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Another day, another The Junkies debate about Washington adding Brandon Aiyuk. When will the saga end?
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00:00Speaking of the Commanders, it seems like Brandon Ayuk wants to join the Commanders,
00:05but the San Francisco 49ers are not letting him out of his contract.
00:10Here is the latest from one Brandon Ayuk.
00:14And another thing, you want to know why they're really mad, though?
00:19They mad because they're stupid.
00:21They're dumb.
00:25They mad that they paid me $50 million in eight months.
00:30And they have voided my guarantees for 2027.
00:34And I'm about to be on a new team in 2027.
00:38They mad at they sales for real.
00:40Niggas acting like they mad at me, but they stupid ass mad at they sales.
00:45If I were the Niners, I'd be mad at myself, too, for paying him $50 million over eight months.
00:51I'd be like, what a waste of our resources and capital.
00:56I know he'll be on another team, but if you were a GM or a coach of another team and
01:01you heard all these videos,
01:03the way he's talking about the situation, would you want him in your locker room?
01:07You just want production.
01:09I mean, all these guys, they're not all choir boys.
01:12They're not all the same.
01:13I know.
01:13I know.
01:14They're characters, a lot of them.
01:16I thought the same thing, Jason.
01:18I tweeted this yesterday.
01:19So I'm out in Virginia driving my daughter all over for volleyball.
01:24Fairfax County, Loudoun County.
01:25I'm all over.
01:26And I'm just sitting in the parking lot when the video comes out.
01:28And I look at it and I go, how does this help the guy?
01:30It doesn't.
01:31And then I think, you know what?
01:33I think he's obviously making a coordinated effort here in his own brain.
01:38And I'm thinking this is a post-June 1 thing.
01:40And he's just going to harass.
01:43Because you know the Niners don't want to answer these questions.
01:45Correct.
01:45Every time he does this, it's just more of a pain in the ass.
01:48And as long as the 49er media is willing to ask the questions,
01:57eventually they're going to be like, let's just be done with this.
02:00Let's be done with this.
02:01We want to be out of answering questions about Brandon Ayoub.
02:04Even if they say no comment.
02:06Yeah.
02:06I think they're insulated against it.
02:09They just know that this is a long, drawn-out, protracted.
02:13They're going to be willing to endure this and be asked about it.
02:16Because I'm thinking, maybe this is his way of trying.
02:18Maybe it won't work.
02:19But he's trying to force his release.
02:21I'm just going to be such a thorn.
02:23He's agitating.
02:24And the Niners, they're dug in.
02:26And they're just resigned to it.
02:28I'm sure if people ask them, they'll just say, you know, he's on our roster.
02:32We're expecting him to report.
02:33We can just say no comment.
02:34We're not going to comment about it.
02:35And then they just move on.
02:36Like, they're completely dug in on this.
02:39I don't think that they're just going to wake up one day and see the fifth video that he's put
02:43out calling them stupid.
02:45And then just say, okay, we're going to cut you because we don't want to deal with the PR backlash.
02:51I think they're just above that and they don't care about it.
02:54Well, I don't know that they are above it because the only reason why they're keeping him, they don't want
02:57him anymore.
02:58They're out.
02:59They don't want him.
03:00He don't want them.
03:01Both sides don't want each other.
03:02The only reason why they're keeping him is because they want to spoil it for him.
03:07At some point, doesn't that just kind of get out of it?
03:09So he can't join another team and start working out with him.
03:11Yeah, they worked up to have some great situation.
03:12I get it.
03:13They're a little spiteful.
03:14And I would be spiteful, too, if I gave him $50 million and it went bad.
03:17Wouldn't that?
03:18I mean, I think it's helpful to you as the team.
03:22And he's being like this?
03:24No, no, no, no, no, no.
03:26It's a competitive advantage.
03:29Maybe.
03:29Especially an NFC team that I'm playing during the season.
03:33Yeah, we talked about that yesterday.
03:34Why would I give you the toy so you can shine it up and get it ready for the season
03:38when
03:39I can get it to you?
03:40Yeah, wait until the last possible day.
03:41At some point, the juice doesn't become worth the squeeze.
03:43I think what you're saying is true.
03:46I think to them, he's just a minor distraction.
03:49Only minor.
03:50They know that they'll deal with it at some point.
03:53But they're not going to make his life easier at all.
03:57They want him to kind of twist in the wind until the last minute.
04:00But at some point, him being out of their hair makes their life easier.
04:05And I think.
04:07Just because of just getting badgered about it.
04:09Just badgered about it.
04:10Just they don't want to be in the business of this.
04:11Just say we don't have a comment.
04:13Yeah.
04:14I mean, yeah.
04:14If I were Kyle and John Lynch, I would just say we don't have a comment.
04:17We're not going to answer any more questions about Brandon Ayuk.
04:20From this point forward, if you ask us about it.
04:22Do you think the media will be complicit in every time he puts out a new video,
04:25they won't ask?
04:26Well, if you say.
04:27I mean, if you draw a line to the sand and say,
04:29we will no longer talk about Brandon Ayuk.
04:31If you ask us questions, I would guess that would get the point across.
04:36So you think the media then would have a responsibility to not ask anymore?
04:40I mean, they can ask, but they're just going to be met with a no comment.
04:42They're not going to get anything out of it.
04:44What's the last possible date to release them before they actually have to pay them?
04:48I think it's August 30th or August 34th.
04:50So it's late August.
04:51So basically the start of the season.
04:52Right.
04:53So why wouldn't they just wait?
04:55I think that's the plan.
04:56Yeah.
04:56But I think his plan is let's just talk trash and let's just make a scene.
05:02But wouldn't that look bad for Brandon?
05:03If San Francisco is kind of being silent about it and then just not saying anything and then
05:11Brandon every day until August 30th is putting out a new video trashing the team, does that
05:17make people want to side with Brandon?
05:19No, that's what I was saying.
05:20It doesn't make him attractive to another team the way he's acting.
05:23That's my initial thought.
05:26I mean, Matt, I would say he should just be putting out videos of himself working out,
05:29looking great.
05:30I agree with that, too.
05:31But that also and say and say on a video in the IG post, man, I feel great.
05:36You know, everything's not working out with the 49ers.
05:38But whoever signs me, I'm ready to go.
05:40Right.
05:40But that's not going to help agitate his release.
05:43Well, eventually he knows they're going to release him.
05:45Yeah.
05:46So the Niners, they can release Ayuk anytime between June 1 and the end of 2026.
05:52If they really wanted to stick it to Brandon Ayuk, they could just say, well, we hold on
05:58to your rights and we're not going to.
06:00Well, how does that work?
06:00How does that work with payment?
06:02With salary cap ramifications.
06:04That I don't know.
06:05Even more roster spot.
06:07Yeah.
06:08So, like, are you going to waste a roster spot?
06:11Well, they could put him involuntarily, didn't report or something.
06:14But I think that this I think the salary would hurt them.
06:17Yeah.
06:17I don't know.
06:18I don't know how that works.
06:19We'd have to talk to somebody out there.
06:20And if they really wanted to make his life miserable, I don't know if they'd have to
06:24pay him.
06:25They could just say, we're not doing anything with you.
06:27We're just keeping you on the roster.
06:28I was going to click on it, but I was scrolling through so many different things.
06:31I was watching a podcast and everything.
06:33I didn't click on it.
06:35I was about to.
06:36And then I couldn't find it.
06:37Was Grant and Danny interviewed a guy who said he was on Ayuk's side.
06:43I think his name is maybe Grant Cohn.
06:45Is that the name?
06:45We played the audio yesterday.
06:47That's the guy we played yesterday?
06:48Yeah.
06:49Okay.
06:49Mm-hmm.
06:50I don't remember what he said, though.
06:51Why he was on his side.
06:53I can't remember why he said.
06:54Do you remember?
06:55I remember a guy a couple weeks ago or a couple days ago saying that he thought there
07:03was some miscommunication, you know, and then it just kind of went sour.
07:08And then he was kind of, he could understand why Ayuk was bitter.
07:13I don't remember what Cohn was saying.
07:16I'm sorry.
07:16I don't remember it.
07:17Maybe you can find it.
07:19I know.
07:19I know.
07:20He can do it sooner.
07:20I mean, he's been quiet for a very long time.
07:23And it seems like the Niners have been, like, shaping the narrative ever since they may
07:28have leaked or since the report came out that they voided his guarantees and he left the
07:32team.
07:32I think everyone's been sort of waiting for his side of the story.
07:36And we're starting to get it.
07:38I mean, a lot of people have been speculating, like, is he like Antonio Brown?
07:41Does he have CTE?
07:43I think the answer is clearly no.
07:45He just seems like a guy who deeply, deeply and sincerely hates his employer, which is kind
07:50of relatable.
07:51I mean, I think at some point in everyone's life, they've worked somewhere they didn't
07:55or they absolutely hated the boss with the passion of the entire company.
07:59And this guy just has, like, 60, 70 million dollars and can say so.
08:05And he can dictate where he wants to go next.
08:07He might have to sit out a couple of years.
08:09But it kind of feels like Carson Palmer 20 years later.
08:13And no one called Carson Palmer a crazy person because he didn't want to play for the Bengals
08:17anymore.
08:17I think people understood.
08:19But with the Niners, they have a different perception, a different reputation.
08:23Although there are, he's not the first player who's left this team extremely disgruntled.
08:28So I'm kind of on his side.
08:31I think they clearly need to break up.
08:33And it's weird that the Niners just won't let the breakup happen.
08:38Yeah, now that you played that, I remember us playing it yesterday.
08:42Well, there you go.
08:45He's probably going to.
08:45Is somebody team Ayuk?
08:47I mean, he's probably not the only one.
08:49Unless there's a team that's insane enough to trade for him and what's left on his contract,
08:54I don't see him being released by the 49ers anytime before the end of training camp.
08:59Probably not.
08:59Why would they be in a rush to get rid of him?
09:01Yesterday was the first time, though.
09:03Just be done with the era.
09:03Just be done with the era.
09:05Yesterday was the first time that I thought, you know what?
09:08He's probably going to end up here.
09:10I had never really bought into it.
09:12I thought a lot of it has been overblown.
09:14But for some reason, yesterday, the incessant videos and him talking about actually saying
09:22going to a new team, I kind of...
09:25Why did you not believe it before?
09:29I just thought it was a lot of noise.
09:31And maybe it still is a lot of noise.
09:33We've never really heard from Peters.
09:36It's a lot of presumption, right?
09:37I don't think they can talk about him.
09:39Yeah.
09:39All along, it's just people assuming and guessing.
09:45When all of the reporters, though, say, yeah, they expect him whenever he's released
09:50to probably be signed here, our reporters don't just guess.
09:56Has Kime said that before?
09:57Yes.
09:58So he says he does expect...
09:59And we can ask him again.
10:00He has said...
10:00I mean, I've listened to a million of his podcasts.
10:02So he expects him to be...
10:04He has in the past.
10:05Whenever it gets resolved, unless somebody...
10:08He's always...
10:08This is the caveat.
10:09Unless somebody goes crazy and gives them pics or something.
10:11Yeah.
10:11If he's a free agent or whatever and he's released, he has kind of assumed...
10:17Yeah.
10:17I think I'm saying this correctly.
10:19That the commanders would kick the tires on him.
10:22And Ian Rappaport basically said the same thing a day or two ago.
10:25We played that audio yesterday.
10:27That the commanders are going to sign him.
10:29Right.
10:29Yeah.
10:29So, I mean, they're not just saying that, like, guessing.
10:32They're not in the business of guessing.
10:33We guess.
10:34We just throw stuff out there.
10:35Yeah, of course.
10:36But that's not what the guys, the professionals that cover the team do.
10:39Plus, I get the sense that Adam Peters...
10:41Somebody's told him.
10:42Adam Peters loves bargains.
10:44Maybe more than Eric.
10:45And then he considers Ayuk a bargain for what he'd sign for,
10:50for the possibility of the type of player he could be.
10:54I kind of get that sense from Adam.
10:56Yeah, it feels like he's getting in cheap on him.
10:58Yes.
10:59Buying low.
11:00Yeah, well...
11:01It just doesn't make him...
11:03It's been a change.
11:04There's no doubt there's been a change.
11:06He'd been pretty darn quiet.
11:07A couple posts.
11:08Maybe, like, on a PJ with a dog or something.
11:12Maybe on the driveway flaunting some money.
11:15But he sees everybody at OTAs.
11:17But now...
11:17And he feels like he should be practicing.
11:18That was, like, daily ranting videos.
11:22There's definitely been a change.
11:24Will there be another video today?
11:25That would be...
11:26I would probably bet a quarter, yes.
11:28I bet 25 cents, yes.
11:30Maybe he's getting a good response on it.
11:32People are talking about it.
11:34We're talking about it for 20 minutes.
11:35I mean, do you think he really cares about views?
11:38Who knows?
11:38I don't know what he cares about.
11:40He's just...
11:41He's a weird dude.
11:42I do think he's a weird guy.
11:44It doesn't look good.
11:44It doesn't look good at all for him.
11:47So you think it's...
11:47He could make himself look so much better by doing what I said.
11:52I agree.
11:53I'd rather see workout videos in a little bit more of a serious tone.
11:57But that's just...
11:58That's just not who he is, apparently.
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