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The Valenti Show

The People Chime In On If They're Okay With Lions' Lack Of Aggressiveness

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Stoney take your calls on whether you've accepted that the Lions will not do whatever it takes to be a Super Bowl team based on their supposed disinterest in acquiring Bengals edge Trey Hendrickson.

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0:00.0

Okay, Tom Pelliserro report.

0:02.6

And again, I'm taking it a different place. I'm really not interested in debating the merits of Trey Hendricks. The Bengals are listening to Trades. You're not going to make a call. I'm more focused on. Why are you okay? How do you know they're not going to make a call, though? Because Brad Holmes is all but told you. I might make a call. I mean, first of all, on our airwaves, he was like,

0:23.2

why, why can't you just be happy with Aden?

0:26.0

Oh, what team has two elite pass rushers?

0:28.5

Why is it like this in all markets?

0:30.4

He's all but told you.

0:32.0

Then you factor in the last time we heard from Brad Holmes.

0:35.2

His defense for any of this was you don't understand the salary cap.

0:39.9

Sure we do.

0:41.6

That's a straw man.

0:43.5

So, Mike, I don't have any faith in it.

0:45.2

Hey, let me ask you a question.

0:46.6

What did they do this off season?

0:48.9

Not a DJ Reed.

0:50.3

Just handed out oodles of money to their own people again.

0:53.7

They are comfortable being good.

0:56.5

I don't know that they're, you know what?

0:58.1

No, they're not willing to do what it takes to be great.

1:00.6

They're not willing to go all in.

1:02.6

And the franchise you grew uprooting for,

1:04.7

and the franchise you still have a deep familiarity with,

1:07.1

is the example in the NFC, along with the Niners, by the way, who made two Super Bowls

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