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Even Barry Sanders isn't sure when Detroit Lions, Calvin Johnson will mend relationship

Portrait of Carlos Monarrez Carlos Monarrez
Detroit Free Press

Deadlines are funny things. Sometimes they take on more importance as they approach. Sometimes people listen a little more keenly as each passing stroke of the clock grows louder.

But sometimes it’s hard to tell how much a deadline even matters when two sides remain at a long-standing impasse in their relationship.

I went to Detroit Golf Club on Wednesday to ask Barry Sanders about the impasse between Calvin Johnson and the Detroit Lions. I went to ask Sanders, who knows all about this situation. what I asked him almost exactly two years ago at the same place: How and why have the Lions not repaired their relationship with the franchise’s greatest receiver?

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