Chargers Extend Justin Herbert to Record-Breaking Contract. Who’s Under the Most Pressure to Win Now?

The Ringer NFL Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.1 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ben and Steven react to Justin Herbert's massive five-year, $262.5 million contract with the Chargers. They start off with some of the record-breaking details of the contract before discussing the impact the contract’s structure will have on the team and how this will affect the Joe Burrow negotiations (01:08). After, they look into who faces the most pressure from this deal between Herbert and the Chargers (15:07). The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming, please checkout theringer.com/RG to find out more or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Hosts: Ben Solak and Steven Ruiz Producer: Eduardo Ocampo Additional Production Supervision: Arjuna Ramgopal and Conor Nevins Musical Elements: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Right now on the Ringer Gamlin' feet and all throughout the entire month of August, the East Coast
0:06.9	bias boys are getting you ready to bet to NFL this season. We're going through each and every
0:12.5	single division and revealing our favorite futures predicting division winners and even giving you
0:17.7	some award winners. Do we think the Kansas City Chiefs will repeat or will they be the throne?
0:22.7	Tune in now to find out on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.7	Howdy. Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. It's the Herbert boys. It's just the big, the big
0:42.4	little herbys in the building. I'm Ben Sirlake. He's Stephen Ruiz and Los Angeles Chargers
0:48.3	quarterback Justin Herbert has signed an extension and they put us on the mic Stephen because they knew
0:53.4	if they didn't let us we would just hop on the call anyway to spread the propaganda. The good news
0:59.5	of Justin Herbert yesterday it's announced the weird weird error for extensions training
1:04.9	camp is reporting and just like everybody's getting extensions right now. The Justin Herbert has a
1:09.2	come to terms with the Chargers on a five year extension nuts and bolts of the contract.
1:14.6	262.5 million in total value. Healthy at a five year extension that puts him at an average annual
1:21.6	value of 52.5 is making 52.5 a year just over the 52 million that Lamar Jackson was making on his
1:28.4	five year deal which is just over the 51 million that Jalen Hertz was making on his five year deal
1:33.7	just to get good on how quarterback contracts work. 218.7 million in guaranteed money. That is the
1:42.4	makes Herbert only the second quarterback to have over 200 million in total guarantees to only
1:47.1	DeShon Watson. Stephen when you saw the news first thoughts. I hope he buys me some ice cream.
1:54.6	He buys us some ice. He takes us takes his kids out to for a trick. Yeah just point 0.01% Herbert that's
2:00.8	all I need just a cool 20k just swing that my way. But no I was like straining to come up with
2:06.3	like some like highly analytical tweet about it and I just like it doesn't matter like he's worth
2:11.3	the money it's the same conversation whenever we talk about these these top of the league quarterbacks.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.