[SPEAKER_03]: Hey everybody, this is Matthew Soltisiac, and you're listening to not the same old Lions podcast, part of the minute media podcast network.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Detroit Lions are now in a new, gritty era, and we look beyond just an e-capped when it comes to the analysis.

[SPEAKER_03]: I speak with a variety of guests and interview key players, gaining more insight on what makes this team go.

[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to another episode.

[SPEAKER_03]: Folks, in this episode, we have a lot to get to.

[SPEAKER_03]: So buckle up, get comfortable, maybe get some popcorn out.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, we're going to preview the Detroit Lion season preview against the Green Bay Packers.

[SPEAKER_03]: They open on Sunday in Lambo field.

[SPEAKER_03]: In addition to that though, we're going to share what we expect from Green Bay, fresh off their trade for Lionback or Mike a Parsons.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're also going to discuss how the Lions match up and what we expect from Detroit.

[SPEAKER_03]: in addition to that, we'll do a little reintroduction of sorts and share some exciting news about the podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: That and more, let's get to Alliance fans.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is Almond Ross St.

[SPEAKER_03]: Brown, you're listening to Not The Samoed Alliance podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to Not The Samoed Alliance podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Joining me as usual is Coach Jerry Aanger's welcome coach.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_03]: Glad to be here.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're happy to have you and our sports writer James Cook.

[SPEAKER_03]: Good to have you, James.

[SPEAKER_03]: Good to be here.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I can compete with Jerry's hat though.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now here he does rock that well, I totally agree.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, folks, it is a start of season three for the show, and we thought this might be a good time to do a little reintroduction of sorts, and let's start with the name of the show.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, what is in a name?

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Taylor Decker uttered these words, not the same old lions in year two of Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes era.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it kind of stuck out, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: And when looking for a name, they say it's supposed to be short, it's supposed to be catchy, and I get it, it's not short, but it is a little bit catchy, guys.

[SPEAKER_03]: And if we're looking at the meaning, I've always been an optimist when being a lion's fan, and I'll be honest, I never knew much about S.O.L.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mantra at all, but those are the first three letters of my last name.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that might mean a little bit something there.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I will say this though.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you add the word podcast to the end, I gravitate towards that meaning with the show's name, not the same old lion's podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that helps make the show what it is.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you listen to us at length, you know we're all fans of the Detroit lions.

[SPEAKER_03]: But with that great insight we have, at least we believe we have great insight.

[SPEAKER_03]: You guys are the judges of that one, comes a good amount of experience to fuel that insight we have.

[SPEAKER_03]: We thought we'd take a minute, reintroduce ourselves to you who have been listening for a while, or those of you checking us out for the first time.

[SPEAKER_03]: So let's start with our senior sports writer and sports writer of the year James Cook James, just reintroduce yourself a little bit to the listeners.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm now a little bit more about you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've been at the Trevor City Record Eagle for twenty five years now since started in two thousand.

[SPEAKER_01]: I covered both of Jerry's state championship football appearances down at Ford Field with Gun Lake.

[SPEAKER_01]: CMU grad preachers kid music nut [SPEAKER_01]: like going to the back concerts.

[SPEAKER_01]: All that kind of stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously Detroit Lions fan for life grew up watching them as a kid.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so, and I just had to do a thing the other day where I filled out a thing for a little bio for a website or something.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so I had to look up how many times I'd want to award to whatever.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I've won fifty one Michigan Press Association awards over my time since I left CMU.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, there you go, folks.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the word humble needs to go on that biography somewhere because he left that thing towards the end.

[SPEAKER_03]: It did not make a big deal about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did not lead with it.

[SPEAKER_03]: But that is James Cook, the senior sports writer for the Traverseity Record to go throwing lots of great insights doing lots of great research every episode and drinking his blue cool aid every episode as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, we do have Coach Jerry Angels.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a guy I used to work with.

[SPEAKER_03]: I at one point was on his middle school coaching staff at one point.

[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, tell the listeners a little bit about your background.

[SPEAKER_03]: You have won some awards and had some success as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, those two games that James covered, we did we did lose both of those in the state finals, but I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, one was seven often, so I'm going to give you that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we won't talk about public and in private schools, we'll leave it at that anyway.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, one in the ward was up for the coach of the year, one for Lions that year, which was great experience.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I've got to spend three quality days on that field.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, covering the Lions is pretty, pretty huge.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got thirty plus years of coaching in, twenty nine in the high school level.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've called it coach at all levels in the high school middle school pop Warner.

[SPEAKER_00]: Worked two years at Sagittal Valley is analytics for special teams as well as defense.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was neat working in the college level and then of course now that I'm scouting and training director for Bolera Sports, which we're trying to put guys into the league.

[SPEAKER_00]: And every winner I get to travel to Mark Catten, trained some elite athletes and hopefully they make a roster.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's it in the nutshell and just glad to be part of not the same alliance podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's it in a nutshell.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a lot there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Coach that's a pretty big nutshell.

[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of experience, a lot of game film he breaks down, a lot of different insight he brings as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Happy to have you with us coach and just adds one more element one more layer to this show.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, I am Matthew Solteziak, the host of producer.

[SPEAKER_03]: I guess you could say I went to journalism school at Syracuse University in hopes of being right where I am here today, guys.

[SPEAKER_03]: I spent time as a sports reporter.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was a weekend sports anchor for an NBC affiliate here in Michigan.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I've always loved the lions.

[SPEAKER_03]: And honestly, I just wanted to do something professionally that revolved around them.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that's a little bit about me with my journalism and Detroit Lions background.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, we're almost at the preview.

[SPEAKER_03]: We got so much going on in this show today.

[SPEAKER_03]: We got to touch on something Brad Holmes said last week coach because a lot of people have been wondering this happened last year too.

[SPEAKER_03]: When the lions cut down to fifty three people, they cut below fifty three.

[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone's like, why don't you keep more guys on your roster?

[SPEAKER_03]: And they cut down to fifty two last year that cut down to fifty this year.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Brad Holmes said, they didn't deem.

[SPEAKER_03]: Fifty three guys were the [SPEAKER_03]: from their current group of being on the roster and you're like, why would we keep somebody on the roster if we don't think they're worthy of it?

[SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of a mind shift, I think, from what most fans would look at because they think, well, you keep the next three best guys just to fill it in, but Red Homes had a different thought approach to this.

[SPEAKER_03]: What was your reaction when you heard that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and again, I think it's the same thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's not keep three just so that we can say we have fifty three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's keep the bus fifty.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they said that the roster was the bus from top to bottom.

[SPEAKER_00]: So your top fifty is the bus that we've had.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now we just added three guys to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there were some, you know, we added a safety.

[SPEAKER_00]: We added a defensive end.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, maybe it's not the defensive end that everybody wanted.

[SPEAKER_00]: But weed seems to be a pretty good football player.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I, you know, I watched some film on them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, now we feel that our roster is full with the best fifty three plus we have guys that are coming off the injured reporter injury soon and that's going to now we're going to be at fifty five fifty six now we're going to have to start cutting people so competition breeds winners [SPEAKER_03]: There you go, some great insight.

[SPEAKER_03]: And again, you said that there will be some guys coming back and that they found some other guys out there that they thought were better or more equipped to fill those holes than guys that had been in camp all summer.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that should also give Lions fans some encouragement.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, one of those guys is safety Thomas Harper.

[SPEAKER_03]: They grabbed him right before the holiday weekend.

[SPEAKER_03]: They got him off waivers, James.

[SPEAKER_03]: What do you know about Thomas Harper?

[SPEAKER_01]: These are experienced safety that brings, you know, played in the NFL before, you know, more than some of the guys that they had competing for those last couple of roster spots.

[SPEAKER_01]: Veteran safety can play corner slot as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: So the nickel, the nickel role and is also a guy who plays a lot of special teams too.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's another thing that they always look for.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the back end of their roster is, can you contribute on special teams?

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And again, they found a guy that's got some game experience.

[SPEAKER_03]: I can do those things.

[SPEAKER_03]: That adds a little bit more value to that.

[SPEAKER_03]: And some of those guys that we thought about before they are on the lines, practice squad.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that gives you even more extended depth.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's finally move on to the game preview.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now as we get started for the preview of the game itself, we got some insights from a reporter out of Green Bay spoke to him just before the Micah Parsons trade.

[SPEAKER_03]: And here's that short interview on what he thought it was going to be important for going into the season opener against Alliance.

[SPEAKER_03]: Joining me today is Cam E's Air Sports reporter from the CBS affiliate WFRV TV at a Green Bay Wisconsin, and he is going to give us some insights on what we might expect from the season opener, Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, Cam, it's opening weekend.

[SPEAKER_03]: No one knows what to expect, but we're going to try.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to try and talk about it and figure out what we think we might expect first off.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you like this?

[SPEAKER_03]: Packers opening that home, facing the lions, division rivals to start the season all across the NFL.

[SPEAKER_03]: What's your feeling on that?

[SPEAKER_02]: First season opener, Lambo since twenty eighteen, first time Matt LaFlor has has gotten an opportunity to start week one at home, remember he became head coach in twenty nineteen.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he's thrilled about it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think it's great.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, these are the two teams that I think many expected a couple of years ago to meet in the NSD championship after the pack for shot, the Cowboys and probably should have beaten the forty nine hours.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the rivalry has only grown from there.

[SPEAKER_02]: These are the two best teams in the NFC North, which has come out as most likely the best division in football.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's great at Lambo to a historic site.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know that whoever the commentators are forgot to give it a look.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to make sure that that is prime time and they have the crew out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think it's amazing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Why not start off with some fireworks?

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I'm not opposed to the Lions visiting Lambo in September versus December, January, but it is what it is.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't love the idea of opening against division arrivals.

[SPEAKER_03]: I would love it if everybody opened it up against somebody in the other conference, even.

[SPEAKER_03]: Again, you play the games that are scheduled as Dan Campbell would tell you and you can't worry about the other things.

[SPEAKER_03]: So let's talk about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Other than a win, of course, because that's what you want.

[SPEAKER_03]: But what are you looking for?

[SPEAKER_03]: What would green Bay fans be looking for out of this game for the Packers?

[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's a good looking good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a good start.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, last year in week four against the Vikings, they laid an egg in that first half.

[SPEAKER_02]: And also against the lions, they've done that as well, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like the pack is a turn into a second half squad or at least they did a season ago.

[SPEAKER_02]: And this green base squad has said constantly, we just need to start fast.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's exactly what pack for spans want to see against division rival.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I think also a thing to consider is without JRL exam or can Kishan Nixon can carry to Valentine, can Nate Hobbs, can the quarterback stop those dynamic wider receivers?

[SPEAKER_02]: Because the lions were incredible explosive plays and that defense was great at stopping explosive plays and what, you know, [SPEAKER_02]: says let's kick off the twenty twenty five season more than an explosive play or stopping one and the lions the last couple years why they've been one of the top teams in the NFL is a taken advantage of those opportunities.

[SPEAKER_02]: So as much as I'd love to say I'll Jordan love having a heck of a game and and connecting with his now healthy wide receivers for finally back from injury this they suffered a training camp.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's stopping explosive plays on a defensive side.

[SPEAKER_02]: Whether that be through the air on the ground with, you know, Jimmy or Gibbs, they've Montgomery and that two-headed snake, and then also connecting on explosive plays.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because it just didn't seem like the packers had that moment during last season, where it was like, whoa, by week one, this team can contend for Super Bowl.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's usually taken some time.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's what fans of Lambo are hoping for.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, well, who should the Lions fans be keeping an eye on?

[SPEAKER_03]: Who could be a difference maker for the Packers in this game, or somebody that could play a pivotal role for Green Bay?

[SPEAKER_02]: We're Sean Gary was a pro-bull or last season, but I think we all kind of scratched our heads and said, wait, but we all thought we're Sean Gary could about a better season, even he thought he could about a better season.

[SPEAKER_02]: But that's how dynamic Gary is, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Even when on the staff, she, when he's not making a crazy impact, like a train Hendrickson.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like he still made an impact, but it wasn't close to a train Hendrickson, and the sack number was in the getting after the quarterback.

[SPEAKER_02]: If he can get to Jared Goff or he could blow up that O-line or he could stop the run game on that outside as a defensive end, I mean that changes the dynamic of this entire game because why were the Lions so good last year in the year before?

[SPEAKER_02]: Is they could blow up offensively at any point of the game?

[SPEAKER_02]: And if you could have a stalwart somewhere in that backfield to allow the secondary to get their bearings, if for Sean Gary can get a few sacks, [SPEAKER_02]: When Michelle and Gary had a few sex and game last year was kind of a final of that point, all the Packers are going to win this game.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, again, I'd love to say, you know, why receiver that goes for two hundred yards or Josh Day goes that's the easy answer.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think we're Sean Gary having a more explosive season and taking that next step.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's got his extension.

[SPEAKER_02]: He has every reason to have a good game, especially against the lines.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this team was one in five against the division last year.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think he needs to prove himself.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's been a leader.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's been communicative with this team.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going Gary.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've kind of already led into this one, but what's it going to take for Green Bay to win this game?

[SPEAKER_03]: What are the Packers need to do if they're going to come out with the W?

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it goes back to that fast start.

[SPEAKER_02]: They have to start fast because the lines would go up to twenty one nothing in a heartbeat.

[SPEAKER_02]: Jordan love needs to need to have a good game in terms of those small plays that turn into chunk plays that they often times you get to third down.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's third and six or third and five and you go for that big play down the sideline and that just changes everything.

[SPEAKER_02]: I also think limit the mistakes.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you're Jordan love, remember what happened in that line?

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a game at Lambo last year or half time where [SPEAKER_02]: fall into the ground, chooses to throw it and he'll admit to it.

[SPEAKER_02]: That was an awful play.

[SPEAKER_02]: That changed the trajectory of that game.

[SPEAKER_02]: Still think the Lions win if that play doesn't happen, but it doesn't matter.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can't make that play and throw a pick six in that situation when you should just throw it away.

[SPEAKER_02]: So for Jordan love, it's find your guys down the field and don't worry about going for the thirty, forty, fifty yarder.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's great to connect with Christian Watson as he did on Thanksgiving a few years ago for that first play of the game, fifty yards.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it looks cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: that the optics look cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: But for Jordan love, it's limit your mistakes and focus on moving the ball down field.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then defensively, it's stopping, what is it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Is it sonic and knuckles?

[SPEAKER_02]: Is it the same for those things?

[SPEAKER_02]: Stopping sonic and knuckles.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then making sure that you keep the receivers in front of you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because one explosive play and this lines team, you know, is a step away from a super bowl again.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, well, then let's flip it around.

[SPEAKER_03]: If the Lions are going to beat the Green Bay Packers to open the season, if they're going to walk out of Lambo with a victory, what do the Lions need to do against Green Bay?

[SPEAKER_03]: What has to happen?

[SPEAKER_02]: You got to take the DBs on a leash.

[SPEAKER_02]: Jared Goff has to attack them right away as much as you love your run game and you want your run game to bully through that D line and those linebackers that second level to open up the pass game.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you can walk, Kishan Nixon, Nate Hobbs, and Carrington Valentine on a leash to start the game, [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, at that point, you can kind of render it over for that pattern defense.

[SPEAKER_02]: Don't turn the ball over.

[SPEAKER_02]: Green Bay, it felt like it only compounded when they got one turn over, then they get two, and you're like, how is this team doing what they're doing?

[SPEAKER_02]: And then when it opened things up for the D-line, they'd gain some confidence, and then they'd have seven sacks in the game, as they did against the states, and then, you know, Cardinals last season.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, I think it's take those DBs for a walk.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if you can find the way behind them or just to move the ball down the field, me just in fields did in the preseason opener against the jets, that first drive looked like a cakewalk, you know, thirteen plays eighty yards.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's the biggest thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: For the defense, it's just get out to Jordan Love, make him uncomfortable.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what it'll be like with that injury suffer during a training camp with a non-throwing hand.

[SPEAKER_02]: If that'll affect his confidence.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think walk the DBs and pressure Jordan Love.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, any final thoughts on the season opening contest?

[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, Matthew, I'm shocked that you don't like kicking the season off with this divisional match.

[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like the tension has just built and built and built.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I wouldn't want to wait until week seven week.

[SPEAKER_02]: You get week one, then you get Thanksgiving.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's the perfect two weeks.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I look, I kind of follow the college football thing, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, this is an important game, divisional games.

[SPEAKER_03]: If they're supposed to be this important, then you know, you're coming out of training camp.

[SPEAKER_03]: Preseason where most starters are not getting a lot of reps.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to wait like a couple of years back.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Lions played the Vikings twice in the last six weeks of the season.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's too long to wait.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I do think opening the season one or two games not against division rivals gives you the opportunity to work things out, figure out, make the adjustments.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that way, you division rivals are getting the best of you and you're getting the best of your rivals.

[SPEAKER_03]: It can work both ways, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, your team might not be right where it's going to be in midseason form, but neither will you're opponent, so it is equal ground for everybody.

[SPEAKER_03]: But again, knowing that there's only six divisional games, I wouldn't mind waiting till like week three or four to start those off.

[SPEAKER_02]: But if I throw a trend out there, remember that Eagles in the Packers played week one last year, who won the Super Bowl.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if you like trends, maybe you know, the packers play in the lines of week one for your Lions fans, I could mean something.

[SPEAKER_02]: So hey, it could go both ways.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Cam, thank you so much for joining this show and previewing the season opener contest.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, can't wait.

[SPEAKER_03]: Football's finally back.

[SPEAKER_03]: The best time of the year.

[SPEAKER_03]: It definitely is.

[SPEAKER_03]: Folks, again, that's Cam easier from WFRVTV out at Green Bay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much, Cam.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, guys, that was some great insights there by Cam.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I really liked some of the things he talked about and we're going to get into those as we do the preview ourselves from what we see.

[SPEAKER_03]: And let's start with what we usually start with at this point, which is how the packers are different last than last year.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's something Cam didn't bring up as far as the Micah Parsons straight because that had happened before.

[SPEAKER_03]: the interview with him and I, but we got to start there.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Micah Parsons, James, the big trade to first round picks.

[SPEAKER_03]: They traded a big guy in the middle, Kenny Clark.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so that changes some things up to.

[SPEAKER_03]: Graham Glassgall was asked about it today.

[SPEAKER_03]: He talked about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Talk about the Parsons trade from your perspective.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then we got to hear what coach thinks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it brings a big name to their roster, of course.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's probably got to be one of the best three defensive players in the game I would say right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he's also [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a one-trick pony, but he's not the greatest run defender.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they traded their best run defender away to get him.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it helps their defense in ways, but I think could hinder their defense in other ways.

[SPEAKER_01]: Although they do have a couple of young potential run stuffing defensive tackles that could step into that Kenny Clark role, but they're both young and fairly unproven.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then they have a veteran who's been around for a couple of years that hasn't really [SPEAKER_01]: lived up to his stock, you know, his draft stocks so far, but, you know, they, it obviously impacts them.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're, and they're going to need him.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to need Mike of Parsons to get a lot of sacks and get a lot of pressure on the quarterback because their defensive secondary is not great.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's not, it's a rebuilt thing and they're going to be looking to see what that looks like.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not thrilled about this.

[SPEAKER_03]: The adding of Micaparsons, I think most people would because there's a reason you give up two first round picks and you pay that much money for a guy like this because they're hard to come by.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to agree with the majority of mainstream media and say, Dallas, what were you doing on this one?

[SPEAKER_03]: It makes very little sense.

[SPEAKER_03]: wish you would have traded him to somebody in a different division.

[SPEAKER_03]: That said, you know, there are some elements that are some moving parts.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're playing them in week one.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so that will affect things as well as Parsons has not practiced most of training camp and he's just getting acquainted with the system in Green Bay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, what do you make of this move?

[SPEAKER_03]: And how does it affect things going in, you know, right away here so quickly?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you can't stop the run mark mark a person, this isn't in a comment.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be a factor in this game because you've lost your best detail.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, that's the way I look at it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, here's a couple, a couple numbers, and Green Bay, they're seventh and DVOA last year in the run stopping, okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Clark spent most of season battling a toe injury.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he still walks six hundred and eighty five snaps.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's not a pro bowl or like he has or is getting up there in age.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Packers also let TJ Slayton go, who had four hundred twenty seven snaps last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: They let him walk in free agency.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they're going to have to look to some younger guys out there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Parsons.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a he's a he's a rucker.

[SPEAKER_00]: He'll ruck a game for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: record quarterback for you, but I think that they're going to put so much pressure on those younger guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: We can talk about them later if you want the rookies and what they're looking at.

[SPEAKER_00]: So some guys are going to definitely have to step up and I'm sure they felt that these big body rookies in second and third year players were going to be able to do that for them.

[SPEAKER_03]: OK, and again, they spoke to Graham Blaskow about this a little bit.

[SPEAKER_03]: And they talked about the changing out here is actually going to affect the tackles a little bit because Parsons sends to be more outside and Kenny Clark was inside.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so that will change maybe some of their assignments, some of their approach, obviously, they moved Parsons around.

[SPEAKER_03]: And at least they did in Dallas.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we expect that'll be the case here.

[SPEAKER_03]: What we know Parsons wasn't practicing due to a back injury.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's been stuff on social media about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I fully expect that he's going to play in this game might not be full amount of snapshamed, but you'll be shocked if he's not playing, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think he's going to play.

[SPEAKER_01]: He might be on some kind of pitch count.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's also dealing with a back injury that supposedly he's going to have to take a [SPEAKER_01]: an injection before the game on Sunday to even maybe see if he could play.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not a hundred percent that he plays, but I think he probably does.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, a back injury at playing against the run is not going to be good.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think he's going to be mostly a designated pass rusher in this game only and you won't see him on early downs near the as much as maybe you know me would.

[SPEAKER_01]: But last year when the Lions played the Cowboys, he really wasn't much of a factor in that game either.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Lions game-planned him out of that game.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, my comparisons is when we get in the headlines right now, but that's not the only moves Green Bay has made this off season.

[SPEAKER_03]: They actually took a wide receiver in the first round.

[SPEAKER_03]: That was Matthew Golden.

[SPEAKER_03]: That it's CBN Williams in the third round.

[SPEAKER_03]: And an offensive tackle in the second round.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that goes with some early round picks.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think second or third round picks on some other wide receivers they've had.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so they've added there.

[SPEAKER_03]: James, you had some other guys you wanted to touch on that you thought might be impact players for them going into this game.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they had some guys that they drafted the late in the draft that I think could be players that impact or impact for them down the road.

[SPEAKER_01]: Warren Brinson defensive tackle from Georgia.

[SPEAKER_01]: It should be a pretty decent one.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think here a good accused is actually drafted a player from Georgia five times since, in the last twenty one.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then they also picked up an Azure Stackhouse as an undrafted free agent who's another massive defensive tackle from Georgia.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he made the fifty three for them out of training camp and made it twenty one straight years in which the Packers have had at least one undrafted free agent make the fifty three.

[SPEAKER_01]: The initial fifty three man roster.

[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't draft defensive players hardly at all in the draft until the end.

[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't take one until the fourth round.

[SPEAKER_01]: They took an edge, Baron Sorrell, and then they got Colin Oliver and the fifth round who is a guy that we had talked about, pre-draft is a potential fit for the Lions.

[SPEAKER_01]: He could end up being a steel, but he's also a little bit redundant with Mike Parsons and could end up getting buried by this trade.

[SPEAKER_01]: and stack house with somebody that I had the lines drafting in the seventh round and a lot of mock drafts just to kind of maybe have a insurance policy for a broader Martin.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so the Packers have added a good number of guys there that does make things different coach any else anything you're seeing different from this Packers team than we saw as the last year ended.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, and I think talking about the two guys that James just talked about.

[SPEAKER_00]: Colby Wooden is probably the prime candidate to fill in for Clark.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's probably two hundred and ninety pounds, which he's kind of undersized.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then, but Stackhouse at six four three twenty seven and Brunson at six five three fifteen or those nose tackle type of guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: The good thing for us as Lions fans is Brunson spent sixty four percent of his snaps during the preseason as a big active fender.

[SPEAKER_00]: and twenty nine percent as they over tackle you know like on the other side so if he is going to fill into that he's got he's got a crash course of it you know I'm sure you understand the defense so so I think you know from those standpoints I think I think they've got the guys that they feel are going to fill in for Clark but it may not pan out until later in the season [SPEAKER_03]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, so what are we expecting out of Green Bay then in this game?

[SPEAKER_03]: We know they got some new guys.

[SPEAKER_03]: They got some new pieces to that puzzle, some are young, somewhere traded for.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so I like what Cam talked about.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think Green Bay is going to want to start fast in this game because last year, it seemed like they started slow a lot.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I've been looking for potentially a quick starting offense of, you know, game plan and or [SPEAKER_03]: The packers are going to want to create turnovers like last year because they know that can change the game.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so those are a couple of things I'm looking at coach from the coaching standpoint.

[SPEAKER_03]: What are you thinking?

[SPEAKER_03]: Or are we going to expect that a green bat in this game?

[SPEAKER_03]: The first game of the season.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to be interesting.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's one thing you want to talk about.

[SPEAKER_00]: They went out and got banks in the free agency back in March.

[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Banks and got him in a guard which was able to move Jenkins over to center, who was the guard on that position.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, in the position that Banks took over because they felt that their center was not good enough, which, you know, I think we've heard that where the center has changed and they move a veteran over to play center.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that could be something they designed to maybe take some pressure off love and now Jacob's can run the ball better because they have more their their offense line is definitely better than it was last year and so I think that maybe one of the things so that [SPEAKER_00]: People aren't pinning their ears back and getting after loving their, and you know, giving him a, you know, established the run and then love, love, turn it loose.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, they got the integral parts on the offense.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they got some dobs, read, craft, math, and golden, the rookie, and Jacob.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they have some studs.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think, I think that's what, well, the floor is trying to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think you want to establish a run a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_00]: and then be able to get tied open up with the golden and in, you know, read and in the rest of that, where they got, they got all these, well, they have eight young, wide receivers last year, I don't remember, you know, which they were getting a bunch of entries and stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, and then they went, they got, um, uh, hardmen too, you know, basically for a pond returned, uh, I think to take away some of that on because reads been doing that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, so I think they, I think that's what they're, what they're going to go after with us, I think we're going to see the run.

[SPEAKER_00]: heavy run and then, you know, a lot of dumpster craft and the rest of the boys.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you know, they're going to try and Josh Jacobs was a great pick up.

[SPEAKER_03]: I, I, a lot of that right away last year and I, he had this type of success I expected him to have.

[SPEAKER_03]: James, they know that Jordan love needed more help though.

[SPEAKER_03]: They drafted those two receivers.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, but what do you expect it out of this receiving game week one, it might not be what most people are seeing on paper.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because you've got a lot of guys for them that are their wide receiver corps is banged up.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's very young, but it's also very banged up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Christian Watson is out because he got hurt late in the season last year with a torn ACL.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he's going to miss the beginning chunk of the season, similar to like a Lee McNieler Rodriguez, where the rehab is just going over into this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: But Dantevin, Wix, Jaden Reed, and Savion Williams are all banged up and listed as questionable.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's, you know, three at their top five or six wide receivers now.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I would expect a heavy dose of Josh Jacobs in this game, especially with Jenkins moving over to center because he's a better, much better run blocker than they had last year at center and then, and then adding banks, you know, they made one of the highest paid guards in the league, seven million dollars over four years.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's, I expect them to run a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and maybe not throw the ball as much as you would expect them considering the depth they have at wide receiver.

[SPEAKER_01]: But Nate Hobbes was their other big free agent that they brought in over the offseason corner from the Raiders.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to step in and starting a corner.

[SPEAKER_01]: But Kishan Nixon is the other one.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's mostly just kind of a thought of as a return guy, not necessarily a corner.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to end up having to start a corner for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: they ditched both of their starting corners from last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that that secondary on defense is kind of kind of their weakness.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to need Parsons Gary and then Ben Nest to get to that quarterback in a hurry.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I do think that, you know, the tackles are going to be busy in this game for the Lions because I do think especially if it's a specific passing down, which I don't even know what a passing down is for the Lions third and fourteen third and fifteen because we know on third and twelve, they will run the ball or whatever.

[SPEAKER_03]: But with Rashad and Gary, I'm like a person signing up on opposite sides of each other that will keep the tackles busy.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so you're exactly right.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think they're going to, their goal is going to probably be to put pressure on golf.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it reminds you of some of the games where we've seen it where it's been.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, two-step drop, you know, a quick get that ball out as quick as possible.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so let's flip it over.

[SPEAKER_03]: What are we expecting out of the lion's this game to counteract what we think the packers are going to do now?

[SPEAKER_03]: Some great insights were shared Calvin Shepherd shared one about Terian Arnold developing quite a bit.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says he's got the potential to take that step to be in a CB one right now.

[SPEAKER_03]: He saw that much growth out of him.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so that excites me about the lion's defense, seeing that [SPEAKER_03]: Shepard's seeing that out of him, Hutchinson was talked about by Coach Campbell about how he is back and he has even learned more of the craft.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so from the defensive side with Alliance, let's start there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, what are you expecting out of the Alliance defense going into this game?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think they're going to focus on stopping the run and we got two pretty big bodies in there to stop the run and Williams and Reed.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Campbell, I heard Campbell talked about Reed.

[SPEAKER_00]: about how well he is, um, uh, reader.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, reader, read as he's always been helping the young guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he had a full camp.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he last year he didn't have a full camp with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, so I think we're going to, you know, again, we're going to try to make it one dimensional for, uh, on defense for the for their offense.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, you got Reed, who's banged.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got Jones for actor guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to play on the air with the Jones for actor.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he's saying.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think Campbell and I think Shepherd and those guys are really going to focus on let's get love back into the passing game.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, we're going to have they got a pretty good tight end and they got a really got a rookie wide out and, you know, we already alluded to the injuries that they have at wide receiver.

[SPEAKER_00]: So [SPEAKER_00]: And because once they get into one dimension where they have to throw the ball if we stop the run that new band on that guy that got injured week five last year that number ninety seven guy that's just die into play football and we're going to see we're going to see him in Davenport and in the right week I think and [SPEAKER_00]: And the rest of the boys so I think that's the one thing is I think they're going to stop that run.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to make.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to show that offensive line.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're they're not as good as they think they could be.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then they're going to turn hutch loose and in the rest of the boys.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be fun to watch how they do.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm I'm going to stick with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to predict it's going to be stopped the run.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make love fast.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that sounds like a very logical thought process that I can get behind because, you know, you force them into those longer situations and that creates pressing, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, and when you're pressing, that's when you make those mistakes and you take Josh Jacobs out of the equation or use, you know, maybe take them out of it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You slow him down and contain him and put yourself into those longer passing downs and can cause more problems.

[SPEAKER_03]: James, what about you, what do you expect it out of this defense for the Lions?

[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of what Jerry said pretty much, I think that they're going to really focus on the run and just trying to take Josh Jacobs out of this game as much as they can and then force Jordan love to win this game with a wide receiver core that's beat up and [SPEAKER_01]: pretty young, you know, to high draft picks that have a lot of talent, but also don't have a lot of experience in the NFL yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's the way they're going to roll the dice, they're going to roll the dice that the packers have to beat them on the through the air, not on the ground.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: If pre-season's any indication, which it probably shouldn't be the biggest indication considering the starters didn't play, I think Calvin Shepherd's gonna throw a lot of different looks on defense.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think you're gonna see pressure from a lot of different areas.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm really excited to see that one because I think they're gonna, you know, trying to, like they said, make, make everything look the same, make everything that's the same look different.

[SPEAKER_03]: And just really shallow and short and love to read that defense to try to figure out what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm expected to see [SPEAKER_03]: a very talented Detroit Lions defense take the field on Sunday.

[SPEAKER_03]: And hopefully give the Green Bay Packers a lot of work.

[SPEAKER_03]: So let's flip it around then.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's look at the offense.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, Skye Montgomery talked about Jamison Williams developing so well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Jamison Williams developing so well this offseason.

[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of growth talked about building muscle so he can get in his cuts and out of his cuts quicker.

[SPEAKER_03]: The other side of this, though, golf was talked about it or asked about it today about the offense.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he said, you know, you really don't know what your identity is until a few weeks into the season, which we, I think we've talked about this before on this show.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he even talked about the Rams game last year.

[SPEAKER_03]: He goes, it takes time to figure it out.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he goes, it'd be nice to come out firing on all cylinders.

[SPEAKER_03]: But the reality is, that's hard to do right away.

[SPEAKER_03]: So coach, what are you thinking the lions are going to do?

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think we already alluded to it earlier in the show folks, but what are you thinking here coach?

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, you know, our [SPEAKER_00]: mantra that what Dan Campbell then want to do is just punch people in the mouth and run them over.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when you got two great running backs that you have, but there was a lot of deep balls being thrown during camps and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I heard about it with James most thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, could they attack, you know, here's a couple of things.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Nixon is the styries and on and off starter for the backers.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a corn in the last three years.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a great kick return, but his grades were terrible.

[SPEAKER_00]: has has ninety eight percent completion when thrown against them and which is just unbelievable and then he got Hobbes who's a new addition after four years with the Raiders so you know I think I think they'll they'll try to bring them into the box they're going to run run and then they're going to throw some deep balls I think we'll see more deep balls in the first game then we probably did all of last year just because of what they're saying with Jamal you know and then again [SPEAKER_00]: They'll probably make their adjustments at half time and decide, okay, we're just going to run the ball.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to, that's my feeling.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to run the ball.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to push it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to tack those young defense tackles, the young nose if they use the two hundred and ninety pound nose.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're going to get a lot of double teams and stuff like that with our two nasty guards and then with with Glasgow and their soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I would I think we'll establish the run, but I would not I would not shy away saying a couple deep balls within the two couple first two possessions just to see what we can do to those corners.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and that's it.

[SPEAKER_03]: There are a lot of different elements at play here, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: The Green Bay Packers have a secondary that we think is susceptible.

[SPEAKER_03]: They also have just gotten rid of their arguably best defensive tackle against the run.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we know the lines like to run.

[SPEAKER_03]: But we also know that Johnny Morton, new offensive coordinator, has talked about airing it out a little bit, and or maybe using the backs in the passing game more.

[SPEAKER_03]: So James, what do you think and what do you expect in the alliance in this first game?

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't offense.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one interesting thing that Scottie Montgomery also talked about when he talked about James and Williams was Jackson Meeks and how it looks like he could get up on to the fifth or three at some point pretty soon.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then you also had news come out of practice today that Isaac Tesla wasn't practicing today and with no explanation as to why he was not there.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that could be a possibility just just throwing that out there that maybe makes this guy that's brought up for the practice squad this week if if taste laws injury is is anything or if it even is an injury.

[SPEAKER_01]: We also have that the Packers change their defense around this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to run a four three instead of a three four, which is what we've been used to the Packers run in for decades.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be a different look than you're normally seeing from the Packers.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they'll have to take that into consideration as two.

[SPEAKER_03]: OK, yeah, there's going to be a lot of things to look at there from the defense.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have a hard time arguing with the running game going because that sets everything up.

[SPEAKER_03]: And obviously, the lions, they want to avoid that third and long.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that way, you don't know what they're going to do on third and two, third and four.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that could be those times to set up and take those deep shots.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, but I'm expecting to see, like Coach said, some more deep shots down the field, and a variety of people involved, including tight-end Sam Leport over the middle.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, I mean, back to that, you know, what is known about their defense right now?

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and maybe you think about it, Clark's gone, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: We don't, we don't know, I have any idea who they're gonna start attack us probably, you know?

[SPEAKER_00]: And, but we do know what the DBs look like.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, they can't hide them.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's kind of why I think we're gonna take some shots of them right away.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and, you know, when it's speaking to a Green Bay reporter, Kim, he's there, was asking him, what he thought the lines need to do to win, he said the lines should attack to defensive backs.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's like, you should go after them right away.

[SPEAKER_03]: He also has the lines shouldn't turn the ball over.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then on the other side, he said the lines need to get pressure on Jordan love and make him uncomfortable.

[SPEAKER_03]: Those were his keys for that.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so I mean, that makes sense.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's the one watching the defensive backs right away as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so, [SPEAKER_03]: So that would be a big key.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't think we've covered all the major storylines and everything unexpected that's come up so far.

[SPEAKER_03]: So now it's time for the ref report.

[SPEAKER_03]: James, that's your expertise.

[SPEAKER_03]: What'd you come up with?

[SPEAKER_01]: the lions get the cleat but Blakeman crew this week for week one they had him last season twice both on the road against Chicago and Green Bay they won both of those games obviously because they went undefeated on the road they in those games they were only whistle to five and seven times [SPEAKER_01]: whereas the Packers and Bears were each whistled ten times in those games.

[SPEAKER_01]: So his crew actually is called fifteen more penalties on the home teams than the way teams last year, which is a bit of an anomaly for an official crew that's usually either pretty balanced or they call more penalties on the road team.

[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.

[SPEAKER_03]: And correct me if I'm wrong, but to the Lions not get one single [SPEAKER_03]: Passing your parents call, called against like the team they played against when the lines run off.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they not benefit once.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is that true coach?

[SPEAKER_00]: I believe there might have been one at the end of the year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Think they got one at the end of the year.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a make up for the other sixteen games.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can't get called for passing your parents if you're five yards open.

[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you got to quarterback and throw you open.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why there's no pass variance calls.

[SPEAKER_00]: But hopefully that'll hopefully it stays the same.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, now it's prediction time on the show folks.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can predict anything you want in this segment.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: I for one believe the Lions can win every single game they play this year.

[SPEAKER_03]: I believe they can.

[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't say they will.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they're the game.

[SPEAKER_03]: They can't win, because I think the roster is that good.

[SPEAKER_03]: This week, I'm not going with a winner or a loss.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going with two things.

[SPEAKER_03]: One, I predict a game isn't like a really good game.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm going to predict that Jared Goff and James and Williams connect on a pass for more than thirty-five yards.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's going to be one of my prediction.

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's an easy one.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's week one.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really know what to expect.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like Goff said, they might not be firing on all cylinders.

[SPEAKER_03]: But that's what I'm going with this week.

[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, you have a prediction?

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a prediction that the announcers are going to go, oh, my God is such good.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's my prediction.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, we'll be listening.

[SPEAKER_03]: Make sure you put the clothes caption on there, folks.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just in case you can't hear it over the audible noise.

[SPEAKER_03]: Going out in Lambo field there.

[SPEAKER_03]: James, what do you have for prediction?

[SPEAKER_01]: Mine's going to have the number of thirty five in it too, because I think that Gibbs and Montgomery are going to touch them all thirty five times between them.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to pound that defensive line and open up the, open up the past game, but they're going to, they're going to, they're going to pound the rock.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like it.

[SPEAKER_01]: With no candy Clark there.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's time for final thoughts and then I have an ask you want to add their coach.

[SPEAKER_00]: One thing I do want to add is last year when Hutch went out we had a forty four point three percent blitz rate.

[SPEAKER_00]: If that were to went on for the whole year we'd have been the number one blitzing most blitzes in a game.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm interesting to see how close we get that with Hutch in because I think shepherd is going to blitz a little bit more on certain situations.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's one of the things I'm going to watch all year, because I really want to see how much shepherd is going to go above what A.

G.

did.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that just for me as a defensive guy, and I just thought that was interesting.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, some of those preseason games that looks he was showing.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, wow, and that was without the starters.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that will be really interesting.

[SPEAKER_03]: His first couple of weeks are going to be very intriguing to see.

[SPEAKER_03]: James, how about you, any final thoughts?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, you know, I like to lurk around on the opposing teams chat rooms and and see what they're talking about a little bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: The talk about the Micaparsan Strait is interestingly divisive on the Packers which was more that I was in.

[SPEAKER_01]: A bunch of people thought that they paid way too much for him, money wise and compensation wise, giving up two first round picks and Kenny Walker.

[SPEAKER_01]: And some people think that this is the move that's going to define Gudikun's job there.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to costume the job or they're going to win a Super Bowl in the next two years.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like they're saying, he asked a win a Super Bowl in the next two years.

[SPEAKER_01]: or he's going to get fired over this trade.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, that's uh, those are some strong fan perspectives there.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be strong.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some pretty strong opinions.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

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