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How the 1999 Music City Bowl will help Detroit Lions prepare for Kyler Murray

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Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia speaks to the media on Monday, Sept. 2, 2019, in Allen Park. Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press

The secret to stopping Kyler Murray, if the Detroit Lions are fortunate enough to do such a thing in their season opener Sunday, might lie in stacks of boxes in Paul Pasqualoni’s Connecticut garage.

Pasqualoni, the Lions’ second-year defensive coordinator, has a lifetime of notes stored in binders inside of those boxes, which he’s packed up and taken with him as he’s moved across country for coaching jobs in Syracuse and Dallas and Miami and Dallas again.