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0:00gender ignoring visit Scott Anderson 97 want to take it. Let's get back to your phone calls as we go to Brad. And next time 97 one. Hello, Brad. There's gone great Brad. I'll tell you what I've listened to you guys that we can I had turned already off a lot because you know, the sky is falling. You know, we lost the first game of the year. It was just that first game of the year. New coordinators, you know, a couple of new players here and there. It was basically addressed to rehearsal. Um, I didn't get too low on them when they lost that. I'm not going to get too high on them. Now that they beat the crap out of Chicago. But I still, you know, I get for the first time I got money. I'm actually go to and win the Super Bowl. Um, it sounds like it sounds like you're pretty high on them after beating Chicago.

1:04And I was high on them before the season never started. I got. Yeah, I put money out on bad in April. Look, we didn't get into it really much yesterday. But the difference between the feeling this week and a week ago, I mean, if you talk about night and day, you talk about feeling like we have a different show in a different town in a different, like line of work compared to last week, last week, it was therapy or gets screamed at for not acknowledging that the lion's sock, okay? And there were a few calls people got through and said, look, it's one game. But some of the takes included a repilogue broken off fence. They weren't coming back from rag now and Ben Johnson. They'll never be the same. And they're going to lose to the bears. I don't know what they're going to be this year. Okay. I expect them to lose a lot more games than they did a year ago. You and I both had them losing six. Yeah. Four more than a year ago for a variety of reasons. I think there are growing pains that are to be expected with this kind of turnover

2:07and the schedule is much more difficult on paper. We'll see if it turns out that way. Some games are harder than you think. And some games aren't as hard as you think. And this one looked like a just an absolute gauntlet. But at the end, at the end, they've already come back and mimicked last year's offense in week two. The interior of the offensive line was just fine. They ran behind them and they protected the quarterback. The new coordinator apparently is somewhere north of completely clueless, which was a belief last week. And they aren't worse than the bears, emphatically not worse than the bears. So, you know, it's now, we've already got a text today. The window is closed and I think it's hysterical because I think they're operating in every way that leads you to believe that the window should stay open for as long as possible. Here's another one, unnamed texture. You cannot base the line's offense against the bears on Sunday. I'm still in belief, but the team that played against Green Bay is what they are. I also believe the week one team will be the team everyone sees next Monday.

3:10Okay, whoever sent this in, please give us a reason why. Because I always say I didn't believe they who they were in week one because of the evidence provided by the bulk of a roster that was returning from 2024 and 2023. Okay, so you had plenty of evidence that this core of players wasn't horse crap, which is what the performance was in the opener. And this guy says I still believe that they are who they were in week one and that's who they're going to be next week. Why do you believe that, sir? Why do you believe it? Because we've got that game and then we've got like 34 games and then we got the ball to more game. Okay, so dominated 34 games and dominated. But you think the two outliers, the Baltimore game in 2023, 23, the team that went to the Fc title game and the Green Bay game to start this season. That's who they are. The 34 games and the one game added on now is not who they are.

4:15Well, maybe and look, I'll read into it. It doesn't make sense, but I'll read into it and try to make sense of it. Maybe what he's saying is that this line's team, they just can't overtake Green Bay. They think screen Bay is the team that's gone over the top. And because it's a division foe, lines aren't going to win the division. So that means they're not going to host any games and it means that they're likely going to have to play at a place like Philadelphia, who's defending champs or at Green Bay, who owned them in week one. So that's what you're thinking. Then you think that they can't do it. Let's be clear. He's not only thinking that they're not going to win the Super Bowl. He thinks when they play good teams, they're going to get smoked. That's what he believes. He thinks they're more like who he thinks they're like the team of play Green Bay. And that's what's going to happen Monday. So every time they play a good team, sorry, you think they're going to get smoked. Well, the interesting thing with this schedule is that going into the season, if you think the Lions are a good team, which I think the Lions are a good team.

5:16Yes, the schedule is tough. But when you look at those other teams, like Kansas City playing home or Baltimore playing home against the Lions, I'm pretty sure they're also saying themselves, we got a tough game. We got Detroit coming in. I don't think they're like, oh, sweet. Here come the Lions. Right. Woo. We're going to roll. It's a tough game goes both ways. Tough games, a tough game. That's what happens when you win. Winning records and then wind divisions that then you end up getting a tough schedule. 2485 3997 97 Johnson. Redford. Hello, John. Hey, how you doing, fellas? We're good. I just want to talk. I just heard somebody saying they wouldn't trade Brian branch. They like Brian branch. I like Brian branch too. But if I had a chance to get like a good begin like trade Henderson, Brian branch should be gone. You went up front. You don't win in a second there. The game is one in the trenches. If you go run the ball, stop the run, get after the quarterback. That's how you went football. Remember, it's Brian branch for like the next six years versus tray Hendrixon for the rest of this year.

6:18So you're going to be good for the next six years, but you never go to a super ball. But it's also it's not just but it's not just Brian branch. You'd be losing Brian branch and like a Jimi Ruggibs or a Sam Laporte. You you were a Henderson. You give us a light like James. You could you could just they just reassigned you. Well, he's he's with the trade with the signing bonuses virtually untradable. But thank you. Joe and Detroit. Your next time. Joe. How you doing, fellas? Hey, I just wanted to touch base a kind of a middle of the road take here as to like a panic or not panic as the window. But what I usually take approach wise, whenever I have this conversation, I'll let you guys lay the narrative out. But initially, what is the window that you believe Jared doff is going to play at the level he's playing? Good question. So three, four, five years, most. OK, I'm more on the two to three window myself personally, just you know, you get to that mid 30s. You start diminishing slightly here and there when you're not elite, these are phenomenal quarterback, but he doesn't have,

7:21you know, the arm that was made to throw 90 yards or the legs to make him scramble out of the pocket. So the second you start diminishing, your window starts closing. So that's why I base the window is on whatever Jared golf is because once you get in the quarterback market, I'll care if you got the first overall pick or you have a free agent that you think the guy. It's a, it's a craps you. I mean, there's no guarantees long until you have a good quarterback. You can have a phenomenal roster, phenomenal and just be missing a QB for the whole window that you have with that phenomenal roster. That's my only. Did you did you get? I guess. OK, so go off. You don't think golf's elite. Did you think Stafford was elite? When I say not elite, I mean at a specific thing. He's an elite quarterback. I just mean like Stafford had elite arm talent. OK, golf doesn't have a elite arm talent. He has phenomenal vision. He gets the ball out quick. He gets it to the plate. But the second that you lose something, you don't have the phenomenal physical freak athlete that can make up for some of the stuff that you lose when you get a little older. Because I believe Stafford was 34. Might have been 35. I got to look this up when he won a Super Bowl.

8:21And there are other examples of it. Like, you know, I guess you and I disagree simply as to when Stafford really, when golf, excuse me, really starts to decline. But you know, Stafford wanted later in his career than golf is now. But it is the other thing there. At some point they are going to have to replace Jared golf at some point. Jared golf is elite at processing what's in front of him. And he is elite at that. And I think that's potentially elite because of him. I would rather have the quarterback have that elite skilled and have a lead arm talent. The other thing is if you're in the national football league, you've got great arm talent, right? Do you have a lead arm talent in the NFL? No, but it's pretty damn good.