Why do the Lions take chances on injured players?

0:00I'm not sure if you're going to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to do that. Gators outstownies in. Always an adventure working with Mike Stone as Marvador used to say when he used to do the NHL game in the week. It's not a job. It's an adventure. Is that what he said? The Navy. Are you going to do this? I'll show. I'm going to have a four hours. Good point. One of the easiest guys to imitate though. How are you been? I've been pretty good. Your neck of the woods up north. Not completely. Your neck of the woods. Between Charlotte voice traverse right around there. That was good playing golf at But we were up there a couple of weeks ago, and it definitely felt a lot more like fall.

1:04Now, given, I don't know what the temperature has been like up there recently and down here, it's been cooking. Right. Were you getting fall feelings down there? A little bit. The weather was okay. Not great. I didn't rain maybe one day, but it was fine. Actually, my family from these coast, they enjoyed the fact that it wasn't humid. Yeah. I can understand that. I hear those thunder. The thunder last night. Okay. It was a deal. I don't believe it now. I don't know if it reached Dan Arbor, but I slept through the whole thing. I slept through the whole thing. And never I saw no remnants this morning, until I started getting close to the station. And then I like, there were down trees and there were huge puddles everywhere. And everybody, everybody here was talking about it, but maybe it was bad and I just slept through the whole thing. It was as loud as thunder as I've ever heard. And I was up for the first one. And I thought, my God, there's a bomb in the neighborhood or something. I mean, it was so loud and cracked. Just this, wow, booming crack.

2:05And then they went on all through the night. The lightning was actually fascinating. Well, yeah, I missed out. Kang, did you? Were you aware at all? Oh, yeah. I was very aware. It was very loud. Yes. Yeah, the storm was like, weather just water, what rain, whatever hail. I didn't get to, we got that, but it wasn't like ripping out my trees or any of the wind. It was the loudness of the thunder. Yes. Yes, exactly. It's eerie, Stoney. You know, when you hear it, you know, another one's coming, it's like, what's going on? What's happening here? Well, it was funny. I was getting home last night. I don't know, 9.30, 10 o'clock. And I could see lightning coming. And then I laid down on the couch and the next thing I knew, I was out. And I had no, well, I slipped into apparently some sort of minor coma to sleep through this thing. But when you fall asleep on the couch, do you just, is he like the head bob or do you like like, I'm lying down. I'm lying down. Mine the head, I'll be looking at my phone or iPad. And the next thing I know, oh, the show I was watching is half hour past where it wasn't

3:11like, remember, I think I'll back. I woke up a couple of nights ago. I got fell asleep on the couch. I did a lot, but I fell asleep on the couch and I woke up and I'm like, I wasn't watching a documentary on John Gotti. What time is it? It was the middle of the night is what it was. Okay, so you were there. Yesterday when Brad Holmes addressed the media. Correct. And Ray Agnew. And Ray Agnew. Yep. Who was who was at the podium with him. What did you think of the exchange with Burkett about the corner spot? I thought it was fine. I mean, I don't think it was that contentious. So to speak. I didn't either. I didn't think it was, I don't think anybody committed a flagrant one or anything. No, and I don't think Brad actually understood exactly what Dave was asking until later in the exchange. Yeah. Now, I mean, I blame myself. I, when it comes to Terry and Arnold, my question would have been, well, who made the

4:14decision to cut him? And if it was, I wouldn't have said the guy's name, I say, but if it was one of your pro ball players, would you've made the same decision? But I didn't try to put him in a bind right away. If he were better, would you have kept him? Yeah. Asterical. Yeah. But I didn't. So yeah, I mean, look, I thought, I think sometimes Brad gets a little defensive or keeps his receipts. And I, I don't really think he needs to do that. He's coming from a huge Brad bot. Like I think Brad Holmes is fantastic, but he's not perfect. Oh, no, he's not. And, and makes mistakes. But I, if you look at the track record of the best organizations in sports, all of them make mistakes. You have to make, you have to make, so you have to, the fewer you make the better. And obviously your job is to, you know, the, the good ones overcome their mistakes, like find ways to make up for their mistakes. And so, you know, as far as I'm concerned, but I like the guy. But when he gets defensive like that, I think it's, I think it's a, a bit of a bad luck.

5:18It is. And no reason for him to be defensive. He's the GM or not. We ask questions. He hopefully has answers. And if he can, he, he can. Yeah. You know, though, it all goes back to the receipts for a mark a few years ago. Right. Look, he, early on his career here with the Lions, he was terrific. Arguably one of the best general managers in football. Last couple of years, not so good. But well, he's had that one disastrous draft. The one, the, the, the ironic that the one that was in Detroit, yes, is his worst. Yeah. And he's, I think the last two drafts have a lot of potential still, but it's unrealized in until it gets realized. People have the right to, to question it. But I think the draft from two years ago has a chance to be an important one. Especially if those two interior linemen, one on offense and one on defense, reach what feel, feel feels like to me still has a reasonably high ceiling.

6:18We're talking about Tyler Williams and Tate Ratledge. Right. Williams has changed his body and everybody's raven about what he did in the off season and Ratledge. I mean, a year of experience and starting playing 17 games. Right. Can go a long way. Um, it's some of the, it's kind of like similar to some of the other teams around it. Professional player procurement or lack of that. I think he's really failed. Yeah. We got, we got an interesting text yesterday from somebody who said that the Gator and I too often go to extremes and, and act like people are asking for Hall of Fame players. And it's, and it, you know, I thought about it a little bit. I mean, it's probably true. We probably do because more people get mad about Max Crosby not being here. I was Garrett not being here. And he said, there's person said while we want is some competent good to, to above average players. Right. I'm like, well, I mean, there are a couple of examples. Amique Robertson was pretty good for Detroit. But he wasn't pretty.

7:19But, you know, and now it's up to. Is he want him? Yeah. I mean, if he does it, yes. Um, Christian Azean, Chuck Clark, Roger McCreary, there's a lot riding on those guys being good. Um, but there are unknowns. There are unknowns on the squad. Last year's team, you know, I got, I think I'd undermine by injuries. I'd like to see them get some good luck on that, on that front. It's pretty amazing because if you look at the most injured teams in football, the Lions, I think we're 31st in terms of man games missed. Right. One and three were Seattle and New England who played in the Super Bowl. And it, it, it sucks because a few years ago, you start, I started paying attention to who had the most injuries and who had the least. And unfortunately, determines a lot of who's standing at the end. There's no doubt, especially if one unit is completely destroyed like it was, you know, a couple years ago with the Lions. Secondary and was with the safety's last year. I mean, it's, it's, it's crazy.

8:20They, how, how important injuries are. Okay. And you asked a question about injuries. Yeah. And your question for Brad Holmes was what? I said with the exception of JMO, it seems that you guys, you've acquired guys like Levi, Pascal, Marcus Davenport, Pateco. There's probably a couple others with injury histories. I, my question was should have been more succinct. But what goes through the minds when you get these guys with an injury background? Right. Is that what you actually asked or is that what you, that's pretty much the sinked version? That's probably the sinked version. Okay. Do we have that gang? Okay. Here's, you asked that question. Here's what Brad Holmes said.

9:25What did you think of the answer? Of course, guys can get hurt at any time. That's so obvious. I want to know why, why sign them in the first place. What goes through your mind? Is it because you can get these guys at a discount because they are often injured? Yeah. And look, there are a lot of players in all sports that, you know, get injured. You know, he's so injury prone. I hate that expression. But some guys, it's true. Well, some guys, some guys are, are brittle. Yeah. And their bodies can't take the wear and tear a football. And some guys just have bad luck. Right. I mean, not every, like Adrian Peterson had that brutal knee injury and came back, right?

10:28And so, and sometimes players are only available because they were hurt and you're rolling the dice that you're going to, hey, we can get this guy. It's a bit of a risk, but it'll be good against the cap because he won't cost as much. Right. But you can get burned by too. Yeah. Like what that important is. That's why. Greg Zinik hopes you to get besieged those who low spirits forms that he made and you go, you got to just be in the prairies and the sort of position that you need to go for. He's probably going to get hurt again. Let's take him. No one does that. What they do is they evaluate whether that person is going to continue to be hurt if they were hurt before. Now if a guy comes in with those injury history, you're like, okay, he should be fine. If a guy comes in with one injury or a pass of history of injuries, they have a team. I'm sure a medical team that goes through evaluation, goes through the physical, all that stuff

11:30says, what are the chances he's going to continue to get hurt? And then they take the chance to take their risk based on that. And if they take that player, they clearly think, I don't care what team it is, whether it's the Lions or the Cowboys or Bears, whoever, they clearly think, okay, we can deal with the possibility he might get hurt, but we don't think it's going to happen. And they take the risk at wherever it is. Okay, speaking of injured players, one of our teams at this hour just made an announcement regarding an injured player. And I want to get your two cents on it. We will get to that today at 1018. Here on Carson Anderson, I'm 971.