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Speaker 3: Touchdown Detroit Lions deflected in the air, Branch ran under

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Speaker 3: it and he took it all the way back. Welcome

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Speaker 3: to the twenty in the Huddle podcast presented by Microsoft.

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Speaker 3: I am Tim Twentyman and as always I am joined

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Speaker 3: by PJ. Clark after the game and Peach. You know,

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Speaker 3: Sunday was a good day for Detroit. Twelfth win of

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Speaker 3: the season ties a franchise record after a thirty to

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Speaker 3: back after a disappointing and controversial, controversial loss over Dallas

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Speaker 3: last week. And it kind of stings a little bit

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Speaker 3: have been the number one seed.

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Speaker 2: But that's here nor there.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco sat their team because they had clinched, So

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Speaker 1: you know, you would have had a chance. You would

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Speaker 3: But the Lions get a thirty twenty win, and look,

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Speaker 3: they get the sour taste of Dallas out of their mouth.

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Speaker 3: They go the whole season without losing back to back games,

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Speaker 3: which I think is pretty impressive. It shows a resiliency

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Speaker 3: a script that they might enjoy. The Detroit Lions will

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Speaker 3: now host Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams San

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Speaker 3: We will know tonight the date and time of that.

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Speaker 3: I'm somewhat expecting that to be a primetime game. I'd

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Speaker 3: But look, we'll get to that in a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Let's first start with the win, you know by Detroit.

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Speaker 3: You know Dan Campbell was, you know, he said all week, Look,

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Speaker 3: we want to play our guys, we want to win.

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Speaker 3: playoffs and they did that. I thought Jery Golf played terrific.

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Speaker 3: You know. Dan Campbell said after the game, it's it's

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Speaker 3: Campbell had to say, you know about that injury after

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Speaker 4: No, the best way I can put it is it's

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Speaker 3: So peace, Look what's your perspective of this game? You know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tough loss. I mean it's gonna it

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Speaker 3: You know, I look at how Detroit operated in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean you've seen it in the two

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't be surprised if we see Gardner Johnson play a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously Aaron Donald is deservedly going to get all

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Speaker 3: I think atuly with Gibby rockin with this matchup, now

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Speaker 3: The first time the Lions have hosted, you know, a

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Speaker 3: You know, we were talking about this before we before

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Speaker 1: I think the Lions and the Rams are definitely in

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Speaker 3: Packers, Cowboys. I mean, the NFL is salivating about that

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Speaker 3: I love hockey.

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Speaker 2: You just covered the Wings for the Detroit News.

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Speaker 3: Love hockey. But the NFL playoffs are are supreme. Everybody

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Speaker 3: But with some of these matchups that you just talked

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Speaker 1: This is the advantage of the extra wild card team.

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Speaker 3: So what it's uh, we got a Saturday it's four

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Speaker 1: Sunday to Saturday, one fortnight.

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Speaker 2: Eight or eight, and then a Monday night football game.

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Speaker 3: So we will know here in a couple hours where

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Speaker 3: But it's playoff time in the NFL, and I haven't

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Speaker 3: it's a fun time. It's why you do this for

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Speaker 1: Gotta love it. This is what it's all about. So finally,

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Speaker 1: finally time for meetingful January Football.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for joining the twenty Men in the

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Speaker 3: Huddle post game edition here on a Sunday night, and

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me.

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