00:01there you go uh dan campbell obviously after the win 248-539-9797 let's get to your open
00:07line calls we go to bryson in la pierre you're on 97.1 hello bryson hey there uh so
00:15i immediately feel like pretty great i mean coming off the win except it it kind of feels
00:21very familiar and but it feels very familiar in a more optimistic way in a sense that
00:28i'll say it out loud and say what's on my mind we don't have terry on arnold this time we
00:32don't
00:32have aaron glenn because there was a worry back in the season we were kind of making a name for
00:38ourselves that year we made all the way to the championship we didn't have the easiest schedule
00:43by any means but it was pretty straightforward and we had some very gimmick games when we were
00:49figuring out wow we are this powerhouse team if that's anything like this year and it took figuring
00:56out that we need to run a little bit more man coverage on defense to kind of unfold that
01:01aaron glenn used to run a ton all the time except now we are down both our safeties branches possibly
01:09come back week six you're hopeful about kirby but i mean we just made it work and i i get
01:17it it's
01:17against arizona but you have things to be hopeful for with if you can at least get to plus 500
01:24make it
01:25to the playoffs maybe you do wait kirby longer and try and get them back later healthier a little
01:33bit more rested up you have a little bit more to be optimistic about i think if the high end
01:39of this
01:39team does play out you know uh bryson it's if one thing that we always talk about is that in
01:45the
01:45national football league it is it's hard to win it it doesn't matter who you're playing in fact
01:51kang you're the one that always points out how teams play close games when you blow somebody out
01:57i don't think it's insignificant now again it's not i'm not thinking everything's solved i spent much
02:05of the second half of that game waiting for arizona to put together four straight touchdown drives right
02:11i mean you know i just we've seen this before the fact that they didn't says a lot about you
02:19know
02:19that it says something i don't know if it says a lot it says something about what they were doing
02:23defensively well they did a great job and they were they were called to arms last week right
02:31remember it was calling for kelvin shepherd's head the defensive coordinator saying he's not getting
02:35the job that we got it we got to replace him and they got to business and they kept they
02:41were firm in
02:42their answers when they were asked by the media for two weeks straight or three weeks straight they were
02:47firm in saying we've got the right personnel we've got the right players here they need to execute
02:54they need to to be in the right place they need to be less selfish and you know just be
03:00where they're
03:00supposed to be or whatever you know whatever the wording was on this um and they need to trust each
03:06other and that was the other big word was trust well i don't think the fans trusted that kelvin
03:11shepherd and the crew were going to get it done and they did trey mcbride was held the one reception
03:17in the first half one right all right now he got off a little bit in the second half but
03:22who cares
03:22you know when they did it was yeah take what you can just gonna eat time off the clock we
03:27don't
03:27really care we've already built a you know a four score lead or whatever it was so it was uh
03:32it was a
03:32really kind of i don't i mean i was a little bit impressed i'm not going to say it was
03:37totally
03:37impressed because i understand what restrictions you're working with if you're arizona in that offense
03:43it's not a very good offense their running back is gimpy and that screws that up they don't have a
03:48you know a stud quarterback and the best player happens to be a tight end and they just traded
03:53away you know the first round pick from a couple years ago that was supposed to be can't miss and
03:58well he missed so there's a lot going on there but take advantage of it who cares you don't apologize
04:04for it you do what you're supposed to do and you need to get back get healthy get good and
04:09that's
04:09exactly what happened yesterday don't apologize for let's go to dave and clinton township you're
04:14next hello dave hey fellas so champion shop right yep so my chump is ben johnson for going matt
04:21patricia and trying to be the smartest guy in the room about which quarterback he's going to play
04:25and uh completely screwing over his whole team and uh not showing up against the green bay
04:30packers and by the way he's the only guy in the history of like 60 years of this plant to
04:34make me
04:34root for green bay by the way and then um and then my champ would be um campbell for switching
04:44up how
04:44he's been doing practice knowing they needed to do something different i remember hearing something
04:48early on in camp say hey they were going to have an easier camp this year than they've had in
04:52the past
04:53and he said okay enough of that we got to change things up we got practice like play so those
04:58are two
04:59guys i got other one quick question sure like campbell's first four years he always had
05:04an older defensive consultant like one year he brought in dom capers and stuff like that
05:09you thought with with a guy like um uh shepherds that they had now you think they would really
05:14need one of those why why do you think he hasn't done that this time oh no that's a it's
05:18a great
05:18question i have i have no idea um i mean like the first he don capers i think it was
05:23brett
05:23did he bring him by him billick one time or something i don't know if they brought in billick
05:28let me take a look um but they've had defensive consultants for like the first three years
05:34serious older guys that knew what they were doing defensively right right um i don't know if they
05:41did bring a billick here it's well it's not on his wikipedia page for what that's worth but okay um
05:47yeah i don't know man maybe they maybe it's something that they should consider uh you know
05:55experience another voice in the room but i don't know i can't answer your question
06:00do not know 248-539-9797 kang do you remember was brian billick part of the lion's staff
06:07as a consultant god i feel like he was yeah that sounded familiar but i can't find it um
06:13quit google but he was an offensive guy wasn't he yeah i mean his his teams in baltimore just
06:19happened to be very good defensive teams yeah um yeah he never once at any stop was on the
06:27defensive side of the ball well yeah so i mean it was the head coach of course but yeah
06:31every other job was in a google search says no okay yeah king what do you think what did you
06:39think
06:39the win meant um it means they're capable of doing stuff like this but you also have to take the
06:45opponent to you know consideration here of course but i i i'm cautious you know i that one game
06:51yesterday doesn't erase what i saw the first four weeks of the year uh sometimes life and sports is
06:57about timing i mean had he had that game two weeks ago and then he has a carolina game yesterday
07:01does
07:01he still have a job today now i think the argument for this was hey at least it's trending better
07:07now
07:07right it's not trending worse um so i just see yesterday as they did what they needed to do i
07:14mean
07:14for the whole building confidence wise especially the defensive side of the ball and can they build on
07:18that i think they had to remind themselves that they're capable of doing this with the players
07:22they have on this roster so go in and and do it i mean we always say the difference between
07:27good bad
07:28or whatever is consistency they got to be consistent they got to do it again i mean one thing one
07:32time is
07:32is it happens i mean the raiders got blown out yesterday not that the raiders are any juggernaut
07:37but they were pretty good this year so far record wise right yeah most games are close they're one
07:41possessions but then sometimes these things happen they pop up in the league so now can they build on it
07:47at least they know they're capable of doing it right so now they've got a little bit of time off
07:52and to heal up which they're going to need to heal up and and hopefully you know branches ready to
07:57go
07:57because that should give this defense a lift but if you watch the packers bears game what you saw was
08:02the packers throwing downfield a lot i mean a lot they've got guys that can run right i mean watson
08:12is
08:12outstanding they've got golden as well uh they have a couple other receivers that that are that
08:17can stretch the field and jordan love loves to throw the ball deep and they've done that against
08:23the lions i think every game that that i can remember that jordan love has started against
08:27the lions it feels like they've started with like a 43 yard pass on first play jay and grand rapids
08:34you're on 97.1 hello jay hey good morning guys what's up i make quick couple comments but uh over
08:39the weekend i'm listening to um college football center in the garage has some stuff to do my daughter
08:45walks in she goes hey how's michigan playing i'm like hey they're doing really good she's like okay
08:49she walks in the house a few minutes later comes back out she's like hey you lied you said michigan
08:53was doing good they're not even playing today i'm like yeah that's why they're doing good oh and
08:57then yes yesterday i'm a michigan fan don't you know but uh i just gotta be comedic but uh so
09:04yesterday i'm watching the lions game and she walks in she's like how the lions doing i'm like take a
09:07look and she was like what the hell well then well it depends what it was in the game i
09:12assume it was
09:13early in the game yeah first quarter first quarter well halfway first quarter she comes in she was like
09:18what is going on she watched a little bit jerry she's like they are you know she goes you know
09:22and
09:22then she made a quick comment she was like lions are like people that should be on meds when they're
09:26off their meds you don't know how they're going to perform but when they're when they're on their
09:30meds they perform great i'm like you know what that's exactly how they are she was right and she
09:35doesn't watch football but she pays attention here periodically but i was just like yeah you know
09:41so i'm like i can't argue that you know what i mean but i think do i williams catching two
09:45two
09:46touchdowns yesterday to make up for the week before i think that was fantastic you know i think they
09:50need to be a little bit more uh gutsy that way but again we got to protect the quarterback you
09:55know
09:55and uh i i like the way they played yesterday but i just think they were off the rhythm and
10:00they
10:00found it yesterday so a little bit of credit but yeah they still need a lot of work but i
10:04appreciate
10:04the time guys thanks a lot have a good day 248-539-9797 tony and saginaw is next hello tony
10:11oh hello guys thank you for uh answering and uh i gotta say now i'm 72 years old alliance fan
10:21yep since 1957 okay i've seen it all okay i've i've been preaching to take it till
10:31we're we're two and two the world's not coming to an end and yesterday was proof now i'm and but
10:40then
10:41on the same specter i'm not saying we're going 14 and three either okay we're going to we showed
10:48improvement okay let's let the season play out i think i think as long as the lions are in
10:57competition for the division okay we will make we can make the playoffs okay uh the thing is
11:07is that and what i've always been told and what we're going to hear in the next month or weeks
11:13here
11:13is that it's not how you start it's how you finish okay and the lions are trying to do things
11:21to fix that or get there and i think we've got the guys to do that tony you know one
11:28thing one thing
11:29about what you said there and and i think is interesting is you know they're two and two the
11:34world isn't coming to an end the person that doubts when they're two and two is a person that
11:39doesn't have any history of a lions team rallying to win a super bowl anytime you go to anyone who
11:47struggles you have to cite another organization which is why it's hard to get total buy-in in
11:53detroit and and everything you said is true um but it you know they're i don't i don't get mad
12:00at
12:00people that call up and say it doesn't mean anything i heard some of that during the morning show
12:04uh or wants everybody to tap the brakes we don't have a history you can't say well remember in
12:111984 or you can't say remember in 2006 you know there's no there's no season that we can think of
12:20a detroit lions team that had some struggles early and then rallied and did elite things and so you
12:26always have to cite other organizations which makes it a tougher sell it does make it a tougher sell
12:31maybe this team did find their stride a little bit yesterday it was encouraging but uh you know
12:38as dan campbell said you'll hear what he had to say he wasn't he wasn't saying we figured it out
12:43after
12:43the game i'll tell you that no we'll get to that a little bit later on our champ and chump
12:46nominations
12:47at 1035 it's carson anderson 97 one
