1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,599 Speaker 1: Arizona straight to the line. There's the snap to Murray. 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Murray looks left, pumps once looking looking a lot of time. 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Now he throws and he didn't suthing about a line 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: picked up down the left sideline, picks up a block 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 1: at the dirty twenty five twenty Amoni ten five and 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: he's spot out a pounce right there. I say you, 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: twenty four, I see you. Welcome to the twenty Men 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: in the Huddle podcast. I am getting into the podcast game. 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: I am the senior writer for Detroit Lions dot Com, 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: Tim Twentyman, and I want to introduce you, guys to 11 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: My producer for this podcast is PJ. Clark, digital media 12 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: coordinator for the Detroit Lions. And I gotta tell you, guys, 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: this is somebody who knows a lot about football. This 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: is a guy that I can talk football with really 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: good and scouting and stuff like that. Senior Bowl m 16 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: I bounced a lot of stuff off you, Peache. And 17 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: so you're a guy respect for your football knowledge. And 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: so you're producing this thing. And I said, no, you're 19 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: not just gonna stand behind the microphone and produce a sing. 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: You're gonna get out in front. We're gonna talk football 21 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: a little bit. Nobody wants to sit here and watch 22 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,559 Speaker 1: me just banter around for twenty thirty forty minutes by myself. 23 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: So we're gonna mix it up a little bit. Me 24 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,559 Speaker 1: and you're gonna talk some football. We're gonna have some fun. 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: I got to Sean Elliott, the line's new safety, signed 26 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: him free agency from the Baltimore Ravens. He's gonna come. 27 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the schedule. And that's really what 28 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: we're what this podcast is about today is is the 29 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: NFL schedule. Obviously, big day today that's being released. We knew, 30 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: you know, the who we were playing, um, but the 31 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: when and the where and in the times and everything 32 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: is now out there and so um, huge, huge news, 33 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: big news today. And I guess a couple of things 34 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,919 Speaker 1: that jumped out when when I first saw the Lion schedule. 35 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: And we're gonna put that up on the screen for 36 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: you guys so you guys can see it is Peach 37 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: the one o'clock games. Yeah, Like you know, when I 38 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: look at the schedule, obviously who you who you start with, 39 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: you know who you finish with? Thanksgiving obviously because it's Troit. 40 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: But to me. And then you know, what are the 41 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: Monday night games? What are the Thursday games? What are 42 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: the Sunday night games? And when you look at this 43 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: line schedule, you guys know what you saw. That's one o'clock, 44 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: one o'clock, one o'clock, one o'clock, all one o'clock Saturday 45 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: games except for obviously the Thursday Thanksgiving Day game. There's 46 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: a Saturday Week sixteen at Carolina, but again that's a 47 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: one o'clock game. No pride tie games, peach are Are 48 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: you look surprised by that at all? I am, if 49 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: only because you look at New England, Dallas, Green Bay, 50 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: Buffalo is in a national TV game. But even like 51 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: a new look Miami doesn't get a primetime game. I 52 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: figured with the opponents, especially Dallas, New England, bigger names 53 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: like that, I thought maybe there could have been a 54 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: primetime game in there somewhere, you know, and even last year, 55 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 1: obviously we're coming off a bad season. In twenty twenty, 56 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: you know, you got that Week two matchup in Green Bay, 57 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: you know that early rival. Early. I was a little 58 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: surprised to not see a primetime game there. But again, 59 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: even when you win three football game games, well that 60 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: hard Knocks bump too. It doesn't get a hard knocks 61 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: bump off the top here with an early And do 62 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: you think maybe that plays a factor because you're gonna 63 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: get four prime time hard knocks in August. Maybe you thought, hey, 64 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: if we're on the fence about Detroit and somebody and 65 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: maybe somebody is gonna be a lot of in August, 66 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: maybe you can take that prime time game away. But 67 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: if you're Dan Campbell, do you use that as as 68 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: motivation at all? That's the one thing I kind of 69 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: wonder and I think will be interesting is is look, again, 70 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: you have to expect that off, you know, a three 71 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: win season. But if I'm Dan Campbell, hey, you know, 72 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: maybe I put that up. Maybe I I save that 73 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: and use that for some point when, um you know, hey, 74 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: we we were slided a little bit. You know, they 75 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: don't want you on primetime. That's what they think of you. 76 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: Um So if it's me, maybe I think to use that. 77 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: Do you think that can be motivation at something? You can? 78 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: And I mean it opens up then if you're playing, 79 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: you know, you look later on in the season, that 80 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: last Packers game, there's no time yet that could get 81 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: flexed a Minnesota. If you're in contention there in contention 82 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: that could get flexed. There's opportunities there Miami, even at 83 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: week eight, if both teams are pretty good, that could 84 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: be an early flex. So there are opportunities to get 85 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: into a later window. So I think, start hot and 86 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: see what happens. Start hot, And that's interesting and how 87 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: the schedule sets up three of your first four at home. 88 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: You got Philadelphia Eagles week one at four Field, Washington Commanders. 89 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: Then you go on the road to Minnesota, your first 90 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: chance at a division foe, and then you got Seattle, 91 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: who's not the same Seattle you're used to obviously know 92 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson there, but Philadelphia, Washington, Seattle. Three of your 93 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: first four at home. What a great opportunity for the 94 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: Lions to get off to a great start, right yeah, 95 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: and you gotta take advantage. I think three home games 96 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: right off the top, you have to make some sort 97 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: of an impact there. Every building, Seattle team, a Washington 98 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: team that's been down, and then Philly you gotta get 99 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: them back from last year, right, gotta get him back. 100 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: And me it's just it's Ford Field can be such 101 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: a special place, Like I know you weren't here in 102 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: twenty eleven, but that was you know, there have been 103 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: so many lean years leading up to that twenty eleven season, 104 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: and Detroit finally got that Monday night football game and 105 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: you know they were playing. They started five and zero 106 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: and it was just rocking, you know, and eleven false 107 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: starts for that Chicago team that game. I've never there's 108 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: two times I've left. And if you oh, you don't 109 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: know that. I was a sports rater for the Detroit 110 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: News for eight years before I joined the Detroit Lions, 111 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: and and you know, so I've covered Stanley Cup finals, 112 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: in World Series and all that kind of stuff. There 113 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: are two events that I have ever covered where I 114 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: left the event with my ear still ringing. That twenty 115 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: eleven football game against the Chicago Bears on Monday night 116 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: when that crowd was just unbelievable. And the NC Double 117 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: A Wrestling Championships at the Palace of Auburn Hills. I 118 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 1: tell you, guys, wrestling fans are crazy. They're crazy. I 119 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: picked ten Country out here too. It's big ten. Yeah 120 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was crazy the wrestling. But 121 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: that's what Ford Field can be if you can They're 122 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: so desperate for a winter peach, you know, I mean, 123 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: they just want one. And if you can get off 124 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: to a great start, and this schedule, to me afford 125 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: you that you've got three your first four at home, 126 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: You've got five of your first eight at home, and 127 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: so what a great opportunity. You know, there's a lot 128 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: of excitement surrounding Dan Campbell, there's a lot of excitement 129 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: surrounding this draft class. Who'll be in this weekend for 130 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: rookie minicamp. And so if you can just get off 131 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: to that great certain use four field for such and it, 132 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: you know, for an advantage because those fans are just 133 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: hungry for it. Boy, it could be fun when you 134 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: get into that mid season form if if you can 135 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: take advantage of it. And then you talk about even 136 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: last year starting forty nine Ers a very good team 137 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: lost in the NFC Championship, a little better than Philly 138 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: coming into this year, but fought hard, second half was good. Yeah, 139 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: came out, came out fire in the second half a 140 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: week one. So you're playing a maybe a little worst 141 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: team this year. You're playing a little worst team in Washington. 142 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: Obviously they still have some question marks. I mean, m 143 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: Seattle is as a giant question It's a huge question mark. 144 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: And even Minnesota. I mean, you're talking about a new 145 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: GM in Minnesota, you're talking about a new head coach. 146 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: You know. I hate the fact that normally when you 147 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: play a division foute earlier in the year, like you 148 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get with Minnesota, you know what 149 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna get with Chicago, Green Bay. A little bit 150 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: of an unknown there, and it'll be interesting because you're 151 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: only going to have two weeks of film leading up 152 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: to that game to kind of see those schemes and 153 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: what they are with their new systems. But still, I 154 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: think you know Minnesota's you know the player, you know 155 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: what you get, you get your Jefferson, You're getting feeling, 156 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: you get know the players and stuff. And so I 157 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: just think three r first four at home and then 158 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: a familiar opponent for your first road trip. It just 159 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: to me, it sets up really really great. And then 160 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: you know, when I look to me, the biggest stretch. 161 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: And again we're gonna talk to JA Sean Elliott about 162 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: this a little bit later, because it's just kind of 163 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: what he views and you know, stretches he looks for 164 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: in games. He's excited about. But to me, there's a 165 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: stretch from November thirteen, that's week ten. You've got Chicago, 166 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: the New York Giants, the Buffalo Bills on Thanksgiving. Obviously 167 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: it's a very tough one. But then you've got Jacksonville, 168 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: Minnesota at the Jets at Carolina home against Chicago. So 169 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: that's Chicago, New York Giants, Jacksonville Jaguars, Vikings, Jets, Carolina 170 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: and Chicago. Again, those to me are all teams that 171 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: have either question marks, are in the stages of rebuilding. 172 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: That's the stretch. To me, that is the huge stretch 173 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: where if you're gonna make some hay and set yourself 174 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: up for you know, week seventeen, Week eighteen, to me, 175 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: that's the stretch of games. And I think besides Buffalo, 176 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: I mean I could see the lines being favored against 177 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: Chicago on the road, against the Giants on the road. Now, 178 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: obviously we'll have to see how the first, you know, 179 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: part of the season plays out, but there's some games 180 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: in there probably favored against you that you can be favored, 181 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: you know against some of those teams of Vikings at home, 182 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: the Jets in Carolina, those are teams rebuilding. So there's 183 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: an opportunity during that stretch with obviously Buffalo thrown in 184 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 1: the middle there that boy, you can really make some 185 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: hay And that's your make or break stretch to me. 186 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: And that's coming off the stretch of New England by Dallas, Miami, 187 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: Green Bay, which are four of the better teams outside 188 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: of Buffalo that you're gonna be playing. So you're coming 189 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: off a tough stretch there where you get to buy 190 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: in the middle of it, and then you're going to 191 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: these rebuilding teams Chicago, New York, Jacksonville. Yeah, you gotta 192 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: take advantage there. Week six by little early. Yeah, you know, 193 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: obviously you'd like to see that, you know, in the 194 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: new seventeen game format probably week you know, eight, nine, 195 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: ten somewhere in there. Deshaun you know, said he liked 196 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: it a little bit later, but you know, it's an 197 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: opportunity if you're dealing with some injuries early in the 198 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: year to get healthy. But you're gonna have a twelve 199 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 1: game stretch after that after that by so it's a 200 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: little bit early. It's it's not the Week four that 201 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: Detroit had for a number of years. They're right a 202 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: row that's just that's a terrible one, and players hate 203 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: that one because that's that's a long second stretch to 204 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: your season when you have a Week four buy But 205 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, I'm I don't think Week six 206 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,079 Speaker 1: is terrible. I don't think Week six is terrible. And 207 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: then you also have the ten day building after Thanksgiving 208 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: coming into Jacksonville. To the point, that's a winnable game 209 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: for sure, So you take that break. Whatever happens on 210 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving with Buffalo, obviously it's gonna be a tough matchup, 211 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: but you take that break, you get a little extended 212 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 1: long weekend there, and then you come in and you 213 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: play at Jacksonville. Team let's picked first over all the 214 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: last two years. And to me, that ending stretch and 215 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: I love what the NFL did a number of years 216 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: ago when they made division opponents those last two games. Yeah, 217 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it just it just juices up everything. Because obviously, 218 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: the easiest way to a championship is winning your division. 219 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: The easiest way to win your division is to beat 220 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 1: up on your division. And so um, Green Bay Packers 221 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: lambeau Field January seven or eight, that's to be determined. Um, 222 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: you know, obviously a tough task in there, but then 223 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: Chicago the week before. I think, just piece people just 224 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: want to be playing meaningful games the end of November 225 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: into December into January. Now that there's a seventeenth game, 226 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: and it's just that could be so exciting if they 227 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: can get themselves to a point and there's a lot 228 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: of optimism on the players, along the coaches, amongst a 229 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: lot of people out there about you know, the moose 230 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: Brad Holmes has made about this draft class, about you know, 231 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: number of the rookies last year, you know, taking big 232 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: steps and this can be a better football team. How 233 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: much better yet to be determined, you know, we'll start 234 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: to see that. But if they can just be competitive, 235 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,959 Speaker 1: if they can be in the hunt in December January, 236 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: just how fun will it be around here? And how 237 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: fun will it be at Ford Field? Looking forward to 238 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:53,079 Speaker 1: Chicago playable game New Year's Day. If that game matters, 239 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: it's gonna be rocking. I mean, just how fun will 240 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: that be? And so um, you know, it's an interesting 241 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: schedule to me. You know, I think there'll be a 242 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: lot of debate about the non Monday night Sunday night games. 243 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: We've talked about it. You're a three win team. That's 244 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: what you've got to expect. It is what it is, 245 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: and look, you've got a chance to earn it. You 246 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: made the point you can flex those things later in 247 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: the year. But overall I liked schedule. I really do. 248 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: I don't. There's no stretches where you're you're on the 249 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: road a bunch. There's no more than two weeks where 250 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: you're on the road. And actually the right on Thanksgiving 251 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: that's a great stretch with Buffalo at Thanksgiving November twenty four, 252 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: then you're home against Jacksonville, so you've got that ten 253 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: day stretch in there. Then you're home the following week 254 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: against the Mentiphon Minnsotea Vikings. I mean, that's over twenty 255 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: days of sleeping in your own bed, you don't have 256 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: to worry about, you don't have to do all that 257 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And then you've got to you know, 258 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: then you're going to the New York Jets week fifteen 259 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: and at Carolina week sixteen. You're ending three or four 260 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,959 Speaker 1: on the road, so you've really got to take advantage. 261 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: We talked about that part being that key stretch, those 262 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: three some particular Buffalo, Jacksonville, Minnesota at home before then 263 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: you hit the road for three of your final four. 264 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: I think that's that's the key stretch, right, Yeah, that's 265 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: where you've got to go two and one, three, and 266 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: oh if you're going to set yourself to be in 267 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: the hunt that last quarter, those last four games. I mean, 268 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: I hate to circle a game on day one here, 269 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,839 Speaker 1: but I think that that Jacksonville game is going to 270 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: be the pivot point because whatever happens on Thanksgiving, you know, 271 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: you can't You're not gonna be favored unless Josh Allen 272 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: gets hurt or something. You know, you can't expect to 273 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: win that game, but you gotta play him hard. And 274 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 1: then coming off that extended little mini buy into Jacksonville 275 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,319 Speaker 1: a team that is in constant rebuild mode. What's the 276 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: bigger storyline going into the Jacksonville game? Is it Trayvon 277 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: Walker and a Johnson the top two picks? Ors it 278 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: former number one quarterbacks Trevor Lawrence. And that's a reallysing 279 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: off at you know, at ford Field Jacksonville following the 280 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, which you hope is a huge, huge win 281 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: for Detroit. I mean, if they can win that Buffalo game, 282 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: obviously at Hump again, if you if you set yourself 283 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: up in those first eight games, right, five of eight 284 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: at home. If you put yourself in a good position, 285 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: Now four fields rocking at Thanksgiving. Now it's packed and 286 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: look and even you've got an opportunity to win any 287 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: game you take advantage to two weeks before at Chicago 288 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: and at the Giants. I mean, yeah, you can have 289 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: a little momentum heading into Thanksgiving too. Yeah, I mean 290 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: the short Lines have the fifth easiest schedule in the 291 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: NFL based off last year's win lost percentage, And you've 292 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: got to be careful doing that sometimes because teams change 293 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: so much, you know, season to season. There's what thirty 294 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: three percent just roster changeover in the NFL every year too. 295 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: But when I look at this schedule, there's just nothing 296 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: that that jumps out to me, like, Wow, that's that's 297 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: a tough stretch that that's gonna be hard to win. 298 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: That's that's a bad month. I think you get you 299 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: get saved by the bye week in the middle of 300 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: New England, Dallas, Miami in Green Bay, because I think 301 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: those are four in a row. That's tough. I expect 302 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: Miami to be after a big offseason, to be at 303 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: least better than they were last year. E Bay is 304 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: always hard, and then you got two other playoff teams 305 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: on the road in there. I think, I think that's 306 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: probably your tough stretch. But I don't know if any 307 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: of those games are not winnable. Yeah, Green Bay at 308 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: home and Miami at home at the very least, and 309 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: everything's at one o'clock. So you're scheduled. There's some consistency 310 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: in that schedule. You're all set up. I just think overall, 311 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: I like it. I like being home, you know, three 312 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: the first four the final month, you know, I don't mind. 313 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: I like that. You made a good point that buy 314 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: kind of splits up that tough stretch there. There's a 315 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: chunk of winnable games in the middle of the year, 316 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: and you look, you've got to earn at the end 317 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: of the year. You know, you've got to go at 318 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: Green Bay and hopefully we're talking about that being for 319 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: something with the playoffs, that being something, you know, for 320 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: the division. So I think overall, I like the schedule. 321 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: It'll be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I 322 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: love the scheduled day because it kind of makes it 323 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: seem more like football, right. I mean, guys are here 324 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: and you're in shorts, and you know we're about to 325 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: start OTAs, but look, rookie minicamps this weekend, right, and 326 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: then the rookie then the rookies are going to join 327 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: the Vets. And now you know the schedule and mini 328 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: camps around the corner, and then you know training camp 329 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: will be here, and training camp will be different this 330 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: year because a hard knocks and I just I like 331 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: scheduled day. It just makes it seem like football is 332 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: getting a little bit closer. It's exciting, it's excitingly exciting, 333 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: it's exciting, it's fun. We'll obviously have more on the 334 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: schedule when when Deshaun Elliott joins me here in a 335 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: few minutes, and we'll see from his perspective what jumped 336 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: out to him about the schedule, what stretches he likes, 337 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: what he thinks about to buy, and he'll break this 338 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: down from a player's perspective. It'll be pretty fun. Welcome back. 339 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: I am joined by new Lion safety Deshaun Elliott, former 340 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: Baltimore raven who came over in free agency this year. 341 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: And Deshaun obviously the show is all about the schedule. 342 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: That's a big news in the NFL right now today, 343 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: just when you get that schedule, when you first put 344 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: your eyes on it, what's the first thing you tend 345 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: to look for? The first thing I usually look, I 346 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: try to see, all right, what games are going to 347 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: be cold? At the first? All right, cold game first? 348 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: Then I go, Okay, the Vision Riders, I want to say, 349 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: like more exactly that's going to play out, because you know, 350 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: usually the best time to play them is earlier in 351 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,120 Speaker 1: this well, honestly I want maybe later in the season, 352 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: because then you're more established as a team, you know 353 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: your identity as a team. And I just feel like 354 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: at the moment right now, it's looking pretty good. It is, 355 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: looks looking great. It is. And when you talk about 356 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: those division point it's obviously there's a lot of familiarity 357 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: with that now for you, obviously coming over from Baltimore, 358 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 1: new to the NFC North, you know you've got to adjust, 359 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: but teams typically know the Chicago's, the Minnesota's, the Green base. 360 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: When Chicago and Minnesota have new regimes, new GM's, new coaches. 361 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: How much different is that when you experience that with 362 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: Cincinnati or Cleveland or any of those when they transition 363 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: to those new regimes those new coaches, how different really 364 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: is it? Or can you still kind of expect they're 365 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: gonna be who they have always kind of been? Um, 366 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: it's more of like you expect a highly like a 367 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: battle just because of y'all being in division. Ride was overall, 368 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if it's the old staff for 369 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: a new staff, you know it's gonna be a battle. 370 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: But for the most partum once each city, in my opinion, 371 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 1: has an identity, so it doesn't matter who they bring in, 372 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: that identity is going to be true to who they are. 373 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: So like, just like here, just like the city of 374 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: Detroit is such a like a gritty, like hard working, 375 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: like hard old city, so obviously the team is gonna 376 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: reflect that. And so I just feel like it doesn't 377 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: really matter where it is besides like or for example, 378 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: like the Rams they're for next team California Bright Lights. 379 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: That's kind of what I'm saying, says So you talked 380 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: off the top. You look at for the cold weather games, 381 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: you look for the division games. Well, obviously you guys 382 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: open at home against Philadelphia non Division three or first 383 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: four at home, but you end on the road Week 384 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: eighteen in Green Bay, ambo Field. Now, Little Bertie told 385 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: me a little rumor you have never been to Lambeau Field, 386 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: So how much are you looking forward to not only 387 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: kind of ending the season with the division rival, but 388 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: also getting a chance to play at Lambeau Green Bay 389 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: as well. I can't wait just because being able to 390 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna make plays and on Limbo field, 391 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: and I want to jump into the crowd just to 392 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: be petty. So that's kind of That's one of the 393 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: big things I've heard. It's a great atmosphere and like 394 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: the fans go crazy, and just I've heard like how 395 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: the where the stadium is built, like it's like the wind. 396 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: It's kind of like weirder pairent win the or something 397 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: like that. Is you can get a little with little 398 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: circular little cross. You're gonna get some snow probably. I 399 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 1: mean I prefer snow over just like a slush of 400 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: disgusting anyway, So yeah, I'm excited. I can't wait, honestly. 401 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: So one of the things I noticed when this schedule 402 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: came out, it was one o'clock, one o'clock, one o'clock, 403 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: and it goes all the way down the list. You 404 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: guys obviously have Thanksgiving National TV game tradition here in 405 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: Detroit that you could do experience for the first time. 406 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: But no Monday night, no Thursday night, no Sunday night. 407 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: Obviously a three win team last year, But do you 408 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: see that and can Dan Campbell you guys use that 409 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: as motivation? Do you see that as a slight as 410 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: I mean, and I mean it's kind of like, it's 411 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: kind of you gotta expected three wins. All we can 412 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: do is go out there and battle and compete and 413 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: show them why the following year, why we need to 414 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,719 Speaker 1: have prometime games, because we're gonna go out there, We're 415 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: gonna do what we need to do and be the 416 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: type of team that gets those games. Coming from Baltimore, 417 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: I'm used to a lot of the light games, four 418 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: thirty games, eight thirty games, just like the later games 419 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: into the day and those that are used to the 420 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: teams that as used are the games the teams I 421 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: mean fans want to watch anyways. Yeah, so we just 422 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: got to prove to people that hey, we can be 423 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: one of the top two teams in this league, and 424 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,719 Speaker 1: I believe with what we have here it's a possibility. 425 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: Can you flip that as a positive though. Two. I 426 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: mean you guys, to get where you are your creatures 427 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: of habit, which is with your workout schedule, your diet, 428 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: everything else. To have a schedule where it's every Sunday 429 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: one clock, you know exactly what your schedule is gonna 430 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 1: beat all those late Monday night games, those West coast 431 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: trips that can mess with your schedule a little bit. 432 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: Can that be a positive too, that there's gonna be 433 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: really a sense of continuity throughout this whole eighteen game schedule. 434 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I will say, like because sometime and sometimes 435 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: your anxiety and you're like nerves can be so much 436 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: that sometimes the letter games aren't the best thing for you. Sometimes, 437 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: like the big prompt with the big games that we 438 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: need to add that all right, one o'clock, it's trying 439 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: to get up and get it after let's go. Let's 440 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: gonna work right now, because a lot of those teams, 441 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: if it's for US home games, they might be coming 442 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: from the West Coast of somewhere else. So that's a 443 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: little extra earlier than what they were inticipate. Anyway, So 444 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: and I'm a morning guy anyways, I'm already up at 445 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 1: six thirty seven mints, So let's go, let's get too, 446 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: let's play right now. Three of the first four games 447 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: at ford Field, you were at ford Field. Obviously last 448 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: year you played, you played in that environment, that crazy 449 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: game where Farry Tucker won on the sixty six yard 450 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: record breaking field goal. Just when that place is humming 451 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: with and in the fourth quarter it was it was 452 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: it was home and just what is that atmosphere? Like 453 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: what kind of a home field advantage can that be 454 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: for Detroit if they get off to a good start 455 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: in that first month of the season. When I played 456 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: last year, we came out in the first half and 457 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: it was kind of like a just normal. It wasn't 458 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: a lot of like something the fans and I didn't 459 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: see that many fans. Then we came out in the 460 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: second half and it was packed. It made I was like, 461 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: how is that even possible? Yes, And it was. It 462 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: was so loud the first of the game. Like offense defenses, 463 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: it was actually like crazy, it's crazy. But um, I 464 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,719 Speaker 1: just feel like if they come out and give us 465 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: that energy, then we can feed off that. Specially for defense. Yeah, 466 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: I feel like for the most far, our offense is 467 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: going to do the other thing, but defense needs the 468 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: fans to tune in and be like as one because 469 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they're us. Shoot we 470 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: are they are all, say the line, So we need 471 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 1: them to bring that energy so we can go out 472 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: there and really knock some heads and really get out 473 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: the field. Okay, you looked at that schedule. Was there 474 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: one game at all that maybe popped out a little 475 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: bit as just okay, I like that. Maybe it's a 476 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: place you've been before, at place you've never been. We 477 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: talked about Lambeau, but an opponent. Is there anything that 478 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: kind of jumped out to you when you saw that schedule? 479 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: You verse two games, all right? One the Dallas Cowboys 480 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: because I'm from Dallas, all right, and it's at Dallas, 481 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: so being able to tickets. Tickets are gonna be I'm 482 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: not getting paid that week, basically. I'm quite afraid that 483 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 1: week basically. But then the Bills, because I mean I 484 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: got to play in the playoffs for my third year 485 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: and they sent us home. So I just wanted to 486 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: go out there and battle, compete against them, and hopefully 487 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: go home with Do you have you played on Thanksgiving 488 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: and College? I did putting sex attack like twice on 489 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Yeah, so you don't know the tradition and everything obviously, 490 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: Detroit Dallas. I'm still really just watching the Lions play 491 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, right, so yeah, and having all our family 492 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: and friends around. How much are you looking forward to 493 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: being able to be part of that game on Thanksgiving? 494 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 1: And it's Buffalo too. I mean that's a team that 495 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: has obviously Super Bowl aspirations for the best teams in 496 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 1: the a FC, and that can be a statement game 497 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: for you guys a national television. How much you're looking 498 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: forward to that? Well, first, we gotta get through the 499 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: first ten eleven games, so we can get thro those. 500 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 1: We gotta get through those when we get a time, 501 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: one day at a time, and then when it comes down, 502 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: when it comes down and Thanksgiving, hopefully by that time, 503 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: that will be a big game for us because we 504 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: are We've done the things leading up to that point 505 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: to make it a competitive game for them. So once 506 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: we get out there and we compete and we do 507 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: we need to do, I think it's gonna be a 508 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: great game. One other thing to touch on real quick 509 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: week six bye week. I know that's obviously something you 510 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 1: guys look at you that's a chance for you guys, 511 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: get you get your bodies right. I know guys normally 512 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: like that to be kind of rate mid season, where 513 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: you can break that up into a first half, second half. 514 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: What do you think about week six is is that 515 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: it's not negative, not terrible, It's not bad. I would 516 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: prefer to be around like ten or eleven, ten or eleven, 517 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: But week six is fine because then my body be 518 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: rejuvenated for the Cowboys game and we'll make a stretch 519 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: down all the way down to January, hopefully be in 520 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: the playoffs by then. So that's me. I don't I 521 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: don't like the whole I'm gonna playoff mentality. I don't 522 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: have any other mentality in the playoffs. I'm not here 523 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: for nothing but to win games. I don't care about 524 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: the three games five games. I'm wapping my last year 525 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: year before this is right now and this season right here, 526 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: I expect us to being the playoffs and before we 527 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: finish out here. We've talked to a lot of guys 528 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: here the last couple of weeks, and that's really been 529 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: the mentality. It is playoffs and taking a big step forward, 530 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 1: and you guys really believe that in that room. Though 531 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: definitely you guys think that you have the team to 532 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: kind of make a big step forward from here. Of 533 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: course we have the players. That's all about wanting. It 534 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: were working in wanting. If you want and you're gonna 535 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: do the things to put in to become great, then 536 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: greatness can obviously flourishing around here. And I feel like 537 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: with the staff from the coach staff, you know what 538 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: they're putting in a season to the players, and I 539 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: feel like down the line, we can make some things 540 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: shake around here when that schedule comes out? Does it 541 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: seem like football's more real? Ota is gonna get cooking 542 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: here Rookie Minicamp this upcoming weekend, and so those guys 543 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: will be joining you guys in the next coming weeks. 544 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: But now you know who you're playing when you're playing, 545 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: does it Does it feel like it's ramping up? Now? 546 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: It's football season? Baby? I feel it. I feel just 547 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: like these last couple of weeks has been weird for 548 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: me on new plays, new everything, So I haven't really 549 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: felt like football yet. But they say that rookies are 550 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: coming in this week for the Rookie Muni count. I'm like, okay, 551 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: hold on, annows some helmets. Let me get put on. 552 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: I like that and it's starting to give me chills again. Back, 553 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: I'm back in my mode. I like that. Well, the 554 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: schedules out, we know when and where the opponents will be. 555 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: You guys are getting ready to to obviously give fans 556 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,199 Speaker 1: a good start. You got three r first four at 557 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,479 Speaker 1: four field. That should be fun. Thank you so much 558 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: for joining me to Sean. Can't wait to follow you 559 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: guys and and get this thing kicking. Yeah sir, that's good. 560 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: All right, guys, we'll be back in a minute. Appreciate 561 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: you well. Thank you guys for joining the twenty Minute 562 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: in the Huddle podcast. It was fun talking about the 563 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: schedule again. That's such a fun time. Rookie Mini Caamp 564 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: is coming up on Saturday, So next week we will 565 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: have another podcast on focusing just on that Rookie Mini Caamp. 566 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: So join me next week. We'll get into more of 567 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: the football stuff after getting out of the schedule. We'll 568 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: get into the nitty gritty of football. It will be fun.