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The Valenti Show

Does Signing D.J. Reader Make Lions' Offseason A Success?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico discuss the possibility of former Bengals DT D.J. Reader signing with the Lions and ask the people if they think this signing would cement Detroit's offseason as being successful.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Three o'clock great to have you you missed our juan Howard soliloqui odyssey dot com rewind

0:05.9

Deal breakers coming up in an hour I want to talk lions and I've got something for you so hear me out on this and then we'll try to have a conversation so you heard

0:15.8

in Luke's update DJ Reader's intent now DJ Reader is just a mean human. I mean he is 340 pounds of just mean. It's the best way I can

0:29.3

describe watching DJ Reader play football both with Houston and Cincinnati. He is, when healthy Ben, I can say with

0:38.3

certainty one of the top 15 defensive tackles in all of football.

0:47.1

So then you ask yourself, okay, well, what's the catch here? What's the downside?

0:49.2

Well, the downside is he's had one of the most difficult injuries to come back from and he's had it twice.

0:54.0

Once on each leg. He has blown out his quad.

0:57.0

He did it the first time in 2020. He did the other leg, I believe it was the right leg this past year. So he's coming off of

1:06.3

at near age 30. It's a devastating injury. It's a really hard rehabilitation process and

1:11.9

if you don't believe me you can ask

1:13.6

DJ reader who has talked extensively about it in Cincinnati newspapers. I'm a

1:18.9

nerd okay there you go the point I'm making is I have no qualms about signing this man if your

1:26.8

doctors say he's good because if you put DJ Reader next to a Lee McNeil, you have told other teams this when they want to run the ball.

1:41.0

Bitch, you ain't running the ball. Like, it's not happening. So I want to say I don't have reservations

1:51.2

about the player when healthy

1:53.9

he's an awesome football player and if you sign him

1:57.4

this would move i'm not speaking for reco

2:00.8

i would take this from a c-plus off season to a B-minous like solid a B-minous is not bad

2:07.4

You're not going to get in the A's unless you went out and landed a luxurious need or you went out and did the unthinkable and got

2:15.0

Danile Hunter. Like it's a solid I could I could work around it. Now here's the fear Rico and

2:21.0

then I want to hear you a grade. The fear is almost every player not

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