HOUR 4: Lions 2024 Offseason Plans With Expanded Cap
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Mike and Rico continue their conversation about what the Lions will do now that they have approximately $31 million more to play around with in free-agency. They take your calls and read your ticket texts before being joined by Wojo and Riger to finish out the show.
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| 0:00.0 | You heard it from Beeney? We talked about it. I want to bring it back the NFL salary cap which by the way shout out the NFL players should kiss Roger Goodell's ass |
| 0:09.2 | For embracing gambling because you want to know where all this money coming from. |
| 0:14.4 | That cap jumping $31 million. |
| 0:17.1 | Oh sure, TV deals help. |
| 0:19.2 | But the acceptance of gambling, the globalization of the game. |
| 0:23.2 | I mean, I just thought it was to TV money and you know, |
| 0:25.6 | Amazon Prime, because you saw is all of it. |
| 0:28.8 | Amazon gets the, they get that peacock game. |
| 0:31.5 | They get the exclusive playoff game |
| 0:33.2 | break them off for a hundred and ten mill the point is the cap was at |
| 0:37.0 | two twenty four last year and it's going to be two fifty five it is the largest |
| 0:41.3 | singular increase in the history of the league and it basically puts the better part of 20 million extra in the lions pockets |
| 0:50.3 | meaning the lions are closer to 70 million than 50. |
| 0:55.0 | That puts the lions in the top 8 in the NFL for cap space. |
| 1:00.0 | So here's my question. |
| 1:02.0 | Does this increase your expectation |
| 1:04.9 | or change your demands of Brad Holmes this off season? |
| 1:09.2 | Now if you're like Rico and I, yes. This is the Super Bowl window. I want Super Bowl caliber players. I want |
| 1:16.7 | bold swings. That means I need an elite edge or an elite corner. |
| 1:20.5 | This money basically tells you, IAN guy. Yeah, you don't have to go bargain basement guy, you don't have to go guy who comes off of an injury. |
| 1:29.0 | This is, okay, this veteran got released or we make a trade and you can go out and afford to pay somebody |
| 1:36.2 | who will be an impact player. |
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