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The Valenti Show

Is The Offensive Line The Biggest Issue For The Lions?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico continue their conversation about the biggest concerns and why they think it is the interior of the Lions' offensive line.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you, Kenny. David, a couple of ticket texts, and we will go right back to the people.

0:04.1

If you're just joining, yes, it's lions, but I need to know, we need to know.

0:09.2

Of the off-season storylines that all went wrong yesterday, which of those concerns concerns you the most?

0:19.9

For Rico and I, it's the interior of that O line. You can't get to

0:23.8

the coordinator level until or unless the interior of that line plays better. You couldn't run it.

0:31.0

You can't play pass if you can't run it. They couldn't protect. It was egregious. So that's

0:36.0

where you and I are. Right. As much as the pass rush killed me too, I don't want to be lazy about it.

0:41.2

That old line is your superpower and all your money, including whatever you did with JMO Saturday

0:46.6

night, it's on offense.

0:48.4

Right.

0:48.5

Because you invested in all of your toys, all the wide receivers and the running backs. And instead,

0:56.6

you got nothing. Now, you can't say a little bit about John Morden because not a lot of

1:02.6

pre-snap motion, not a lot of things that, you know, you saw last year with Ben Johnson. And fair or unfair,

1:08.2

his offense will be compared to Ben Johnson's offense that it was a well-oiled machine.

1:13.9

And we were told there won't be any fall off.

1:16.3

He was here before and you're going to see what's going to happen.

1:19.7

And he's saying, hey, you may see both running backs in the back field.

1:23.0

And he had expectations so high.

1:26.2

And it was just nothing. It's also told, and I thought I read that during the training camp sessions is that they were going to stretch the field. You know what? Didn't really see that yesterday. And after paying- Because you can't pass protect. You're right. You're right. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no. You're right. And after paying Jamo all that money, I really thought, okay, he's going to come out and show why he just got paid.

1:50.1

I expected a monster game from Jamo, not what I saw.

1:55.2

A ticket tech says John Morton and Chip Lindsay must have game planned together, horrendous play calling across the board.

2:02.6

Someone else says, I'm not overly concerned with the team.

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