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Welcome to the midweek mailbag.

We are back.

It is week 18.

Some would say the last week of the NFL season.

Detroit Lions fans don't need to say that, though.

We got more football to be played after that.

My name is Jeremy Reisman.

I am the producer over at pride of Detroit.com.

You can find me at

Detroit online on Twitter with me. Bringing in the new year with us is the managing editor

of Pride of Detroit is at Eric Schlitt on Twitter. Eric Schlitt, the machine is here. How we doing,

buddy? Happy New Year. Hey, bud. Happy New Year. I am excited that

this is not the last game of the season. So we get to keep doing our thing for a few more

weeks, hopefully another month, and we'll see how far it can go. Yeah. And it's also kind of nice, a little bit at least, that while there are some stakes to

week 18, we can mostly just kind of relax here because the worst aligns can do is the

three seed and also the most likely outcome, even if they win, is still getting the three

seed.

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