Discussing Biggest Draft "Crushes" For Lions
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Mike and Rico break down their biggest NFL Draft "crushes" for the Lions, guys who they want but who they know are unrealistic.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, three o'clock, the week of the draft, and we wanted to start the week and give you guys a chance to have your sins absolved by David Hall. |
| 0:17.5 | We have always advised one thing. Don't fall in love with a player. If you draft a number one or number two, no problem. Hell if you're somewhere in the |
| 0:21.8 | top ten and you want to fall in love with a player fine. |
| 0:25.0 | But when you're picking at 29, it's the biggest waste of time you could ever have. |
| 0:30.0 | And it's free country. It's fun to talk about guys you like or whatever, but I hear callers calling into other shows and they're ready to, you know, |
| 0:39.0 | give away their kids for the right to draft player they've probably never watched. So I wanted to do this. |
| 0:47.2 | I want to give you guys a safe space. You're not going to be judged. Not going to make fun of you. |
| 0:52.4 | And it's basically you're going to step into the |
| 0:54.4 | confessional you need to give us the secret crush you've been hiding for this Thursday's NFL draft that at |
| 1:05.1 | pick 29 you don't want to admit it you don't want to say it but you've you've |
| 1:11.2 | fallen in love with a player. |
| 1:14.0 | And deep down inside, when, not if, when the lions don't select your player, |
| 1:21.0 | you're going to be disappointed. |
| 1:23.0 | It's okay to admit it. |
| 1:25.0 | You're not going to be made fun of. |
| 1:27.0 | This is the issue I take with the whole draft process |
| 1:30.0 | is that people attach their belief structure to names, largely that they've never watched, |
| 1:36.1 | and they attach a credibility that never should be there to a mock draft. |
| 1:43.0 | Mock drafts, to say they're not accurate, |
| 1:45.4 | would be an understatement of biblical proportions. |
| 1:48.1 | So the only reason you're bummed out |
| 1:49.8 | when that player isn't taken is because what, saw Todd McShea say they were going to |
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