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Hey everybody, it's game week. Oh, my goodness gracious, happy Labor Day on a Monday, September 7th, and a Tuesday, September 8th. It is another installment of Lockdown Lions right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. I'm your host, Matt Derry. Thank you for listening, joining us today. I hope everybody's having a fantastic Labor Day, taking it easy. And then tomorrow we get back to the grind of

school for everybody, work, and NFL football. The Lions open up the season this week,

Sunday, 1 o'clock Ford Field, without any fans against the Chicago Bears and Mitchell Trubisky,

as that was made official over the weekend by Matt Nagy and the Bears.

But in fact, here we go.

It's Lions football, and we've got a lot to discuss.

The final 53-man roster is out.

I'll tell you the position group that really, really concerns me.

And just some other things that stand out for me on the 53 man. We'll do that today.

Also, Adrian Peterson is a lion. My goodness, at age 35, 13, 14 years in the league.

And yet here he is in Detroit with the Lions, signing a one-year, $1.05 million deal with incentives.

The day after, he was released and caught by the Washington Redskins,

you know, Josina Anderson was the first to report it, the former ESPN reporter.

She talked to all day, AD, AP, whatever you want to call him, and he was coming to Detroit.

So we got to get into that.

It's exciting.

But what does it mean for the running backs?

Matt Patricia spoke on it today.

The Lions head coach, you will hear his comments on why Adrian Peterson is here and what he brings to the table. We'll do that today on the show.

Also today, one very, very, very prominent national reporter has picked your Detroit Lions to make

the playoffs. We'll dive into that today right here

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