00:00This from DKC. DKC writes, this is no knock on you personally, but last summer I thought
00:09nothing could be possibly more annoying than every show on every station spending half
00:15of the airtime on Terry's contract. But I think the IU talk is already neck and neck
00:23and it's already April. Yeah, I've gotten a lot of this from many of you, that you are
00:30already sick to your stomach with all of the Brandon-Iyuk discussion. And with respect
00:39to that discussion, man, a lot of you completely disagree with me, which is fine. This from
00:44Wizard's sixth man, my take on IU, who I do, let me just repeat my take. If he's physically
00:56ready to go, and from a medical standpoint, if he is psychologically fit and you can get
01:05him for no compensation in terms of draft picks and a heavily incentivized deal, which is what
01:13Nikki Javala and Matt Barrows from The Athletic reported, is the only way Washington would
01:18do a deal, then I'm absolutely on board because there's literally no risk. You know, you can
01:25cut him loose without any pain. That's how I would view it. I'm not up for spending real
01:31money on this guy in year one and definitely not up for spending any, you know, meaningful
01:37draft compensation. The problem with the draft compensation, as I've mentioned, is that if
01:42you trade for him, you inherit his contract, nobody's going to do that. We've talked about
01:47that now for months. Nobody's inheriting that contract unless somehow you were able to work
01:53out a restructure beforehand or simultaneous with. I also, you know, do have in my mind a
02:02feeling of, you know, if they don't release him, you know, anytime soon, you know, there is
02:08a time where you move on and you look at others, you know, whether it's a Diggs or whether it's
02:14a Keenan Allen or somebody else that's out there, Juwan Jennings, um, et cetera. Um, or
02:19you decide, Hey, we're going to roll with what we have, uh, because it's somewhat comparable
02:23to what they had in 2024. Um, but wizard sixth man writes, uh, this is such a lazy take, uh,
02:32by Kevin Sheehan DC, who I love. This guy has a talking about IU. This guy has a five to
02:3910%
02:40chance of returning to elite status ever. And then he writes in capital letters, E V E R ever,
02:48uh, I'd say 55% chance he's done and a team cancer 35% chance. He's okay. Not the same,
02:56but a contributor. Um, yeah, I don't know. I have zero ability to guess, uh, on what kind
03:06of player he could potentially be. You don't know anything about his physical or mental
03:11status. There is certainly a trail of bad judgment. There is no doubt about that, but
03:17a five to 10% chance of returning to elite status at 28 years old, that doesn't even sound
03:23in the realm of possibility or of knowing, um, from, uh, skins fan AZ. Ha ha. I'd run from
03:31IU. Why would watch Washington want to add a player that acted like that out of pocket need
03:37a vet, get digs, hard pass on IU. My two cents. Um, yes. Back to the original email that I
03:47read
03:47from DKC about the, the situation has become annoying and you know, uh, comparable to the Terry
03:54situation and the annoyance of talking about that all the time. I do agree. And I do feel a little
04:01bit of the, Oh God, another Brandon Iuke report. Uh, yesterday it was the, you know, Nikki Jabala,
04:10Matt Barrows story, uh, where the team says, you know, multiple sources with knowledge of the
04:16situation. Say the team is not going to trade compensation for him and would only do a highly
04:21incentivized short-term deal. Um, which is the only way I'd be in favor of them doing it. And I
04:28think
04:28many of you as well, even if you aren't a big Brandon Iuke fan, but I feel the, you know,
04:34every
04:35other day or every day recently, certainly since the draft, but look, this is the guy that most people
04:44around the league believe is going to end up playing for Washington next year. And this isn't,
04:50you know, just a waiver wire pickup of some aging vet. This is a guy who was the last time
04:57he played
04:57a full season in 2023 was an elite wide receiver elite finished as the second best receiver in the
05:06league per pro football focus for whatever that's worth averaged 18 yards per reception. And he was
05:13ascending, ascending, ascending. This is not really, in my opinion, comparable to the Terry discussion.
05:22They both can be annoying, but, uh, I don't think they're, they're the same story. You know,
05:28the Terry story last summer was about a contract extension and whether he got it or not, he was
05:34going to play because he was under contract. You know, it would have been insanity for Terry to hold
05:41out. Once the season began, that would have worked against him. So he was always going to play. He was
05:48under contract with the team. Iuke is a total wild card whose presence could be, could be certainly no
05:59guarantee, but the reason you do this is that he could be an absolute game changer, a season changer.
06:07If he's the player or even remotely close to the player that he was in 2023, it could also turn
06:15out
06:15to be a dud. You know what? It won't turn out to be if they handle it the right way,
06:21a disaster,
06:22because if there's little risk in terms of contract salary cap, giving up draft picks,
06:30and you can turn them loose if he becomes a problem, or if he just sucks and he's not any
06:36good,
06:38it can't be a disaster. I mean, what's he going to do in, you know, a month or two? Is
06:44he really going
06:45to ruin a pretty solid locker room? If he really is nuts, is he going to ruin Jaden? You know,
06:51there's a lot
06:52that could happen that would be negative, but once it becomes negative, they can turn away from him
06:59and say goodbye if they structure it the right way going in. I would view this as, you know, if
07:05they
07:05do this deal that they, you know, reportedly would be interested in doing, is extremely low risk
07:12and extremely high reward potential. Totally different from Terry and the annoyance of talking
07:20about Terry every day last summer, in my opinion. That was something in which we were following the
07:27back and forth on a contract extension for a guy who was under contract heading into 2025 and was
07:35never going to sit. You know, it did get painted and it did get presented by many. And some of
07:42you
07:43brought that to the air with me, that essentially you thought this was about Terry playing or not
07:49playing for the team. It was never about that. He was under contract for 2025 and it would have been
07:57personally devastating to his chances to ever getting a big payday had he held out of actual
08:04regular season games. So that was never going to happen. He was always going to play. It wasn't,
08:10you know, Terry or no Terry. It was Terry under a new contract or Terry in the last year of
08:17his contract.
08:19Ayuk isn't with the team. He's a total wild card as to whether or not he'll be with us or
08:24not.
08:25There's a heavy lean towards him being with us. And the upside is very high in my, in my view,
08:35because I believe that he was an elite receiver and descending to, you know, top five kind of
08:42territory over the next few years after 2023, he was that kind of a receiver. And I think if you
08:48get
08:49that, that's a major season changing, you know, event because now you've got him and Terry,
08:59but it could also not work out. But again, that's why you go in super low risk as a team
09:05so that if it doesn't work out, see ya. And there's no pain.
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