Taking Your Calls on Expectations for Lions-Bears

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Valenti and Rico hear from the people on what we need to see from the Lions this Sunday.

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0:00.0	Okay. So I don't want you to feel like it's it's, it's anger and doom and gloom. It's not.
0:05.5	Standards are standards. But let me sell you some hope and let me sell you why. It is unacceptable for you to not play really well Sunday. I want to give you a Caleb.
0:17.3	Now, while I think a lot of the stuff around Caleb has been a bit, not totally, but a bit
0:23.4	unfair, and I don't need to get into the particulars.
0:26.3	Let's just leave it alone.
0:27.3	The point I'm making is he hasn't been good enough.
0:30.3	His dress rehearsal with Ben Johnson did not go well.
0:33.7	Here's something that you should take heart in.
0:38.1	I want to use Gino Smith as an example of something.
0:41.4	So,
0:41.7	Okay, I'm listening.
0:42.6	Geno Smith, I knew we'd get you all rocked up to talk about this.
0:46.6	So Gino Smith off-target percentage,
0:49.5	meaning the percentage of throws that Gino made that were off target and uncatchable.
0:55.8	Erroneous.
0:56.3	He doesn't throw anything off target.
0:57.7	Close.
0:58.6	6%.
0:59.5	Most elite quarterbacks, it's going to be well below 10%.
1:03.7	Fair?
1:04.5	Bad quarterbacks will be around 15%.
1:07.3	Agreeious as if you get to 20.
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