Welcome to the Detroit Football Network Podcast. We got a full boat today.

We've got a full boat today. Got Will Birchfield and Stoney joining me.

And look, I am rested and recovered after a red-eye flight back from A-Z.

Took a couple days, but the lions are not quite in as good a shape. Lost Marcus

Avampore, lost Derek Barnes for an indetermined amount of time, and

at least for this upcoming game, Frank Rag now will not be available.

Don't know if that's it, but you know that's certainly three big losses and so

let me just start by throwing this to you guys.

Who of those three do you think is the biggest loss,

the most difficult one to overcome?

I think it's rag now because not just

his blocking ability as a center, but as you guys know, I mean he calls out the protections.

He does all the little things that people really don't know about and yes, Glasgow has, you playing center there's no doubt about it's not

just bringing some guy off the street but rag now is as good as Sewall is right you guys

have to agree that rag now is the heart and soul of that O line right? You guys have to agree that Ragnau is the heart and soul of that

online, right? For sure. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think that Frank Ragnau

is the extension of Ben Johnson's brains on the field and they talk about him so much as

kind of a secret weapon of this offense and he resists that term because it's too glamorous and glorifying for him but he really is

the the code cracker for this offense he is the one along with Jared Gough who is

figuring out and diagnosing the defense what kind of

fronts, pressures, blitzes they're sending, how to account for those and how to help Jared

stay upright.

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