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All right, John, with the lions getting back underway here.

We're out of camp a couple days this week.

There's a good buzz around this football team. I'm on Ross St. Brown had an interesting quote as the

Lions got back to camp. Yeah, his quote is, we're not back to square one, but we're back

to square you're still underdogs. We feel like we play best when we're underdogs. We love being the underdog,

and it gives us that hunger, that fight that our team is built off of. We're right where we need

to be. And I was looking at this going, I think really underdogs? Because if you think that

they're missing the playoffs, and we have callers that think, you know, hey,

they take steps back and they're missing the playoffs, then yeah, I think they would fill

that underdog status for you if they were to make the playoffs and actually do something in

the postseason.

But most people believe that this is still a playoff team.

A contender even.

Yeah.

And so I, the players can do the mental gymnastics and think whatever they want, right?

I mean, Jordan is famous for, you know, trying to manufacture some motivation for every single game.

But I'm curious to our listeners, to our fans, do you think that the lions

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