Did LaPorta fail to read the room?

People are overreacting a bit but its def fair that he should not have spoken in public like that about the situation.

LaPorta has the easiest TE job in the NFL. Catching a football when you're wide open is not special. The casual will say but "His stats say he's great." Oh really? How did he get those stats? The casual "Because he's great." Circular logic.🙄 Gibbs the number 1 focus of opposing defenses, they are forced to keep 1 or 2 deep over top of Jamo, St. draws the underneath attention. Leaning huge gaps for the TE. That is reality. Who really thinks it's rare to find someone who doesn't have to get themselves open and can catch 5 yard passes? Seriously. Think on it.

Is this a joke???? Hes saying he should get paid???? Just like every nfl player that does good....fans should be for players getting paid

yeah, precisely I love Sam as a player, so that comment was devastating. It was Larkin-like, and if Skubal wasn't a p**y during his last year with the Tigers and just speaking his mind truthfully, that's 100% what he would say as well. The problem with Skubal, as Mike himself pointed out, is that we all detected that he was full of sh** because he just spoke too much.

I’ll never understand this take. Either we have fake journalists and canned responses to everything which means all media is pointless or we want to hear the truth from passionate players. What’s the problem here? Sign the guy.

If people quit investing vicariously in people who would not dial 911 if they were self immolating, it would not matter what Sammy said. 18,000,000 or 21,000,000 a year. If you personally have family income of 150 K and trying to support a family of 4, why do you care WHAT any of these guys say. Pay for kid's college, work on having money to retire comfortably in 50's and stop to smell own roses for which you have been responsible. Think this guy has anything in common with 90 of Detroiters?

Really good take from Mike here. I listened to Laporta and didn’t think it was egregious, and of course the media will jump on and overblow it, Sam said look my agent does this, I’m busting my ass, if I don’t get paid here I’ll get paid somewhere else. It’s fine. Good take Mike.

Your a bunch of retards .... nobody cares about your opinion.

Talk about " Open mouth insert foot," like Mike said, read the room, nobody wants to hear that shit.

At least he told it how it is

He's basically repeating the same shit the owners say to him. To the owners he's just another disposable player that they can find a cheaper version of. There's no loyalty as much as we want to believe there is.

It's not like he's being paid league minimum btw. He's made millions and will make almost $5.8m this season. Shut up, play, get paid at the right time. If it's not here, so be it, but you don't have to drag the franchise and the fan base who changed your life forever financially.

People obviously care because they always ask these questions and people watch them answer the questions and then people like this guy comment on the things he said. Media want honest answers but then trash honesty. They'll complain then when the answers are basic.

Top 3 TE in the league!

The guy literally broke his back for the Lions. Money is clearly on his mind and I don’t blame him. Hey! Blame your organization if we lose him. 3-5 and a struggling Goff and St, Brown without him. You guys think Jamo is going to open things up more. Think again!

These players are literally giving years off their lives because of this sport. They deserve every penny

1000% agree with Valenti here

At this point Detroit dont deserve him.

Dude you sound like the softest pussy ever lol

Wow what fucking loser this guy is

Trade this guy. We already went through this with Skubal, Larks, and Duren. Just get it over with.

Totally agree with you!!

What I learned from the show: Shut up. Ball out. Ask for a raise "the right way", even when your boss lowballs your worth, because fans might get butthurt.

Wow this dude is missing the whole point

based take

Hate Mike but this is a banger 🔥🔥

lil bit

rare mike w

How about you break your back for something and then don't cry money afterwards

Mike with another W take

You realize the top 10 TEs are making 2.5 times more then he does as an avg and he's better then all but 3 or 4 of em. I'm sure there's better options he can go since Detroit doesnt want to pay him

Perfect take. The podcast microphone got him. Not the time my dude. 🎙

1ds move, tds win! TE YR 1-3 78-25’ w/ totals laporta 23-25 20+ TD (7.94%), 119+ 1D (47.2%) Gronk & Graham 10-12’ Gates 03-05 Winslow 79-81’ DET WR: Megatron 21 TD 5.53%, 136 1D 35.8% ST br 21 TD 4.90%, 203 1D 47.3% Sam is not … 1 of 5 best TD/1D eff. TE to start career! AH!

I don’t agree with Mike on some stuff but he is 100% in the right here’s