HOUR 1: Reacting To Ben Johnson's Decision To Stay With Lions

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Rico and Jim spend the entire first hour discussing the only positive news the Lions fans have heard since Sunday night: Ben Johnson is staying on as Detroit's offensive coordinator. They take plenty of calls, who share how they're feeling less than 48 hours removed from the NFC Championship.

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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.
0:11.0	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
0:56.7	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.
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