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The Valenti Show

Best of Lions on 97.1 The Ticket: Talking free agency, trades, and draft

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

97.1 The Ticket presents a selection of discussions about the Lions from during the past week from Costa & Jansen with Heather, Karsch & Anderson, and The Valenti Show. The Lions offseason plans remain a focal point of the conversation. Should the focus on signing new players in free agency -- or re-signing their own guys? Plus, who could be potential trade targets, what they might do in the draft, and are you on board with restructuring Jared Goff's contract?

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0:00.0

Touchdown Detroit Lions.

0:03.0

You're listening to the best of the lions.

0:05.6

Oh, baby.

0:06.9

How beautiful is that?

0:08.4

A weekly mix of 97.1, Now, I understand, 9797.

0:39.5

Now, I understand, I know that, you know, Jared Goff will never be the player that Patrick Mahomes was.

0:50.4

By the way, I was curious if Jerry Gough even made that list.

0:54.9

Anyway, I digress.

0:58.0

You keep going.

0:58.7

I'm going to look it up.

0:59.3

Okay.

1:00.2

Anyway, Patrick Mahomes today restructured his contract to help the Kansas City Chiefs out of their salary cap hell.

1:12.0

The restructured contract, according to over the cap,

1:17.4

will lower Mahomes cap hit from $78.2 million to $34.6 million.

1:25.6

Doing so will free up $44 million in cap space.

1:32.0

Now, my homes will receive the $44 million as an immediate bonus.

1:38.1

In turn, it allows the chiefs to spend the cap hit or spread it over a maximum of five years.

1:49.0

So with Jared Goff, everybody knows he's going to, you know, restructure.

1:55.0

So if the lions, you know, according to, you know, Spot Track, which is another place like over the cap,

2:03.5

uh, Goff's current cap hit for this coming year is 69.6 million dollars a year, uh, which doubles

2:15.0

his salary from last, his cap hit from last year.

2:19.0

So restructuring, you know, here's as you do.

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