Derrick Moore

Aidan Hutchinson was everywhere last week.

As I've been telling listeners until I'm blue in the face, Tyreek Williams is having a really strong season, even though it's not showing up on the stat sheet much, and you're getting play out of Derek Moore, our second-round pick, who does play.

If you want to give up Gold Day, we can gladly use a linebacker who can run and who's aware in coverage, which was what Golday was when he was at Cincinnati.

We could really use that guy.

There's the ability for, I thought Tyleek Williams had a great game.

I thought Derek Moore had a very nice game, especially in run defense.

Ability to control the line of scrimmage and the Lions did it on both sides of the ball in that game.

Goff only got pressured five times was the stat I saw.

It's a complicated defense, and he's really new to it, and so they're just slowly kind of bringing him through the motions.

I know a lot of people are upset about the Lions not utilizing Derek Moore a ton.

Galladay is being used even less, right? And again, he was picked in that same spot of picks that the Lions took Moore, so...

When you have a good team, it's often hard to find the field even for your second-round picks, and Galladay is a good example of that.

And I should give credit to Skyler Gil Howard, who has been an interesting rusher for them as a rookie.

And also they drafted Derek Moore pretty high.

It's not like they don't have investment there.

They don't have talent.

I think I would give up a two and a two if that's what it takes.

I would be interested because that really doesn't matter who your corners are as long as you have your safeties back there with that level of line play coming from a Lee McNeil, Max Crosby, and Aiden Hutchinson with DJ Wanham, Derek Moore in the mix.

That sounds like a Super Bowl winning edge rotation, in my opinion, that we always talk about.

also too realistically answering the juice it's not like we've been knocking it out of the park in the last two years in the draft anyway like everybody's complaining about moving picks and man i wouldn't give up a three man i wouldn't give up a four first of all we're talking about threes and fours if you want to even talk about twos outside of blake miller who has not allowed a sack this season which we'll get into shout out to your boy number 17 and i meant what pick he was number 17 overall Outside of that, like, name, Talik Williams, we're trying to give away Talik Williams every day on this show.

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Speaking of defense, players like Keith Abney Jr., Derek Moore on that defense, they are rookies from the 26th class, and also Blake Miller playing really good this season.

I mentioned the stat.

Yeah, and that's when, and on top of that, a guy like Keith Abney.

that gives you confidence, that gives the coaching staff confidence in somebody that can make up for that, that allows you to implement Brian Branch to help out other pieces.

That allows you to move him down to the pseudo-linebacker spot and have him moving around the line.

Say, all right, Brian Branch, you're guarding that tight end so Jack Campbell can rush the passer or kill the line of scrimmage.

Aleem McNeil, for the most part, has been playing pretty good football.

And, you know, they – you know, I don't know that the depth up there is what they need to, you know, survive the rest of the season.

But I think those two in the middle of the line, obviously you've got Hutch, you've got Wanham, Tyler Lacy, they've got somebody – Derek Moore, it was the first series of the game, and I thought he did a great job setting the edge on one of those plays in the red zone there.

So I do think this run defense, along with the way the defensive line is playing as a whole, is something that the Lions defense can hang their hat on while they're waiting for Brian Branch and maybe Kirby Joseph to get back to being the players that they were.

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I've drifted off being an IPA guy for some of the sours that Dog and Pony does, so... whatever they pay us, but this is a free advertising extra right here.

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Funny thing about that, Justin, I was with Kyle and the dog and pony crew at the Detroit beer fest at a Eastern market on

But it was announced he is back.

They're opening up that practice window.

What are your guys' thoughts on it and just Kirby as a whole getting back? I know he sent out some cryptic tweets a little bit over the last couple of days.

Uh, but what do we think about the news?