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The Valenti Show

HOUR 2: MSU Football Question, NFL Thoughts, In Football Today

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The guys opened the second and final hour of this short show ahead of Lions football at 7 with an either-or question about Jonathan Smith's future with Michigan State. They discussed some NFL topics in the second segment and did an "In Football Today" continuing the NFL conversation in the third. Then, Costa joined Mike and Rico ahead of their Lions pregame show.

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0:00.0

Oh, goodness God, am I sick of pro football focus?

0:04.1

What a racket.

0:06.1

People buy it, man.

0:07.3

No, I know.

0:08.0

And, I mean, on some level, there's some value, but I get so tired, like, this is the Bible.

0:12.7

Do people realize it's just Chris Collinsworth's grift?

0:15.9

That's all this is.

0:17.4

I'm tired of it.

0:18.6

I agree with JJ Watt about it.

0:20.1

I'm sick of everything being distilled down into this mysterious PFF grade.

0:24.8

If PFF were so sweet, why don't you tell us who the graders are?

0:28.5

Oh, wait, you can't find them.

0:30.6

Wow.

0:32.6

That's pretty deep.

0:33.7

Yeah, it's cool.

0:34.4

Give a bunch of grades with complete anonymity. Yeah, I'll pass on that.

0:40.6

Oh, well, coaches work for who? You know, if you're going to hand out the grades, that's fine.

0:46.3

I'm sorry. I know it was an update. It's not. No, no, no, no. I mean, I've never really thought about that.

0:51.1

I just think we've gotten too comfortable accepting that as the New Testament, and's quite annoying well i guess because it's it's arbitrary it's you know

0:59.0

totally unbiased what's the grading tell me the grading can't exactly so i'm not i can't tell you

1:06.1

who does it i can't tell you what the grade really means sweet um let's move on to something else were saying something during the break, and we're going to get to lions and bucks, but I want to ask you this. I want to know which of these is more true, and we'll do a far deeper dive into this tomorrow. But we were sitting here talking about Jonathan Smith, and you were asking me about the can we say that, which I'm happy to open up can we say that to the people, as we always do.

1:30.9

I know today's a weird show, and we got Monday night football.

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