HOUR 4: Michael Badgley is Back!
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The guys open the final hour of the show reacting to the breaking news that Lions' K Michael Badgley will be returning to the team on a one-year deal. They discuss what this means for the team and Dan Campbell's decision-making going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | In the update you heard what Beeney said. You heard it. I looked at you you looked at me and I went well damn there we go |
| 0:07.4 | Why are the lions bringing back a kicker they don't trust? You want to tell me that? They had no interest in using him in the |
| 0:15.6 | NFC title game, not to go back up 17, not to try to tie the game |
| 0:22.6 | they don't trust him |
| 0:24.3 | they don't why |
| 0:26.5 | why are you bringing back michael badgily |
| 0:29.3 | and this early in the process |
| 0:31.3 | i'm sorry i must have missed the line around the block for |
| 0:35.3 | Badgley soup kitchen yeah because kind of like when you play fantasy football and |
| 0:40.5 | you had to have a kicker you didn't want to use your kicker. |
| 0:44.0 | It's just a necessary evil on the team. |
| 0:46.0 | You take him in the last round. |
| 0:47.0 | Right, and that's where the lions are. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, we got to have a guy, let's just go ahead and bring him in. |
| 0:52.0 | It just shows you they don't |
| 0:53.8 | respect the kicking game they don't respect the kicker it's just we're gonna need a |
| 0:57.4 | kick you know what just sign another guy what's his name badger get him think |
| 1:00.8 | about this all they would need I think to put the fan base at ease, not that you operate |
| 1:05.8 | at the behest of the fans. I'm saying that collectively, we would feel better had they gone |
| 1:11.3 | into free agency or gone into the draft now and in the fifth or sixth |
| 1:14.8 | round. You draft a kicker? Yeah. Or you sign a veteran that's not named Michael. Now Michael |
| 1:21.6 | Badgley is not some terrible kicker. He's not named Michael. Now Michael Badgley is not some terrible |
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