FULL SHOW: Setting Lions' Expectations For 2024 Following Ben Johnson's Return As OC
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
Rico and Jim Costa (filling in for Valenti) react to the major news that Ben Johnson will be returning to the Lions as offensive coordinator for the 2024 NFL season. They ponder whether or not they can move Detroit's goal posts for next season with how well this season went. Then, they do an "In Football Today" and finish out the show in the last couple of hours taking your calls on the Johnson news and how you feel going into next season for the Lions.
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| 0:00.0 | That's all of Detroit right now. Ben Johnson. |
| 0:05.0 | News breaking today, he's staying. |
| 0:08.0 | He ain't bleep been leaving. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm not fucking leaving. That's right. |
| 0:12.0 | And that's right. And that's where we begin today. |
| 0:16.0 | We had plans that we will push for later in the show. |
| 0:19.0 | This is how we begin. Jim Costa in for Mike Valenney. |
| 0:22.0 | Don't know if you noticed yesterday. |
| 0:23.2 | He sounded like death. |
| 0:24.6 | He's gonna take a day. |
| 0:26.1 | He's on the mend. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.9 | Rico, I am confused, but I am not complaining. |
| 0:32.3 | I thought Ben Johnson was gone |
| 0:35.6 | There's only 32 of these jobs |
| 0:38.1 | I thought he was out the door new ownership in in DC the number two pick felt like a foregone conclusion I'm very confused that he |
| 0:45.5 | didn't leave for a big pay raise and a chance to run the show but I am not |
| 0:48.8 | complaining I was expecting the exact opposite news I thought that at this time tomorrow they were going to say we got our coach they were flying here in all of this crap and snow to meet with him. That's how important he was to know. Everybody else, we can do do |
| 1:06.4 | Zoom. We need to go out to Detroit. You had to close this thing up, right, to get ink dry on a contract. |
| 1:13.7 | So when the news came and Evan told us, I was like, what? |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.3 | He's not going? |
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