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All lowercase. What's going on, Lions fans?

Welcome to Before the Roy, your preview podcast over here at Pride of Detroit.

I'm your host, Miko.

Join once again by amazing co-host.

First and foremost, we have one of your writers over at Pride of Detroit guy.com.

Morgan Cannon.

Morgan, how are you feeling, my guy?

Feeling good, man. Can't complain. Rolling towards week five, we're fully into football season. It's a little brisk outside. So I'm happy. I was going to say it could afford to get a little more into like the fall weather. Like I'm we're still getting like high. What, like high 70s, low 80s let's let's start to start to bring that down a little bit. Mid 70s, low 70s. That would be great. We also are joined by one of our other writers over at at pride of Detroit.com, Brandon Knapp. Brandon, how are you feeling, my man? We missed you last week. Yep, I'm definitely glad to be back here. I miss you guys as well. But yeah, going into week five, it's kind of sad. I saw someone

tweets saying we're about 23.5% of the way through the season. And I said, oh, it doesn't feel like we're already almost a quarter of the way through. It's week five, Miko. Like, I doesn't feel like it's quarter of the way in there. I'm ready for even more football. I know we got months to months to go. But no, it's slow it down a little bit. Just a little bit, yeah. And we're definitely hitting that part of the season, at least where most of us thought that things would start to ramp up for the Lions. Obviously, they have the Cincinnati Bengals this week, a matchup that going, you know, once this was kind of rolled out in the schedule, I think people probably thought one thing about what this matchup would be. You would have golf first Barbarrow, Chase versus Brown. There's a lot of things, what, Hutchinson versus Hendrickson? Like, there's a lot of things that people were probably going to be looking forward to on a really, you know, big matchup happening on Sunday afternoon. But we already know the Bengals have already had some

injuries primarily to Joe Burrow. And that has kind of had them in a really weird place. They're

two and two on the season, but they do not look like your average two and two season or type

of team at this point in the season. They look like they should be playing much worse. So we're

going to get into that as well as what the Lions need to do to be able to guarantee them a win in terms of going up against that defense, as well as what the defense needs to do to make sure that they can keep Chase and Higgins in check to make sure that they don't have a chance at, you know, turning this game on its head. But before we jump into that, let's take a look back at this past week where the Lions had a really gritty win against the Cleveland Browns. It ended up being fairly one-sided,

but it wasn't like a clean blowout, right? Like it wasn't like a recap of like when the Lions

played the Jaguars last year and anything like that. Like this one was more reminiscent of when

the Lions played the Titans, Morgan. What were some of your biggest takeaways from this game? Just kind of a reassurance of how complete of a team the Lions

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