WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.700 What's going on, everybody? This is your GM, 00:00:01.780 --> 00:00:03.819 Kale, your bad girl, Dom, is here to bring you 00:00:03.819 --> 00:00:06.440 episode two of the Stack and Shed series. Now, 00:00:06.459 --> 00:00:08.619 in this series, we're going to do a deep dive 00:00:08.619 --> 00:00:11.400 on a few different areas for every single team. 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:14.240 And those areas are, what went wrong? What do 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.379 they need? Stack or Shed? Their draft picks? 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.109 One move I would do if I was their GM. and their 00:00:21.109 --> 00:00:23.609 cap space okay now originally i was going to 00:00:23.609 --> 00:00:25.710 just group everybody in but i was like you know 00:00:25.710 --> 00:00:27.750 what that's going to take way too much time and 00:00:27.750 --> 00:00:30.449 i may allocate too much time for this team instead 00:00:30.449 --> 00:00:32.969 of that team so what we're going to do is we're 00:00:32.969 --> 00:00:35.390 going to break everything up moving forward okay 00:00:35.390 --> 00:00:38.049 so let's start with the lions so what went wrong 00:00:38.049 --> 00:00:40.469 in their season now eventually say it was predictable 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:43.310 play calling on key downs and hiring the wrong 00:00:43.310 --> 00:00:45.609 oc so let's start with predictable play calling 00:00:46.030 --> 00:00:48.689 I understand that Dan Campbell's identity is 00:00:48.689 --> 00:00:50.909 aggressiveness. And I understand that it works 00:00:50.909 --> 00:00:54.030 sometimes and fails. But the problem that we're 00:00:54.030 --> 00:00:56.789 seeing recently is it's starting to fail the 00:00:56.789 --> 00:00:59.969 Lions more than actually succeed. And the reason 00:00:59.969 --> 00:01:02.950 why I'm bringing this up is as long as Dan Campbell 00:01:02.950 --> 00:01:05.689 continues to be aggressive on key downs, the 00:01:05.689 --> 00:01:08.530 Lions are going to lose those key down matchups 00:01:08.530 --> 00:01:11.250 and possibly lose key games that they need to 00:01:11.250 --> 00:01:14.150 win. Let's be honest here. The Lions are in their 00:01:14.150 --> 00:01:16.909 window. And the only way that you can maximize 00:01:16.909 --> 00:01:19.930 your window is playing smart. There's a time 00:01:19.930 --> 00:01:22.769 and place to be aggressive. The only time I should 00:01:22.769 --> 00:01:25.010 see your coach being really aggressive is in 00:01:25.010 --> 00:01:27.150 the third and fourth quarter. Outside of that, 00:01:27.250 --> 00:01:29.189 there's no need for you to be aggressive. If 00:01:29.189 --> 00:01:31.250 it's fourth down, but you're in field goal range, 00:01:31.430 --> 00:01:33.230 kick the field goal, get the three points, who 00:01:33.230 --> 00:01:35.969 cares? But if it's third and eight, well then 00:01:35.969 --> 00:01:38.510 guess what? You may have to do something a little 00:01:38.510 --> 00:01:41.219 bit different. But what you don't do is just 00:01:41.219 --> 00:01:44.819 be super aggressive all the time because defenses 00:01:44.819 --> 00:01:46.620 are going to pick it up and then they're going 00:01:46.620 --> 00:01:48.719 to have a counter for it. And we see it all the 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.579 time. It was cool when it was the first two or 00:01:51.579 --> 00:01:53.659 three years of Dan Campbell's tenure with the 00:01:53.659 --> 00:01:56.000 Lions, but everybody knows what to do against 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.780 Dan Campbell. I don't care if you have Amon Ross 00:01:58.780 --> 00:02:01.099 St. Brown. I don't care if you had Randy Moss. 00:02:01.299 --> 00:02:03.500 I don't care if you had T .O. It's not going 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:05.760 to solve anything. You don't believe me? I got 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.180 some stats to back it up. According to Sumer 00:02:08.180 --> 00:02:11.000 Sports. The third down conversion rate without 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:15.719 Ben Johnson is 213 attempts for 87 conversions, 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.539 which is 40 .8%. Their fourth down conversions 00:02:19.539 --> 00:02:23.939 without Ben Johnson is 117 attempts for 20 conversions, 00:02:24.099 --> 00:02:27.419 which is 17 .1%. I'm not saying these things 00:02:27.419 --> 00:02:29.780 just to say these things. I know what I'm talking 00:02:29.780 --> 00:02:33.370 about. The Lions have to do a better job on key 00:02:33.370 --> 00:02:36.090 downs. If you do that, I guarantee you you'll 00:02:36.090 --> 00:02:37.770 have a better result than what you have right 00:02:37.770 --> 00:02:40.169 now. Now on to the offensive coordinator spot. 00:02:40.830 --> 00:02:43.430 I understand that at some point Ben Johnson was 00:02:43.430 --> 00:02:45.009 going to lead the Lions and he was going to take 00:02:45.009 --> 00:02:46.689 a lot of people with him. Now you would have 00:02:46.689 --> 00:02:48.909 thought the Lions would have been proactive instead 00:02:48.909 --> 00:02:52.610 of reactive. But clearly that's not what happened 00:02:52.610 --> 00:02:54.370 and now they're in the situation that they're 00:02:54.370 --> 00:02:55.949 in where they're currently looking for an offensive 00:02:55.949 --> 00:02:58.590 coordinator. Now I don't hate them for making 00:02:58.590 --> 00:03:01.389 the move that they did, but... I just feel like 00:03:01.389 --> 00:03:03.969 they didn't do enough. And the reason why I say 00:03:03.969 --> 00:03:06.590 that is because name me one offensive coordinator 00:03:06.590 --> 00:03:08.169 that wouldn't want to work with this offense. 00:03:08.490 --> 00:03:11.710 An offense that has Panay Sewell, Jameer Gibbs, 00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:15.050 David Montgomery, Sam Laporta, Jamison Williams, 00:03:15.409 --> 00:03:18.710 Amon Ross St. Brown, Isaac Tisla. Now I'll give 00:03:18.710 --> 00:03:20.889 you some slack because I know sometimes if you 00:03:20.889 --> 00:03:23.129 make an external hire, they have to bring in 00:03:23.129 --> 00:03:25.449 their own staff and they may use the players 00:03:25.449 --> 00:03:27.490 that you have in a different way. Okay, fine. 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:29.460 But you mean to tell me you couldn't have at 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:31.319 least done a little bit of homework on some potential 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.319 candidates? If you brought in two or maybe three 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:36.340 people just to poke their brains just to see 00:03:36.340 --> 00:03:38.240 how they would use this person and that person, 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:41.280 okay, fine. That shows me that you're open to 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.240 new ideas. But what you don't do is make an internal 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.280 promotion and think, okay, we solved the problem. 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.340 No, you didn't. All you did was just put a band 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:51.120 -aid over the situation and say, you know what? 00:03:51.219 --> 00:03:52.840 We're going to deal with that in the future. 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.060 And see, I wouldn't have a problem with this 00:03:55.060 --> 00:03:56.840 if the offense didn't have a lot of weapons. 00:03:57.659 --> 00:04:00.819 But this offense has a lot of firepower on it. 00:04:00.860 --> 00:04:03.340 So you need to bring in somebody that knows how 00:04:03.340 --> 00:04:06.180 to maximize multiple positions to the fullest 00:04:06.180 --> 00:04:08.780 of their extent. And we saw that there were points 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:10.520 in the season where the offense wasn't playing 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.180 their best. There was a point in time where Dan 00:04:13.180 --> 00:04:15.280 Cable took the play calling from John Morton. 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.639 Anytime that happens, your play calling was trash. 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.740 Now with that being said, what do the Lions need? 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:24.480 And that is a new offensive coordinator and a 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:26.959 right tackle. Now with the offensive coordinator 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:28.759 spot, that's a little bit tricky. I know they 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.339 brought in a couple people. Mike McDaniel, they're 00:04:31.339 --> 00:04:33.139 supposed to be bringing in Arthur Smith fairly 00:04:33.139 --> 00:04:36.000 soon. I think they also brought in Cliff Kingsbury 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.319 as well. Now out of the people that they're probably 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:40.420 going to bring in, I would say Mike McDaniel 00:04:40.420 --> 00:04:42.800 is the best choice. And the reason why I say 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.019 that is because... Although the Dolphins had 00:04:45.019 --> 00:04:48.199 a bad year, I think honestly he's a better offensive 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.920 coordinator than head coach. His run schemes, 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.579 phenomenal. And with you having Jameer Gibbs 00:04:53.579 --> 00:04:56.439 and possibly David Montgomery, I think this is 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:58.660 great for you. Although the personality stuff 00:04:58.660 --> 00:05:00.439 might be a little bit weird because like he's 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.660 a little bit quirky and nerdy and Dan Campbell 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:04.439 is like alpha male. We're going to run through 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.699 this wall. We're going to enforce our will on 00:05:06.699 --> 00:05:10.019 everybody. Like it's going to be a weird combination, 00:05:10.060 --> 00:05:12.120 but when they get on the field, they're going 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:13.939 to be great. Okay, now when it comes to the right 00:05:13.939 --> 00:05:16.660 tackle spot, hear me out because this goes in 00:05:16.660 --> 00:05:19.100 with the one move that I would do if I was the 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:21.639 Lions GM and that is draft the right tackle. 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.060 Let's be honest here. Parts of their offensive 00:05:25.060 --> 00:05:28.160 line are getting old. And we know that both Dan 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.500 Skipper and Taylor Decker have said that this 00:05:30.500 --> 00:05:33.000 might be their last year. So with that being 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:35.500 said, the best thing for you to do is to move 00:05:35.500 --> 00:05:38.379 Panay Sewell at left tackle, then draft you a 00:05:38.379 --> 00:05:40.579 right tackle. Now, originally I was thinking 00:05:40.579 --> 00:05:43.040 the Lions should go after a pass rusher, but 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.279 once Taylor Decker has said that he's most likely 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.220 going to retire, I was like, you know what? Right 00:05:47.220 --> 00:05:49.279 tackle. They need to get a right tackle right 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.740 now, get this over with, and you don't have to 00:05:51.740 --> 00:05:54.100 worry about it for the next few years. Now they 00:05:54.100 --> 00:05:56.040 could go on a free agency and spend a boatload 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.439 of money on Braden Smith, but I don't think that's 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.600 the best idea. I think it's just best that you 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.839 draft one. But when we talk about pass rusher 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:05.379 for just a brief moment, I think you can get 00:06:05.379 --> 00:06:07.560 a really good pass rusher in the second or third 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:09.660 round because there's going to be a lot of pass 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:12.079 rushers and not all of them are going to be drafted 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:14.399 in the first round. So if you get a high quality 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:16.420 one in the second round, who's really complaining? 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:19.240 Or you could trade for one. Or you could pay 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.060 Al -Quddeen Muhammad. Because technically speaking, 00:06:22.180 --> 00:06:24.360 according to Spoltrak, his market value is only 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.699 $8 .2 million, which translates to a two -year 00:06:27.699 --> 00:06:32.480 $16 .4 million deal. That's not bad. So I think 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:34.779 you have a lot of options with pass rusher compared 00:06:34.779 --> 00:06:37.639 to right tackle. Right tackle is something that 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:39.759 you're going to have to draft high. Now, with 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:41.839 that being said, the question that we all need 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:45.540 to ask ourselves is stack or shed? And I would 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:47.759 venture to say stack. And the reason why I say 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.750 that is because... The infrastructure is there. 00:06:51.050 --> 00:06:53.389 All they have to do is just move some pieces 00:06:53.389 --> 00:06:56.430 around. Once they move those pieces around, they're 00:06:56.430 --> 00:06:58.029 going to be right back to playing productive 00:06:58.029 --> 00:07:01.170 football. Yes, it was expected for them to have 00:07:01.170 --> 00:07:03.290 a down year once Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn 00:07:03.290 --> 00:07:06.050 left, but they have a chance to get back on straight 00:07:06.050 --> 00:07:08.350 street. Now, I'll be honest, your division is 00:07:08.350 --> 00:07:10.949 going to be a lot more competitive now. The Bears 00:07:10.949 --> 00:07:13.689 look like serious contenders. The Packers are 00:07:13.689 --> 00:07:16.850 no slouches. If Michael Parsons didn't get hurt 00:07:16.850 --> 00:07:18.990 this year, they probably would have beaten the 00:07:18.990 --> 00:07:21.230 Bears and would still be in the playoffs right 00:07:21.230 --> 00:07:24.410 now. So I understand that there's a lot of frustrations 00:07:24.410 --> 00:07:27.050 within the Lions fan base, and rightfully so. 00:07:27.230 --> 00:07:29.629 But you guys have to be patient because let's 00:07:29.629 --> 00:07:33.009 be honest here. You still have the pieces. All 00:07:33.009 --> 00:07:35.990 of your top players are in their prime. All you 00:07:35.990 --> 00:07:38.230 have to do is just address the few holes on your 00:07:38.230 --> 00:07:40.410 team. Once you do that, you're going to be fine. 00:07:41.089 --> 00:07:43.829 And as long as everybody stays healthy, which... 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.339 I have a theory about why their secondary can't 00:07:47.339 --> 00:07:49.579 stay healthy, but I can't prove it, so I'm not 00:07:49.579 --> 00:07:51.519 going to talk about it in this episode. But if 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:53.360 there's more information that comes out about 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.720 it, I definitely will. But all you have to do 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.240 is just maintain the course. If you maintain 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.120 the course, everything is going to be fine. As 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.500 long as you don't do anything stupid in the draft 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:06.160 or in free agency, everything is going to be 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.680 fine. Now, with that being said, you're going 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:10.720 to have seven draft picks. You're going to have 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:12.699 your first, your second. You're not going to 00:08:12.699 --> 00:08:14.220 have a third. You're going to have your fourth. 00:08:14.339 --> 00:08:15.720 You're going to have your fifth. You're going 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.040 to have two sixth round picks and a seventh round 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:21.120 pick. That's not bad at all. Honestly speaking, 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.439 you can use some of those picks to move up in 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.040 the draft or down in the draft depending on how 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:29.980 the board falls. Who's really complaining? Not 00:08:29.980 --> 00:08:32.980 to mention, you're going to have $71 .6 million 00:08:32.980 --> 00:08:35.700 in cap space, which technically speaking, you 00:08:35.700 --> 00:08:37.899 could create more if you move some money around. 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.419 So you're in a really good spot. All you have 00:08:41.419 --> 00:08:44.000 to do is just have an honest conversation this 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.299 offseason and really ask yourself, what do we 00:08:47.299 --> 00:08:50.100 need to get over the hump? How can we get over 00:08:50.100 --> 00:08:52.659 the hump? And what decisions can we do to get 00:08:52.659 --> 00:08:55.000 over the hump? Now, some people will say those 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.899 are easy questions to answer, but in actuality, 00:08:57.899 --> 00:09:00.440 it isn't. Because honestly speaking, you're going 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.240 to need to have some uncomfortable conversations. 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.299 And some people may not like them, but they need 00:09:05.299 --> 00:09:08.480 to be had. Because guess what? The same conversations 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:10.919 that you're having, the Ravens need to have, 00:09:11.139 --> 00:09:13.980 the Bills need to have, the Eagles need to have, 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.419 everybody else that are Super Bowl contenders, 00:09:16.500 --> 00:09:19.379 they have to have those same conversations. Now, 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:21.299 I know this might sound weird, but if I was the 00:09:21.299 --> 00:09:23.500 GM for the Lions, I would have a theme board. 00:09:23.740 --> 00:09:26.320 And every single offseason, we would choose a 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:29.419 word to describe it. So for this offseason, it 00:09:29.419 --> 00:09:32.240 would be uncomfortable. Because we need to have 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:34.940 uncomfortable conversations about the entire 00:09:34.940 --> 00:09:38.120 landscape of the roster. I don't care who's your 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.820 favorites. I don't care who you're close with. 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:42.840 It doesn't matter. Because at the end of the 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:45.639 day, we are all here for one thing and one thing 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.299 only. And what is that? To win a championship. 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:50.960 And the only way that you can do that is if you 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:54.139 have uncomfortable conversations. Conversations 00:09:54.139 --> 00:09:55.940 that are going to have you think twice, maybe 00:09:55.940 --> 00:09:58.240 three times about every decision that you make. 00:09:58.889 --> 00:10:01.029 So instead of you saying, oh we need to go after 00:10:01.029 --> 00:10:03.629 this big free agent pass rusher, you need to 00:10:03.629 --> 00:10:06.090 think twice about it. You need to ask yourself, 00:10:06.289 --> 00:10:08.690 is this pass rusher going to get us closer to 00:10:08.690 --> 00:10:11.629 winning a Super Bowl? If we draft this prospect, 00:10:11.830 --> 00:10:13.950 is he going to get us closer to the Super Bowl? 00:10:14.389 --> 00:10:17.269 If we hire this person to our staff, will they 00:10:17.269 --> 00:10:19.769 be able to unlock something in either the offense 00:10:19.769 --> 00:10:22.210 or the defense that can get us closer to winning 00:10:22.210 --> 00:10:24.529 a championship? Those are the things that need 00:10:24.529 --> 00:10:27.570 to be asked every single day by everyone. And 00:10:27.570 --> 00:10:30.190 until that happens, they will not be able to 00:10:30.190 --> 00:10:32.429 get over the hump. They will not be able to win 00:10:32.429 --> 00:10:34.429 a championship. But I'm going to end this episode 00:10:34.429 --> 00:10:35.889 here. If you guys like what you are listening, 00:10:36.049 --> 00:10:37.669 please, please, please, please, please make sure 00:10:37.669 --> 00:10:39.730 you guys leave a five -star, five -star, five 00:10:39.730 --> 00:10:42.090 -star, five -star, five -star review on anywhere 00:10:42.090 --> 00:10:43.870 and everywhere that you listen to podcasts, okay? 00:10:43.990 --> 00:10:46.990 We're available on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere 00:10:46.990 --> 00:10:48.970 else that you can get podcasts. 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