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The Valenti Show

FULL SHOW: Monday, December 22nd

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Valenti (riding solo without Rico today) kicked the show off with his disappointment in the Lions for what he felt was an inexcusable loss to the Steelers yesterday. He expressed his frustrations with Brad Holmes' roster construction and the playcalling, among other issues. Mike took your calls and read your ticket texts throughout the show.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, let's get to it.

0:01.8

No time to waste.

0:03.4

Everybody knows what went down yesterday, and we're here to talk about it.

0:07.3

So a lot of different things to unpack, a lot of different angles.

0:11.7

And I don't want to kind of pigeonhole you guys into one particular thing.

0:16.8

So we can open the phone lines.

0:18.6

And if you just want this to be festivist and the airing of the grievances, I'm here for it.

0:23.6

If you want to kick back and relax and allow me to kind of take you on the journey, that's fine too.

0:28.7

But I'll throw the number out.

0:30.7

248, 539, 9797.

0:33.1

So let me start at the top.

0:36.5

It's something that Rico and I and Enrico, has the day off today.

0:40.9

We've talked about for weeks.

0:42.5

I've talked about for weeks is this team was living in delusion.

0:49.1

And whether that was from the very top levels, Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell, we're good, running it back.

1:00.4

Even as the years going along and things aren't going well, we're fine, we're close, didn't

1:07.8

love the tenor of it, whether it was Jared Goff going at the fans, because he did go at the fans, listen to the audio, into that performance.

1:20.1

The attitude overall is suggestive of a team that thinks there's something they aren't anymore.

1:29.0

They are not last year's team.

1:30.9

They are certainly not the one from two years ago.

1:34.5

And yet, it's only through these jarring losses are they realizing it?

1:41.3

And that's a problem.

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