00:00Grant and Danny on the fan.
00:02All right, let's get to the Brandon Ayuk update from the weekend.
00:04This is, by the way, the turning point in this entire endeavor, I think, for a lot of people.
00:10There are still people that are standing for Brandon Ayuk within the fan base
00:14that want him signed and want him added, and I think we've reached a point,
00:18and you see this in politics, you see this with leadership
00:21or all kinds of different factions of life.
00:24People could do anything, and folks will just continue to support them.
00:27And you're seeing this with Brandon Ayuk to some extent, I think, as well.
00:32But let's just give you the specifics, and then we can editorialize.
00:36So on Friday, we were out, so it must have been Thursday.
00:41Jaden Daniels was at a World Cup game.
00:43On Thursday, while we were watching the World Cup, we saw Daniels.
00:48He's chilling in his suite watching the game.
00:49Apparently, he's a big soccer fan, which isn't surprising to me.
00:52A lot of players are, and I've seen him carrying a soccer ball at the facility or whatever.
00:55But I guess he has always enjoyed the game and is at these World Cup games.
01:01The next day, on Friday, video started circulating of somebody in L.A.,
01:09in the stadium, who's at the World Cup game, going up to Jaden Daniels' suite
01:14and just kind of screaming up to him, basically saying,
01:17bleep Brandon Ayuk, Brandon Ayuk's terrible, I'm a Niners fan, bleep him, whatever.
01:22And Jaden Daniels, in this awkward moment, where this person you don't know is screaming and cursing.
01:28He's druggily harassing you.
01:29He's kind of, like, turning away sheepishly and kind of walking in the other direction.
01:33But he laughs. He laughs it off.
01:35As any normal person, mature, reasonable person would do.
01:38What else are you going to do? Get into an argument with this guy?
01:41That's not very nice. Leave Brandon Ayuk alone.
01:43No, he just kind of laughs off this possibly drunk, loud, obnoxious idiot.
01:48And he kind of goes in a different direction.
01:50I didn't think anything of it.
01:52Someone sent me the video on Friday and was like,
01:54Look, Jaden's laughing at him. What could this mean?
01:57I found no meaning in it.
01:58I thought a guy's yelling at him and cursing and being belligerent.
02:02And he's like, This is awkward. What do you want me to do?
02:05Hey, there's no upside for me in this situation.
02:07Why don't I remove myself?
02:08Good job, Jaden.
02:10Apparently, that's not how Brandon Ayuk took it.
02:12Potentially, unless you think this is all some big skit that they put together behind the scenes to troll us
02:18and make us talk about their friendship.
02:20I don't know.
02:21So Brandon Ayuk originally posts on his Instagram a message to Jaden Daniels
02:27that says, TF, which is the bleep, always so funny.
02:33And then he calls him a bad word.
02:35So he's asking, What's funny?
02:36Like, why are you laughing?
02:38Then he says, Turn your savage up.
02:40Which I think is him saying like, Hey, man, not everything's hilarious.
02:44Like, why don't you have my back?
02:46Turn your savage up.
02:47Like, let them know I'm your boy.
02:50Yell down from your suite.
02:51Exactly.
02:52To the guy that's yelling at you.
02:53Why are you laughing?
02:54Right?
02:55And he tags Jaden Daniels in it.
02:57At that kid, Jaden.
02:58It's not like a subtweet he just posts at him.
03:02Like, Hey, man, don't know why you're laughing.
03:04Don't know what's so funny about that.
03:06So people saw that and they're like, This is interesting.
03:08I dismissed it.
03:10I thought it was dumb, but I'm like, This is not a serious person.
03:13I thought he was unserious and ridiculous the entire time.
03:16Then soon enough, story comes out that they've unfollowed each other on social media.
03:22Daniels is not following Iuke and vice versa.
03:24They're not following spouses and people.
03:27So I don't really do that game in 2026.
03:30I hate that we have to talk about that, but it is relevant.
03:32Sure.
03:32That they're not following each other.
03:34They unfollowed the team and followed a new team.
03:35Social media, right?
03:37So that's where we are.
03:37And I'm thinking, Okay, well, this is definitely a thing.
03:39They probably texted back and forth.
03:41Maybe Iuke is salty that he laughed at him.
03:43Again, this person is in a really weird, volatile place right now.
03:49But this is not going to get any bigger than this because Jaden Daniels is not going to get involved.
03:54But Iuke didn't stop there.
03:56Then he posts a video in which he talks trash about Daniels, his best friend and the quarterback of the
04:02Commanders, and references his mom, which is one of the, unfairly, number one critiques and things that Jaden Daniels takes
04:11the most crap about, I think.
04:12So this was the video that Iuke posted on the 4th of July.
04:15Happy Independence Day.
04:26Boy, I'm a grown-ass man, boy.
04:29You're going to have to stop running behind your mama, and I might believe what you're talking about.
04:33But until then, mm-mm.
04:38Okay, so he called him boy.
04:40Do we have to bleep that out, or are we okay?
04:42Next time, dump that.
04:43He said it twice, for the record.
04:44So we'll start with that.
04:46Second, five's going to text me.
04:48So that's Jaden Daniels, right?
04:50And he's going to tell me you're on my team now.
04:52He's not on your team yet.
04:54But this is what we've been asking for.
04:56This is evidence, perhaps, that Jaden Daniels is doing the thing that we all kind of said, like, if he's,
05:02this is your friend, and he's going to play with you, why wouldn't you tell him to shut up?
05:06And especially when he starts tagging you, and now he's involving you.
05:09So he basically says, hey, man, if you're going to play with us, you can't act like an idiot.
05:13Let's tone it down.
05:14That is what we're supposed to believe was the text exchange between the two, to which Brandon Ayuk, who has
05:22an issue with his GM, and his head coach, and the 49ers, and his agent, and all of his personal
05:28coaches, and a lot of his friends, now has an issue with Jaden Daniels saying, uh-uh.
05:34I can't say what he said.
05:35Sure, right, right.
05:36But it's not a, you know, it's the opposite of girl.
05:39You're having a, right?
05:41Yeah, it's blue on the gender reveal.
05:43Exactly.
05:45So, he goes on to son him in that way, and demean him in that way a couple times.
05:51And, on top of all of this, Danny, now is going at him about the thing that Daniels takes the
05:57most crap about, which is his mom.
05:59So right away, I'm going, okay, this has to be the straw that breaks the back.
06:04No one's going to defend this person.
06:05And all of the Commanders fans who have chosen inexplicably and for no reason to back this guy through all
06:11of his nonsense and horribly just dumb videos and whatever, because he might make you a little better at football,
06:19because Jaden Daniels, you think, wants him on the team.
06:22Surely they're not going to defend him.
06:24Well, the new narrative now is, well, this is all just a public skit.
06:28That this is, they're calling it trolling.
06:31That him and Jaden have gotten together, because Daniels posted a picture where he, like, did a thumbs down to
06:35him or whatever.
06:36That's the only thing he's done, to my knowledge.
06:38Going back at him.
06:39Did he tag him in that?
06:40Or was it just on his story?
06:42It was Kevin Durant's thumbs down?
06:43It was a subtweet kind of thing.
06:44Just like a thumbs down.
06:46But I thought, well, this is it.
06:48It's over.
06:49We're done.
06:50We're out of the woods.
06:50I'm like a phoenix.
06:51But I'm an idiot, apparently.
06:53Because I don't understand that this is just them having fun with everyone.
06:58So the new debate is, are they trolling?
07:01Is this a skit?
07:03Is this just for social media laughs?
07:06Or is it actually a beef?
07:08And to that I say, I don't care.
07:10It's still disqualifying.
07:12If you guys want to debate whether this is real or it's not, is it authentic or it isn't?
07:17I hope it's not, by the way.
07:19Because I happen to think Jaden Daniels is everything I've ever wanted out of a franchise quarterback.
07:25There's no reason for him to engage in tomfoolery to troll.
07:29You see what I'm saying?
07:29Yes.
07:29Like, it would be a negative in the Jaden Daniels column.
07:32Not a big one, but it would be like a, dude, what are you doing?
07:35The hope should be that he's looking at Brandon Ayuk's actions and all these videos and stuff going,
07:39what is bro on right now?
07:41Like, what is he doing?
07:43Not, hey man, we got to have some fun with this.
07:45Everyone's talking about this.
07:47What if we went back and forth and started a beef?
07:49Said the franchise quarterback and CEO of the Fortune 500 company?
07:52Uh-uh.
07:53I don't want him involved in any of it.
07:55So yeah, I'm with you.
07:57Pull the ripcord immediately.
07:58Pop smoke.
07:59Get out of there.
08:00I keep getting asked that.
08:01Do you think this is a skit?
08:03I keep calling it a skit.
08:04The word that everyone uses is troll.
08:06Yeah.
08:06Which, again, I don't understand.
08:08I know that I'm 100, I'm actually in my 30s, but I don't understand anything anymore.
08:11Yep.
08:12But, nah man, they're just trolling, everyone says.
08:15And they're like, do you think they're trolling?
08:16I don't know.
08:17Yeah, I don't know.
08:17I don't care.
08:18It is disqualifying.
08:19When pro football talk and every outlet in the country are writing this up, that he and
08:23Daniels are going back and forth, even if they won because they tricked us because Brandon
08:28Ayuk is fake mad at him and it's not real, what do they win?
08:32Right.
08:32It's just a nonsensical distraction.
08:34Yeah, there's no prize.
08:35I want everyone out of the orbit.
08:38I want everyone to not be affected by the gravity of Clown Shoe.
08:43This buffoon needs to be ignored and to go away forever.
08:47If he's now sucking Jaden Daniels into his orbit to do some of his little parlor games
08:52and fun shenanigans, out.
08:56Just so upsetting.
08:57By the way, I don't believe is the case.
08:58Yeah, I don't either.
08:59I think he actually is a volatile person who, it's not that crazy to me that the guy who's
09:05at odds with pretty much everyone in his life that we publicly know about, other than maybe
09:08his wife and family.
09:10Like, I don't know who else is still standing by him and vice versa, that maybe he got upset
09:14when Daniels laughed and might have actually taken him to task.
09:17And the trolling part, if he was like, oh, five, you know, and he made fun of him, like,
09:22why don't you go eat something skinny or, you know, something like nothing, maybe.
09:27He went at his mom.
09:28Like, isn't that below the belt?
09:31Pretty big escalation, you would say.
09:32That seems like not the place to go.
09:34Right.
09:34Again, nobody's saying anything about him.
09:36But yeah, the guy that invents slights.
09:38Remember his big case against John Lynch was, he tried to talk to me after Kyle Shanahan
09:44yelled at me, said mean words to me.
09:46Now I hate John Lynch.
09:47And then he showed up at his house to try to smooth things over.
09:50What is this guy doing?
09:51And that's the most detail we've gotten.
09:54So yeah, clown shoe invents slight in some way, escalates it beyond the pale.
09:59And we're supposed to, you know, believe anything.
10:01Again, if any of this, if he had ever demonstrated a, because of this, then this, a reasonable,
10:08I was on lily pad A, something occurred.
10:10It made me move to lily pad B.
10:12If that had ever happened at any point, if we ever had any explanation that was sensible
10:16and made any kind of logical progression for his buffoonish actions, then I would go,
10:23okay, maybe I could see it.
10:24But again, he's shown, my old friend Tom Daly used to say, somebody shows you their ass.
10:30You act accordingly.
10:32He does it on a daily basis.
10:34Please don't take him seriously anymore.
10:35Get him away from anybody that you're interested in or care about their performance.
10:40For God's sakes, this toxic zilch shouldn't be on any team anywhere.
10:44And if I'm Instagram, I'm investigating not letting him post anymore for a little while.
10:48Sit a few plays out, dummy.
10:50Why shouldn't he be able to post on Instagram?
10:52Because I find, well, it's not a real thing.
10:54I don't want that exactly.
10:56Because you don't want to see it.
10:57I want him to go so far away.
11:00Just mute him and block him.
11:01I want, but again, it's going to come up on the show.
11:03I want him to have to live with moles in a subterranean kingdom where he can post to them.
11:09I want no discussion of clown shoe for the indefinite future.
11:15I want to hear from people on what they think is going on.
11:19Like, is this actually the receiver beefing with his last ally, it seemed like, in the National Football League?
11:25I mean, if he's actually mad and going at Jaden Daniels, he subsequently posted, like, this is what volatile people
11:32that don't act within their right mind do.
11:34He posted right after that, at that kid Jaden, let's run at five, let's see, need you available this season
11:40and I'll do the same.
11:41Again, that meant even more to me that this was real.
11:45Everyone's like, see, it was all, no, no, no, no.
11:47This person is all over the place.
11:49He is a volatile, fly-by-night, minute-by-minute thinker.
11:53Like, this is a wacky thing.
11:55But, I guess where I come down on this is, if this is some troll, prank, internet-for-clicks thing,
12:04whatever, that's not better.
12:08It is still disqualifying.
12:11I don't want this act in town, and why would you want the quarterback engaging and involved in any capacity?
12:18You can call us at 800-636-1067 if you want to hop in on that.
12:22Also, one-year anniversary today of a major decision in D.C. sports that's next on GND.
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