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The Valenti Show

The Valenti Show w/Rico Beard: 3 Options For Lions Fans

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The Valenti Show w/Rico Beard: 3 Options For Lions Fans

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0:00.0

I hope you're fallen out today. I hope you have power if you're listening to us today. I know branches froze trees exploded. Hope everybody's doing okay today.

0:08.0

Rico, I want to bring up some options for the lions, not with the sixth overall pick, but with that second pick in the first round. I want to focus on 18.

0:19.0

A couple of different directions they could go. This is death, not an option. Pick your poison. These are the things being discussed in the media.

0:28.0

Dave Brickett, free press dropped his mock today. After teasing everyone for 48 hours, they've gets it.

0:34.0

He hasn't gone. Bejohn Robbins in at 18, going running back, polarizing. I don't like using a first round pick on a running back. I don't like spending on a running back.

0:45.0

I think they're the least valuable position, but Dave made a case in his mock. Second option, T Higgins. Follow the AJ Brown blueprint, pro football focus says give up 18 and a fourth and go get T Higgins from the Cincinnati Bengals.

1:02.0

So you have Bejohn, T Higgins, and then you have Daniel Jeremiah's mock where he has the lions taking Anthony Richardson quarter back out of Florida.

1:12.0

The one guy that Rico said they can't take for the upcoming draft death, not an option. Rank the three choices. Bejohn, T Higgins, Anthony Richardson. What do you want him to do at 18? Don't, but I want a defensive player. Well, that's not an option.

1:29.0

We're not at a pizza place. You can't order pizza. You have to order from this menu. Bejohn, Higgins, Richardson. No substitutions on the menu. No.

1:42.0

With that logic, I'm probably going to be John first.

1:46.0

If I had to, because I do think you need to upgrade this running game. This is a team, as I said yesterday, it's built to run the ball.

1:55.0

And I know you devalue the position because you think any Joker, any clown, the league devalue bus boy can go out there pretty much pretty much at every position cookies.

2:05.0

There are elite players. The lion showed you, hey, we could win with two guys. We found off the street and tied in.

2:14.0

But you mean to tell me if you had a choice at getting Kelsey here, you wouldn't want him. It's tied in, but you could survive. I'd get the running back.

2:23.0

Second, I guess we'll be T Higgins. Here's why it's second. You spent a lot of capital. You move up and you may already have your T Higgins here in James Williams.

2:33.0

So, are you going to stunt the growth of JMo by bringing in T Higgins? Now, you already got Saint Brown. You have other receivers.

2:43.0

Now's the time. When you took him last year, it was on, you know, the layaway plan and people told me don't expect anything. And I didn't.

2:52.0

This year, I am this year. I'm going to expect to see some impact this year. I'm going to expect big plays.

2:58.0

If you bring in T Higgins, I think that could slow it down. Anthony Richardson. No, just.

3:03.0

Of all the, what did this man do to you? Nothing. He's not that good. He's just not. He's, he's this year's Malik Willis. He's got a lot of people fooled. And I think he's going to be this big time NFL quarterback. He's not.

3:18.0

Okay. Brian. CJ Stroud, Henan Hooker, Jeren Hall, Stetson Bennett, Will Levis, Anthony Richardson. These are all quarterbacks in this upcoming draft.

3:33.0

Completion percentage from one to five yards. Will Levis and Bryce Jung are actually at the top. Okay. About 82%.

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