Danny and Dusty
Brandon Aiyuk got paid
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How great would that be if John Lynch is like, "Gotcha. It's like not going to pay him." No, I get it. Not going to dare it. Wouldn't be prudent. But Iyuk gets his money. Now, on the surface, it seems like it is a four-year $120 million deal, which I'm no math major, but that is $30 million a year. But when you go to the fact that $76 million of that is what is guaranteed, it is a four-year deal with $19 million per year for Brandon Iyuk. I found the reporting from Adam Schefter to be very interesting. And also directly from the 49ers. He said that the contract that Iyuk signed and agreed to is the exact same contract that was offered by the San Francisco 49ers at the beginning of this whole thing. They said, and they've been true to this, like we gave him the best offer that we could give him because of what our cap situation is moving forward. And knowing we have to pay Brock Purdy, knowing that we have to pay Trent Williams, knowing that we're going to have some tough decisions down the road, this is the most that we could do. Iyuk tried to flex his muscles. And look, he went out and he fell flat on his face, trying to get a bigger deal at a place that he wanted to be at. And I think that that is one thing that you look at and you say, hey, the value in what smart teams are going to do is they're not going to throw too much money if they cannot do it for the future of their organization and keeping a Super Bowl window open. It's not about four years down the road. It's about the two years that San Francisco truly has to win a Super Bowl. There was another line in here. I'm trying to find it from one of the newsbreakers that I thought was interesting, that it was released seven, eight, nine hours later. And the kind of towards the end of the night, which that's when stuff gets kind of slid in underneath there. One of them was Diana Rossini's note about how they were only going to trade Iyuk if they got a top flight receiver in return somehow, which she also said that they offered a third round pick for Courtland Sutton. And Courtland Sutton as a top flight receiver is I didn't expect to hear those two words be linked together. I've kind of stood by this. I think Courtland Sutton is valued more across the NFL than what he has been able to produce over the last couple of years. See the offense being an absolute disaster. Still a good receiver. But look, if you're Denver, like a third round pick for Sutton, I think you would might hop on board with that. That wasn't where I went with that. I think what they did though is said, we can't do that if we're going to start our rookie. It's fair. You know, we can't say we're betting on the future. Go go drown when bone eggs. We're going to go have fun, especially with the struggles at Troy Franklin, who they thought would be an immediate impact player for him or for them wasn't producing the way they thought he would out of the gate. I think that that's probably why Denver's like, yeah, thanks. But no, thanks. We were going to read the temperature of the room. But if that would have happened, they would have dealt Brandon and Iyuk not to Denver. They would have dealt him to Pittsburgh. And that would have been the final piece to a three team trade was a third round pick goes from San Francisco to Denver. OK. And Cortland Sutton comes to San Francisco. Brandon Iyuk goes to Pittsburgh. And that would have made everything rest a little bit easier. And it would have made sense really for all three of those teams, except for Denver, when they made the decision, they're going to start bone eggs. And they didn't hit the home run in the draft in the fourth round sleeper in Troy Franklin, like they thought they were going to. The interesting thing was this started with Iyuk wanting basically the same deal that Amun Ross ain't round got. And you know what he got? The same deal Amun Rob. Didn't Amun Rod get-- 77 guaranteed. He got 77 guaranteed. OK. Well. But that was the best offer that San Francisco could have given. This is kind of what I was saying from the jump with this whole thing, though, is that both sides were being stupid and stubborn about this. And again, as much as Iyuk took the deal that was originally offered, we're seeing these information there about only trading Iyuk if they got a top flight receiver kind of lets you know that he may have been able to find more money. And he did with the Patriots. And perhaps they couldn't get the-- it wasn't about him not necessarily wanting to go to New England, which even if he didn't, he clearly was able to generate the money. But there was no deal that made sense for the 49ers in the sense of they weren't going to do it without getting a top flight receiver in return. Yeah, do you see the athletic anonymous agent pull that they released? There's a lot that was in there, including a little nugget on Aaron Rodgers that will get tuned a little bit. But they pulled a bunch of agents around the NFL and asked them, you know, things like, you know, what are the biggest disaster of teams to work with, best franchises to work with. The Eagles and the 49ers were rated the top franchises and best front offices in the NFL. And that right there also leads me to believe this was more Brandon Iyuk than it was the San Francisco 49ers front office. Because if agents around the NFL are saying, no, these are teams we like to work with. Oh, sure, I'm not saying that I-- That's not-- is faultless or blameless at all. That's not all. Well, I'm saying, I think he should shoulder the majority of this, of why this lasted so long and why it got to this point. I will never go that route as long as Jed York owns that franchise. Because him and Jerry Jones are notorious for doing the same bleeping thing every single time, which is here's the money, here's the most we have in the end, that's what they get. Every single time. What is wrong with that is saying, here's the money, this is what we have. Take it, wouldn't that be like, OK? No, my point is like, why-- I feel like that's good to work with. No, I'm saying, why is there a holdout? Because it's simple as, here's the max amount of money we can give you. There shouldn't be any holdout. Other organizations-- And that's why I say it's the player. No, other organizations don't deal with this as routinely as those two organizations do. Yeah, well, because they've drafted really well, both of them-- we've talked about this-- they both drafted really well, and you're sitting there staring down what the ledger's going to look like, and you're going, we got to pay him, we got to pay him, we got to pay him, and you get into a bind that way. I mean, a lot of teams, they pay their quarterback and absorb an amount of money, and you can just go to every agent and say, look at that deal. That's why. With both of those franchises-- in Dallas, it's a little bit different, because they'll overpay Ezekiel Elliott for some God forsaken reason. But with San Francisco, it's we got to pay Bosa. We got to pay Warner. We've got to pay Debo. We've got to pay Kittle. We know we're going to have to pay Purdy. We're going to have to pay Trent Williams. And we're paying Trent Williams right now. [MUSIC PLAYING] After investing billions to light up our network, T-Mobile is America's largest 5G network. Plus, right now, you can switch, keep your phone, and we'll pay it off up to $800. See how you can save on every plan versus Verizon AT&T at tmobile.com/keepandswitch. Up to four lines via virtual prepaid card, a left 15 days qualifying unlocked device credit service ported 90-plus days with device ineligible carrier and timely redemption required. Card has no cash access and expires in six months. Like, they're sitting there going, look, all of these guys are not top-end high-dollar guys like a quarterback is, where you're getting a quarterback with a $55 million cap number on it. But you have a host of $30 million guys that are all just kind of in order because they're elite at their positions. And when you have a bunch of those guys, a guy like Brandon Elliott is like, I want that money too. And they're like, well, we're already paying Kittle, Trent Williams, Devo Samuel, Christian McCaffrey. We're already paying all these guys at the top-dollar. And that's a little bit of a tougher situation for San Francisco than it is Dallas. Because Dallas would just be like, ah, we want to keep you up. We're going to pay you all the money. And then here we are. Man, Dak, we want to keep you. But we've already given up way too much money for everybody else. That doesn't make sense. And nor does you wanting $62 million. Yeah. You see his quote about him not wanting to negotiate and be a distraction during the season. Yeah. Yeah. That seems like a quote. That seems like a distraction. I never did. Didn't think of that. But yeah, yeah, you're right. Just shut up. Either shut up or talk. Don't talk about shutting up or shut up about talking. I'm so sick and tired of the double-speak. I, you know, I need to be better. But it's also, it's everybody else's fault. Why do people hate the Cowboys and Dak Prescott? Oh, I don't know. Zero self-awareness? Absolutely none. Probably that's probably where I'd start. That's pretty good. Just unbelievable. Like a good jumping golf ball. It's a kind of thing. Like it's so dumb if you wrote it into a plot, you're like, come on, guys. We're landing on too thick here. Yeah. That's the Cowboys, I'm not chill. A little bit. It's been a long year. After investing billions to light up our network, T-Mobile is America's largest 5G network. Plus, right now, you can switch, keep your phone, and we'll pay it off up to $800. See how you can save on every plan versus Verizon and AT&T at tmobile.com/keepandswitch. Up to four lines via virtual prepaid card, a left 15 days qualifying unlocked device credit, service, boarded, 90-plus days with device ineligible carrier and timely redemption required. Card has no cash access and expires in six months.