00:00What a pile of garbage. All right, let's get to it. Hi, Rico. Hey, I thought we were discoing today,
00:07man. No, no, no, no disco. No, because this this is just it's a joke of a product. It like
00:14I there's so much. Let's do that. Let's reverse engineer. OK, I'll throw the number out because I want people
00:22to have personal license. Say whatever the hell you want to say. When I tell you, Rico and I have
00:27enough to do three shows, it's not hyperbole.
00:29I mean, we're ready to rock two, four, eight, five, three, nine, 97, 97. No, I'll tell you my biggest
00:35takeaway from last night. Dan Campbell is starting to look lionized. When you look at him on the sideline and
00:46you look at him in these post games, yeah, we got to clean it up. Dan, there ain't a shop
00:52back in the world that's going to clean some of this up.
00:54And by the way, you could talk about the cleanup between weeks one and two. Every week, this team is
01:00good for nine or ten penalties every week. And they're good for stupid stuff. Hey, I don't have a player.
01:07I'm a player short on the field goal unit. Hey, I just made a dopey challenge. Oh, hey, I'm not
01:13going to use my timeout and I'm going to use it, but I'm not going to use it. And I
01:16didn't use it. And I took a delay a game to go for it on fourth and 20 where you
01:20had no hope of getting it instead of just taking the three points.
01:24You ran a hook and ladder. A 10 yard short of the sticks. Which everybody in the place knew exactly
01:30the play you were going to run. To the short side of the field. Was that inspired by Dave Warner?
01:34Everything to the short side? It may have been. I was like, they're going to do a hook and ladder.
01:38And there it is. And the next defender is the sideline. I mean it when I say this. Like when
01:44Dan talks about we're going to do the best we can with what we have. Rico, he looks like he
01:50knows it's over.
01:52The Super Bowl window. He knows it in his heart. They're done. They'll be good. They'll win games. But I
02:02feel like what we're witnessing with the Detroit Lions right now is like the Pittsburgh Steelers circa COVID.
02:09Once we got to about 2020, I think we kind of recognized the Steelers were not that threat anymore. But
02:16they wouldn't go away. That's this team. He looks broken.
02:21He does. And it was funny when you put that on the sheet. And then I went back. I don't
02:25know the exact moment. I don't know. You know, everybody had that one moment where you're like, that's where he
02:30got broken.
02:31Whether it was to take the wind. It was all of the different things that coaches have done in Lions
02:36history where they never recover from that.
02:39The pitch back and forth type of thing. Like everybody had that moment.
02:42I don't know if he's had that moment yet, but I do agree. He looks lionized. He's got I-94
02:49eyes. He doesn't know which way is up. Something's wrong with his team. And he can't fix it. He can't
02:55figure it out.
02:56Because I know, look, oh, the window, they don't believe in windows. The window's closed. Your Super Bowl window is
03:03closed. As you stated, you can win games.
03:06Yes.
03:06You may even win some big games, but you won't win the game. Your window is closed because you didn't
03:12choose to add on to pieces.
03:14Because you're Al Bundy still wearing that Letterman jacket from the NFC title game talking about we were just 30
03:22minutes away and telling all the stories.
03:24Hey, remember when we were 17 points up? Every other team's moved on. You're still there.
03:29He didn't look good against Wisconsin Saturday. So let me – uh-oh. That'll be tomorrow's show.
03:36But, yeah, last night, David – last night, yeah, Ted McMillan, at the end of the game, I think this
03:42was him.
03:45Oh! Petey Pablo has made an appearance on the show. Yeah. Hey, here's – someone tell the Lions that's the
03:52one receiver Carolina had.
03:54I want to repeat to you, two of their top three receivers, dead. Their co-starter at running back, dead.
04:02Three starters on the O-line, including Damian Lewis, their best offensive lineman, dead.
04:07But wait, a fourth one. Freeling, the kid from Georgia, died.
04:12And all they proceeded to do was go orbital ramming speed. And look, if you want to fire Kelvin Shepard,
04:21you can.
04:22But you know what I'm going to say to you. Dan Campbell looks lionized because the guy who is so
04:31petty,
04:32the guy who's the ringleader in this whole thing, who likes to play dress-up and get cute, didn't provide
04:40the pieces.
04:41Now, if Dan plays a role in those personnel decisions, then I'm going to say something to you that you're
04:46really not going to like.
04:47But if Dan and Brad truly walk together on everything, then Dan's job should be in danger, too.
04:54Because I'll tell you, Brad Holmes right now, the best thing he could do would be talk, stop being arrogant,
04:59and own it.
05:01Because he's losing people by the week.
05:03This is the worst defense in Lions history.
05:07This is worse than 08, statistically.
05:08You want some numbers? We can do it.
05:10Oh, boy.
05:11No, no, no. We don't have to do all of it now.
05:13No, no, no, no, no.
05:14It's just the numbers are egregious.
05:16The numbers are almost criminal.
05:19Like, what are you trying – you can't have these types of numbers and say Super Bowl contender in the
05:24same sentence.
05:25No, and I mean, like, for instance, forget about just quarterbacks.
05:30The wide-out one or the best receiving option a team has against the Lions this year.
05:35Week one was Olave.
05:36They didn't have anybody else.
05:37Tyson was hurt.
05:38They had a couple of rookies out there in valet.
05:40Olave, 10 catches, 182 yards on 13 targets.
05:46Excuse me.
05:47That was horrible.
05:48All right, you got – all right, one-week blip.
05:50We got to clean it up.
05:51They go to Buffalo.
05:52DJ Moore dies.
05:53Kincaid's the number one guy.
05:55Eight targets, seven catches, 98 yards, and a TD.
05:57Uh-oh.
05:58Okay, well, the Jets really blow.
06:00They're missing three of their top four receivers.
06:02They're missing their top tight end.
06:03They're – you know, Brees Hall gets hurt.
06:05They only have Garrett Wilson.
06:06Can't possibly happen again.
06:0813 targets, 10 catches, 107 for a touchdown.
06:11Uh-oh.
06:12Well, last night, now, seriously, we got to clean this up.
06:15Oh, yeah.
06:16It's week four.
06:16We're going to clean it up.
06:18They're without two of their top three receivers.
06:20All right, come on now.
06:21Tett McMillan's the only guy.
06:2316 targets, 14 catches, 192 yards, and two touchdowns.
06:27Cue up to Carl Lewis.
06:28I can't help you.
06:30And, again, for people saying, like, I understand they're a man team.
06:34They want to play man-to-man.
06:35Do you realize they are just outside the bottom 10 in the league in man cover?
06:39They're playing only 15% man cover right now.
06:43So, when people complain about the defensive coordinator and he's stubborn or he only wants
06:47to do what he wants to do, guys, they're trying to play more zone.
06:50They're – uh-oh.
06:52They're trying to do things.
06:54Nothing they do matters because it's the equivalent of trying to find a unique cooking method for
06:59a shoe.
07:00It doesn't – what are you going to do?
07:02Saute it?
07:03Sous-vie it?
07:03Reverse sear?
07:04We're going to smoke it.
07:05We're going to grill it.
07:06Put it in a crock pot.
07:07It don't matter.
07:08It's a shoe.
07:09This – the secondary's morbid.
07:12And, also, look, the personnel decisions are part of it.
07:15You let Carlton Davis walk to bring in DJ Reed.
07:18I got called a hater because I didn't like Reed.
07:20Reed sucks.
07:21Uh-oh.
07:21I was right.
07:23Oh, Amik Robertson out.
07:25We're going to bring in Roger McCreary.
07:27Amik's a top five corner in the – a slot corner in the league right now.
07:30And McCreary, he should be on the street.
07:33Uh-oh.
07:35So, like, I don't know what to say.
07:37Oh, I drafted an edge.
07:38I mean, Brad tried to walk to the podium with his you-know-what hanging out.
07:42Oh, I followed your mock draft.
07:44How about another scintillating eight snaps for Derek Moore last night?
07:49Wait, he played?
07:50Eight snaps.
07:51Oh, God.
07:5219 in week one, 17 in week two, nine in week three, eight last night.
07:56Buddy, I thought he was getting redshirted this year.
07:58The other problem, and this is a little more nuanced, and I don't want to geek out,
08:03but we've talked about it.
08:04Jack Campbell stinks.
08:05He's not a green dot right now.
08:07And you miss Anzalone.
08:09Because Anzalone was your cover guy.
08:11Jack Campbell's being asked to do Anzalone's job, and, well, that's Carl Lewis singing the
08:16national anthem.
08:19Derek Barnes making nine million a year.
08:22For what?
08:23Derek Barnes is like magnetic football.
08:26He runs into something and stays there.
08:29He don't shed a block to save his life, and he ain't covering nobody.
08:33Oh, Derek Barnes sees the other team's passing?
08:36National anthem, please.
08:39I don't know what to say.
08:41No.
08:42Everything's off.
08:43Their alignments are off.
08:45The secondary is morbid.
08:48The D line is the least of their problems.
08:50It really is.
08:51But, Rico, I don't know what the fix is.
08:54They don't have players.
08:56This is the chickens coming home to roost.
08:58This is years of arrogance and being obtuse, and we're going to take projects and trust us.
09:04We know what we're doing.
09:06It's all come to a head right now that you could say simply, Calvin Shepard's got to be fired.
09:12Congratulations.
09:13You just put a Band-Aid over a bullet hole.
09:16No, that's fair.
09:17And that's not going to stop anything because that defense won't get fixed overnight because he doesn't have the players
09:24because they weren't a high priority.
09:26And now, here you are, and it's not going to be Branch either because Branch ain't going to come in
09:32here and fix that.
09:33So, I'm looking at this, and remember, I was told, don't worry about it.
09:39Last place schedule, not even going to play that card, but how's that schedule looking right now?
09:43As you're staring down, you're looking at the Arizona Cardinals.
09:49That ain't looking like a gimme right now.
09:50Mike, when every quarterback looks like a future Hall of Famer, at one point, Bryce Young, I think, what was
09:57he, like 13 for 13?
09:5911 for 11, but I hear you.
10:01He couldn't miss.
10:02And it's like, he's just boop, boop.
10:04I mean, he is out there slicing and dicing.
10:07And let me be clear.
10:09I'm not telling you they're going to have a bad year by record.
10:14I said 10 and 7 and was called all kinds of names.
10:18Okay.
10:18Well, they're 2-2 after four games.
10:20I'm kind of tracking.
10:21And I'll throw you a couple of freebies.
10:24Dolphins ain't beating nobody, although they had some chances against Minnesota.
10:28And the Titans are a complete train wreck.
10:30Fine.
10:30I'm giving you two freebies.
10:32But gee whiz.
10:34I mean.
10:34Mike, every other game.
10:35This defense won't allow them to escape anyone if this is how they're going to play.
10:40And there's another villain.
10:42Uh-oh.
10:43No, no, no.
10:43There is.
10:44There's another villain.
10:46And I'll tell you about it next.
10:48Oh, my goodness.
10:49Uh-oh.
10:49Uh-oh.
