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"New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards will be blogging for GQ all season. Check out all of his previous posts here.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterestEDWARDS_Rubric9.gif\n\nThis game in Detroit against the Lions is a huge one for our team, after that loss to Green Bay where we didn't score any points. Another reason why it's huge: Detroit is not playing like the Lions of old. They've won two of their last three, and they've played close games against some very good teams\u2014the Giants, Packers, and Eagles. They're playing faster, more disciplined. Their defense is a lot stronger. They've also got their quarterback, Matthew Stafford, back on the field. So going on the road to Ford Field, where they have everything going for them\u2014it's going to be a real challenge.\n\nIn order to get back on track after that Green Bay game, the main thing we've got to do is get rid of all the minor mistakes. We have to get rid of the turnovers, the dropped passes, the penalties. Those things are killing us. If you look at how we played, even as badly as we played, we still had a chance to win it twice at the end of the game. So just imagine if we could have hit a couple more plays, or if we hadn't gotten those penalties right after the big plays on offense. So the key is: eliminate mistakes, no errors.\n\n Also, personally, this is a huge game for me. I grew up near Detroit, so I have lots of family and friends around. And I also used to play in Cleveland, which is only a two-hour drive from Detroit, so a lot of people I know in Cleveland will drive up for the game. That means I have a huge, huge ticket request for this week. I think I'm up to 63 tickets for the game. Man, everyone's trying to get to this game. You ask for as many tickets as you can get from the organization, but sometimes they can't deliver that many, so you also ask friends on the other team. As you put in more years in the NFL, you meet guys throughout the league, so you just say, \"I'm coming in to town, I need this many tickets. Help me out.\" But at a certain point, you really just have to buy them yourself.\n\nHere's a funny thing about where I am in my career right now: I really don't watch the NFL. I don't watch the other guys. The more I play, the more years I get in, the less attention I pay to what's going on around the league outside my team. People have to tell me about what's going on. I guess earlier this week, Randy Moss was waived from the Vikings. And I didn't know anything about it until my old teammate David Clowney said something to me at his bowling event. I think I deal with enough football on a day-to-day basis, between practice, playing, phone calls from my mom, and vice versa. So when I have some down time away from focusing on the game and my team I just try to rest or do other things, so I don't feel like football is the only thing that's consuming my life.\n\nWhen I was a rookie, during that first season in the league, I was watching everything, keeping track on what other rookies were doing, keeping up on how other teams were playing, how I stacked up against other receivers, who was having good games, watching ESPN and see who made the top plays. But yeah, that was then. This is now."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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