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My name is Jeremy Reisman. I am the producer of our pride of Detroit and you can find me at Detroit online. On the social media is with me, as always. This is the offseason general manager of Pride of Detroit. You can find him at Eric Slit on Twitter. It's Eric Schlit. How are we doing, buddy? Hey, it feels a little lonely without Drew Petting, not in the frame here.

So I think we'll be all right.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe.

It's going to be a little bit less.

I mean, the football intelligence is just going to be slightly notch down.

No, not trying to, it's not being self-deprecating.

That's just the fact of the matter.

Sure. Maybe a little bit less charismatic. Well, we'll do. Sounds like you're dealing with the cold still. So that's, that's going to, you know, take down the energy level a little bit, I think. Nah, no, I'm bringing it today.

We got to, we got to bring it.

I could not have brought it if we did this on Tuesday

for Wednesday, but we're doing this a little bit late. I got the energy. We're taking care of

things. On today's midweek mailbag, we're going to talk a little bit about the Rod Wood

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