00:011220 a position nobody's talking about that maybe the lions would add a player at the trade deadline
00:07wouldn't be too costly 248-539-9797 let's get to your phone calls we go to sam in a cell
00:14hello sam
00:14hey good afternoon so i i agree that they should be very aggressive definitely get uh a corner
00:23um but also i would like and hopefully i'm not stealing your thunder for your upcoming secret
00:30i think they should go get a safety as well you know cardinals uh you know try and get buda
00:37baker
00:37from the cardinals i think it'd be a good acquisition for the alliance because i really
00:44don't see kirby joseph playing football again i know he wants to and you know that's good but with
00:50the injury i don't see him coming back so we need to bolster that position as well uh have you
00:57looked at buda baker's contract i have not okay um i'm trying to get to it he has signed a
01:05three-year
01:0554 million dollar contract uh he'd have one year after this year i mean i guess it depends on the
01:12cardinals truly making him available i you know they they're an organization that you know are you
01:19looking on a trying to win next year timeline because if you're trying to win next year i would
01:24imagine they wouldn't want to move him but i'm not against it i'm not against adding another safety
01:29i just do question the you know whether or not they would do it his base salary he would cost
01:35the
01:35lions uh well prorated part of 14 million this year and 16 million next year so you're talking about
01:43taking on a lot of salary if they were to go corner and buda baker assuming well if the corner
01:49is the
01:50best one available um then you run into cap issues if it's zion mccollum because you have to pay him
01:56next year 15 million or whatever it is but i'm not against getting a quality safety i'm just i don't
02:04know
02:04i can't if i'm if i'm doing this show in arizona i'm thinking no i want to keep him and
02:08try and win
02:08next year well maybe um but he's a guy that could get you certainly get you something in return
02:15he's a quality safety um he's a guy who's also had a bit of an injured past um it's not
02:22a terrible
02:23injured past but he only played 12 games in 2023 um otherwise he's missed time here and there i seem
02:30to remember him playing a lot but playing a lot hurt like would go out of games halfway through it
02:35with an injury and come back the next week and do the same thing but he's a guy that when
02:39we asked
02:40jared golf about him last week not about him specifically i said who's the guy in arizona's
02:44defense you you key on he says buda without question it's buda baker i gotta watch where he's at because
02:50he's he's always in on it um he's a guy who is a more than willing tackler i mean he's
02:56had over 100
02:57tackles in three of the last four seasons uh and he's at a pretty good pace this year too so
03:03i i like buda
03:04baker a lot i'd be curious what the price is yeah if if he's even available if he's even available
03:12i
03:12would imagine he's available i just don't know if the price is something because you mentioned it's
03:16not a rental because he's got next year's contract on it too and that might be a bit much the
03:22priority
03:23for me is the corner i'm when i saw this article last night i'm always all excited about mccollum
03:28that's the guy i want yep okay here's another position that they might want to add somebody
03:33and i don't think it'd be very costly and he's rumored to be available on a team that is going
03:38to sell he's done some good things in his career probably a step slow as would be imagined where he
03:43is in his career but it doesn't mean it wouldn't help this team and for the right cost the position
03:50is running back and the player is tony pollard from tennessee that pretty much everybody is writing
03:57is on the trade market now again is pollard what he once was no but as pollard asked to do
04:04something in detroit that a lot of heavy lifting no he's asked to be a backup running back
04:11and you know the fact of the matter is i know kang you like vaki but are we sure vaki
04:19is the guy and pacheco you know i get the sense he's never going to play uh when it started
04:27with
04:27an mcl and then a back got added to it you know so i i wouldn't be surprised to see
04:33them make a move
04:34for a veteran running back i think they like vaki a lot and i'm that's just not me saying it
04:39because
04:39it's me but i think that vaki has definitely improved as a pass protecting running back you saw
04:44the last game alone where there's a play where the there was a safety or linebacker that was
04:48blitzing he was trying to find the hole to get to the quarterback and vaki did a great job of
04:52waiting and finding and sitting back and protecting golf waiting for the you know the defender to come
04:58in and held up his block and then also when he has to get his carries he's moving forward and
05:03i think
05:04that's the key is here they don't want i don't think they want someone taking carries away from gibbs
05:09i know people are worried about how durable he can be the guy is in the best shape of his
05:14life he's
05:14still young he's only what 24 years old and he's producing and i think that was part of the
05:20intoxication of getting moving on from monty i know monty also you know asked to be moved but
05:25they're like yeah because we have this corvette over here that is sometimes just standing there on
05:30the sidelines because we got to get you in the game they don't want to do that they want to
05:34use
05:34gibbs as much as possible and so i don't think they really need to get somebody else there to take
05:39some carries away or whatever i think vaki's doing the job that they want vaki to do i love corvettes
05:43he's he's a ferrari whatever car du jour yeah they want him he could run between the tackles
05:50he's so good he can do it all he can receive they don't want to take away touches from him
05:55so maybe i mean i look i they they clearly didn't take touches away late in that game when the
06:00game was
06:00decided i think they're i wonder how much of that is driven by we'd prefer we just not
06:08at a point where we totally trust vaki just yet but um i wouldn't be shocked to see them get
06:14a
06:14veteran running back and it wouldn't be to take many carries away it would just be to take it'd be
06:19to take carries away from vaki i would more lean towards what you're saying doug i i could see that
06:25happening to get a veteran player here in place um i i also agree with king they don't want to
06:30take
06:30touches away from from gibbs but i think what they'd like to be able to do is you know because
06:36they use gibbs so often is to be able to take him out and and have somebody who's at least
06:43as good
06:43a blocker as vaki can be which i imagine you could find a veteran running back who is and they
06:48could
06:48also give you a few carries a game he doesn't need this isn't they're not looking for somebody to
06:53split carries like montgomery and gibbs did that's not what the plan is but i think if you have a
06:58guy
06:59who's able to carry the ball five to eight times a game while being an excellent blocker that'd be
07:05something that i could see them adding but not a high priority yeah and maybe it's not pollard not
07:10maybe it's not pollard i just know that he's available and i wouldn't be shocked to see them
07:14get a veteran running back on the cheap because you know there's you know i don't see them breaking
07:19the bank they're not going to cut if they if they do cut into gibbs as carries it would be
07:24at a
07:24minimal and it would be only for preservation sake but feedback coming in bargain bin
07:28brad is not signing anyone of significance lions will be picking in the top 10 in the draft
07:33um top 10 in the draft that's what he says is the gator casino opening up would you like i'll
07:38i'll take
07:39uh outside the top 10 you know that i'll take 11 through 32 i'll take one of those if they
07:44have a
07:44first round pick yeah if they haven't traded it away yeah if they haven't traded it away it's because
07:49he's not bargain bin i mean the team's three and two are you aware of this sir or madam um
07:58yeah i mean but their team the teams that are picking in 10th right now are two and three
08:03so he obviously thinks the season's gonna go south you've seen the rest of the schedule my friend
08:07yeah i mean look dude hyperbole is is the world we live in uh john in plymouth says an f
08:16them picks
08:17mentality could have resulted in porter jr plus mccollum at corner with branch coming back that
08:21is what holmes is going to pass up my guess is that it'll be a practice squad defensive backs from
08:26other teams well john look you know it the one thing that i think brad has a bad reputation for
08:36that
08:36is unfounded is for previous years trades he didn't make when the truth is rarely do we know what
08:43conversations were had this year we know this year is different this year we know that what
08:49conversations have with pittsburgh the lions and pittsburgh talk we know the player we know the
08:55player would be a position to help and we know what the player sold for this is why when you
09:01operate
09:02in absolutes which i feel like there's a responsibility to do i have changed my tune on brad holmes i'm
09:08no
09:08longer a brad bot i still like his work i don't love his work because we have a hard and
09:14fast example
09:14the other one the closest we had to it of a gm that passed on something that has been reported
09:20is steve eisenman not making the move for quinn hughes because he couldn't sign him long term when
09:27it was edvinson a prospect and stuff and that i think the red wings would have been a playoff team
09:33last year with quinn hughes it's even more frustrating now that edvinson isn't playing i mean there are
09:38several rumors of what the trade proposal was um there's differing how many players it was going
09:44to take to get it done so i don't know what was real what wasn't real with that one but
09:49what i do
09:49believe is that they weren't they they wanted to get them signed and and if you're quinn hughes why
09:54would you have signed all right at this hour we have a quote from sean horkoff oh we will get
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10:01that today at 12 31 and another edition are you going to eat that at 12 35 it's carson anderson
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