George Kittle wants a record contract; Keenum & Foles enter the Simms Top 40 QB Countdown | 6/1 #2

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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George Kittle reportedly wants to be paid more than just the highest tight end salary in the NFL. Is he asking too much? Case Keenum and Nick Foles come in at #32 & #31 on the Simms Top 40 QB Countdown. Why did Foles fall so far from his 2019 ranking? And we see how he fits in the Matt Nagy offense in a Deja View back to his Chiefs days. Bears GM Ryan Pace tells Florio why he thinks the 4th-and-15 onside kick alternative will eventually become a rule. PFT Live Draft: After Melvin Gordon threw some shade at Chargers home games, Florio & Simms pick which teams need fans the most at their games this season.

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0:00.0	I get paid to play football, which has been my dreams as I was a little kid.
0:03.6	So, you know, I wake up and my first thing is, hey, I have an opportunity to get better today.
0:06.9	I have an opportunity to go, no, train to play football the day. And that's all I look at it. I just wake up, I train. I hit it hard. And, you know, it's awesome. My wife and my dad actually throw me to football. I get 100 to 150 passes the day.
0:19.1	So I'm just enjoying it.
0:21.1	You know, and I'm not going to, you know,
0:22.8	I'm not going to worry about. So I'm just enjoying it.
0:24.6	You know, and I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to worry about something that I can't control.
0:27.0	But I'll be damned if I let it get the best of me.
0:30.8	So I'm going to go out there and I'm a train, you know, like I have guys competing for my job.
0:41.5	That's 49ers tight end, George Kittle from April on the PFTPM podcast talking about his efforts to keep in shape, keep motivated.
0:44.4	And it takes no extra motivation for him.
0:45.2	It's all internal.
0:47.0	This is a guy who loves football.
0:48.2	He loves everything about football.
0:55.2	We're going to talk about him for the next few minutes because he's got a contract fight potentially looming with the 49ers. And by the way,
0:59.1	this is the top of our number two of the program on this Monday edition of PFT Live.
1:05.8	We spent a lot of time last hour talking about the other issues going on in society with the murder of George Floyd, the reaction to it, the riots, the protests, the looting, everything.
1:12.6	We addressed it from the NFL's perspective last hour. If you missed it, it'll re-air an hour from now. If you're watching the
1:18.5	rear air and you missed it, we'll have the segment posted at Pro Football Talk.com. But we want to
1:24.2	focus on football as much as we can this hour, Chris. And I saw over the weekend the news that the 49ers and George Kittle are very far apart on their contract talks. And Kittle, who is the best tight end in football, or at least one of them, wants to be paid like a tackle or a receiver, not a tight end, because he believes he's more than that. And you know what? He's right.
1:45.1	He is more than that. He shouldn't be pigeonholed by his position. He is a football player who
1:49.4	brings so much more to the table than just the ability to block and run pass routes and catch
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