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Welcome in, everybody, on a Wednesday, December 27th, and the Thursday, December 28th,

it is another edition of Lockdown Lions right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network.

Matt Derry with you.

As we get you ready for the final game of this NFL season, this regular season where the

lions are taking on the Green Bay Packers and what is basically a meaningless game for Sunday against the pack. Jim Caldwell has made it clear.

He wants to play his regulars and includes Matthew Stafford.

Today, Matthew Stafford was asked about that. We'll tell you what Stafford had to say about

the idea of maybe resting and not playing in Week 17 and what really is a game that means

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of Locked-on Lions. Matt Derry with you. Thank you for listening. And tuning in,

listen, all of the talk today in regards to the Lions and everything else has been in regards to

a column that is written by a guy that I used to work with that a lot of us at WDFN used to

work with, and that is Joseph Hayes or Joe Hayes, from the Port Huron Times, I want to get this

right, the Port Huron Times Herald, and it was printed in the free press, and it's gotten a lot of

run today, and it hits on a topic that, quite honestly honestly I'm not saying I'm uncomfortable talking about

because I'll talk about everything but I think the one thing that we do here on Lockdown

Lions which I think people like is that we talk football I don't try to get into political talk

I don't want to talk Trump I don't want to talk taking a knee I don't want to talk

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