Best Of The Lions On 97.1 The Ticket: Lions Fans' End-Of-Season Hangover, Za'Darius Smith's Potential Return, and More!

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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On this week's Best Of the Lions, Costa & Jansen wonder if Lions fans are still suffering from an end-of-season hangover. Plus, Karsch & Anderson have an in-depth discussion about Za'Darius Smith potentially returning to the Lions and Valenti & Rico share why they can't believe the mock drafts sending Shedeur Sanders to Detroit.

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0:00.0	touchdown Detroit Lions
0:02.7	You're listening to the best of the lions
0:05.5	Oh baby, how beautiful is that?
0:08.3	A weekly mix of 97.1, the ticket's best NFL talk to get you ready for game day.
0:15.1	John, you have this observation.
0:16.6	You've noticed something about the Lions.
0:18.7	Yeah, so about a week after they lost to Washington, it was right around a week.
0:25.1	We did the topic, which game, which loss hurt more.
0:30.1	Was it the loss in the NFC championship game going into the second half with a 17 point lead,
0:35.4	knowing that you could have been in the Super Bowl?
0:37.2	Or was it earning the number one seed
0:39.9	and then losing the way that they did to the commanders?
0:43.2	A lot of self-inflicted wounds,
0:44.6	even if you didn't have those,
0:46.4	you more than likely would have won that game.
0:50.6	Even though there was a bunch of injuries,
0:52.4	and I know that there was a lot that went into it.
0:54.1	And I know I said was a lot that went into it.
0:58.4	And I know I said the NFC championship game.
1:03.3	And I still hold to NFC championship game because of the context of the injuries. And I didn't think, you know, ultimately that they were going to be able to win the Super Bowl with the list that was basically given to us by the Red Cross.
1:14.7	So, but it, and a lot of people said NFC championship game.
1:19.7	You're closer.
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