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Washington Commanders Reporter Ben Standig from the Last Man Standig joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to give his analysis on the Brandon Aiyuk situation after his recent social media posts and how it will impact his chances of playing for the Commanders in the future.
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00:00uh brandon iuk you're i mean you know the obligatory i mean there's so much more material
00:06uh i think you you wrote that we got the extended director's cut on saturday that three minute piece
00:13uh where uh john lynch apparently was going to um stalk him and perhaps home invade and we also had
00:20uh the text to his wife from his agent who he actually did according to reports actually did
00:27actually fire on saturday officially um go ahead brandon iuk been talking about him for an hour
00:34your turn well so i mean in terms of the fire of the agent now because he keeps posting things
00:42and
00:42i'm not you know staying on top of it every minute i checked in with somebody at the nflpa and
00:48as of
00:48like the first time he said that he had fired the guy and filed the paperwork i was told that's
00:52not
00:52accurate that he had not done anything that's why he's the agent still shows up as his you know
00:58as his agent now he may have said to him you know we're done but in terms of just the
01:02the legal process
01:04that had not been done that could have happened since sure i mean this thing is you know who knows
01:09what exactly is going going on there but uh you know he also he posted something on his instagram
01:16like sort of like a a shout out to the nflpa kind of like hey you know i'm sure there's
01:21some decent
01:21people over there but some of you were you know screwing me on you know and sort of siding with
01:25the with the with the team and this that and the other and you know i the impression that i
01:30get is
01:32just like everything else he's been saying it's not accurate or not there's more to it than he's
01:37letting on or whatever so until obviously that gets resolved you know plus he needs to um
01:43you'll get reinstated by the league yeah but yeah so like
01:49i you know i i was i was talking about it on my podcast yesterday and you know like you
01:54kind of
01:54well maybe not like you and i'm like lamenting but having to keep doing this i'm like can you imagine
01:57that the niners don't want to open up camp for a month so even if he wants to show up
02:02day one first
02:03minute everybody's open we have to wait this long he's putting up like you know i there there are people
02:09who are legit social media influencers are plus left than he does and uh so if this keeps gobbling
02:14i don't know how i'm going to survive uh but you know until it's just the fact that he keeps
02:20mentioning
02:21the commanders by the way did you see uh the tj hushman tj hushman yeah i played it earlier yeah
02:26yeah i mean i thought yeah and this is a guy who like his you know i don't know friends
02:31is the right
02:31word but most people close to the situation are closer to the situation he's got very little support
02:36which is another tell on this you know whether it's the dante witness or the george kiddles i mean
02:43kiddle basically very sarcastically said yeah go ahead see how it works out for you um and hushman
02:49zada said something similar in march but went much harder this time yeah much harder basically telling
02:55adam peters he's crazy yeah said he should be fired if he signs him yeah and you know that that's
03:01that's
03:02that's the part of this i mean all you know you can tell me again you know the the good
03:07receiver
03:08and and all that but like what is to prevent him from doing to the commanders what he is doing
03:13here
03:13if you know if there's a game where you know he if they start the season against philly and dallas
03:19and he gets you know if he's here and gets you know four targets just for you know that happens
03:24sometimes and then you know he's like what the hell and he's you know going to his buddy the
03:29quarterback and where he's you know popping off on social media again maybe he doesn't do any of
03:34these things but that's the point you don't know the the wild card element is just way way strong
03:40for an unknown on the field and um you know again say whatever you want about some of these other
03:46diva
03:46quarterbacks that we've our diva receivers we've seen over the years you know this is like sort of a
03:51different level in part because those people had agents and they had people advising them to basically
03:57shut the hell up or you know just let me handle the business aspect here he's popping off but
04:03there's no sense that there's anything happening behind the scenes to resolve this i mean well yeah
04:11he put up in one of those videos and again it's hard to tell at some point with him like
04:15what's real
04:15and what's just trolling but he said something like hey by the way i heard i have a warrant is
04:20that true
04:21i i that is uh him being a troll or silly but at the same point i don't know i
04:28don't know who's
04:29talking to him i don't know what he thinks or knows you know it doesn't he doesn't have an agent
04:33no way he he didn't know that there was a a warrant out for his arrest and you know he's
04:38ducking cali by
04:39the way the the the interesting piece of information in that piece of sound was he indicated that he was
04:44going to be involved in throwing with jayden daniels out in cali in california oh i missed that if that
04:52if he uh if he said that one max max uh well here i can give you the uh i
04:57can give you the uh the
04:58quote he basically said oh shoot i think i just closed it out um all right but like yeah on
05:06a real
05:06serious note though can anybody tell me if i really have a warrant out for my arrest in california
05:14because my bro said he trying to throw in cali
05:18but if i got a warrant bro i don't have to stay out here
05:23my bro says he's going to throw in cali he's referring to jayden daniels there i'm almost positive
05:29um but obviously we know that jayden daniels is going to do that and you know that's my my attempt
05:35to
05:35right i mentioned it yeah ask about that um you know again like it's
05:45you know like people ask me as i'm sure they do you you know about the industry getting into it
05:49what's the key this that and the other and everybody looks looks for the magic bullet like
05:53how do i get from a to b quickly and all that and my best answer is typically you know
05:58what you need
05:59to show up and you need to be reliable everything else will come into play if you're actually talented
06:03enough people will see it and if you were reliable and stay with it you will outlast the people who
06:09bail but you got to be reliable or if you if you're not reliable you better be shakespeare right you
06:14better be frank the ford tom boswell what have you and that's why to me i'm like i can't i
06:20can't deal
06:20with this you can tell me that all the guys they have on the team right now are just not
06:23enough
06:24okay but i know they're going to be there and that counts for a lot because ultimately as we saw
06:29in
06:292024 you never know how it's all going to work out jaden daniels it's not like that group was all
06:33was was much different than this group and you know look what happened so being there being part of the
06:39team you know going through the the exercises you know being a commander all that that matters if you
06:46do it but if you're just not imagine if they signed him and they said he just fits what we're
06:51trying
06:51to do here this is a real commander um look what you just said it's great advice i've shared similar
06:58advice um you know for you young people show up be accountable go beyond the job description uh because
07:08you know absent of as you just said shakespearean talent um that's you know it's it's hard without at
07:15least being that i think you know for me it's like bottom line is this guy hasn't done what he
07:23could
07:23have done or he could be doing to actually get to where he says he wants to be so the
07:31lack of action
07:32and then the process in which he's undergone has been for any adult this is obviously immature it's
07:38unprofessional um and you know it's a reveal of a lot of things it's a reveal certainly a very
07:45hyper sensitivity um and i'm just out i i think the bigger question is not where we are because
07:52most people don't care and that's fine it's where do we think they are because i said earlier ben i
07:58do
07:58think that prior to let's just call it june 1st that it was more likely than not that the team
08:07was going
08:07to be very interested in brandon iuk when and if he became available now i'm
08:15there were clearly i mean you could only you could certainly i think land on second thoughts
08:23about where we were three weeks ago what do you think yeah i mean prior to june 1st like you
08:29said
08:29the miss it was more of a mystery how come we haven't heard from brandon iuk we would kill for
08:33a workout video does he really want to play football how is his knee all these types of things
08:39obviously there were even then still questioned about you know he's he pat you know he lost all
08:44that money didn't fight for it the driving um excessive speeding or by the 49er stadium and
08:51posting video of him doing it you know all these things kind of were like oh what are you doing
08:55dude
08:56but all right they at least sort of were like margin of error for wacky athletes um this is you
09:03know now
09:03going beyond it you know to the point you know if the goal is to get here or get somewhere
09:10it's just
09:11the way he's going about it just does not make any any sense i don't know how i mean i've
09:16seen you know
09:16some people try to defend it i'm like you gotta be kidding me like there's no there's no defense for
09:23any of this no i i the the i you see it your timeline i see it my timeline it's
09:30you know what
09:30light it's perspective everybody's perspective is different and your life experiences shape your
09:36perspective and for some they actually believe either a he's in the right or b he's a grand master
09:43strategist and for others their perspective is this is a child no i don't want him in a professional
09:51organization um all right football wise you wrote about leo chanel what does washington see in leo
09:59chanel in 2026 yeah you know when when we got the free agency and you know we're like okay the
10:06younger
10:06faster bit got it okay so what does that look like and you know went through some of the you
10:10know started
10:11looking through the names of different players and both sides of the ball and it wasn't so pretty like
10:15late in the process but i guess i took a longer look at leo chanel and when i see a
10:19guy
10:20you know for for a coordinator who's who's you know the line is you know it's not where you line
10:25up it's where you wind up to see a guy that played at least 50 snaps at four different linebacker
10:31spots
10:32plus a good chunk of snaps essentially as like an edge rusher on the line even like a hit one
10:38or two
10:38or three like i you know over the nose you know this guy screams versatility he's got you know he's
10:45he had one of the greatest uh combine performances ever for a linebacker i mean as you know he and
10:51sunny styles that would be a really fun uh uh decathlon watching them do all the all these athletic
10:59traits because they're both nuts um and you know he's more i think in like the louvoo style of linebacker
11:04where it's like this downhill see ball get ball type of type of mindset uh and you know again this
11:11the younger the faster all that i think he really epitomizes that and again what deronde jones wants
11:17to do so you know kansas city you know i talked to andy reed at the um owners meeting the
11:22league
11:22meeting and you know he said hey one of my favorite players great guy obviously they are in a situation
11:27of you know they just can't pay everybody uh and so that they had to move on but there's you
11:33know i've
11:33heard you know next to nothing negative here look i mean because he's incredibly muscular there's like a
11:40a rocket granite i don't think that i think that sort of hinders some of the agility and you know
11:44i've heard some you know positive things about his past coverage but i don't think that's like
11:48the strength better than what they had last year probably but not like you know this is the go-to
11:53guy i think that is more where sunny styles comes into play but you know again for for what this
11:58group
11:58is looking to do he really feels like the perfect linebacker for uh this you know lineup here there
12:06and everywhere and you know blitz be aggressive uh kind of approach all right i'll talk to you later
12:12thanks appreciate it as always of course at ben standing on x
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