The Excuses Have Run Out For The Lions
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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With the news that the NFL's cap space is set to increase by $30 million for the 2024 season, Valenti declares that the Lions have run out of all excuses and need to make a big move this offseason.
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| 0:00.0 | All right and similar to that ref in St. Louis last night you're not going to like what I have to say but you're going to hear it and away we go |
| 0:07.9 | News in the NFL today that I think takes away any excuses for the lions not to be aggressive and not to go all out. |
| 0:16.4 | And understand the backdrop of this was inexplicably in a very bizarre manner, a team that didn't even get to the Super Bowl much less win it |
| 0:26.0 | Having a receipts party for people like Dave Burkett I I Dave is infinitely fair and one of the best beat writers in the league. |
| 0:34.0 | The point is there's an air of smartest guy in the room going around. |
| 0:39.0 | And while Brad Holmes has been very good drafting, |
| 0:42.0 | the free agency has not been that good. |
| 0:45.1 | Just hasn't. |
| 0:46.3 | How'd that rebuilt secondary work? |
| 0:48.6 | It didn't. |
| 0:50.0 | So here's the point. We think it's been foreshadowed by Brad Holmes. Oh no no we know best. |
| 0:58.0 | We're not going to go out and have some bold off season. We're not going to go out and be big and free agency. You, you pours, just sit there. We've got this all covered. Well, I think that's kind of novel from a group that didn't hang a banner last year that didn't win anything. Yes, winning the division was important to us. |
| 1:17.6 | Winning a playoff game was important to us. That those are not things that the league does cartwheels over. |
| 1:25.2 | Okay? Like the Pittsburgh Steelers make the playoffs every year. The owner said quote |
| 1:30.1 | I'm sick of this. The Cowboys won 12 games, three straight years, won the division. |
| 1:36.8 | Jerry Jones about to burn the building down. So Rico and I have said, you're in your |
| 1:41.5 | Super Bowl window and it is just clear as the day is long. There are a |
| 1:49.2 | multitude of edge rushes that are going to be free agents and there are a multitude of |
| 1:52.8 | high-end corners. You need one or both. And I'm basically public enemy number one |
| 1:59.8 | because I don't do the lemming routine. RICO doesn't do the lemming routine. |
| 2:04.6 | I can both tell you, I think Brad Holmes done a very nice job, |
| 2:07.2 | but Brad Holmes is not some kind of Messiah. |
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