The ultimate win-now draft for the Lions
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Valenti and Rico think these were win-now picks for the Detroit Lions.
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| 0:00.0 | Three o'clock, great to have you with us here on a, well, weather-wise, a completely miserable |
| 0:06.9 | Friday. |
| 0:07.9 | But look, it is the draft round one post-mortem, Lions made headlines, a lot of them not positive, |
| 0:15.1 | trying to figure out where you guys are at with it. |
| 0:17.5 | If you've tuned in to pick up the remains of my splattered brain all over the room because |
| 0:22.0 | my head exploded, you're going to be bummed out because that was last night. |
| 0:27.7 | When they drafted Gibbs at 12, I was really angry. |
| 0:31.4 | Campbell I could live with because I don't allow Mel Kiper to run my household. |
| 0:37.6 | I've seen Campbell anywhere from the 20s to the 40s, okay? |
| 0:41.6 | I don't care what old hairspray has to say. |
| 0:45.3 | Lions love the kid, and it's clear, we've talked about it, Brad Holmes is drafting using |
| 0:50.9 | these razz scores. |
| 0:53.2 | And it's an analytic, it's a measurement of true athleticism. |
| 0:56.4 | Every pick he's made, whether it's Jamo, whether it's Penaisouil, whether it's Aidan |
| 0:59.9 | Hutchinson, whether it is Jimi or Gibbs, or whether it's Jack Campbell has had a razz |
| 1:04.7 | score, I think, higher of eight and a half, okay? |
| 1:08.0 | Like I'm not telling you it's right or wrong, I'm trying to give you context, I'm trying |
| 1:11.2 | to let you understand how your GM thinks. |
| 1:14.2 | It's pretty clear the Lions did not have a lot of first round grades on guys, and it's |
| 1:18.4 | pretty clear they wanted to walk out with two of their players. |
| 1:22.6 | So here's my question. |
| 1:24.3 | You know, I don't like a running back at 12. |
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