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The Valenti Show

Should The Lions Seriously Consider Moving On From Kelvin Sheppard?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Valenti wonders if the Lions need to look more outward when it comes to their staff, especially defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, one note here before we kind of switch gears.

0:04.6

All the focus on the offensive coordinator, and whether you know, use rewind or go to YouTube,

0:11.4

look, I can work my way to it.

0:13.8

I'm not going to judge petting on a horrible year in Arizona where, yeah, no one was healthy,

0:19.5

hard to run a great offense with Jacoby Brissette.

0:23.5

But Rico, you had a different angle here because the focus has been on the O.C.

0:29.1

And you kind of look here and it's like Kelvin, Kelvin Shepard has gotten a little bit of a

0:33.5

free pass, is that he kept his job.

0:36.4

But there are a plethora of high-end defensive coordinators,

0:41.5

ex-head coaches, that are available.

0:44.0

And you wanted to ask a question.

0:46.0

I think it's interesting.

0:48.3

So go ahead.

0:49.0

Yeah, I guess, Mike, the question is,

0:51.0

is Shepard the best guy for the job with so many D.C.'s available.

0:55.7

You know, he's good, but can you do better?

0:59.2

Because when you have Brian Flores, when you have Rahim Morris, when you have Jonathan Gannon,

1:03.8

when you have Sean McDermott.

1:05.5

Heck, you got Jim Schwartz out there.

1:07.2

You have guys who could come in here and make this an elite defense using the tools

1:13.0

of what you have and making it better. Are you just not doing enough standing pat with Shepard?

1:20.7

I mean, he's good. He's okay. But you got a lot of guys out here. And granted, they want head

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