Do these NFL players deserve extensions?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Can a guard really hold out for more money?
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Let's go around the league. Lots of football. We're 50 days from kickoff, |
| 0:04.5 | Lions, Chiefs, Thursday night. David, floor is yours. Subbar production, please. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm just going to start off with this story here. It's so stupid, but I laugh every time. |
| 0:18.8 | Go ahead. Actually, I'm going to go ahead and move, Mama. I'm going to start with a different |
| 0:22.0 | story. Okay. I don't want us laughing going into the story. I'm going to start a good, good move. |
| 0:26.5 | So I'm going to start with Zach Martin, maybe holding out for the Dallas Cowboys. Adam |
| 0:32.0 | Schaefter says that Martin believes he is woefully underpaid. Well, I looked it up. Spot rack |
| 0:37.6 | ranks him ninth among NFL guards with an average salary of $14 million. And should he get an |
| 0:45.5 | extension? I mean, no. Wow. Listen, David, David, I understand that he may feel, hey, next to |
| 0:52.8 | Quentin Nelson, who by the way, wasn't very good last year. I'm the best guard in the league. |
| 0:58.0 | But reality time, you signed a mammoth extension. You're already paid amongst the elite at the |
| 1:03.1 | position. It is not as if he is on a rookie deal and is an all pro and is making three million. |
| 1:10.1 | He makes $14 million a year as a guard in this league. When his contract's up, he's either |
| 1:15.6 | going to be worth it or not. No, I, if I'm the Cowboys, go ahead and hold out. Do whatever they want to do. |
| 1:19.7 | And at some point, you're not going to be the, when he signed that extension, it was like, okay, |
| 1:24.6 | you're the man. And then life went on. Other people made money. Cap went up. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, deal. It's not like he's making peanuts. He's a very good player. He's still in the top 10. |
| 1:35.4 | I apologize if, if I yawn when I hear a guard hold out. |
| 1:41.2 | Yes, he's not a tackle to be rude. I mean, Jesus, TJ online, |
| 1:45.9 | oh, stop it. TJ would never even TJ laughs at that. A guard holding out. I mean, who are you? |
| 1:54.8 | So let's talk about this next extension that came today for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Alex |
| 2:00.1 | Heismeth. A lot of people on social media saying they overpaid for this guy. Alex Heismeth got a |
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