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Willard and Dibs discuss the latest on Brandon Aiyuk as he prepares for a meeting with the 49ers in Santa Clara.
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00:00Niners have no injury designation on Nick Bosa or Christian McCaffrey.
00:04They are good to go this weekend.
00:06Mike Evans is out. Debo Samuel is out.
00:08Christian Kirk has suffered a new injury.
00:10He is out.
00:12Demarcus Robinson is trending in the right direction to play this weekend.
00:15So is Upton Stout.
00:16There are other names in there as well, but that's the health update.
00:19And here's the update from Kyle Shanahan today
00:21when hundreds descended on Levi's Stadium and the facility
00:27to get answers on the Brandon Ayuk situation.
00:29Kyle, there's buzz about Brandon Ayuk and Drew Rosenhaus
00:33coming and going to the business offices, meeting with team officials.
00:38Well, will you have any role in that?
00:40No.
00:41We're going to talk about Ayuk.
00:43What's going to happen today?
00:44What's that?
00:45We're going to talk about Ayuk.
00:47What's going to happen today?
00:48No clue. Your guess is as good as mine.
00:50What would you like to see happen?
00:52Could care less.
00:54Is there an incentive for you guys to kind of have this thing
00:59and just be over as quickly as possible
01:01just with all the noise that's going around with it?
01:03It's been over for our football team for a long time,
01:05so I don't hear much except questions about him today.
01:09But it's not too big of a deal for me to answer.
01:11Is it your understanding that if he comes off the reserve list
01:16that he goes automatically onto the active list
01:19and that you guys would have to make a transaction to accommodate that?
01:25I'd have to ask a lot of questions to get that answer.
01:27I think it's complicated.
01:29So I haven't asked one question.
01:31So I look at this as zero to do with our football team.
01:35Anything that has zero to do with our football team,
01:37especially during the season, I will give zero thoughts to.
01:41But doesn't it affect your roster?
01:42That affects your football team?
01:44I'm sure if it did, people would be letting me know.
01:47There it is.
01:47So that's everything from Kyle Shanahan.
01:50And the only thing that I take issue with
01:52with that one minute and 17 seconds,
01:54Granny whispered it in my ear too.
01:55This is actually more of a dibs thing.
01:57I'm surprised this doesn't bother you more.
02:00My only English-language pet peeve.
02:04Ladies and gentlemen of America,
02:06it's not I could care less.
02:08It's I couldn't care less.
02:10If you could care less, then you care.
02:13Well, he might care at a 1% level, so he could care less.
02:17His message was very much that he did not care.
02:19That's the way you're taking it,
02:21and the way I heard it is I could care less.
02:22No, it's 100% what it is.
02:23And he could care less,
02:25meaning he might care at 0.1%
02:27because he's being asked and stuff,
02:30and he's being bothered by it,
02:31so he actually could care less.
02:33That's not what he was saying, you know.
02:34You're just being a contrarian now.
02:37I am because the expression is I could not care less.
02:39Rick Perry was one of the all-time great.
02:41I could not care less.
02:43But you also could care less about something
02:45that you care just a tiny little notch about less.
02:48Right, but he cannot care.
02:50Come on, people.
02:51He doesn't care at all.
02:52He did actually say 0%.
02:54That is crazy.
02:55Yeah, he doesn't care.
02:56He doesn't know.
02:57He doesn't want to know.
02:59This is a big sum zero for Kyle.
03:02So just add the N' in there next time, big fella.
03:06It's fine.
03:07It is to you.
03:08You get mad at all the other little...
03:10I don't get mad, but I...
03:11Don't say I'll take my answer off the air
03:13because that's not what...
03:14It's actually obvious.
03:15I haven't mentioned that in a year and a half,
03:16and I can always give you your answer off the air
03:18if you give me your phone number.
03:20It's not a problem.
03:21Or address.
03:22Right.
03:22I'm not going to...
03:23I know your dibs.
03:24Exactly.
03:25Yeah, that's just...
03:26I mean, that's just people being lazy.
03:28I mean, it's only 10 months old.
03:30I was going to say,
03:31I haven't gotten any in November.
03:33There's a little baby this year.
03:34No, I'm just early.
03:35Well, and yeah, that's just pathetic,
03:37but all the first-time callers we had
03:39from the Valks Parade,
03:40none of them said,
03:41oh, Happy New Year.
03:42I'm just telling you,
03:43this year is only 10 months old.
03:44If it were a baby,
03:45people would still be congratulating the parents.
03:47Yeah, you'd be waiting for it to walk.
03:49Brand new.
03:49That's for sure.
03:50Trey and Vallejo.
03:51Hi, Trey.
03:52Thanks for calling us today.
03:54888-957-9570 is the number.
03:56It's Willard and Dibbs.
03:57Chris Depp's Porzingis has released his statement.
04:00Brandon Ayuk apparently reportedly
04:01on his way to the facility right now
04:03with Drew Rosenhaus in 18 minutes,
04:05and Kyle could not care less.
04:08Hi, Trey.
04:09Thanks for calling.
04:11Hey, what's going on with you guys today?
04:13How you guys feel today?
04:14So good.
04:15What's up?
04:16Happy Friday, ma'am.
04:18Pleasure to be on here.
04:19I'm just excited about the game this weekend.
04:21Let me start it off.
04:22My Raiders are back in town.
04:24Long-time Raider fan.
04:26Used to tear up the Coliseum, tailgates, and everything.
04:29Love our chances going into this game this Sunday.
04:32I realize the Niners have got the better team,
04:34but I think we can win.
04:35They got a lot of things going on over there
04:37with the Brandon Ayuk.
04:38Hopefully, that's a distraction.
04:39But I love our chances.
04:41I like the way Kirk Cousins is playing.
04:43You guys recognize it.
04:45You know.
04:45We could put up points on the offensive side.
04:48It's the defensive side I'm worried about.
04:49But if we get a few stops here and there,
04:51I don't think they got nobody who could cover our guys.
04:54We got to address that on the Niner side.
04:56We don't cover Brock.
04:58His name's Fred Warner.
05:00Have you ever met him?
05:02And he'll get dusty.
05:04Okay.
05:05I'll do that too, right?
05:06You know what, Trey?
05:07Trey, I love how you feel about your team.
05:11I am equally as confident in the other direction
05:15that this is a double-digit win for the 49ers.
05:17But you know what?
05:18One of us is going to be right,
05:20and one of us is going to be wrong,
05:21and that's the fun of sports.
05:22So I hope you'll call again on Monday.
05:25All right.
05:26I definitely will.
05:27I'll check back in.
05:28Okay, Trey.
05:29Preece.
05:30Thanks, Trey.
05:31Yep.
05:31I do think that that is an interesting matchup.
05:34If the Niners can't pressure Kirk Cousins,
05:37then they might be in a little bit of trouble
05:39trying to defend those two tight ends.
05:41And, you know,
05:42Gente out of the backfield,
05:43the only thing he's done well this year
05:44is catch the ball.
05:45And so is it Nick Bosa?
05:47Is it Odigie Zua?
05:49Is it Defoe, DeForest Buckner?
05:50Are they able to get to Kirk Cousins
05:52and make him uncomfortable?
05:53That, to me, is the essence of the game.
05:56And you said it all week,
05:57like, go ahead and put the Niners down for 30,
05:59and we'll do the pick 10 later,
06:01and you probably will pick the Niners
06:02to be a team that scores 30.
06:04I'm not sure if you've done it already,
06:05but I do think that that could be a thing.
06:09And, you know,
06:09I'm not sure if they can hold the Raiders under 20,
06:11so the point spread at 9.5 becomes interesting.
06:14I like it as a double-digit win.
06:16I just really do.
06:17I love the Niners this week.
06:18I'm not afraid to say that.
06:20I think that the defensive line,
06:22for the first time in, I don't know,
06:247,000 years,
06:26is at complete and full strength
06:28and actually has some real dogs on it now.
06:31The Raiders' offensive line is not very good.
06:33Yes, this team throws and puts up points.
06:36They often are doing it because they're down by a lot
06:39when they're playing good teams.
06:41Like, they put up big numbers against the Rams,
06:43but you'll notice it's because they quickly got down
06:46by two, two-and-a-half touchdowns.
06:49Look, they can sling it a little bit
06:52if you get into a shootout,
06:53but they did that at home against the Bills and Chiefs.
06:56They got into shootouts that they lost.
06:58They went on the road to the New England Patriots,
07:00and they looked the opposite of formidable.
07:03I think the Raiders are much better
07:05than they've been at years past,
07:06but this is a bad spot for them.
07:08It's a bad matchup for them.
07:11That's just my take on it.
07:12We'll see if I'm wrong,
07:13but I'm all over the Niners this weekend.
07:17Yeah, and the pick is in,
07:17and if you haven't been following along,
07:19like, I've never been hotter in terms of fading me.
07:23Last night was a great example.
07:24Is it four in a row for you?
07:25It might be even more than four,
07:27but it's been quite a stretch since I actually won a game,
07:30and I thought that Fignano might be a little better than that,
07:34and then that thing got away from him,
07:36and so you could no longer use Derrick Henry,
07:38and they waved the white flag
07:39about halfway through the fourth quarter.
07:40There's one thing in the NFL that screams to me,
07:43just don't even use your remote control,
07:46and it's third-string quarterback.
07:49When you get to the third string,
07:51we had a hard enough time on some teams
07:54with their first string.
07:55We got teams all over the country
07:57that can't even figure out who they want.
08:00The Vikings are like,
08:01we don't even know what the hell we want to do
08:03at the quarterback position.
08:05They might acquire Daniel Jones,
08:07who the Colts don't want,
08:09as their first-string quarterback.
08:12It's such a mess on certain teams,
08:13but a lot of teams have a one.
08:15Very, very few have a two.
08:18Nobody's got a three.
08:20So that game was unfortunate last night,
08:23and it started raining.
08:24That poor kid,
08:26I mean, he was just completely thrown to the Wolves.
08:28They had already acquired his replacement,
08:31but he wasn't ready to play,
08:32so Jacoby Brissett will get the next game.
08:34It's raining.
08:35You're playing a really good team against Jacksonville.
08:37You're a third-stringer.
08:39That dude had no shot.
08:41None.
08:42He got thrown to the Wolves last night.
08:44Right.
08:44I mean, they were in it-ish
08:46until that last touchdown before the half
08:49that made it 17-3,
08:50and then you kind of realized,
08:51okay, now you're down by 14,
08:53and you've got Fignano,
08:54who hasn't been able to complete anything,
08:57and I love the fact that they cut to his wife
08:59in the late first quarter,
09:01and it's like she's loving it.
09:03Yeah, your husband's a starting quarterback in the NFL.
09:06That's great,
09:06and I think that's why they cut to her early
09:09to make sure we get this on the books.
09:11She was liking it early.
09:13I mean, she was liking the fact
09:15that her husband is a starting quarterback.
09:17Good for you.
09:17I mean, you can always,
09:19like someday Fignano will be at a holiday party,
09:22and he'll be the guy that one time
09:24started a game in the National Football League
09:27on Thursday night football.
09:29But, like, you take the over one and a half
09:31on career starts.
09:33Career over!
09:35I don't know, dog.
09:37I don't know.
09:38Jonathan in the city.
09:38Hi, Jonathan.
09:39Thanks for the call today, man.
09:40What's up?
09:42Hey, happy Friday.
09:44Thanks for taking my phone call.
09:45I got a comment about the Ayuk situation,
09:48and if I was the 49ers,
09:50I'm going to send him a party of five,
09:53all in full hazmat suit,
09:54because he's a very toxic individual.
09:57And they're also going to read a statement,
09:59and the statement's going to read like this.
10:01Because we, the 49ers,
10:03only care about retrieving the money that you owe us.
10:07And then,
10:10they're going to give him a box with a parting gift.
10:14And what's in the box?
10:15A straitjacket.
10:17And before they leave,
10:18they're going to wish him good luck
10:20and say,
10:20good luck to you, sir.
10:21You're going to need a donor
10:23and a brain transplant.
10:25How dare you?
10:26Repay us this way
10:28when we've given you exactly what you wanted.
10:31And as far as the Warriors are concerned,
10:34nobody's going to tell me to curb my enthusiasm.
10:36Go Warriors.
10:37Go Niners.
10:38Let's go.
10:38Yeah.
10:39You don't need to curb it.
10:40Yeah, don't curb your enthusiasm.
10:41Why would you?
10:42Like, that's what this is all about.
10:44I'm not going to start talking championship
10:46or window or any of that.
10:48I'm going to start talking about six wins in a row,
10:50which is awesome.
10:51The Warriors are very, very watchable.
10:53We'll get to that coming up.
10:55I don't think the 49ers are going to release a statement at all.
10:58You'll notice Iyuk is the one releasing a statement.
11:02Porzingis is the one releasing a statement
11:04because they're the ones
11:05who have kind of had things go the wrong direction.
11:09The team doesn't need to release a statement.
11:11I think they released their statement.
11:13Kyle Shanahan's statement is,
11:14we don't give a bleep.
11:17And we'll believe any of this when we see it.
11:20And if it gets to the football world,
11:23then we'll address it.
11:25But it ain't going to get to the football world.
11:27Like this, I love what Kyle said today.
11:29That, to me, was the most important thing.
11:31And that was my only question.
11:33Why didn't you say this off the top of the week?
11:35This has nothing to do with our football team.
11:40And this isn't about, like, anything,
11:43even personal with Brandon Iyuk.
11:45My big take on this the whole week
11:48has been a respect for what the people
11:52who are in the room do
11:53on a week-in and week-out basis.
11:56It's nothing that any of us could ever understand.
11:58Do you know what it's like, I would imagine,
12:00to get ready for Thursday night football
12:02when you played on Sunday?
12:05Brutal.
12:05Just brutal.
12:07Monday is like, ow, I'm in agony.
12:10Tuesday is like, I'm feeling a little better.
12:12And then Wednesday is we're ramping up
12:13for a game the next day?
12:15I just, like, I have such a respect for it.
12:17I know they make a lot of money.
12:19But this is, like, elite athleticism,
12:21great effort, understanding of very complex systems.
12:26All of that work.
12:28You're going to let someone come in
12:30and penetrate that group?
12:32It's disrespectful.
12:33And that's why George Kittle, in my opinion,
12:36reacted the way he did yesterday.
12:39We're letting him in the building?
12:40You out of your mind?
12:42You can't come in here.
12:44You got to do something to come in here.
12:46We earned this in here.
12:48You don't get to come in here.
12:50Right?
12:51Like, I just, that's why I've never understood
12:54this idea of, well, but we need a receiver.
12:56It's disrespectful to every player on that roster,
12:59the idea of letting Brandon Ayuk anywhere near him.
13:00It is, and I do think that people need to understand
13:03the difference between statements and reality.
13:06And the statements that they made on Wednesday,
13:08I think were protective in terms of what, you know,
13:12could be possible as far as lawyers go,
13:14and they want to recoup money and all the rest of it.
13:17And so that becomes important as a distinction.
13:20Was he ever going to be a 49er?
13:21No, of course not.
13:22But I don't think that it does you any good
13:25to come out and say, absolutely not.
13:27He won't be here.
13:29We will bar the door and this and that,
13:31because then it becomes actionable on Ayuk's side
13:34and the Players Association.
13:36So there's a certain amount of legal mumbo jumbo.
13:38And even today, everything that Kyle said
13:41was based on the roster, the team, and Sunday,
13:45and the fact that he's not even thinking about it at all.
13:47Yeah, Grandy, what's up?
13:48We can confirm Brandon Ayuk and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus,
13:51have arrived down at the Niners business facility
13:54ahead of their meeting with Niners Brass.
13:56On time.
13:57They even briefly spoke to the media.
13:59You can check it out on our socials at 957 The Game.
14:03The audio quality isn't good enough
14:05to air it here on the radio.
14:06But essentially, what Drew and Brandon said was
14:09he's 100% healthy.
14:11He's looking forward to get reinstated back into the NFL.
14:14No comment on where he will be playing.
14:17Yeah, yeah.
14:19So not the commanders.
14:21No comment.
14:22Okay.
14:24Plead the fifth?
14:25Yeah.
14:25Did Drew Rosenhaus at any point say next question?
14:28No, they didn't really take questions.
14:30It was just a statement from Drew Rosenhaus,
14:32and then he said, and Brandon's going to say a few things,
14:34and then Brandon said a few things.
14:35So he didn't say next question.
14:36He said no questions.
14:37Essentially.
14:38All right, thanks, Drew.
14:38But it is available for you on our social media platform
14:41if you want to go and check it out.
14:42I'm going to go there because I want to find out
14:44if Brandon went to his go-tos,
14:46which is stop being a little cat
14:48and little-ass boys,
14:50and you're mad because you're stupid.
14:51First thing he said was actually to the media,
14:53nice to see you again.
14:55Right.
14:56Did anyone say it back to him?
14:58I didn't hear it.
14:59Was there any Santa Clara PD around?
15:02Or, I mean, are they looming?
15:04Not that I can see in the video.
15:05Okay.
15:05I just, I mean, what up, Santa Clara PD?
15:09Like, what are you doing?
15:10Like, you had Kyle's back for 11 days in his accident,
15:14and now you're going to let this guy who called him a little cat
15:17and he called John Lynch a predator,
15:19you're going to let him just, like, saunter by you?
15:22Yeah.
15:22And you got warrants?
15:23Here, real quick.
15:25Anut in Saratoga.
15:27Hey, thanks for calling in.
15:28What's up?
15:31Hey, Ben.
15:31It's a nod, actually, but.
15:34Can you guys hear me okay?
15:36Yeah.
15:36We got you.
15:37And sorry for the mispronunciation sensation.
15:40Sorry, Ben.
15:41You're all good.
15:42No worries, no worries.
15:44So, this is a sports media question, maybe, at large,
15:47but how is it possible that, like,
15:51a flurry of reporters that large at a press conference
15:55and there's not one question about the game on Sunday?
15:58Oh, they're definitely, hold on, yeah.
16:00There definitely was.
16:02That was only a, that was the Ayuk portion of the availability.
16:06There were other questions about current 49er stuff after that.
16:14Because the only one I heard after that was about the Mexico City game.
16:17I just, I was just perplexed by no mention of the Raiders, like, at all,
16:21except for, obviously, the injury stuff at the beginning.
16:23But, I don't know, I just wanted to get your guys' take on, like,
16:27I guess that's what drives the story is what's going on right now.
16:30But, how do you guys view that?
16:32I've always been a little curious because I was, I watched it,
16:34and I was like, this is two minutes and 30 seconds,
16:36and then everyone left.
16:37Yeah.
16:38So, here's what I would say, and thank you for the call.
16:41Like, obviously, we weren't there.
16:43So, I don't want to sort of act like we know what the tone of the room was or whatnot.
16:52But, I also know that a lot of those questions for the game week,
16:56they maybe have already been asked earlier in the week.
17:01There's a lot to sort of go through there.
17:03There's a lot to go through there.