EVERYTHING is on the Line for the Detroit Lions

Neal Ruhl and Darren McCarty discuss why the Detroit Lions are going to have to beat the Los Angeles Rams at any cost. While only a few players have played with Matthew Stafford on the Lions, the fans will have to want the team to win more than Matthew Stafford. Like, Subscribe and leave your comment below!

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And guys look uh it’s Wednesday right Wednesday it’s starting to get real dmac it’s starting to get real is it you feel it real real it’s getting real yeah no it you feel it in the air it’s in the air I think all you have to do is uh one

Of the things is look at the off-market ticket sales price I saw a stat this morning on Fox 2 shout out to our boy Ryan armman and Dina Cante and everybody over there Fox family and uh $430 which was the I think the next most was like 300 in San

Francisco it’s like the so it and it the question was posed Neil which I pose to all three of you I think I know the answer and I think this this could be a poll spny real early in the show is like does it matter what the off like at 400

500 or 600 because it’s the first time or whatever like people are going to go they’re going to go and they’re going to pay and absolutely 100% it was just like the Stan the cup back in the day I remember those those prices I mean my parents were getting offered $5,000 for

I paid for a semester of college flipping those things yeah no I mean for real and so maybe that like an option for somebody who’s been investing in this team and you know what as as a teenager back then dmac that was when I learned that everybody has a price

Because I had a price cuz I got tickets and then I saw what they were going for and I said that’s the price what was it that’s the price 97 uh yeah it was 97 um what what the face value on the tickets I think it was right around a

100 bucks and that was Blasphemous back at that time you know it’s like around a 100 bucks which was which would be today like 400 right and three they were going for I think I got 450 a ticket I had six tickets yeah how do you not as as a good

Friend of ours used to say that worked here how do you not how how do you not and look we’re he’s still with us I hope you realize this we just got to the bottom of it if Neil wouldn’t have sold his tickets he wouldn’t probably be here

Today it was it was part of the evolution it was the evolution that’s what got him to school yeah one semester yeah we learned something yeah no we we we absolutely did but jump into that Woodward sports.com chat through at Benny’s jumping in does the price of the

Tickets for the playoff game matter I think this playoff game this one specifically this Lions home game no and I’m talking about this this game because because in a general sense it I could see why it would but no I don’t think it does either if you want to be there the

Hype the hype is real yeah and um got the messages coming in here John effing Lord let’s go Stoke not scared Stoke not scared Stoke not scared and you know dmac it’s it’s something for me where with this game this was was the one that I wanted and I laid out my

Reasons as to why for those of you that didn’t catch that episode my reasons were because of what dies with it all of it dies you win the game Sunday it all dies the playoff win thing the Stafford thing the golf thing all of that dies

And and remember that for for those that are saying well Neil the Rams are coming in hot and they’ve won seven of eight and it’s Matt staff I know who it is that’s part of it too dmac a good friend of mine a very very good friend of mine

Told me many times the only way is through and dmac never in my life has that hit harder than it’s going to hit this Sunday the only way is through and remember this too for the people that are terrified of the Rams and things like that this Sunday night it’s all

Different dmac and I’m going right now like I’m I’m into it right now this Sunday is different it’s not just a playoff game it’s it’s not just an NFL playoff game it’s not just all the chips in the middle of the table game dmac there is something extra here in this

Town and when this when the nation sees Ford Field on Sunday night on NBC when the nation sees and you’ll see him tweeting about it going oh my God you see what that stadium is like in there just remember this too the Rams just aren’t playing the Lions on Sunday night

Dmac not this time not this game because as as as Stafford left and won his Super Bowl after the safety for the 49ers dropped an interception that hit him in the chest that that’s cute you got your Super Bowl that’s great whatever he’s in the way he’s in the way

Of what I’ve wanted for 30 years what you’ve wanted for 30 years dmac what this town what this city what every Lions fan has wanted for 30 years they’re in the way of it and they’re not just playing the Lions they’s 65,000 and plus in there that are going to be

Absolute animals and there’s Millions around here too every bar stool will be taken in the city and it’s extra dmac this line this game this one is different it’s different dmac for me for going to games with my dad for having season tickets when they were 0 and6

This one is more to me this one is more to everybody else this one Sunday night dmac is more and I and I want everyone to understand that they know you know we know the people in the chat know everybody here knows the world’s going to see that on Sunday night dmac this

One is more exonerate your demons right for you I can draw a lot of analogies for us playing Colorado in the playoffs in 97 in the Conference Finals right after the N after the March 26 stuff had gone on and whatever we still had to beat them they were defending Champions

Right so we had to go into that to to that series and we had to get through them that there’s so much writing on the wall because of the the subplots and because because of what it means what it means to Jerry Goff and getting over the

Hump and you know in a lot of ways I draw analogies to the way uh Michigan was able to win the national championship and get all those extra questions about half the championship and 97 and whatever else right you know there’s a uh interview going around on

Uh on Fox uh Fox 2 of some kid and you know I’ve been waiting 19 years right which which US older ones have sort of laughed but when you dive into it look at that generation like look at like younger than Spenny and Mike’s generation they haven’t seen they never

Seen it they’ve never they didn’t even they don’t even appr appreciate Lloyd Carr or anything like that so think about with this Lions team in the 0 and 16 so there’s so much here and here’s the one thing Neil is that if I was in Allen Park it’s

Embrace it that was the one thing I think Kurt Gibson was the one tamam and the lion right to sit down with him and you got to embrace the moment and and you know you’re here you’ve earned it and you’re here for a reason so embrace

It that’s what this team has to do and I and they’re ready for it don’t you feel like they were they’re built up to this moment I do too all all the stuff from earlier in the season all the way back to Dan Campbell’s first year coaching

Right being prepared you know what the one thing is is yeah I hate losing Sam La pora because of we’re going to talk about his numbers and you know how he’s ranked and throughout the league and putting up unbelievable numbers in his first year but you know what I have

Confidence because Dan Campbell told me three years ago that he was going to prepare that every starter would go down and so it’s time for Brock Wright or James Mitchell or whatever other tight end or whatever they’re going to do in that place to step up and I think this

Team is ready to play for this moment and the fans are ready for this moment they’re going to bring it too this place is going to be rocket Spenny you were there earlier this season with easy and stuff who what what game was that uh Atlanta at the Atlanta game and and that

Building was loud wasn’t it it was well you know what you’ve warmed up too fan base and everybody’s going to spend their hard earned money for this moment and they just like Neil get it all out down there then cuz HomeField advantage that’s what that’s what you have to use

And it’s going to mean something else because of all the other storylines Stafford being probably the main one but then Jared GF going against his former team and and that’s the other thing dmac like this the crowd out there with this Stafford Boogeyman thing that they have

Right now I don’t get he’s never been Mercurial he’s got he got huge breaks to win that Super Bowl they act like he just he he walked into town and sprinkled some dust on him and all of a sudden the Rams were Super Bowl champions that that I’m not terrified of

Matt Stafford we know him better than anybody what what is there to be scared of with him I’m not scared of that guy I’m not scared of the Rams there there’s nothing there’s nothing they do that I I’m oh my God we got to play the r no there’s there’s none of that

Associated with this dmac no absolutely I got don’t fear a Matt Stafford no you can’t you can’t you have to be ready you have to embrace it we all have to and you know what there’s respect and you can have the love for it but he’s an enemy coming into coming into forward

Field and you got to make it as hard as you can against them and and dmac that’s that’s it because and and you can tell like this is real everybody I’m getting charged up here on a Wednesday and I don’t know that I can sustain this page

Of beinged dude you were about when you let your fandom out of I don’t get to do this a lot you no exactly but you let it out and it’s been out and and I don’t get like people will and I’ve had people dmac here’s the thing I’ve had people

Like P like privately reach out and they’re like dude like G given what you do like is Is it wise to like be that emotional this this is me with my dad when I was a kid when I went to that playoff game thinking wow it’s going to

Be like this for a while and we never got back again we still haven’t gotten back to that still I was a little kid then with my dad Spencer’s never seen it in his life bmg’s never seen it in his life like this this is more dmac this Sunday

Night is and and I still don’t think not everybody here understands it and I I would I would think that somebody that people are feeling the same way I am but dmac it’s a Tipping Point now now you’re elevating it now now I mean to what it

Truly is but now you’re taking it outside the field right there no no it definitely is right but that’s how deep this storyline to what you’re saying is it’s so layered because we’re talking about about story lines about Goff playing as former team and Stafford is former team and supposed to be the

Unsung hero that was sent away that won the Super Bowl elsewhere coming in trying to ruin your like that’s all the X’s and O’s and all the story lines on top you’re talking about something that we’re going spiritual so we’re going we’ve all and it’s so many of us that

Can’t even remember right like look at how many people we’ve lost in the me that haven’t seen this right that would love it how many people are sitting there going oh yeah man Uncle Jimmy man oh he would he would have loved her so we’re taking all that

And also I also believe what what I believe that they all be there Uncle Jimmy’s going to be there um but to the fact that you know you’re talking about it and so now within why it’s so real Neil is because terminal Dennis your buddy right is talking about it feeling

It all week and you got and everybody’s bringing it up I see somebody in the chat just going by hey I remember watching Lions first when I was 11 years old you know like like this like everybody’s going through that photo album in their head and talking to their

Friends and calling their their grandparents if they’re around and you know asking them to the generation that hasn’t seen it anything like this is how real it is for and and it’s and now we see here it is now we get a little glimpse of when we all say oh you know

What like imagine if the Lions won the Super Bowl you know what a party it would be and how many people now you’re getting to see the bubble start bursting of why it would be and this is only here around think about this is everywhere look at all where everybody in the chat

Is from throughout the world keep up with this right now throughout the world we’re feeling this and this is one of these this this is also one of these things if you want to get on that next that that what is a great thing about sports that brings us together now we’ve

All been connected through our Lion’s misery but but this is the time there has to be a time right to fight through and this is our guy leading us through who else would we want other than leading us to the draft table Brad Holmes and then his his General right

You know and Dan Campbell and the one question I asked you Neil do you feel like these guys are prepared you didn’t battle asash 100% me too me too because it’s never changed like the identity’s never changed of of what they do it’s never changed it just engulfs everybody that

Gets involved because it’s real going back to everybody laughing about we biting kneecaps when he said it well you know what what are they doing now boys they’re biting kneecaps they just found a way to they just found a way to do it with a little bit of a

Poshness no and and dmac that’s because that’s what’s going to happen you’re going to see this on social media on Sunday night when that game kicks off and you’re going to see all the national writers and and fans from everywhere go oh my god listen to that place but

Understand the pain everybody my mother Spenny who brought cookies in for everybody was not born the last time the Lions won a championship my mother was not born I’m a man in my 40s right now my mother was not born the last time they won a championship I was a little

Kid the last time they won a playoff game Spencer you’ve never seen it in your life that’s what’s coming through on Sunday and that’s that’s what I’m saying like the whole Stafford Rams Boogeyman that’s supposed to appear out of nowhere it’s overmatched man it’s overmatched 65,000 people that are that

Are going to just go seral there on Sunday night dude they the Rams don’t know what’s about to happen Stafford played here and he doesn’t know what’s going to happen there Sunday night that’s the feeling I get yeah I and I don’t know where that came

From this just kind of boiled over but this is where I am today because it’s real I know it’s Wednesday and I know that to stay this bricked up till Sunday night is is going to be hard to call a doctor it’s literally going to be hard Spenny hell

Yeah but I’m I’m up for the challenge dmac I am I am up I am up for the challenge