Big D Energy Show
Big D Energy | Thursday, September 5th, 2024
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Kool-Aid, what's good? Hey, not much, man. Detroit line is football this weekend. That's what's good. NFL football tonight is a matter of fact. KG, what's really good. You know what's really good. In a fail, baby. We back. We did it. The Mario and the Ravens for the win, baby. We did it. We spent a raster in the building. Hello. Spent more act. How are you, man? Good. How are you? Cool. Cool. Got the workout in. We're good to go. We're locked. We're loaded. We got a ton of football to get to. And guys, I don't usually do this stuff, but I did want to start off with something here. And it is serious. And it's not a position. It's not a topic. It's just something that I want to say. And the fact of the matter is this. If you have not heard, which not all of you have, A, because it's become so normalized, yesterday what happened in Appalachia high school in Georgia, four people were shot and killed in yet another school shooting. And I'm not here to make this a discussion. I'm not here to make this a debate. I just want to ask the people. I want everybody. And this is we, we the people, whenever we're angry about something, be a mystery or whatever we always say, we the people, right? I want us all to just stop with it. It's a tragedy. Stop saying it. Stop with the prayers, stop with the thoughts and prayers that this is a tragedy, all of it, because this continues to happen. And we don't give a shit. We've never given a shit. And chances are we won't care. Four people are dead. Two teachers, two students. I can't keep track of how many times this has happened. And again, we did this before when we did the Oxford thing, when I had one of my cousins in the building, like we've proven that we don't care. So stop being mad about it. We're not willing to do anything to try and stop it. And again, guys, calm down. We have proven we will do nothing. We will just continue to go about our way of business. So I will say today, what I said then, what I'll say next week or tomorrow or whenever it happens again, here's the cycle, everybody. Okay, here's how I work. I'm just telling you how I work. It happens. I feel relief because it wasn't the school that my wife works at or that my kids go to or it wasn't Tammy Chin who's in the chat. It wasn't her school. It wasn't Pete Smith who's in the chat. It wasn't his school. It wasn't a family member school. I feel relief. Then I hate that I feel that way. I hate that in some form or fashion, I think to myself, I think, well, I'm glad that happened to somebody else because I'm honest about it. This is a moment of honesty for everybody. I'm honest about it. And honestly, we aren't going to do anything. And in the meantime, the circle continues to get smaller and continues to get closer. It grazed us last a couple times ago. I don't even know how many times ago. Remember that? It grazed us and we just kept pushing, didn't we? Amen. NFL football starts tonight. And we're going to get into it because this is a sports show and this isn't the politics show or anything like that. I'm just asking the people out there, just stop saying it's a tragedy because you know what it's not? It's not a tragedy because it's become a tradition in our country. And it won't. This is the way that it is. And I'm just grateful it wasn't my wife, someone who watches Woodward, my family, one of you guys, one of your family, one of your friends. But stop telling me it's a tragedy because if it was a tragedy, we'd do something about it. And we don't care. We're undefeated against caring. And for the kids out there, for the kids, hey, I told you guys this last time we talked about this. I'm sorry that we don't care. I'm sorry that we put you in that spot, but we don't care. We care about the way we feel more, how things make us feel more. That's what we care about. If you're in, and look, I'm not doing this for the politics stuff, so I don't care what your comments are in the chat. I don't care. Not reading them. Not getting into it. I'm giving you a statement of fact right now about where we are at. If you're a, because for me, we, I would say we have to do something, but apparently we don't have to do anything. And if you're not willing to look at every possible angle, every possible angle to stop this, then you're a piece of shit. You are point blank period. If your feeling is in the way of kids getting shot and teachers getting shot at schools time after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, that was only 10 times I said that. And it was more than that. And it's happened hundreds of times. If you, if you're not willing to look at all angles to try to fix this in your piece of shit, and I don't care, and if that makes you angry, I don't care about that either, because this is simply a statement of fact. And we're, and we are, we're going to move on. I'm not making it a topic. I'm not discussing it. So I guess it, you know, I'm just going to do what we all do. We'll just move on. And hey, two 14 year old kids, two teachers that left their family for the day and went to work to raise your children. Because that's what teachers do. I know I've lived with one for over 20 years. She raises your children. These teachers raise your children. Pete Smith in the chat raises your children. You're not, you're at work. That's what they do. And we don't care that this happens and we're not going to care. So take that, do whatever you want. If you say, wow, Neil, I hate you. That's fine. I don't care. I'll go to sleep that night. So that's it. That's all I'm talking about. If you don't want to look at it, uh, except for this one, octopus, an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress. What do you mean tragedy is not the right word? Because it happens all the time. It has stopped being a tragedy. It's become an American tradition. Too much. Way too much. An event that happens repeatedly. All right. Is a tradition. The definition of insanity. So that's it. That's it. So if you're not, if you're not looking to, if you don't want, if not every single angle is on the table for you to discuss how we can stop this from happening, then you're a piece of shit and we're moving on. So, so that's it. JP, Neil for the brutal, honest teacher. That's all, that's all I can deal in. I'm not getting in the weeds. I'm not having the discussion about whose fault it is because we always look for a silver bullet because we're lazy. We are lazy. You know, the kind of work it would take to fix this. We're not prepared for that as people. Yeah. That is facts. Come on, man. We can't just, uh, uh, drop some money to go fund me and feel good about ourselves on this one. There's music to download. There's coffee to drink. So just stop. That's all I'm asking from you. Just stop because we've moved on. We've moved on from this. And look, KG, I'm not putting you on blast about this. I'm not. I'm not. You worked in the news in this town. I did. And the ABC affiliate news. Yep. You've seen some ish in your day. I have. You didn't even know. I didn't. And that's not that. Please understand, KG. I know. I respect you. And it's not a blast on you. Yeah. You didn't even know. So fat. And guess what? None of us probably know the last time it's happened. Before today, whenever the last time was, we don't know about that either. And I promise you this, it won't be the last time. That's it. So, you know, that is it. So all right. The football, I know. Oh, Neil, why are you talking about politics? Talk football. Okay, I'll dance for you. I will. No, we are. We're gonna, we're gonna talk football. So, you know, that's, uh, that's what it is. I'd rather you dance for me on the sports coverage. But I want to know the people that are gonna dance for me on entertainment. How real are you? You know what I'm saying? That's, that's the measure of the people breaking news. And this one is almost unbelievable. Yeah, it's all about new customers at bet 365 because they get $200 in bonus bets when they bet $5 and even better bonus bets can be used on the spread, totals, and player props. There you have it. Bet $5 to get $200 in bonus bet and see why it's never ordinary at bet basis five gambling problem. Color text 1 and 100 gambler. 21 plus only. Must be physically located in Colorado. Terms and conditions apply. That are your public servants, like we take on that role. So to know that you care beyond just if my team wins or loses, we can all do the whole, you know, shut up and stick the sports talk. But I'm sorry, man. I got kids. My parents are educators. Yeah. My grandparents were educators. You're from a family of teachers. That's what I'm saying. I know what they go through. And to know that you're you're already you're already kind of putting yourself in some type of way, less than than than than probably beneficial to you because you're sacrificing to make sure that next generation can have everything that it needs. Sometimes sometimes it's the love that that kid needs even beyond just the education. Sometimes it's the direction and the guidance. Sometimes it's the patience and understanding. And that's one of the things that I'm grateful about for my parents. But yeah, every time you hear one of these things, my first reaction is my first reaction is, Oh, thank God, that wasn't my wife's school. And I feel you're my daughter goes to school too. Yeah. And I hate that I feel that. I hate I hate because I'm looking at the screen right now. There are four people that got murdered yesterday. And my first reaction was, well, thank God, it wasn't my family. You know what? I'm being real. But you know why you hate that? Because it's because when when is it going to be? No, that's it. Everyone in the chat, everyone in the chat right now, that's dropping your solutions, your magic pill solutions. Just stop. Just stop. Because we're not going to do anything about it. We're just not, we proven it hundreds of times. We are undefeated against doing something about it. So just stop. And Kool-Aid, like, I know and I get where you're coming from. And you and I are in the same boat, man. But I guess this is a skill I have. I don't know. But I can compartmentalize about it. I'm not going to push back against something I can't do anything about, especially when the will of the people is to not do anything about it. So that's it, man. That's it. I'm not I'm not blaming anyone. This is we the people and we the people are cool with it. Yeah. Sometimes you just got to get it off your chest. I have family in the chat family. You family, you know what? Whether you agree, you disagree. Sometimes you got to hear it out. And this is, I know you don't want us to use that word, but it truly is a tragedy, man. And so I actually do applaud you for giving it some space at some time because sadly, it was just a blurb that I kind of saw, but didn't quite take the time to really break down in process. And you're right, it's almost like this is the cycle when we hear it. Do people say, you know what? This is an outrage. It must be stopped. People say, Oh, here we go again. And when it was Oxford, and we were talking about it, because it was our community, and it was my fam, one of my family in the building, then, you know, and I told you guys that day when we talk, I said record this and run it back. So if you guys didn't do that, record this and run it back. And when it happens again, well, actually, I won't say when it happens again, because we'd never get a chance to talk sports, because it's happened hundreds of times. So, you know, that's it. And again, I'm not, I'm not saying it. I'm not saying it. All your comments, like all your magic bullet solutions. We're not, it's not, we're not here for that. I'm just, I'm making a statement of fact that is inarguable. You cannot argue what I just, you cannot like it, but you cannot disagree with it. Is that fair? Spenny, is that fair? It's fair. Okay. All right, we go on. We do the football now, everybody. Actually, we don't. We do the baseball. You cannot lose that game last night. Okay. You cannot lose that game last night. You cannot lose that game last night. And if you want the hey, it's meaningful baseball and hey, it's fun and all that kind of stuff, then you also have to take this. You got to keep it consistent. You cannot lose that baseball game last. You're up five nothing. Period. And you got to have it. Factual. Because you know what, things went from, and we were, you know, on the morning show, KG, talking about, you know what, how real is this run? We were like, no, it's not that real. Because they were winning and they were still what nine games back. And then over the course of like a weekend in a blink, they were four and a half games back within a wild card chase. They had leapfrogs some teams and not just buying in. I thought that the aspect of do you buy into the hope was when they were nine games back and they were on 11 of 13 games street. When you are four and a half games back with the amount of time they had, and honestly, what I believe to be a favorable schedule, you got to handle business. I wonder sometimes, you know, with their assessment of the Detroit Tigers, is this just proving how much more they have to get? How much more they have to get? Because I did. I did. I bought in just a little bit believing, you know what, they're going to make this thing exciting and fun down the stretch for the wild card race. So last night's loss was it was disappointing. No, it was it was and it was so up the Tigers. Tiger. That's all. You know, how real was it? At no point like what we were celebrating because they were at nine percent to make the playoffs, even at the height of the height. Like I still don't because it's been a decade since we've been relevant in baseball. Right. So I think that we forgot that when you're four and a half back of four teams, or three teams with 22 games to go. Now you're talking, I go with 17 and five to get home. Like that's not realistic. It's not six games against the Baltimore or like we can touch ourselves about y'all. We play the Rockies and we play the White Sox. Well, you play the Orioles six times, too, who got their own things to deal with right now. By the way, the Oakland A's are like 38 and 30 since the All-Star break or something, too. They've been a good baseball team and they own us in the regular season for some reason. For some reason, they just do. You know what I'm saying? And you know, you're you're going to Colorado, where the Rockies are going to hit enough to win one of the games. You have to sweep Kansas City. Now you can't just win two or three can't win the series. Because if you win two or three, you've gained a game, but more than that, you've lost 10 percent of your season's game. So so that was it. TW the kid. Wait, did the Tigers lose? WTF. Exactly. And that was the same thing for me. Like I went to bed because I was struggling yesterday with that early wake up call getting the kids and their meetings and stuff. You know, I was struggling with it. But I knew it. It was a tough loss and it's just crazy how we diagnosed or how we absolute or how we look at this because post trade deadline, they're doing pretty good. But in the think of it as it relates to a wild card race, obviously last night was damaging. But overall with where this team is, I can't really scoff too much at what they've been post all-star break. Yep. So yeah, but let's get into it. We are going to do the football, Lions, Rams, and tonight as a matter of fact, Chiefs rate. Can we talk about it? Absolutely we can. Before before it. Can we get a chat poll up tonight? What are you watching? Raven's Chiefs or the Tigers Padres? Come on up for the playoff. Come on. The playoff. I was told it's a playoff. Spenny, were we told it was a playoff chase? We were. Listen, I pander. You already know what it is. I was told we're in a playoff race. Are we or are we not? So we're out now? I mean, to me, we've been out, but that's not going to. I'm not going to tell anybody how to use they fandom. So it is what it is. Hey, you know, a little bit about these sports on the side. Got anything up on the main TV? Yeah, absolutely. Tell them about Guardian. I got you, man. Hey, let Guardian alarm off you. Customize solutions from real experts are professional technicians. Take the time to recommend security and automation solutions specific to your needs. It's 24/7 professional monitoring. 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If you want to throw that back in the chat because it is some pretty good stuff there. But yeah, there and there is like a there is a contingent of people that are like me that say you know one bat could have made a heck of a lot of difference. But they they didn't act on it. All they thought about on that part of the lineup was thoughts and prayers. That was it. To start the season, man, it looked like they needed a whole lot more. And I remember some of the narrative was just like so then what's one bat really going to do. But the way things have shaken out is like dog how much more of a difference that one bat would have made for this Detroit Tigers lineup. There are some nights where it's like all they needed was just one more hit. That's it. And so when you talk about a bat that can bring at least two of those hits to the lineup a night, that's where it's just like it gets a little bit disappointing. Especially when you see them dropping games to teams that they should be beating. And okay, gee, this is so we've been talking about all season. Yeah, you know, how close are the Detroit Tigers because we saw the flashes. They started off the season hot and the pitching carried things. Yeah. And we kept saying, yo, is when is the bats going to cost this team? Yeah, and this happened. I mean, but ultimately they did not want to. This was never the goal. Like after the trade deadline happened, a lot of people probably thought that this team was going to flounder and fall over and die. Now to the credit they haven't been, but that was never the mission for the organization at this point. It's about development. Otherwise they would have tried to buy at the deadline, but they sold everything and they're trying to build for the years to come. So this wild card race, while it's nice, it's nice to see that the Tigers were talking about them to some relevancy, it was never real. And that's why I'm looking forward to 2025 more than what the rest of this season has to hold. Some of us, I think, got to prove to Chris Illins that he needs to open up the pocketbook. Right. Well, speaking of proven that this Detroit Lions secondary has some things to prove. And you know, Spenny put this on the show sheet. And to me, Spenny, this one jumped off the page because let's be real about Sunday night. Be real. Oh, by the way, I don't know if you guys heard they're doing the drone show, the Lions drone show for the Sunday night football production. They're doing that Saturday night at 845. Yep. I believe that's when they're doing it in downtown. So I know that you'll be busy watching Detroit City FC play El Paso at that time. You know, you guys can go do it, then you can get back in time, turn the TV on Detroit 50 for your for your boy here. So got a long work weekend. Got a lot got a long work weekend ahead. The show tomorrow, flight on to Florida, broadcast Saturday, early morning flight back to get to do Detroit Lions pregame show. So help your guy out here. But anyway, though, this Spenny, this jumps out at me. Puka and cup versus the Lions secondary. We gon see. Well, yes, like the time for us to get tested in this game. The time for talk about it is over. Like, you can say what you want in things like that. But I'm excited to just talk about this matchup right now. Where we at for real, for real, where we at for real, like everyone went crazy at the drafted and Terriam played the crowd nice and everything like that. But now it's time. Yeah. And they're gonna take you on to find out. I promise you. So cool, a what up, though. Here we are. Hey, listen, last year's defense gave up a lot of yards between the 20s in the red zones. They were stout. And what I'm hoping though is that the addition to the second to the secondary helps to clean up a lot of that between the 20s, because I don't know. I don't know how uplifting it is for your defense to continue to go out there and get punched in the nuts for 250 yards every single game by whoever's, you know, X receiver. I do believe that more so than anything that we can look at with their skill and their talent that I do believe in. I believe in Carlton Davis and McRobertson, Brian Bransett, I think it's kind of a big year. You got the rookies, Terriano and Ennis Rechstrah. What I love more than even their skill in their talent is just the way that they carried themselves. They got that dog mentality, which is a word that has definitely been popping up in sports over the last couple of years, more and more and more. And I believe that there are guys that are cut from that fabric, Ennis Rechstrah, as soon as they put on those, those, those pads, all the news from all the media instantly was, yo, that dude is for real. That guy's true. And I know we got to see it on the field and they start right away, probably facing off against. I know Spinney talked about it as well, probably the best, like why receiver tandem and all that in a film. So like, hey, did you say we're gonna see right away? Spinney, what about how, how did the people receive it? What's, what's the street stand? Yeah, I mean, I think we look at it as you got the defensive line that's going to give Stafford Hell. So he's not going to have time to sit back there and just pick this defensive part because he's going to be running for his life. We talked about, you know, you got two backup tackles more than likely playing. You got Jonah Jackson banged up playing at center for the first time in his career. So there's going to be a lot of stuff that they have to worry about on the offensive line and protecting Stafford. But on top of that, Carlton Davis has done this before. Carlton Davis is a guy that goes up for the majority of his career was going up against Mike Evans every day in practice. So I'm not worried about him dealing with a bigger guy like Puke Nakua. I feel like he'll be able to deal with that. And Terri on Arnold will be insulated with Brian Branch, Kirby Joseph and other players if it comes to him going up against Cooper Cup. So it depends on the defensive line because Stafford, you know, say what you want about John, he's a damn good quarterback and he gets the ball to those guys on time and on target. And he has a good rapport with both of them. Well, got a great arm. See, that's, that's a thing like spinning just to cut you off. I understand everybody talking about the pressure and the offensive line problems. But you know who knows that they have offensive line problems? The Rams. Yeah. The Rams know they do and a quarterback that's dealt with offensive line problems for quite some time is great. Well, I mean, we just gave another extension to one of them that he had. Well, that was, yeah, toward the end. But I get you. All right. But anyway, though, more on that later, by the way. Okay. But here's, well, here's what I'm driving at, spending is Sean McVay knows that Stafford knows that. And you can say, as you can, you can say what you want about John Stafford, dude has a cannon arm. Yeah, cannon. One of the best arms you've seen, man. Maybe one of the best arms since Marino. Yeah. I really think that they are going to take the defensive line out of this as much as they can, just in terms of quick slant, quick bubble, quick toss. Like, I honestly believe that they're going to do that. Good about it. Because I know that there is a defensive unit, man, that is absolutely looking at chops. And I think that they're going to prove this year that the reason why that was one of the few units on the entire team that Brad Holmes left alone, no additions, no changes made to that linebacker court, I got high hopes for guys like Jack Campbell taking a big step forward this year and making sure that flannel Sam, because we got this thing, it's called the Dick Campbell Watch. He gets 130 tackles, flannel Sam has to pay up on the bet. But I am, I am telling you, I'm bullish on what these linebackers are going to do. And the fact that the Lions get to play defense with good players on at all three levels, not just a defensive line, because last year, Jack Campbell was learning. And to a lot of people, they don't believe that he reached the level that they thought he should have been for the pick. Alex Anseloni, a lot of people don't. I like Alex Anseloni. I think he continues to crush that secondary. You got people that Jerry Jacobs, Kendall Vildor, they did not deserve to be starting. They didn't deserve to be the backups. They probably deserve to be third, fourth, fifth down the line. But these were the guys are playing this year. You got a completely different defense than the one that Stafford faced. And honestly, the Lions handle, aptly, aptly, they play their defense play consistently the way that they did all season and handle. Yeah, I mean, it was it was kind of a microcosm of the Lions defensive season last year. Yeah. Like Nicole ran wild. Of course, he ran wild. Where was Cooper caught? What happened in the red zone? They kept him out of the end zone. Yeah. And that's why the Lions were good. They they held they held the four. But now they've upgraded the defense at every level. And we're hoping except for the linebackers and we're hoping that those are the guys. They're the ones I got to make the difference. If you're trying to take out the Detroit Lions defensive line, those linebackers have to step up. Absolutely. That's why I'm at what it meant. And I I the big I think one of the biggest differences in the secondary from last year, other than just coverage ability is tackling ability. And you look at Carleton Davis, Terry and Arnold are good tacklers. So you throw throw the quickslants, throw the bubble screens. We'll have Carlton and Davis on Carlton Davis Terry on Arnold on them. And we'll have Kirby Joseph Kirby Joseph and Brian Branch screaming in from their safety positions. Well, Kirby will be kicked out of the game early because he's a dirty player. That's what I was told. That's what John Stafford told me. That's what John says. Oh, on on legal hits at that. Yeah. Unflag hit. Not even just on fine. Unfind hit. That's it. Unfind hit. You know, they'll go back and say, Oh, you aren't flagged. But two weeks later, you're getting to find he's not even getting fine. 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But if the Tigers weren't in a wild car racing, we're actually one of the leaders in the A.O. Central, then maybe. But the NFL is cracked, man. That's that good stuff. The caulkaina. Y'all can't anymore that NFL football. Right. We've been waiting all year for this. I can't use all of it. All right. G.W. the kid. I feel like we got better, which is great. But I do not care about nothing besides win the game. They can look like ish. Just win the game six, three, whatever. Win G.W. the kid. I'm proud of you. Because that's also my overriding message here today. And Sunday night, something doesn't go well. You'll see everybody on the socials. Oh, yeah. They'll be losing their mind and stuff like that. Remember this? When you're a Super Bowl contender as the Kansas City Chiefs proved last year, anybody remember? They went 11 and 7. Wasn't always smooth. Lost the opener. Lost the opener as a almost three to one favorite on rain night to some upstart to some upstart team. That's my point. We have graduated everybody. The Detroit Lions as a franchise and we as a fan base should have graduated. We can't get caught up in the details anymore. You can't get caught up on backup quarterback stuff and kicker stuff and all the shit that we worry about all the time. You know we do take the spin around the socials and preseason. We wrap about it all the time. We talk about it with the fellows around the network. These are new uncharted territories for us as fans. We bury Sam Oat Lions. I'm hoping we bury all Sam O'Lion's fans. But how are we supposed to add a team with these types of expectations? From the outside looking in, we've seen 49ers, Kool-Aid, two fans and all that for years. Kool-Aid, if you buried it and it's gone, then it's gone. Act accordingly. It's not new anymore. We've been 30 minutes away from the Super Bowl. It's 15 minutes away from the Super Bowl. Yeah. We've been there now. So my whole thing is just act accordingly. And GW the Kid speaks for me on that, man. I don't care about how it looks. I don't care if the quarterback didn't run for yards. I don't care about any of that. But the reason why I said, and I think this is important, because you got to paint the picture, fans, I believe, need to be taught how to act with these expectations. What aligns fans for 50, 60 years have to hold onto as it relates to knowing how to act like we've been there before. And that's what I'm saying, because you know what's going to happen. If they win an ugly game, and Jared Goff throws a couple interceptions, if Jmo looks like you already know what the narrative is going to be, even though they won, you already know what the narrative is going to be, man. And that's the reason why I said, you know what, who are we as fans? Are we those still? Is same old-line fans still somewhere deep down inside? Yeah. I think, and that's been my point, KG's funny, like we've been talking about this, right? Like the the Jared Goff thing, we've discussed. They're there. They are among us, in plain sight, they are. There are still a segment of people like that. The John Stafford, I believe, Detroit Rams. Detroit Rams segment. There are a segment of them. They exist, everybody. They are still out there. We've seen them in the network yesterday as a matter of fact. They are out there. So like all this stuff that we say we're not anymore, there are a segment of people that are, make no mistake. During a year that we got Super Bowl expectations and not just us, looking around just media this morning, National Media Landscape and you're seeing the Lions pop up as a Super Bowl favorite coming out of the NFC. But we got fans that are still sitting here questioning and wondering about the starting quarterback of the Detroit Lions. It's wild. But that's what I'm saying. Like if they don't go out there, what happens if they go out there and they do and they don't look the part, they don't look the part of that top team. And that's what I'm saying. Chiefs fans, I think they lost to the Lions. The Chiefs didn't look the part last year in that home opener, but their fans really didn't over yet. I remember their fans more or less saying, cute win Lions. We've been here. We've done that. Yeah, we'll see you later. See you later. Yeah. And that's and that's what it is. And I don't know that we're fully prepared for that yet. You know what I'm saying? So, ETN says as a Rams fan, I've seen Stafford overcome mid offensive line play before. I think McVay will scheme around the injuries. So, I'm confident in our offense. And ETN, I am too. And make no mistake too, because this whole discussion kind of spawned off of it is that the time is now like it's Cooper Cup and Puka Nakua against this revamped defensive secondary for the Detroit Lions revamped with when you look at it. In addition in Carlton Davis, Terry and Arnold O'Rooki starting. Yeah. Here you go, kid. Here's Cooper Cup and Puka Nakua right out of the chute. There is no time to get after me. That's what I'm saying. That's and that both things can be true. Yeah. Like Terry and Arnold can get better as time goes along. Absolutely. 100%. I agree with anybody that says that, but make no mistake. This is a rookie going up against Puka Nakua and Cooper Cup and John Stafford. Yeah. Never forget his name is John. And with the situation at hand as well, they went and they added it to the secondary through free agency and through the draft. So, Terry and Arnold are stepping out day one as a starter. To me, that would tell me that he has to be ready day one. This is not the old Lions where you're going, you drive the corner back, you know, with a high pick. And because your lack of talent, your lack of roster construction, he just has to start. I'm expecting Terry and Arnold to go out there week one and look like a difference maker. Look like somebody we can rely on to play that position comfortably. ETN in the chat kind of read my mind. You can say that and that's cool. You know what I expect the Rams to do? What up though? Get right after. They got a big one. They have to get right after him from second one. Yeah. That's what I would do. You're not running the ball against us. Especially if DJ Reader gets it. What is an attack? Austin Davis? Yeah. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. Wherever you put him, that's where I'm going, man. That's the target. Man, he's gonna have his opportunities to make plays. You see what I'm saying? There is a flip side to this coin. You can't hide him out there. No, absolutely not. He's out there and that's the nature of the position. You know who else knows that though? Terry and Arnold knows that. So you get what I'm saying here. I don't know that we fully recognize what we're walking into here. I don't, for real. I do. I'm saying, you know what I'm saying, like the masses. You know what I'm saying? You've been quiet, man. When I say that, because when I thought about saying it, I was like, man, I didn't really process this until this moment. You a little bit worried? No. So a rookie walking out there? No, he's in the game. I like that, Spinny. No. Okay. I'm a little concerned. I'm not. Is he gonna get beat? Yeah. Yeah. He's a rookie. He's gonna get beat. These are two great wide receivers. They're not going to lose the game. Thanks. Cody, Cody Ingle, stop being effing scared. Can I shout out to the chat family? Yeah, yeah. The energy traffic, Uber sports, chat family, man. These guys are on it. All of them are saying W's are all that matter. They're not going to be those same online fans that get into the politics of what Jared Goff did look a certain way. Jmo didn't look a certain way. Terry and Arnold got beat. Come on, guys. What are we talking about? What are we talking about for real? If this team goes out there and wins their Sunday night football game on prime time, another one, right? Didn't they go undefeated last year on prime time? Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. They go out there and they open the season with a win against Matthew Stafford and the Rams. Yeah. If anybody finds something to really complain about, look, obviously the coach is going to go back and clean up things. If you complain about this squad after that, man, there is something wrong with you. Straight up. Brian Ruth, better be nothing but golf chance if they give Stafford a tribute video of Stafford, Kelly, and the kids, boo them kids 100. I love the people on social media. They're like, you guys are disgusting. Are we for creating this boo the kids narrative? Mm hmm. We didn't create it. Y'all welcome me as she created it. We just rolled away. That's what I'm saying. We took advantage of it. I'm just going by what I was told. There's two things Kelly Stafford does. It's love backup quarterbacks and think we boo kids. Yeah. And yaps. So we'll go through. And they duck in the smoke. You know what? I was going to wait as long as it took for Spenny to give his follow up. Yeah. If I had to sit here in silence till 1259. I was I knew Spenny had more. I knew I knew it was a classic Spenny setup. Is there anything you left off the list? Yeah, but I don't want to do it. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Listen to me. I'm sorry, Mike. We have class here. Mike. Will it? I see you. It is John Stafford. I think I might have used the M word. Oh, did you? Yeah. I'm sorry. Come on, bro. Easy. John. How about some chance? John ain't golf. John ain't golf. I love easy. Well, I know we could and they could do a follow up, Chad. Easy hated golf. Easy hated. Somebody said in the chat is Jonah Jackson going to get a tribute video? He should meet at this point. He'd be more deserving. That's interesting. He won't play off game here. He won't play off game here. That is factual. He won two in a week. Hey, but you know what? It is his first time playing center with Matthew Stafford, man. I do. I I broader brought that up on the show. I do wonder about this Rams team. You talk about the chemistry, the cohesion that the Detroit lines are going to have stepping onto that field. I do wonder about that with the Rams, man, because they got some important pieces that they got to feel. Center is important. You're lost a legend on a defensive side of the ball as well. You're going to have to depend on some rookies going up against monsters, monsters like Penisu. I just, this is a game where, hey, listen, man, I'll take any dub. But what do I expect? Spinning out was added in the reel that you did, man. Domination. Other domination. This team has improved all over the place on both sides of the ball. I need other domination. Nothing less. At least push the team around. If you've got to, if the timing is a little bit off between the quarterback and receivers, if the running back might have, oh, okay, I missed a hole here or there, I'm fine with that. But in terms of in those trenches, all I need you to do is take care of business. Period. Best offensive line in the game. And you may have an upgrade to this defensive line, not just as it relates to the personnel on the field, but you also talk about Tyrell Williams as well. And you can take care of business for your pets, Benny. That's for sure. All you got to do is go to Premiere Pets and Fly, because Premiere Pets flies hands down Michigan's best pet store. Same prices and all the convenience is the online and big bucks retailers. 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Yeah. We're in. We're all the way in. Guys, it's football season. We are here. Get all the best football wearables. Shopped out. Woodward Sports.com. Bood him, kids. Say, for them, this to me is a better team than what we faced last year. Just looking at their personnel coming in. You know, I feel like this is a better offensive line. I feel like this is a better D line. I understand they lost Donald, but I think what they gain is youth. And collectively, that front man is, you know, I've said it before. They're young. They're hungry. They're high motor. You know, like they're going to push us. They're going to push us, you know. And then I think the secondary's improved these corners, you know. And then certainly they're all line over there. Getting Jonah, I think, was big. They retained Dodson, you know, in the backs. You know, the backs on top of staff for being who he is and mastering this offense and the ability to really, I mean, he's kind of got everything at his disposal, will do what he needs to. So I just feel like it's a, you know, they've developed, you know, some of their young guys from last year develop. I expect them to be better than they were last year. The influx of youth that they got this year, those are all players we really like too, you know, in the draft. And so, you know, I think they're going to be a better team. And, but I feel like we're better too. You know, so I feel like you're getting two teams that are better. Now, this is game one. This is week one, but I feel like both of us have improved, you know, and we're getting ready to head off here Sunday night. So. All right, that was Dan Campbell talking about the improvements. The Rams made, because remember, the Rams were allowed to improve their team too. It's normally high. It works smart franchise. And they have a very good running game as proven. Are people going to cheer Blake quorum? No, come on, Neil. Hey, KG. Neil, you're going to cheer Blake quorum? No. What if he scores a touchdown? No, why the fuck would I cheer Blake quorum? I'm asking. I have to. Neil, come on. I'm asking. Don't do that, Neil. I'm asking. Go away, get your mask. Set off, right. Are you chairing on Jim Harbaugh at all? No. Any appreciation for the national champion coach? No. You want to know what that appreciation was? 2023. I was wondering too, because the last time we saw Jim Harbaugh in the NFL, it wasn't pretty. There was a lot of Lions fans, and I included go boo fans who I knew were like, no, get Jim Harbaugh out of here. Pun him to the moon. After the whole Jim Schwartz handshake. Oh, well, yeah. After all that, he came to Michigan and it's like, oh, yeah. Andrew Jones, no shot. That defense is better without AD or Ernest Jones. And look, to be fair, Andrew, like, everyone says that, right? Like, everyone says that. Yeah. I've told you guys before, like, one of the things I do when I'm doing play by play, when I work for a team is I always hype up the other team. In case you lose, you're like, damn. And they draft team. They draft it well. Brady and Fisk. I feel like eventually they will take that step. Brady and Fisk, Jared verse. Yeah. Yeah. Eventually they will kind of feel that. You know what's funny? They did have a low-key good good draft. Yes, they did. And no one really talked about them at the time. Blake Horum. They got a damn good draft. Sean Hart, you, Boo Blake Corum. Mike Gee, Blake Corum. Greatest Michigan running back in history. Facts there. But I'm not, I'm not cheering him, though. That's a factual statement, but. Who cares? It's then you just want to see him succeed. The only thing I, I wish is that he doesn't get injured. I never want to see anyone injured, but that's, that's about it. As far as it goes. He's an NFC rival. Uh, Freddy felt booed him, kids and uncles, nieces, nephews, great parents, great grandparents, godfathers. Damn right, Freddy. Wanna see staffer with the grass in his face. I, well, it'll be the rubber pellets, right? Yeah. I'm gonna have to change my whole vibe. I'm coming from my brother's wedding this week. And I'm going straight to, to hating children right after that. Yes. But you're a bro. Yeah. I can do that. I know you can. He has had you. Yeah. You're, you're a professional, Spenny. So I, I have no idea. I, I have no doubts that I, you're, you're going to be able to do it. Um, El Gato, that Texas wide receiver for the Rams is going to be a, going to be a star. And again, like they are better. And it's something like we talked about yesterday. This is as healthy as anybody's going to be all season. Longer. I, I do believe. Texas wide receiver. Um, because Mitchell went to the Colts and worthy went to the Chiefs. So did they get them? Was there another Texas wide receiver? Not that I'm seeing on the depth chart. Well, the Rams only have four wide receivers on their depth chart too. Yeah. I mean, but besides Cooper cup and, and of course, Pookin the cool. I mean, two, two at-wheel. My boy, two, two at-wheel solid. Yeah, you saw it. And I forgot the other guy that they got. Well, Demarcus Robinson, I think. Jordan Whittington. Yeah. Demarcus Robinson, Tyler Johnson. Okay. So yeah, they got, they got six on that. Yeah, they got a solid, there you go. Yeah, they're all right. No, but, but I guess what, what I'm driving at here is, you know, the, the 42 to 10 crowd. Yeah, this ain't that. No, no, no. This ain't the Rams are competitive. They are. Yeah. I'm not worried about Jordan Whittington. Uh, people, shad 216, we could actually, we, we actually do play a dwarf at quarterback this season when we play Arizona. That is true. Yep. He's a fast or. We're not going back to that yesterday at the end. All right, they're crafty. Yeah. Yeah, we're not, we're not going back to that, everybody. Sure about that. Yes, I'm sure. Okay. Any more surprises? I, I control the flow. We are not going back to that. And the real ones, and you guys try it. Hey, don't get a tuition. I saw what some of you tried to do in the chat earlier, and I kept it pushing. There will be no dwarf talk today. Five dwarfs. Yeah. Real criminally. No. No. Five dwarfs. No. Uh, John Suspenny, I'll buy you a shot Sunday at the watch party, and we can boot him kid. Shout out, John. Sounds good to me. Come join us, watch party. Live it, live it. Hey, social. It's going to be a good time. That's going to be your spot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For Lions games all season long. I'm going to be getting rowdy. Yeah. Every week. All Lions season. What do we hear? The Chad family. Yeah. Can we come watch the game? Bro, now y'all can show up. We're going to definitely have people there every single week. You already know the heavy way it's going to hold it down. See, let's go Red Wings party. I see what you're trying to do here, and I'm not going to let you get away with it. I'm not going to bring up Tiny Tina wearing, does Tiny Tina wear a Kyler Murray jersey? Shout out. We're not going to talk about it. Shout out, Gimli, for sure, Mike G. No, you know. Shout out. No. Shout out. Shout out, load of the rings. We're not doing it. We're not doing it at all. There's no way you've seen load of the rings, right? No. Absolutely not. You should watch it. Oh, no. It's the best trilogy of all time. That would be hilarious if you watch the order of rings. It's the best trilogy of all time. No, I absolutely will not. Can we get back to the task at hand? Yeah. No, but the moral of the story is, look, there's a lot of coach speak to that, which with what Dan Campbell was saying. Absolutely. I just think that I am concerned. Breaking news from this one is almost unbelievable. Yeah, it's all about new customers at Bet365, because they get $200 in bonus bets when they bet $5. And even better, bonus bets can be used on the spread, totals, and player props. There you have it. Bet $5 to get $200 in bonus bet. And see why it's never ordinary at BetV6.5. The gambling problem? Color text 1 and 100 gambler. 21 plus only. Must be physically located in Colorado. Terms and conditions apply. Especially Sean McVay, while he's kind of a DB, is a good coach. The proof's in the pudding. Thanks. Um, I just, I do worry about it. I know, I know that Spenny had the lockdown stare, the desk stare at me. Yeah. I'm not saying like concern like he's Jeff Okuda. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's just how many times do dudes come in here? And from second one, you know, limit puke in the cooler. Cooper. I mean, they don't really. I mean, the corner is one of the toughest turnarounds in the NFL. We all know this. Like Spenny said, he will get beat. And that's just a fact. But it's all about how much you do to limit that. You know, Cam Sutton and Kendall Fielddoor. No disrespect to Kendall Fielddoor. But last year, it was bad. We had receivers going off for 200 plus yards. That can't happen. But as long as you're getting two bills out there. That's ridiculous. But if you limit the damage, that's what that's all about. And if you do believe that he'll get better week to week to week, then it shouldn't be a concern. And I believe that that's the foundation for why Spenny is so confident because like Dan Campbell said in his clip, we got better too. Yeah. I think sometimes we think of this team as they were last year because we saw how closely we're to a Super Bowl. But they went into this off season and into this draft. As much as people want to talk about, hey, the Rams draft the good. Hey, the Lions draft the good. And they had a really good off season as well. And then they went and locked down their players. And Brad Holmes calls this stir all across the rest of the league, this off season. Players holding out. I'm hoping that there's some small splinter in the locker room of like the 49ers and others because of how massive of Brad Holmes has handled this thing. And I do. I believe that when we talk about the Rams, I think it's cool to make sure that we give our respect to an opponent we just faced in a playoffs. Right. We're not going to scoff at them. But I want to make sure that the Lions get their just due too because we're talking about a team with Super Bowl expectations. They should be a team that we can look at and say, you know what? They're going to go in there and be a sure spin of years and they're going to handle business. That should be their expectation this year. We see and that's why I should in the beginning. It's cool to see how this show is going today because how are we supposed to add? What are the expectations supposed to be? Because I know Patriots fans knew their team is going in and house and everybody. There was no there. They didn't come in a week one in games like this and go, oh man, you know what? I don't know. And that's where for me, I'm kind of like where you're at. But then I'm like, but they're supposed to have these expectations. Yeah. They're supposed to be that dominant team that goes in there. And these are the types of games that you handle. This isn't the 49ers. And if you, you know, don't care about the results, then you shouldn't be worried as much. And I mean, as far as. No, no, I'm not saying like I'm sitting here shaking about it. At some point, they will have success. Yeah. The Rams will have success in the game. It's NFL. Every team has success at some point in the game, even the awful team. But at least with Terry on it's not even about him being a lockdown corner. There's not many lockdown corners in the NFL anymore. It's kind of a lost start. I don't need him to be Terry in Ireland, but I do need him to be opportunistic because that's something that this secondary was really missing last year. Takeaways. We need him to be opportunistic and do what he did best at Alabama. Go intercept the ball at opportune times. And I think that'll go a long way. Limit the damage. Aaron Glenn, we're going to learn a lot about him right off the gate. When we talk about what are we going to learn about Terry and Arnold? This is something that we've been saying for the better part of the last what season or two. Yeah. We've been talking about is it the personnel or is it Aaron Glenn? This year, there is no excuse for him. And from game one, he has a tough task. That's the guy that I think the spotlight should be on more than even Terry and Arnold. Because you got two, two wide receivers that are going to be running wild. You got a formidable running back core. Like Aaron Glenn has his work cut out for him, but I do believe he has the pieces to get it done. They made some changes to their other positional coaches on the defensive side of the ball. And that's the person that I'm putting in the spotlight. I know we talked about who our three stars are going to be this morning, but in terms of the players or people that I think need to step up, and be the most important. Aaron Glenn is that guy for me right now. No. He has to perform from the defensive coordinator spot. ETN, Sean McVey is six and one in week ones. That's an underrated stat. ETN, I know. Then that's the other part of this thing. You know what I'm saying? As it seems, ready to go. They're real over there. Yeah, no questions. It sounds good. Absolutely no questions. Line them up. We're going to do a Lions nickel package. I know we usually do those on Friday. Don't worry. We will tomorrow. Yes. But we're here everybody. 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DispoShops.com, Dispo Dispensary, your local cannabis plug. Pulling up to hour number two of the show, which is wild, by the way. Yeah, this is hour number two of it. That's football season for you. Neil Rule, we got Kool-Aid in the house in Fort D-Mac. He was a late scratch. I guess that's what he went on the injury report. That's a late scratch today. We have KG, we have Spencer Raxter. We have all of you in the World Sports chat thread as well. Your messages are welcome. We read the good ones. We read the bad ones. So try to read as many as we can. You're taking the time out of your day to watch the show. At least I can do is read your thoughts out there, except for this one. Steve, I pay $100 for the Rock Wall, Neil. Well, Steve, you get what you deserve, then. You get what you deserve. You need a Rock Wall. Christ's Day. All right. But yeah, well, top five Wednesday next week. Yes, sir. We said top five bad mothers in honor of how electric top five bad fathers. That was great. It was great. People's loving the Pac-Hoc speak, just saying it. That was a great pick. There it is. But yeah. Okay, so here's the deal. You guys know that we like the nickel package. And for those that are new, because viewership's exploding again, for those that are new, it's five questions, i.e. nickel. Five defensive backs. Yeah. Nickel package. Five questions. Spenties cooked a special Thursday one up. Fridays, we like to do a nickel package show, where we do about college football, pro football, sports media, sports media, all of it. So in honor of that, Spenties has a special Lions one for Thursday. Spenties, you want to bring in the nickel package? Sure. Let's start the nickel package. All right. First question of the nickel package. Over under one and a half, Matt Stafford, John Stafford, interceptions. One and a half. One and a half. One and a half. Like if we're doing this for money. He's getting at least one. If we're doing this for money, I would take the under. Yeah, I'm going under two. He'll throw one exactly. God, let it be Kirby Joseph. I swear. Thank you. Thank you. That is the nuclear option, man. Please, please, please let John Stafford throw a pick to Kirby. The guys above, yes. Let's rock. That would be so, so epic. And you know what? I hope one of those guys is miked up for somebody around to when it happens too. It'll be so epic, man. You know why I want to see it happen? Not just for the irony to Stafford. But I want to see what Kirby Joseph's response is going to be. Because all off season, man, any time the Rams came up in some of the social content that the lines were doing, Kirby Joseph, man, he took us a few extra seconds to focus on the Rams. I can't wait to see that game and that match up. What do you think, Spenny? They're going to get to-- I think it's going to be over. Oh, I do. I think he throws two interceptions. Spenny's going to be betting one of those mega 12-leg-- Yeah. $2 to win $76 million. I think he throws two interceptions. It's hard to do. It shifts, man. I love it. He's going to have to make quick decisions. We've got new-- our new defensive backs, our sticky to the receivers. They're going to be in there. He's going to have to make quick throws if he doesn't want to get sacked. I think he throws two. Yeah, let's go. Spenny, cook one up. They're one of those $2 to win. Yeah. $2 million. Yeah. Kirby Joseph, interception return touchdown. John Stanford. John Stanford, five times. Oh, yeah. Five and a half. 10,000. Three and a half interception. Lions win by 20 plus. Yep. Come on. That was $10,000. Second question of the nickel package. No. F that. Come on. Look it up. I'm not cooking one of those up. No. Not going to do that. But over under Aiden Hutchison getting to John Stafford one and a half times. Over, over, over, over. Oh my god. You guys. Over. I know. It's 2 this morning. I know we're fired up. Listen. Who? I'm fired up. If DJ Ritter gets snaps over. I promise you. Okay. I promise you. Back up tackles. He's going up against Joe Noteboom. It's going to be starting right tackle. That's what up. That's been my time. You're under selling this Rams offensive line. I feel like. No. The total for Hutch is what? 10 and a half, right? Yeah. 10 and a half. That's the over under. Yeah. I'm smashing that over. What? He's going over to him. I know I'm thinking about putting a get right on. I would. Two week one. He's going to be the only Lions defensive player with double digits. Hacks most likely. 8 and 100 is going to have 17 and a half sacks this year. My floor is 14. LFG under one and a half sacks for Hutch. Let's go revving Sparty. Hutch hat trick over two and a half. He's going all line. Ooh. He's had three sacks in a game before. He's not like this unheard of. No, I know. I know he's done it. I've seen it. I've seen it live. I'm just saying like. John Stafford's going to be in the dirt a lot in this game. I'm telling you that. Yep. He might had a concuss looking. If I if I was Aaron Glenn, I would send Kirby Joseph off the edge of the first play. Hit him right in the chest. And Varrou. Go helmet to helmet. Take the time. No, I would not do that with you. If we're doing it, let's go all the way. Well, you know we a dirty franchise that. Yeah, he's a dirty player. I was told by John Stafford, he's a dirty player. So go be dirty. I'm not. I've lived up the jersey with the villain shirt on. I'm not. I'm not asking for him to make helmet to helmet contact. Just send Kirby off the edge. I'm not asking for it either. But if it. But if it happened. I think he was going to say. All right. Next question. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That time I got up. That's what we all over you. Are you picking under for that, Neil? Real quick. Come on, bro. You ain't going to say yes. Yes. Because because because James Houston's going to get two. Don't. Okay. There you go. Okay. DNC and T hutch 15 plus X plus four seven. I like that. I'm going to sprinkle that for sure. Put it in the parlay. No, not. I don't think you could do future parlays with saying. I don't know. You can't do weird with that shit. All right. Next question. Who scores the first touchdown of the season for the Lions? Kirby Joseph. Yeah. Let's go all the way. Oh my god. We withdraw the first defensive drive. First throw the first throw of the game. Kirby Joseph. Tuddy. Come on. Who's in? Oh, man. Which Kirby Joseph to score the first touchdown? I'll ask the chat. Pop it up there in the chat thread. I love that answer. Lions defense first. First touchdown is probably like plus 25. You know it is. Yeah. That shit is high. If I had to pick one person. Detroit Dabber says Kirby's coming out in the black force cleats. That'd be hard. Hey, you better stop diving over the goal line. You better stop playing with that, man. I'm sorry. Go ahead. That's a big curve. No, no, no. Hey, any Kirby Joseph love right now. He got the hands too. Don't fuck around. Definitely. Maybe this is what sports is for, right? Hey, what is what it's time for doing? He's using his platform to call our guy dirty. We use our platform to definitely hype up Kirby Joseph. He plays again right away, man. And I can use my platform to say that he is in fact John's staff. His name is John. I'm so sorry. Big curve. I don't deal in speculation, Spenny. His momma called him John. I'm a call him John. Just like it's rain Dakota. Yes. His momma call him rain. I'm a call him rain. Damn right. I'm just going by what your mama says. Let's go, man. Look, Jamison Williams, he's going to have a big year. A big year. I believe he's going to score first. Ooh. Some trickery. Some trickery here. I think it's an honor. I don't know if anything. That's what I was about to say. That shit is never failed. That's what I think it is. That end of round. That end of round. Because what are you going to do? You got to make sure you cover Sam Laporton. You got to make sure you got Omarosa ain't brown cover. You got to make sure you got somebody spying on Jameer Gibbs. I think Jamison Williams is going to be the first to score this year. And I think he's going to score more than a lot of people think. Kooled, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I think they're going to score their first touchdown on an end-around play. But it's going to be a fake end-around. And it's not going to be Jamison Williams. They're going to fake the end-around in the defense. Staring at Jamison Williams hit Laporton for a touchdown. Laporta. You know what? I'm going to go with good old Matty. Yeah. Oh, reliable. Matty's plus money to score a touchdown. Hey. He's plus money to score a touchdown. Which is wild. That's wild. People have forgotten about our goat, David Montgomery. Get right. Go. The biggest hit in the history of the get right. Which, by the way, is 57 and 26. We gave you last year. David Montgomery over 10 touchdowns at 4-1. Yup. You cruised. You had that money in your account by Thanksgiving, I think. Yup. Big facts. I'm just saying. DNCNT defense plus 2,000 on DraftKings. Haven't checked the blue app. Yeah. Who would be your pick, Neil? If I was going to bet it, I bet Kirby. You bet Kirby? Yeah. If I could bet it, I would do defense first touchdown at the, you know, 20 to one. Yeah. And, you know, let's sprinkle a quarter unit on her. Why not, man? OK. It's fun. Look at Neil get loose, man. It's fun. I love it. It's absolutely fun. All right. Next question of the nickel package. Who finishes second on this team in sacks? Oh, they asked us. I don't want to show it. Say it. I'm buying James Houston. Whoa. I'm bullish on James Houston. Over contract year. Bump, Aleem McNil. Yes. Wow. Now you do know that he's not technically on the other side of Hutch. He's backing up Hutch this year. Correct. So OK. He'll be playing a lot. He'll be playing a lot on third. When it comes down to it, he'll be out there. Watch. Marcus Davenport is finishing second in sacks. And he will have a healthier year than what we realize. Marcus Davenport. Yeah. What do you think about him? Let me know, though. You know, I'm big on the lane, man. I think from the interior defensive line position, he can damn near finish 10 sacks for the year. Like he had. He was close last year. Yeah. Five but got injured kind of during a hot streak. I felt he could have had a, I think with DJ reader, it's very possible he'll get towards 10 sacks. And Neil, don't give me hope, man. I want to believe in James Houston. I'm telling you. I think I think Lee McNeil will be second on this team in sacks. I think you can double. I think he gets double digit sacks this year. He's going to be seeing one-on-one match-ups the entire year. And he's going to take advantage of it. So will James Houston. So will James Houston. But it's an easier path to get to the quarterback from defensive tackle. $20 million, man. What are you going to see? Yeah. Kevin Zitler. A guy who literally saw it happen last year with Justin Motabuki. A guy that came out of basically nowhere. And at 13 and a half sacks for the Ravens last year from that interior defensive line position. Said the Lions could have $2 $20 million defensive tackles with Lee McNeil and Lee violence every kid. Yeah. And they could take it on too. Because as you watch as you watch these quarterback contracts and these wide receiver contracts. You got a discount to market. Through it all. The Lions moves. They got discounts to market. All that money they spent. Absolutely. Which was like a half a billion dollars. Because they got ahead of the game. They got ahead of the game. All right, fifth down. All right, fifth down, fifth question. Could you see Jared Goff throwing for 5,000 yards this year? Yes. Who knew? I could see it. I could see it. I could see it. No doubt. Jamo is in everybody. Like, I know I know that your previous your previous hatred and bus talk. And there were a lot of you out there. Oh, we got receipts. We got receipts. Yes. He's no longer the fourth option in the office. No, he is not. You're hoping to believe me. And I'm telling you guys. The man is out there himself talking about, I want to lead the league in yards and touchdowns. If he does that, there is there is 5k loading. Because Amunra is getting 1,200 at the floor, at the absolute floor worst case scenario. I believe that. But I'm going slightly under five. He had 4,500 last year. I think 4, 750. Yeah, I could see it. That the question is. Or do you see it? I think that's the magic mark. And oh, by the way, he was second in the league in passing yards last year and fourth in touchdowns. Yep. Contrary to what, you know, anytime national media spew something about a quarterback, remember that. And remember that he led the league in passes of 20 yards or more. No, I was totally can't throw a deep ball. Yeah, I was told that. Oh, well, the receivers are just doing it. Oh, I know. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. We were absolutely. I was lied to. Absolutely. I was man. Then Black jerseys too. Yeah, funeral. They're going to shut the lights off in there. It's going to be crazy, bro. Spiny, did we get your answer? Jerkoff, I could see him throwing for 5,000 yards because he's going to throw for 5,000. Oh, I talked about it already that if James and Williams does what I if he is what I expect him to be, then he this is going to be a historic offense. Not not a good offense. Not one of the best offenses in the NFL this year. One of the best offenses in the NFL in the history of the league. One of the greatest shows on top. It's going to be up there with the show on turf. It's going to be up there with the Cardinals team with Anquan Bolden layer for Sheriff Kurt Warner. It's going to be a team like that. I could see 3,000 yard receivers. I could see Jerkoff throwing for 5,000 yards because he's going to. Spiny off fire, bro. That's big the energy right there. That's big the energy right there. Clear out. Spiny is on fire right now. I agree with him though. When we go through and we talk about all of the different over-unders for the offense. And when you listen to them talk, it's not just Jamo saying it. I'm a Ross St. Brown says he has a target. He wants to go out there and match him and Jamir Gibbs. They got their bet. What was it? A thousand rushing a thousand receiving for Jamo. And what for Jamir Gibbs? What do you say? I'm breaking the bank this year. I'm breaking. I'm a Ross bank. So at least we know from a player's standpoint that these guys are going to be after it. And then you drop in Laporta. He definitely got the opportunity to throw for over 5,000 yards. I'm seeing a life, Spiny. I'm just saying. I was leaning a little bit more towards candidate KG. But other booth candidate, Spiny, I think you have swayed me a bit. Spiny like Trump over there. He's just saying anything. I'm just saying anything. I've been saying this since the preseason started. I've been saying this since the first day of camp. If Jamis and Williams is what he's projected to be, this will be historic offense. And I fully believe that he will be. Because our past catches. You're talking. I'm in Ra. Khalif Raymond. Jamo. Jamir Gibbs. Sam Laporta. Minimal. You got the weapons. We forget that that's the reality of the offense. Like we've forgotten that. Top three back here. We've talked about cornerbacks and defense and help for hutch and edge rusher and all that kind of stuff. We just assume that. Yeah. The offense is what it is. Bro. Yeah. Bro. They could be top one if Jamo takes that next step. That's what I'm saying. Swiss insurance is top one. Damn right. They are top one. Talk about it. Believe that. Hey, you know what? Let me tell you guys about Swiss insurance. Now more than ever. It is critical for you to have your insurance reviewed. 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All right, DMACC ENT. He's got one for you. He's got one for you, Spenny. This is all you. Yeah, I see. Plus 55, almost 56,000. Yeah, damn. Lions minus two and a half. Easy. John, 300 plus passing yards. I don't hate that. Golf, 250 plus passing yards. Easy. Yeah, let's go. Um, where is the catch? I'm still waiting for the catch. What's he got? Gibbs, uh, Gibbs. Yeah, I don't know. He must have, must have been a typo. Gibbs receiving yards, maybe 19. I don't know what, I don't know what he's got there. Gibbs 100 plus rushing yards. Laporta six plus catches. Monte TV, JMO TV, LFG. I can see it. I don't hate it. I can see it. Plus 66,000. It's not the worst part of the league I've ever seen. No, I can see it. But I think what, what do you think would be the toughest one to make happen? Uh, you're, I mean, you play when you're probably the Stafford 300 yards. I'll see John 300 plus. Sure. You're playing the touchdown game. No, too. So I would say the 100 plus rushing would be a stretch with Laporta getting six touchdowns. JMO getting a TV. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Monte with a TV. Yo, you're the 100 yards for, if it's rushing, that was the one that kind of caught mine. It's, it's aggressive. No doubt. But eight that's, it's plus 66,000. It's, it's not like, hey, bet your family's grocery money. Exactly, right. I mean, you could. Yeah, but you won't have a family after it. Maybe, maybe you have enough food for 66,000 days. That is a set of one day. It's fair. So there you go. Uh, but yeah, yeah, those are fun, man. I do like, uh, I do like talking about the bomb parlays. That are in there. No, but uh, we've done it everybody. NFL football is back starting today and it all gets going tonight. The Ravens playing at Kansas City for informational purposes. Only Kansas City at three point favorite. The overunters, 46 and a half. And you know what? We can talk about it here and we can talk about it for a lot of reasons. But one of the biggest reasons I think that we can talk about it here today, these are the contemporaries of the Detroit Lions now. The Ravens, the Chiefs, all these other teams. And then the big boy team. We are at this table. I do verify there, man. We are at this table now. The elite table. The elite, the head of the table. Like the adults table at Thanksgiving. We are here. We are here. We have arrived. And yeah, I think that we and a 90% of you told me earlier that you will be watching this game instead of the Tigers who are in a quote playoff chase as I was told. So make no mistake. And that's a baseball team that hasn't been relevant in a decade. 90% of you are going to watch this game and Kool-Aid. The reason why I did that is because I'll land the plane now. Because it just adds to the Lions fire. We will all be watching this football game tonight. All of us. And what are we watching for? We just want to see. We just want to take a look. It's almost like looking at an ex's social media profiles. You just want to see what's going on. What are they up to? How's it going over there? It just happened to walk into the restaurant. Yeah, it's what I'm saying. You just happen to see them. Like that's what it is tonight. We are watching and we are going to be locked in. Not because it's my homes in Lamar. But that helps. No, make no mistake. That helps. We are going to be watching because these are our peer teams now. As weird as it is to say. Different expectations. And so now when we sit down and watch these games. The theme of this. Who are we as fans? Now that our team has expectations we've never seen before. Yeah, when we sit down and watch these games. It is with our fans, our big boy pants on. Just like our team when they can sit down at that table. And I am looking at this and say, okay. What are these championship level teams? And obviously the championship one of the Chiefs. Who are these guys? How are they looking? What are they doing? How do we match up? Because that's where we're at now. Before, before we enter the season and we look at that first game. Just because it's a good match up. But right now it's because our squad may have an opportunity to meet one of those two teams in a Super Bowl. And that to me makes football that much more sweet. I didn't know how sweet football can actually be. I knew it was already cracked before. But now we're sitting down watching games. No one, hey, our squad belongs on the same field as those teams too. Skimass, boy. Yeah, that's not creeping. It's just checking out. I hate when people put a negative connotation on checking out. And exactly, Skimass, like there is a purpose behind it. There absolutely is. Spending you're going to be locked in tonight, aren't you? Oh, yeah. Why? Because it's football. It's more than that though. This is more than that. I don't know. It's football. I just want to see football again. I want to see good football again. And this is like a Super Bowl caliber matchup. So I'm excited to see them go out there and bang it out, man. Jerma, Jerma has got a good one. I'm watching tonight with the same mentality I have when I'm looking around before I buy a new car. Yeah, you just, you know, kick the tires. I am curious to see because I've heard people talk about it like game stuff. They have discussed the Ravens running the option. Bring the option. You know, if they're going to do the option. I mean, it is unstoppable. If you have Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, and possibly Mark Andrews as a pastor. And likely. Yeah. You forget about that tight ends. Yeah. People forget, people forget about Isaiah likely, man. That guy's. And they flowers look good. He got to take that next step though. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's do this. Let's take the break. We will come back. And I do. 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They got any concerts going on edge here and going to be in the mix. I don't think so. He's going to be somebody probably killing his lips. She is at the game. She's not she's not working though tonight. Yeah, probably not. He's chilling. Chilling in the app on the sports. Don't have a concert, I'm sure. Um, shout out Anakin by the way. Listening while he was on lunch from school. Shout out Anakin. Big shout out. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Absolutely. But yeah. So that is uh that is it though. No, but I wanted to get into it because there are some storylines and these teams are the Lions contemporaries and the teams that they're going up against. Uh Theo says Carson Steele. Nobody. Drawing a blank. Okay. Mason Leach. How about this Parley? Lamar over two seventeen. Passing or passing, right? Passing. Okay. Patrick over two sixty nine. Xavier over forty five and a half. Andrews forty six and a half. Zay over fifty three and a half. Travis over fifty eight and a half. I might be a little lower on Travis in this game, but I'm not mad at that though. It's not a bad part. I don't. I think one of the Chiefs receivers wouldn't won't get home on that. Yeah. The Xavier worthy thing like we are. That could be one pass though. What's that? That could be one pass. It could. No, it could. But at the same time, how many of these rookie wide receivers that aren't like the top five or ten guys? How many of them show up and just pop off like right away? I mean, not a lot, but this is Patrick Mahomes. If there, yeah. And we've seen what he's done with people with that kind of speed. The two spot the two spots where it does happen in the NFL is wide receiver and running back and being in a Patrick Mahomes led offense. Yeah. If it were running back, I would say fair play. Yeah. You know, I'm with you. That's who Carson Steele is. He's their running back, but I think I mean if Pacheco's not playing, I would play his over. But I think Pacheco's playing. Hey, the early reports are that worthy in homes. They've got a connection. I'm sure they do. Yeah, I'm sure they do. On the Raven side of things. Am I, am I the only one like, yes, I was, and I was just glossing it. Like I, if you're going to run the option, I'm here for it. I love seeing the option. But at the same time, am I crazy to say that the Derek Henry thing, I think people are kind of overblowing this man. You got cats out there saying he's going to run for 1500 yards. Ah, and all that kind of stuff. Like, here's the deal, guys, and it's pretty much proven. When running backs get north of 30, dot, dot, dot. Especially when you have the mileage that Derek Henry has. Like when, when's the last time we saw prime Derek Henry? It's been a while. I mean, he had like 1300 yards less. You're right. In a shitty, well, I wouldn't say shitty, but not a great offense. I know it's your, you're a boy. We'll be able to listen to Derek Henry, right? Catch him. You said what? So you're bullish on Derek. Oh, absolutely. You think about the man. I feel like that's the move that takes them over the top. Because one thing that they have missed is a consistent running game. Now, I know they had Gus Edwards when JK Diamonds went down, but something always seems to happen to the running back position with the Ravens. That is true. And I think Derek Henry is solidified. If you can get maybe between 14 to 15 games from him in the regular season, and he's available for the playoffs, you could. Yeah, in 2022, he had 1500 yards and 13 touchdowns last year. He had 1,100 yards and 12 touchdowns in 17 games. Yeah, he's still. I mean, he's still kind of doing it. And then that size that he's hard to tackle. I understand he has a lot of mileage, but just saying. Aren't they missing a guard over there, Baltimore? They are. Yeah, but they still offensive. Why I'm still solid. I would say overall. I don't know. It's just when you get a running back north of 30, with that kind of tread loss on the tire. They can't go down quickly, though. They can't. And guys, you know this. I thought it was going to be last year. I thought it was going to be last year. I thought it was going to be last year. I keep saying I'm not going to say it's going to happen until I see it happen. Facts. Because I think it's going to happen every year because of how much wear and tear you got, even in high school, and then Bama, and then now in the pros. But he just keeps being Derek Henry. He's a unit. That's a great point. That man is a unit, man. Paul. But no one ever sees it coming. We talk about this all the time. Sometimes you can't. Just one day you pop up and it's over. Sometimes you can. That's the way that it works, man. I feel like that's what it's going to be with Derek Henry. If you want a bold prediction for the season of one of these two teams, it's that Derek Henry. You just have to fall off tonight. To fall off. Yep. To fall off. What's fall off to you? Less than 1,000 with 700 yards. Yeah, you know, like plays 11 games. You know, like, yeah, there is 800 yards. There's an injured concern, but... It's just it never, when running back switch teams at 30, it never goes the way people think it's going to go. Never. That's true. But he's kind of a different animal. But Ravens running backs do seem to be snake bitten. So I will give you that as well. DNC ENT. You can usually see it. CMC's time is ticking too. That's it. I can't see. I can't say that until it happens. But the caffeine, you know what? He's like, I've heard he's 50-50 to play this. I thought he would have been fell off already, just based on his early injury history. But look, he's wearing plyometrics. But he's doing plyometrics. He... Hey, whatever he appears told us. Whatever he's doing is working, because he's flourished as a 49er. Absolutely flourished. He was good as a Panther, but he's taking it to the next level as a 49er. It's just Kool-Aid when you stand in front of the crowd and you draw the sword, you're going to get pushback. That's kind of my that's kind of my bold prediction between these two teams. That's what I say. And I say, I likely will continue to progress. All I'm saying is that if it works, it's going to work. Like, you're going to notice it. I do think with the Derek Henry thing, it's going to be all or nothing. It's either he's going to be that guy or it's going to be that year that he falls off. But like you guys, there's been a couple players in the field and I don't know if something's changing, or something in the water, but I thought, you know what? The trend is that these guys are supposed to fall off. They're older, you know, I mean, what are even some of these guys playing for? But they continue to put up the stats. That's where Derek Henry... If it works, if it works, that's going to be a heck of a tandem. Yeah. If anything with the Ravens, I'd be more concerned about the wide receiver court because yes, you have Zaflowers. He does need to get to that thousand yard level, but Rashad Bateman often injured. And I don't even know who the other guys over there, but receivers, they're kind of thin on. Yeah. Where's the room with Lamar? He's got to go off. He's got to like, he's to the point, it's got to be a Super Bowl. Yeah. And I'm a big Lamar fan. I'll champion him, but... I like him too, but at some point, you got to rise up and win the big game. Yeah. And I don't care what your surroundings are. Right. I'll keep it 100. If I'm the same way about John, I'll be the same way about Lamar. At some point, it's on you, and they didn't fail you. You failed them. If you don't get it done at the quarterback spot, that's the scoreboard in the game. That's why you make all the money. That's why you got a quarter billion dollar contract because it's on you, Lamar. That's it. Yeah. If you don't get it done, then that's your legacy. Like, he's in legacy building time now. He's got the money. He's got the security. Like, it's go time for him. I agree. That's just a way to... And I am a Lamar guy as well. I agree with that. I love Lamar Jackson. I'll just put the plan. I like the way he plays the game. Well, everybody loves him because he's a quarterback that can run. Yeah. And you know, I think his arm is electric as well. His arm does get slipped on. I don't think... I think he has a pretty decent arm, but obviously it's going to be the legs that get people going, "Yo, Lamar Jackson." Especially here. We hear... When you hear fans first talk about Jared Goff, it's instantly either the arm or the fact of lack of mobility. But with Lamar Jackson, you're right. This isn't like a participation award. Not as an individual, he has accolades, but as a legacy for a career. That goes beyond what you do personally. That goes into what you've done for your team. When we look at our squads here, especially our Detroit teams, it's what you have done as a team. What have you accomplished? And that's where you go to define a legacy. Because we have had some good players here, like a Jerry Stackhouse. We've had good players here like a Grant Hill. They've had some good personal stuff, but what do they do with their teams? So for the Lamar Jackson, when you talk about quarterback, the premier position, probably in all of sports. And sports, yeah. You have to be the guy, especially when you got an MVP on your resume. That's even more so, because there are quarterbacks out there who they're obviously going to carry a big burden for their team. But when you are identified as an MVP caliber player, then your team should be able to rely on you, especially as a quarterback. That's one and the same now, to go out there and make something happen. You got enough to get it done. Everyone is saying that you guys are going to be a Super Bowl contender. I really thought last year was going to be a year that they were going to be able to get it done. And it was disappointing to see how things played out in that championship game for them. Here's another thing about Lamar. He has 0.0 chance to win the MVP this year. Yeah. Zero point. He could have the season of a lifetime. They're not giving them the MVP award again. Yeah. They are not. They feel scorned by what happened in the playoffs. Like he's won it twice. He will net until he wins a Super Bowl. He will never get another MVP award. No matter what he does. I can believe that. No matter what he does. That's the way this works too. No say Algador is their third receiver. So that just go to show you what they are. I are. Yeah. And you know, if you're moving teams like Derek Henry and you need to buy or sell a new house. All you got to do is go to Mark White. 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Neil, is it Neil N-E-N-I-E-L-N-E-I-L or N-E-E-E-L? Danny G, it's whatever it says on my check. Boom! That's it. So I never understood the people that get mad about their name getting spelled. I don't give a shit. Is it right on my check? Yeah. Yes, it is. Because I know the mortgage company always gets it right. I know they get it. I know they get it right. They not go for you. Damn, IRS always gets it right. IRS never been wrong. Yeah. Not one time. They triple checked that one. Aw, shoot, I lost it. You said you had a comment there? Yeah, it was a shout out to Big Ben Davis. All right, all right. So what's up, fellows? I just ordered the Laporta potty shitting on your favorite team shirt from whoop, shopped out Woodward Sports. Yeah, I'm right. Awesome looking tea. Can't wait till it gets here. Shout out to Big Dan, Dave. Yeah, the real one. Support in the boys. You know what? I got to admit. I'm stunned by how much merch we move here. At Woodward Sports. Moving merch. I'm stunned, man. Shopped out Woodward Sports.gov. We got some cool stuff in there, man. I still champion my free JMO shirt. Shout out. Free JMO. He's finna be free. He's finna be free. Yes. He's finna be free. I'm up way out. JMO unchanged. These boys playing on my downfall. Stay away. I'm supposed to stay out this year. Do we make that graphics, Benny? Yes. I don't want to be a part of that. Oh my god. He even spent. He was like, I don't want to be a part of that. That would be a negative connotation, if I move. But he's definitely going to be off the leash this year for sure. Woodward Sports chat thread, Mason. Just some reaction to Lamar Jax and stuff. Like it's on him, man. And it's time, Mason Leach. What happened to him wasn't in the playoffs last year. Wasn't his fault. It was his OC with the play calling. Because they only ran the ball six times the whole game. Mason Leach, you don't get to do that in the playoffs. And this is his second offensive coordinator. They got rid of Greg Romain, who they complained about ran the ball too much. You don't get to do that. Yeah. You do not. It's your show. You're the quarterback. You got the quarter billion dollar contract. Yeah. That's it. That's all, man. You got to do it. It's like, and that's my disconnect. Like with the John Stafford thing. People say what he didn't have here and all that kind of. You know what he did have? A quarter billion dollars in salary. He did have that. And when you get that, the expectations come with it. It's just the way that it is. And it's never going to change. And until he gets it done. Yes, he's a two time MVP. But that's that's Lamar Jackson. Like when you when you put up the headstone on his NFL career, it'll say here was Lamar Jackson, two time MVP. But he'll be the next Mike Vick. That's it. He'll be the next Mike Vick, man. Yeah. And again, I know you can't do that when you are the MVP, when you are the quarterback, all the praise, all the blame goes on to your shoulders. And rightfully so. Because Lamar Jackson is one of the most electric players in the NFL. The offensive game plan was a little. Questionable and safe flowers. And get that drop. He fumbled the ball in the one yard line, trying to extend for a touchdown. They probably would have won that game if he didn't do that. But I agree with you. You can't do that. You're the face of the franchise. You're the MVP. You're the quarter billion now. Yeah, you're quarter billion dollar guy. Win or loss is on your shoulders. And I feel like his shoulders are broad enough to carry that. Lamar seems like a very, you know, sturdy guy. He's not going to let stuff like that get his head. So I expect them to be back. I think they're going to lose again in the playoffs this year. I think the Texans are going to be. I think it's going to be Lions, Texans, Super Bowl. Yes. Talk about it. It's my pay. I wonder what that would pay. Yeah, Super Bowl exacto. Chris. Chris played. He put it like at the beginning of the year. Lions to beat the Texans and the Super Bowl. Lions, Texans. Yeah, I agree. Yep. Dad with Tourette's. Just look again, guys. No stud running back. Andrews out half the season. Why receiver one was a rookie? And he won MVP. Stop the Lamar Jackson. Hey, David Tourette's. It's not hate. We told you. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. But definitely under, you know, he didn't have the tools. But yeah, rightfully rightfully so or not. When you are the MVP, quarter billion dollar guy. The weight's going to fall on your shoulders. And that's it. Yeah. Dad with Tourette's. That's the way this works. Awards that are handed out. They will not give him another one. No, they won't. That's just the way that it will be. They will give it to Mahomes if he's even remotely in the ballpark. The only thing that's out of his control is the receivers because for some reason, Baltimore just does not like to invest in receivers ever. But they didn't use first round picks on him all the time. At that same token, Patrick Mahomes has done more with lesser receivers as well. I think Zeflauer is a damn good receiver. No, he is, but he's the best receiver they've had in a while. Right, for real. Yeah. Like Hollywood Brown was the before Zeflauer's. Hollywood Brown is literally the best receiver. The Marjax in his place with his career. They brought in the courts of Dez Bryant. Like, come on, what was that going to do? Like, I mean, on the flip side, that's what makes me optimistic about Xavier Worthy with Patrick Mahomes because you're right. He's done a lot more with less. Right. But with the Marjax, I couldn't express his man. He had this thing set up to go and punch this a couple of times. When the big one a couple times. And now the outlook. Yeah. Are you guys confident at all that he's going to get that chance again? Because this year doesn't look good. I mean, they have the chance. Yeah. Like, they're one of the best teams that I've felt. They got one of the best defenses in that. I felt their offense is much approved. They have just as much of a chance to make it out of the AFCs. Anybody, but the AFCs are going to be a dog fight this year. Yeah, I was going to say, if you had to bet, is he winning one of the next five years? He has to. He has to. Yeah. But is he going to? They'll be in the mix. Because I mean, It'll be interesting. Yeah. The Ravens are a will run organization. They'll always be in the mix. But yeah, you only got a certain amount of bikes that the app will ask Buffalo. I hope he gets it done. And and we see D 313 says sing Lamar didn't have help as well. Where was it? Like, look at. I mean, Hollywood Brown was his best receivers before they got. But flip side of that coin. They draft receivers in the first round. All the time. They don't always work. They always work. Yeah, they never were. Zayflowers could be his first elite receiver. He's not even elite yet. We're going to see great tight ends. Mark Andrews has heard all last year. Oh, sure. Justice Hill was his starting running back last year. Yeah, stretch. Doing the backs always fall and the receivers there. The three best weapons in that offense last year were Justice Hill Isaiah likely in Lamar Jackson. Yeah. Well, we're sports. I did want to bring this up too. Because here we are. Never say an award about Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. And they play tonight. Oh, they'll always be there. And they're always, they're always there. Yeah. And something wild. Spoke track put this tweet out this morning. It kind of caught my eye when I was running on the treadmill and saw it on my phone. While Patrick Mahomes, $45 million per year contract average currently ranks 12th among quarterbacks. Nobody in football scheduled to earn more over the next four seasons by a lot in terms of cash. Mahomes is number one. He'll make $205 million over the next four seasons. Jared Goff is second. He'll make $193 million to his third. Love is fourth. They're basically the same though. $186 million and Jalen Hertz is fifth at $184 million. And I think that that will be, I just, I wonder about that. Like when, when does Mahomes get the deal ripped up and reworked? You know what I'm saying? Like, he keep contending that he cool with what he got and that he wants to help instead of the money. Yeah. Some point in time, his agents and the people around him are like, hey, let's rethink that a little bit. He's going to have stock in the Kansas City Chiefs. So I think ultimately, if he keeps playing his cars, the way he's playing them, they're going to reward him with a piece of the franchise. And how do you not? Because he's done more for you than anybody. Especially if he continues to be cool like this. You got to do some fun, but these teams aren't obligated to do. No, they aren't. But for anybody, that's true, but this is different. Like there is no Kansas City Chiefs without Patrick Mahomes. Yes. Yeah. They also just sent out a tweet to this is fun. You know, Hassan Reddick still hasn't reported. He's the only one holding out still, I believe. Yeah. He still hasn't reported. He's been fined over $5 million so far. And he'll forfeit and forfeit an additional almost $800,000 per regular season week, which is why. And he's willing to go into the regular season. It seems like he's standing on business. He's going to be up over what? $15 million, $16 million in fines. But if he sits out the whole year, yeah. Yeah, which I doubt like he'll get traded at the deadline if he holds out that long. I don't even know if he'll hold on that long. There'll be a whole lot of money. Yeah. He got it. Since we're on it. Hey, my buddy, shit. 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I mean, I don't know. Like I said, I'm not going to tell people what to do with a fandom, but. If the Tigers were one game out. Or had the division lead by two games. That's different. What do you think that poll would have been? It would have been still NFL heavy, but probably more. 60 40. Yeah, it would have been way closer. Spenny, if the Tigers were two games in front in first place, what would you watch? Thursday night football. Okay. Exactly. Stay in the field. Two premier franchises at that. It ain't like, you know, fucking Panthers. I think I would watch the Tigers. I think I would. Okay. I would do. I would do like the commercial would be the football game. Yeah. And then that's not accounted for the people that will watch both and flip between the two. But yeah. Okay. DNC ENT Lamar's five and one 20. Oh, and one against the spread as a regular season underdog. He's never lost against never lost as a regular season underdog. 20 and one push. That's not good. Only loss was in overtime to Las Vegas on opening night. Average margin of victory 33 points. Mahomes is six in one. Only loss to Detroit last year. Average margin of victory 13.1. Fuck Patrick. And sampling slight that real cream of weed. Imagine just willing just being willing to give away five million. Must be nice. Right. They live a different existence. They do. Get your bags. So I ain't mad at you. So I'll stand on business. Yeah. It's a lot of cash. After jets. Sand on business. Those billionaires got enough money to give out. All right. I'm so sick of the Jets too. I can't wait for them to fail this year. Jesus, the Jets. Yeah, man. And Rogers. You are. And I'm just going to sit back. We did a. And laugh at a laugh at all you people. We did an MVP draft on Heavyweights yesterday. Like we drafted players that we think are going to win MVP. And we did like a snake draft. And I hedged my bets on the AFC East. Yeesh. Because whoever wins that division, I think one of the storylines out of it will win them MVP. Whether it be Aaron Rogers, Josh Allen, or Tyree Kill. I took all three of them. All right, that's fair. Yeah. Because if the dolphins win, it's going to be because Tyree Kill is going absolutely nuts. Has over 2,000 yards, he'll win MVP. If the bills win, it's because Josh Allen's Superman. He's going to win MVP. If the Jets win it, the media. They're not going to. The media loves Aaron Rogers. They're not going to not give it. Yeah, he's going to get MVP. They don't slob him up. So fifth fucking. Yeah, those are three of my four pick. And then fourth round, you know, clean up. I picked up Kirk O'Chains. He'll win every people fill them to playoffs like he always do. He can screw it. Thomas Perry, Neil Watches or listens to every Tiger's game. That's what I was told. Two furnaces, at least two screens, 100%. Not out on the deck. There's just one TV out there. Yeah. So which, you know, weather's perfect today. So I'll be tapped. I'll be tapped into that TV on the deck. I don't see any brothers in the Shire, Mike G. I don't know. I don't know if they're our black habits. It's a good question. James. Oh, well, we ain't seen them. James says, if I had to buy Peacock, I wouldn't just to watch this game. Yes, you would. You're right. It's football. It's the NFL. We're back to tough talking. All right. For nickel package tomorrow, I'll cook up a sports media nickel package. And I'll give everybody the update on the streaming numbers. And then you can go back in the chat and tell me how you quote, "won't buy the streaming service." I will not be here tomorrow. Yes, true. Yeah. KG's gonna be a TD. Cool-aid's gonna be in the sound booth. Okay. Yeah. So I'm going my brother's wedding is this weekend. So we've got to go up there early. Oh, bet, bet. Yeah. Congratulations, Ben. Yeah. It's the last one. Thank God. But I'm standing up in this one. We've got to go up there. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Also, all next week, for one week, holy, you will be getting Silent Mike and all the money. Silent Mike. He is back. The return of Silent Mike. One week only, I will be in Chicago saying F this for a week. Hey, Chicago's a good time. Oh, yeah. Big fat. I told you. Yeah, Chicago was a lot of fun. I definitely want to go back next year. I'm trying to go. I'm trying to go to that Star Wars strip club. You win. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah. Empire's strip's back. Give me a new wifey over there. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, yeah. It's real. It's real. It's real. He sent us a picture. I don't know. The Empire's strip's back. Trying to give me a new wifey over there. Yeah. We'll be able to see what that's in. It was a good spot. Oh, is that a fun pageant? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Breakfast get cracked. It's called Cracked. The egg came first. Best breakfast breed I've ever had. Oh, it was so good. I'm going to put that on the agenda. For sure. And they-- I mean, we just door dashed it every morning. Yeah. Yeah. It was so in a lot of movement that hour. All right. No. But you got back on the wagon. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We went to Rigglyville one day. We went to the South Side to watch a White Sox game one day. It was fun. It was a good time. What to a karaoke bar one night? Yeah. Packed. You stepped over the puddles of piss. Empty syringes in the South Side. Did you take the train there? Yeah, we did. I told you. Yeah. It was my piss. There was a puddle of urine on the floor there at all times. Yeah, it smells like piss in that train for sure. But Detroit sucks. That's what I got to hold all the time. Chicago way fucking bigger than Detroit. Like the city did way bigger than Detroit. But imagine the stop for your MLB team's stadium has a puddle of urine in it. Yeah. Yeah. Guaranteed rates of nice ballpark, but getting their suck. Yeah. Ain't no piss on the queue line. No piss on the queue line. Not one puddle. Yeah. 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