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The Valenti Show

FULL SHOW: Friday, April 24th

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico opened the final show of the week with their thoughts on the Lions' selection of OT Blake Miller with the 17th overall pick in Thursday night's 1st round of the NFL Draft. They dove into what this means going forward before shifting to talk Pistons in the second hour. The guys gave their confidence levels for Detroit to win game 3 tomorrow against the Magic and took a bunch of your calls on both topics. They wrapped the show with a reset of their 2 main talking points of the day in the final hour.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, it's Friday.

0:01.8

Day one of the draft is in the books.

0:04.2

Very interested to see if A, you care and B, what you feel.

0:09.5

There can't be any big opinions.

0:12.9

You've never seen Blake Miller play.

0:15.0

So that's cool.

0:16.3

I'll be very easy about this.

0:18.4

I wanted an offensive lineman.

0:19.9

I got one.

0:57.3

Blake Miller, elite Raz, as Rico and I like to say. And they had dinner with him. Well, I guess that makes you a lion. He's a right tackle by trade, which means he doesn't have to move positions. Anything beyond that, I ain't got nothing for you. I wouldn't know Blake Miller if he delivered a pizza to the studio. So we'll see you in training camp. I wanted an alignment. I got one. Goulet, I'm good with it. There's my draft take. See you Monday. I mean, I'm an adult. I'm sensible about it. We got three hours and 59 minutes to feel. I don't have any, like, I don't have any sex appeal to sell here. He is a hot dog a sandwich.

1:01.2

I don't.

1:02.5

What else could I say without being fake?

1:05.4

You're right.

1:06.4

Most people, and by most, I mean, pretty much everybody has not seen this man play.

1:12.8

He wasn't the name a lot of Lions fans wanted to hear.

1:16.2

But, yeah, it was like, okay, he's a right tackle.

1:18.9

I think that the offensive line got improved from where it was last year.

1:23.5

You now have, you know, a right tackle.

1:26.7

You move suit to the left tackle. You got two guards. You

1:28.9

brought in the center in Cape May. And Borum's your swing tackle. He's your first man off the bench.

1:34.0

I think that you got better. You had one bite at the apple. You took that bite. You didn't have to

1:40.8

trade down because everybody in front of you shot themselves in the foot and just kind of made sure that everybody that you wanted.

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