00:00So, here's the latest on Brandon Ayuk. This happened after the show yesterday. A Santa Clara District Attorney's Office issued
00:08an arrest warrant for Brandon Ayuk. He is sought on a misdemeanor charge for exhibition of speed.
00:19This stems from the December 2025 incident outside of the 49ers stadium, Levi's Stadium. This is that YouTube video that
00:32we've already seen and we've already talked about him posting himself speeding around the stadium, driving perhaps more than 100
00:44miles per hour on a road outside of the stadium.
00:50Now, why this many months later are charges being brought? Well, according to Santa Clara Police, authorities finally got around
01:00to analyzing the video and determined that A, Ayuk owned a vehicle similar to the one in the video and
01:09they investigated and found that it was indeed him on the YouTube video.
01:13I think we kind of all knew that anyway. He actually apologized about the video after the fact and it
01:21finally got sent to the District Attorney's Office and they investigated and many months later, here's the misdemeanor charge.
01:28I think that's a little bit odd. That's my reaction to that is it took that long. That video went
01:34viral, you know, on YouTube and the exact speed is actually a TB deer because the vehicle that he was
01:45driving, a Cadillac CT5V Blackwing, can either be set to miles per hour or kilometers per hour.
01:54It was a speedometer that showed 111, but it was unclear as to whether it was miles per hour or
02:02kilometers per hour.
02:04Kilometers per hour would equal 69 miles per hour, still well above the 40 mile per hour speed limit.
02:13But there is a belief that it was miles per hour, but there is a belief that it was miles
02:16per hour and that he was doing 111.
02:19He apologized about it. Yesterday, in the wake of this, he posted photos and a video on Instagram of himself
02:30at a racetrack in a black Mercedes-Benz traveling at high speeds racing around the track.
02:39If you're going to speed, that's the place to do it. At an actual racetrack.
02:45Look, I mean, we've been talking about Brandon Ayuk for a while, and this is just the latest in a
02:52long list of news items that would, you know, certainly not make him look good.
03:01You know, I have to say that I let me cut to the chase on this, because I think that
03:07this is the the question right now for all of you.
03:10And if you want to jump on the phone lines at 301-230-0980, you're more than welcome.
03:16Is the latest on Brandon Ayuk, this arrest warrant, is it a disqualifier in terms of wanting him on our
03:26team for you?
03:27Is it a disqualifier? Yes or no. And we do have our Waldorf Honda Twitter poll up, correct, Max?
03:35We sure do.
03:37We do. And what is the question?
03:39So the question today, does the latest behavior from Brandon Ayuk disqualify him in your eyes from joining the Commanders?
03:45Yes or no are the answers. What are the results so far?
03:49So far, I'm not sure what's going on with Twitter or the algorithm, but we still need votes on the
03:54polls.
03:54So go jump over to the Team 980 Twitter and make your voice heard.
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04:04So is the latest on Brandon Ayuk a disqualifier in terms of you want him on our team or not?
04:12Look, you may have already disqualified him for the judgments that he's already made.
04:18You know, the forfeiture of somewhere between $30 and $40 million, the number hasn't really been defined.
04:25Everybody out there, including our guy from SpotTrack, Mike Gianetti, says it's somewhere in that range of $30 to $40
04:32million that got voided.
04:34That was voided, guaranteed money.
04:36How does that happen?
04:37It happens when somebody's an idiot on the other side, and all they have to do is show up to
04:41the team's facility to get their knee looked at, and he couldn't even do that.
04:47Bad judgment. Bad judgment when he put out the social media video of Jaden in his first set of OTAs
04:55when Jaden was reaching out to a good friend to ask him for help,
04:59and he posted, you know, some of that practice video on social media.
05:06The, you know, constant sort of MIA status of Ayuk, the team can never get in touch with him.
05:12He doesn't return calls.
05:13He clearly does not like anybody there, and they don't clearly like him either.
05:18You know, the ability that he had even recently to just show up for an OTA day and sort of
05:24force their hand didn't do that either.
05:27Is the latest on Ayuk a disqualifier for you in terms of wanting him on the team, yes or no,
05:36301-230-0980?
05:39So let me cut to the chase for me.
05:42This standalone incident is not a disqualifier for me.
05:47I mean, the disqualifier for me comes with the same things that I've talked about for months now,
05:54and that is if Adam Peters and Dan Quinn in the front office and the people that have all of
05:58the information that we don't have,
06:00including physical health, knee recovery, you know, state of mind, you know, state of enthusiasm to play football,
06:10you know, trying to prove something, all of those things.
06:13And, by the way, getting him on a prove-it deal, nothing risk-heavy.
06:19I am not in favor of signing Brandon Ayuk to a real contract.
06:24Only a one-year prove-it deal makes sense to me for a guy with this recent track record.
06:32Because I think, you know, yesterday's warrant, first of all, what took them so long for this?
06:39But, secondly, like, this pales in comparison.
06:44I mean, just last week, we haven't even mentioned this, I don't think, because I was on vacation last week,
06:49but Josh Jacobs, the running back in Green Bay, domestic violence arrest,
06:54booked on charges of domestic abuse, strangulation, disorderly conduct.
06:59Nolan Smith recently in Philadelphia, reckless driving.
07:02You know, remember James Pierce?
07:04I mean, he may be going to jail.
07:06I mean, Jordan Addison was doing 125 or whatever, you know,
07:11and was accused of trespassing in addition to, you know, speeding issues.
07:16I mean, this is like nothing compared to the long list of NFL player arrests.
07:23I mean, nothing.
07:24It's a misdemeanor charge.
07:26We get felony charges against players all the time.
07:30So this, as a standalone, is not a disqualifier for me.
07:34I mean, I'm still where I have been with one, you know, update, and that is it's becoming more clear
07:42to me that the biggest issue with Ayuk,
07:46and I don't know anything about his physical health, so that may still be the biggest issue, is that he's
07:51not fully healthy.
07:52We don't know that to be true or not true.
07:55I'm assuming that if they ever signed him, he's physically fit, and that the knee recovered perfectly, and he's ready
08:01to go physically.
08:02But the thing that just constantly comes up is this guy has terrible judgment, limited, clearly.
08:11You know, he may be an idiot.
08:14Now, there are a lot of idiots in the NFL that are great players.
08:18Like, that cannot be a precondition or a prerequisite to being on the roster.
08:24Like, you're not that brilliant.
08:26Yeah, I don't think most of them are.
08:28Some are.
08:29Some are really, really smart.
08:31And others aren't.
08:32Some of the best players in the league are intelligent, highly intelligent.
08:35Some of them aren't intelligent at all.
08:38That's not a prerequisite for being on the roster.
08:41And right now, that's the one thing from afar that you can say definitively about Brandon Iyuk, is that he's
08:51got bad, limited judgment that would speak to some level of, you know, intellectual defect.
09:01Does that impact the locker room?
09:03Does that impact his ability on the field?
09:06That's for Adam Peters and others to determine.
09:09But yesterday's event, for me, as a standalone, is not a disqualifier.
09:15As an addition to the long list now of poor judgment, yeah, I'm concerned about that.
09:22I am.
09:23But, you know, he didn't go out and strangle somebody.
09:28He didn't go out and, you know, and there's nothing.
09:33That charge is a minimal charge.
09:36I mean, following it up with the Instagram of him at a racetrack, I don't know, maybe you could chalk
09:41that up to sense of humor.
09:42I won't.
09:42I'll chalk it up to more bad judgment.
09:45But this team still needs really good players.
09:49And I've never advocated and I won't advocate for anything other than an absolute no to low risk offering to
10:02Iyuk.
10:02That makes the reward sweet.
10:05But if you don't get to that, then you're okay.
10:08What can he really do?
10:10Well, if they think he can do damage by just being in the locker room or being in our community,
10:16well, then don't sign him.
10:17But they have much more information on that than I do.
10:22So that, to me, is not a standalone disqualifier.
10:25That, as an addition, isn't necessarily a disqualifier.
10:29I am obviously not a big fan of the fact that I think this guy is a moron from afar.
10:35He certainly doesn't appear to be super bright.
10:39And, you know, but again, that's not a prerequisite for being a star in the NFL.
10:44So I still want them to add more talent, more playmaking ability to their offense.
10:52And I'll stick with what I've said all along.
10:56If you tell me I'm getting the Brandon Iyuk health-wise of 2023, and there is a reasonable explanation as
11:07to what happened in San Francisco.
11:09And I don't think, as Adam Peters, Lance Newmark, etc., that I'm getting a bad person.
11:17Then I'm still in.
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