Bo Nix, how has he looked to you so far in the preseason in camp? Uh, the most famous ankle, I think, in all of the National Football League.

This is true.

[laughs] Um, yeah, Bo is, is a huge, huge part of what Denver is looking to do this year.

I think, you know, we haven't seen a ton in preseason.

In camp this is easily, um, the best core that I think has surrounded Nix, uh, during his time in the NFL.

Obviously, the Broncos added Jalen Waddell to be their number one receiver this off-season, and really improve on Bo's struggles last year.

Throwing over the intermediate middle wasn't exactly something he sh- he thrived in.

Is there a weakness to this Broncos defense?

Is there anything to update on the president search and the AD search for the University of Michigan?

Yeah.

Um, presidential-wise, um, I can officially say from reporting, uh, that we've done at MLive that Mike Duggan is out of the presidential search.

Uh, he took a job at a law firm, um, last week, and so he's out.

Um, I can say that they've narrowed it down to about three or four candidates.

Um, I think they're looking at a kind of extensive variety.

Um, they have some CEO types i- in there, some education, um, or academia background.

No doubt about that.

But, uh, I'm curious your, your thoughts, uh, on everything that has come out to this point.

Yeah, I mean, uh, I had heard for a little bit that the investigation was obviously pretty much wrapped up, um, and that, uh, you know, last week, uh, we had, um, requested the results of the investigation because we had heard it was finished.

Um, and we expected to, to kind of get the results, uh, this week.

So, um, when ESPN and, and other places came out and said that it was gonna drop, I think that wasn't a surprise.

Um, and I don't think I was completely shocked that, uh, the talks have been that, uh, Warde Manuel might be no longer Michigan's athletic director.

I think this is obviously a complex discussion, and, uh, one that me and you have had on, on your show multiple times, um, you know, about what Warde's future is, about what this investigation might reveal.

Um, [clears throat] you know, I've always been of the opinion that I think there is probably no smoking red gun in there that says, you know, Warde Manuel did this thing that causes him to have this ability to be fired.

We get through Thursday, we get through this week, then what? What, what, what does the other side of this look like without a buyout being reached this week?

It's hard not to win with that"?

No.

I mean, a Final Four is such a huge...

I think you said it best, it's like if, if, if he makes the Final Four, give that man the long-term extension, right? [chuckles] Uh, a Final Four is such a difficult thing to do.

Um, it's a really tough, tough call about like what is the threshold for where you would say success lies.

And to me it, it, it's less about...

Uh, this might be a, a kind of, uh, complicated way to phrase it, but it's less about the roster winning games, and it's more about like how the team looks and how the, how the program is building, right? Like if it feels like Michigan's just kind of skirting by on talent, um, and talent alone, if they're not running the kind of crisp offensive flow that, that Dusty has, the defense doesn't stay.

Yeah.

And the Pistons now have to figure out a way to go from being built to win in the regular season to being built to win in the postseason because there is a difference.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think there's also some things you can pull from the Knicks run and the Knicks roster build that the Pistons should look at, right? People were moaning and complaining, even Knicks fans, about Mike Calbridges and giving up, I think it was four first-round picks for him, maybe even five.

No one's complaining about those first-round picks anymore.

Nobody's complaining about paying OG Ananobi, who has never made an All-Star game, north of $30 million.

He was arguably their most important player, I would say, in the finals.

And then lastly... carl anthony towns and julius randall they forget you forget about that swap but julius randall was a really good player in new york um it wasn't working the gm for the knicks was aggressive he flipped him for cat and they won a title because of it so obviously you can't pull and pick from every team but i think there are examples of finding that sort of postseason aggressiveness and postseason readiness that you can get by the GM showing that exact level of aggression.

There's maybe sort of, I'd say they're getting healthier, but as soon as you get Skubal back and Myers is about to come back, and Jansen is back, they have to put Flaherty on the injured list, although that might actually benefit the team.

And I don't even think this lineup could get to what they were the first half of last season.

Maybe.

I think that that all makes sense.

Listen, I'm not here to defend the Tigers.

It's been an abysmal start.

They haven't been good enough.

I think the internal progress that Scott Harris touted.

And yet, here you got one of MLB.com's insiders saying, It's going to be that kind of haul from the Dodgers that sets the bar for the Tigers.

tough

conversation.

I think when you look back on this season, obviously the ending, not great, and I was reminded of what Dan Campbell said a few years ago, that you never know if you'll get back to the same spot.

The NBA is a league that turns over very quickly, but it ultimately was a huge step forward for this franchise.

To go from 14 wins two years ago to 60 plus this year, including the postseason success getting out of that first round, I think you have to look at it as a especially with the expectations that we had entering the season.

I think you have to look at it as an unmitigated success.

Obviously, you know, sports expectations change, right? Losing in the second round is a one seed, not great.

What does he do this offseason? That'll say a lot.