any week provided they have
00:25their quarterback like the jets titans you saw the browns win you saw arizona win you've seen the
00:31raiders win you you see bad teams can still beat you it's the nfl but if you don't have your
00:37starting
00:38quarterback that is the one line of delineation i make where i go you now have no hope if you
00:44can
00:44do what seattle did which is be super bowl good and have a they do drew lock is a good
00:49backup but
00:51rico i'm free you're not i don't have to i don't have to bother anymore now i could just tell
00:59my
00:59dad i don't want to talk about it he didn't pick up by the way because he's going to want
01:03to talk
01:04about it mike and you're a giant fan and you're going to watch games i'm not because it's a car
01:08accident at this point you're going to be looking to see how bad the jeremy auto had the audacity to
01:14be like oh what's wrong you seem a little doubt i'm like jeremy i'm gonna break your neck okay
01:21and then i'm gonna use your head as a bowling ball i go three of the last four years i've
01:26had my
01:26starting quarterback die i've had my all pro left tackle die i've had my number one wide receiver
01:31die i don't even get football season off the ground and then my day job is to listen to soft
01:37lion fans cry because they lose a safety like seriously so yeah no no jeremy i'm sorry i wasn't
01:46chipper for you flanders okay well hey diddly do why the long face i don't know my quarterback's
01:55effing dead let me help you out i don't want your help okay just let me sit here now you
02:02know what
02:03no no no you go ahead and you stew and you and and you know what you're having a great
02:09pity party
02:10right now i'm i am it's it's my it's my party and i'll cry if i want and i go
02:14right i'm just it's
02:15like what is it and maybe this is what lion fan feels like is that you feel like you're cursed
02:21the
02:21difference is my team has actually won something the last 15 years it is unspeakable like the giants
02:28have morphed into a worse version of the detroit lions historically we have the lowest win percentage
02:34in football the last five years and we don't even get out of september with players not dying
02:41so with that let's talk about one of your guys who's been dead for a year because what it's a
02:47segue no no it's a good segue my point is as long as you have your starting quarterback you have
02:53a
02:53chance if you lose your quarterback in this league you're dead that's where i get tired he's gone for
02:58the year yes he is so that may change because if it's five six weeks did you not just hear
03:05the
03:05chef to report i i said if it's for mike i'm trying to help i don't want you i told
03:09you you're
03:10just angry i don't want you i am angry i'm angry i'm ahead for my dad how many seasons does
03:14my dad
03:14have left you know he's a little bit closer to the end in the beginning he's got about 30 more
03:19the point i'm making is i'm bothered for him this this is just nonsense this poor guy ever since i
03:27bought him see what do you call the damn football thing that said uh sunday ticket this is that's
03:34the curse the last three years what's the point i may as well show up kick him in the nuts
03:40and walk
03:41away okay you know what i was thinking about getting sunday ticket note to self don't get it
03:49oh here here you go here you go this is case in point tj just texted me we were doing
03:56this
03:57injury topic hey to packers zach uh what is it baku creme brulee or whatever the hell his name
04:03is he's one of their better linemen yeah he dead patella out for the year it's week two the nfl's
04:11injury problem shout out charles ramsey something is wrong here i mean the amount of really good
04:19players dying in the first two weeks it's unbelievable but here's dan campbell because it
04:25isn't the first two weeks kirby joseph's been dead since the bush administration but we're still
04:31talking kirby joseph so whether it's the audio from the podium or the audio on the morning show
04:37the message is the message he's asked about kirby joseph take a listen what do you say to people
04:43who are like hey i don't think he's playing again david whatever order you want
04:58you
05:02you
05:18i quit i mean i know why they can't release him because the dead cap would eat them alive
05:24but i mean it's you just get to a point does anyone believe kirby joseph is is going to play
05:30meaningful nfl football again i don't want to be wrong hope i'm wrong guess what i thought the
05:37chargers would be good decidedly wrong i i'm very capable of being wrong i just it's been a bad
05:43fortnight for you but this is what are you abe lincoln listen just this is something that we
05:50have sat here since the off season and when you got the diagnosis from from medical doctors who
05:58have said this is our opinion of kirby joseph's injury he ain't coming back how could this team
06:05approach this off season as if he would he's not coming back because i think they believed in
06:12mike they believe in their guys they've told you that time and time again we like our guys in the
06:18room you saw that from terry and arnold because common sense says what do you know what he's up
06:24against he said it's okay we believe him kirby joseph did you not see the yeah he says he's
06:31okay we believe him they believe a lot of things that their players say because they want to believe
06:37it if what you're saying is true then they're the dumbest organization in the league if what you're
06:44saying is true that's what they keep telling us i'm if result if result because hey what happened
06:53with terry well he said this really oh i will go to my grave believing they got conned by ta
07:02but in the nfl as you know you have access to former everything all types of agents and cops and
07:10can you do a little digging on this he says this but can we pay you to go out and
07:15check this out for
07:16us oh wow okay terry didn't tell us the whole story as far as kirby i think they want the
07:21best
07:22and he may actually line up to play in a game he will not finish that game i don't think
07:27he will
07:28and that's going to be the end because once you say it's the end once we finally see it i
07:34don't
07:34think there's going to be coming any coming back from this well the question also is does this ratchet
07:38up your frustration with with brad holmes they had the whole off season to address a lot of this
07:44and the fact is their answer was avante maddox well he's dead too shout out nfl injury problem
07:51so now you're sitting here like i'm sorry dan campbell i know i can't show you the visual you'd
07:55have to watch it the man looks defeated he knows he can't just come out and say kirby ain't coming
08:03back i think they've got to give kirby every chance to come back they don't have any other answers
08:07they can't release him if they release him it triggers an avalanche of dead cap so they got to
08:13just keep him and hope for the best i think rico's right hope would be the word but do any
08:19of you as
08:19fans believe kirby joseph is coming back to play all pro caliber football i don't and how do they
08:26fix this secondary i think part of it is they're going to get a break meaning you're not going to
08:31play an elite offense every week that gives them time the jets i think the jets are a much improved
08:36team but the jets do not have an elite offense i think the saints do i think buffalo does i
08:42think the
08:43defense will look better than seven elite offense yes what did i say preseason when i picked them to
08:46win the south they'll lead the league in pass attempts kellen moore's gonna throw it 600 times
08:51600 times not elite offense it just means you're probably behind a lot no it's just they have
08:57weapons dude they do and and i i don't have to love tyler shuck but first of all a he's
09:04alive
09:04and b they play in a softer division where there's no super bowl caliber team and i think kellen
09:11moore's a really bright offensive mind look we're getting away from the point it's just
09:16you get a break to a certain point is that okay the jets don't have an elite offense the cardinals
09:22don't have an elite offense they're still capable of beating you they got to do it a different way
09:27but rico if kirby is not coming back and then the guy you're relying upon is brian branch let me
09:34remind
09:34you the the most often case of how achilles blow out and what gets impacted by an achilles not just
09:43change of direction but when you have to back pedal and then explode forward off that back pedal
09:50that is direct pressure on the achilles tendon that is something where brian branch probably won't be
09:57brian branch if he's brian branch again until 2027 i'm hoping i can get 80 percent of brian well good
10:05news is if he's timetabled coming back by the end of the uh end of october you get those two
10:11games
10:11against the packers and vikings at home followed by a game with the dolphins yeah except he can come
10:19back you still need to ramp up you haven't played football in how long this isn't a video game
10:26oh brian branch is a 99 ovr well it's not super tecmo where you run out the hospital straight to
10:33the field exactly yes yes christian okoye in great condition no one could tackle you it's not how it
10:40works 248-539-9797 david a couple of texts sports suck really bothers me when i see kirby joseph
10:50running up and down the sidelines whipping a towel around and i know he won't be back on his field
10:55that sucks mike sounds like an army general that has lost it and has been relieved of his command
11:02will he make it through the rest of the show yes i will i'm just annoyed i'm annoyed for my
11:08dad and
11:08i'm annoyed right now watching the nfl because any of these teams that lose their quarterback including
11:13mine the games are unwatchable there's no point go ahead watch an atlanta game go watch the bears
11:21monday night when they have their third stringer out there watch any giants game go up and down the
11:26list they're unwatchable i'm not taking brad's side in this at all he could have should have done more
11:35but i don't remember any top tier safeties being traded or picked up in free agency by any team that's
11:41not true now if you want i can go get the list of every safety who signed etc come on
11:48guys we don't
11:49have to live in the world of perfect or nothing did you try to get better they did not they
11:56took the
11:57easy way out we like our people i i really believe they believed to rico's point i don't have to
12:06agree
12:06with their perspective i can't argue rico's point i'd love for some of you to they actually believed
12:14this guy was coming back and that's crazy talk because the outside world sure didn't right but as
12:21far as the lions go they've told me one thing they tell you how they feel and they don't lie
12:25so i take
12:26them for it face value everything that they say
