00:00Grant and Danny on the fan. Welcome back. Thank you for making the show part of your Monday.
00:07So after a respite where we had not heard anything from Brandon Ayuk for an extended period of time,
00:13he took to social media to make his presence felt this week a couple different ways.
00:18The first thing we saw from Brandon Ayuk was some pictures that he had posted,
00:23including one picture where his pants were like almost down to his thighs,
00:28and he was in his boxers, like in the bathroom.
00:31I think that one was just to show everyone that he's in good shape because he was pretty ripped up.
00:36He looked like he had been in the gym quite a bit.
00:39I was sending a message there, I suppose, right?
00:41Yeah, because remember, a lot of people were suggesting with these images that were fake
00:46of him getting out of a car or whatever.
00:48He's wearing a hoodie like, oh, man, he's let himself go.
00:50He looks heavy.
00:51They're talking about his physique, and he's not working out or whatever.
00:54So he was shirtless, but he was in a Washington Commander's hat as if he needed another subliminal message in
01:03there.
01:03And then his pants were like halfway down his legs.
01:06So he's basically in his underwear.
01:08It's like an underwear model.
01:09In a Commander's hat.
01:10It's just a selfie in his bathroom.
01:13Mirror selfie.
01:14And he posted it with no caption.
01:19I took that to mean I'm in great shape, and I want to play for the Commanders.
01:23That was my viewing of that as well.
01:25There was another I want to play for the Commanders thing he did where he had what appeared to be
01:30a Commanders-issued football.
01:33I don't know if it was a, you know, you get this for a game ball performance or if this
01:39is a practice football.
01:41I took that as a message as if to say I've been throwing and working out with them.
01:46Like I've run some routes with Jaden.
01:48How do I have this football if I'm not moving things along?
01:53Maybe he was in California when they were throwing and we just didn't see him on video.
01:57But I don't know.
01:58Maybe I'm trying to find things where they're not, too.
02:00Where I'm a detective trying to sleuth around here, and it was just a football with a Commander's logo or
02:06whatever.
02:06But I took it to mean I'm actually ready to play with these guys because I caught some passes from
02:13one of the players that maybe I know pretty well who plays quarterback.
02:16Yes, indeed.
02:17I was thinking something like that.
02:18Yeah, there's a bridge that's been built there.
02:22I don't have any other interpretation.
02:24It seemed to me to be like the, I don't have a great analogy, but it's like letting someone know,
02:30hey, I'm no longer in that relationship.
02:31I'm single.
02:33Here are some Instagrams when I know you're online.
02:35Like I see your profile and it says Grant's online, and now I'm just posting picture after picture after picture
02:39wearing the Grant's My Favorite t-shirt.
02:41You know, like I'm trying to let you know that I'm single.
02:44Commander's gear.
02:44Yeah.
02:45You are under contract with the San Francisco 49ers, albeit you hate them and they don't like you, and you're
02:51not going to be there.
02:52But you're going to be a free agent, and that means there's 31 teams that can vie for your services.
02:56But I only like one of them.
02:57But one of them is the place I want to be, and it's right here in Washington, D.C. with
03:01the Commanders.
03:02But he wasn't saying anything.
03:04Some weird captions or whatever, but a couple of images.
03:06And then that changed on Sunday morning when we got our first comments from Brandon Ayuk during this dispute with
03:14the San Francisco 49ers.
03:16This was Ayuk on his Instagram page just yesterday morning.
03:21We dealing with, you know, like them kids, and they don't get picked for the basketball game at the court.
03:30But they're the ones that brought the ball.
03:33So they're like, all right, you don't want to pick me?
03:36I'm taking my ball.
03:37I'm going home.
03:39Ass boys.
03:40Little ass boys.
03:43Or like when your kid, he got this one toy, but he don't really know how to use it correctly.
03:52So somebody else about to pick it up and play with it.
03:55And they're like, oh, yeah, this lady.
03:57And they're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
03:59That's my toy.
04:01Ass boy.
04:02Little ass boy.
04:03Man, stop running from the belt.
04:06The belt coming.
04:08You scared.
04:09They scared.
04:10The truth is they scared.
04:12They know how I get.
04:13They're going to say, oh, yeah, B.A.
04:16B.A.
04:16B.A. did this.
04:17B.A. did that.
04:19B.A. did.
04:20You know that allegedly.
04:23Allegedly.
04:26But what they're not going to say is B.A. suck at football because they know how I get.
04:33And they running from that belt that's on the way.
04:36It's inevitable.
04:36It's coming.
04:38Stop running.
04:39Stop being a female dog.
04:41Stop being a female dog.
04:43Stop being a little cat.
04:45Stop being a little cat.
04:48Stop running from the belt.
04:52Oh, boy.
04:54All right.
04:55So there you go.
04:57There's Brandon Ayuk, the ancient philosopher, with some of his thoughts on everything going on.
05:04So I want to say this first, and I'm going to try to be careful here.
05:11I hate when we just automatically assume something is wrong with somebody.
05:18Do you know what I'm saying?
05:19Sure.
05:20People will say, oh, you know, he needs help, or there's some kind of mental health thing going on here,
05:26or this seems like CTE, you know, whatever that is.
05:31People will just say, when Antonio Brown is acting out and acting a fool and getting arrested and just acting
05:36like he's not a functioning member of society, everyone wants to just suggest, well, he's clearly got CTE and he
05:42needs help.
05:43And let's hope he gets help, and we'll say a prayer for him or whatever.
05:46Maybe.
05:46Maybe.
05:48But there are people who just act out.
05:51There are people that might be perfectly fine and are just acting differently.
05:55Now, I'm not suggesting Brandon Ayuk, who's only ever really, that I know of, been in trouble with the law
06:00recently for a speeding ticket, is the same as Antonio Brown.
06:04But I've seen a lot of people prescribing him with issues of, you know, CTE or whatever else is floating
06:12around there that are not doctors, that have no idea what's what.
06:15I've also seen a lot of people saying, like, his mental health is a question mark and all these things.
06:20I'm not going to subscribe or prescribe anybody on him, anything on anybody, because I'm not a doctor and I
06:26have no idea.
06:27All I can do is just judge people based on their actions, and I can say if he's in a
06:32bad place mentally.
06:33I hope that he does get to a happier place, a better place.
06:37This video, to me, was alarmingly weird, I thought.
06:40It was very strange.
06:41This is not how a grown-up posts videos.
06:47Like, if Jaden Daniels or Terry McLaurin or Bill or any player on our team did this, you would go,
06:55what in the heck is going on?
06:56That is super weird.
06:58It's kind of on brand with what I would have expected from Brandon Ayuk, to be honest, when he's posting
07:03shirtless boxers selfies in his bathroom.
07:06But at the same time, Danny, this is just my caveat to the conversation we'll have, my prerequisite, so to
07:11speak, before we dive in on this.
07:14This is strange behavior.
07:16So whether you want him here or you don't, let's just acknowledge this is a strange way for an adult
07:20to act, and then we can move forward.
07:22I think it's all fair.
07:23Let me stipulate to that.
07:25Now, I also had a strong takeaway.
07:28I understand who I am.
07:30I am a corny 46-year-old white.
07:33So in general, a young person speaking, I kind of don't understand all of it anyway.
07:38I have no idea what he was talking about.
07:41I don't know who's taking the ball and leaving.
07:44I don't know who the little-ass boy is that he mentioned multiple times.
07:47Who is the bitch?
07:48Who's the cat?
07:49Why are we slow-moing anything for some sort of weird effect?
07:53The slow-mo is important because that told me it was edited probably by somebody that wasn't him, but maybe
08:00him.
08:01But somebody somewhere along the lines had to listen to this thing while doing this editing for him for emphasis
08:06and said, yeah, this is a good idea.
08:08Now, let's run this.
08:09It wasn't like you were caught in a weird moment where you're just in your feels, you take to Instagram
08:15live, you record yourself for 30 seconds.
08:18No, no, no, no.
08:19This was like maybe you tried the first time.
08:22You're like, let me do one more take.
08:23Then you do this one.
08:24Then you send it to someone.
08:25They do the edit.
08:27Then you're like, this is perfect.
08:28Let's post it, which makes it that much more strange.
08:30So, again, I don't know who has the belt or what belt we're getting or someone's coming with the belt.
08:35I don't understand any of it.
08:36Again, it's not meant for me.
08:37Like, I understand 85% of it, I think.
08:41That's awesome.
08:42You got the analogy of the toy.
08:43I don't.
08:44I don't.
08:44No, let me just finish real quick, and then I'll tag you back in.
08:48What I can't do is the...
08:51Ranvin Aiyuk shared his thoughts over the weekend in a reasonable post, and people are going, he's expressing frustration.
08:56Are you sure?
08:58You see what I'm saying?
08:59Like, if a player goes, listen, guys, just wanted to get my word out there, just to let you guys
09:03know.
09:04It's not always what it seems.
09:05A lot of stuff I can't talk about just yet.
09:07But just know that the truth will come out, and I can't wait to play football again.
09:11Even if you said it in, like, a young person way, that would be reasonable.
09:15This is not like a press conference.
09:18Even, I was annoyed when Terry McLaurin at Eastern Motors, for your jobs, your credit, gave that impromptu presser.
09:24But at least he was speaking.
09:25See what I'm saying?
09:26Like, he was addressing points, and there was no analogy of little boys and taking your ball and going somewhere
09:31else and the belt coming.
09:33It was a, hey, these are my feelings.
09:35This is how I'm expressing it.
09:36Whether I like that or not, at least I could have something to respond to.
09:38I cannot believe people are just going, allow me to retort to this, or let me just treat this like
09:45a legitimate missive or a press release or something that was a normal thing to be able to discuss.
09:50It's blathering nonsense is what it is to me.
09:53Now, if you understood it, you speak Ayuk, that's great.
09:55You can translate for me.
09:56Yeah, I don't think there's a whole lot of speaking Ayuk necessary here.
10:00There's a couple things I don't get we could talk about.
10:02But for the most part, he used an analogy that I thought was fairly apt and made some sense,
10:06which was the Niners are a kid that doesn't want to play with the toy.
10:11The Commanders are another kid that wants the toy.
10:13Ayuk's the toy.
10:14In his mind, the Commanders want him.
10:17The Niners won't let the Commanders have them.
10:19And so now when the Commanders are trying to play with Ayuk, the Niners are not letting them, and now
10:24they want the toy.
10:25That's the analogy.
10:26The running from the belt thing, he is pretending like or saying that the 49ers don't want him to be
10:32on another team
10:33because they are afraid of how good he's going to be and that he's going to whoop them.
10:36Don't run from the belt.
10:37Like, I'm coming for you.
10:38I'm going to put up 175 on you.
10:40You know it and I know it.
10:42So I get all that.
10:43I don't understand when he kept saying ass boy, little ass boy.
10:46I don't know what that's about.
10:47That's the 49ers again in the analogy.
10:50But it loses me when you're just, instead of saying, sticking with the analogy, he's like little ass boying them.
10:58I don't know why.
10:59And then he kept saying allegedly over and over.
11:01That was his way of saying what they're telling you he's not buying or isn't necessarily the truth.
11:06I suppose.
11:07So I picked up on what he was suggesting in most of this.
11:11But I can't listen to it without kind of laughing out loud because it is just a strange thing.
11:17We can open up the phones for people on this next 800-636-1067.
11:22I want to know what you think Adam Peters thinks when he hears this, when he watches this video.
11:26And if you're Adam Peters and you're thinking about bringing BA into DC and you see this, does that change
11:32how you feel at all?
11:33Or is it just, you know, there's an eclectic guy who's in a weird place and it's been strange for
11:37a year.
11:38And so this is par for the course, but nothing to worry about.
11:40I mean, why do you want to sign yourself up for a Diva wide receiver who's potentially going to be
11:47posting weird, vague thing on social media after one after another?
11:52Grant and Dave.
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