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Is a Brandon Aiyuk release from the 49ers even close to happening as it stand right now? Kevin Sheehan gives his further analysis on Brandon Aiyuk’s recent social media posts and discusses if he’s going to take the necessary steps to force his release from the 49ers to hopefully join the Commanders this offseason.
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00:00So Jesse sent this tweet to me after yesterday's show.
00:05A lot of conversation on Brandon Iyuk yesterday.
00:09Kevin, so based on your change of heart on BA, meaning Brandon Iyuk,
00:13I'm guessing you have information that the team is out too.
00:19Jesse, I don't have information that the team is out on Brandon Iyuk.
00:23I feel confident that they did have interest in Brandon Iyuk.
00:30As in, say, three weeks ago or a month ago,
00:34I feel pretty confident that there was certainly interest
00:38and the likelihood that they would certainly kick the tires at the very least
00:44if and when he was released.
00:47I don't know anything for sure about how they feel right now,
00:52but I think common sense would lead most of us to think that,
00:58you know, at the very least, I mean, the very least,
01:01they are having second thoughts, and that's at the very least.
01:05More likely is that they're not really very excited about doing anything now
01:12with Brandon Iyuk.
01:13I think the position that he's put them in is a much more difficult position
01:20to make a move.
01:22You know, a couple of weeks ago, you had, you know, the red flags,
01:27but they weren't, you know, dark red.
01:30You had the, you know, voided, guaranteed money,
01:33which clearly looks like the 49ers had the right to do it based on him not,
01:40you know, doing what he was supposed to do contractually,
01:44allow them to monitor his rehab by showing up once or twice a month.
01:49We had the videotaped, you know, 100-mile-per-hour trip around Levi's Stadium
01:54that got posted to social media, which has led to an arrest warrant for him,
01:59misdemeanor, traffic, you know, violation.
02:03You know, those are, you know, not the brightest things.
02:07They are judgment-related issues, but as I said all along during that period of time,
02:12I mean, being a little bit nuts, not being the brightest bulb on the bush,
02:16being a little bit immature, those aren't disqualifiers for, you know,
02:21really good, talented players in any sport, you know.
02:25So, but do I think that the last three weeks of this video series have changed their minds?
02:33Common sense would say that it definitely has.
02:36And part of it is just because it just would have been a lot easier before all of this.
02:42Now you're really sticking your neck out.
02:46Not only are you, Adam Peters, really sticking your neck out
02:49and convincing and needing to convince your owner and ownership that,
02:54hey, you know, we've built this great culture over the last two years
02:58and we're going to bring in this guy that literally has gone on a three-week scorched-earth tirade
03:05on, you know, where not only has it been insulting and provoking and everything else,
03:10I mean, there are people that have written that it could be a conduct, you know, detrimental.
03:15But I doubt that they could get to that point personally on conduct detrimental.
03:19I mean, we've seen much worse cases not lead to conduct detrimental, you know,
03:26suspensions or anything like that.
03:29But you're going to have to stick your neck out.
03:31You're going to have to go out on a limb if you're Adam Peters to say, hey, we got this.
03:36You know, this is what happened.
03:39But he feels comfortable here, and I've known this guy, and our quarterback's known this guy.
03:44Look, at the same time, the quarterback's sticking his neck out on the line.
03:48You know, the perception, whether it's reality or not, is that if they were to sign Brandon Iyuk,
03:54it's because Adam Peters and Jaden Daniels know him.
03:59And they are saying, we got this.
04:02We got this.
04:04So, you enter into this deal, even if it's a low to zero risk deal in terms of what your
04:11contract offer is to him,
04:14in a far different situation than you would have three weeks ago.
04:19So, yeah, I mean, common sense to me says that at the very, very least, they're having second thoughts,
04:26but more likely than not, they're not, you know, they're not excited to do anything right now.
04:33Got a long way to go between now and the beginning of the season, and things change.
04:37They do, and apologies can be made, and things can be taken back, and more, you know, data and information
04:44can come out.
04:47But that's kind of where I would think.
04:49I'd be, I would be surprised, based on the last three weeks, if Washington signs Brandon Iyuk,
04:58if he actually ever becomes available, and that's part of the issue, right,
05:01is he doesn't appear to be super serious about becoming available.
05:07His actions or inaction doesn't speak to that.
05:11I wanted to go back because some of you,
05:15I wanted to go back in the long video.
05:18By the way, nothing since yesterday, right?
05:20He's gone quiet.
05:21This is real quiet when he has not put out a video in more than 24 hours.
05:25Am I right?
05:26Nothing today?
05:28I have not been notified that he has posted anything.
05:30Are you on the notification list?
05:32I am on the notification list.
05:34Okay, good.
05:35That's a requirement.
05:36It is.
05:37Because I'm telling you, people are hanging by a thread.
05:41They're on the edge of their seats for the latest Brandon Iyuk episode to drop.
05:46But I wanted to go back and play what was the longer video from over the weekend.
05:52It was three plus minutes, right, Max?
05:54Yeah, it was over three minutes, like 340 something.
05:57Yeah, and it really was the part in which he was trying to explain his side.
06:05I don't think he did a great job of it, but that's a matter of subjective,
06:10and there's perspective involved.
06:12But I wanted to go back and just play the beginning of it
06:15because it kind of gives the tone and texture of the entirety of it.
06:19There's a lot of bleeps.
06:20There's a lot of F words.
06:22He uses the N word over and over again in singular and in plural.
06:27But I wanted to play, like, the first minute of this again
06:31because there's at least one part of it that I think some of you are missing.
06:36Here it was.
06:37All right, y'all.
06:38So I understand that a lot of y'all is new here,
06:42and so I'm going to just fill y'all in and give y'all the details
06:47so that everybody can understand.
06:50The reason why the agent being fired is such an important detail in this whole story
06:56is because that agent is also the agent of the general manager for that one team.
07:07Stop it right there.
07:08Stop it right there, Max.
07:11So I don't know where some of you get the this is, you know, a major violation of trust
07:20and you don't understand something, and I want to just be clear about something
07:24because I have a feeling many of you don't know this, and it's fine.
07:28Why would you know this?
07:30NFL general managers, for the most part, have agents.
07:34Those agents come from, more often than not, the same agencies that represent players.
07:41So there are, it is not uncommon at all for an NFL general manager or an NFL front office executive
07:49or a head coach to have the same agent as players have.
07:57So Athletes First, which is one of the bigger agencies, represents a lot of GMs and a lot of players.
08:04So it's not crazy at all that John Lynch has an agent that is the same agent as Brandon Ayuk.
08:15Now, if Brandon was somehow accusing John Lynch and his agent of something untoward, you know,
08:24I don't know what he's alleging.
08:26He doesn't, he doesn't allege anything.
08:28He just says, this is the problem is John Lynch has the same agent.
08:33So the implication, even though he doesn't say it, he's implying that somehow, I guess, they are, what, colluding together
08:43to take his money
08:45or to financially somehow injure him or hurt him or whatever.
08:52I'm not really sure what he was alleging.
08:54Um, but I just, I have a feeling many people listening don't know that general managers have agents.
09:04Most of them do.
09:05And a lot of their agents come from the same agencies that represent players.
09:11See the, the group, if he believes that they've done something wrong together, that he has been taken advantage of,
09:20they have, uh, ripped them off, whatever it is, that's what the NFLPA is for.
09:27That's where you go to the NFLPA.
09:29You go to the players association, your union, which by the way, over the weekend, he ripped them too,
09:35but not completely.
09:36Cause I think he said there were a few people at the NFLPA that are okay, but the rest of
09:41them are,
09:41I think, I think the word was trashed or trash, or maybe it was another word.
09:45I forget.
09:46I've gotten lost on a lot of these videos, but he did rip the NFLPA.
09:49But if a player is truly being taken advantage of, you know, in, you know, an injurious way or in
09:58a,
09:58in a hurtful way, financially, uh, hurtful way, um, the NFLPA has a duty to protect the player.
10:07So that's really where he should turn to.
10:10Now he hasn't turned to anybody as we know.
10:12I mean, there's been a lot of talking.
10:14There's been no action.
10:15Now, keep in mind, like I've, we've talked about this for months, the NFLPA did not help him out with
10:23respect to the 30 million,
10:25let's just call it 30 million avoided guaranteed dollars from his contract.
10:29At least they haven't as of now, they haven't done that.
10:33Um, and that is unprecedented.
10:36You know, uh, all of the former players, I mean, that's a big problem too, is that there's not a
10:41lot of support for this guy from people who are actually closer to it.
10:45Um, but you know, Dante Wittner was the first.
10:47I remember for me when he came on my show two or three months ago and said, this is crazy.
10:54This is just stupid.
10:57It's terrible judgment.
10:58You've got to be concerned about this.
11:00The fact that the NFLPA wouldn't even back them up on this.
11:04So, you know, I don't know why they didn't back them up.
11:07I don't know why they didn't support them.
11:08I don't know why they haven't fought it.
11:10The only conclusion you can come to is that the 49ers had a clear cut legitimate case to void millions
11:18of dollars of his guaranteed contract.
11:22You have to come to that conclusion.
11:25As of now, maybe something will be done about it.
11:28We'll see.
11:29Um, all right, continue.
11:31I wanted to get through another, you know, 30 to 45 seconds of that.
11:36So continue it, Max.
11:38And that agent really started this whole s*** because I fired his ass, but he wanted to text my wife
11:46like he's smart.
11:47You don't ever text my wife.
11:49Y'all ass fired.
11:50Y'all ass grass.
11:51Get up out of here.
11:51Get going.
11:53So he is also the agent for the general manager of that team.
11:57And these n***s are all weird.
12:01Weirdos.
12:02Creepy predators.
12:04I would never, ever, ever f*** these n***s.
12:08I would never, ever, ever f*** with these n***s.
12:12I don't care how long I got to wait to get to you, my baby.
12:16But if it involves f***ing with them n***s first, I'm waiting.
12:21The end of that's very interesting.
12:22I'll get to that in a moment.
12:23But real quickly, like, if Brandon, like, it may be somebody new, the next video that comes out.
12:31But if he's really saying that his agent started all this s***, just get a new agent and move on.
12:40And as far as, like, he texted his wife, I can't believe how many of you are like, well, that
12:46crossed the line.
12:48It did?
12:49You've got enough information to say that the agent texting his wife crossed some sort of line.
12:55Look, he was clearly pissed about it.
12:57He said he didn't like it.
12:58But wouldn't you imagine that agents sometimes know the families, know the wives of the players they're representing them,
13:09representing, and even occasionally communicate with them?
13:13You don't think that's a possibility?
13:14Look, I could come up with a lot of appropriate reasons for the text and a lot of inappropriate reasons.
13:22Now, he's implying that the texting of his wife was inappropriate.
13:27But he doesn't say why.
13:29I don't know why.
13:31It could be that he's just in this mode of, you're done.
13:37Don't text my wife.
13:39Don't text me.
13:40But he didn't fire him officially until over the weekend.
13:42Now, that could be just a matter of paperwork.
13:46I understand that.
13:47It's very possible that when he said he fired him in November, he told him, you're done.
13:52You're fired.
13:52I don't want you to be my agent anymore.
13:55There's no indication that he replaced his agent with anybody else.
14:02Certainly, you would think if he had an agent right now, there may be a different way he'd be handling
14:08this.
14:09But that would assume that he would actually listen to whatever advice there was.
14:14But with respect to the texting of his wife, I see so many people coming to conclusions on this.
14:19Look, maybe you know more about this than I do.
14:21I don't know why he texted the wife.
14:24I don't know why John Lynch drove to his house.
14:29I can come up with a lot of inappropriate reasons for it.
14:32I can come up with a lot of appropriate reasons for it.
14:34I think most reasonable people could.
14:37Now, he implies that these two are somehow in cahoots to hurt him and perhaps hurt his wife and family
14:50and their weirdos and their creepy predators.
14:54I mean, maybe a little bit more information as to why other than they texted my wife and the general
15:01manager drove to my house.
15:02I mean, you need a little bit more information than just the big white dude, Lynch, is coming to my
15:08house.
15:13That last part when he says, you know, weirdos, creepy predators.
15:18And he says, I would never, ever F and then he uses the N word with these plural.
15:27I don't care how long I got to wait to get to you, my baby.
15:31By the way, when he said that, he was holding a football with the commander's logo on it.
15:37So if you're wondering who his baby is, his baby is our team or maybe our quarterback.
15:43But he says, if it involves F-ing with them N words, I'm waiting.
15:51This is the part where it's just like, dude, affect your outcome a little bit.
15:57Take some action.
15:58You so badly want to come to Washington and play here.
16:03I think those chances are slipping away if they haven't slipped away already.
16:07But you could have been doing something about that.
16:12You could be doing something about it.
16:13But he admits there, and I'm not suggesting that he won't change his mind in the next video,
16:19but that you're not going to face the things that you need to face to change your current status.
16:29You're not going to face them.
16:31Anything involving them, I'll wait.
16:33Wait for what?
16:35Wait for next year?
16:36Wait for they just get sick of it and eventually cut you?
16:41Look, they may get sick of it and cut him tomorrow.
16:43I have no idea how this will play out.
16:45I don't.
16:47But the bottom line is this guy hasn't taken any action.
16:54Hire an agent, file for reinstatement, show up, maybe before showing up, have some sort of, with your new agent,
17:04your new representation,
17:06some sort of, you know, get together with the people you've been torching for the last three weeks.
17:13Speak your mind.
17:14Don't be afraid.
17:15But also, get the thing to a conclusion somehow.
17:21And maybe that won't work, but you've got to take some action.
17:25And three weeks of videos is talking.
17:29I know some of you think it's a grand strategy.
17:32And when I said that yesterday, it was sarcasm for those of you that didn't get it.
17:38We'll see.
17:39You know, he ended that rant with, you know, he's never stepping into that building again, except for on October
17:4719th, when he comes through with that damn effing belt.
17:52October 19th, Monday Night Football, Washington in Santa Clara against the 49ers.
17:58I would put the odds right now of him being on the team and playing in that game at plus
18:04300.
18:07Three to one that it happens.
18:10Not, you know, a favorite for it to happen anymore.
18:13I think a month ago, I would have been at minus 500 that he'd be on the team.
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