Jalen, what you think of your new guy?

I applaud his enthusiasm.

He used to play for the team.

It was laughable to me that some people thought that Eric B.

Enemy will interview for our job knowing that we weren't gonna pay top dollar for a coach with that being said, I want the big fella to understand.

We need resuscitation.

This whole kick in the teeth invite at the knees were already dead.

We need you to bring us back to life.

We want one playoff game in 60 years, like Greeny like I remember when Wayne Fonts went 88 We played another one, bites the dust, and it was Gary Danielson and Eric Hipple.

And then Bobby Ross got the job and he wanted to put a full back in front of Barry Sanders.

You know what Barry did?

He retired.

We have Marty morning wig as our coach, and I remember I'll never forget watching him and Rob Marinelli play against one another.

And I'm like, No, no, Rob Marinelli.

When your Lions fan you concussed is Rob Marinelli in Jim Swartz, I'll never forget.

I was watching the Cowboys play against the Eagles, and both of those coordinators were being celebrated.

I'm thinking, Those are the last two Lions coaches and one of them went, Oh, and 16.

I grew 14.

That went, Oh, and 16.

So I'm just happy that he wants the job, But here's what I want him to know.

Lions fans like myself are die hard.

It's the organization that's had Lynn Barney.

Okay, Night Train Lane, Barry Sanders, Megatron and my selling it to him.

Greeny.

Is that a good video?

You don't have to sell him.

He's already taken the job.

Let's see how it goes, All right, I'm glad that you're excited.

At least a little.

It honks out and kicking out teeth feels familiar.

I know a lot of people who that's familiar to, and Dan Campbell wants to have a tough football team.

This is the way that he's expressed it.

He's been an interim head coach before assistant head coach in New Orleans.

Clearly, they wanted to give him the job.

So let's go take hunks out of people.

Yeah, and again, these air to step I 100% hear what you're saying from a separate standpoint.

I'm just thinking to myself, Rob Ninkovich, if that's what you're selling, you know every football team is tough.

If there's one thing I've learned, being around you guys my entire adult life, every football player is tough.

You don't need the coach talking about biting off kneecaps.

What did you think of that yesterday?

Well, the problem is the problem.

The problem comes to be in 2021.

When you have a draft pick from California.

He drives toe Detroit in his Tesla.

Uh, and you asked him to run down on kickoff bite kneecaps.

He's gonna respond and say, I'm a vegan.

I don't I don't eat meat.

I don't fight cats.

So that is That is the problem with the modern athlete in these young athletes today.

That old school tough guy run through break glass, hit that guy full speed by his kneecaps off.

We're gonna be tough.

Every team.

Look, we've We've been playing football for a long time.

I've heard the tough guy, the crazy rah rah stuff.

And at times, that just gets old.

You need a coach that could come in that could relate to what a young athlete is going through, and right now a young athlete comes in.

They're saying, What's my social media account followings in in my marketing ability.

Right now, they're trying to sell T shirts on social media, and they're trying to be Pro Bowlers to get paid, and they don't want to eat kneecaps.

I don't want a bowling kneecaps, either.

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