and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple and

Maci Collar here.

And joining the show for the first time,

although we followed each other on Twitter for a long time so I feel like we

semi know each other even though we don't know each other Mike Payton A to Z sports Detroit

Lions beat writer.

Great to have you on the show for the first time.

I thought that you would be a great guest,

Mike, to join for Random Questions Week,

so I can ask you Random Lions question. So how are you?

Good, thanks for having me, man. I'm looking forward to the randomness.

First of all, okay, here's the first random question. This is this is

Nora, this is sort of like a casual let's get ourselves

into the discussion but it's ran it's a random question. How do you feel about covering a

winning team? Because this is not usual for you. This had to be strange over the last year.

You've had to be maybe a different person

in covering the Detroit lines than you were before.

It's interesting because I told people

for a long time that it was almost easier to cover the team when they were losing

because there was a lot that you could you could gripe about and there was a lot of things

that you could be like you know who's gonna to get fired or who's going to get traded all this

But you know covering the team as a winning team this last year was I think is probably the most fun fun of it had in my entire career like it's a whole

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