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The Valenti Show

Revisiting The Impact of Frank Ragnow's Retirement

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico begin the final hour of the show revisiting their conversation from earlier about the retirement of Lions All-Pro C Frank Ragnow.

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0:00.0

All right, we're talking in a commercial break about something totally different.

0:04.9

Not going to go there.

0:05.8

I will just tell you a lot of Spartan fans are idiots.

0:07.9

And that's it.

0:08.6

We're moving on.

0:09.6

News of the day, Frank Ragnow.

0:12.2

He retired.

0:13.2

So don't swerve off the road.

0:15.8

If you've listened to this show, I mean, I've talked about it for over a year.

0:19.3

I thought he was going to retire last year.

0:21.9

And it's why I got so angry at people when they talked about, well, we got to extend him.

0:26.4

We can't spend money on stupid pass rushers. Yeah, he ain't going to be here. So this doesn't shock me.

0:34.5

It's just how long it took for it to happen. I'm a little surprised today, a little bit,

0:40.3

but he's gone. And I think it's a devastating blow to a football team that's already going to be

0:46.5

without a Lee McNeil for most of the year, or half the year, if you want to be positive. And

0:51.1

they lost both coordinators and not for lateral moves.

0:56.4

I mean, Ben Johnson was the number one guy in the cycle, and Aaron Glenn wasn't

1:01.0

chopped liver, wanted by multiple teams.

1:03.9

Mike, here's the question.

1:05.0

With the loss of Frank Ragnow, do you still believe you're a prohibitive favorite in the

1:09.5

North?

1:10.6

A slight favorite, or are you not the favorite at all?

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