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The Valenti Show

HOUR 4: Who Do You Want Lions To Pick at 29th Overall?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The guys continue the Lions draft "crush" conversation into the final hour of the show, reading plenty of your ticket texts on who you want Detroit to take at 29th overall. The guys get into "RAS" scores and go back and forth on draft talk before David and Kenny (!!!) "join" the guys before their bridge show into Tigers baseball.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. You missed anything, Odyssey.com Rewind, gorgeous Monday afternoon, draft week,

0:06.3

and we've played it a number of different ways. You can go back, we did who am I, we've got blitzes and yes what we're talking about right now

0:16.0

which is your secret crush for Thursday night with and I want to explain this

0:21.8

i am not judging you i'm not mad we're not going to make fun of you because here's the

0:27.6

folly of draft season we not me and we together all of us. We are seduced by lies. That's all draft season is.

0:40.0

When you look at these mock drafts, you find yourself psychologically and emotionally falling in love with

0:47.5

players that your team is not going to take. Oh but I saw it in Christmas bulbs mock draft.

0:55.0

Mel Kuiper doesn't know bleep all about Brad Holmes' value system.

1:00.0

Mel Kuiper might get three picks right. But yet on draft night when they don't call the name that you've seen in space cadets mock draft, you're going to be able disappointed. And we're all guilty of it at one point or another in our lives.

1:16.4

Now when you're picking high in the draft, I think it is far more justifiable to go,

1:21.1

this is who I want. Or like last year we had the bid we do not pay running

1:24.6

back we're not doing be jean at six that's not happening the point I'm

1:28.8

making is at pick 29 it is theater of the absurd to be emotionally tied to and then disappointed

1:37.9

when your team doesn't take a player that they may never have liked. You ever notice on Draft Night RICO, Kuiper's best available. And those guys stay on the board for 100 picks.

1:50.0

It's because Mel Kuiper doesn't know the value system that NFL teams are using.

1:55.0

So I would...

1:57.0

He had him going 15th and we're now in the third round.

2:00.0

And then they'll cut some time for Kuiper to have a meltdown like Dickie V on the bubble and scream about how Player X, this is a travesty, great hip turn.

2:11.0

No, somebody's gonna get a gym

2:13.8

yeah they're gonna get a steel right

2:16.1

and then cutscene Jarvis Jones out of football in four years

2:19.9

so let's do this

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