The Guys React To The Lions Trading David Montgomery
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, no time to waste. Let's jump in for a... I'm fine. How are you? No, no, no. Don't need it. Just sat here and watched Red Wings with it. Let's jump into the Montgomery trade, and we'll probably won't be able to get to everything today just because it's abbreviated, so it'll spill into tomorrow. Here is the particulars. This is a joint press conference of RICO and Ix. |
| 0:22.5 | I think we see it the same way. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm good with it because you got great value. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm never going to understand why David Montgomery went bad, |
| 0:34.3 | why this partnership went south or, again, maybe it's ego and he just felt, |
| 0:40.0 | no, I don't, because David, you're going to be 30 and you're a part of the best running back |
| 0:44.9 | core and you know your teammate is a superstar. I think it looks like, seems like, feels like I don't |
| 0:50.3 | know this, but he was promised, okay, it won't be 50-50, but probably 60-40. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.5 | And then Gibbs got better and better, and it went to 70-30, 80-20, and it settled down around 90-10, 85, 15. |
| 1:05.7 | And he was like, wait, wait, I can't get my next final contract if I'm on the bench all. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah, or if the offensive line blows. |
| 1:12.7 | See, now we're getting to like causation. |
| 1:15.5 | So let's just put that to the side. |
| 1:16.9 | Okay. |
| 1:17.4 | The deal, getting a fourth round pick for an expensive running back is genius. |
| 1:23.4 | Look, I can tell you, are you worse today than you were yesterday as a roster? |
| 1:28.0 | Yes, you no longer have the best duo in the league. |
| 1:31.4 | And replacing Demo will cost you draft capital or cash. |
| 1:36.9 | But the value, I don't like trade grades, you know this, but like it's great value. |
| 1:42.2 | A fourth round pick is a very useful asset. |
| 1:47.0 | And Juice Scruggs, is he going to start for you? |
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