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The Valenti Show

Is This a Credibility Game For The Lions?

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Mike and Rico ask a question about Lions-Rams this Sunday.

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0:00.0

Let's get you to your weekend. We've got Lions and Rams.

0:05.4

And before we kind of get back into the game, David, that update by Jeremy Otto, I need to ask a question to you guys.

0:12.3

Taylor Decker was not at practice today?

0:16.2

That is correct. So let me give you the injury report because I think the way they listed him

0:21.5

may be what they've done here. Okay. So out is Branch and Kirby Joseph. We know that. Owasika

0:27.5

questionable, Harper questionable, Mahogany questionable, Raymond questionable, Vaki Zilstra, questionable.

0:35.4

Taylor Decker, they list this questionable, but it says shoulder and then it says rest. So maybe they use today to just rest him. Yeah. I mean, the rule is you don't practice Friday. You don't play. I agree. But they just, they just dismiss that rule with St. Brown. So maybe they're now doing it with Taylor Decker this week. No, just something to monitor. That's all, fellas. Go ahead, Rika. No, no, no. I'm thinking too late in the season. You're more valuable. Our O line is already a little bit decimated. We know what you can do. We know that we're in the home stretch, and we're going to have to win every game. So I don't need you

1:12.9

out there for unnecessary reps. That's what I want to do. Here's what I want to do. If you're

1:18.1

driving home from work right now, I want to ask you a question directly. We use a lot of phraseology,

1:24.3

you know, over 18 week NFL season, you know, a must win or a bounce

1:29.0

back spot or a credibility game. You know, that's how the league works. I wanted to ask you

1:34.5

if this is a credibility game because a lot of people seemingly use what the team did two years

1:43.4

ago or last year as this baked in credibility to who

1:48.6

they may or may not be this year. And I don't do that. Every year is its own chapter. Nothing

1:55.2

that you did matters. Signed the Eagles. Won the Super Bowl last year. They looked like dirty diaper.

2:01.8

The point is, I want to ask you, what is this team done to earn credibility?

2:10.7

They haven't won back-to-back games since September.

2:15.4

They've beaten no playoff teams.

2:19.5

One playoff team if you count the Bears in week two.

2:22.7

I think we all know the Bears.

2:24.5

Good thing you played them then and not now.

2:26.5

The point is, okay, you beat one playoff team.

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