Best Of The Lions On 97.1 The Ticket: Week 16 vs. Steelers

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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On this week's Best of Lions, Costa & Jansen wonder if Jared Goff took a shot at Lions fans with some recent comments. Also, Karsch & Anderson debate if the Lions can still make the playoffs, and Valenti & Rico discuss what Kelvin Sheppard had to say about his defense and Alim McNeill.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the best of the lions.
0:05.5	Oh, baby.
0:06.8	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.
0:16.3	Midday show was stirring the pot yesterday with Jared Gough.
0:20.5	Do you see his quotes?
0:21.7	I did and I heard him and I know everybody's, well, some are a little fired up about the
0:27.3	comments.
0:28.7	It didn't bother me at all.
0:31.9	But I think we should, I'll give my perspective after we hear from Jared Gough.
0:36.1	Okay.
0:36.5	So this is from Carson Anderson. Here's the question and the answer. We took some calls yesterday from fans who just don't think it's going to happen for you guys this year. What would you say, right? I know. That's awesome. That's awesome. Thank you guys. What would you say to try and reinstill faith in the people that are... I don't need to re-instill faith in anyone.
0:55.0	You know, it pisses me off a little bit to hear that. But, yeah, we've got to win this first one. Pittsburgh at home, we'll have it in front of our home fans. And yeah, it'll be great. You know, go out there and get that W and hopefully prove a lot of our people wrong. So does that upset you? seems innocent enough, right?
1:11.8	Right?
1:12.6	Why would you be pissed off at fame? So does that upset you? Seems innocent enough, right?
1:11.6	Right?
1:12.6	Why would you be pissed off at fans?
1:15.6	I didn't really take it like that.
1:18.6	I think the comments-
1:19.6	He said it pisses me off that fans need faith to be reinstilled in them.
1:23.6	Sure, the comment does.
1:24.6	I don't know that he's necessarily pissed off at fans.
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