Best Of The Lions On 97.1 The Ticket: Confidence In Lions, Bears Preview, and More!

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Costa & Jansen get this week's Best Of Lions kicked off with a discussion about how much their confidence in the Lions was shaken after their week 1 loss to the Packers. Plus, Karsch & Anderson preview Lions-Bears and Valenti & Rico talk about Dan Campbell's comments earlier in the week.

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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, the ticket's best NFL talk to get you ready for game day.
0:15.1	For the first time in the history of the power surge, the Detroit Lions were not included.
0:19.6	Mm-hmm.
0:21.7	Neither was Kansas City.
0:23.9	Topsy-turvy, week one in the NFL.
0:26.2	And it might be two weeks in a row.
0:28.1	Even if they win, it depends on what happens in the top six.
0:31.6	I don't know that a win over the Bears does much for it.
0:37.1	It'll feel really good here because it's Ben Johnson.
0:39.5	It's a division opponent.
0:40.5	It's a response from last week.
0:42.1	But I don't know that it does enough to get you back into the top six.
0:44.7	It's going to take some work for them.
0:46.4	Yeah, a win would be nice.
0:48.0	Sure.
0:49.8	It's more than a loss would kill you.
0:53.2	Now, looking around to see what everybody else thinks of the Lions, I've got five different rankings.
0:59.2	Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Talk, CBS, ESPN, NFL.com.
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