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Welcome in, everybody, on a Tuesday, August 21st, and a Wednesday, August 22nd.

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

My name is Matt Derry.

Welcome in everybody.

Thank you for listening tonight.

Or this morning on a Wednesday, if you're tuning in in the morning, getting your Lions fix,

Lions and Tampa Bay Bucks, Friday night, 8 o'clock start time in Tampa for the third preseason game.

I can give you the cliche and call it a dress rehearsal, but the bottom line is the lions need to play better football and need to show up following last Friday's a debacle at Ford Field in which the Giants really outplayed them.

Coming up on the podcast tonight, you'll hear from Matt Patricia.

Jeff Rieger, the ticket, who I think is awesome.

And Jeff is, to me, the best radio sports reporter in Detroit.

We used to have tons of radio reporters back in the day.

Back when I was at DFN and I was a reporter and John Bloom and Dave Pash and Rob Otto and Shep and all these guys,

Jennifer Hammond, she was the gold standard at the time.

We used to have a ton of radio reporters when Paul Chapman was at JR and Dan Dickerson

and and Shep was at WWJ.

And now basically it's only Jeffrey Eger, really, who covers things.

And he asked a very good question of Matt Patricia today at his press conference before practice.

And I want to play that for you and react to that.

You'll hear that coming up in a matter of moments.

What's going on with Golden Tate?

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