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The Valenti Show

What Needs To Change Offensively For the Lions?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The guys wonder what needs to change identity-wise for the Lions.

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0:00.0

All right. We'll get back into college a little bit later.

0:03.0

I wanted to bring up a lion's issue, and we didn't get a chance to really get into it yesterday.

0:08.4

So now, look, a couple days have gone by.

0:10.7

You've processed your emotions about the Eagle game.

0:13.8

I think we're all on the same page.

0:15.3

Lines still a good football team.

0:17.5

They feel a little bit more like pretender to contender, but they have the ability to be a contender.

0:23.0

So here's the question I wanted to ask.

0:25.5

Dan Campbell had a lot to say yesterday.

0:28.7

And a lot of it was, look, we're going to play to the strengths of the team.

0:32.2

We had a bad day at the office, et cetera.

0:34.7

I wanted to ask this question is that, look, year over year, I think at this point,

0:40.9

even the most Kool-Aid drinking lion fan, who thinks the world is perfect and nothing's

0:47.4

wrong.

0:48.0

You can at least identify the following.

0:51.3

The O line is not the same.

0:53.6

You miss Ben Johnson. And a byproduct of that is,

0:58.4

the running game is not the same. And your third down conversions, you rank 27th in the NFL

1:04.6

in third down conversion rate. 27th. Those things seemingly are a very fair place to start when I ask you this question.

1:15.6

If you are not the same team you were, then aren't you required to play the game differently than you've played it?

1:27.3

Meaning, no one is saying you do what Wisconsin did and you go from a power running attack to the air raid with Luke Fickle.

1:35.2

What we're saying is we like aggression, we like force downs, we like the identity of the team.

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