You are Locked-on Lions, your daily Detroit Lions podcast, part of the Locked-on

podcast network, your team every day. on a special Wednesday night edition of the NFL schedule release and the

Lions schedule release, Matt Derry with you.

It's Locked on Lions, everybody, on the Lockdown podcast and network on this Wednesday, May

12th and the Thursday, May 13th.

Thank you for listening.

And joining us a little later than expected as the

lion's schedule came out a few minutes ago. And we'll talk about it. It's not going to be an easy

2021 for this rebuilding franchise, the schedule, the dates, we know, the times, home games, road

games, we will go over each and every game and kind of what I like about the schedule, what I

don't like about the schedule and all of that coming up on the program tonight.

Also, a bit of bad news.

One of the Lions rookies has come down with COVID and will not be at rookie minicamp.

We'll talk about that as well on this very program tonight.

Thank you for listening and joining us, following us on Twitter

at D-E-R-Y-Speaks, at Lockdown Lions, and also the Matt D-Derry Facebook fan page.

All right, so we knew this this morning when we got up that the Lions were going to be home

for week one. San Francisco, Jimmy Garoppolo, Trey Lance, and the Niners will come to town for the opener on September the 12th at Ford Field of 1 o'clock.

So we knew that all day. As far as primetime games, the Lions will be on national television twice. Once, of course, is Thanksgiving, which every year the Lions are on

nationally and the only game in town. And that Thursday, November 25th game is once again,

does that seem like every year the Lions play the Bears on Thanksgiving? Well, they are again.

So Chicago will come to town for the Thanksgiving Day game. The Lions are in prime

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