Welcome to the Midweek Mailbag, your Detroit Lions, Midweek podcast where we answer your Detroit Lions questions right here on the podcast feed, wherever you're listening, on Twitch.com, on YouTube.com slash Pride of Detroit.

Not an emergency podcast like I think some people were hoping for,

but we are going to talk some NFL trade deadline stuff.

We're going to talk some Lions offensive struggles and a whole bunch more.

But before we get into your questions, let me introduce our co-host here for the midweek mailbag.

You know him as the managing editor at Pride of Detroit.

You know him as at Eric Slit on

Twitter. It's Eric Slit. Eric, how we doing, buddy? Hey, bud. I'm doing good. I know a lot of people are

disappointed out there that the lines did make a move, but I think it speaks to the confidence that

they have in this team. And, you know, they're going to work with what they got and they're going to save their money

and put it towards all the things that they're going to want in the future.

Yeah, I mean, let's start there before we even get to any specific questions on just like

whether you're okay with that, whether you're okay with the lion's standing pat at the trade deadline,

because I'm on record last night on the,

on the POD cast saying I,

I was hoping they'd land a guard.

Um, I'm certainly not surprised that they didn't or extremely disheartened,

but maybe mildly disappointed is, is where I currently stand.

Where do you stand?

Yeah, I'm fine.

I wasn't expecting them to make a move.

You know, I think there were some interesting ideas that were probably thrown out there,

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