00:00By getting a defensive...
00:01I just stopped for a second.
00:02There's some breaking news with the Lions.
00:05Yeah.
00:05The Lions have opened the 21-day practice window for Kirby Joseph.
00:11Wow.
00:12Now the Lions have tweeted out Kirby Joseph will practice today.
00:15Now I'm glad you stopped me.
00:17Hmm.
00:19So the question is, is this going to be anything?
00:24Is this just the last Hail Mary in his career?
00:28I mean, I think everybody hopes for the best, right?
00:31Great.
00:31By all accounts, great guy.
00:33Awesome player when he was healthy.
00:35Like, all pro player.
00:38Great safety.
00:41We're all hoping and pulling for him that he can play and keep his career going.
00:46But I think we're all a little skeptical that that's a possibility.
00:50But Dan Campbell says he's passed every test at this point.
00:54So start the window today.
00:56What does that mean?
00:57If Dan Campbell, is this a recent quote?
01:00That's a quote from Corey Woods has this one from today.
01:03He's passed every test.
01:05To this point.
01:07Well, we don't know what those tests are.
01:10That...
01:10I mean, that would feel like it's not meaningless.
01:15Correct.
01:17I mean, to me, I mean, if I'm trying to test a guy who's got a bad knee, it's okay.
01:23You've done some running.
01:24You've done some, you know, put some pounding on the ground with that knee.
01:29How did it hold up the next day?
01:30Did you feel good?
01:31And if it feels good, okay, can you do two days in a row?
01:34Can you do three days in a row?
01:36You know, I don't know what the test is, but those are the tests that I'd be looking at.
01:39And is he able to cut, back pedal, hip turn?
01:45All the things, you know, because it's vitally important for that position.
01:50Can he handle it?
01:53Well, and he also says he's passed every test to this point.
01:56Yeah.
01:56Now he's going to go through practices.
01:58Now we have other tests.
01:58Yeah.
01:58Now you're...
01:59Where there'll be other, different types of tests.
02:04Yeah.
02:07My instinct here tells me that we got to take our hat off to Kirby Joseph,
02:13who's remained committed and is doing everything he can to get on the football field and help this team.
02:19Maybe it's solely financial and just trying to, you know,
02:24keep working and working and working and keep getting paid for as long as he can,
02:27because this might be it.
02:29But it does feel like Kirby is doing everything he possibly can to overcome
02:35what feels like a potentially debilitating injury here.
02:39It's so weird and so unknown and feels like it is, you know, just a unique injury that could...
02:49Because you know what?
02:50When we grew up, knee injuries ended careers.
02:54And that era is over.
02:56And this sounds like it might be actually a knee injury that could end a career, right?
03:01It does.
03:03It absolutely does.
03:04And this is...
03:05I think there's a lot of new territory they're going into.
03:09And, okay, done everything we can.
03:12Let's open up the window and see if he can handle practice.
03:16If he can, great.
03:17If he can't, back on the IR and evaluate at the end of the season and see what has to
03:23be done there.
03:24But at this point, I think it's encouraging that he's returning to practice at the very least.
03:29So, Thug Aim just put out there on Twitch on the streaming chat there, it's the JV situation.
03:34Just go for it and hope he makes it through again.
03:37Kind of.
03:40Brad Gallia has a quote from Dan Campbell.
03:42It says, we'll kind of progress him as we go each week to get him back in the flow.
03:48He's passed every test at this point.
03:50This is the next step.
03:52It'll be great to get him back with the guys.
03:54This is a step in the right direction.
03:56Hmm.
03:58Ken, what do you make of this story?
04:0021-day window.
04:01He's passed every test thus far.
04:03Well, I think it's good news.
04:05I don't think it's like the JV situation because JV, you expected him to help your rotation.
04:09You expected him to help this year's team.
04:11I don't think anyone really expected Kirby Joseph at this, you know, even to start the year to help the
04:15team.
04:15I think anything you saw from him on the field would be a bonus.
04:19So, I'm taking it step by step slowly.
04:21I'm not going to overreact.
04:23I think this is positive news.
04:24We should treat it like positive news, but it's just like the first baby step, you know?
04:28Like, hey, all they've done is open up the window.
04:31Good.
04:31Okay.
04:32Let's see how he goes through practice.
04:33Like, I'm, you know, I'm very skeptical and cautious.
04:37So, I think it's a good thing, though, because I didn't expect much from him this year.
04:41So, if we get anything from Kirby, that's a plus.
04:45I wonder a little bit if he goes through practice over this 21-day window, is at any point he
04:53going to be able to do anything that people are like, oh, my God, Kirby's going to play and he's
04:57fine?
04:57Or is it just going to be, until he gets on the field, nobody's going to buy, or very few
05:04are going to buy, that he can make an impact?
05:06I don't know.
05:08And this is Wednesday.
05:09You certainly wouldn't expect him to suit up on Sunday.
05:11But does this give him, I mean, he's got to stack practices, right?
05:16Stack practices.
05:17Hopefully, they're pain-free and go from there.
05:20But, I think, like we've all said, it's the next step.
05:23Return to practice.
05:24Got it.
05:25Okay.
05:26See how it works.
05:27Cross your fingers.
05:28Hope for the best.
05:29Shouldn't stop them from looking to add to this team.
05:32I hope not.
05:33And I hope that's probably the fear for some Lions fans, right, Gator?
05:36Like, oh, look at him.
05:37Another guy in the room that they like is getting healthy.
05:39We're less than two weeks from the trade deadline.
05:42I don't think, or I hope it doesn't stop Brad Holmes from looking, and I'm sure he is looking.
05:47I think with Kirby, Doug, even if he were to play at some point this year, let's say he finally
05:51goes through practice, everything's good, and he's going to suit up.
05:54It's going to be one of those, you're never going to feel carefree about him.
05:57Like, it's get through the game.
05:58Okay, see how he feels after the game.
06:00It's like, this is like a week-to-week basis with him.
06:02Like, because you just don't know how long he can last.
06:05It's crazy.
06:06I can think of all kinds of players that came back from knee injuries and played well.
06:11I don't know if I can remember a case where there's this vagueness.
06:15It's taken this long, and a guy returns to 100%.
06:19I just, I don't know.
06:22Right, because this doesn't seem like it's just you're always coming back from an ACL injury, or he had, you
06:27know, patella surgery, or whatever.
06:28This seems like this is something completely different.
06:32Yeah, maybe somebody can think of a comp where we can say, oh, yeah, it has happened before.
06:38But I'm not sure I can think of one.
06:39All right, we started down the road.
06:41ESPN put out a list this afternoon, actually, of players likely to get traded, and the teams they would make
06:51sense for.
06:52Now, they put percentages on how likely those players are to get traded.
06:55The Lions were linked to four players, two on offense, actually, no, that's not true, three on defense, one on
07:04offense.
07:06We will get to that coming up today at 116.
07:09It's Carson Anderson here on 97.1.
07:11We'll have a look at that.
