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The Valenti Show

Best Of The Lions On 97.1 The Ticket: Offseason Questions, Draft Prospects, Season Ticket Dilemma

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Costa & Jansen ask and try to answer 5 offseason questions for the Lions. Plus, Karsch & Anderson take a look at potential NFL Draft prospects and Valenti & Rico react to the Lions revoking season tickets from die hard fans.

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0:00.0

touchdown Detroit Lions.

0:03.0

You're listening to the best of the lions.

0:05.7

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.

0:16.2

Five days out from NFL free agency, but before the Lions can add on the outside, they got to take

0:22.1

care of internal. Get their house in order. Five questions, five days out. Yeah, it's kind of like,

0:28.2

let's get everybody up to date where things are saying they've been very quiet compared to

0:31.4

some teams in the league. You can't do a lot in the last six weeks, but there are things teams can

0:35.2

do. They really haven't done anything. So we're going to call this to Lions offseason reveal from an internal perspective.

0:41.5

So Aiden Hutchinson's fifth year option is a no-brainer.

0:45.0

Deadlines May 1st.

0:46.6

Do you extend him this offseason or do you wait to see his recovery?

0:50.3

I think from the Lions perspective, you want to get him under contract long term as quickly as possible.

0:56.4

The cost is only going to go up.

0:58.2

Having said that, on Aidan Hutchinson's side of things, do you want to sign a contract right now?

1:03.7

He was leader in the clubhouse when he got hurt to be defensive player of the year.

1:08.0

If he is able to return this year and play at that level or better,

1:13.9

now all of a sudden, if he is defensive player of the year, it adds numbers and it adds big numbers

1:20.3

to that contract. So I don't know you're not going to get any more commas in it, but you are going to

1:25.1

get a higher number. Instead of 30 million a year, is it 35? Is it 36?

1:29.9

What do they do in terms of the guaranteed money over the course of that contract? So the question

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