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We played it on a beautiful sunny Monday, June 4th and a Tuesday, June 5th.

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

Matt Derry with you.

As we're talking about your Detroit Lions, getting ready for minicamp, mandatory minicamp,

which begins tomorrow.

And we'll get into some of that later on today and throughout the week with some guests and everything else.

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Thank you for doing so.

And listening to this edition of Lockdown Lions.

If you miss yesterday, we had kind of the weekend story, which was Calvin Johnson speaking once again publicly, this time to Dave Burkett of the free press.

And Dave always seems to be on top of the Calvin story.

And as Dave told me today, and he's right, it seems like Calvin Johnson's a much better interview after his playing days.

See, a lot of these teams, that's not just the Lions.

It's NFL teams.

It's sometimes NBA teams.

A lot of times players get out of their shell after they no longer have a PR person

or a media relations person over their shoulder.

And Calvin dove into a lot of different topics at Freep.com over the weekend,

including his last day in the NFL when he was set to retire and decided to retire

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