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Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke. And welcome to First Bite our Detroit Lions Midweek podcast, our preview podcast, where we talk about the upcoming game.

And this is a big one.

Training camp is over.

Preseason game three, the finale this year.

Roster spots on the line.

And we're going to get into it.

Talk about every position, all the players that need to play up big on Friday night.

But before we get into all of that, my name is Jeremy Reisman.

I am the editor-in-chief over at Pride of Detroit.

You can find me at Detroit Online on Twitter.

And with me, as always, for first bite is Ryan Matthews, our senior editor at Ryan underscore POD.

Ryan, we're almost there, man.

We are almost there. And we may be sunburnt. We may be tired. But we have made it through one of the most sweltering, hot,

just, I mean, it seems like we need an oasis. And maybeseason game three can provide us with an oasis and

what a in a preseason that has mostly been a mirage i feel like yeah and you know what i i think i think

what the true oasis is going to be is that rather than they're just being this mad scramble of cuts

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