Name: George Kittle on How Players Get Paid in the NFL
Uploaded: 2023-03-21T18:54:24.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'George Kittle on How Players Get Paid in the NFL' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'George Kittle on How Players Get Paid in the NFL' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-21. Transcript available.

the great thing about football is it's one of the only professions where you
get to beat the
shit out of someone not get arrested for it yeah there's not very many of those
sports right and
so that's really fun for me and like except memphis maybe i think you can do it
these days but yeah
i don't think it's like as sanctioned yeah probably not you know it's frowned
upon yeah
frowned upon but like in the nfl so like i just get to go out there and i get
to hit people i
get to have fun i mean i'm playing a kid's game dude and getting paid a lot of
money to do it so
like i'm gonna work my tail off but i'm gonna enjoy it every second that i'm
out there because
you only get so many reps there's only so much tread on the tire and you got
tom brady who can
play for 20 years maybe 21 and then like you know but the average you know
lifespan is like three
years so i'm going into year seven i'm doing pretty well for myself so it's
like hey i'm gonna play as
long as i can i'm gonna play at a high level as long as i can but i'm gonna
have a great time every
time i'm out there it's a bigger business now than it was 20 years ago oh yeah
i mean there's
significantly more money in it i mean you just saw like two quarterbacks just
got paid over 100 million
dollars with like 70 million dollars the one guy got guaranteed like 83 million
dollars that's more than
my entire contract wow that's wild that's why it was daniel jones right yeah
good for him happy for
him i love it when guys in the nfl get paid because it's really hard to get
paid wow and so once like
i love everybody getting paid i do not care who they is if i think they're a
good player if i think
they're a bad player awesome you got paid good you're set for life like just
don't squander it please
what do you mean when you say it's hard for guys to get paid well like you have
to the nfl is full of
like every nfl player college you have high school which is like you have
hundreds of thousands of
kids playing high school right and you just think about like the number you
have millions of kids
playing high school ball you have hundreds of thousands of people playing uh
college football
there's 1500 nfl players like just like the percentage is so small then when
you get there
like every team has all americans in college heisman trophy winners and just
like you have to figure out
what you do better than everybody else and how to do like how to do that for as
long as you can
and that's that kind of what the nfl is like surviving nfl is really hard like
there's fantastic
players and athletes out there that should be in the fill and aren't right like
that happens all the
time it's like a lot of guys don't take advantage of that opportunity so it's
hard to get paid
you have to have a right you have to take advantage of that opportunity what's
in front of you
are there any players that come to mind you're like man that player it just it
didn't pan out or
they got there was a injury that happened or one of my favorite football
players of all time was bob
sanders he's a safety for the indianapolis colts he played for iowa he won
defensive mvp
one year but like he just had an assortment of injuries and he would have been
in my
he was a first ballot hall of famer and then he just had all these injuries
that he couldn't stay
healthy and then he played in the pros oh yeah he was with the d like nfl mvp
for defense like
amazing football player as a safety which is really hard to do these days and
he was incredible and
uh yeah he had like a back injury he had leg injury shoulder injuries because
he hit people so
hard that made he'd be hurt and it's just like instead of being a first ballot
hall of famer like
he'll always be remembered as a really good football player but like injury
kind of took that away from him
and so he could have gotten paid a lot more money too probably that's what's
hard it's like you have
to stay healthy you have to be in the right situation you have to make a lot of
plays and
you have to get into those like what are the years you kind of get paid on what
are some of those
levels it's like uh after the most of the time is like i got paid after year
three okay i was on
a four-year rookie deal most of the extensions happen after three years um or
you can after your
four-year free agent is what you're seeing now like that's where the real money
is because like
everyone's bidding on you and that's where the good stuff is um but yeah most
guys get paid after
three if you're a first round draft pick like teams have a fifth year right to
you and so those first
round draft picks might not get paid till after year four um but they already
got a you know first
round signing bonus so like they're doing well for themselves i see football is
really hard if you
don't love it like it's really because like what you put your body through what
you put like the
stress levels through like we put our like i know every like our professions
like when you're out there you
know for like to perform and like that's how like people watch you and stuff
like that it's like
there's a stress that comes out because you can make one bad play and like that's
the only thing
everybody on twitter is yelling at you for and telling you that you're a piece
of and so like
there's a there's a mental stress to it there's a physical stress to it time
away from your family
like i just said like i i have my nationals my home i haven't this is my second
day back since july 24th
that's so wow do you think there are players that would rather get the ball
more than win the game
there are certain players that like you have to have the mindset that when like
when you get the
ball like the more like you have to have a mindset like when i get the ball
dude it looks scary
oh dude it's not for everybody and it is what it is me the ball dude i'd throw
it back
nope honestly yeah hey yeah not me not me yeah no not me dude i'll do a timeout
yeah i i feel like
you just toss up a lot of bounds like no i just slipped coach my bed just drop
it i'm good there might be
some guys that are like more like stat hungry maybe but they're not on our team
i've never really been
with a guy that was like that which has been awesome um but like and there's
there's guys who have
contracts who are like hey if i get 40 catches this season i get a bonus right
like we had a guy who
um we had a guy who he he was a backup right but he's re-signed because his
rookie deal was over
and he had an incentive in there that was if he got over he had to break his
receiving yards from
last year and he only had like 150 receiving yards but he doesn't play a lot on
offense he's a special
teams guy and and by like week five he broke it and it was amazing because he
got he got like a
multiple hundred thousand dollar bonus because of it and so like yeah like
there is a selfishness to it
because who doesn't want to get paid an extra 250 000 or something like that
whatever it was i'm not
entirely sure but like that's awesome like good for you and like i'm
encouraging like hey jimmy throw
him the ball brock toss like the tray throw that guy the ball so it's just like
that's pretty fun
like so like when it is like so there's there's selflessness but there's also a
selfishness to it
to an extent right but i'm luckily be on a part of a team that hey like debo's
a superstar he's
fantastic and he had a game where he had like 20 he had 20 receiving yards and
20 rushing yards
we won by two touchdowns he's like i don't care he's like we're winning i have
another option like
we have another opportunity to play next week like it is what it is and then he
goes and i'll be right
when i get my opportunity i'll be ready for it yeah and then you like we had a
playoff game he had
a 74 yard touch here and he had like 120 yards receiving a touchdown player of
the game it's just
like we have those guys capable on our team but we have six of those guys or
seven of those guys
are capable and then it's just it's fun to be a part of a team like that i don't
get the ball every
play and like i don't want the ball every play i like i like getting the ball
it's fun to catch the
ball it's fun to run like you like running with a football in open space and
not getting hit is one
of the coolest things you can possibly do as a human being yeah what did you
feel like just driving real
fast dude like i have a smile on my face i'm just like this is like it because
it doesn't happen very
often it's hard to get that open in the nfl because everyone's such good
athletes but when you're just
running through the space man it is like it's illegal yes like i feel like i'm
kidding just like i just
stole something i'm just running as fast as i can and it's it's such a it's
such a thrilling feeling
wide receiver think about that for a sec why don't you just play tight end dude
well less money
but i was like i mean you could apply we played another couple years why do y'all
get less money
i don't know let's figure that out you i'll call in and you're gonna figure it
out you're doing more
thank you travis kelsey this guy 1300 yards 10 10 touchdowns a year for like
the last
seven years basically but it gets more balls thrown over than you sure but my
point is is that
if he was a wide receiver his contract he'd be the 26th highest paid wide
receiver in the nfl
does that make sense no no he should probably be top five so that's like i don't
know he should
probably be making if like there's wide receivers out there making over 25
million dollars that don't
get his stats like why would he not get paid more yeah right i mean like i was
i think i was third in
the nfl and touchdowns this year and yeah i mean there's 20 receivers that make
more money than me
that's i know yeah like i'm happy for them i'm i'm happy for them that they're
making them no it's
nothing against them it's just like that's the tight end market like our
franchise tag is like 10
million dollars which is like if a team doesn't like um evan ingram tied in for
the jackson drivers
he was franchise tag which means like they don't want to do a new deal yet but
they're going to give
you a one-year deal and it's based on the average of like the top couple
contracts of your position
so like his was 10 million dollars and then the quarterback franchise tag is 30
million dollars
for that one season and i get the quarterback is the most right that's the most
important
position but like wide receiver franchise tag is i want to say like 20
something what's like are they
really double the value no i don't think so especially yeah i don't think no i
don't especially
now when you're getting all these hybrid you have like tasem hill you have a
hybrid player that could
possibly do it all yeah sure like and like no now the thing when you get and
you you have to be
great at all those things for it to be a value of you in a contract negotiation
right that's a good
point yeah so you have to be great like if you and if you can just if you can
just do several things
but you do them averagely i'd rather have like a guy that does this great a guy
that does this great
than having a guy that doesn't both average hope you enjoyed that video and you
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