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The Valenti Show

Make It Or Break It Year For These Players

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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From 'Necessary Roughness' (subscribe here): TJ Lang and Jon Jansen believe it's a make it or break it year for these players on the Detroit Lions. Download and subscribe to Necessary Roughness today.

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Yeah, and I think defensively this is the year to make it a break it for two guys that

0:05.0

we talked about.

0:06.0

You mentioned Derek Barnes.

0:07.0

If he doesn't continue to take that step forward, I could see the team moving on.

0:11.0

Levi owns a reeky.

0:12.0

If he can't prove to be healthy and contribute, I could see the team moving on.

0:16.0

And those are two guys that Brad Holmes took in his first draft and it's not a knock.

0:20.0

You're not going to hit on every draft pick.

0:22.0

But those are just a couple of guys going into year three that you expect to be.

0:30.0

Mainstays guys that you could count on in your defense and it's not really even a knock.

0:35.0

So to say on the players itself, it's more of a look anytime you go through changes where maybe you had a guy last year that played a lot for you and played pretty well.

0:45.0

And then this year you find out, oh my goodness, they cut it right.

0:48.0

That's not necessarily a knock on the player as it is.

0:52.0

Maybe just a positive aspect that the GM has brought in other players.

0:56.0

That's a lot of good talent, right?

0:58.0

And sometimes you have to make those hard decisions.

1:00.0

I remember going into last year, you know, a guy like remember 2021, they had a nickel corner.

1:06.0

Undraft a guy, AJ Parker played a lot of defense for what wasn't a great defense.

1:11.0

Don't get me wrong.

1:12.0

But he played a lot, you know, as a rookie, then you go into year two and everybody's talking about man like this dude can take that next step.

1:18.0

Fast forward in a training camp against cut.

1:20.0

And you're like, like nobody saw that coming.

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