00:09you got an hour till dan campbell joins the show we'll talk about that vikings win
00:13see if there's any news on jack campbell and uh get into the miami week yep because it's um
00:20put one foot in front of the other got to keep playing these games and the north
00:23won't rest everybody keeps winning it was the bears last night in seattle winning by double
00:28digits caleb looking good and this defense that's the headline to me is the defense is much improved
00:33from a year ago our question was who's the best team in the nfc north and the irony too is
00:39we thought
00:39i mean that that's one where we were a hand raise your hand if you've been wrong before
00:44um we were completely wrong i didn't think the defense was going to be like this
00:48yeah see if plenty wanted to clown me for that i think that would be more than fair game i
00:52thought
00:53the bears would take a step back this year they are absolutely the lions biggest threat in the north
00:57and it feels like these two teams are on a collision course to settle this division i say
01:01that knowing minnesota has the best record but we just saw what detroit did to minnesota and i feel
01:07like chicago is going to be our biggest threat minnesota is going to continue to have issues
01:12offensively i don't think there's any question about that but to tom's point when you have a top
01:1610 offense and you have a top 10 defense yeah that is a problem in the division how about this
01:23they're second and rushing the lions are seventh balanced offense they're eighth in points per
01:30game eighth in points allowed i mean the data points for their season as a package and it really
01:38does make the statement i think that you completely wash out the green bay game because despite that
01:45game they're still in this spot right so if we're doing comparables they've played two common
01:49opponents minnesota and green bay and detroit beat both and chicago lost both the other thing
01:55i'm looking at is those games were televised they were the other you look at is these crossover games
02:00so they beat their nfc east crossover the eagles we have not played our nfc east crossover the giants
02:07well suddenly the giants looked like the tougher game right yeah versus the eagles who are in disarray
02:14right and then the other crossover that that we have seen is they got seattle and they won that was
02:19the
02:19tougher game we got arizona and won one
02:24yeah it's it's gonna it's gonna be fight to the finish here there's no question and i do believe the
02:30top
02:30two teams in the division are the bears and the lions and i think the bears are at this point
02:39built in a way that is very concerning to detroit lions fans and to the and it should be very
02:47concerning to dan campbell let's go to adam in gibraltar adam good to hear from you good morning
02:53hey good morning uh costa hey go wings costa hey go wings big win last night yeah without what
02:59yeah who needs larkin right that's right who needs him um but to your guys's point with the whole who's
03:06better in the north i mean you gotta go with the bears i mean they look dominant even though i
03:12don't
03:12think i think seattle looks like a shell themselves compared to last year on offense um i mean that
03:18defense i feel like that defense can get exploit i think the bears kind of shows the way too um
03:25but yeah the bears are hands down the best team in the north and with that thanksgiving showdown coming
03:31up i think the one thing you guys got to look at is the bears have a bye week two
03:38weeks before that
03:39so they get a little bit more rest and we go to germany lions have to yeah we go to
03:43germany and then
03:44we play on that next sunday and then we play you know four days after that so i mean it's
03:50going to be
03:51a war of attrition when it comes down to that game because that's going to be a big showdown because
03:55i mean the lions can you know knock off you know new england and germany i feel like they're going
03:59to go
04:00into the thanksgiving game what eight and two and then all of a sudden you're probably gonna have
04:04a showdown for first place in the north going into thanksgiving um could be a pair of eight and
04:09two teams yeah absolutely so i feel like that whole schedule situation is going to be looming
04:16gloom and loom uh or uh i think the lions going into that thanksgiving game so hopefully we can get
04:23healthy hopefully you know prayers to jack campbell and things like that no one wants to see that
04:27on a football field um you know i'm sure all of us fans were kind of emotional seeing that because
04:33i feel like most of us have played sports at one point in time and another and we don't ever
04:38want
04:38to see that right because it's not it's not an ankle injury i thought i thought you you and john
04:42you
04:42and tj really hit that point having been there when a teammate gets hurt and you go okay well it's
04:47a
04:47knee they can repair it right it's scary when it's it's a guy not moving right yeah it is much
04:53more
04:54scary now his point about schedule leading up to that thanksgiving day game how much stock do you
04:59put in hey we got this cross globe flight and and they've got a little more favorable with the buy
05:03two weeks out anything there um not particularly uh not at least not for me um and you know when
05:12i
05:12look at it okay yeah you are going to uh to germany but then you come back and you play
05:17tampa
05:18which could be a scrappy team as we've seen i just they've got new orleans we've got tampa which
05:25i think is comparable in regards to like the opponent that you're preparing for and so they'll
05:31be they'll be readjusted um coming back from germany following basically a week and a half i got two
05:38pages of text here let's sift through these it says um it's just the lions luck we're finally good
05:42again and four of the five best teams in the nfc are in our division okay well i'm okay yeah
05:50but
05:50cry crocodile tears right if we're good we're gonna find out yeah and we're two and oh in this
05:55division sure am i the only one that thinks the nfc east is what our nfc north is widely overrated
06:01the vikings are frauds the bears are paper tigers and fake and the packers are the worst packer team
06:05of our lifetime we should walk away from this division easy boy that couldn't have been two more
06:09different texts right yeah i don't think the packers are the worst of our lifetime wild uh why
06:16do you guys keep yapping about the division is it because it's the only way you're going to be
06:18able to hang a banner question mark oh oh sent from yeah who's sending this text thanks for looking
06:25thanks for listening in chicago uh guys do you seriously think we have a shot to win the nfc it
06:29feels like the niners and bears and then what maybe detroit third um
06:37i mean yeah i would probably put seattle in that mix as well even after last night even after last
06:41night yeah um i went from hating chicago to being jealous having a good team and then actually having
06:49a gm that wants to win i'm rooting for chicago because it feels like the only way there'd be
06:53pressure on brad holmes if the lions lose i want it to be one of the teams that made the
06:57big impact moves
06:58so we learn we have to do the same obviously adding simmons is a huge addition to their defense
07:08if there was a weak spot it was their defense especially their defensive front yeah i hate to
07:15say it but the only chance i think we have to take down the bears is if caleb breaks another
07:19nail
07:19and misses extended time which is possible sure it's possible um but i'm not going to sit there and
07:27you know plan my hopes and dreams on hope if if one of their guys gets hurt come on hangnail
07:32yeah
07:33i would say this i think the lions at this point they're gonna have to go five and one or
07:38better
07:38in the division to win the division we also just got this text in that i don't they said i
07:43don't think
07:43the division is as big as people think it is this year other than home field the three and four
07:48seeds
07:48will probably not be all that good right the east and south champs it is having the makings of a
07:54wild
07:54card type season where you know if you make the case the rams are alive still but they wouldn't win
08:00uh i think i think the lines here's a bottom line this team right now i think if the lions
08:04got into
08:05the playoffs right now that they could ball with anybody because of their offense it would be can
08:12they get stops can they get field goal attempts fourth downs i think they've proven the last two weeks
08:18that they can play with anybody in this league what you're describing is this world where a team could
08:23lose the north of the chicago or detroit or minnesota and be say the five seed draw a patsy
08:31four seed and you're setting up a chance to make amends for the division you didn't win
08:36come the second round of the playoffs like this division is going to get sorted out in the regular
08:40season but more so it sounds like this division is going to get sorted out in the second round of
08:44the playoffs or or deeper it's going to be really hard for the west to get four at this point
08:48it feels like the seahawks the rant they play twice yeah and they have hard schedules coming up
08:54especially the seahawks yeah uh we're getting bargain brad text we're going to talk trade
08:59deadline coming up at 7 35 who is the top target for detroit now we are one week out from
09:03the nfl trade
09:04deadline let's get to duane in detroit duane good morning hey good morning how you doing fellas good how
09:10about yourself i'm doing good man i just wanted to call it this and say what the things that's
09:15going on with jack campbell do we feel like we understand sam laporta uh comment about when he
09:20was like i broke my neck for the team and about his contract it's like it's like wow for him
09:27to say
09:27that but now to see what jack campbell is going through it's like i kind of understand what sam was
09:32saying that day on the uh podcast yeah i mean i think we understood it at the time you're you're
09:37only
09:38one play away from your career being over we get that right did it all cross your mind thinking like
09:45hey um on a personal level i'm glad jack already did get his contract if his if his playing career
09:50is
09:51taken away at all i'm glad his family is going to be secure yes yes that's exactly you know what
09:57i
09:57thought you know just you know this is a dangerous sport of course we love it and it's very entertaining
10:03but anything you know happening in the brink of the eye and um just to see that and be like
10:08wow
10:08there's no thank god he did have his uh his uh contract but now i was just thinking about that
10:13like wow sam went up there i broke my back for the team and then you know something happened like
10:18that
10:18it's like wow it's kind of crazy yeah to see that yeah dwayne i'll tell you we did get some
10:24text on
10:24that same thought yesterday well yeah and and we hear it all the time especially for running backs
10:28like the expiration date and that that run most running backs have derrick henry is you know an
10:36anomaly some of these guys are anomalies but yeah you are you're one play away but there is the other
10:42side of that coin from the team perspective too yes there is oh yeah yeah absolutely the player is
10:47only one play away and if he's already had a back injury yeah and and nothing on the level of
10:52jack
10:52campbell but like you know they've seen it with a paid a lame mcneil he lost parts of two years
10:56with an acl kirby joseph low still waiting to see if he can ever really make an impact again
11:01all right coming up next we got heather's news we got the two grand slam we'll get to the deadline
11:05later in the hour and dan campbell at 802 it's 97 1
