00:32Yeah, we're living in it.
00:35Yep, we've arrived.
00:37We are living in a simulation.
00:41I'm going to play some audio.
00:44Sorry to Rico's buddy from Alabama.
00:46We don't waste segments asking each other about our days.
00:49I'm good.
00:50Rico's great.
00:51Let's get after it.
00:52Somebody ain't good.
00:54Chef ain't good.
00:55Bro, we need to do a wellness check.
00:57This was one step from Rod Marinelli's axe being sharp and his will being outstanding.
01:02Kelvin Shepard spoke to the media.
01:04In retrospect, that was a mistake.
01:06I'm going to play you the audio.
01:08David, you've got it all labeled and ready to rock, so I'll let you intro it.
01:12There are three quotes, and we've got to have the conversation.
01:16I have done my level best to not make it all about Kelvin Shepard, to talk about the talent
01:23that is available and not.
01:24But what did we just do yesterday?
01:26We talked about the head coach looking like he's lionized.
01:30Well, your DC is definitely, you know, the motorcycle, and then they got the little sidecar.
01:35Yeah.
01:36Kelvin Shepard's in the sidecar with the snacks because that man at the podium today, that
01:41was crazy talk.
01:42So take a listen, and then we're going to dive into it.
01:45If you've already heard the audio, or per Evan Jenkins, if you're a member of the social
01:50media thing, well, you can just call up right now because I'll tell you, here's your overriding
01:56note.
01:56This is a must-win game Sunday, or this dude's fired.
01:59That's what this feels like.
02:01David, and by the way, not just a nice flannel.
02:05That's an elite flannel.
02:07David has brought the heat today.
02:09I think he's got a date tonight.
02:10I'm trying to find some heat.
02:11That's why I'm wearing it.
02:12Okay.
02:13I was about to say, yeah, I'm holding off the flannels for a while.
02:17David's ready.
02:18I have somewhere to be outside after this.
02:21I knew it.
02:24You DJing tonight?
02:26Possibly.
02:26Okay.
02:27Can we please?
02:28All right.
02:28David, in the order you choose, Kelvin Shepard at the podium.
02:33Whoa, boy.
02:34Yeah.
02:34Let's start with this.
02:35When he was asked, is there any feeling that you mis-evaluated what guys can do in this
02:41defense?
02:42It's over.
03:15Oh, so you've just defined insanity, doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
03:21Here's the problem.
03:23Okay, you're a man defense who on national TV weekly shows you can't play man defense.
03:29Do you know what you're playing less of now than ever?
03:33Man defense.
03:34Your bottom 10 in the league, you're playing about 15% man defense.
03:38So again, that's a bunch of gobbledygook.
03:41David, clip number two.
03:42Clip number two is regarding the Lions lack of success when blitzing.
04:09I simply can't help you.
04:12They can't be the right call if a quarterback goes eight for nine.
04:15You're not facing Mahomes in his prime.
04:17You're facing a guy who still needs a booster seat if he dines at Chili's.
04:22Okay, let's keep it rolling.
04:24Clip number three.
04:25Those calls were the right call.
04:27I was like, he really believed.
04:30And that's just it.
04:30Like, Mike, he's standing on business.
04:33He's standing on business.
04:34This is it.
04:36You guys don't know.
04:37This is the right call.
04:39Don't you challenge me.
04:40Well, it's the last.
04:41The last quote is the one that's going to really upset me.
04:44Hold on.
04:45We're building towards a crescendo.
04:47I know.
04:48David, the third piece of audio in your electric autumn ensemble today.
04:53In the third piece of audio here, he was responding to a question about the perception that the offense has
04:59to carry the defense.
05:21You're dead last in the NFL in defense.
05:25Your laminated play sheet should say 31.8, not 313.
05:30What are we talking about, Kelvin?
05:33What are we doing?
05:35Ultra disrespectful?
05:36Well, it's also true.
05:38So take the disrespect in private.
05:41Publicly, just say we aren't doing our part on this three-phase football team.
05:47This man is in the twilight zone.
05:50Ultra disrespectful was Bryce Young, 11 for 11, slicing you up.
05:57Ted McMillan, almost 200 yards.
06:00That's ultra disrespectful.
06:01Seriously, bruh.
06:02You don't need to put the card up to your face.
06:05They know the defense.
06:06You ain't hiding nothing.
06:08That's ultra disrespectful.
06:09We all can see when just average quarterbacks, once again, let's take Josh Allen out the equation.
06:17He's an MVP of the league.
06:18But Tyler Shuck, Geno Smith, and Bryce Young should not be lighting you up.
06:26That's disrespectful.
06:27We're not talking about the Matthew Staffords of the world.
06:30We're not talking about the best quarterbacks out there.
06:33That ain't Mahomes.
06:34That was Geno.
06:35That was Bryce.
06:37That was Tyler.
06:38That's disrespectful.
06:41I really don't know what to tell you.
06:42It just feels like this dude, he knows.
06:46He knows.
06:47And by the way, I don't know if we have the audio of it.
06:50Do you have the audio of his comment about Brian Branch, or do you want me to just read the
06:53quote?
06:53You can just read the quote.
06:54We don't have audio of that.
06:55This is how you know this thing has reached desperation levels that are way beyond uncomfortable.
07:01He was asked, how realistic is it for Brian Branch to play Sunday?
07:04Quote, if we were playing tonight, it'd be realistic.
07:07The man's had one practice.
07:09He's been gone for a year.
07:12One practice.
07:13What are we doing?
07:15That's a desperate man who knows he is fighting for his job.
07:20Everything is on the line.
07:22You can see how desperate he is.
07:25He's out there, Mike, trying to, he's the guy in Vegas that lost it all, and he's going to risk
07:30it all on one last hand of poker because I can get it back.
07:33He knows the inevitable is about to happen.
07:41I mean, guys, I'll just tell you, you know, the rule of life, you don't have to be what you
07:47were even 10 minutes ago.
07:49I mean, the same thing is true for football.
07:51Maybe eight weeks from now, we're having a completely different discussion.
07:54As we sit here today, and we don't do let it play out radio, you know what this feels like
07:58today?
07:59I-S-O-L.
08:00A phrase I don't like using.
08:02A phrase that I think Dan Campbell has largely killed.
08:05But this is starting to feel from a coaching standpoint, from the head man, the decisions being made, to the
08:11D.C.
08:12The, this isn't Marty driving away on his motorcycle quite yet.
08:16This isn't Daryl Rogers saying, what does a guy got to do to get fired around here?
08:20This isn't quite Rod Marinelli with his axes sharp and his will is outstanding and walking to school shoeless.
08:26This ain't the pitch back and forth type of thing?
08:28No, but man, it's getting close.
08:30We're getting in that decorum range, and it's getting close.
08:33Because this is, this is a defensive coordinator that's living in the twilight zone.
08:37Added to what the head coach said earlier this week.
08:39Correct.
08:40Yeah.
08:40Where are you guys at?
08:42You tell me where you're at with it.
08:44And again, if you want Kelvin gone, I can't fight you anymore.
08:46Sunday night, I just, I say it again.
08:48They don't have the players.
08:50But if the D.C. is going to go out publicly after the head coach basically said, get used to
08:54it, this is how it's going to be.
08:56And the D.C. says, no, I'm not going to change how we're playing.
08:59No, we didn't misunderstand anything.
09:01No, the blitzes weren't the wrong call.
09:04No, I'm standing on business.
09:05What are we doing?
09:06And no, yeah, the defense, we're equal.
09:09The offense and special teams, we're all the same.
09:12No, you're not.
09:12They don't have to carry us.
09:13That's disrespectful.
09:14No, when the coach comes out, we got to, the offense needs to score 35.
09:19That should be a challenge to them.
09:20What coach tells there are, you got to go out there and score five touchdowns a game if you want
09:26to win this thing.
09:27Not too many coaches.
09:30It's just, look, I have tried to keep people off of Kelvin Shepard for weeks because they don't have the
09:36talent.
09:37But if you're going to go out and you're going to hammer this and do the hard line stance and
09:42you're going to say things that don't make a damn bit of sense,
09:45I can't do anything about it.
09:46I haven't been the one who said fire Kelvin Shepard.
09:49I don't think firing him changes a whole lot.
09:52But you can't, you can't talk, you can't get up there and do that.
09:57It just felt, it felt really performative to me.
10:01And that's not what they need.
10:02Instead, he should have said, no, my guys do take it as disrespect.
10:06But I understand it publicly.
10:08I understand why people feel like the offense needs to carry us.
10:11And I hope every one of my guys takes that home with them.
10:14But that's not what he said.
10:16The idea, too, of like, well, the Blitzes were the right call.
10:19It's like, okay, you can know that in your heart.
10:21You can't say that publicly.
10:23You have to come up with something different.
10:25So, look, you guys do what you want with it.
10:27I haven't been on the Shep fire train thing.
10:31Again, I blame Brad Holmes.
10:32I think Brad Holmes is the culprit of all this.
10:35But it feels like if they lose this game in Arizona, there's going to be a change.
10:40And some of you will get what you want.
10:41And then I guess we'll get to see if you were right.
10:43But where do you stand with it?
10:45A day after we talked about Dan Campbell feeling lionized,
10:48Dan Campbell saying some stupid stuff, making some stupid decisions.
10:53I'm nervous.
10:54I'm nervous.
10:55Not, not, they, they're not 0-4.
10:57They're not 1-3.
10:58They're 2-2.
10:59But I'm nervous because the whole operation feels shaky.
11:03And it feels like Dan and Kelvin know they may not be able to fix this.
11:09That's what it feels like as we sit here today on Thursday, October 8th.
11:13You tell me what you feel like.
11:152-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
11:18We will get with the people.
11:20We've got a number of other things.
11:22But I do think this Kelvin Shepard thing is, it's caught like wildfire.
11:26So, we'll start with it.
11:27See where everybody's at.
11:2897-1.
11:3097-1.
