What's going on, Lions fans, welcome to the Pride of Detroit, T-O, TODCast. I'm your host, Miko.

Welcome into your go-to place for all things Lions related. That includes news, updates, analysis,

and so much more. In today's podcast episode, we are going to be reacting to the Lions schedule,

which released last week along with the rest of the NFL schedules. And we're going to talk about essentially our biggest takeaways after now that we've had a few days to kind of digest the schedule and kind of have an idea of how things are going to kind of play out for the Lions. Again, I'm your host, Miko. You can find me on Twitter over at the Miko Scott. I'm joined once again by my amazing co-host. First and foremost, we have your senior editor

over at pride of Detroit.com. Ryan Matthews at Ryan underscore POD. Ryan, how are you feeling? Sorry for kind of leaving you waiting a little bit and have you like a little concerned about me. Yeah, I'm glad. One, I'm glad you're okay. Two, at least I was inside and not outside. if I was stuck in the rain, I'd be pretty sad. But I'm just glad you're okay and I'm glad we get to talk about the schedule. The wait is over, guys. The weight is over. Now the weight is officially over. Now it's officially over. And for those who are not who are wondering, I fell asleep before we were supposed to start the podcast. and Ryan was like, hey, where, where's Miko? Just hyperneating during the all season. Yeah, never, never trust a post work nap. It's going to betray you every single time. Also joining us today is your editor-in-chief and beat writer for the Detroit Lions, Jeremy Rysman at Detroit Online over there on Twitter. Jeremy, how are you feeling?

I'm good, man.

I'm excited that we get to talk a little bit about the schedule here.

We get to talk about relatively real news.

And more importantly, now it feels like we're actually getting kind of close to football.

You know, the NBA season is now officially over for all 32 teams as far as I'm concerned.

Hockey season ended months ago. Baseball season's over. It's football time. I was going to say, we'll talk. We can definitely talk about the Pistons at some point, not during the main podcast, but like if you ever want to actually see what we have to say during our breaks and you want to hear us talk about the Pistons, this is a perfect time to go check us out over on Twitch.tv.tv slash pride of Detroit as well as YouTube.com

slash Prided Detroit as well because, yeah, we're definitely going to talk about there. There's

some, there's some healing that needs to happen here in the city of Detroit. I mean, what's,

what better to heal Detroit than schedule talk, the NFL talk?

I will say in most cases, yes.

And I think specifically when it comes to the lines, listen, the something that I think

the NFL does better than any other league out there is that they find a way to make any

major day in their like season calendar makes it seem important. An NFL schedule

release day has become one of those days where it's got way more attention than like maybe

it probably should. But I think that goes a lot to how the league promotes it. And typically with

how teams like get involved and get invested into like how they choose to release their schedules.

But I think that kind of brings us to like the first bit of like quote unquote news when it comes to the lines because they put about as much effort into their schedule release video as I do into like trying to pay attention to golf on any given weekend.

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