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The Valenti Show

Lions Set To Regress In 2025

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Valenti has an article from ESPN writer Bill Barnwell where he discusses teams that will regress in 2025. He gives 3 reasons as to why the Lions will be one of those teams and the guys react.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, five o'clock. And at my own, the risk of my own peril, I'm going to present something to you guys. Maybe I should just ask you what your favorite lollipops are. But I want to do this. So,

0:12.8

fruit flavor. Bill Barnwell wrote a piece that Lord knows is way too long for anyone with a life to read. So I did it for you.

0:21.3

But there were a list of five teams that are prime to be in decline this year.

0:29.2

Lions are one of them.

0:30.5

Now, before you panic, get your undies in a bunch.

0:34.7

The decline is based, too, as well, on a 15-win season. Now, decline would represent

0:42.3

at least four more losses, meaning an 11-win team from 15. 10. Here's what I want to do.

0:51.4

Today we started the show with the Sergei Fedoroff Jersey retirement and like old bits

0:56.1

that need to die and like, hey, finally he's getting his number retired.

1:00.2

One of Barnwell's 17 paragraphs, I think is another bit that if I hear it again, my

1:09.7

head's going to explode.

1:10.6

It's an old bit. Okay. And it was, my head's going to explode. It's an old bit.

1:11.9

Okay.

1:12.5

And it was, well, if our defense didn't get injured, we would have won last year.

1:18.1

One problem, they did.

1:19.6

But Barnwell took it to a different place.

1:22.0

So let me offer you this.

1:23.3

There are three pieces to this.

1:26.6

You tell me which one.

1:29.2

You got to pick one.

1:30.1

He can't be totally out to lunch on all three.

1:33.2

Is that fair?

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