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JP asked Adam Peters about Brandon Aiyuk yesterday and the Commanders' general manager didn't exactly shoot down the possibility of adding him.
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00:00All right. Last night was a presser. I've been trying to think all week how to ask about Brandon Iyuk
00:06in a manner that would actually get an answer.
00:09And what's really funny is people hear different things. Jeff, tell me when you're ready for this and we'll just
00:14play.
00:15Okay, we'll play my exchange last night. It was kind of with Dan Quinn and Adam Peters asking about social
00:21media.
00:21Adam, what for you, just in a general sense, as you're always looking to improve the team,
00:25when you're evaluating guys to maybe bring in for workouts, whatever, what role, if any, does kind of a player's
00:31social media have in that evaluation process?
00:35That's a good roundabout question.
00:37What a badass you are. Straight badass right there.
00:40I mean, we look at everything, JP. I mean, it's a great question, but we do look at everything.
00:45And, you know, we want to make sure it's the right player to be in our locker room, in our
00:49bloodstream, in our culture.
00:51And, you know, we often, you know, we look at that stuff. I mean, it's not always the first thing
00:56we look at.
00:56Obviously, you're looking at the tape and you talk to the teams that the players have been on
01:01and how they were in the locker room, the players that have played with them, and so on and so
01:06forth to make those decisions.
01:07But, you know, that's not usually a huge part of it, usually.
01:13Good job.
01:14Well played.
01:16Both of you.
01:18As soon as I saw that last night, I called you.
01:23And you didn't answer. You called me back.
01:25I was laughing.
01:27I was on a trip. I was on a Peloton.
01:29I was dying.
01:29I was wondering what you were doing.
01:30I was dying laughing.
01:31I couldn't stop laughing.
01:33I'd say, JP was going to find a way to ask that damn question.
01:37Every once in a while, we get one, B.
01:39You know, I just, I think it's really interesting because I think different people hear different things.
01:48And I don't know, to me, when he added the extra usually, I think that, to me, was apparent that
01:57this level of social media has made some level of impression.
02:02Now, to be fully clear, fully transparent, I asked him a general question and gave me a general answer.
02:10So, perhaps it's not applicable to the situation whatsoever.
02:13Well, it was applicable because he said, he said, nine times out of ten, they don't look at it.
02:22Right.
02:23Until they have to look at it, in a sense.
02:25And I would think that the person that everyone insinuated you were discussing, they have to look at his stuff
02:33now.
02:34Yeah.
02:35I just want to know, I'm going to ask anybody, anybody get an autograph out of the 500 people who
02:39are going to be able to get an autograph for yesterday?
02:41Who knows if that was real or fake?
02:43I don't care.
02:44I'm asking the question.
02:45I want to know.
02:48Did he get an autograph?
02:50No.
02:51Okay.
02:51Well.
02:53I think it's interesting with IU, like, I'm curious.
02:56We can go around the horn here.
02:58Jeff, what did you hear from AP's answer on social media?
03:04To be honest, what I heard was, it's still a possibility.
03:08See, it's interesting.
03:10People take that differently.
03:12Why do you say that?
03:14Because it wasn't, he said he'd take that and, like, he'd look at it, but it's not really a deciding
03:21factor.
03:21All I heard from that was, yeah, he wilding out on social media, but if he could play, he could
03:27play.
03:27We'll figure that out when we asked the other teams how he was with his teammates.
03:32That's what I really heard.
03:33Yeah.
03:34I think, but also, you got to understand, when you ask, you heard other people start saying stuff about how
03:41he says he's that.
03:42But you start asking those questions when you start thinking about the person being in your locker room doing the
03:48stuff that he's doing.
03:49It makes a difference at that point.
03:51You know, no, it's not one or two.
03:55But if it becomes an issue, then that's a problem.
03:58You know what I mean?
03:59Because normally, nobody's social media is mentioned.
04:03Right.
04:04When it starts being mentioned, then it has stepped, it has creeped into being a problem range.
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04:15What did you hear from Adam Peters' answer about the role social media has in player evaluation?
04:20I don't think it's at the top of the list.
04:22Let me be crystal clear.
04:23But I think certain things can get to a certain point where it becomes a factor.
04:29And I just wonder, I mean, I truly, we've seen all sorts of crazy behavior in pro sports.
04:36But I don't know that in pro sports we've ever seen the specific behavior that Brandon Ayuk has deployed where
04:43it's all about joining one team.
04:45Like, it'd be one thing if he was, we have seen players pout and tweet and Instagram their way off
04:53of teams.
04:54Like, you could fight your way off a team.
04:56Yeah.
04:56You could make clear you want to join X team.
04:59But the consistency, like, when you talk about social media.
05:03He had a production team doing this.
05:04Yo, it's about, like, brand consistency and building an audience that has expectations.
05:10He's accomplished those.
05:12I ask this question.
05:15You don't get on to the team you've been trying to get on to.
05:19What kind of assault coming after that?
05:22That's a good question, man.
05:24You know, but, like, the thing, I mean, I was talking with Dave.
05:29Dave said, bro, you keep saying one thing.
05:34If he wants to play, he would go out there and file the paperwork he needs to file.
05:41And I was talking with someone else who said, yeah.
05:44And he would file the paperwork to file the agent that he has that's still his agent.
05:50Think about that.
05:51Yeah.
05:52He, not only has he not filed the paperwork, he has not filed the paperwork to get rid of the
05:57agent that he says not his agent anymore.
06:01So, does he really want to play, bro?
06:03I do think the paperwork on the agency stuff got filed.
06:06But the Niner stuff remains the biggest.
06:10Not based on who I heard it from, Jay.
06:12Really?
06:12Okay.
06:13Let's hit these phones.
06:14Sean is in Falls Church.
06:15What's up, Sean?
06:15Sean, what did you hear from the AP social media conversation?
06:20I want to applaud you, JP.
06:22That was the right way to ask the question.
06:24You broached the subject without outright saying B.A., and I just, I love that.
06:31Thanks, bud.
06:31I think that, yeah, of course, no, it's, I mean, you're doing, you're actually doing your job in that sense,
06:38and then you actually get an answer, which I think that when they say nine times out of ten,
06:42I think that B.A. is that one out of ten.
06:45I think that's the kind of situation where you're just like, I just don't want to touch it with a
06:50ten-foot pole.
06:51He's just, he's just enough crazy and just enough on the social media to where he's going to be cancer
06:58in the locker room,
06:58and I just can't get past that.
07:02All right, bro.
07:02It's a fair take, man.
07:04It is funny, though, because I do think different people heard the answer differently.
07:10That's correct.
07:11Yeah, I appreciate it, Sean.
07:12Thanks for the call, bud.
07:13Cheers.
07:14Some people hear it as, yeah, maybe, but, you know, we take the play on the field
07:19and talking to teammates more importantly, and others heard it as this is the exception
07:24where it matters too much.
07:26Let's go to Jeremiah in Fairfax.
07:28What's up, Jerry?
07:30Hey, how y'all doing?
07:31Thanks for having me on.
07:32So I heard, it was your question, I believe.
07:34It was a good question.
07:35I heard the question.
07:35I heard his answer.
07:36My takeaway from that was by his reaction, he clearly understood the question behind the question
07:42or what you were insinuating or referencing, and he could have had a lot of different answers
07:48that would have maybe been a little more harsh, would have closed the door on the idea of Ayuk.
07:53So I think with his answer, he did leave the door open for that signing, and whether he actually genuinely
07:59does feel that way or he does have grievances that he just doesn't want to air out in the media,
08:04that's a question or an answer we'll probably never know.
08:08But I just think with his answer, he left the door open for Ayuk coming here.
08:12He could have been a lot harsher.
08:13He could have been a lot more strict about his answer, and he purposely didn't do that.
08:16So that's my take.
08:17Thank you for taking my call.
08:19Appreciate it, man.
08:20I mean, there's, you can hear it a lot of different ways, and they definitely haven't closed the door.
08:28I don't think they can give you a definitive answer without thinking that they could be,
08:34you know what I'm saying, crossing some line.
08:37You know what I mean?
08:38Yeah.
08:39I don't think they can do that.
08:41Yeah.
08:41I think they have to toe the line at this point.
08:45Because I got a bunch of people replying to me last night, like, why didn't you just ask them about
08:49Ayuk?
08:49It's like, well, you're not allowed to.
08:51And it gives them what I – I wanted to present a question that would get answered.
08:55You can just say Ayuk, and they're going to say, we can't talk about someone who's on another team.
08:59Right.
08:59Let's hit our boy Manny in Southeast.
09:01What's up, Manny?
09:06Manny, are you there, bud?
09:08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:08Hey, fellas, how y'all doing?
09:10We good, buddy.
09:11How are you?
09:12How am I saying there's people on the radio doing number one sports talk show in the world?
09:17You understand me?
09:18Appreciate you, bro.
09:21I didn't get nothing from Adam.
09:22I heard Adam Peters say, y'all mind that stuff, don't bother him.
09:26I mean, y'all make more of it than he did.
09:29That's what I heard.
09:30Listen, your question was calculated.
09:34Your question was – listen, let me tell you something.
09:37Well, you did your thing.
09:40But all I heard him, blow it off.
09:43But let me ask you a question, Manny.
09:45What you think he's going to say?
09:47See, J.P. knew he wasn't going to get a direct answer.
09:50No, no, no, no, no, no.
09:50You ask me what I – no, no, no, no, no.
09:52No, you can't do that.
09:53No, why?
09:53Because then the question is irrelevant.
09:56No, no, no.
09:57He asked you a question.
09:59I'm now asking you my question.
10:01And my question is what you thought he was going to say.
10:04He knew he wasn't going to get no answer from that question.
10:08Right.
10:09I understand what you're saying.
10:10But to make that question – pose that question to these people,
10:14the Commanders fans and the Washington football team fans,
10:17Redskins know what was going to happen.
10:19That's why you keep talking the way you talk.
10:21You are Redskins.
10:22You know how this thing moves.
10:24You know how he going to work.
10:26So the question in itself is how fly was the question that J.P. asked?
10:31No, that should – we should be – that was it right there.
10:35But at the end of the day, he pretty much said,
10:39man, y'all worried about that more than I do because of the –
10:43So, Manny, can I ask you – can I ask you something?
10:46What's that?
10:47Go ahead.
10:47You have been a staunch B.A. advocate for some time.
10:51He was doing some moonwalking.
10:52But you even backed away from it a little bit.
10:55Do you feel like there's a better possibility now?
10:59No, I'm not – I'm not – I don't switch up.
11:03I backed up because he's not handling his business.
11:07It's a business thing.
11:09Now, if he – I wouldn't care what he did on social media.
11:12If he get in here and he bust – if he – and he bust butt
11:16and he do what he's supposed to do and he provide
11:19and be a productive part of this team, I don't care what he did to them people.
11:25You know what I'm saying?
11:26Them people don't – I don't care.
11:28I'm a red skin.
11:29Washingtonian.
11:30It's the logo that I represent.
11:33You know what I'm saying?
11:33Appreciate you, Manny.
11:34Always appreciate your calls, bud.
11:36Always good to talk to you.
11:38Let's hit my guy.
11:39Chris is in D.C.
11:40What's up, Chris?
11:42Hey, I just want to know, do D.C. still have play with Brian Ae?
11:48I don't know if he – if he still is working with them
11:55since he's still under contract with them.
11:58I'm sorry.
11:59Ask the question one more time.
12:02I would love to know if Brian Ae is still under contract with the 49ers.
12:10Yes, San Francisco.
12:12Yes, yes.
12:14That's not how they're – can you turn your radio?
12:16Thank you for the call, dude.
12:17Yeah, for those that are unaware, Ae still is under contract with the Niners.
12:23And until he files – because he's on the reserve left squad list,
12:28they can keep him in purgatory until he files his paperwork to rejoin the team
12:33and goes to San Francisco for practice.
12:36Like, until those things occur, he'll just remain where he is,
12:40which is limbo, if you will.
12:43Like, he's in Nowheresville, basically.
12:47We'll go to an impartial observer.
12:49Assuming why Brian's able to speak, Dubby, what did you hear from AP?
12:55I think they're sick of the conversation.
12:59I don't – I heard we're not going to sign this guy
13:02and we want to focus on the team we have here.
13:05I think that's closer to what I heard as well.
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13:14The word to me was the second usually at the end.
13:18Like, usually it's not a big deal.
13:19Usually.
13:20And I would suggest this has gotten to the unusual portion.
13:25Oh, it's unusual.
13:26Yeah.
13:29But I find it fascinating how different people can hear different things.
13:33But you got to realize, though, Jay, that's kind of life, right?
13:35People that are leaning towards it and people that are swayed by that type of stuff,
13:41they're not going to hear anything opposite of what they want to hear.
13:44That's just happening.
13:45The people that have already gotten tired of it,
13:47they're not going to hear anything besides that.
13:50But I don't know what they expected him to say,
13:55knowing the conditions and the situation that they're in.
13:58You're talking about a guy who's under contract with someone else.
14:01Right.
14:02So they weren't going to say nothing else.
14:04Yeah, man, it is fascinating to watch unfold.
14:07Also, I don't think you and I have had a chance to talk about this yet.
14:10Did you see that Kyle Shanahan, there's like a new update?
14:15Yeah, that they thought that supposedly the young lady had crossed the line,
14:19but he said he crossed the line.
14:21And it got misreported in the police report?
14:24Yeah.
14:25I don't know, man.
14:27So here we go, though.
14:28It's a lot of questions about this whole thing.
14:31And I understand Brandon puts himself in people attacking for it.
14:36But I got questions about this accident, bro.
14:41Can I say something that perhaps is uncouth?
14:46Of all the IUK social media stuff, like he's called these coaches female dogs, right?
14:52Everything, yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:53I actually thought IUK's response to Kyle's car accident was kind of funny.
14:58It's only funny because he's okay.
15:00Like if he's injured, but like if something significant had happened
15:03or the young woman was hurt or whatever.
15:04But like for all the grief he got for driving 100 past the stadium
15:10to then have the coach, I heard, and I don't know that this is accurate,
15:16but does your car, I don't know if all electric cars have,
15:20but Tesla has the auto drive function where you got to be like sitting in the car
15:25and alert, but Elon's driving it.
15:28You know what I mean?
15:28No.