How Do You Feel About Your Ex-QB?
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00:00And the following week, the Lions play Tampa.
00:04And I think we should talk about Baker Mayfield, only in the context of the football game.
00:09And I think the week after that, it's Arizona and we'll talk about Kyler Murray and then
00:13it's Dallas and we'll talk about Dak Prescott and so on and so forth.
00:17I don't feel the necessity or the audience thirst for Stafford topics this week, other
00:28than he is the quarterback of the team that the Lions are going to play.
00:37And Kang said, I don't know if people are like you.
00:39I said, well, we've we've done the whole he's come back to town thing.
00:48And what kind of put a nice, neat bow on it from our perspective as Detroiters was winning
00:54the game and carrying on in our very healthy place as a football organization.
01:01I don't feel compelled.
01:04And I asked Kang off the air and he goes, I'm not sure people are like you, Doug.
01:08And I'm asking you on the air.
01:10We don't really need to do the Stafford's back in town topic, do we?
01:15It's been done.
01:17It's it.
01:18It was.
01:19It was what it was.
01:22We sort of had to lift the embargo because we did Stafford topics for the better part
01:25of the last eight years of his career in Detroit.
01:30But we don't need to do this again, right?
01:33Or do you disagree?
01:34I would disagree.
01:36I think it's it's another year.
01:38It's it's the last they played each other in the postseason in the playoff game.
01:41It was fantastic.
01:42And there was something that came out of it.
01:46I suppose if Matthew's wife wasn't so.
01:53Self-important about things and wanting to advance this agenda and all that, then maybe
01:59we could let it go.
02:00So she opened up her mouth and I think it opens it up for what's going to happen on
02:06Sunday.
02:07How are they going to be treated?
02:09Because it is something that's going to be talked about.
02:13I feel like I'm doing Matthew Stafford a solid, but also doing myself a real a real
02:23service as well.
02:25I pay no attention to what this player's wife has to say.
02:28I don't care what this player's wife has to say.
02:31That's fine.
02:32And going into this week, we're going to try not to.
02:34But at some point, I'm going to guess that there's going to be some statement made and
02:38we're going to address it.
02:40We don't have to go hunting it.
02:42Do we?
02:43We're going to seek it out.
02:44Is Baker Mayfield married?
02:45Are we going to talk about Baker Mayfield's wife says?
02:49I don't know.
02:50Did Baker Mayfield play for the Lions for 11 years?
02:52I mean, it's a big difference.
02:53I know.
02:54But we did it ad nauseum last year.
02:57Yeah.
02:58And now we want to throw it back in the face because we can't because the Lions won.
03:03Lions fans want to want to be chesty about it.
03:06Doug, it's always going to be I know you don't like it, but it's always going to be part
03:09of the story.
03:10It just is because and Kelly Stafford has said something already kind of gator on her
03:15podcast.
03:16She did announce that her and the children will not be attending the game at Ford Field
03:20Sunday night when the Rams play the Lions.
03:22Wait, wait, wait.
03:23Go ahead.
03:24You tell the people what you saw on Twitter.
03:28What do you all before she made that announcement?
03:30Somebody posted on Twitter.
03:31Yeah, this is great.
03:32This needs to be on the air.
03:33So, you know, last year, obviously, Kelly Stafford was, you know, she was upset.
03:37She thought people were booing her children.
03:39Right.
03:41That's ridiculous.
03:42So kids are booing.
03:43You going on viral right now on Twitter is people are like, I just want to be clear.
03:46We are not booing Kelly Stafford.
03:48We're not booing Matthew Stafford.
03:50We will boo the children when they come here.
03:51Just to make this clear, everybody, we're booing the kids.
03:54Right.
03:55But you can't boo the kids anymore because they're not coming either.
03:57So that's according to her podcast.
03:59But Doug, the Matthew Stafford story is always going to be story because this is the ex-girlfriend,
04:04ex-wife, whatever you want to call it.
04:06You may be married.
04:07You may move on.
04:08That doesn't change the relationship you had with that woman when she walks in the door.
04:12But you're dating a more successful, better looking woman who loves you more now and does
04:19more for you.
04:20That's all true.
04:21But also what's true is that you used to be with that other one.
04:24Yeah.
04:25And you want to throw it in their face.
04:26I don't need it that way.
04:28And I don't need.
04:29I'm perfectly.
04:30Hey, I can't.
04:31Look, in real life, I can try to avoid the ex, right?
04:35But this is totally different.
04:38She's coming to town.
04:39What am I supposed to do?
04:40I can't run away.
04:41She's coming to my house.
04:42She's right there.
04:43It's not uncomfortable for us.
04:44We're perfectly comfortable right now.
04:46It might be uncomfortable for the ex.
04:48You can't ignore her.
04:49She's right there.
04:50She's right there, Doug.
04:51I ignore her.
04:53And you should too.
04:54You can't.
04:55You need a better place.
04:56You can't ignore it.
04:57All I'm saying is, look, I think fans are going to react to that.
05:01You're not a vindictive person.
05:04Some people I am.
05:05But no, that was, I have no real ill will towards Stafford.
05:09But here's the thing.
05:10You could fuel it up if you wanted to.
05:12Somebody asked to leave.
05:14Somebody wanted out.
05:16Okay.
05:17Yep.
05:18And it's been much to the betterment of the Detroit Lions.
05:21It was also to the betterment of the Rams.
05:23They won a Super Bowl, but we, we got golf.
05:26We got to restart.
05:27We had a couple of first round picks out of it.
05:29We turned, we parlayed that into more picks and now we've built this team up to where
05:33they have arguably the best roster in football.
05:35I love what's happened.
05:37It doesn't mean I'm not going to rub the nose into it.
05:40I see.
05:41I'm not feeling the necessity to do that.
05:43It doesn't improve.
05:44It doesn't improve my day in any way.
05:45But how did you start this conversation?
05:47How did you start this conversation?
05:49I don't remember.
05:50That was four minutes ago.
05:51You said, maybe I'm different.
05:52I think I said, maybe I'm wrong.
05:55But either way.
05:56Either way, yes.
05:57You're different and you're wrong.
05:58So you think, you think not only should we do it, you think people thirst for Stafford
06:02content this week?
06:03I think people desperately want to rub it in his face that he chose to leave and the
06:09Lions are better off because of it.
06:11Okay.
06:12Yeah.
06:13So have at it, man.
06:14Well, there's three of us that determine the topics.
06:16Well, that's not true.
06:17The fans determine the topics.
06:18I guess we'll find out how important it is to them as the week carries on.
06:22It's Carson Anderson.
06:23Open lines.
06:24Ninety-seven one.