00:00okay we got a twitter poll uh for people out there on the twitter at dungator 971 and by the
00:07way you can follow our producer kang on his new twitter uh account because his old one got hacked
00:12he's now at kang sports at kang sports and uh he's clever sorry k-h-a-n-g yes uh
00:22at kang sports
00:23uh here's our twitter poll because yesterday we played the soundbite from ross tucker from cbs
00:31color commentator who does a bunch of games and because he does detroit radio every week he pays
00:38attention to our lions and he built a case for why it isn't hopeless in detroit so yeah the defense
00:46has been bad but guys they're not that bad they're they're going through a rough stretch but they're
00:50not that bad and you know cited all the players that he believes in and you know he thinks shep
00:55can
00:56shep can do better uh and expects that he will so we we ask people is it hopeless and what
01:04we got
01:05from the phone calls was a hundred percent yes i don't think we took one call yesterday maybe we
01:13took one i think we took one that said it's not hopeless and we took call after call after call
01:20saying it was hopeless which you know i'm like hmm are people reacting too much to what their eyes
01:28showed them last you always got to be cognizant of confirmation bias i have this belief that brad
01:33homes blew with the secondary and now i've seen it and a hundred percent this is not they're never
01:37going to turn it around we deal in the world of extremes so if the choices are is it going
01:41to be
01:42helpless are they going to flourish yeah i mean if those are my choices i would say it would be
01:46more
01:47helpless and flourish because i don't i mean do i think the defense can turn things around i do but
01:52do i think they're going to turn things around where enough not the way it's right not the way
01:56it's set right now they would have to add new players as as you know we like we operate more
02:01in nuance
02:01than extremes i mean hopeless is extreme not hopeless isn't extreme now it doesn't mean
02:08that things are great but anyway we asked people today how will the season finish here are your
02:13four choices below 500 wildcard bid win division or go to super bowl obviously there's other things
02:20that they can do in there but uh do you think they're going to finish below 500 because they
02:24could finish above 500 and not get a playoff bid but as they did last year what do you think
02:29is
02:30winning right now between below 500 wildcard bid win division and go to super bowl oh i think it's
02:36probably close between uh i'm sorry below 500 wildcard bid win division go to super bowl i think
02:43it's going to be close between below 500 and wildcard but i'll say wildcard wildcard has 51.6 percent of
02:49the vote so maybe not that my man has his finger on the pulse uh below 500 32.9 win
02:56division 12.3
02:57go to super bowl 3.2 well doug you know me i do know you i'm a flag planner yes
03:04yeah so i i still
03:06have been winning the division i think they will get better i think the offense is going to carry
03:10this team um as much as that is disrespectful to the defensive side i think that's going to be the
03:16case i think the defense will improve though i don't think they're going to end up being a top 10
03:20defense when all center from this moment on they're a top 10 defense but i think they will improve
03:25it'll improve because they'll add brian branch to it and i do think brad holmes is going to add a
03:30player to the secondary before the trade deadline and and i think players are going to figure things
03:36out in in terms of execution and where they're supposed to line up and it will be better i don't
03:40think it's going to be light years better but it will be better but the offense has a lot more
03:46to give
03:46and because of that and i see that i see an offense that should probably score five touchdowns a game
03:53and maybe that's being unfair to the offense and unfair to other teams in the nfl like it's tough
03:58to win in the nfl this is a really good offense and they're getting a player back which might just
04:03might make this offensive line better and more efficient so i'm counting on those things and i'm
04:11sticking by my season prediction i had 12 and 5 to start the season i i'm not going to back
04:16off that
04:17i'll still say they're going to win the division i i'm not thrilled without a play but at the same
04:21time
04:21i had them at three and one at this point in the season not two and two yeah not that
04:25far off i um
04:26i had them at three and one um but i also had a little bit more lofty expectation for this
04:31team
04:31and i will stand by it until i am proven to be wrong mathematically out that's right yep so i'm
04:37on
04:38i'm on the 14 and three train but i will only yell when it happens but i'm not going to
04:43own it before
04:43it happens just so you know for the record uh i will own it and i will own it uh
04:50when it happens
04:51but not before 248-539-9797 you can go vote on our twitter poll and comment if you uh comment
04:59your
04:59comments very well could get read on the air like this one from john brian k they will be above
05:06500
05:06that i am pretty sure of they are not good enough right now to win a super bowl unfortunately the
05:11division is a slight possibility depending on the secondary moves i expect them to make a wild
05:16card not just a bid i expect a i expect the bid to be the division but as everything in
05:22life it
05:23depends that's a great we should start with the conclusion what are they going to do the rest of
05:28the season it depends yep you're right about that uh let's go to richard in detroit you're on 971
05:34hello richard hey hi guys thanks for taking the call sure uh two things first below 500
05:41and secondly please educate me because i played sports at a high level and my understanding
05:48is it was always the coach's fault for wins and losses but you guys don't mention dan campbell it's
05:53always brad holmes and shep well where's the responsibility i want to i do want to answer
05:59your question but let me back up you said you played sports at a high level what what level do
06:03you play
06:04at uh at a contract contract with the nordiques play junior a nice you played in a quebec system
06:12yeah oh wow that's cool so wait a lot a lot of scoring there in in yeah what where did
06:18you
06:18where what was your location like what team did you play for i came up with uh hatcher and la
06:25fontaine
06:25and turcotte and i afraid that's cool um good for you so um part of that has to do with
06:36more belief
06:37in dan than brad right now that's that's where i stand um that that might have me us focusing more
06:45on brad holmes than dan campbell what where's your belief come from if shep's not the guy dan's got to
06:53step up and say look he's not the guy and replace them i think he might if brad's not
06:57i think i think richard i think he might given the fact that he's replaced two coordinators in his time
07:02already i don't think he's afraid to do it i think the time to do it is probably the best
07:07time to do
07:08it as the bye week and if brad's not getting the guys he needs why isn't he stepping up and
07:13say hey look
07:14i need porter jr get him he might be he might have maybe that's why dan campbell's the one to
07:19say no we
07:20were in on yeah yeah i mean that that's we don't know that he didn't in fact i suspect that
07:26they've
07:26had conversations matt is next on 97 one hello matt hey good morning what's up first first did you
07:35guys get the cookies yes we did we did they make an appearance today on the show all right cool
07:41yeah
07:42and then second so i listened to uh you know the calvin shepherd interview uh so two things one branch
07:49i think i told you guys this yesterday i think he should sit for this game and the you know
07:54obviously
07:55the bye week and uh you know just let him get a little bit more healthier and then you know
08:02when
08:02shepherd say we should play with violence you know we want violence in every play that's that's good
08:08but if you play like that that opens up to more injuries because you're hitting harder people are
08:15going to hit you harder and we just got we're just getting branch back and i don't want to lose
08:20them again because we're playing ultra violent well you can't i i'm sorry there's no way that you can
08:30tell somebody to go on the field and not play a violent sport you're more likely to get hurt right
08:37yeah i mean but you know shepherd's like oh we gotta play more violent we gotta you know more
08:42violence more violence violence is the answer to everything and he did i was glad i got to watch
08:48the whole thing because yesterday as it was going down we were watching yeah we're only seeing the
08:54what's what's twitter was able to watch the whole thing between yesterday and today and there was
08:58there was more there from shep than just stubbornness and there was stubbornness let me be clear on
09:05that um but but there was a lot of stuff where i thought he i thought he said some very
09:12important
09:12things but we'll get to that coming up hey you can't put branch on the field and tell him not
09:16to
09:16go 100 he's got to be able to go 100 that's when you put him on the field so he
09:20can go 100 uh we will
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