Should Next Year Be A "Gap Year" For The Lions?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Rick's up next 97-1. Rick, what's going on, buddy? |
| 0:04.0 | Mike, Mike. The picture is bleak. The picture that you paint is bleak, and I agree with you virtually completely, except, don't get mad about this. |
| 0:14.8 | I think they're a little closer to SOL than we think, and they're not there, and they're not necessary next to being there. |
| 0:21.9 | But when you think about all the mistakes they made since last season ended, |
| 0:25.8 | which was not replacing their coordinators with people, |
| 0:29.4 | they were a Super Bowl contender at the end of last season. |
| 0:33.8 | And you would think that excellence would demand that you would go get excellent coordinators. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.8 | And they obviously didn't. |
| 0:42.1 | That was, that's where I went, uh-oh, there's a problem. |
| 0:45.5 | The draft didn't net what it should have and the trade to get Tesla silly, waste of, even |
| 0:52.7 | if he's talented, it was a waste of resources or assets. |
| 0:56.0 | I didn't like the Derek Barnes re-signing, didn't like the JMO resigning when they did. |
| 1:01.0 | They do a lot of unforced errors and then you go through all the litany, all the things that |
| 1:04.0 | you've seen the season, the things that you recited so eloquently today. |
| 1:08.0 | If someone were doing an audit and asked, how could you manage to do all |
| 1:14.9 | these things wrong that you could have done, should have done, could have avoided, you and I are |
| 1:19.2 | outsiders, but we still saw it coming. So how come these guys didn't see it coming? And this is |
| 1:24.9 | where I have concerns going forward, because if they didn't see it coming, can they navigate going forward? And then I have one other split, and then I want |
| 1:33.4 | to hear what you got to say about it. But right now, at least in the beginning days, it seemed |
| 1:38.7 | like Campbell and Holmes were in lockstep. But what happens when it starts to be discussions with management and, well, he didn't |
| 1:47.5 | get me the players I wanted. |
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