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Speaker 3: This is PJ Clark, this is the twenty Men in

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Speaker 3: the Huddle podcast, and we are coming to you post

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Speaker 3: PJ Clark again convinced he's to that. A convincing Lions

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Speaker 3: after five weeks. And I think how I would describe

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Speaker 1: It's complimentary football. Yep.

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Speaker 3: That's what we saw from the Detroit Lions. And look,

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Speaker 2: It was just an incredibly well rounded game, especially again,

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Speaker 1: It was maybe one of my favorite Dan Campbell quotes

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't know how many times.

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Speaker 3: Look, they've had big wins before, right, but I just

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Speaker 1: And you could see it in all three aspects.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean forty two points. No matter how

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Speaker 1: Up and creep up every week.

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Speaker 2: I mean he got to one oh nine and only

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Speaker 1: Efficient.

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Speaker 3: And then defensively, I thought it was impressive really, no

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Speaker 3: big chunk plays, no huge plays. Carolina had to grind

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Speaker 3: about that interception with Hutch. Yeah, I mean that that

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Speaker 1: And the little run after the catch was he got

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Speaker 2: And I mean, this is I remember I talked about

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Speaker 2: going to force them into that and not let them

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Speaker 2: that's a risk that clearly Aaron Glenn has been willing

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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see what they do next week.

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Speaker 1: A little bit different. Beast. You're going on the road.

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Speaker 1: You're going to Florida. It's going to be hot.

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Speaker 3: You have to deal with not only you know the

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Speaker 3: a game like that. I think this this team is

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you just you you have to take a

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Speaker 2: They've been prepping for you for a couple of weeks now,

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Speaker 2: when you map out the schedule, it's like how many

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Speaker 2: But that's the hand your dealt and you gotta go.

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Speaker 2: You gotta go beat a team that's leading their division

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Speaker 2: a really good early road test. You got the divisional

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Speaker 2: But now this is a This is a team that

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Speaker 1: But it's happy to be four and one.

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Speaker 3: The fans have got to be excited for a field

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Speaker 3: and we'll be in Tampa next weekend. We'll do one

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Speaker 3: in the huddle next week, as we always do on Thursdays.

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Speaker 3: Leading in We'll try to get you a player, We'll

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Speaker 3: to breakdown that matchup. And I think PJ will join

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