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Willard and Dibs react to what 49ers general manager John Lynch said today about Brandon Aiyuk potentially reporting to team headquarters tomorrow. Is Aiyuk actually going to show up?
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00:00I want to read this to you because this is worthy of some sort of a reaction.
00:08I wonder what yours is.
00:10All right, John Lynch today with regard to all things related to the Brandon Ayuk situation.
00:17And again, they are anticipating that Brandon shows up in some form at the facility tomorrow.
00:22I still don't know what this looks like.
00:24Who greets Brandon?
00:27Santa Clara police.
00:28Could it be the police?
00:30Could it be John?
00:31Could it be, I don't know, the administrative assistant?
00:35I have no idea how this works, and I would like to know.
00:38I actually had a thought about how this might play out, and I think Santa Clara PD gets an anonymous
00:44tip.
00:45And, yeah, hi, there's a guy coming up and stuff, and he's a former wide receiver.
00:51And I think that you may have a warrant and stuff, and he'll be here in about seven minutes and
00:55stuff.
00:55And I don't know if you want to come here and, I don't know, arrest him and stuff, but he'll
00:59be here and stuff.
01:00That does not sound very anonymous.
01:02No, it doesn't.
01:03We're down to either Kyle Shanahan or Brock Purdy.
01:06It's one of those two.
01:07Anyway, here's what John Lynch said about Brandon Ayuk, and we have to talk about not so much what he's
01:16saying, but the way he said it, okay?
01:18The best I can do, obviously, is read this quote to you.
01:21Here it is.
01:23Quote, I think the way I'll characterize it, number one, we've got a 6-1 football team that we think
01:31really has a shot at this thing this year.
01:35So our focus is going to remain on this team, and Kyle spoke of that yesterday.
01:42Now, look, having said that, I have a job to do, and it entails a lot of different things.
01:48This is kind of a unique situation, not one you have, so there's really no playbook.
01:53But I always go back to what's my charge, what's my job.
01:57My job is to look out for the best interest of the 49ers.
02:00And as such, in this particular situation, we are working with the NFL Management Council to navigate through a different
02:09situation.
02:10And so it's fluid.
02:11I'm going to kind of leave it at that because I've been recommended to do so, and I think it's
02:16the right thing to do for a pathway for both sides here that works.
02:20We can talk a little bit more in detail about the process because it's kind of a fluid situation.
02:27Now, there's more, but let's first react to that.
02:31When you hear him say that, your processing and translating says, what happens next?
02:38What happens next is him, again, calling all 31 other teams and saying, hey, Brandon Ayuk, we might keep him.
02:46You know, it's a fluid situation, and he is our guy.
02:49He's under contract.
02:50But I know that you may need a wide receiver, so what do you think?
02:54What will you give us for Brandon Ayuk?
02:56By making it fluid, I do think that he's trying to leave open the possibility, even though it's third and
03:0227 from their own, you know, 22-yard line.
03:06Like, you're probably not going to pick up the first down.
03:08It's still third and 27.
03:10Okay.
03:11Not the fourth down yet.
03:12It's fluid because they're hoping against hope that one of these wide receiver-hungry teams throws him a something for
03:19Brandon Ayuk.
03:19The fact that all of this, and I don't think we talked enough about this yesterday, the fact that all
03:25of this, Drew Rosenhaus, Brandon Ayuk, the facility, Kyle Shanahan, John Lynch, why is it suddenly happening now with five
03:38days to go until the trade deadline?
03:42Why now?
03:43Brandon could have hired Drew Rosenhaus at any point.
03:46Brandon could have applied for reinstatement at any point.
03:49But now, now he wants to do it.
03:53Week nine in the National Football League when teams, they have their squads.
04:00They have their ideas.
04:02They're either going north or going south.
04:04They know who they are at this hour.
04:05But why now?
04:07Now is, in theory, the only time that organizations are like, huh, what can we add maybe a little bit?
04:14How do we augment this thing?
04:16So that's reaction number one.
04:18Before I read the second answer, here's something that also stood out to me.
04:24Like, John Lynch literally sounds in this quote as if he's saying, hey, you know, we're trying to work with
04:31Brandon to figure some things out.
04:33And I think a lot of people are going, wait a minute.
04:35Is there an openness here?
04:37Here, John says, we're working with NFL Management Council.
04:43And I'm going to leave it at that because I've been recommended to do so.
04:47When I hear this, I don't even hear John.
04:50I hear lawyers.
04:51I hear lawyers.
04:54And lawyers don't show up so that Brandon can play football for the 49ers in Week 12.
05:00Lawyers show up so that these two sides can break up and they can do so in a legal way.
05:06And they can also do so in a way where both sides may try to recoup money from the other
05:12side.
05:13No doubt.
05:13That's what I hear.
05:15For sure.
05:15And I do think that it's both pieces of that to me.
05:18On the one hand, they would love to get a third and 27 conversion in that, you know, somebody gives
05:25them a sixth and then you send them a you can a seventh or whatever the swap would be.
05:29You're not going to get much, if anything, for him.
05:32And then if push comes to shove and he's able to report to the facility without being arrested, he has
05:38warrants out in Santa Clara and he comes in and whether he passes the physical or not at that point,
05:43let's say he passes the physical.
05:45Well, then you're going to cut him and you've already talked to your people about how do we recoup the
05:50money, the bonuses that we paid him up front, the fact that he clearly didn't report for over a year.
05:56How much of it can we maybe recoup?
05:58How do we go about that?
05:59So, yes, that I think is part of what he was talking about.
06:02All right.
06:02Now, there's a follow up.
06:03And John has asked, hold on.
06:06You called it a fluid situation.
06:07Does that mean you're listening to Drew Rosenhaus and Brandon Ayuk about a possible reunion?
06:16John's answer, quote, yeah, of course.
06:19I think everything's possible.
06:22I will say this.
06:23We've worked with Drew a lot.
06:25Drew's a good guy to deal with.
06:27He's reasonable.
06:27He's got integrity.
06:28So in terms of that, that's all good.
06:31We'll see how this thing goes.
06:33I think I'll just leave it at that.
06:35And like I said, I think we'll have a lot more I can share with you in the coming weeks.
06:41In the coming weeks.
06:42Right.
06:43In other words, the trade deadline is Tuesday.
06:45And if he is still on the team after Tuesday, well, then you go ahead and think about what the
06:51move would be from there.
06:52And I guess you don't have to cut him before Tuesday.
06:56The process to me feels like he shows up tomorrow in theory, and then he automatically goes right into the
07:02physical process.
07:03And even if he passes the physical, well, you have to get him out there and do movement things to
07:08see what he actually has to offer.
07:10And then there's a transactional move that would have to be made.
07:13And you get past Tuesday, the trade deadline.
07:16And if he's not dealt at that point, then maybe you go ahead and make a move.
07:20Well, this is being translated by many to say that there is still a possibility for the 49ers and Brandon
07:27Iyuk to be together someday.
07:30Could I rule it out?
07:31Could you rule it out?
07:32Did they rule it out?
07:33No.
07:34No.
07:35But I'm a big fan of Scarlett Johansson.
07:38Oh.
07:38And I think she's married to Colin Jost.
07:41That's all.
07:41That's correct.
07:42I've also.
07:43I don't know why you called her Johansson.
07:45Because the J is silent.
07:47It's not.
07:47But anyway, go ahead.
07:48It is where she's from.
07:49But that's neither here nor there.
07:50I'm married.
07:51She's married.
07:52She and Colin could break up.
07:54I could get divorced again.
07:57I mean, could is a small, small C in could.
08:01And she and I could absolutely still have a torrid love affair.
08:07That was not your best analogy?
08:09I loved it.
08:11Not.
08:11Nobody asked you, Grandy.
08:12I've got smiles from the seventh row.
08:14No.
08:15They're smiling at what we're saying about your analogy more so than your analogy.
08:20I didn't even.
08:21In fact, I think that smile right there, that smile came from Grandy's buzzer.
08:25It was Grandy's buzzer that made you smile, right?
08:27No.
08:27No, no, no.
08:28No, you're not even here, Grandy.
08:29The smile came.
08:30And it came before I was even able to get to the fact that Mike Breen would be on the
08:35call,
08:35and I'm not going to go there.
08:36Nobody is smiling about the idea of you and Scarlett Johansson.
08:40That is absurd.
08:41Bang!
08:42Not one of your best analogies, but I get what you're saying.
08:46What I hear.
08:47What I hear.
08:48That's more likely than I use being a niner.
08:51That's all I'm saying.
08:52It's really not.
08:53I'm handsome.
08:53I'm funny.
08:54I hear both Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch very, very clearly executing something that was
09:03their plan.
09:04In fact, you know how Mike Dunleavy and Steve Kerr, maybe this will be a better analogy.
09:08You know how Mike Dunleavy and Steve Kerr, anytime anybody says anything right now, they're
09:12like, turnovers.
09:14Turnovers.
09:15Yeah, we just want to limit turnovers.
09:17It was clear that they went into a back room and said, hey, when we're talking to the media,
09:23we need to make this about turnovers.
09:25This group, this roster can be better.
09:27They got to turn the ball over less.
09:29That came from a boardroom.
09:31It feels to me like this did too.
09:34And Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch, though they have zero openness whatsoever to having Brandon
09:41Ayuk back, they told each other, don't say that into a microphone.
09:45Certainly not before the trade deadline.
09:48Now, I could be wrong, but when John Lynch in both answers keeps going, I think I'll just
09:54leave it at that.
09:55Again, that sounds like someone who has been prepped by a legal team.
09:59Plus, if there was any world where the Chiefs or somebody would give you a seventh round draft
10:06pick or, I don't know, some free helmet padding, whatever, they'd give it up.
10:11It's like, let's wait until Tuesday and not say that out loud.
10:14Quote, I could be wrong.
10:16I doubt it.
10:17I know a lot of people are viewing today's quote as openness from the 49ers.
10:23I personally don't buy it.
10:26I don't buy it.
10:27Yeah, your analogy might have been better, but a lot less fun.
10:31And less gross, too.
10:33Less gross.
10:33No, less gross about a man and a woman falling in love late in life.
10:37Your analogy was about lawyers and backroom dealing.
10:40Boring.
10:41Your analogy, just calling you a man and her a woman is a little bit of a leap.
10:45But go ahead.
10:45The whole idea of the chance, the potential of that happening versus this happening, this
10:51is not happening.
10:52So they can talk about lawyers and in the coming weeks, blah, blah, blah.
10:56He's not going to be a niner.
10:57So we can all sit here and wait for the inevitability.
11:00And yeah, Scarlett and Colin break up and I somehow get divorced and I shoot my shot because
11:07it's all I've got.
11:08I have no chance.
11:09And Ayuk has no chance to be a niner.
11:11That was the point.
11:12Man.
11:12Are you going to keep going?
11:14Are you going to go back to this after every, like...
11:16I just was certainly back.
11:18Because your analogy was like legal mumbo jumbo and it was not very fun.
11:22Oh.
11:24And Grandy played the vomit noise, which I thought was personally...
11:28I thought it was a little personal front.
11:29He was not the only one feeling that.
11:32He was not the only one feeling that.
11:33I see nobody here in the super filling up crowd at Jack's.
11:37Nobody here was vomiting.
11:38There were a couple of people who nodded.
11:40Yeah, they can't hear us that well.
11:41Oh, that's fair.
11:42Anyway.
11:44Boosh.
11:45Exactly.
11:46Anyway.
11:46Listen, the conversation is there.
11:49888-957-9570.
11:52And today, it's more kind of a real or imagined conversation.
11:57I think that's where we go.
11:59It's maybe less about whether you want the situation to go this way or that way.
12:05Listen, we've heard from you.
12:07There are niner fans out there that would love to see Brandon Ayuk back on the team.
12:11Because once upon a time, he was good.
12:13They won a Super Bowl ring.
12:15End of conversation.
12:16I don't think it's anywhere near that simple.
12:19But some people do.
12:20And that's fine.
12:21But today, to me, is more about translating what John Lynch said today.
12:26And whether or not you actually believe that there is openness on the niner side.
12:33He said, quote, yeah, of course.
12:36I don't buy it.
12:38But do you?
12:39I don't do too.
12:39I don't buy it.