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No, Matthew Stafford won't be Detroit Lions' player-coach vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

With nearly 50 years of NFL experience between them, Tom Brady and Bruce Arians should be licking their lips at the chance to play a struggling and shorthanded Detroit Lions defense that likely will have a first-time NFL play caller at its helm Saturday.

But the way Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford sees it, there's at least one silver lining to his team's COVID-19-related losses.

"The only problem is you got no scouting report on the new guy calling the plays,"' Stafford said. "So we do have that. A little bit of the, as far as whoever’s calling it, there's not a big book on them.