January 24, 2024 • 37 mins
Get ready for an electrifying episode of The Same Old Podcast! We're diving deep into the Lions conference finals clash with the San Francisco 49ers. We'll dissect every play, analyze every move, and uncover the secrets to victory! Trust me, this episode is gonna be so juicy, you won't be able to resist!
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Knock us down, We're gonna getup and on the way up, We're
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I'm telling you. We talked aboutit all year, this started a
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long time ago. You're built forthis. You're built for this, man,
and look what you got it.You went out there and the what
it's another hot team that we knockedoff. It's the next hot team that
you knock off. Feel how hardit is to win this league in the
playoffs. Do you understand what you'redoing right now? What we're capable of.
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That's two? All right, that'stwo. We got two to go
with the buye in the mill.I'm unbelievably proud of everybody in here.
Man, Coach, just that's waita min up, man, that's not
it. That's a that's a difficultteam to beat. Man. You're listening
to the same old podcast I'm aroundto Moss with iHeart Sports Network along with
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the fabulous Jennifer Hammond from Fox.How many five star reviews do we have
on Google? We should have alot. And if we don't get clicking,
because it's clearly I'm not on Googleenough if we don't have enough.
But when I hear that, Ijust like, I started tearing up because
you just the emotion. And Ilove that about men who who cry,
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and they and and it's okay,like tail not really even the whole man
who cries. That's the I'm damnproud of you and his emotion right here,
well that I mean when you're hatingmy sleeve, whether it's a happy
or like when I get angry,I start and I talk and I start,
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I would cry, or I'm happyand outcry. I think those are
all the emotions, emotions, andTaylor Decker is the same way, and
I just appreciate. I appreciate it, I really do. And the thing
about Dan Campbell's emotion, if youdon't know it by now, you should
if you're in Detroit. There isnothing contrived about it. It's he is
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the most authentic hard on his sleeve. But yet for a guy who's an
Aries, I've long touted he isan Aries and I am in Aries and
love we love this as way rightthis fire. He has the Aris fire,
but he is a really steady,steady guy and I love how he
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says to his team you know whatyou're capable of. Do you see what
you're capable of? So what he'sdoing is reinforcing the belief in the behavior.
You work this hard, you'll berewarded, you believe in yourself,
and you'll continue to thrive. Andit's the most incredible psychological and it's it's
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there aren't a lot of coaches thathave that gear or have that in their
toolbox. He is just he's incredible. Well, what's also interesting in talking
to some of the players after theybeat the Bucks to get to the NFC
Championship and a date with the Ninerson Sunday in Santa Clara, is the
one word or a couple a phrasethat it sticks with them. Do your
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job. Just do your job.And it's so true. It's so simple,
yet it's so true. Taylor Decker, the first thing he said,
I'm like, talk about just winningthis game and get So what Dan Campbell
said from the very beginning, justdo your job. Do your job.
Like as a player, just doyour job. Don't worry about the guy
next. If you do your job, everything's going to fall into place.
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Take care of yourself because their job, because everyone it's a con it's a
perfect dance exactly. Just do yourjob. I so agree with that.
Just do your job. And it'sreally beautiful to what we heard Taylor Decker
say after the game when people werespeaking to him about how great this is
and how amazing you know that theywon, and the offenses, you know,
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even though they were kind of youknow, spinning their wheels a little
bit in the first half, thatthey were still able to come out in
then that second half, you know, just take control with three straight touchdown
drives. He made a point ofsaying, Frank rag Now is an e
F and warrior. I mean thatguy. Oh he had a knee injury
and didn't miss a beat a knee, an ankle, everything. And what
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Frank said after the game about thathe wanted to honor the contract and honor
his teammates, what they've given meand what they've done for me. I
wasn't gonna let them down. Andthen he has that huge block against a
huge man in Vita Vea on thatCraig Reynolds touchdown. Oh yeah, I
mean nobody was expecting that, justright up the gut against the Bucks.
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This, this Lion offense is thereal deal. Well, if you looked
at the injury and what happened,I mean, it was all right,
golf rolled up on him, rolledup in the back, and it looked
like, oh, he's done,he's not coming back. Yeah, but
he did and didn't miss a beat. And what about Alex Angeloni playing with
three fractured unbelievable. I've had abruised rib and I couldn't even breathe right,
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and I have that never happened tome, but it happened to my
daddy. Flipped over the handlebars ofhis motorcycle. Oh damn, broke his
rib and never rode the bike again. And it's still sitting in his garage
today. And this was in theseventies. I'm guessing he didn't play a
football game right now yet. Butthat's I don't know anyone that you know.
I've never fractured a rib, Zach. Have you ever fractured a rib?
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Even when you fell in the parkinglot, you didn't fracture your rib?
Klutts, Oh, oh, abruised Did anybody put a little band
aid on that? No? Ohmy god. I tripped up the stairs
and fourfield at the Thanksgiving game,running from the locker room. You know
those little three stairs that go didyou fall? I wiped oh so bad,
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and this is on. I fellonto my right knee that I had
my tornminiscus and my surgery on inJuly. So I went down hard and
my I had my hands full,like I had my phone, my little
notepad, my Fox two microphone.My microphone slammed the to the floor and
abody, it broke the mic flagno. And so when I fell,
the first thing I did was lookaround. I'm like, oh my god,
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nobody saw me. I think Isaid it out loud, like the
god nobody saw me. And Igot up and I went into the press
room and I handed the microphone tomy photographer Ken Culbert, and I go,
sorry, I just wiped out andbroke your mic. He's like,
well shit, he's the camery.He's like my mic. And I'm like,
oh, but I'm okay. Ilack when I see people fall because
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I'm the big older fun because I'mthe biggest cluts. I mean, I
fell in a manhole when I livedin Chicago, So you know you trip,
oh yeah, oh yeah, howfar down did you go? To
my boobs? To my boobs?Because they grazed the thing. So I
think my big boob saved my fall. But it was gross and I was
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bruised from like head to toe.But yeah, ouch yeah. But anyways,
Yes, there are some tough guysand good for them, and they're
not going to miss a game,not in playoffs. I mean, it's
just amazing. I mean, whenAna Jackson will be ready for the super
Bowl. By the way, Ilove the Dan Campbell dropped that in on
Monday too, just like, yep, we're playing in that game. Yeah,
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Jones surgery had minor surgery business,a little moniscus tear. And let
me tell you something, eight days, ten days after my meniscal procedure,
are still in therapy. Dude,I didn't even start therapy, but I
was still laid up icing. Amazinghow I mean, it's just like Alex
Angeloni playing with three fractured rips,Frank Ragnow playing with a busted abum knee,
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a busted ankle, not missing abeat, not even thinking about it.
Me, I would be laid upfor days with ice acts. I
need to get shot up. Let'stake this opportunity to shout out the medical
and training staff, because those peoplespend so many hours. And I can
even remember Frank giving credit before theseason to the training staff because of his
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toe situation. So he's already playingwith that. He's had a toe situation
for a couple of sure, itwas a horrible turf toe that turned in
and it's inoperable, right. Ithink maybe they tried to do something for
it, but it's it's basically inoperable, and it's just something he has to
play through and has to play with. And it's incredible how he has spent
so much time in the training roomand they've worked on him endlessly to get
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him ready to go for games.And this isn't just a once a month
thing. This is day, everyday, every practice, every moment.
That's why he's been resting at leastone practice a week during the season.
So that guy's that guy's a freakingiron man. They're just doing a walkthrough
on Wednesday and then Thursday will bepracticing Friday, zone Saturday. Okay,
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so you're listening to the same oldpodcast. I'm Ron de Moss with High
Heartsports Now brought to you by broughtto you by Victory Laying Quick Oil Change
along with Jennifer Hammond Fox two.Okay, Derek Barnes, I did not
know it was his first career pick. Great kid, Okay, So I
turned. We talked to him afterthe game we did we did together,
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and he was asked, you'll hearthis, but I'm just gonna who's he
giving the game ball to and thentells us about his son, and I
turned into my mother. Two weekstwo weeks old. Yeah, he's definitely
getting bis together in my locker rightnow. So I'm on Saturday that time.
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Could you play that again please?Two weeks two weeks old, Yeah,
muzzle time I turned into my motheris She's like, oh am,
I we're going to I'm gonna givethe book two week old son, I'm
like mauzzle. I mean, Ididn't even like I'm like mazzle top.
People were looking at me like what, Yeah, that's fantastic, that's okay.
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Some are some very boring generic whitebread people say congratulations. I love
mazeltoff because I think it's all It'sone of those congratulatory sayings like you know,
prost. It's just like one ofthose things that's just an uplifting word,
even though it's post Russian. I'mnot sure I feel about it,
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but it just it's muzzle toof.I write it a lot on Instagram posts
when people have something to celebrate,and I just it's such a happy saying,
well, it's so funny because Isent it to a couple of friends
who, by the way, Ilet them know that you saw their favorite
in the elevator. They love MarkConsuelo. Yes, can I tell you
the cute Mark Consuela story? Soclearly I go back as a long time
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on My Children Viewer when I waslike in college and yeah, blah blah
blah, General Hospital, Luke andLaura. I'll age myself. I don't
care. I love it. Andso most people think of him from that
or Live with Kelly and Mark that'snow on on in the morning. It's
their little morning talk show. AndI stepped on the elevator and I saw
him and it just came right outof my mouth and I said, oh
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my god, I just watched theepisode of where you made your cameo on
Only Murders in the Building. Youwere great, And he's like he kind
of looked up because he was lookingdown at his phone, and he was
he nice he was nice. Hegoes, thank you well, and I
thought, of all the things thathe hears, who was he oh,
mateo, that's right. Of allthe things that he hears, probably that's
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only murders in the building. Isprobably down near the bottom of what he
hears. But I loved his Itwas great because he played Selena Gomez.
His dad well, he talked aboutbeing here in Detroit because he's a huge
Bucks fan, and he was invitedto the game by the Slazures, the
owners of the box. So hesat in there and that's why he was
there because his son goes to Michiganand he was watching his son wrestle.
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He was holding his phone and he'slike, I said, is your son
still at Michigan? And he's like, I said, I said, your
son goes to school here, right, and he goes, yeah, he
goes he's actually wrestling right now.That's why I'm watching it on the phone.
And I'm like, I'm so gladthat he was a dad, and
I'm so glad he was nice becausethere were a lot of I gotta say,
you know now that the Lions,Now that the Lions are winning,
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everybody's kind of you know, onon on the train. Oh yeah,
and that's okay. But the peoplewe want on the train you have.
Well, here's a funny story.So I'm in the elevator going this is
after the game. I'm in theelevator. It's pack going down to the
locker room, right, So,but we have to stop at every floor.
We get to the second floor,Reager and I are in the elevator,
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we see Bob Seeker. Oh youhave Daniels love it. And they
couldn't get on the elevant and I'mlike, just walk the one flight.
It's okay, you know what Imean. But they were waiting to go
on one flight. Oh, justto one, just to one. And
I'm like maybe they were going tothe basement. I don't know, but
it was just give the I'm gonnagive Jeff Daniels the benefit of the but
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because just seeing the stars waiting forelevators, Oh, that could be a
show. Stars waiting for elevators,oh instead of in cars getting coffee exactly.
But it was just so funny howmany of the stars were at the
game, A lot of our Michigancelebrities. And you know what the thing
is about Detroit area Michigan, likewe we revere our own and those who
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come who are from here and stayand really embrace the city. I think
those people are even more special.What's Flavor Flav got to do with Detroit?
Is he from here? I don'tknow. He has a lot of
businesses in Detroit. Oh, hecomes here for a lot of rap shows.
And he was here for jingle Ballhe comes off. Oh, good
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for him, all right. Yeah, he was also at the event that
Uh god, I'm blanking on hisname. You know, come on,
everybody loves that actor. He's anactor Boston, Boston, you know,
Oh my god, that actor.He was Wahlberg Marker had a golf Oh
that's right, when golf outing andand he is and Flavor Flavor was there
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and somebody's like, oh, youshould interview Flavor Flavor. And I'm like,
he was on some reality were Giant? Yet wasn't he married to Bridget
Nielsen Sylvester still Lawyer's ex wife?We're telling Giant watch? Yeah, what
guys, you've never watched Flavor ofLove where he tries to find love on
VH one. Yeah, exactly,so is he he's a reality star and
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a rapper, how about that wholestadium singing lose yourself. I'm drawing?
Is that Eminem Eminem? I love? I think that was the turning point
in the game, and then thefreaking defense came out three and hour.
I love Eminem I do. Idon't know why I find him really,
I love Eminem. I love JeffDaniels. Watching Jeff Daniels and Bob Seeger
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talk was so cute because Jeff Daniels, you know, he's a little bit
Peyton Manning. Yeah, Peyton Manningwas there. I wanted to talk to
him. He was talking to TomMoore, who was a once upon a
time Lions coordinator with Wayne Vonce andthen was Peyton's coach in Indianapolis. Of
course, so it was just Tony. I saw Tony Dungee. Yeah,
yeah, but uh yeah. Itwas really fun. Big Gretch was there.
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But I just I love I loveDetroit. I'm so stoked. Question
and they're all going to San Francisco. Yeah, I'm that vain New York
Post America's team. Do you whatdo you? I don't know. I
think there can only be because Igo back to the seventies where I think
the Cowboys that can only be America'sname, right. For sure, that's
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the original America's team. But Ithink what people are saying now, and
I think they're using it kind of, you know, tongue in cheek.
It's kind of tongue in cheek toquote my deceased was ninety three, who
would be one hundred year old mother. It's more of a they're like America's
darlings right now. I just thinkthat I saw a map actually, and
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it was California was red and thewhole rest of the country was Lions blue,
was Honolulu blue. So it's basicallylike everybody And how do you not
root for Jared Goff because the Postwrote, you know, with the Lions,
America's team, lovable Lions, justone win from Super Bowl into the
Lions, And I think that's start. But I think it's all started when
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they were on hard knocks. Ohfor sure, it did, and it
just showed. And then that seasonthey kind of oh and six and then
came back and going into this season, they were, you know, a
picto to win the division and justthey have likable guys on their team and
Dan Campbell, hey, well,and I think that's enough that's a big
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reason because the people love him.And again we talk about it all the
time, he's turning out to beone of I think he well Demiko Ryans,
but coach of the year, ohfor sure, I think for surely,
you know, And it has nothingto do with the playoffs. And
I love Demico. Dimiko is agreat coach and what he did for Houston
was incredible and will continue to be. I just I don't know how you
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don't give it to Dan Campbell becauseof just the body of work in three
years, what he's done to turnthis team around, it's really incredible.
And I think they're going to winSunday. I think they beat the Niners,
maybe by one or two points.I think they beat the Niners.
Why do I think that? Why? Because I like so they have an
opportunistic defense. And let's just startwith the defense, because everybody goes to
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that unit, particularly the DB's asthe Achilles heel. Right. But what
they've been able to do in givingup huge yardage too Mike Evans, stop
the Ross, Ceedee Lamb, JustinJefferson in two games. They can give
up lots of yards, but theycan still hold you. They can hold
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you to field goals. They canbe they're opportunistic, they can take away
the ball. I mean that freakingpick by C. J. Gardner Johnson,
that one by Derek Barnes. Imean, these guys, well,
that's it. They're all two picksand four sacks, and that the balling.
They have to get the defensive linelinebacker's edge, all have to They
have to get to brock Purty.You can't leave him back there because he
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will tear you apart. Well,Deebo Samuel if he doesn't go, I
think that's where the Lions have anopportunity for sure. And the first playoff
game on the road since nineteen fifty. Yeah, and even if he's fifty
to fifty, I still like theirchances against a banged up Debo, right,
And if they can stop the run, they're going to force it.
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And they have they into a lotof situations where he's uncomfortable. And if
you go back and look at therewas a great film breakdown that Dan Orlovsky
did about how Perty missed a lotof big throws. He had guys open
and he checked down because he gotgun shy, because he threw a pick
early and certainly, the weather's notgoing to be the same. It's going
to be sunny or cloudy in sixtysixty eight seventy. It's going to be
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a very temperate day in Santa Clara. But if they can just force him
to question himself by coverages and thepressure they're able to get up front,
I think they can make brock Partyreally make some make some mistakes like they
did with Baker. It's so funnybecause all these facts are coming out about
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the the AFC and NFC Championship games. And the interesting one is Jared Goff
number one pick, Brock Purty,last, first and last, I've never
played against each other. It's thefirst time that a number one pick and
the last pick are playing against eachother. Rock Purty, Jared Goff.
I think that's so cool. Yeah, it's just, you know, with
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the Niners, I think last weekwhen they were playing against the Packers,
I think they were obviously a littlerusty because they had a bye week,
and I think it's just gonna beI think it's just gonna be different this
week. I don't think they're goingto come out as slow and as as
they did last week. And theLions just have to be like you said,
they have to Lions have to beopportunistic. Yeah, but that's what
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their defense is, and that's whatthey've thrived on. I don't think they've
ever They've made no bones about thefact that we're gonna have to outscore teams.
We're gonna have to go toe totoe and we're gonna have to just
can't settle for field goals non thisgame, So you can't settle for field
goals. They probably they have tostart fast, right, But there's also
now this trend. I completely digress, but the fourth phase of the game
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has been what all season long?What the fans? The fans and these
Lions fans are trapped? My god, can I just tell you that Dan
Campbell was so appreciative, but Igotta say he's he's next year. They
got to step it up for allthe Lions fans. This was the whole
idea, right, and I knowit's you know, Boddy been dying for
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it for so long. But thisis the point. Because of what we
just saw in those last two playoffgames, the environment in there is better
than any of you're going to findthe NFL, you know, I mean
back to back weeks. The eardrums are just banging and the only thing
I thought I would get a blownout of your drama. It didn't happen.
This When we'll work on that nextyear. It was electric. I
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love that. So yeah, butyou're not going to get that in San
Francisco. No, you're not goingto get that at all. But you're
still going to have Lion's faithful.Oh yeah, are theyvel? Well,
we're going to hear Jared Goff chance, I gotta be Can I be honest?
For a second, I thought thatwas on you Wait? When are
you not? I? I havethis and I may sound stupid again,
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stupid question. I thought that Jaredgoff chanting was just when the Rams were
in town. That's what Jared Goffthought too. He said that he didn't
expect to hear it again, butI love it that this city is lifting
him and saying you're our You're goodenough for to You want to know what
I also think? Come on?Do you really? I mean, I
love it? Don't even don't Iknow. I'm not I'm not poopooan.
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I'm like, does your a golfneed that kind of uplifting today? Can
I tell you something I love.And it just happens once in a little
minute here and there when people yellhammer, love you hammer. I do
it every time I see right right, check is in the mail. But
it's fun, like it feels.It's like people are supporting you and they
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like what you do. Everybody likesto be liked. And for people who
say they don't care, I don'tcare if people like me, well no,
I can't ever No you care,I mean, obviously that's human nature.
I seriously thought. I literally turnedto somebody. I'm like, I
thought they were only doing this atthe rams were in town. I didn't
know this was a growing thing.Pass me your glass. I'm going to
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fill it up halfway. Well right, all right, so keep chanting.
Jared Goff, Jared GoF. Ilove them, I love them. I
love you, Detroit. I loveyou Detroit. DM me if you've got
a story to tell, I wantto tell stories about these fans. When
do you leave for San fran Saturdaymorning? We leave United Airlines Connector through
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Denver, coming home on a redeye. We leave at twelve thirty Sunday
night, Monday morning, and weare you gonna make the flight we fly.
Oh yeah, because the game startsat three thirty. Oh, that's
right out there. I know thatmath kind of took me a minute to
do it. It's just in general. And then we fly to Washington Dulles
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from San Francisco, so we flyfor seven hours. We fly over Detroit
passing. That is a stupidest wayto go. It's called a connection,
and they're rarely convenient. They're rarelyconvenient. I'm not sure if you're familiar
with this. So I'm just I'mamping up for a twenty seven hour workday
Sunday Monday. You'll be great,you always are. But you know,
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there's one thing. There's one playerI want you to hear from. Yes,
rookie Brian Branch. This was Ithink the best quote or the best
SoundBite. San fran is a reallygood team. Just feel like, shoot,
we're a really good team too.You know, once we if we're
clicking, it's gonna be a They'regonna be in a rude awakening. Rude
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awakening, Jen rude awakening. ZachI asked him that question. Well that's
why I played it. Oh thanks, You know what I like him?
He is, like he's the kindof kid that ties. He's the kind
of kid that says thank you,ma'am. After you finish an interview with
him, I'll be like, hey, thanks for your time, Well,
thank you ma'am. It's like,please, don't call me ma'am. You
don't have no not that old.But yeah, such a great kid and
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boy like Baller's dogs. That's whatDerek Barnes called him. He's like,
we got some dogs too. BecauseI asked Derek Barnes about how there was
all this talk coming into the Tampagame about their defense and what they're able
to do, their pressures, theirsacks, their everything there blitzes, and
he said, we got some dogstoo, and ag, man, how
about Jared Goff shouting out ag andgiving Aaron Glenn oh credit. Well,
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I have to say what that teamis able to do most impressive is Jared
Goff no turnovers over the last twoplayoff games five hundred and something yards,
how many touchdowns three touchdowns five hundredand sixty four, zero tds, zero
picks and the two playoff games.I've got it for you right here.
And do you want to know whatin the twenty eighteen season, when he
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was in the playoffs with the Rams, he had a fifty five percent completion
rate fifty five to seven one TDtwo. I iNTS, you know what
is completion percentages in these playoffs?Seventy four point three with three tds zero.
I hope he I hope he keepsit up. That's the recipe.
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Yeah, I hope he keeps itup. I hope they keep him clean.
It's that you just said the magicwords clean, clean, Yeah,
exactly. But I do want tobring one thing up, which c J.
Gardner Johnson. I think you knowhe he's a swaggerish little fella,
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isn't he. He's great to talkto because he, you know, blah
blah. He just doesn't know whento stop. And he's a great quote.
And as a reporter, you lovethat great quote. But I was
a little surprised, which I didn'tknow he was. I mean, because
he said some things about Baker Mayfielda while ago, and then reporters asked,
Baker, Yeah, Mayfield's taken alittle lot of context. He should
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really watch some film. And CJdidn't like that he picked off Baker Mayfield
and tossed the ball to Baker Mayfield. Wasn't that a thing? Of beauty
there. It was so funny.And then so then I'm so excited because
I'm bee lining it for his lockerright nowhere to be found cleaned out.
There was not a scrap of anythingin his locker. Good he bolted and
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then did this my ship? Everyboy say, Bo, wise field,
why call it play with within ofthe game? Washingfield will, they said
to me. And I tossed thatbitch back at you, so I hope
you got it too. Make sureyou send that with the jersey too.
Oh my god, send that onewith the jersey to toss that bitch back
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to him. He did, hedid. He ran right over the sideline
and tossed him the ball. Whata what? I gotta say, he's
got some stones his onionols. ButI have to sometimes and I say this
all and that we should we shouldput that those comments into context. That
was on Instagram Live. He wasright driving home from the game. Yes,
and and did that. You know. I love a little swagger,
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There's nothing wrong with it. Butsometimes less is more, That's all I'm
gonna say. Sometimes less is more. I learned that long ago. Well,
he and he and Deebo already havea beef as you have included me
in. Yeah, and this thishadn't But this had nothing to do with
him, period, because it wasthat when the Niners were playing the Browns
and Deebo's like backed away and Ithink CJ called him out. It was
(29:08):
it kind of ridiculous. But again, let's see if it's being Let's see
if it's brought up between Deebo andCJ again. But who knows if CJ
I'll talk to the mediately. Well, I will tell you one thing,
he probably won't because he didn't wantto last week, right. I was
standing at his locker when he wasgoing off the record and he's like,
nope, you know what, y'allunscrewed me basically, and I'm paraphrasing well,
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because he feels his comments were taken, like you said, out of
cottage, and they were to acertain extent. Because Will Birchfield was actually
the one who asked him the questiona long while ago about you know the
receivers, the Rams receiving corn.He said, they may not even be
the best one we group. Weface Bucks got a pretty good receiving trio
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as well. They just don't havea quarterback to get him the ball.
If they had a quarterback that couldget him the ball, they'd be the
best in the league. That's basicallywhat he said. But that was weeks
But it wasn't what was weeks priorto them even knowing they were playing the
Bus. It wasn't right before theBucks came, right, I get that,
but not that. But so thena reporter grabbed it and said,
oh, he said this on Sundaynight before they played the Bus. Oh
(30:15):
okay, and reprinted it and said, here's what CJ. Gardner said about
it. Didn't say for the busreceivers. But I gotta be honest,
it doesn't matter if it was saidbefore the game or three weeks ago.
He said if they had a quarterback. That's an insult to Baker Mayfield,
for sure, But something out ofcontext is doesn't mean that it was a
false statement. It just means thathe wasn't asked about, Hey, what
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do you think about playing the Bucksthis week? And he said, you
had a quarterback, you'd be badI mean bad ass, right, So
yeah, so CJ. We'll seewhat happens this week. I like a
guy though, who can walk thewalk, who can back up. But
then again, sometimes you should wellthink how many think how many guys we've
seen like completely just talk talk talktalk talk, like Rashid Wallace. Here's
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another one. Love you love Rashidand this is why I bring Rashid up.
You love him and that man he'sa talker. Oh yeah, but
he backs it up exactly. That'sa bad man in the best possible way.
Ball down live. Yeah, he'sfantastic, He's the best. He
and he was a huge he's ahuge Chiefs fans. Yes, yes,
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did you know that? And Isaw him when I was covering the Chiefs.
He was at some games and uh, yeah, he's a huge I
wonder or maybe he was just aswiftie before his time. Yeah, I
know he was. He's a hugeChiefs fan. So and it was great
because when I had I came backhere for something and that's and I only
wanted to talk to him about theChiefs and he was great. He was
so great. He's a mensch.He should be the coach here. I
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think it's what a huge piece ofthose funny sorry I'm interrupting that the Pistons
changed the time of their game onSomeday because nobody wouldn't be there. But
I think that's great that they dothat. You know what the Wings did
as well for the for the line, Well, that's because it was a
home game. This is away game, and they changed it to two o'clock.
It's still opposed to six because theyknow nobody would be there. Well,
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they want fans. They want fansto be able to come to their
game and they know that they're gonnawant to watch them, and then they
can go to the Ford Field ifthey had tickets to the watch party that's
sold out. I know, likein a New York minute, Dude,
I would love to be there.I would with a whole bunch of No.
I'd want to be on my couch. No, no, no,
(32:29):
I need, I need. Thatwould be fun. No, not for
me, not my cup of tea. Beers, you can have beers at
your house. Vibration. I likehuman vibration. Am I not surprised?
Well, you know, like highfiving, just people going nuts together.
There's something about strengthen numbers. Iused to be that way. Now,
(32:51):
no couch. I need to controlthe clicker. Well, I'm not gonna
lie. I love controllers. AllI talk into Mynde's why I can never
cut the cord. Well, Icall it the clicker. The clicker.
Yeah, the remote that you cantalk into is forever my favorite thing.
I can't watch my smart TV upin my room. In my bedroom,
I've got a like, you know, the Roku downstairs that I've got my
(33:15):
Exfinity Comcast set up, and Ijust I hate being upstairs like because then
you can't click fast back and forthbetween games. Plus it's a little behind.
Yeah, so if you're by chancepick up your phone and then there's
the Twitter or there's a push alert, you get all screwed up. So
let's go keep that cable. Okay, So Jen, you're heading out to
Sam fran prediction, my friend.Okay, that's seven points is a lot.
(33:38):
So I know, I'm taking theLions on which I'm surprised that that
hasn't moved. It has not moved. No, I'm taking the Lions in
the points, and I do thinkthe Lions have a chance to win this
game, a close one by threeor fewer points, but it comes with
a lot of contingencies. They haveto play clean ball, they can't turn
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it over, and they've got tohave at least one or two takeaways.
Balls out, balls out. Wewant that, we need balls out.
Twenty eight, twenty six, let'sgo. That's high scoring for this all
right, dude, these offenses,I know. But San Francisco's defense,
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that's pretty good defense. And you'rethinking they're going to score twenty eight against
them. Oh my, They've notseen an offense like the Lions this season.
Now. The two headed running backI forgot two headed monster, dude.
They are so good and what theycan do. And Laporta and I
love the little George Kittle, thelittle tight end Iowa hawk eyes. Yeah,
(34:47):
the little tight end guys, it'skind of cool. I mean,
there's so many great comparables in thisgame. And the rush defense for Detroit
is going to save that, saveit. And they're not giving down defense.
Their third down defense is good.Yeah. But here's my thing.
Could a guy signed off the streetcome in and help you right away?
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Perhaps? I mean, it's justall parts we're talking about. Well,
they need a tight end, yeah, so it's just they'll have to probably
drop him in practice. We'll seeif he's in practice today or tomorrow,
and they'll have to drop him inand see if he's better than what they
have, what other what any otheroption they have? Yeah, so we'll
see, but mostly I'm sure itwould be blocking. I'm not sure that
(35:30):
they'd be you know, making drawinga place for him, but who knows.
Crazier things have happened, right,All right, Jen, save travels,
have fun and we'll see you whenyou get back for the Super Bowl.
Addition, Yeah, do you knoweither that or season wrap up?
Stop it? Hand me your glassagain? Did Jorady drink that water?
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That's two? All right, that'stwo. We got two to go
with the buye in the mill.I'm unbelievably proud of everybody in here.
Man, Coach, just that's waita min up, man, that's not
it. That's a that's a difficultteam to beat. Man. You're listening
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But when I hear that, Ijust like, I started tearing up because
you just the emotion. And Ilove that about men who who cry,
(02:38):
and they and and it's okay,like tail not really even the whole man
who cries. That's the I'm damnproud of you and his emotion right here,
well that I mean when you're hatingmy sleeve, whether it's a happy
or like when I get angry,I start and I talk and I start,
(02:59):
I would cry, or I'm happyand outcry. I think those are
all the emotions, emotions, andTaylor Decker is the same way, and
I just appreciate. I appreciate it, I really do. And the thing
about Dan Campbell's emotion, if youdon't know it by now, you should
if you're in Detroit. There isnothing contrived about it. It's he is
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the most authentic hard on his sleeve. But yet for a guy who's an
Aries, I've long touted he isan Aries and I am in Aries and
love we love this as way rightthis fire. He has the Aris fire,
but he is a really steady,steady guy and I love how he
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says to his team you know whatyou're capable of. Do you see what
you're capable of? So what he'sdoing is reinforcing the belief in the behavior.
You work this hard, you'll berewarded, you believe in yourself,
and you'll continue to thrive. Andit's the most incredible psychological and it's it's
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there aren't a lot of coaches thathave that gear or have that in their
toolbox. He is just he's incredible. Well, what's also interesting in talking
to some of the players after theybeat the Bucks to get to the NFC
Championship and a date with the Ninerson Sunday in Santa Clara, is the
one word or a couple a phrasethat it sticks with them. Do your
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job. Just do your job.And it's so true. It's so simple,
yet it's so true. Taylor Decker, the first thing he said,
I'm like, talk about just winningthis game and get So what Dan Campbell
said from the very beginning, justdo your job. Do your job.
Like as a player, just doyour job. Don't worry about the guy
next. If you do your job, everything's going to fall into place.
(04:55):
Take care of yourself because their job, because everyone it's a con it's a
perfect dance exactly. Just do yourjob. I so agree with that.
Just do your job. And it'sreally beautiful to what we heard Taylor Decker
say after the game when people werespeaking to him about how great this is
and how amazing you know that theywon, and the offenses, you know,
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even though they were kind of youknow, spinning their wheels a little
bit in the first half, thatthey were still able to come out in
then that second half, you know, just take control with three straight touchdown
drives. He made a point ofsaying, Frank rag Now is an e
F and warrior. I mean thatguy. Oh he had a knee injury
and didn't miss a beat a knee, an ankle, everything. And what
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Frank said after the game about thathe wanted to honor the contract and honor
his teammates, what they've given meand what they've done for me. I
wasn't gonna let them down. Andthen he has that huge block against a
huge man in Vita Vea on thatCraig Reynolds touchdown. Oh yeah, I
mean nobody was expecting that, justright up the gut against the Bucks.
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This, this Lion offense is thereal deal. Well, if you looked
at the injury and what happened,I mean, it was all right,
golf rolled up on him, rolledup in the back, and it looked
like, oh, he's done,he's not coming back. Yeah, but
he did and didn't miss a beat. And what about Alex Angeloni playing with
three fractured unbelievable. I've had abruised rib and I couldn't even breathe right,
(06:19):
and I have that never happened tome, but it happened to my
daddy. Flipped over the handlebars ofhis motorcycle. Oh damn, broke his
rib and never rode the bike again. And it's still sitting in his garage
today. And this was in theseventies. I'm guessing he didn't play a
football game right now yet. Butthat's I don't know anyone that you know.
I've never fractured a rib, Zach. Have you ever fractured a rib?
(06:42):
Even when you fell in the parkinglot, you didn't fracture your rib?
Klutts, Oh, oh, abruised Did anybody put a little band
aid on that? No? Ohmy god. I tripped up the stairs
and fourfield at the Thanksgiving game,running from the locker room. You know
those little three stairs that go didyou fall? I wiped oh so bad,
(07:03):
and this is on. I fellonto my right knee that I had
my tornminiscus and my surgery on inJuly. So I went down hard and
my I had my hands full,like I had my phone, my little
notepad, my Fox two microphone.My microphone slammed the to the floor and
abody, it broke the mic flagno. And so when I fell,
the first thing I did was lookaround. I'm like, oh my god,
(07:25):
nobody saw me. I think Isaid it out loud, like the
god nobody saw me. And Igot up and I went into the press
room and I handed the microphone tomy photographer Ken Culbert, and I go,
sorry, I just wiped out andbroke your mic. He's like,
well shit, he's the camery.He's like my mic. And I'm like,
oh, but I'm okay. Ilack when I see people fall because
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I'm the big older fun because I'mthe biggest cluts. I mean, I
fell in a manhole when I livedin Chicago, So you know you trip,
oh yeah, oh yeah, howfar down did you go? To
my boobs? To my boobs?Because they grazed the thing. So I
think my big boob saved my fall. But it was gross and I was
(08:07):
bruised from like head to toe.But yeah, ouch yeah. But anyways,
Yes, there are some tough guysand good for them, and they're
not going to miss a game,not in playoffs. I mean, it's
just amazing. I mean, whenAna Jackson will be ready for the super
Bowl. By the way, Ilove the Dan Campbell dropped that in on
Monday too, just like, yep, we're playing in that game. Yeah,
(08:30):
Jones surgery had minor surgery business,a little moniscus tear. And let
me tell you something, eight days, ten days after my meniscal procedure,
are still in therapy. Dude,I didn't even start therapy, but I
was still laid up icing. Amazinghow I mean, it's just like Alex
Angeloni playing with three fractured rips,Frank Ragnow playing with a busted abum knee,
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a busted ankle, not missing abeat, not even thinking about it.
Me, I would be laid upfor days with ice acts. I
need to get shot up. Let'stake this opportunity to shout out the medical
and training staff, because those peoplespend so many hours. And I can
even remember Frank giving credit before theseason to the training staff because of his
(09:18):
toe situation. So he's already playingwith that. He's had a toe situation
for a couple of sure, itwas a horrible turf toe that turned in
and it's inoperable, right. Ithink maybe they tried to do something for
it, but it's it's basically inoperable, and it's just something he has to
play through and has to play with. And it's incredible how he has spent
so much time in the training roomand they've worked on him endlessly to get
(09:43):
him ready to go for games.And this isn't just a once a month
thing. This is day, everyday, every practice, every moment.
That's why he's been resting at leastone practice a week during the season.
So that guy's that guy's a freakingiron man. They're just doing a walkthrough
on Wednesday and then Thursday will bepracticing Friday, zone Saturday. Okay,
(10:07):
so you're listening to the same oldpodcast. I'm Ron de Moss with High
Heartsports Now brought to you by broughtto you by Victory Laying Quick Oil Change
along with Jennifer Hammond Fox two.Okay, Derek Barnes, I did not
know it was his first career pick. Great kid, Okay, So I
turned. We talked to him afterthe game we did we did together,
(10:30):
and he was asked, you'll hearthis, but I'm just gonna who's he
giving the game ball to and thentells us about his son, and I
turned into my mother. Two weekstwo weeks old. Yeah, he's definitely
getting bis together in my locker rightnow. So I'm on Saturday that time.
(10:50):
Could you play that again please?Two weeks two weeks old, Yeah,
muzzle time I turned into my motheris She's like, oh am,
I we're going to I'm gonna givethe book two week old son, I'm
like mauzzle. I mean, Ididn't even like I'm like mazzle top.
People were looking at me like what, Yeah, that's fantastic, that's okay.
(11:11):
Some are some very boring generic whitebread people say congratulations. I love
mazeltoff because I think it's all It'sone of those congratulatory sayings like you know,
prost. It's just like one ofthose things that's just an uplifting word,
even though it's post Russian. I'mnot sure I feel about it,
(11:33):
but it just it's muzzle toof.I write it a lot on Instagram posts
when people have something to celebrate,and I just it's such a happy saying,
well, it's so funny because Isent it to a couple of friends
who, by the way, Ilet them know that you saw their favorite
in the elevator. They love MarkConsuelo. Yes, can I tell you
the cute Mark Consuela story? Soclearly I go back as a long time
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on My Children Viewer when I waslike in college and yeah, blah blah
blah, General Hospital, Luke andLaura. I'll age myself. I don't
care. I love it. Andso most people think of him from that
or Live with Kelly and Mark that'snow on on in the morning. It's
their little morning talk show. AndI stepped on the elevator and I saw
him and it just came right outof my mouth and I said, oh
(12:20):
my god, I just watched theepisode of where you made your cameo on
Only Murders in the Building. Youwere great, And he's like he kind
of looked up because he was lookingdown at his phone, and he was
he nice he was nice. Hegoes, thank you well, and I
thought, of all the things thathe hears, who was he oh,
mateo, that's right. Of allthe things that he hears, probably that's
(12:41):
only murders in the building. Isprobably down near the bottom of what he
hears. But I loved his Itwas great because he played Selena Gomez.
His dad well, he talked aboutbeing here in Detroit because he's a huge
Bucks fan, and he was invitedto the game by the Slazures, the
owners of the box. So hesat in there and that's why he was
there because his son goes to Michiganand he was watching his son wrestle.
(13:05):
He was holding his phone and he'slike, I said, is your son
still at Michigan? And he's like, I said, I said, your
son goes to school here, right, and he goes, yeah, he
goes he's actually wrestling right now.That's why I'm watching it on the phone.
And I'm like, I'm so gladthat he was a dad, and
I'm so glad he was nice becausethere were a lot of I gotta say,
you know now that the Lions,Now that the Lions are winning,
(13:26):
everybody's kind of you know, onon on the train. Oh yeah,
and that's okay. But the peoplewe want on the train you have.
Well, here's a funny story.So I'm in the elevator going this is
after the game. I'm in theelevator. It's pack going down to the
locker room, right, So,but we have to stop at every floor.
We get to the second floor,Reager and I are in the elevator,
(13:48):
we see Bob Seeker. Oh youhave Daniels love it. And they
couldn't get on the elevant and I'mlike, just walk the one flight.
It's okay, you know what Imean. But they were waiting to go
on one flight. Oh, justto one, just to one. And
I'm like maybe they were going tothe basement. I don't know, but
it was just give the I'm gonnagive Jeff Daniels the benefit of the but
(14:09):
because just seeing the stars waiting forelevators, Oh, that could be a
show. Stars waiting for elevators,oh instead of in cars getting coffee exactly.
But it was just so funny howmany of the stars were at the
game, A lot of our Michigancelebrities. And you know what the thing
is about Detroit area Michigan, likewe we revere our own and those who
(14:33):
come who are from here and stayand really embrace the city. I think
those people are even more special.What's Flavor Flav got to do with Detroit?
Is he from here? I don'tknow. He has a lot of
businesses in Detroit. Oh, hecomes here for a lot of rap shows.
And he was here for jingle Ballhe comes off. Oh, good
(14:54):
for him, all right. Yeah, he was also at the event that
Uh god, I'm blanking on hisname. You know, come on,
everybody loves that actor. He's anactor Boston, Boston, you know,
Oh my god, that actor.He was Wahlberg Marker had a golf Oh
that's right, when golf outing andand he is and Flavor Flavor was there
(15:16):
and somebody's like, oh, youshould interview Flavor Flavor. And I'm like,
he was on some reality were Giant? Yet wasn't he married to Bridget
Nielsen Sylvester still Lawyer's ex wife?We're telling Giant watch? Yeah, what
guys, you've never watched Flavor ofLove where he tries to find love on
VH one. Yeah, exactly,so is he he's a reality star and
(15:39):
a rapper, how about that wholestadium singing lose yourself. I'm drawing?
Is that Eminem Eminem? I love? I think that was the turning point
in the game, and then thefreaking defense came out three and hour.
I love Eminem I do. Idon't know why I find him really,
I love Eminem. I love JeffDaniels. Watching Jeff Daniels and Bob Seeger
(16:03):
talk was so cute because Jeff Daniels, you know, he's a little bit
Peyton Manning. Yeah, Peyton Manningwas there. I wanted to talk to
him. He was talking to TomMoore, who was a once upon a
time Lions coordinator with Wayne Vonce andthen was Peyton's coach in Indianapolis. Of
course, so it was just Tony. I saw Tony Dungee. Yeah,
yeah, but uh yeah. Itwas really fun. Big Gretch was there.
(16:26):
But I just I love I loveDetroit. I'm so stoked. Question
and they're all going to San Francisco. Yeah, I'm that vain New York
Post America's team. Do you whatdo you? I don't know. I
think there can only be because Igo back to the seventies where I think
the Cowboys that can only be America'sname, right. For sure, that's
(16:49):
the original America's team. But Ithink what people are saying now, and
I think they're using it kind of, you know, tongue in cheek.
It's kind of tongue in cheek toquote my deceased was ninety three, who
would be one hundred year old mother. It's more of a they're like America's
darlings right now. I just thinkthat I saw a map actually, and
(17:10):
it was California was red and thewhole rest of the country was Lions blue,
was Honolulu blue. So it's basicallylike everybody And how do you not
root for Jared Goff because the Postwrote, you know, with the Lions,
America's team, lovable Lions, justone win from Super Bowl into the
Lions, And I think that's start. But I think it's all started when
(17:33):
they were on hard knocks. Ohfor sure, it did, and it
just showed. And then that seasonthey kind of oh and six and then
came back and going into this season, they were, you know, a
picto to win the division and justthey have likable guys on their team and
Dan Campbell, hey, well,and I think that's enough that's a big
(17:55):
reason because the people love him.And again we talk about it all the
time, he's turning out to beone of I think he well Demiko Ryans,
but coach of the year, ohfor sure, I think for surely,
you know, And it has nothingto do with the playoffs. And
I love Demico. Dimiko is agreat coach and what he did for Houston
was incredible and will continue to be. I just I don't know how you
(18:19):
don't give it to Dan Campbell becauseof just the body of work in three
years, what he's done to turnthis team around, it's really incredible.
And I think they're going to winSunday. I think they beat the Niners,
maybe by one or two points.I think they beat the Niners.
Why do I think that? Why? Because I like so they have an
opportunistic defense. And let's just startwith the defense, because everybody goes to
(18:41):
that unit, particularly the DB's asthe Achilles heel. Right. But what
they've been able to do in givingup huge yardage too Mike Evans, stop
the Ross, Ceedee Lamb, JustinJefferson in two games. They can give
up lots of yards, but theycan still hold you. They can hold
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you to field goals. They canbe they're opportunistic, they can take away
the ball. I mean that freakingpick by C. J. Gardner Johnson,
that one by Derek Barnes. Imean, these guys, well,
that's it. They're all two picksand four sacks, and that the balling.
They have to get the defensive linelinebacker's edge, all have to They
have to get to brock Purty.You can't leave him back there because he
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will tear you apart. Well,Deebo Samuel if he doesn't go, I
think that's where the Lions have anopportunity for sure. And the first playoff
game on the road since nineteen fifty. Yeah, and even if he's fifty
to fifty, I still like theirchances against a banged up Debo, right,
And if they can stop the run, they're going to force it.
(19:48):
And they have they into a lotof situations where he's uncomfortable. And if
you go back and look at therewas a great film breakdown that Dan Orlovsky
did about how Perty missed a lotof big throws. He had guys open
and he checked down because he gotgun shy, because he threw a pick
early and certainly, the weather's notgoing to be the same. It's going
to be sunny or cloudy in sixtysixty eight seventy. It's going to be
(20:08):
a very temperate day in Santa Clara. But if they can just force him
to question himself by coverages and thepressure they're able to get up front,
I think they can make brock Partyreally make some make some mistakes like they
did with Baker. It's so funnybecause all these facts are coming out about
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the the AFC and NFC Championship games. And the interesting one is Jared Goff
number one pick, Brock Purty,last, first and last, I've never
played against each other. It's thefirst time that a number one pick and
the last pick are playing against eachother. Rock Purty, Jared Goff.
I think that's so cool. Yeah, it's just, you know, with
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the Niners, I think last weekwhen they were playing against the Packers,
I think they were obviously a littlerusty because they had a bye week,
and I think it's just gonna beI think it's just gonna be different this
week. I don't think they're goingto come out as slow and as as
they did last week. And theLions just have to be like you said,
they have to Lions have to beopportunistic. Yeah, but that's what
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their defense is, and that's whatthey've thrived on. I don't think they've
ever They've made no bones about thefact that we're gonna have to outscore teams.
We're gonna have to go toe totoe and we're gonna have to just
can't settle for field goals non thisgame, So you can't settle for field
goals. They probably they have tostart fast, right, But there's also
now this trend. I completely digress, but the fourth phase of the game
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has been what all season long?What the fans? The fans and these
Lions fans are trapped? My god, can I just tell you that Dan
Campbell was so appreciative, but Igotta say he's he's next year. They
got to step it up for allthe Lions fans. This was the whole
idea, right, and I knowit's you know, Boddy been dying for
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it for so long. But thisis the point. Because of what we
just saw in those last two playoffgames, the environment in there is better
than any of you're going to findthe NFL, you know, I mean
back to back weeks. The eardrums are just banging and the only thing
I thought I would get a blownout of your drama. It didn't happen.
This When we'll work on that nextyear. It was electric. I
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love that. So yeah, butyou're not going to get that in San
Francisco. No, you're not goingto get that at all. But you're
still going to have Lion's faithful.Oh yeah, are theyvel? Well,
we're going to hear Jared Goff chance, I gotta be Can I be honest?
For a second, I thought thatwas on you Wait? When are
you not? I? I havethis and I may sound stupid again,
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stupid question. I thought that Jaredgoff chanting was just when the Rams were
in town. That's what Jared Goffthought too. He said that he didn't
expect to hear it again, butI love it that this city is lifting
him and saying you're our You're goodenough for to You want to know what
I also think? Come on?Do you really? I mean, I
love it? Don't even don't Iknow. I'm not I'm not poopooan.
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I'm like, does your a golfneed that kind of uplifting today? Can
I tell you something I love.And it just happens once in a little
minute here and there when people yellhammer, love you hammer. I do
it every time I see right right, check is in the mail. But
it's fun, like it feels.It's like people are supporting you and they
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like what you do. Everybody likesto be liked. And for people who
say they don't care, I don'tcare if people like me, well no,
I can't ever No you care,I mean, obviously that's human nature.
I seriously thought. I literally turnedto somebody. I'm like, I
thought they were only doing this atthe rams were in town. I didn't
know this was a growing thing.Pass me your glass. I'm going to
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fill it up halfway. Well right, all right, so keep chanting.
Jared Goff, Jared GoF. Ilove them, I love them. I
love you, Detroit. I loveyou Detroit. DM me if you've got
a story to tell, I wantto tell stories about these fans. When
do you leave for San fran Saturdaymorning? We leave United Airlines Connector through
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Denver, coming home on a redeye. We leave at twelve thirty Sunday
night, Monday morning, and weare you gonna make the flight we fly.
Oh yeah, because the game startsat three thirty. Oh, that's
right out there. I know thatmath kind of took me a minute to
do it. It's just in general. And then we fly to Washington Dulles
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from San Francisco, so we flyfor seven hours. We fly over Detroit
passing. That is a stupidest wayto go. It's called a connection,
and they're rarely convenient. They're rarelyconvenient. I'm not sure if you're familiar
with this. So I'm just I'mamping up for a twenty seven hour workday
Sunday Monday. You'll be great,you always are. But you know,
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there's one thing. There's one playerI want you to hear from. Yes,
rookie Brian Branch. This was Ithink the best quote or the best
SoundBite. San fran is a reallygood team. Just feel like, shoot,
we're a really good team too.You know, once we if we're
clicking, it's gonna be a They'regonna be in a rude awakening. Rude
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awakening, Jen rude awakening. ZachI asked him that question. Well that's
why I played it. Oh thanks, You know what I like him?
He is, like he's the kindof kid that ties. He's the kind
of kid that says thank you,ma'am. After you finish an interview with
him, I'll be like, hey, thanks for your time, Well,
thank you ma'am. It's like,please, don't call me ma'am. You
don't have no not that old.But yeah, such a great kid and
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boy like Baller's dogs. That's whatDerek Barnes called him. He's like,
we got some dogs too. BecauseI asked Derek Barnes about how there was
all this talk coming into the Tampagame about their defense and what they're able
to do, their pressures, theirsacks, their everything there blitzes, and
he said, we got some dogstoo, and ag, man, how
about Jared Goff shouting out ag andgiving Aaron Glenn oh credit. Well,
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I have to say what that teamis able to do most impressive is Jared
Goff no turnovers over the last twoplayoff games five hundred and something yards,
how many touchdowns three touchdowns five hundredand sixty four, zero tds, zero
picks and the two playoff games.I've got it for you right here.
And do you want to know whatin the twenty eighteen season, when he
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was in the playoffs with the Rams, he had a fifty five percent completion
rate fifty five to seven one TDtwo. I iNTS, you know what
is completion percentages in these playoffs?Seventy four point three with three tds zero.
I hope he I hope he keepsit up. That's the recipe.
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Yeah, I hope he keeps itup. I hope they keep him clean.
It's that you just said the magicwords clean, clean, Yeah,
exactly. But I do want tobring one thing up, which c J.
Gardner Johnson. I think you knowhe he's a swaggerish little fella,
(27:15):
isn't he. He's great to talkto because he, you know, blah
blah. He just doesn't know whento stop. And he's a great quote.
And as a reporter, you lovethat great quote. But I was
a little surprised, which I didn'tknow he was. I mean, because
he said some things about Baker Mayfielda while ago, and then reporters asked,
Baker, Yeah, Mayfield's taken alittle lot of context. He should
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really watch some film. And CJdidn't like that he picked off Baker Mayfield
and tossed the ball to Baker Mayfield. Wasn't that a thing? Of beauty
there. It was so funny.And then so then I'm so excited because
I'm bee lining it for his lockerright nowhere to be found cleaned out.
There was not a scrap of anythingin his locker. Good he bolted and
(28:00):
then did this my ship? Everyboy say, Bo, wise field,
why call it play with within ofthe game? Washingfield will, they said
to me. And I tossed thatbitch back at you, so I hope
you got it too. Make sureyou send that with the jersey too.
Oh my god, send that onewith the jersey to toss that bitch back
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to him. He did, hedid. He ran right over the sideline
and tossed him the ball. Whata what? I gotta say, he's
got some stones his onionols. ButI have to sometimes and I say this
all and that we should we shouldput that those comments into context. That
was on Instagram Live. He wasright driving home from the game. Yes,
and and did that. You know. I love a little swagger,
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There's nothing wrong with it. Butsometimes less is more, That's all I'm
gonna say. Sometimes less is more. I learned that long ago. Well,
he and he and Deebo already havea beef as you have included me
in. Yeah, and this thishadn't But this had nothing to do with
him, period, because it wasthat when the Niners were playing the Browns
and Deebo's like backed away and Ithink CJ called him out. It was
(29:08):
it kind of ridiculous. But again, let's see if it's being Let's see
if it's brought up between Deebo andCJ again. But who knows if CJ
I'll talk to the mediately. Well, I will tell you one thing,
he probably won't because he didn't wantto last week, right. I was
standing at his locker when he wasgoing off the record and he's like,
nope, you know what, y'allunscrewed me basically, and I'm paraphrasing well,
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because he feels his comments were taken, like you said, out of
cottage, and they were to acertain extent. Because Will Birchfield was actually
the one who asked him the questiona long while ago about you know the
receivers, the Rams receiving corn.He said, they may not even be
the best one we group. Weface Bucks got a pretty good receiving trio
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as well. They just don't havea quarterback to get him the ball.
If they had a quarterback that couldget him the ball, they'd be the
best in the league. That's basicallywhat he said. But that was weeks
But it wasn't what was weeks priorto them even knowing they were playing the
Bus. It wasn't right before theBucks came, right, I get that,
but not that. But so thena reporter grabbed it and said,
oh, he said this on Sundaynight before they played the Bus. Oh
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okay, and reprinted it and said, here's what CJ. Gardner said about
it. Didn't say for the busreceivers. But I gotta be honest,
it doesn't matter if it was saidbefore the game or three weeks ago.
He said if they had a quarterback. That's an insult to Baker Mayfield,
for sure, But something out ofcontext is doesn't mean that it was a
false statement. It just means thathe wasn't asked about, Hey, what
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do you think about playing the Bucksthis week? And he said, you
had a quarterback, you'd be badI mean bad ass, right, So
yeah, so CJ. We'll seewhat happens this week. I like a
guy though, who can walk thewalk, who can back up. But
then again, sometimes you should wellthink how many think how many guys we've
seen like completely just talk talk talktalk talk, like Rashid Wallace. Here's
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another one. Love you love Rashidand this is why I bring Rashid up.
You love him and that man he'sa talker. Oh yeah, but
he backs it up exactly. That'sa bad man in the best possible way.
Ball down live. Yeah, he'sfantastic, He's the best. He
and he was a huge he's ahuge Chiefs fans. Yes, yes,
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did you know that? And Isaw him when I was covering the Chiefs.
He was at some games and uh, yeah, he's a huge I
wonder or maybe he was just aswiftie before his time. Yeah, I
know he was. He's a hugeChiefs fan. So and it was great
because when I had I came backhere for something and that's and I only
wanted to talk to him about theChiefs and he was great. He was
so great. He's a mensch.He should be the coach here. I
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think it's what a huge piece ofthose funny sorry I'm interrupting that the Pistons
changed the time of their game onSomeday because nobody wouldn't be there. But
I think that's great that they dothat. You know what the Wings did
as well for the for the line, Well, that's because it was a
home game. This is away game, and they changed it to two o'clock.
It's still opposed to six because theyknow nobody would be there. Well,
(32:08):
they want fans. They want fansto be able to come to their
game and they know that they're gonnawant to watch them, and then they
can go to the Ford Field ifthey had tickets to the watch party that's
sold out. I know, likein a New York minute, Dude,
I would love to be there.I would with a whole bunch of No.
I'd want to be on my couch. No, no, no,
(32:29):
I need, I need. Thatwould be fun. No, not for
me, not my cup of tea. Beers, you can have beers at
your house. Vibration. I likehuman vibration. Am I not surprised?
Well, you know, like highfiving, just people going nuts together.
There's something about strengthen numbers. Iused to be that way. Now,
(32:51):
no couch. I need to controlthe clicker. Well, I'm not gonna
lie. I love controllers. AllI talk into Mynde's why I can never
cut the cord. Well, Icall it the clicker. The clicker.
Yeah, the remote that you cantalk into is forever my favorite thing.
I can't watch my smart TV upin my room. In my bedroom,
I've got a like, you know, the Roku downstairs that I've got my
(33:15):
Exfinity Comcast set up, and Ijust I hate being upstairs like because then
you can't click fast back and forthbetween games. Plus it's a little behind.
Yeah, so if you're by chancepick up your phone and then there's
the Twitter or there's a push alert, you get all screwed up. So
let's go keep that cable. Okay, So Jen, you're heading out to
Sam fran prediction, my friend.Okay, that's seven points is a lot.
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So I know, I'm taking theLions on which I'm surprised that that
hasn't moved. It has not moved. No, I'm taking the Lions in
the points, and I do thinkthe Lions have a chance to win this
game, a close one by threeor fewer points, but it comes with
a lot of contingencies. They haveto play clean ball, they can't turn
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it over, and they've got tohave at least one or two takeaways.
Balls out, balls out. Wewant that, we need balls out.
Twenty eight, twenty six, let'sgo. That's high scoring for this all
right, dude, these offenses,I know. But San Francisco's defense,
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that's pretty good defense. And you'rethinking they're going to score twenty eight against
them. Oh my, They've notseen an offense like the Lions this season.
Now. The two headed running backI forgot two headed monster, dude.
They are so good and what theycan do. And Laporta and I
love the little George Kittle, thelittle tight end Iowa hawk eyes. Yeah,
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the little tight end guys, it'skind of cool. I mean,
there's so many great comparables in thisgame. And the rush defense for Detroit
is going to save that, saveit. And they're not giving down defense.
Their third down defense is good.Yeah. But here's my thing.
Could a guy signed off the streetcome in and help you right away?
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Perhaps? I mean, it's justall parts we're talking about. Well,
they need a tight end, yeah, so it's just they'll have to probably
drop him in practice. We'll seeif he's in practice today or tomorrow,
and they'll have to drop him inand see if he's better than what they
have, what other what any otheroption they have? Yeah, so we'll
see, but mostly I'm sure itwould be blocking. I'm not sure that
(35:30):
they'd be you know, making drawinga place for him, but who knows.
Crazier things have happened, right,All right, Jen, save travels,
have fun and we'll see you whenyou get back for the Super Bowl.
Addition, Yeah, do you knoweither that or season wrap up?
Stop it? Hand me your glassagain? Did Jorady drink that water?
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