00:01that's dan campbell telling us we're not always getting what he's telling the team which is
00:07obvious yeah we all know that yeah everybody knows all we can go off though is what we hear
00:12from the guy at the podium and with us and the players and the assistant coaches and we make our
00:17own conclusions and we are right and we are wrong but we want to know about sunday is this a
00:22must
00:22win game for the lions against arizona john mr let it play out has said no you're feeling
00:27the moment yeah you can't go into a bye week having lost to carolina and arizona two and three
00:33and yeah the schedule is not a it didn't appear to be a daunting schedule but now all of a
00:39sudden
00:39if you're going into a two and three looking at hey you got two division opponents yeah maybe miami's
00:43a free space i'm not going to count that as a free space but then you got new england tampa
00:47like teams
00:48that have maybe not great teams but playing with with with terrific pride even if tampa is completely
00:57removed at that point right i i would say miami and tennessee are the worst two teams are going to
01:02play but there aren't these gimmies with how bad this defense is like even arizona this week i know
01:09the lions are favored and it's by more than a field goal i mean the confidence is not high in
01:15this group
01:15right now no disco no i'll promise you that right now okay no thank you we got a better chance
01:22now
01:22odds just went up i think the line just moved 248-539-9797 hey on the laporta stuff and then
01:28we'll get back to the phones uh sam laporta speaking yesterday addressing the report about
01:33his contract and he said i don't know if it's truly off the table but i think there's certainly
01:38a stalemate right now and i'm really giving the reins to my agent he said he's been handling it with
01:44the front office yada yada yada when you say it's certainly a stalemate john why is there a delay
01:50with this one is he part of the core or not i i don't know that there's any more of
01:55a delay than
01:56there was with hutch coming off an injury wasn't such time before the season no i don't think so he
02:02was in season i thought it was in season um i go back and in fact check that but um
02:07when you're
02:08looking at sam laporta it's yeah do we think he's impactful certainly do they think and when i say they
02:17does him and his agent those that are operating under you know trying to get him as most money
02:23as possible are they putting him in a tier above where he is and what he's been able to do
02:31that's where maybe there's a stalemate because i think the lions are of the mindset of well we want
02:36to make sure he's going to be healthy throughout the course of the year you start messing with the
02:38back you have back surgery like we we want to see more than just four games aiden was signed
02:45on october 29th in season right it was not the last year of his deal this is laporta's last oh
02:52he
02:52also had a fifth year i mean it was in his fourth yes um what's the disconnect i think you're
02:58you're
02:58hitting on it like it's about how you value him relative to the market so tucker craft makes 18.7
03:05if i'm laporta i want more the top guys make 19 i think that's kittle and mcbride yeah
03:13if you should be operating in an offense where you should have if you're if you're on par with
03:18guys like bowers and mcbride now bowers hasn't been redone but he could he could really reset the
03:22market yeah um but then you're looking at going well you're in an offense that mcbride was in last
03:29year where are the numbers for sam laporta versus the numbers that trey mcbride had last year the
03:37things to keep an eye on the franchise tag this team really hasn't used it could and save money
03:45if they don't like you know where this ends up going so the risk of losing him for nothing they
03:49could still tag him at lower than these numbers were discussing the other consideration is look
03:55they they better win this week what if they drop two of the next three are they doing what the
04:00eagles
04:00are doing are you trade and you did this with hawkinson if you don't think you're re-signing sam
04:05laporta slash aren't sure if you want to guarantee his entire salary on the tag are you selling laporta
04:11if you can't pick it up everything's on the table till a deal's done right that that would be a
04:18early
04:19november discussion not where we are right now not in the next couple of weeks because the the
04:25trade deadline as we've said is november 10 right but i said if you lost two of the next three
04:28so
04:28that would mean you know let's say you lose this and and one of the division games or god forbid
04:32both division games now we're at the end of october yeah going into miami thinking what is that win
04:38really going to save right the season it's come on you want to avoid those conversations it's part of
04:43why you need to start winning these games right and and part of the must win is was new orleans
04:49a convincing win no we all know buffalo was a loss was the jets a convincing win nope i said
04:56as much
04:57carolina was a loss yeah and and i'm not saying sitting there and say that this has to be a
05:01convincing win you just have to win the damn game yeah three and two at the bye taking a deep
05:08breath
05:08as opposed to two and three at the bye and we're doing hysteria on monday morning that's exactly what
05:14it would be and it would get all of those oh there are six and and uh six and ten
05:21team yeah
05:22no six and eleven six and eleven yeah though we'd get all of those i told you guys at the
05:26beginning
05:26of the year this is what they would be and there would be on radio because of the teams that
05:31they're
05:31losing to right well i couldn't i wouldn't be fighting we aren't fighting those people by the
05:35way i don't know if you've noticed that like no guy calls in and goes they stink i don't think
05:38they're very good we're not sitting there right than we were yeah we can see the ground i mean look
05:44i'm not gonna be wrong twice it'll be stubbornly right let's go to the phones let's get to derrick
05:50and chesterfield derrick good morning good morning how are you how you guys doing what's up so my
05:57question is if uh dan campbell doesn't get the defense right how much how many points is ben
06:01johnson going to put up on us and how surly will he be on that tuesday after the bears game
06:06yeah we see them what november is that right after the deadline no it's the third game after the
06:11deadline november 26th it's thanksgiving oh yeah yeah that's gonna be a rough thanksgiving dinner
06:17choking down the turkey yeah i wonder what the over-under will be for the bears
06:22well with the way these teams are playing these are two of the better offenses
06:28yeah i just that just worries me with the defense and if it doesn't get right by then
06:32that's gonna be a bad day i agree with you and we had ross tucker on earlier and he was
06:36talking
06:36about path to make the playoffs and he was saying look even if you don't win the division you probably
06:41got to finish at least second those bears games are going to matter a lot yeah thank you dave quickly
06:50you're on 97-1 yeah i think uh next week is a must win and not just for the standings
06:57uh john earlier
06:58was talking about well brand homes do something of significance and i'm telling you right now
07:05because i care so much and i i don't have much of a life i looked at next year's mock
07:09draft oh boy
07:10and it's loaded with corners and safeties in the top half of the draft absolutely loaded
07:18and my worry is if the lions scuffle and don't do anything i would love to get a guy like
07:24zion
07:24mccollum from tampa but if they're not going anywhere my fear is bad homes is going to say
07:29screw it uh the financial ramifications aren't worth it for this year he won't do anything and
07:35we'll just wait till next year's draft and then you're going to then you're going to i'm going
07:37to tell you something nobody's going to want to hear is you're going into a mini rebuild because
07:42you got the offensive line you got the offensive side of the ball set you got your core paid for
07:47you're going to have to get cheap skilled good young players on defense and it's going to maybe take a
07:53while well dave i went down that desperate rabbit hole just now uh athletic latest mock draft lions
08:00picking 19th ellis robinson the fourth corner out of georgia still a playoff team
08:08a couple weeks from now you never know
