Will Davenport Prove Holmes Has FA Signing Prowess?
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00:00Okay, I mentioned a while ago, nobody's talking about this lion.
00:05Birchie Kidd tweeted out two players today that were talking about this lion.
00:09Maybe we should be talking about this lion.
00:11Do you care to venture a guess as to who it might be?
00:16Kirby Joseph.
00:17Okay.
00:18Kang, do you care to venture a guess as to who it might be?
00:21No one's talking about this lion.
00:23Matthew Betts.
00:24Okay.
00:25The answer is Marcus Davenport.
00:29Graham Glasgow.
00:30He just came back a few days ago.
00:32I can tell you he's out there headbutting the S out of us.
00:36Aleem McNeil.
00:37Davenport is just a killer.
00:39He'll teach us some things, but he's more talking about running through people's faces.
00:47I think this is one of the examples of a signing that the people in the organization
00:56think is big and the fans don't.
01:02And his career, do you remember him out of UTSA?
01:05I remember you and I talking about him a lot prior to the draft.
01:10He goes to New Orleans and he's on a career arc that looks very promising after his first
01:17three, four years.
01:19Then he basically has played 19 games the last two seasons and has two and a half sacks.
01:26And the Lions have a relationship with the guys that were in New Orleans.
01:30Marcus Davenport is getting little discussion, little fanfare, and yet I think he's the probable
01:37starter at the edge rusher opposite of Aiden Hutchinson.
01:43And I'm going to put him in a category that we shouldn't be surprised if he's good.
01:49We shouldn't be surprised if he's good.
01:52Hmm.
01:53Interesting.
01:54I feel like you've completely changed your tune on this.
01:57Well, you know what it is?
01:59It's that when they get out there and they start practicing and players start commenting
02:03on him, I'm like, you know what?
02:06There's a chance here.
02:07And it's not faith in Marcus Davenport.
02:09It's faith in Brad Holmes.
02:11Hmm.
02:12Kang, do you think Doug is being swayed by training camp and whispers of what players
02:20are saying?
02:21Yep.
02:22Keep going.
02:23Is this the same thing?
02:24Hitting the pads just to, hey, he's been headbutting the S out of us.
02:28Is that the soundbite that we need that signifies Doug is having his overreaction training camp
02:34already?
02:36I say this because I agree with you, Gator.
02:39When the signing was made, Doug was like, why?
02:42Honestly, he was a throwaway.
02:44Why?
02:45He does nothing for me.
02:46I think those words now potentially extraordinarily shrewd.
02:50Yep.
02:51Now.
02:52A hundred percent.
02:53A hundred percent.
02:54And what's changed?
02:55Because he's headbutting the S out of the offensive linemen.
02:58He's running through people's faces.
02:59Yeah.
03:00He's running through your face.
03:01In the face.
03:02Do you want to go with Anzorike too?
03:06Because Graham Glasgow says he's flashing.
03:08He's shown flashes.
03:09No, because that guy, that guy's, I'm, um, yeah, he's not flashing.
03:13Show flashes.
03:14Flashing is different.
03:15That gets in trouble.
03:16Yes.
03:17It's certainly possible.
03:18If not the likely reason, but I, do we have music?
03:21It's like the Tigers, uh, spring training.
03:23We need to keep my eye out for Marcus Davenport.
03:28Time for Doug Karch's Lions training camp overreactions.
03:33Scoff all you will.
03:34Don't be surprised when that guy starts making plans.
03:36You should be the most surprised.
03:37Cause you hated this.
03:38I didn't hate it.
03:39I just was like, well, this is nothing.
03:42This isn't even an approval.
03:43Yeah.
03:44The, my issue with Doug is, and you just read it the last two years, the guy's done nothing.
03:47Like it's a one-year deal.
03:49So it's worth a shot.
03:50Of course they see that the ability is, is there.
03:53If he could stay healthy, um, I've was reading, you know, what the Vikings fans were saying
03:58about him last year, like good riddance have some steal somebody else's money.
04:01You know, he didn't, you know, do well over there.
04:03It was just one year.
04:04We'll see how this goes.
04:05He's probably going to start the year opposite Aiden Hutchinson.
04:07He can, if he can stay healthy and regain that he's still young, he's 27 years old.
04:11If he can regain what he had when he was in New Orleans at one point, that's a shrewd
04:15signing.
04:16It's just, um, it's, it's just that, you know, I don't care what the Vikings look at the
04:19status of the state where the, look where the Vikings are and look where the Lions are.
04:23I'll take the Lions as more credible right now than the Vikings.
04:27So, well maybe they, they sucked because they had them on his team.
04:30Their team.
04:31I don't know.
04:32It wasn't the only reason.
04:33I don't know.
04:34They had no quarterback.
04:352, 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 97, 97.
04:38Let's get back to your open line calls.
04:39We've got a Nate and white Lake.