HOUR 4: Lions, D.J. Reader Signing Continued
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Rico keep the D.J. Reader signing reaction and conversation going into the final hour of the show. They discuss how formidable the Lions' defensive line will be next year and what they can do to improve in other areas. Then, they're joined by Pat Caputo who is in for Riger and Wojo for some crosstalk to wrap the show.
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| 0:00.0 | We're talking lions because I think, I hope, we can all sit at the dinner table now. |
| 0:07.0 | Guys like me who were underwhelmed thus far through free agency, I feel a lot better today. |
| 0:12.8 | D.J. Reader, if he's healthy, is a monster. |
| 0:17.0 | He is not just a, you know, you're going to look at D.J. Reader and go, |
| 0:20.1 | a 350 pound, God, no, no, don't. to say that he is just a defensive tackles |
| 0:25.5 | insulting to the guy he is way more than that DJ reader plays on passing downs |
| 0:30.7 | DJ reader pushes the pocket. |
| 0:33.4 | Like a newer holodinata, like that type. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:37.4 | Okay, he's just out there the whole time. |
| 0:39.7 | If you don't double him, you'll be destroyed by him, which then would leave a Lee McNeil man up. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay you start to see how this plays two years twenty seven million you go well damn that sounds |
| 0:50.0 | pretty cheap that's a lot cheaper than Christian Wilkins. Well, part of that is he's |
| 0:54.8 | coming off a devastating injury. He has torn the quad in each of his legs. |
| 1:02.1 | 2020, I think it was the left leg and last year it was the right. It's a really tough |
| 1:08.3 | injury. You're getting him at a discount. But if your doctors cleared him, |
| 1:15.0 | I'm rolling with it. |
| 1:17.0 | Because if this works, you have a top three defensive tackle, top five, so I don't want to fight I don't feel like arguing with some nutcase ravens fan you have a top five defensive tackle pairing |
| 1:30.3 | I can say the risk is worth the reward because like for instance the |
| 1:33.8 | Carl Davis thing is he better than Sutton absolutely is anyone going to |
| 1:37.7 | mistake your corner room for being one of the better ones in a league |
| 1:40.3 | absolutely not this This risk elevates you to if it works, I have the envy of damn |
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