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00:00But if the guy can flat-out play, the only thing he's done, potentially criminally,
00:04drab, correct me, it's an arrest warrant, he hasn't been arrested, was driving fast.
00:10Okay, that was odd.
00:11But again, everything is toward San Francisco.
00:15It's not crazy.
00:19I'll say this.
00:20If you don't want to say weird, odd.
00:22He's an odd guy.
00:23But you think his behavior is obviously he's just going to be on the straight and narrow
00:27just because he's out of San Francisco?
00:28I don't know.
00:29He has the same weirdness and class when he's here.
00:31Yeah, but he can be odd and still ball out for my team.
00:34I don't really care.
00:35I'm just pointing out that he's an odd guy.
00:39I mean, I'm sure there are other guys that are on the team that are odd.
00:42True, but he might be beyond odd.
00:44He might be difficult.
00:45Yeah, he strikes me as difficult as possible.
00:48Odd is different.
00:50But is it worth it?
00:51Dennis Rodman was disruptive and difficult.
00:54I mean, you're talking about he's the best rebounder in the game.
00:57He was a different level.
00:58He would leave the team during playoff runs and Phil Jackson was like, yeah, go ahead.
01:04Get it out of your system.
01:05Go to Vegas.
01:06Sometimes, depending on the sport, coaches or teams or teammates that can handle that.
01:11Yeah.
01:11But is it worth the risk for this guy?
01:15He doesn't strike me as a Dan Quinn brotherhood.
01:20Okay, different story.
01:21He's not that level.
01:22He's not.
01:22He doesn't strike me as a Dan Quinn brotherhood camaraderie guy.
01:26But would you give him the opportunity case?
01:27If he showed up and you say, we need to work you out before and you have an interview with
01:34him and he basically says, look, all the stuff I've been doing, I get it.
01:38It's a little bit different.
01:41But if you sign me, I'm going to flat out ball for you.
01:44I mean, you're just going to believe him.
01:47You're going to believe all of a sudden he's going to be.
01:49That's basically what he's saying in his Instagram post.
01:52If he was the only option, then maybe I would consider it.
01:56They have other options if they want to upgrade the wide out room.
02:00They don't have to acquire Brandon Ayuk to get better in that area.
02:04I'll say this.
02:05He wouldn't be my first choice.
02:07But if they sign him and he played well, I will look past the oddness.
02:11Of course.
02:12But he's definitely an odd slash weirdo to me.
02:15John Riggins was odd.
02:16John Riggins is an odd guy.
02:18You loved him.
02:19Revered him.
02:20Yeah.
02:21And I still care about John.
02:24But when it's awkward, you're around him.
02:26He's an awkward guy to this day.
02:30Yeah, but I don't know if guys like Riggins cause friction.
02:33Ayuk causes friction.
02:35That's what it comes across as.
02:36John Riggins sat out a whole year, though.
02:38I'm just saying you could build a narrative.
02:39You could make a John Riggins comparison.
02:42I don't know.
02:43I don't think I could.
02:43But this is a totally different era.
02:45All right.
02:45Let's go to Don Ashburn.
02:48800-636-1067.
02:51What is your perception?
02:53Do you have a different vibe off of what he's putting out there?
02:56Would you sign him?
02:57What you're feeling?
02:58All that.
02:59Don.
03:00Well, first of all, one of the things y'all said in the last segment, let's not forget
03:04that we have probably one of the worst fan bases, the dumbest fan bases on the planet.
03:10But as far as Ayuk goes, too immature.
03:13And he just keeps displaying it over and over and over.
03:16And when you have a young wide receiver ring and you've got a good young quarterback, I
03:21just think it's too disruptive to bring a guy like that that just is off the charts, different
03:26from everybody else in that room, especially the leaders.
03:28What if he produces, though?
03:29What if they work him out and he's still got the quickness?
03:32He's still, you know, he could still obviously play at a pretty high level.
03:37Well, then I think you, and that's a fair point, but I think you still have to look at,
03:41you know, you've got to judge us on what the expectations are going to be for his capabilities
03:45now with the age, the injury, and coming back and not having played for as long as he
03:49did.
03:50And then you factor in this immaturity, and it just knocks him down even more.
03:54I mean, yeah, if he can get him for a super cheap price, maybe, but I just don't think
03:58it's the right move.
03:59Would you rather have Devo at this point?
04:02I'd rather have just about anybody.
04:04That's not going to be an off the field problem.
04:06Yeah.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Yeah.
04:07All right.
04:07Thank you, Don.
04:08Appreciate it.
04:09All right.
04:09800-636-1067.
04:12What's your take on Brandon Ayuk?
04:14We're getting to know Brandon a little bit more with each of these sort of posting
04:19things, each of these little soliloquies that he's doing.
04:23I'd like to know less about Brandon Ayuk.
04:25I feel like I know plenty about him at this point.
04:27I'd like to know less.
04:28Didn't I see a report that Dallas was in on him?
04:30Did you see that over the weekend?
04:31I did see that report.
04:32Was that AI?
04:33Who knows?
04:35Let's go to Chris in Brandywine.
04:38Chris, what's up?
04:39You're on with the jokes.
04:41Hey, gentlemen.
04:42I see it a totally different way than you guys.
04:44Okay.
04:45I still take them.
04:46I would prefer them.
04:47I think you've got to look at it like this.
04:48Imagine you guys work in radio, right?
04:51Yeah.
04:51And they basically took away your bonuses.
04:54Yeah.
04:54And said you couldn't go on the radio anywhere else.
04:58Yeah.
04:58And he's not like Terry, who's media savvy.
05:03Not everybody has that skill set.
05:06Right.
05:06So whatever he says is going to be wrong.
05:09Whatever he says is going to get painted the wrong way.
05:13He's been in a bad place.
05:14It's like Lavernius Coles and Dan Snyder back in the day, allegedly.
05:17Can I give you just one distinction?
05:21If our employer said, we don't want you on the air.
05:25We're taking away your voice.
05:27But if you show up to work, you do get paid.
05:31We would all be showing up here to collect our checks.
05:34We would all be here.
05:34Yeah.
05:34I'd be asleep.
05:36All Brandon and I, you can do was show up and he was going to get paid.
05:40I got a rebuttal for you for that.
05:42I think that that's the reason why they didn't have that camp this week upcoming.
05:47I saw that speculation.
05:48And he could fake an injury and they would have to pay him.
05:50They canceled OTAs because of IU.
05:52I think that was part of the deal that they didn't do that.
05:54I saw that.
05:55I was having a hard time understanding that.
05:56I find that hard to believe because at these OTAs, there's like 100 guys.
06:00Yeah, I mean, you're going to not have a practice because of one player?
06:07Well, just the circus atmosphere.
06:09It seems kind of far-fetched.
06:09When your entire roster can get there and get better?
06:12Chris, let me ask you this.
06:12I don't know about that.
06:13Are we misinterpreting what he's saying?
06:16When you hear him go on his little talk there, what are you gathering from that?
06:21So for me, what I heard was you take the ball and go home sort of thing.
06:27Yeah.
06:27You know, there might have been a disagreement about the care and the health of how things
06:31went down.
06:32Yeah.
06:33And they decided to take away his money.
06:37And then the little boy thing is directly at Kyle saying that he's misusing them.
06:43And somebody else wants to use him in the way that he thinks he wants to be used.
06:48And he's like, no, that's my toy.
06:51He's like basically putting it on Kyle that he's stopping him from being able to go somewhere.
06:56Right.
06:56And honestly, I think the 49ers are like anywhere but this team.
06:59They don't want him to go to the place he wants to go to.
07:03That's probably true.
07:05Yeah, that's probably 100% correct.
07:06Yeah.
07:06But Chris, let me ask you this before you go.
07:10Do you really want Brandon Ayuk?
07:14Yeah, why not?
07:15I mean, I think that there's a lot of, we've only heard a few things from him most recently.
07:24But before that, we haven't heard anything.
07:27So, it's been spin.
07:30But don't you wish, don't you wish he was posting videos of him working out instead of these awkward videos
07:37just killing the Niners?
07:38I think from his perspective, that puts him in a place where he can get traded for somewhere else.
07:43And he wants to control where he goes.
07:44I just worry how good he's going to be.
07:47I've said this a bunch of times.
07:49Thanks, Chris.
07:49The last time he caught a touchdown pass was in the 2023 season.
07:55Now, he played in 2024, seven games, 25 catches, got hurt.
07:59But he hasn't been productive in so long.
08:02We haven't seen him on the football field.
08:04If it was a guy who was, everybody thought, was on a scale of 1 to 100, a 100 in
08:11the character scale, like a perfect guy.
08:14But he hadn't played for two years, he'd be a little reticent.
08:17He'd be like, he's going to be rusty.
08:21He may have lost some speed.
08:23He's had no game reps.
08:25Eric Bickle, deep down in your heart, if you had to go to the betting window, do you think the
08:30commanders will sign Brandon Ayuk?
08:34You used to be on the 100%.
08:36Yes or no?
08:37Yes, I used to be 100%.
08:39If I had to bet now, I'd say no.
08:42Right.
08:42If I had to bet now, I'd say no.
08:45It just seems like a lot.
08:47I mean, if Adam Peters has a quarter of a brain, he's going to stay a million miles away from
08:53this guy.
08:53This guy is toxicity personified.
08:59They're going out and bringing in all these, they're bringing in the Bobby Wagners of the world because of the
09:03culture that they provide.
09:04Very positive culture.
09:06So I would be very shocked if they went out and signed the antithesis of that.
09:12I just don't see it.
09:13This is from Twitter.
09:15You can tweet us at Junk's Radio.
09:16Mike Hall tweets us.
09:17Nobody heard anything about Ayuk other than he's a good football player before the contract situation in San Francisco.
09:23Then he started acting out.
09:26Who's to say once he's on a team he wants to play for and happy, he'll be back to the
09:31quiet guy he was before in San Francisco?
09:34It's possible.
09:35I don't know.
09:35Maybe.
09:36Let's go to Jerry in Upper Marlboro.
09:39Jerry, what's up, man?
09:40You're all with the junks.
09:42Actually, it's Gary.
09:43I'm sorry.
09:44Hey, Gary.
09:45No, no worries.
09:46No worries.
09:47Good morning.
09:47I don't want Brandon Ayuk.
09:48This is just another example of this guy just being who he is.
09:54That last caller saying, oh, he was quiet before the contract.
09:59The money doesn't change anything.
10:01This is who you are.
10:03And as I told your producer, I think the real reason why people are connecting him to Washington is because
10:10of Jake.
10:11That there's going to be some marriage, best bros getting together on a football team.
10:16Other than that, you stop it.
10:19There are better receivers out there.
10:21Why aren't we going after Diggs?
10:23Diggs proved last year that he can help the team get to the Super Bowl.
10:27The only reason why this value thing is continuing is because of his connection with Jaden.
10:31And I think that is a very dangerous thing because Jaden's coming up on a contract negotiation.
10:36You don't want this guy in his ear.
10:39Okay?
10:39You know, Jaden's going to be hanging out with this guy.
10:41He's not going to be hanging out with Terry McClellan or Bobby Wagner if he's back on the team.
10:45He's going to be hanging out with this guy.
10:47And I don't want that kind of influence on Jaden.
10:51Jaden doesn't really hang out.
10:52I'll say this.
10:53That's one of the good things you hear about Jaden is he's not a hangout type of guy.
10:57He's a get to the park early, get to the facilities early, and work on my game.
11:02True, which is great to hear.
11:04Then he goes home and plays video games.
11:05Yeah.
11:06I think that that's true.
11:08But he could, you know, maybe his boy could maybe steer him in the wrong direction.
11:15I don't know.
11:16It's possible.
11:17Hey, let's just go out to this club tonight.
11:19I know you never go out.
11:20Let's just go out one night.
11:21Just go out one night.
11:22It's always that rich.
11:23Also, it's not even that.
11:24Do you really want Jaden spending a handful of his time babysitting him?
11:29No, that's absolutely what you don't want.
11:31That's the last thing you want.
11:32Oh, you're his boy.
11:33You're kind of in charge of him.
11:36You can be his caretaker while he's here.
11:39No.
11:40Like what Tom Brady did with Antonio Brown.
11:42It worked because Tom's experience.
11:44It didn't really end up working.
11:46Here's what we don't know.
11:48We don't know the real opinion of the people in the know of their own receiver.
11:55Right?
11:56If they are truly over the moon on Antonio Williams.
12:01I think they are.
12:02Then maybe they feel like we don't need to get another receiver.
12:06But I know you're going to laugh at me.
12:08I think they are excited about what Burks, that dimension he could give them.
12:12It's possible.
12:13And they feel like that's decent.
12:15But if David Blau, you know, behind the scenes, not in front of the media,
12:20goes to Dan Quinn says, look, we got a one.
12:23Terry's a one.
12:24If Antonio Williams, he's really a slot guy.
12:29He could be a dominant slot guy.
12:32He's just a deep ball guy.
12:34Trelon Burks, look, he's not what it is.
12:37We need to get somebody.
12:38Yeah.
12:39Then maybe they do go for Ayuk.
12:43And maybe they're even going to roll the dice and see what they got in the season.
12:49You know what I mean?
12:49You waited a couple games.
12:50I think there's a good chance they might go with this group.
12:53Right.
12:53I think there's a good chance they might go with this group.
12:55Yeah, I do too.
12:55Because they haven't gone after any of the other guys.
12:58And maybe some of those guys are still going to be available come the season.
13:02Because I know Jason keeps saying, are these guys not signed?
13:05I mean, the market for them seems remarkably soft.
13:07Maybe nobody's going to sign them until like week five or six when injuries start happening
13:11or they realize they're desperate.
13:13Guys will get hurt in camp.
13:14Yeah, that's probably when you'll see most of them signed.
13:16During camp.
13:18But can you imagine the backlash if Dan Quinn and Peters did bring in Ayuk?
13:23I mean, there are fans like Chris that love him and want him.
13:26But the majority of the fans, they'd be pissed if they brought in Ayuk.
13:32I think that...
13:33Until he started playing on...
13:35I mean...
13:35I think fans would be...
13:36Until he started playing.
13:37Like fans might say, what is your poll?
13:39Is it like 90% no?
13:41I'll check.
13:42You can vote out Junk's Radio.
13:43But it was right around 90% last I checked.
13:45I do think that if they did sign him, though, fans would be excited at the possibility.
13:49You just look past the stuff and it is a homer and you just...
13:53You think of...
13:54You dream.
13:55It's 76% no.
13:57So it's coming around to Brandon Ayuk's side now.
14:00Well, it's closer.
14:0024% say yes.
14:02I just think it would be too much to deal with from a media standpoint, from a fan standpoint.
14:06I don't know why you'd want to deal with it.
14:07First time he catches a touchdown pass, all is forgiven.
14:09Why would Dan Quinn want that circus?
14:11In a pivotal year for him.
14:12I don't think he would.
14:13Like, he needs to win 9, 10, 11 games to kind of get back on track here in D.C.
14:18Yeah.
14:19He doesn't want to deal with the headache of Brandon Ayuk.
14:22Yeah.
14:22Hey, Mar, you're a young Commanders fan.
14:26Does any of this stuff faze you or are you like, sign him?
14:30No.
14:30I don't want him.
14:31Oh, really?
14:32Yeah, I want Stephon Diggs.
14:34Over Brandon Ayuk.
14:35If you had to get one of the two, definitely Diggs over Ayuk.
14:37What about Debo?
14:40I think Diggs over Debo.
14:42That one's a little bit closer, but just the drama, all the baggage, and I kind of
14:45don't like that he's buddy-buddies with Jaden.
14:47He needs to be locked in, doesn't need, you know.
14:49The distraction of babysitting.
14:51Exactly.
14:52There is an element where you feel like he could be babysitting this kid.
14:56He might be buddy-buddy, but I don't see any, like, photos of these guys together.
15:01Well, there was in the past.
15:02In the past?
15:03There was quite a bit.
15:04How far in the past?
15:05Within the last two years.
15:09I mean, there was.
15:10Yeah, probably.
15:10They were FaceTiming, they were shopping together.
15:13He did call him his brother during the OTA Crest.
15:15Yeah, I mean, I don't doubt that they're close.
15:17Yeah.
15:18You know, but again, that doesn't mean you necessarily want to, you know, work with the
15:23guy.
15:24Yeah.
15:25Like, I have friends, but I don't want to work with my friends.
15:27Right.
15:27I got friends that are my boys.
15:29I don't necessarily want to play golf with them.
15:31You might see them every once in a while.
15:32Yeah, just be my boy when we go have a beer.
15:35You can only play golf with Matt Bickle so many times.
15:39Hey, he's got a near hole-in-one.
15:42An almost hole-in-one.
15:44Yeah.
15:45All right, got to take a break.
15:46When we come back, why do more than half of men out there feel like they're failing at
15:51manhood?
15:52What?
15:52We'll tackle that next here on The Junkies.
15:54We'll tackle that next here on The Junkies.
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