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Speaker 3: Hey, everyone. Jeff here with your daily DLP. It's gonna be a little bit quick one. It is Wednesday, June 24. It's very early in the morning here. I am in Orlando, for a, AAU volleyball tournament, and, was hoping to take today off, but, the NFL is asleep. And something happened yesterday that directly impacts the Detroit Lions, and that is the Atlanta Falcons signed tight end Kyle Pitts to a three year contract extension worth $54,000,000, 36,000,000 guaranteed. Guys, we've talked about this before. Talked about this about Laporta before. It's like real estate. Recent comps matter so much. Doesn't even matter whether Sam Laporta is better or worse or equivalent to Kyle Pitts. But now now that this is signed for three years, 54,000,000, by the way, that's the most money ever given on a three year contract to a tight end. And they made it nice and easy with the math and guaranteed two thirds of it at 36,000,000. So the first two years effectively are guaranteed. It's probably not structured that way, but for all intents and purposes, that's what the deal is. That is high for Sam Laporta, and that is higher than a lot of the recent cops. We like we like Sam Laporta here, and we would love to keep him. And we saw this is a picture of him from last week. He was out there. He was, you know, doing as much as he can right now with his coming off of his back injury that limited him last year, ended his season early, but he's still not full go. We'll see in training camp if that's the case or not. That's what Dan Campbell intimated when we were talking with Dan last week. Feels like it was longer ago than a week ago when we were having mini camp, but time flies. Anyhow, I wanna bring up this is from Over the Cap, which is a great resource to use for contracts. I'm gonna blow this up here. Pitts is now third in annual value, AAV, annual average per year in the contracts at tight ends. George Gittel, Trey McBride, the top two, No surprise there. They're they're, you know, McBride at 19,000,000, Kittle at 19.1, because Kittle wants to be higher. I don't blame him for that. McBride, by the way, heavy heavy usage injured offense, which has led a lot of people to think that there might be an opportunity for Sam Laporta. I'm I won't say that there's not, but I think that the circumstances in Arizona led to that more. Trey McBride's best player on the football team. Sam Laporta, as good as he is, he's not even the third best player on the offense in Detroit. Gibbs, Saint, Sewell in there even though he's not a skill player. J Mo is J Mo is not quite as consistent in his overall production and ability, but his high end is certainly higher than what Laporta's is. So it it it it's different there. The other thing there is that, Kittle is older. McBride's 27. Halepitz at 26 years old. This is outdated. This was this was his franchise tag value. The the Falcons had franchise tag pits. So this is you can slot him in now at a full 16,000,000 per year. Three years, 54,000,000. Then you get to the next names, and these are the names that are that the lions will want to use as comparisons for for Laporta, for contractual purposes. Isaiah likely, three years, 13,300,000 per year. Mark Andrews. Andrews is a little different because he's more established and older. That is not his second contract. That is, I believe, his fourth contract, with the Ravens. But 13.89089 per year. Dalton Chris with the Texans, this is a very good, comparison even though Dalton is a little bit older, at 12,600,000. Kolkimat in Chicago, 12,500,000. Much as we'd like to say that Laporta is a lot better than Kolkemet, they're roughly equivalent. Will Laporta take 12,500,000 to sign in Detroit? I don't know. I think he's gonna aim for higher than that. But, you know, when we talked with Campbell and also the the offensive coaches last week, you know, the idea of extending La Porta is certainly something that they're thinking about, but they do want and Dan mentioned it. They would need to see him and Brian Branch healthy and contributing first. Now that could be negotiating leverage. I fully understand that, and I wouldn't surprise we'd all if that's the actual case. But if they are true to their word there, then we're not gonna see an extension this summer. We're gonna let that ride a little bit probably into the bi week or a little before the bi week. And I think at that point, we will have a better idea of Laporta's production and production level within the Drew Pennington offense. Again, presuming that he's healthy. But that thirteen point three three years $40,000,000 deal that Isaiah likely got with 26,000,000 guaranteed. I'm gonna say that's the floor for La Porta's contract. I think he's gonna aim a little bit higher. I speculated yesterday on social media. Three years 50,000,000 with, 35,000,000 guaranteed. Again, the guarantee is and and and the lines are great at doing this. The guarantee is the meat of the deal, and that's what gets spread out with void years. And I would suspect that there would be a void year or two or four on his contract. You're looking at the bar column here from, from over the cap. Kittle has voids. McBride does not. You know, Pitts, I don't know if he does or not. But like Dalton Chris does, Jake Ferguson with the Cowboys who replaced Dalton Chris there. He has them. Laporta is certainly as good as Jake Ferguson at, four years $50,000,000

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Speaker 3: Three years 50,000,000 is, probably on the optimistic side. Three years forty eight million is probably where the lions will counter, which is 16,000,000 a year, which is no chunk change. But, that's that's where we're looking at. You know? That's that's the range. And Pitts puts another data point in there and another reference point for the Laporta contract. So we'll see where that winds up with Laporta, but, that that should give you a better idea now, more current idea of what we're looking at to extend Sam Laporta in Detroit. Presuming they do extend him, not heard anything that they don't want to. Although we did have Ben Solak from ESPN in here, about a month ago. And Ben, talked like, if if the lions have this is Ben's opinion. If the lions have to let someone go of the group of players that need contract extensions, he would let Laporta walk because in theory, he's the easiest to replace. I think there's some merit to that argument, but selfishly, I like Sam Laporte a lot. I think his blocking is better than Kyle Pitts. Now Kyle Pitts, he plays a lot of outside ex receiver too, not just tight end. He's much more of a receiver slash tight end than a tight end. And, you know, that that will be what, obviously, what the lines will counter with when representation comes. But I still think they're gonna try to get a deal done. Look. Summer doesn't officially end until, September 21. End of summer feels like the right time because then they'll have a pretty good idea of when he's getting in. Speaking of ESPN and Solac, one of his colleagues there and a a long time friend and former colleague of mine, we worked together at Bleacher Report, Matt Miller. I wanted to take a quick second to wish Matt nothing but the best and a speedy and full recovery. He was in a horrific car accident, that, very nearly killed him. He posted on social media for the first time yesterday. His his brother Marshall has, you know, been updating people on it. It's awful. Feel terrible for you, Matt, but I'm also thank god you're still alive, and and still with us, and we hope to see you back on camera at some point soon. And get well soon, buddy, because, that's I the picture of the Jeep, he was in a head on collision. There's no way he should be alive. He's he's very, very lucky and blessed. And I'm I'm personally very grateful, that Matt is still with us. Matt has done things for me, try to do things for him as well. But, Matt, love you, buddy. Get better soon, man. I'm, we're all pulling for you. Jeff Riston signing out on the daily DLP. You can do one other, everybody.