Doug, Gator and Khang's Lions season predictions.

0:00I'd like to know if I. people you remind me there is a flock on on the day it is a football Friday will have our in Saints 1230 for that. In the meantime, we, we got to, are you going to eat that? Did you know that? I did. Do we do we have anything in house? Oh, no. I mean, I can, I can drum something up. I've got some suggestions with I'm going to eat that too. I'll get to a little bit later. Okay. But it's time for us to unveil our picks for the coming lion season. I kind of tip my hand a little bit yesterday. I am very chasty about this team. And it comes with a caveat that they've got to stay healthy.

1:02You're not going to stay 100% healthy. But many of the key parts can't get hurt again. Last year losing Brian Branch, Sam LaPorter, Kirby Joseph. I mean, those are three core contributors. And it was very, very costly. And bottom line here is I'm hopeful that they get a little bit of luck and I'm going to roll with the idea that they maybe get a little bit of good fortune with injuries. I also like the fact that the guys that they have that are hurt are scheduled to be back during the season. Kate made some Brian Branch and maybe Kirby Joseph. We'll see what happens with that very vague reporting on that. But I said it yesterday, 14 and three. I think they're going to roll through the back half of the schedule when they start to get guys back. The new offensive line configuration. I mentioned earlier, I don't think we've talked enough about how Penne Sule, arguably the best tackle in the NFL is playing the most important position on the offensive line. Now, it's not like you're going to get, I think he's more valuable on that side of the

2:04line. I've talked about the role of a dice here in the old line is whether or not Blake Miller, the rookie will be good enough. I think there's the logical reason to believe that Tate Ratledge, this version of Tate Ratledge will be better than last year's version of Tate Ratledge. The center position will be upgraded to Canada's battling for left guard. And you made the point earlier, is there any reason behind it? It won't be the same if not better. And if he doesn't win the job, that means he lost it to somebody who was better. And then the defense, you know, can you do enough with a solid front seven, really like the front seven and the front seven has to help the secondary. And that's, that's the weakness. Obviously, I don't have to say anything. Anybody doesn't know fully aware of it. But yeah, I am Chestie as hell about this team. I'm taking to go 14 and three in the regular season. Wow. That's as Chestie as you've ever been about any Detroit lines team that we've been doing the show together. Yep. And I'm as Chestie as I've ever been about this lines team in any year we've done the show

3:04together. And this is, you know, this is your 20 basically. This is crazy. I've got them at 13 and 4, which is hard for me to get that number out of my mouth. Yeah. But it's there. And guess we play the schedule game. This is what we do before the season begins. It's so, it's so tempting. And we know better. Yeah, I have to admit I'm doing it. I think that second game of the season is really tough at Buffalo. I don't think there's any way the lines are looking ahead to that because it's the first game of the season on Sunday. They can't wait. They're at home and that helps things out. But beyond a Buffalo game, I mean, my gut just tells me be prepared that they can split with Chicago or they can split with Green Bay, the game at the end of the season against Green Bay at Green Bay. It's a flux game at this point because who knows what what things can be like at the end of the year. But if the schedule goes and the record goes the way I think it will, I think the lines might be resting players in that game and that could give Green Bay an edge, which is why I can have them at 13 and 4. Like if I'm going to give one, if I'm going to have them losing the Green Bay, it's at

4:05the end of the season when the game doesn't matter. I just, I don't know. I mean, look at these games. I saw New England. They look terrible. I mean, initially in the schedule is that there's going to be a really tough game. But I don't feel as strong about that anymore and everything's in flux, right? But this is the beginning of the season. This is where you're going to be your chestiest and I'm chestiest at 13 and 4. I'm chestiest hell as well. And usually when this happens, Kane comes in and throws cold water on predictions and I can predict whatever you guys want. I'm not telling anybody else how to feel. That's how do you say, hey, dumbass is without actually saying it. But I feel like that's what he said. Well, I guess I am the party pooper because I got him at 11 and 6 and I still got him winning the division, but I think the division is much tougher than people are going to give it credit for. I think around here we've been getting it for a couple of weeks now, Doug, I talked to you before the show about it. No one respects anyone in this division. That's a lion's fan. I feel like maybe Green Bay gets low respect, but they don't respect the bears. They don't respect the Vikings.

5:06I don't play the schedule game. You guys know this. I probably never will. You just don't know what you're going to get. You're in a year especially now in the NFL with the parity so much more than it was back then five or 10, 15, 20 years ago. The reason why I'm not as chasty as I still think they're a good team. They'll get me wrong because I think I have elite offensive skill positions. Amonro St Brown, James Williams, Jameer Gibbs, Sam Laporta, Jared Goff. Those guys are elite, okay? The issue with that though is the offensive line has to be really elite or really good for them to hit their ceiling. I still think they can score points, but the offensive line is still a question mark to me. Unless we know Pennay's tool is one of the best, if not the best right tackle in football, but I have not seen him play left tackle in an NFL game. The right tackle is a rookie. The center is already hurt. The left guard, we're talking about rotating positions because we don't have a left starting to left guard yet. And the right tackle is in year two. So to me, I'm not saying they're bad.

6:06I'm just saying it's an unknown and that's what the issue I have with saying they're going to win 13 or 14 games. Throwing on the defensive side of the ball, we all know about the safety. They have two backup safety starting and they're not just replacing the starters, they're replacing all pro safeties. Say what you want about Terry and Arnold, he was probably going to be your starter. Now you're going to the backup guy, Raka Sin. DJ Reed, I like DJ Reed. He's your number one corner. Not necessarily a number one corner in the league. The front four, I like the potential they have. Obviously, we know what Hutch is. I'm not even going to touch on that. I got you expect, you know, 14, 15 sacks out of them, pressure every day, endless motor, all that stuff. He McNeil is coming off an injury. Hopefully he gets the back to what they paid him for. I think Williams, you're hoping for a progression, but hoping for progression, it doesn't always happen. I like the fact that they did use a second on pick on Derek Moore, but he is just a rookie. Jack Campbell's a stud. Would that be in said, that's why I have my, you know, I do like certain areas, other areas are kind of unknown for me. I got him 11 and six.

7:06No, I mean, look, as we play this thing out, this is still a three Chester predictions. Like it, it's just how good will they be? And Detroit, what we've seen come in is a lot of Chester predictions. And I know that makes people in some portion of our fan base here very uncomfortable. Given the history of this organization, letting down the fan base, I do love the general manager. I do think the head coach is still an asset. The one thing that feels so good right now that we just don't know is Drew Petsing. All these great things are being said about him, but as we talk about many great things are being said about John Morton too, and that didn't work out. Petsing is supposed to be the next Ben Johnson. And they coach together, they're very close. They have similar philosophies, but we just don't know it.

8:08Like I said, that you have to make snap decisions as an offensive coordinator and get a play call in in seconds after a play is done. And that kind of pressure and that got without time to think about you prepare as best you can, but you have to be on. You have to be on. And it's instantaneous. And it's way different. You know, we do the whole 40 seconds between plays. He gets just a few before he's got to get a play call in. You know, we got to get the right personnel in the field. So let's see how he performs. And he's done it before. I was going to say it's not like this is first go around with this. It's his not his first rodeo. He's done this for a while. But that's why you can do all the things right in the preseason and have the greatest game plan in the world and it can go awry on game day. But we'll see how it plays itself out. 248-53997. People get their predictions in and I'm sure people are starting to mock us and that's fun. Part of the job. From Todd and Belville, Lions 11 and 6. Lions is bad. Gibbs offensive player. The air offense is explosive. Most points per game in the league. From Brett in Roseville 11 and 6.

9:08The Lions will get screwed by the refs in at least two games and get knocked out of the playoffs by a bad call. Oh, right. Fellas, I got him going 12 and 5 winning the division and getting the NFC championship game. I really think they're much improved in every position. Bold prediction. Jared Goff wins the MVP in Brad Holmes makes a huge trade at the deadline for a corner. That's from Marlon and Waldeley. Tan and Detroit. I predict 10 and 7 this season. We have a last play schedule, but a tough division and an early buy and overseas game in November and what concerns me about the schedules we play our entire division away from Ford field in the last four weeks. The ending is a gauntlet. 248-53997. It's your turn. Go on the record with your record for the Detroit Lions. It's our annual prediction show. We record all these and revisit them at the end of the year. See if you see this season better than anybody else. Go on the record. Let's do it now people 248-53997.