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A former NFL wide receiver couldn’t be more confident that Washington won’t sign Brandon Aiyuk. Do you think Brandon Aiyuk has played his last down of football in the NFL?
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00:00That Brandon Iyuk would end up here in Washington, especially from him.
00:05He's been wearing burgundy.
00:07He's been saying raise hail, go commanders.
00:11Go buy your tickets.
00:13And the commanders do seem to have a need for another receiver.
00:17Maybe they're going to dress it.
00:18Maybe they won't.
00:19But here's his former coach, a guy who we know from the league, TJ Husamisada,
00:26who is part of a show, a podcast called Speak Easy.
00:32And here is TJ talking about Brandon Iyuk.
00:37No, Iyuk, it's done.
00:39It's over.
00:39Stick a fork in it.
00:40Zero.
00:40I ain't going to say this as a fact.
00:44He ain't going to the commanders.
00:46No, Iyuk, it's done.
00:48It's over.
00:48Stick a fork in it.
00:49Zero.
00:49Zero percent chance.
00:51He ain't going.
00:52I want Stephon Diggs.
00:55I like Diggs.
00:57Do we got problems off the field?
00:59Yeah, I mean, he just like to mess with women all the time.
01:03That's okay.
01:04You just don't let it become a problem.
01:06But on the field, I'm taking him.
01:08B.A., zero percent chance that he's with the commanders now.
01:16Zero percent.
01:18You know, the other day I was like, I ain't no more.
01:23I'm certain.
01:25All right, that's his opinion.
01:26I don't know.
01:26Maybe he's spoken to somebody over there in Washington, but it sounds like that's his opinion.
01:30I mean, I think that's kind of the prevailing opinion.
01:33Yeah, it is.
01:34It's hard to back him.
01:35And we just got so far off the deep end.
01:38I don't understand him.
01:39He had three or four tweets or Instagram messages over the weekend.
01:43I didn't understand him.
01:45He's a weirdo.
01:45Yeah, I missed those.
01:47I mean, I could read them.
01:49They don't make sense.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Did they make sense to you?
01:52Well, some of them, I think he was.
01:54In some of them, was he actually saying that he thinks that Shanahan wants him to come back to the
01:5849ers?
01:59Oh, if he thinks that, then I think he's really living in a delusional state.
02:04I don't know when he tweeted this or when he put this on his IG, but he says,
02:08Coach wants me to come back so I can draw all the coverage and make it easy for the guys,
02:12for the guys that remind him of himself from back in his heyday.
02:15Hey, people have career years when 11 is on the O.
02:21I'm going to guess that Shanahan wants Brandon Iyuk to fall into an active volcano and be swept away by
02:28a lava river.
02:31Husman Zada didn't just say that he was not going to come to the Commanders.
02:34He basically said, we'll never see him play again.
02:37Yeah, I mean.
02:38I don't doubt that.
02:39That's what he was saying.
02:39Seems hard to imagine it right now.
02:41He's going to have to have a pretty big turnaround.
02:44Yeah.
02:44For someone to roll the dice.
02:45Yeah, who's going to take that risk?
02:47I don't think anybody.
02:49My only theory is that if he's always been crazy like this and people just didn't know,
02:55and people have worked with him in the past, they go, we know he's crazy, but we've worked with him.
02:59We know we can make it work.
03:00That's where you would give him a shot.
03:02But if this is like a new break from reality, new crazy, then I think it's not worth it.
03:06I hope he realizes that the NFL is bigger than Brandon Iyuk.
03:10The NFL is going to continue with or without him.
03:14I don't know.
03:14I mean, he just wants to stay relevant.
03:16So he thinks by posting all these dumb tweets and Instagram posts that he is, and he's doing nothing but
03:23hurting himself.
03:23I mean, he's got a cool BMX bike.
03:26Maybe he's going to get into motocross.
03:29I don't know.
03:29That's the latest posting I'm seeing from him on the gram.
03:33Well, that's his latest post.
03:34Some of these things show up as stories, right, which are only up for 24 hours.
03:39He says, people have career years when 11 on the O.
03:44Everybody eat no kizzy.
03:46I hold the NFL record for making plays with the least amount of opportunities.
03:50I'm looking for my op because I'm going to capitalize and win a bowl.
03:54I'm not going to fumble it away.
03:55Hey, I'm done playing backseat to folks who not like that.
04:02Well, here's an interesting thing.
04:04This would be my, it's actually a Brandon Iyuk recommendation.
04:07It's a little out there, but the 49ers camp starts July 26th on Sunday.
04:15Okay.
04:15So less than a week away.
04:17Right.
04:18Brandon Iyuk should show up.
04:19Now he's got to do his reinstatement because is he not under contract?
04:24Isn't that part of the deal?
04:25Well, he's still under contract.
04:26That he needs to be cut or released by the 49ers.
04:29Yes.
04:29Correct.
04:29So he needs to show up.
04:31He's still a member of their team.
04:32If he wants to do a wacky, bring a camera crew and see what happens when you show up
04:38to camp.
04:40Show up full helmet, full gear.
04:42No, he should show up and then he'd be taken into an office with John Lynch or whoever and
04:46they would draw up their reinstatement papers.
04:49Right.
04:49He would sign them and then I would guess they would immediately cut him and call security
04:55and have him escorted off the premises.
04:58And then you can see the next step that he's such a donk that it doesn't even seem like
05:04he's going to do that.
05:05Until he gets reinstated, there's no need even talking about him because he's like a ghost.
05:11He's irrelevant.
05:12He's irrelevant until he's...
05:13Like you can't do it.
05:14Like the commanders can't express any sort of interest in him while he's still a member
05:19of the 49ers.
05:19But they can't even talk about him.
05:20Nor can any other team.
05:21Let me ask you guys a question.
05:23So we've been following sort of the daily drama of IUK all summer.
05:28Yeah, lucky us.
05:29Well, I mean, it's a team we cover and it's so...
05:32I mean, it was a big story this summer.
05:34It's understandable.
05:35It's dying down quickly.
05:37Yeah.
05:37Where did he...
05:38Did he cross the line when he trashed Jaden and that's the red line and that's why?
05:44Or is it a cumulative thing?
05:45It's just all too crazy.
05:47And even if he didn't trash Jaden, you can't mess with him.
05:51I think it's both.
05:53I think it's just the volume of the, you know, his social media presence and just crushing
05:58his former team and then, you know, just going scorched earth on who you thought was
06:03one of his big allies here with the commanders in Jaden.
06:07I think it's all of it.
06:08To me, it's that one.
06:09If he hadn't trashed Jaden and his mom and really seemed like he turned his back on his
06:14best friend, allegedly, I think it might have still been something there.
06:19But to me, that's where he crossed the line.
06:20I think it's cumulative.
06:22I mean, most of the videos were stupid.
06:25Remember the one where he took all the money and just was throwing it around in the closet?
06:29What about the one where he was doing that dumb dance?
06:31Yeah.
06:31Most of it's...
06:32Yeah, but that alone doesn't preclude a team from signing you.
06:35It just shows you're being goofy on social media.
06:37It's just accumulatively, he seems.
06:40None of us know.
06:41We're going to have some sort of psychological diagnosis of the guy, but he seems like a
06:46guy who's off.
06:47Yeah, he does.
06:48Yeah.
06:48He seems unstable.
06:49But you know what?
06:49There are still Commanders fans that still want him.
06:53It's a small percentage.
06:54It's a lot smaller.
06:55It's probably dying down a little bit.
06:56And it's a lot smaller.
06:57It has gotten smaller, but I still don't understand the obsession that Commanders fans have with
07:04Brandon Ayoub.
07:05Anytime you criticize him, they treat it like you're critiquing Art Monk.
07:12Not anymore.
07:13Rigo Green or Rigo.
07:15Maybe a small percentage, but not like it was a month ago.
07:18He's lost a lot of his followers and people that wanted him to be here, but, man, Commanders
07:24fans, they definitely act weird about Brandon Ayoub.
07:26When I called him weird, I was attacked.
07:29Now, if you call him weird, people understand he's weird.
07:32Right.
07:33I mean, no one's going to argue that.
07:35I think it stemmed from the supposed friendship with Jaden Daniels.
07:41To me, that's where he went overboard.
07:43That's what I'm saying.
07:44I think that the fervor for Brandon Ayoub, he's a fine player when he was healthy, but
07:50not necessarily any better than Stefan Diggs, but the preference originally for Brandon
07:55Ayoub was because of the connection with Jaden Daniels.
07:57Yeah, I think so.
07:59If they sign...
08:00There's a connection, but we don't know how tight the connection is.
08:03Yeah, that's right.
08:03I've said that all along.
08:04I just have no idea.
08:05If they sign Diggs, I don't think anybody would talk about Ayoub ever again in this
08:08hell.
08:08Oh, yeah.
08:09He would fade.
08:10They'd be all in on Stefan Diggs.
08:11I don't have an idea.
08:13They'd be all in.
08:14I just can't imagine Ayoub being successful at this point.
08:18It's hard to imagine.
08:20It's hard to imagine ever seeing him.
08:21Like if the Raiders decided to sign him, is he all of a sudden going to have an eight
08:24touchdown, 1,200 yard season?
08:25I would find it hard to believe.
08:27Who's the most wide receiver starved team in the NFL right now?
08:32Where you look at their roster and they don't have like a one or a two that anybody respects.
08:37The Raiders are probably one of them.
08:38I mean, Raiders have to be in the bottom of two or three.
08:41Isn't the Browns really terrible?
08:42They drafted a couple of young guys in Concepcion.
08:45Did they also draft Denzel Boston?
08:48I think so.
08:49I think they drafted both of those guys.
08:51But I mean, they have holdovers like Jerry Judy.
08:53Like there's nothing special there in Cleveland.
08:55So maybe a team like that could do it.
08:57Yes, Concepcion and Boston on their depth chart are listed as the number two and number three
09:01receivers.
09:02You know what?
09:02I'm going to have to bet whatever I've left in some of my minuscule accounts on the Browns
09:07under and wins this year.
09:09They are going to be abysmal.
09:13Not if it's the Deshaun Watson comeback.
09:15I don't believe in the Deshaun Watson comeback.
09:18They got Munkin, right?
09:19Munkin is there, yeah.
09:20Do you think, I think the IU thing is out of the equation at this point.
09:25What's the likelihood you think that they'll sign someone like a Diggs or his pedigree?
09:3150%.
09:32Are you guys going to go, I'm going to be out of town, are you guys going to go, Jason
09:37and I went last year to, I think it's DC Prime, it might be a different spot, to go schmooze
09:43with Adam Peters and Quinn.
09:45It's next Monday, and yes, I'm going.
09:46I haven't committed to it, but I probably will go.
09:49You should go and ask, like Jason last year tried to pull a question that he was told not
09:53to ask.
09:53Do you remember?
09:55Well, I told him, I told him, this is out of the record.
09:57What was the question?
09:58It was about Lattimore.
10:00Oh, it was about Lattimore.
10:01You think I'm going to schmooze with Peters and Quinn?
10:03I'm going to schmooze with like the Rooster and Ben Standing.
10:06I'm not going to schmooze with the Power Players.
10:09Well, I don't really care about Peters because he's not going to talk to anybody.
10:12He only talks to a few people.
10:13Yeah, yeah.
10:13DQ, I'll talk to.
10:14Sure.
10:15DQ is nice.
10:16Because you guys are both gulls.
10:18Both gulls.
10:19He's easy to talk to.
10:20He's a nice guy.
10:21I talk to Sean, you know, the PR guys are great guys.
10:24It's good to show up.
10:25Sure.
10:26And he gets some good food.
10:27Good to have some FaceTime.
10:28But yes, you end up talking to Chick Hernandez most of the time.
10:30Yeah, I'll talk to everybody else on the commander's beat.
10:34Well, everybody wants to talk to DQ, so you kind of have to get him right when he walks
10:38in the door.
10:38That's fine.
10:39That's what we did when we were there together.
10:40And I said hi to him, and you talked to him for like six minutes before you went into
10:44the whole media scrum.
10:45Correct.
10:46Probably the same dynamical workout this year.
10:49Well, we'll see.
10:49It's all good.
10:51But I don't know.
10:52I think the chances of them signing one of these big name guys is much less than 50%.
10:56Yeah, I think it's like 20%.
10:57I think it's around there.
10:59I think they...
10:59I think they...
11:01For some reason, I think they like the mix that they have.
11:03And I think Antonio Williams is going to get more action in this offense than a lot of
11:08people think.
11:08I think they really like his potential.
11:10They have a lot of money left, right?
11:11Mm-hmm.
11:12Cap space.
11:12They have a decent amount of cap space, yeah.
11:15I think they've just been waiting, and the price is going down on these guys.
11:20That's what they're doing, just playing a waiting game?
11:22I think so.
11:23If they really wanted them, I think they'd go after them.
11:25The whole league is waiting to sign.
11:27I don't think Debo Samuel, Stefan Diggs, Keenan Allen, DeAndre Hopkins, all these guys,
11:33I don't think all of them are going to just not play this year.
11:36I think they're going to be signed.
11:37I think they'll play for nothing, but...
11:39I just don't think it's going to be here.
11:40Nobody really particularly is desperate for them.
11:43They'll just sign them, because they're proven NFL guys.
11:45I think Brandon Ayuk is borderline insane, but I will still use a flyer in some fantasy
11:52drafts and pick him in the 18th round, if he's still out there on the board.
11:56I'd let you pick him.
11:57I'll just pick him.
11:57I feel like that's a wasted pick.
11:58I'll stash him on my roster.
11:59That's a wasted pick.
12:00That's like my name is Debo.
12:02So are most other picks in the 18th round?
12:0318, that's deep.
12:05Or 16th round, whatever.
12:06Yeah, it's deep.
12:07I'll grasp, and then I'll cut him after week two.
12:10That's fine.
12:10And then week four, he'll blow up.
12:12Even if you're not, he's not going to put any numbers on you.
12:15I don't think, I'm almost willing to bet, I don't think he's going to play ever again.
12:18He has yet to post one video of him running, catching balls, working out, lifting a weight.
12:24I've been saying that for weeks.
12:26Yeah.
12:26But if Deami Brown gets hurt early in camp, or if Williams, or somebody gets banged up,
12:33I could see them going out.
12:34Hey, I'm still waiting for Debo to sign a $20 million a year deal.
12:37I think he'll be waiting a long time for that.
12:40He'll be lucky to make $20 million in his whole career, even if he plays another five years.
12:44You're probably right at this point.
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12:50We are less than a week from training camp for the Washington Commanders.
12:53So we've been going through the positions.
12:55Coming up next, we're going to tackle the secondary.
12:58How improved is Washington, and where do they stack up in the division?
13:01We're going to tackle the secondary.
13:01We're going to take a long time.
13:02How good is Washington, and here's the secondary.