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Brandon Aiyuk called out Jayden Daniels again and it's become apparent Daniels is not entertaining this stuff.
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00:00Back live from the Navy Yard on Grant and Danny.
00:03You're listening to The Fan.
00:05Hey, Mom!
00:07Mom!
00:10New Brandon Aiyuk social media videos dropped!
00:14The meatloaf!
00:16The gift that keeps on giving,
00:18and or the most annoying thing in the history of the show.
00:21Yeah, the thing that keeps on stealing the joy.
00:23Whichever you prefer.
00:24So this was yesterday.
00:26Brandon Aiyuk.
00:27I don't even think I would bring it up anymore.
00:29I'm kind of past it if it's not directly involving Jaden Daniels.
00:32That's where I'm at mostly now.
00:35But I can't get past the fact that he is now
00:39trying to go at my quarterback
00:42and Commander's fans with the quarterback as their avatar
00:45and their Twitter account are cool with it.
00:47They're like, ah, it's fine.
00:48He's just being funny.
00:49They're just two best pals just having a good old time.
00:53Wrong!
00:54By the way, Jaden Daniels posted on social media.
00:56Or I guess he didn't.
00:57And he was involved in a post on social media today.
01:00It was Deami Brown posting all of the receivers and tight ends
01:02working out with Jaden Daniels in California.
01:05Brandon Aiyuk not pictured.
01:07He's supposedly in Virginia.
01:08He's in Virginia according to us.
01:09He's apparently in Virginia wearing Commander's gear.
01:11Well, all the people that actually work for the team,
01:14play for the team, run routes for the team,
01:17they're training with Jaden Daniels,
01:18who just stays above this.
01:19He's not engaging on social media.
01:21Thank goodness.
01:22He's not trying to go back and forth with you, Brandon Aiyuk.
01:25He's a professional.
01:26He's a grown-up.
01:27He's an adult.
01:29He's all the things Aiyuk does not seem to want to be.
01:32And today, while Brandon Aiyuk is posting weird social media videos,
01:37Jaden Daniels is working out with receivers to get better.
01:40Because that's what our quarterback in Washington, D.C. does.
01:43That's what this guy does.
01:44But anyway, from the department of,
01:47you don't understand, sit this one out.
01:50They're just boys trolling.
01:52This was Brandon Aiyuk yesterday.
01:55He said, I don't do that internet s***, bro.
01:57Hit my phone if you got to talk to me, bro.
01:59He got my number.
02:00And I called, s***, he don't answer.
02:02Hit my phone, bro.
02:05It's important.
02:06It's the money on the line.
02:09Okay, so many thoughts here.
02:11So that video starts, I think the very beginning got cut off,
02:13but he's like, he references five.
02:15So that's Jaden Daniels.
02:16So he's saying, Jaden Daniels,
02:19and he does this weird voice to make fun of how Jaden Daniels talks,
02:21which, okay, whatever.
02:24He basically says, Jaden Daniels is telling me
02:26I'm not going to do social media stuff.
02:29Translation, I'm not playing this stupid game with you.
02:32We're not going back and forth on Instagram.
02:34I'm not getting sucked into whatever nonsense world you're living in.
02:39We won't be exchanging barbs on X.
02:41Yes, I'm not jumping on IG and doing strange pictures
02:45and people wonder what they are and what's this emoji
02:47and what am I trying to say.
02:49Uh-uh.
02:49I'm a big boy.
02:50I'm a grown-up.
02:51This is how we work in the real world.
02:53You want to talk to me?
02:54Call me.
02:55And if you're in Virginia and I'm in Virginia.
02:58It's a local call.
02:59Come see me.
02:59Oh, I guess I'm not allowed to come to your door
03:01because that's threatening or terrible
03:03or you'd have to inform your wife that I'm there
03:05or whatever that weird interaction was about John Lynch.
03:08But I digress.
03:09So Jaden Daniels is doing exactly,
03:12exactly what he should be doing.
03:14Brandon Ayuk is telling you, by the way.
03:17Now, I know a lot of people think this is all a big joke
03:18and this is all a skit.
03:20It's some SNL bit and it's a documentary
03:23and they'll have clips of me talking about it in a month on Netflix
03:26about how they got me.
03:27Oh, man.
03:28Brandon Ayuk and Jaden Daniels pulled one over on me.
03:30That's not what's happening.
03:32Jaden Daniels is practicing, getting ready for the season
03:34and apparently told Brandon Ayuk,
03:36hey, man, keep me out of this.
03:39If you want to talk to me, call me.
03:41And now Brandon Ayuk's upset because he didn't answer his call.
03:45Forgive him for probably working.
03:48He might have been on the practice field with Deami Brown and Terry McClain.
03:51Or not.
03:52You're insufferable.
03:52I don't want to talk to you either.
03:53I mean, I don't know.
03:55You're the worst good friend ever, by the way.
03:57Aren't they supposed to be best friends?
03:59At one point.
04:00Daniel said that we're like brothers.
04:01You're making fun of my mom.
04:03You're making fun of how I talk.
04:05You're the worst good friend of all time.
04:07And it's not an in-person joning session.
04:08Like we're out here in the bullpen.
04:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:10The busting chops.
04:11I got friends.
04:11I know how to jone.
04:12I can jone with the best of them.
04:14If me and Darius and Strobes are sitting around,
04:16I will say some funny zings.
04:18I can jone with buddies.
04:19Huevoses get busted.
04:20That's the thing.
04:21You know what would be weird?
04:22If Strober got on Instagram tonight
04:23and started talking about Janine Paulson.
04:25I'd be a little salty.
04:26I'd be a little perturbed.
04:27Hey, man, what the hell is that about?
04:30Then there was this other video from Brandon Ayuk.
04:33And this, I thought, was a really good one.
04:34Actually, before we even get there,
04:35play this one again.
04:36There are a couple other things
04:37we can still hit on here.
04:38He said, I don't do that internet s***, bro.
04:41Hit my phone if you got to talk to me, bro.
04:43You got my number.
04:44And I called.
04:45He don't answer.
04:46Hit my phone, bro.
04:48It's important.
04:50It's the money on the line.
04:52Okay.
04:54The making fun of him
04:55because he doesn't want to be online with you
04:58is like when a guy used to make fun of someone
05:00who did, like, you did your homework.
05:03Would you turn in your assignment?
05:05Yeah.
05:05Like, now he's in college,
05:07about to be an engineer,
05:08and you're still sitting at home with your parents.
05:12And, like, I don't know what you're doing.
05:13But you did the assignment?
05:17Loser.
05:18What do you mean?
05:19You've only, like, the guy at the par,
05:21that's like, how many beers you had?
05:23You only had two.
05:25He's making fun of him for going,
05:27hey, bro, I'm not really going to play
05:28this social media game,
05:29so call my phone if you want to talk.
05:33He's making fun of him for that.
05:35Okay, cool.
05:37Again, your guy.
05:38Not my guy.
05:39You know who you are.
05:40Your guy.
05:41Wear that.
05:42So, my guy's the quarterback.
05:44I don't know who your guy is.
05:46Okay?
05:47Daniels?
05:47Choose your fighter.
05:48Yeah, I'm team Daniels.
05:49You're team IU.
05:50Fine.
05:50Keep being team IU.
05:51Then you've got the line at the end.
05:54When he says money on the line,
05:57I've talked to two people today
05:59that are in football.
06:00I will just say that way, okay?
06:03Who think that he is referencing
06:06that he thinks he's going to make good money
06:09when he says that
06:10and some of the things that he's been saying.
06:12I took that to just mean
06:14this is about me getting back in the league.
06:16This is about me making money this year.
06:19Not that he thinks he's going to make a lot of money,
06:21but that this is about money
06:24could be like veteran minimum is technically money.
06:26But there are multiple people
06:29who are in football
06:30who have suggested
06:32Brandon Iyuk thinks he's going to make real money,
06:35like get paid as if he's still a really good wide receiver.
06:38Did you hear that in that?
06:41No.
06:41Okay.
06:42But again, I try.
06:45You're going to get annoyed.
06:46I don't do the dissection.
06:48I can't and I won't.
06:50I'm not going to do Zapruder film
06:51every time Clown Shoes says something stupid and nonsensical.
06:55That's how I treat it.
06:56I treat it as the buffoon said something buffoonish again.
06:58And so I don't really delve in
07:00and try to like interpret all the different things.
07:02But having said that, that's my normal caveat.
07:04I heard that as like, this is serious now.
07:07That's how I viewed it.
07:08I took it more like that,
07:10where he's basically saying,
07:12hey man, I'm trying to get a job here.
07:13You got to help me out.
07:16Not, wait, does Brandon Iyuk really think
07:18he's about to make $10 million
07:19when he's actually going to get the veteran minimum?
07:21Like, is he going like,
07:21I'm actually, I'm trying to enhance my market value here.
07:23Like, I don't think that's.
07:25All right, this was video number two.
07:27And this was a dedication
07:29sent out to all the folks out there
07:31that think as soon as he gets signed,
07:34you don't have to worry about all these antics.
07:36You don't have to worry about him on social media.
07:38He knows he's going to have to fall in line
07:40and get off Instagram and just act like a pro.
07:42He'll do that.
07:44Except he says he won't.
07:45They'd be like BA and his social media antics.
07:50Well, I got to get paid somehow
07:55because the employer holding me captive without pay.
07:59At least social media paying.
08:01I'll tell y'all what.
08:04I'll get a job back in the NFL, man.
08:08I'm still going to be on my b***h on social media.
08:12If I didn't know any better,
08:14I would think he's actually trying not to play again.
08:19I don't know why.
08:20It's either because he likes playing victim
08:23or he likes being able to claim that his career was taken.
08:26I don't know why.
08:26I don't have a good answer.
08:28He is doing things actively
08:32that are making it harder to employ him.
08:34I have been told that there was a time
08:37when the commanders were probably of the belief
08:40that if he's available, he's definitely worth signing.
08:43We'll just sign him for not a lot of money.
08:44We'll bring him in.
08:45If it doesn't work out, we'll cut him.
08:47How could they possibly do that now?
08:49You're going at the QB publicly.
08:51I don't know.
08:52Even if it's a joke, which I don't think it is.
08:53But let's say it is a joke.
08:54Let's give him the benefit of the doubt
08:55because he's earned that for some reason.
08:57It's still getting written about on Pro Football Talk
09:00and talked about on ESPN.
09:02It's still a distraction.
09:03He is still a...
09:04Even if it's in jest, he's a pain in the ass.
09:08What is the point of that?
09:10So, sorry, when you have one suitor
09:15that we know of potentially,
09:17one team that makes any sense,
09:18and you challenge that team's best player
09:21and face of the franchise
09:22and call them out while wearing the hat
09:25and trying to sell tickets for them,
09:27those are oxymoronic.
09:28They don't make any sense.
09:30They are in conflict to one another.
09:32But then he says,
09:34all the people that think
09:35I'm just going to stop on social media
09:37when I get with a team,
09:38I'm actually not.
09:39I'm going to keep doing this.
09:40Yeah, the line that I just...
09:44It's also infuriating.
09:46I have to get paid somehow.
09:48So mysterious as to how one might get paid.
09:51He's being held captive.
09:53There's only one path.
09:55TikTok.
09:56There's only one way an NFL wide receiver
09:58could ever receive any compensation.
10:01Instagram live videos or whatever.
10:04I can't think of anything else.
10:05There's nothing else.
10:06There's no form that he could fill out directly.
10:09There's no direct action he could take
10:11to force 49ers hand.
10:12Imagine thinking you're being held captive.
10:14Right.
10:15When you haven't done the thing
10:17you need to do to be reinstated.
10:19He doesn't have to go to their facility,
10:21although I would have done that.
10:22If he would have showed up on day one of OTAs,
10:25they would have had to cut him.
10:26You realize that, right?
10:26Oh, yeah.
10:27If he would have just shown up in the building,
10:29which he would have been allowed to do.
10:30They can't keep him away.
10:31He's part of the organization.
10:32And he would have said,
10:33I'm holding a press conference at my locker.
10:35Or, hey, meet me out on the field, guys.
10:37I'm going to talk.
10:38And just been the loudest squeaky wheel
10:41in the history of OTAs
10:43and unloaded the magazine in the air
10:45on the antics of the organization
10:48and all the things they've done wrong
10:49and why their hands are dirty.
10:51They would have cut him by midnight.
10:53But he didn't do that.
10:54He keeps allowing this to drag out.
10:57And he has recently said things.
11:00Other than just challenging his best friend,
11:03Jaden Daniels, publicly
11:04and being at odds with him, seemingly, now,
11:08he has also said,
11:09I'm not going to stop being loud
11:11and crazy on social media
11:12when I get with a team.
11:14Why would you say that?
11:16And he has said,
11:17I'm not going to do what I have to do
11:20to be reinstated, essentially.
11:22Why would you say that?
11:25It's also bewildering.
11:26Again, these are not rational actions.
11:29And we are putting rationality,
11:32our own, on the irrational.
11:35So none of it makes any sense
11:36that it's all blood boiling.
11:37But yeah, these are the actions
11:39of a tantruming child
11:41who's holding his breath
11:42and all you have to do is not do that.
11:44I just, I can't stand it.
11:47I have said throughout,
11:48they should not sign him.
11:49This has never been something, though,
11:51where I've gone as far as to say,
11:52like, I'll be upset if they do
11:55or anything like that.
11:55It's business, it's football.
11:57Because before all this,
11:57I was going, yeah,
11:58that's worth a low-cost flyer.
11:59Give it a shot, see if he's healthy.
12:00He's a football player.
12:01Here is my new take on this.
12:03And this is now post him
12:04going at Jaden Daniels,
12:06making it personal with your quarterback.
12:09If they sign him,
12:11I will feel differently
12:16about this front office.
12:17Yeah.
12:19If they sign him,
12:21I will feel differently
12:23about this regime.
12:26I'm not going to be out,
12:27I'm not going to be done,
12:28I'm not going to be hyperbolic
12:30or anything where, you know,
12:31I'm on to the next or anything.
12:32But the trust,
12:34the confidence,
12:35the respect,
12:35frankly, the reverence
12:36that I have for
12:38the resume of Adam Peters
12:39and my appreciation
12:41for the front office.
12:42And Peters is a dude
12:43that I really, really like personally.
12:45He's come on the show a few times
12:46and hopefully will come on the show more.
12:47And he's done,
12:48I think, by and large,
12:49a very good job as an executive.
12:51They've been in an NFC title game
12:52in one of his two seasons here.
12:55If you sign Brandon Ayuk
12:56after all of this,
12:57I will think differently
12:58about this front office.
13:01Period.
13:02How could I not?
13:03Yeah.
13:03That's where I was at.
13:04He has showed you his ass
13:06so many times.
13:07It's a daily content.
13:08He's just putting up stop signs
13:10one after another
13:11after another
13:12and you're just driving through them
13:14going,
13:14hmm, what could go wrong?
13:15Hmm, what could go wrong?
13:16Are you kidding me?
13:17His big purchase
13:18has been a red flag
13:19he waves around every day.
13:20There's no chance
13:21Dan Quinn wants Brandon Ayuk
13:22in that building.
13:23I've already,
13:24and again,
13:25I will take all this back
13:27if it turns out
13:28they're not interested at all.
13:30And they just don't care
13:31about telling people
13:31they're not interested.
13:33I'll be confused
13:34as to why they didn't
13:36have any interest
13:37in telling people.
13:37But if they don't end up signing him,
13:39I'll take it all back.
13:40I already think less of them
13:42for allowing any of this to happen.
13:45Like,
13:45the way to end this
13:47is
13:48that leak to Adam Schefter,
13:50right?
13:50He'll carry your water for you.
13:52He'll read that text verbatim.
13:53Okay?
13:55Washington,
13:55it turns out,
13:57didn't actually have interest
13:58in Ayuk
13:59and they weren't sure
13:59where that was coming from.
14:00They will not be signing him.
14:02They like their receiver group,
14:03even though they're wrong.
14:04They like their receiver group.
14:05Back to you guys in studio.
14:06You give me that,
14:08spin kicks.
14:08I'll take it all back.
14:09I already have my opinion
14:13going down
14:14every single day.
14:16Because if they're entertaining
14:17this at all over there,
14:18I question all of it.
14:20Because all the rhetoric
14:21means nothing.
14:22All the brotherhood
14:23means nothing.
14:24All the,
14:25we gotta do it this way
14:25means nothing.
14:26This is
14:28entertaining
14:28the most buffoonish possible
14:30for someone that was good
14:31three years ago.
14:32What are we doing?
14:33I mean,
14:34one of the best receivers
14:35in the league
14:35was Amari Cooper that year.
14:37Where does he play right now?
14:38Do you know?
14:38And it goes off the top
14:39of your head?
14:39If you're listening to this,
14:40it's a lifetime ago
14:42in the NFL.
14:42I can't believe
14:43anyone's entertaining it.
14:45Especially executives
14:46who are trying to build
14:47something smart.
14:48If that's the plan,
14:49your plan stinks.
14:50What's at stake
14:50if they sign him
14:52in terms of
14:53how you feel
14:54about everything
14:54in the big picture?
14:55Would you feel
14:56less confident
14:57about the operation
14:59if they go get him?
15:00Or would you be
15:01understanding enough
15:02because they need a weapon
15:02and you're willing to
15:05put up with a whole lot?
15:06If the juice
15:07might be worth the squeeze.
15:08G&D on the...
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