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Speaker 1: Mahomes back throws. It is equal. Please pick off picked

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Speaker 1: off by the Lions. Brian Branch with the left side.

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Speaker 1: He's going, baby, He's going to the house.

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Speaker 2: Touched down to Tod Lions, deflected in the air, Branch

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Speaker 2: back Week three of the twenty in the Huddle podcast

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Speaker 2: with PJ Clark here and we're doing it PJ at

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Speaker 2: Ford Field after eight Lions victory twenty to six over

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons, and I'm glad that we had Brian

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Speaker 3: Good day for that man.

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Speaker 1: This kid, I think they have something pretty special in him.

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Speaker 4: Beach, He's he is real good. I mean you saw

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Speaker 4: it at all three levels today. Making plays in the

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Speaker 4: past game, making plays behind the line of scrimmage, in

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Speaker 3: He is he is something special.

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Speaker 2: Eleven tackles, three tackles for loss, two passes.

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Speaker 1: Defended, and pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you have an argument between him and Nan Hodginson

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Speaker 2: a defense that played outstanding against Atlanta. I thought Aaron Glenn,

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Speaker 2: the defensive coordinate, had a terrific game plan. Took away

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Speaker 2: what Atlanta wants to do, which is run the football.

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Speaker 2: They came in averaging one hundred and seventy yards on

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Speaker 2: twenty total carries for forty four yards two point two average,

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Speaker 2: and Aaron Glenn made Arthur Smith go away from what

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Speaker 2: that a team that usually doesn't abandon the run abandoned

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they needed to put up points and they just

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Speaker 3: And Bryan stifled them. It was just it was it

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Speaker 2: Six total points, one hundred and eighty three yards of

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Speaker 2: I mean that was a dominant performance. Plus seven sacks

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Speaker 4: The script from last week. I mean the run defense

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Speaker 4: great point, Just they're gonna come in bunches.

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Speaker 2: And then Aiden with you know, getting two late including

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a bounce back performance, right, because we talked

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Speaker 2: It is it is. It isn't about a place first

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