The Guys Disagree On Whether The Lions' Starters Should Play Tonight

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Mike and Rico debate whether the Lions should play their starters against the Falcons in their first preseason game tonight.

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0:00.0	5 o'clock good to have you with us if you're looking for tiger talk odyssey dot com rewind right now
0:05.7	riko would like to sell you this pen you have lions preseason tonight you know my general
0:12.5	response to that but i am not going to poison the jury no this man's excited no i am not excited
0:19.5	mike you're not okay my Mike. You are, okay.
0:21.6	My thing is really, are you just team, Mike?
0:23.9	Are you team Rico?
0:24.8	Because the way I see this, I would like to see some starters playing in the game.
0:30.3	Last night, I'm watching Joe Burrow out there for game number one for the Cincinnati
0:34.0	Bengals.
0:34.6	And they look, you know, he goes nine for 10.
0:37.7	They score.
0:38.8	It looks like the offense is humming.
0:41.1	And okay, why?
0:42.2	Because the Bengals said, you know what?
0:44.8	In the last, what, five years, we've been like one and nine in the first two weeks of the season.
0:50.1	Our offense has kind of been sputtering.
0:52.3	I don't want to wait.
0:53.1	Let's kind of jumpstart this thing now.
0:55.8	I want to see the same with this Lions team, especially Mike.
0:59.9	I want to see Jared Gough.
1:01.1	I want to see some of the starters out there for that first series.
1:03.8	Why?
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