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Behind Enemy Lines w/ Lomas Brown of the Lions Radio Network | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Countdown to Kickoff continues. The Jaguars and the Detroit Lions
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  Speaker 1: coming up in Week eleven. Longtime NFL offensive lineman multiple
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowls. Now the analyst for the Lions radio network
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  Speaker 1: is Lomas Brown. It's nice to visit with you and
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  Speaker 1: boy when a game it's gonna be at Ford Field.
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  Speaker 2: How are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, doing great man, as you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the great season. So I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 3: we can continue things here in Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a heck of a run the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years for the Lions. It just continues so far
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  Speaker 1: this year with this fantastic start. Let's start in general
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  Speaker 1: with the way this team has really taken the personality
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  Speaker 1: of Dan Campbell, at least it feels that way from
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  Speaker 1: the outside looking in? Is that reality? Is that who
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  Speaker 1: they are? Is Dan Campbell for real? And is this
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  Speaker 1: what the Lions are?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, and yes, I mean this is what
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  Speaker 3: they've built. They've been building it over the last three
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  Speaker 3: four years here in Detroit, and this is the results
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  Speaker 3: of what you see. It's the type of guys that
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  Speaker 3: they draft, the type of free agents that they bring in,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the foundational pieces of this team are set.
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  Speaker 3: They made sure they took care of these guys, and
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  Speaker 3: that's the one thing that you know if you come here,
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  Speaker 3: if you play hard, if you're a team player, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to get rewarded here. And there's just so many
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  Speaker 3: positives that being a Detroit Lion now compared to how
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  Speaker 3: it's been in the past. So from top to bottom,
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  Speaker 3: I think everything has changed around here, including the culture
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  Speaker 3: of the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Culture helps when you have a big physical group on
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  Speaker 1: both lines of scrimmage. Lomas you know that better than anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And on the offensive line, I mean, it's a fantastic group.
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  Speaker 1: The starting five up front. What has made them work
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  Speaker 1: together so well as a unit on the old.
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  Speaker 3: Line, I mean what it is that chemistry. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you can't say anything negative about having chemistry. These guys
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  Speaker 3: have been together for a while. We've added in Kevin Zeitler,
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  Speaker 3: who's been just a nice fit after losing Jonah Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: but the foundational pieces and Panay, Sue Taylor, Dicker, Frank
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  Speaker 3: ragnow those guys have been there. Graham glasgow Out has
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  Speaker 3: been here for a couple of years now, and he
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  Speaker 3: was here before. So it's the familiar allelie that these
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  Speaker 3: guys have with each other. It's the chemistry that they
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  Speaker 3: developed along with being very good. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 3: coach Hank Frehley he doesn't get enough credit for how
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  Speaker 3: he keeps this group together. Even when one piece is missing,
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  Speaker 3: He's able to plug somebody else in the dance Skipper
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  Speaker 3: Kobe sores Doll and those guys don't seem to miss
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  Speaker 3: the beats. So you have to give Hank Frehley a
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  Speaker 3: lot the credit for the success of this offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Thamas Brown with US Lions Radio Network and then the
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  Speaker 1: two headed monster in the backfield really kind of balances
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  Speaker 1: out this offense. We know about the skill guys down
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  Speaker 1: the field, Jamison Williams, Amon Ross, Saint Brown, those guys
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  Speaker 1: are fantastic in the passing game. But David Montgomery and
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  Speaker 1: Xavereer Gibbs. Now, obviously you blocked for one of the
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  Speaker 1: best running backs in the history of the game in Barry.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, these guys have two different styles. How
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  Speaker 1: different are they? And you know there's trust, it feels
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  Speaker 1: like in both of these backs no matter the situation.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to beyond this with too, JP, it's not really
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you people will find that out. When you
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  Speaker 3: look at it, you hear or see them from a distance,
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  Speaker 3: you think that they are really really big. Big difference
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  Speaker 3: is in the style. But I'm telling you Jr. Mere
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  Speaker 3: Gibbs runs the ball hard. He runs like a small
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  Speaker 3: aversion of David Montgomery between the tackle. And then with
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  Speaker 3: David Montgomery, he's the guy that I'm telling you he's
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  Speaker 3: had the longest run, you know, out of those two
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  Speaker 3: when he broke it for eighty yard last year. So
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  Speaker 3: David has the big play capability too if you get
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  Speaker 3: him out of the space. So it's so it's remarkable
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  Speaker 3: how different they are, but how similar they are, and
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  Speaker 3: how each of them are able to take parts of
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  Speaker 3: each other's game and use it. Like I say, Jamerican
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  Speaker 3: run between the tackle. He'll surprise people at how hard
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  Speaker 3: he runs between the tackles. And David Montgomery will surprise
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  Speaker 3: people how he could get to the edges. And once
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  Speaker 3: he gets out there, he's the threat to take it
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  Speaker 3: the distance.
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  Speaker 1: Lois Brown with US Lions Radio Network, let's flip it
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  Speaker 1: out of the Lions defense. Aiden Hutchinson of course, is
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  Speaker 1: done for the year. So how have they been able
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  Speaker 1: to or have they been able to fill his production
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  Speaker 1: or have we seen what they have in mind yet?
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  Speaker 1: It seems like at the debut of somebody this week
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  Speaker 1: might change that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Man, that's what we're hoping here in Detroit. That's what
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  Speaker 3: we need here.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I mean again, it hadn't been it's been feast of
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  Speaker 3: famine basically because they ain't been out and basically the
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  Speaker 3: feast has been up the middle. With Aleen McNeil, that's
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  Speaker 3: what we've been getting most of our pressure in our
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  Speaker 3: sacks from the middle of our defense. He's been doing
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  Speaker 3: an excellent jobs. He's just taking his game to another
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  Speaker 3: level and Josh Pascal those guys, so we're getting significant
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  Speaker 3: push up the middle. What we need is on the edges,
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  Speaker 3: and that's where we're hoping that Zadarius Smith will be
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  Speaker 3: that guy that can provide that edge pressure that we've
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  Speaker 3: been missing every since Aidon Hutchinson is going down. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, again, we don't want to put everything on
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  Speaker 3: one player because it's unfair to do that, but man,
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  Speaker 3: I think he could just be a huge piece to
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  Speaker 3: how the Lions want to look later on down this year.
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  Speaker 3: When you start talking about playoff football, and then when
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  Speaker 3: you start talking about defensive football, so hopefully he'll be
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  Speaker 3: able to just go in there and be just a
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  Speaker 3: great fit with the rest of those guys, and you
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  Speaker 3: could just see his impact immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Lomas, the back end of this defense is fantastic. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like Herbie Joseph's tied for the league leading interceptions
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  Speaker 1: with six of them. Brian Branch just runs everywhere. So
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  Speaker 1: those two safeties alone, I mean, what are they bringing
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  Speaker 1: the back end of this group? And you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like that's a big piece of what they
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  Speaker 1: do on the back end here because those guys are
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  Speaker 1: flying all over the field.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the thing about it, Okay, you got one
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  Speaker 3: guy and Brian Branch, who we can and we do
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  Speaker 3: used all over the field. You'll see Brian that the
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  Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, You'll see him in the line, back
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  Speaker 3: of box, You'll see them deep, you'll see him anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: He covers lot receivers. And you don't hear about a
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  Speaker 3: safety that can do that. So we could put in
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  Speaker 3: on slots, we can put them on tight ends. And
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  Speaker 3: this guy is just excellent man that doing it. He's
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  Speaker 3: all proing to making right now in his second year.
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  Speaker 3: And then you look at Kirby Joseph Man, He's like
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  Speaker 3: a center fielder back that nothing's gonna get past him.
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  Speaker 3: He's our Mookie Betts. You know what I'm saying, Nothing
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  Speaker 3: get past this guy. This guy could cover from sideline,
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  Speaker 3: the sideline and deep and he's been excellent in the
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  Speaker 3: end zone where like four of those picks have come
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  Speaker 3: in the end zone, so that it's just been a
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  Speaker 3: great combination. So when you have safeties like that, it
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  Speaker 3: enables those corners that either play more aggressive, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, They could do different things at the
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  Speaker 3: corner position because you got guys that are great in
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  Speaker 3: the backfield that could cover for any mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Loma's final thought with here. I was up
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  Speaker 1: there a couple of times last year for games late
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  Speaker 1: in the season, and just seeing the energy of the
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  Speaker 1: city has behind the team of some success for the
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  Speaker 1: first time last year in a long time. That's carried over. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what would what would the city of Detroit be like
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  Speaker 1: if they take this thing all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, man, I'm telling you as you witness
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  Speaker 3: and you see it on the road. If you know
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  Speaker 3: that how we travel on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Think about all those fans that travel on the road,
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  Speaker 2: all those fans that live in all those opposing cities
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  Speaker 2: that we go to converging on Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, with all with our population that we already
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  Speaker 3: have here, don't forget we got Canada the five minutes
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  Speaker 3: away from us, So we're gonna have the support of
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  Speaker 3: another country that comes over and celebrates with us. Man,
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  Speaker 3: it'll be epic. That'll be the word I used, because
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  Speaker 3: it'll be something they haven't seen here. The Pistons have
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  Speaker 3: done what they've done, the Red Wings have done what
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  Speaker 3: they've done, and even the Tigers have done what they
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  Speaker 3: did back in the eighties. But it'll be nothing compared
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  Speaker 3: to the Lions winning the Lombardy. The parade would be epic.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, lovers, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck this week
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  Speaker 3: They ca JP