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Speaker 1: Welcome to a special edition of the twenty min The

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Speaker 1: Huddle Podcast. We are outside here in Allen Park, the

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Speaker 1: guys who's got done working out in PJ Clark. It

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Speaker 1: is schedule release, stay of this podcast. Yes, this was

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Speaker 1: a third. We started the twenty min The Puddle Hot

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Speaker 1: twenty minute in the Huddle Excuse Me podcast one year ago.

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Speaker 1: This first one we have Sean Elliott breaking about it yep,

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Speaker 1: and you yep. And now here we are a year

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Speaker 1: later and I'm still stuck with you. My have just kidding,

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Speaker 1: things change the more things stay the same. Let's get

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Speaker 1: into a peach. I mean, schedule release, you see it.

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Speaker 1: I think the five National Games is kind of what

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Speaker 1: stands out to me. And then obviously Week one at

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, the NFL is going to open up its

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Speaker 1: schedule with the Detroit Lions playing at Kansas City at Arrowhead.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what does that say about what the league

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Speaker 1: thinks about this football?

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, you're sitting here a year

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Speaker 3: ago and did anyone think that was possible.

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Speaker 1: That's just a testament. We were talking about one game

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Speaker 1: on the national and now you are Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: You are the game of the year to start off.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's a testament to everything that has transpired

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Speaker 3: within the last year and where the team finished last

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Speaker 3: year on Sunday Night Football and get to open it

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Speaker 3: up on NBC again.

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Speaker 1: And what a great test for this Detroit Lions football team.

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Speaker 1: Not only for this revamp secondary, this revamp defense facing

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, the raiding MVP, the number one offense in

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Speaker 1: terms of points and yards last year, but just as

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Speaker 1: much expectation for this football team. They're expected to win

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Speaker 3: And I think it's even you know, everybody's going to

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Speaker 3: talk about how does the new look defense compared to

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Speaker 3: that Super Bowl and got them to win. And now

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Speaker 1: That's a big game too with the Seattle because obviously

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Speaker 3: You know, whatever happens in Kansas City happens in Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the Thursday game. You know, obviously

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Speaker 3: Wildly different Carolina team, very much so. New quarterback, new

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Speaker 2: Of a bye.

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Speaker 1: I love that, And I love the fact that that

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Speaker 1: It allows them to split this season up into twos.

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Speaker 1: So that means five of their last eight are against

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you pick up you know, you're not only

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Speaker 1: Something we talked about what ford Field would be like

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the twenty minu The Huddle Podcast presented by

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Speaker 1: Microsoft a special edition. It's schedule release day Tracy Walker

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Speaker 1: Safety for the Detroit Lions. Look, you're a veteran guy

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Speaker 1: when the schedule comes out, when you see it, what's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so and look at the you look at the schedule.

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Speaker 1: It's five primetime games for you guys this year. Obviously

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Speaker 2: But that means we got the legal notice right now.

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Speaker 2: So it's a great fellow for us. Obviously, it is.

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Speaker 1: So what about Week one trace, I mean, starting off

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm looking forward to it for and it's my

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Speaker 2: Last time we played Kansas City, that was here. We

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Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a great early test for your defense,

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Speaker 2: Every game I got, I said, wait, wait, in my

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Speaker 2: So I've just decided to go out and do that.

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Speaker 2: being healthy and just still in the way I'm feeling. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: Five games in prime time or on national, nationally televised.

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Speaker 1: You got to love that. A lot of big X

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Speaker 1: spectations for you guys. You've got to love that aspect

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Speaker 1: of it too, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, like I said, we love the expectations now

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Speaker 2: of us being a winning team because you know how

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Speaker 2: I do. It used to be bad where everybody was

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Speaker 2: kinda we could win full games, you know, what I mean.

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Speaker 2: If we won five games, it'd be a miracle. Yeah. So,

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Speaker 2: but everybody expecting us to have our hopes and to

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Speaker 2: do great things. This shear I got to say. It's

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Speaker 2: those show the hard work we've been putting in is

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Speaker 2: paying off and so got to keep going. Well.

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Speaker 1: It should be fun now you know when where the opponents, what.

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Speaker 2: Lies ahead of you.

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Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the off season, and get

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Speaker 1: back on there quick. We'll see in OTAs and training camp. Thanks.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you so much that we're out