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The Valenti Show

Can We Say That? | 2-2-26

The Valenti Show

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4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The guys do this week's "Can We Say That?"

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0:00.0

Get back to the calls momentarily. It is a Monday, so that means it's time for a little roundtable of can we say that, David?

0:09.0

Gentlemen, yes. Can we say that Justin Jefferson said the quiet part out loud? Yes. I definitely, quote, I definitely feel like we would have been done better with Sam Darnold here this year. I'm not even mad about it. Oh, but he threw his quarterback on. I don't care. It's just blatantly obvious that Sam Darnold was better than JJ this year. It's okay to say it. And now that the GM got clipped. Also, didn't have on my bingo board, we'd be using paternity leave against the guy.

0:39.6

Did you see that this weekend?

0:40.8

No.

0:42.5

That's why?

0:43.5

He had a son like a year ago, and he took two weeks off.

0:47.2

And the quote from one NFL executive was, people around the league were in disbelief.

0:53.9

Mike, is that really the report we're going to go with?

0:57.2

It was training camp time.

0:58.9

How about the guy drafted poorly?

1:00.8

How about, you know, he, I don't know, he threw a chair at someone.

1:04.8

Like, give me something substantive other than dude had baby.

1:09.6

If you want to say he let Donaldarnel go and shouldn't have.

1:12.5

Right.

1:13.0

Anything.

1:14.1

Oh, my God.

1:14.9

Did you see he was at home with his wife for 10 days?

1:17.5

Yeah, because I think that's what it really was.

1:21.1

Somebody's got to take the fall for this Darnel thing.

1:23.3

And not it.

1:26.4

And he was the last one. So he had to go. Can we say Gino Smith will be a starter on a new team next year? No. Unless it's in Canada. He's done, man. He was so bad. He looks so disinterested. And he's mid-30s. Nah. That's it. A lot of teams are going to be needing QBs. Not that kind of QB. Okay. Yeah, he won't be a starter, but I would say hello to the Los Angeles Chargers as a backup. Oh, he can be a backup somewhere. But Rico talking about a starter, do me a favor. Next time you go to get your garbage can off the street and wheel it back in, put a Raiders helmet on it. That's Gino Smith. Collectors edition. You know what? You're looking at my notes. There's Gino right there. That's Gino. You're looking at my notes. Can we say the Las Vegas Raiders job is a better job than Arizona Cardinals. Yes, by leaps and bounds.

2:20.2

Arizona is a train wreck top to bottom.

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