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Network, Matt Derry, with you on this, say Monday, May 16th and a Tuesday, May 17th.

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Coming up on the show today.

NFL schedule maker extraordinaire, the guy behind the scheduling, Mike North, the NFL VP of broadcasting and schedule

making, talked last Friday on a conference call on why the Detroit Lions are the only

team in the NFL that did not get a prime time game.

Here's what he had to hear what he had to say coming up momentarily here on the show.

Plus, ESPN's power rankings are out, and I'm a little bit surprised at where the Lions

sit in terms of 32 teams of what number they are ranked.

We'll get into that.

And also, a huge key to the season that I don't think enough people are talking about now

that the schedule is out and people are talking about wins and losses.

And there's one player that just cannot get injured if this team is going to have some success

this year.

We'll talk about that coming up on the show as well. You can follow me on Twitter at D-E-R-Y-Speaks, at

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