Hour 1: It's a Football Friday!

0:00I feel like I rushed through that story about the Miami game last night and I did just want to kind of put a bow on it. I got a story about it too. So when I saw that Florida A&M had scored a touchdown because they stripped the ball away from the Miami ball carrier and ran the other way and did score. And I thought, oh, okay, I mean, it's not going to really change anything. It's now 77 to 7. But it said start of the fourth quarter and there were like six minutes. I'm like, what the did they just am I missing something that took me a while and then I thought, did they have a new

1:00rule in football were like a mercy rule of some kind. And then I read today that both teams agreed to shave five minutes off the fourth quarter. And I thought, wow, that is so embarrassing. So everyone involved. It's like for Miami, you're piling up all these points. But hey, they're also using the entire roster, right? I mean, they've got four string guys in there and they're still scoring. They're still throwing the ball too, by the way. But those guys need reps too, just like everybody needs reps. That's excuse you give. But this is we're no longer in the era of we're just going to run out the clock by, you know, handing the ball between the tackles. That's gone. And 77 to 7. So I got to tell you, I had a number of plays last night. Like the Niners, that was a good one. I had Florida and that game started. I jumped on Florida and him plus 69 and a half. Oh, no.

2:02Tell me, should that bet be voided? Yes. I think when you shave off time in a game, yes. I literally all bets are off unless you hit the over. I feel that I'm going to look it up because I'm pretty sure it just gave me the L. But yeah, gave me the L. That's that isn't that some BS. I think it is. I don't know. I mean, you should also be thankful because if that thing had kept going, they would have been like 91 to 7. Well, I don't know if I should be thankful. It's a loss either. Well, I guess I'm thinking of the six. 69 and a half. They shave five minutes off the game. Thinking of the fans. Because you know what? Here we come. Florida and M was just about to make their move. I got. I mean, that was you got to be kidding me. They look at the box score and look. Mesa was near perfect. He missed like one pass or whatever and through for three touchdowns and 300 yards quickly. And then you look at the

3:06rest of stats. As a team, they missed two passes. As a team, they threw for six touchdowns in over 400 yards. As a team, they ran for over 400 yards. As a team, they had 856 yards in total offense, including not 20, not 30, not 40, but 42 first downs in that game. They averaged almost 10 yards to carry. I'm not saying it was always like 8.2. No, there was 9.8 yards per carry in that game. They their average yards per attempt of a pass was over 14. My God. What? I think it's happened once before. I think Arizona state and Morgan state or somebody like that. They shave five minutes off a game. I have a vague memory of this happening before. But yeah, that's that's pretty embarrassing. Kater, we're doing something in the business we call burying the lead. We are burying the lead today because today, my friend is a football Friday. Oh, yeah. What were we talking for? Well,

4:10we're talking Detroit Lions football added to the mix with Michigan and Michigan state and all our favorite directionals. Yes, indeed. Full slate all weekend long. We got Michigan, Oklahoma, tomorrow Michigan state Eastern Michigan and we got the Lions and the New Orleans Saints and a slate of high school games. We got high school tonight. It's all it's back on people in full. Hundo P. Let's go. Scott Anderson. Today is our annual Detroit Lions prediction show where people get their picks in 17 game schedule. What do you think the Detroit Lions record will be and give us a reason why you believe it. We record all these projections and then go back at the end of the season because we keep records here at the Carition Anderson. Oh, that would do. Receipts if you will. So let's get your picks in for the Detroit Lions and then the season 17 games. What do you think the record will be and give us a reason why Scott, you had a great question on your show

5:11sheet. Now, I want to throw this out to the people as well because I love this question. No. What are the sites and sounds that get you amp up for football? When do you know this means it's football season? When do you know it's football season? 2485 3997 97 a couple of things there on your plate to get us going on a Friday. I had forgotten to put a sense on that. It's not just the sights and sounds, but for me, it's the smells. I was driving yesterday, had the windows down the car and I smelled that fresh cut grass and this time of the year, there's a different smell in the air. It I know another way to say it. It smelled like football. I'm like, there we go. This is this exactly. I had sense memories of two a day practices and and the whole bit and get right to it. Let's put the game plan into the walkthrough before the day before the game. And I mean, I was I'm fired up. I'm fired up. I know we had a whole slate of

6:12football games last week. Doesn't matter. I mean, that was college and I don't feel as strongly by college as I used to because a bunch of reasons, whatever. This is the NFL. We've had last two nights of NFL to kind of wet our appetite with some really bad games. And now we got the full slate on Sunday. Look, we got real college football coming in this weekend. We got some big games and looking at an Arbor. They got Oklahoma coming to town in East Lansing. A chance to go to an O to start under Pat Fitzgerald. I love what's going on here. It's a big football weekend. It's a huge football weekend. 248 539 97 97 Gator for me. It's crisp, crisp autumn air. It's when you go outside and the temperatures dropped into the 50s, but the sun is out and shining and you feel you just feel it in the air. That to me is there's football weather. And when we get that perfect football weather, you know, you just know, you know inside, you know,

7:17deep in your bones. It just instinctively kicks in. It's time for football. And I don't know what I do in the fall without it. Like when people ask what's my favorite season, I always say fall. Why? Why? Big part of it. Football. 248 539 97 97. That crisp in the air is it. Yeah. It's all there. It's all there. Man, cider mill. Let's go get some donuts, some cider. Maybe some cheese. It's got some salami in it. Yeah. Let's go. Here we go. We're in a pizza. We're in a pizza. My pizza up in here. The cider mill. Let's go. Somebody cooking some extraordinarily large hot dog. Oh, yeah. How you doing? I'm fired up. I'm ready to roll. It's football season. So get your picks in right now. 248 539 97 97. And we will record all these gator and I will have ours coming up shortly at 1030. We're going to

8:17hear from the coordinators, both Drew Petsing and Calvin Shepherd spoke yesterday. We'll bring you the best of what they had to say. Also a little bit later on, we got another edition of Are You Gonna Eat That at a 1230 the Bertie Kid from out in Allen Park. The lines practice today. Dan Campbell will speak one final time and Bertie will be there for all of that and then bring us the very latest as the lines get set for their season opener 248 539 97 97. Let's go on a football Friday. Hey, Dylan Larkin just released a statement and so did the Detroit Redwings. Oh, my. We will read that coming up today at 1016. Stick with us on Carson Anderson on 971. It's Carson Anderson Radio program 248 539 97 97. Hopefully everybody's fired up for the weekend.

9:18And we will get to a lot of football news throughout the day because it is a football Friday and a lot of Lions discussion today. Incidentally, if you follow us on Twitter at Dungator 971, we have a Lions template that you can fill out. I love the templates template. Lions season starts Sunday, answer the following questions. What are you most confident in? What are you least confident in? Who will be the most pleasant surprise? Which player needs to step up? Lions final record will be. Go fill that out. Answer those five questions and we will read answers on the air. So get them in at Dungator 971 on Twitter, but we're also taking your phone calls, of course, and your text, lots on the table. But we do have some breaking news here, a statement from Dylan Larkin who requested a trade. He says over the past couple of weeks, Remlings leadership and I have had several in-depth discussions. I've approached those candid conversations and I will be at training camp. I've appreciated sorry, those candid conversations and I will be a training camp with my teammates with

10:19new leader when new leadership is in place. We'll talk further about the direction of the team. We'll keep those conversations private and I will keep my focus on the season ahead and the guys in the room. The red wings and I don't know who for the red wings, but there is a statement from the red wings. A general statement from the red wings. First on Dylan Larkin reporting the camp. Just to be honest, this is tweeted out from the Detroit red wing. Yes, it is. It's from them themselves. Yeah. We look forward to seeing Dylan and the rest of his teammates at Little Seas is arena for the start of training camp. So we prepare for the upcoming season on Dylan Larkin strike request. Dylan is under contract as a member of the Detroit Red Wings. Any conversations regarding his future with the club will take place privately when a new hockey operations leader has been named as such. We will not comment any further on this matter and on the captaincy of the red wings. The red wings will begin the 26 27 season without a captain being named. Any further discussions or decisions regarding this topic will be made once new a new hockey operations leadership

11:21is in place. There's a lot to unpack here. First of all, I think the statement is the Dylan Larkin statement is interesting from the first sentence over the past couple of weeks. Red Wings' leadership and I have had several end up conversations, which begs the question, who's the religious symbol of the red wings? I don't know who it is. Does that mean Chris I mean, what does this mean? But I appreciate that it is released to statement. I'm surprised it doesn't say anything there about the fans. It's just it's just straightforward about the team. And then you have the red wings side of it. And it reads like it's straight out of AI, which is fine because everybody needs to be just there is no leadership in place right now. So there's no reason to add anything where you can speculate on it. It's just cut and dry. Okay, we got to address training camps next week. Yes, all the players are coming with a fort everybody. Fair enough. Okay, the trade request, well, we keep that private. We're not going to talk

12:21about ongoing negotiations. Fair enough, that's easy enough. And the captain's part is the interesting one because that's that's something that I don't think that they needed to make a statement on. And I'm glad that they did, but it's curious that they did and what that was said, which is that they're not going to have a captain being named right now for the discussions or decisions regarding this topic will be made once new hockey operations leadership is in place. I find it really interesting because I have a hard time thinking at this point, the Todd McClellan is not going to be the head coach, right? Give it a practice thing starting next week and training camp, although things happen all the time in the NHL. But if you're a GM coming to this team, you would think that you have your you get the approval on who is the head coach of this team as part of the gig. But I mean, do you come in and come in hot and make changes right away or do you say, all right, McClellan's an experienced NHL coach, we're going to leave him in place here and we'll let them flush out who's going to be the captain. I think all that is is probably true.

13:26So it's it's curious and yet the same time I think that it's smart that they have said that they don't have a captain now because they need to get it. They kind of feel this out and what this how does the team feel about this? How the players feel about this? We want to bring it statement was a couple days ago, which seemed favorable for Dylan Larkin, but I don't know if everybody on the red wings feels that way. So they need to figure this out at training camp. Okay, how is he being received by his teammates? Does he have to make a speech to his teammates and talk about asking for the trade and all that and there's a lot to clear up from him and the team, but at least it seems like they're in a good place to get that started. And I appreciate that this is I wish this happened weeks ago or months ago, but it didn't, you know, I wish this happened right amongst the things that we wish happened weeks and months ago. This is on the list as well. Yeah, I mean, wish that everything had happened months ago, but it didn't. It's it's a weird timeline with what's going on with one of the most storied franchises in all of professional sports that now they're

14:30as a franchise, they're not acting like one of these franchises. It's just strange, but okay, here it is, less than a week before training camp and now they've released statements from Dylan Larkin and about Dylan Larkin. So when's the leadership going to be named? So I suspect he's going to be fine in the room. I think I think the Brinkets comments are going to be reflective of how most players feel. And I could be wrong on this, don't you know, but I think he's going to be fine in the room. I think his bigger issue is the fans now. That really shouldn't impact his job. It might make it uncomfortable if there are booze for Dylan Larkin. I'm not I'm not a guy who typically booze. So I, you know, it is a business. He was making a business decision and if you think about the state of the Red Wings, it's not like stunning that a player wanted out

15:32given the direction of the organization. The fact that it got out is probably sub-optimal. You know, I don't remember there being any any there's been no comments from Dylan Larkin publicly since this trade no request, right? So and quite frankly, I know we don't know how this got out, right? There's speculation, but it's not like Dylan Larkin came out and he announced he wanted a trade. It got reported that he had requested a trade. And then I's been finally had to address that by saying, yes, his agent requested a trade. And that was it. He wasn't taking any more questions on that. And that was the only thing that's ever been said. And that was months ago. That was what right before the draft. Yep. So here we go with this breaking news, Dylan Larkin. It says he's looking forward to training camp and he'll talk to a new leadership when it gets in place. And the Red Wings have, I guess, officially stripped them of his captaincy. And, but

16:32they're leaving the door open. It's pretty clear that they're leaving the door open to see how this goes because they're not naming a new captain. I mean, you could see it going in a bunch of different directions. I could see the team totally getting behind Dylan Larkin. Hey, you stood up to Iserman and we appreciate that. Which is a weird thing to say. Well, right. And I don't like saying because I'm a huge devisement fan, not as much as him as a GM, but it's not going to trump my feelings for him as a player and what he meant to this organization. What he still means is this organization. But I could see players getting behind him from that standpoint, from what he said a couple of years ago, the trade deadline and then putting his money where his mouth is and saying, all right, fine. I want out. And does that force all this to happen? It seems like it forced all this to happen. At least that's one conclusion you could draw. But it's, it's the right thing. I mean, the week away from training camp, he had to say something like what's going to happen? It's going to be really awkward. He can still win over fans with what he would say

17:34in front of cameras and microphones. Is he going to get some booze to start the season? You betcha, he will. But after that first game, if he's booed that first game, which he probably will be, he'll have a chance to do that and say, I totally understand where the fans are coming from. Really unfortunate how things unfolded and I'm going to do my best to do what's right for this hockey team and hopefully the fans get back on board. Meantime, I hope that they will cheer and us on as a team, but me as an individual. Obviously, we've got some work to do to amend some fences there, but they've got other things can happen to now because if this, if this indicates to you and because there's what it says to me, Larkin's on this team. They're not trading. I don't think that's happening. I don't think I don't think they got real trade offers for him that we're going to be anything. There is now it's a growing percentage in me. It began at like 2%, maybe 5%, now it might be up to like 15%. I really think that the Red Wings are going to make a trade to bring somebody here for Dylan Larkin, not necessarily for him, but somebody that like a Quin

18:39Hughes type that has not signed an extension with Minnesota and they're getting concerned about that up there and now Detroit's going to call Minnesota and say, oh, no, it's not about sending Dylan Larkin to you. How about sending Quin Hughes to us? Let's talk about that because you're going to lose that guy because you're not going to pay him and maybe new leadership is going to say, we got to pay somebody or do they call Columbus about Zach Warensky, who's reportedly Larkin's best friend and say, hey, we know he hasn't agreed any extension. How about we talk about a deal that benefits both teams? I think that's a real possibility that can get somebody else here. Well, it's going to be interesting and I take a look at this moving forward. I tend to agree with you. I don't think Dylan Larkin's getting traded that unless he winds the list of teams that he would accept the trade to because he essentially came up with three teams that the Red Wings couldn't make a realistic deal with. But hey, at the end of the day, this is the breaking news today.

19:42It's still a Friday and it's still a football Friday. We interrupted our scheduled football Friday. It was breaking news. Dylan Larkin releases a statement. He's planning on starting training. Can't put the wings. We'll talk to leadership when it gets put in place. Reving say they'll start the season with no captain. See how this thing plays itself out. Who knows how long that will last. All right. So coordinator spoke yesterday drew petting. What do you expect from your offense? Kelvin Shepard. What is going to be different in year two under your leadership with the defense? Here with those guys had to say next here on Carson Anderson on 97 one. The Karsh Scott Anderson. It's a football Friday getting you set for the lion season opener. And as we like to do with news conferences when a guy speak, it's that are like replaying the whole thing. We pull the most interesting quotes. And so yesterday it was the coordinators turn. And of course, drew petting now taking over the

20:43offense. Kelvin Shepard year two, petting. Lot riding on this, right? Offense with a lot of weapons last year. It wasn't exactly a well oiled machine to start. Dan Campbell took over the play calling. He specifically went out and identified this guy to come in and take over as their primary offensive mind. They're play collar. Here's what he had to say about him and Jared Gough drew petting and Jared Gough. How do they complement one another? Our quarterback is cerebral a off, right? I mean, he is a high level thinker and executor. He's wicked smart. He is wicked smart. And in his ability to quickly digest what he sees and

21:51make the appropriate play, make your appropriate throw is high level. Petsing has been open to this. It's it's all part of the build up to the season. What happens in those? Because remember, we all see play calls. We see the evidence 40 seconds after the next the previous play somewhere around that. He's got to make a play call in the first five, six seconds. They got to get the right person out on the field. He's got to be ready to go. What's he going to be like under fire? I really like anybody's chances of succeeding here with the lines coming in because of the offenses already set because they already have a quarterback that knows what the hell he's doing. Even if he didn't like the results last year from John Morton, they still had a pretty good offensive season. It's 28 points of game and you know, Gough did what he did with 4500 yards at 30 something touchdown passes. Gives us run to ball well. They had over 2000 yards in the ground. But it was a step back from the previous year. So when petting has all this to say with with about Jared Gough,

22:53I wonder if if Gough has more involved this year than what he was last year? I guess that would be a question I would ask. It would be someone going to ask Jared next week. Right. Is do you feel more involved with the decision making? Maybe not in decision making, but just about the playbook and about the offense in general. Does your input valued more? Do you feel this year than what it was last year? Okay. Here's more from true pet saying on what he's looking forward to learning about his offense.

23:54Okay. And that's probably one of the most important parts of the offense of the unknown. And when he mentions the physicality, the guys up front, I think we have done something a bit of a disservice to the Lions in our analysis of the season. Okay. Lions may have the best left tackle in the NFL. And but how much better does the offensive line get just because Penaisoul has moved to the most important position on the line? And we knew that he we know he's a good player, but just that change alone can really make a huge difference. Now there are other questions on that offensive line. I think it's pretty logical that Tate Ratledge is going to be better. I think it's pretty logical that the center position is going to be improvement over a year ago. And it really comes down to the other guard and Blake Miller. In the other guard, there's strong competition

24:54there. I, you know, they need somebody to emerge. And by the competition continues, Miller is the big question mark. He is a question mark. Yeah. Because I look at the left guard position and I'm encouraged by the fact that there's competition because I don't think the Mahogany would be any worse than he was last year. And nothing was bad. But you expect him to get better at least. And if there's competition, it means if he means that somebody's been better than him and moved Ben Barge. But you're right about Miller at right tackle. That's the spot that you're hoping that everything that what people have said about him is right. When Aiden Hutchinson said, well, he doesn't make the same mistake twice in practice. He picks up and he learns right away. And he's had, I think, Hayley has said the same thing about him or similar things about him. Hopefully, that's the thing is that the high floor that he's got is already realized and that he can just, you know, stack better game after better game after better game and be as competent as it can be at right tackle in his office. Okay. One more from True Petsing. What is this offense going to be good

25:55at? Here's what the offensive coordinator had to say. I feel like I just speak quicker because of the way he's talking. He's a mile of minimum. He really is. All right. Calvin Shepard, defense of coordinator. What have you learned about your defense through camp going into the opener?

27:32The continuity, right? You're your second year in this defense. Experimented with some things, some works, some didn't. It'd be interesting to see how they go about coverage. Are they going to be a high man covers team? They're going to play more zone this year. What, what are they going to do and how blitz happy will he be? Remember how blitz happy air in Glen was. I'm a big fan of Calvin Shepard. I don't know if he's going to be a great defensive coordinator or not, but him as a person. I love Calvin Shepard. I think he's a motivator. I think you can get guys to do some things here. But ultimately, it's going to come down to the players being able to implement the game plan and, you know, it's I'm glad that he's back here for another year as defensive coordinator, but last year wasn't a great year for the defense. There were some things you can hang your hat on and build off of, but you know, if they were quick on the on the trigger finger with Anthony Lynn and with John Morton on the offensive side, you know, he got a little bit of grace last year. So this is a big year for

28:37Calvin Shepard and that defense to prove that he's on the right track and this team is going the right place. And I agree with you. I'm not going to fall into the trap that I've fallen and fell on it into in the past. And that is guys great at the podium fund to listen to. Doesn't necessarily mean he's a great coach, right? And so I like him. I like listening to talk. I think he sounds like a guy who can motivate players, but at the end of the day, got to get the job done. And that that has to be that story. You have to tell. I think the key to this whole defense is right up the middle and how good is a lean McNeil going to be this year? Everything seems to point that he is 100% ready to go. He's happy. I said, an interview that he did with Dan Miller and he's almost to get you about the season being able to start it healthy. And Calvin Shepard almost got emotional about how happy he is for a lean McNeil because he just sees monster things from this year. Okay. He thinks this group will indeed be much better in his second year.

29:52Okay. Last year, the line's defense. Not bad in yards allowed. 15th in the NFL. But in points allowed, they were 22nd. And that's got to get better. The best defense is in the league. We're a full touchdown better than the Detroit lines a year ago. They got to narrow that gap. They do. And you know, listen to the last clip. That's a guy I could have played for. I would have loved to play for a coach like coach Shep because it's not just here's what you have to do. It's here's why we want you to do what you have to do. There's an explanation about it that takes it to a different level so everybody can be better. So you understand not only, oh,

30:52am I supposed to go between these two guys, but there's reasoning behind it because this is going to happen. This is going to happen. And we all have to be on the same page. Sounds great coach. I'm ready to go. 248 539 97 97 there you have it from the coordinators. Your thoughts also want your predictions. It's our season prediction show 17 game schedule. What will the Detroit Lions record be? It's Carson Anderson 97 one. Okay. This is a football Friday. Football Friday. Yeah. And we got a double and larkin news this morning for people just joining us. He released a statement basically saying I'll be a training camp focused on the season ahead in the guys in the room, but he will talk to to new leadership when it is in place. The Rebnings and release a statement. We don't know who said this. We look forward to seeing Dylan on the rest of teammates a little season for the start of training camp as we prepare for the upcoming season. Dylan is under contract

31:54as a member of the Detroit Rebnings. Any conversations regarding his future with the club will take place privately. There will be a new hockey operations leader when a new hockey operations leader is named. Rebnings will begin 26 27 without a captain. Any further discussions regarding the topic will be made once the new hockey operations leadership is in place, which does make some sense when you think about it. And people have been responding to this. Mike says glad we finally got some sort of acknowledgement here, but this is a total nothing burger from Dylan. After all the drama, I expect some mention of the fan city, et cetera. Still no transparency about why the GM is taking so long. I think this was a sterile of a statement as you can release from both sides and I understand why. Okay, this is just putting it out there, getting something out there a week before training camp. They need to they need to name a GM first before the real nitty gritty gets going. And once they name the GM and they get him up at a podium and he can talk about, and well, I've talked with Dylan and this and that. And then once you get a training camp next week,

32:55when all the cameras and microphones are there, then they'll talk. Scott writes in that's it. It's an AI generated statement AI is our GM. Think about it. We'll have the only GM that can name all the free agents and less than one second and find the nearest Taco Bell from anywhere on earth. It's a high. That's a great quality. Yep. I don't doubt it, man. It just went in, honestly. Hey, GM. First of all, AI is taking over everything, right? Secondly, they literally don't have a GM. So someone something had to make this statement. And it is a sterile generic statement because they just had to put something because we're getting so close to Trump here, they have to acknowledge it's obvious. The elf in the room, we, Larkin still here. We don't have a GM. In many ways, the red wings were playing chess. We can't trade you if we don't have a GM. What do you want us to do? Right? Like, sorry. Absolutely brilliant. See, it's that thinking me. They're really, they're a step ahead in this organization. Where is nearest Carmel Apple and Panada? Yeah. Right. Predictions for the Lions. Well, there's in the 11 o'clock hour. Let's go to

33:58Matt and St. Clair Shores. You're 97 one. Hello, Matt. Hey, boys. Good to talk again. What's up? So I'm kind of between 12 and 13 wins. I think it's going to be a pretty good season. So in honor of Gator, I'm going to go 12, 4 and 1. I really, when you, when I saw the roster come out, I was surprised by how many linebackers we kept. So I think it's going to be a pretty zone heavy defensive scheme. People forget Rodrigo was a safety at Oklahoma state before we drafted him as a linebacker. So I think there's going to be a lot more zone to protect the cornerbacks and the safeties, which we all know are going to be a struggle. I think the offensive line's going to gel. You know, the left guards going to be tough. But when you've got pennies sold right next to them, I think that's going to be a tremendous help for whoever they plug in. And I think we're going to have a pretty good year. Boy, I mean, I think it's right there for the taking. I already tipped my hand yesterday and what kind of season I think it's going to be. But Matt, that's an interesting take on the defense and coming off the hearing Kelvin Shepherd about they

34:59tried some stuff out, figured out what they're good at, what they don't like. And maybe if they come out, we'll discover that it is indeed heavy zone concepts defensively. All right, enjoy your invoice. Yep, you two two, four, eight, five, three, nine, ninety seven, ninety seven, feedback coming into the car and Anderson inbox. Make sure you sign your text by the way, because at the end of the year, if you have a great prediction and elite prediction, you'll want to get credit for it, right? Absolutely. Jimmy on the truck says, I say the lines go 14 and three. I think the front seven will be dominant and the secondary will do just enough. The high powered offense will put up 40 and 50 burgers for the majority of this season. It's a lot of points. There's a lot of points. From Mike Vegas bound in a week, currently in Colorado. I wonder if this guy was it Mike that texted us yesterday that was going to Vegas, tweeted us and wanted some advice. Yeah, man. He tweeted back because we gave him some advice of things to do.

36:02Let me see if I can find it. Oh, he tweets us because this listener says, hey, I'm going to Vegas with the wife. What are some things I should do? Well, I'm in Vegas. We're like, I, is he ditching the wife right there? Right, right. He tweeted back, thanks guys. And no, I'm not going to abandon the wife. Anyway, here's Mike, Vegas bound in a week from Colorado. I'm going to go out and the women say they go 12 and five. I feel like the offense will be a top five offense. The defense will be better, even though I'm skeptical of the secondary. I think both can be true. I think it's fair to be skeptical of the secondary. And I do think the defense will be better. I agree 100% when I'd statement. I'm not going to believe it until I see it with a secondary. And yet I fully trust the front seven of this defense. I think they're going to get after the quarterback. I think quarterbacks in this league against the lions are going to be under duress from moment one. Tyler Schuck get ready because you're going to be all types of inner

37:02hurry and on your back in this game on Sunday. Tom and Grand Rapids, you're on 97 one. Hello, Tom. Big morning, fellas. Real quick. The wings are management leadership isn't playing, uh, chest or plant checkers. They had way too much time with this. It's disappointing. They are more prepared, but quickly on the lions. I'm going to go 13 games at the lions. I'm going to tell you why. 13. I think some of our best teams in Detroit or the 13 wins. Some of our best teams in Detroit had to lose first in order to learn how to win. If you think about great pistons teams, if you think about other teams that have been successful, they had to go through that. And I think this team has gone through some of that and is ready to take an X step. And from a defensive standpoint, I do think the secondary is a question, but I also think it's a question of pressuring the quarterback. That secondary will become appreciably better if we can put consistent pressure on the quarterback and make them spin in that in that backfield and so forth. And that's going to help it time. The way people talk about the lions past defense, because let's face it, that's what this is really about. It's about concerns that they're going to give up. 11 billion yards in passing.

38:05But if you look at the lions were like 21st, 22nd and past defense last year, not great, but also not horrifically bad. Like it's, no, they had their moments where they were perfectly bad. But it felt like it was situational when they were bad. Yeah. Like you can't let the Vikings beat you twice in the season with the quarterbacks that they threw out at you. And yet they did. You know, there was the moment they had Aaron Rodders, all types of bottled up until he wasn't. And against the Steelers and that sucked. And it was those situations. The third and gotta get the stop and didn't get the stop. From an on named texture who didn't. Oh, on your text. I'm going on the record in nine and eight. I don't think the offensive line is much better than last year. And the secondary is the worst in football. Well, the secondary being the worst in football didn't translate to them having the worst past defense in football last year. They were 21st and past defense. But other words this year than the were last year. Well, starting the season.

39:05One of those two guys, one of them will be back. The other one seems dicey. But you know, is the password going to be better? I hope so. Seems like it. We're more consistent than that. But I think Hutchinson is, I said yesterday, the defensive player of the year. Well, you and T are on the board at nine and eight. Oh, the Lions record this year. Be 12 and five. They will lose a couple of close games. That's from Alex and a van. Many, many games are close in the NFL. I remember early. Well, I say this because fair. When I got to, got to the station. I was doing some shows with Terry Foster, the great Terry Foster. That was a God. They were so close. And he would always look at me and go, young Douglas. All games in the NFL are close. And he was more right than wrong. More right than wrong way more right than wrong when it comes to the NFL. But then you have a game like last night and 20 points operation. Yeah, that can happen as well.

40:06248, 539, 97, 97 from an unnamed texture again. Oh, no, sorry, I read this one already. 13 and four. Oh, because Gibbs will be the offensive player of the year. And Suol will be protector of the year. Um, see, baby, sitting. Who's that? Suol? I know. How do you know when it's football season, I'm hyped up with my university post a video of the band marching and playing the school fights on. In my case, it's the greatest fights on the victors. Then they cut in game highlights as well. I don't know why not a ton of those last week. How's it going to work tomorrow? I got highlights. I got to tell you. What do you mean? I guess I mean, there's like two highlights from last week that you can show to get the crowd. I mean, I suspect that crowd is going to be very fired up by showing a Hail Mary. Yeah. Yes. I, um, I mean, did it storm the field? I did tell you that I said in just that when we were putting together inside Michigan football, which we kind of map out while the game is going on,

41:09I turned to Jansen and we sent a message to the producer. We're going to have to Jansen vision the flyover, which is where John takes the illustrator. And we've actually done it with non football plays before Jansen. When he got a piece of big hunk of meat at the, uh, I think it was in the braska last year. And we had him circle the best part of the, it was like holding it like Fred Flintstone by the, by it was like a bone in. I or something. But anyway, uh, yeah, we Jansen vision that we're going to Jansen vision the flyover the way that game was going. Chris from Farmington Hills says 12 and five lines. We have issues with the secondary. See them losing one to green Bay later in the season Buffalo Patriots and two, they should not lose. Other always are stinkers. Jansen says 9 and 8 will start the season one and three second areas hot garbage will miss the playoffs. Uh, Lions girl 13 and four and reclaim the north bears finish last in the division. That's from Mike at work. Get your picks in for the lion's season. We got breaking Jalen Duran news next.