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The Valenti Show

Could The Lions Miss The Playoffs In 2025?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Valenti wonders if we're underselling the potential regression the Lions will face from losing both their coordinators from last year.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you, Jeremy Otto.

0:02.5

Five o'clock, great to have you with us.

0:04.7

Odyssey.com rewind.

0:05.7

You missed anything.

0:07.1

We wanted to finish the week with something Lions-related,

0:10.4

and it was a bit surprising.

0:12.3

Evan and David came up with this that a couple of sports book websites

0:18.8

have tracked the teams that people are betting to not make the playoffs.

0:25.5

That's a bet you can make.

0:27.4

You can bet that in college as well to make or not make the college football playoffs.

0:32.5

The Detroit Lions are the most heavily bet team to not make the playoffs in the league.

0:40.8

And that surprised me.

0:43.5

For all of the discussion about regression and, you know, a bit of a reality check,

0:48.3

for lack of a better term, to not make the playoffs would be, it'd be stunning, honestly.

0:55.2

So I wanted to ask the question is, if you have any fear, what level of fear do you have

1:04.9

that this team could take a major step back?

1:08.7

Now, I don't share that.

1:10.5

That's not where I'm at. Me saying I think they're an 11-win Now, I don't share that. That's not where I'm at.

1:12.0

Me saying I think they're an 11-win team.

1:14.6

I don't think that that is negative.

1:16.9

I don't think it's narrative.

1:18.4

I think it's reality.

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