00:04okay well we started had some fun now now not so much so i want to read you the full
00:10quote from
00:10laporta and i give you my thoughts you can do whatever you want uh laporta on pardon my take
00:16so automatically we're off to a bad start you're a player you already do media availabilities i
00:21don't know why you're on podcasts i digress quote i think the combination of getting your heart
00:26strings twisted as well as the violent sport we play it sucks it's disappointing you go out there
00:31every week and you bear the risk of getting hurt like last year whatever it was week nine or ten
00:36i break my effing back for this team and then i'm going to go out there this year and i'm
00:41balling
00:41and maybe they just aren't showing the love so i'll continue to do my thing and ball out and in
00:46three months if i don't get to wear the honolulu blue and play for the lions anymore it's going to
00:51be all good i'll just get paid somewhere else so whatever close quote oh dear well first things
00:59first okay on basis just just as we step back could be any player in any town this is my
01:05basic advice
01:06read the effing room your average customer can't afford to put groceries on the table no one cares
01:15about your plight sam sorry you get paid millions to play a kid's game and as you said you're going
01:24to get paid regardless sam do yourself a solid you said you your agent handles most of it if that
01:32take
01:32is brewing and i have no problem that it is tell your agent tell your wife tell your mom tell
01:39you tell
01:39your inner circle you can't go public with that you just saw what happened to jaylen duran who didn't talk
01:45but just wanted his money now what do you think it sounds like for fans when they see the last
01:51part
01:51that says if i don't get to wear the honolulu blue whatever i'll get paid somewhere up buddy what are
01:59you doing and i say it again read the room but this is the problem this is where athletes get
02:08it wrong
02:10nobody cares about your problems you don't have problems not like the people who watch you the
02:18only reason you exist sam are the very people who can't afford to buy a home they can't afford their
02:25car payment they can't afford to live right now you think they care about your contract and then at
02:33the end of it you're flipping if i don't get to don the jersey whatever get paid somewhere up dude
02:41hope it felt good in the moment because that that that's a lose-lose i'm not telling sam laporta don't
02:49feel that way internally you can't verbalize that do it to your agent tell your wife tell your friends
02:56you can't do that because now here's what happens you will get people who previously like sam laporta
03:04who now are going to rage and say trade this guy you can't in the city like detroit make that
03:10comment
03:11and here's the other thing i would say to him oh yeah all right you'll get paid somewhere else that's
03:15great that's great that's great where's a better situation than here exactly
03:21in this offense with the relationship with the quarterback that you have
03:27with a team that's going to win most years like this year oh yeah do me a favor go wear
03:33the powder
03:33blue in tennessee because it's just whatever right see that's my other problem with this and then i'll
03:39shut up and recall take you to six this is what really pisses me off wearing the uniform of this
03:45team
03:46should matter the lions have built something here where it should start to matter years past it
03:53didn't matter wearing a honolulu blue didn't mean anything that wasn't like wearing a steelers helmet
03:58or a chief's helmet but rico that this is something where we can we can accept one thing we're upset
04:04that the lions don't go all in but the one thing we can't be upset about is every year i'm
04:09pretty
04:09comfortable saying they're going to win 10 games and that these fans will bleed for you these fans will
04:14show up they'll go into debt to watch you play and for you to go on a pod and that's
04:19your take
04:20no that doesn't it just doesn't work you got to read the room dude see i think he is more
04:27reading
04:28the room but not the room that you're thinking about mike he's reading the locker room in allen park
04:34because he's frustrated and i'm not sticking up for laporta i think this man is frustrated because
04:40the lions run up to you before your contract is up and say here player x here's your extension
04:49we love you so much laporta every day is waiting for brad to say hey brad you got my contract
04:56i don't
04:57know what you're talking about here's your problem you've taken this is your problem jack campbell's
05:02your problem i'm on raj your problem right no they're your problem because they didn't break the bank
05:09jack campbell in writing and in audio did the opposite of laporta i could get more money i don't
05:15need all the money i love it here i want to spend my career here and i'm very well compensated
05:21they've
05:21absolutely approached laporta with a landmark deal but you know what they probably haven't done made
05:26them the highest paid tight end in the sport right and that's probably the difference no no because i
05:31think the problem is because i like the examples you gave but the problem may be okay but you just
05:37catered to gibbs and you made him the highest paid running back so what are you doing with all that
05:42money that you saved with everybody else i want that but the problem is gibbs deserves to be paid
05:48like the best running back in the league even though bijon's better gibbs is right there there's no
05:53world laporta's viewed as that laporta's a very good tight end he's not the best tight end of football
05:57no no he's not but statistically speaking when he doesn't play for the lions yeah they don't win
06:01you score a touchdown less oh good tell him that then go ahead take take new orleans money go play
06:05down there next year because it's just whatever right see that that's the problem i have words
06:10matter no no it does because think about this and i actually appreciated larkin just coming out saying
06:17just trade me just well he's a captain of original 16 yeah he's saying i'm sick of this just trade
06:24me
06:25i don't want to say anything bad about you just let me go let me walk away durin said nothing
06:32his agent
06:33probably did but he said nothing that's fine you can't walk these words back because you got to go
06:40into the locker room and you got to explain and now your teammates have to vouch and talk about you
06:47because the media is going to ask the coach has to the general manager has to and oh by the
06:52way
06:53imagine for the rest of the season what happens if he drops a pass let's say they're playing the
07:00packers mike and it's a touchdown and and he pulls a nick marsh and he steps out of bounds and
07:07it's
07:07and it doesn't count fans who would have forgiven him are they're going to go back to these words
07:12and these are going to be the words that people write on this tombstone as he goes out of town
07:17he's lost favor with a lot of people because you can't well let's see if that's the case i mean
07:22like
07:22for me i don't root for the player i root for the for the logo like i don't care sam
07:28laporta
07:29could disappear and pop up somewhere i don't care it doesn't matter i care about does the team win
07:34i that's where i don't i don't really root for players right but this is the issue of just it's
07:41tone deaf these are the words that you say when you're on your way out of town after you after
07:47you're in chicago and you got the bears helmet sitting there on the podium but i want to know
07:50people say i don't want to act like he's just lost everybody people need to call and tell me where
07:57they're at with it and look if your reaction is oh hell will they get them out of here i'm
08:02not
08:02going to yell at you but that would really hurt your team right now that would hurt you you don't
08:07have an opportunity to replace him but where are you at when sam laporta talks about breaking his
08:14effing back for this team and they're not showing me the love i'll do my thing ball out in three
08:19months
08:19if i don't get to wear the honolulu blue and play for the lions anymore it'll be all good
08:24i'll get paid somewhere else it's whatever i that that's the part that part is like dude
08:30you can't say that you might feel it don't say right you can't say it because you can't walk it
08:35back and you can't say you were hacked and you can't say you were drunk and you can't say any
08:39of
08:39these things right and i would just simply say this mike picture this he says this and he goes out
08:49and have the drops that jamo has had all season long could you imagine how this city would feel
08:55about i don't know how they'll feel they would they would be livid i can help you they would be
08:59livid okay because it because i'm trying to be fair and let the people dictate it and i'm only
09:03speaking for how i feel i got you i'm annoyed on behalf of people is that i know detroit detroit
09:11versus
09:12everything you're one of our guys what you don't do is spit in their face this he hocked a loogie
09:19that's it i mean again there's no way around it the words are the words and you've listened to the
09:23audio it's just like all right dude whatever you can feel it i get why he feels that way i'm
09:27sure
09:27everybody at their given job has felt a certain type of way when they're trying to get a raise or
09:31get a contract or whatever you're trying to do i get it but you know what you can't do you
09:35can't
09:35air to grievance you can tell your agent you can tell your loved ones you can't go public with that
09:41it's just it's just bad don't do that it's also again it's like invariably when david calls me and
09:47he's like oh man did you hear so-and-so on so-and-so's pod it's like well i already
09:53know
09:53what you're about to tell me is going to be bad there's no like why do you have to go
09:58on a podcast
09:59in season seriously do you not have enough microphones in your life right you or your wife
10:07for a significant other just stay away yeah nothing good will come from that hey did you
10:12see what so-and-so's wife said i know it's not going to be a weather report or something good
10:17so go ahead david why don't you tell me there's no yelling and screaming i just i i don't i
10:23get
10:23annoyed by it i get annoyed because again it is on display how out of touch these athletes are and
10:29that's a problem now if you don't care guy could say hey look if i'm not here it's whatever i'm
10:35not
10:36mad at you either i just don't think it's a smart thing to say see i think for the people
10:39mike it's
10:40going to be very difficult because laporta was one of their guys and he was soft-spoken he really
10:44didn't talk a lot lunch pail guy go to work you're critical for his quarterback yeah you actually
10:50felt sorry a few weeks ago when you heard that you know the talks broke down and okay well you
10:56know
10:56what he's just going to go ahead and play this season out he's not going to say anything because
11:00he loves this team well he does but he also is telling you i love money too yeah and that's
11:09where
11:09i gotta be honest in a team laporta team lions i'm gonna take the lion side here of course you
11:16are
11:19i don't know what that means i'm just saying right you're supposed to take laporta he's white
11:24oh give a damn i was trying to trade cam scadaboo out in the bullpen i was negotiating with david's
11:30friend in indianapolis that one of them already came through and say wow i'm shocked that mike
11:34is criticizing a white athlete just one though i don't understand okay call up keith in detroit
11:40get keith on line 10 i'm sure he's got a new on stake he's trying to find bryce a new
11:45team
11:45uh-oh 248-539-9797 your phone calls next you team laporta team lions do you have a problem with
11:52what he said what's your reaction to it i mean that that's pretty spicy words and audio from sam
11:58laporta
11:59you
