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Willard and Dibs react to Brandon Aiyuk and his agent Drew Rosenhaus briefly speaking to the media in Santa Clara ahead of their meeting with the 49ers in the team's business office.
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00:00I want to briefly just wrap up the answer we were giving to our last caller who was like,
00:04why no questions about the game?
00:06So first of all, I do think the game today is going to get just the nature of our world
00:11right now.
00:11It's going to get swallowed up a little bit by the drama that's going on.
00:14I also think some media members probably rushed out of the press conference
00:18because they wanted to get down the street to Drew Rosenhaus and Brandon Ayuk's arrival.
00:22I also think the third part of that is a little bit asked and answered.
00:27Some of the game-specific questions, they get asked earlier in the week to Kyle Shanahan.
00:34And then I guess the fourth part of that is, yeah, sometimes media members,
00:38like if they're there every day and you ask the question on a Wednesday,
00:43like fans may have these thoughts going through their head on Friday
00:47and the media is like, we're kind of already past that.
00:50And so maybe there's a little bit of a disconnect there sometimes.
00:53Like, you know, I think we all see that.
00:56But anyway, that's my answer to that.
00:58I don't know if you have anything to add on that sort of a thing.
01:01Why did the press conference, why was it so short?
01:04Why does it feel like everybody's ignoring that there's a football game in 48 hours?
01:08Just go back to yesterday where I think Kubiak and Raheem Morris both spoke
01:12and Brock Purdy as well.
01:13And so you can go back to yesterday.
01:15And if you want to get actual pregame football content, it's there.
01:19And today is about this.
01:21And you've got a news helicopter overhead.
01:24You've got the police at the ready or not at the ready.
01:27You've got the super agent and the player coming back to the facility where last time we saw him there,
01:33he was speeding by at 100 miles an hour.
01:35The lascivious or sexy elements of that part of the story.
01:40I'm sorry, it outweighs this, like, concocted, or you would say,
01:45focacca, Niner-Raider rivalry, which doesn't exist.
01:48No, but it's a football game and the Niners need to win it.
01:51There's all of that normal stuff.
01:52So is there some complacency and arrogance in this?
01:55I don't know, maybe.
01:56But anyway, to update what Grandy said a short time ago,
02:01we do now actually have some microphones that were a little bit closer to Drew Rosenhaus
02:06and Brandon Iyuk as they arrive at the 49er business office.
02:10You will hear the helicopters in the background.
02:12News Chopper 5 was up above watching what ended up being essentially less than a minute.
02:19Here is the opening statement.
02:21Drew Rosenhaus and Brandon Iyuk, they get out of a van, and the media is waiting.
02:25Here's Drew.
02:27Out of respect to you guys, we'll make this brief.
02:30Obviously, Brandon is here to meet with the team.
02:34Fortunately, he's feeling good.
02:36Physically, he's healthy.
02:38He's ready to get back to work.
02:40Don't really have any comment about where he's going to play.
02:45We'll keep that between us and the Niners.
02:49But obviously, we're here with all the right intentions.
02:52Okay, that's Drew Rosenhaus.
02:54He then hands the baton over to Brandon, who says this.
02:58Nice to see y'all.
03:00Yeah, I'm feeling great, feeling healthy.
03:03It's a long recovery process, a long rehab process, but I'm back to 100% and looking to get reinstated
03:10into National Football League.
03:11Okay, and then he goes on to give Cam Inman a little shoulder tap as he walks into the business
03:18office.
03:19That's it.
03:20And if you couldn't hear any part of that, I just want to read precisely what Brandon said.
03:26I quote, nice to see y'all.
03:29I'm feeling great, feeling healthy, long recovery process, long rehab process, but I'm back to 100% looking to get
03:37reinstated into the National Football League.
03:41Somebody did throw out some follow-up questions as the guys walked away.
03:47One of them was to Brandon with regard to, after he said reinstated to the NFL, he said something about,
03:56like, where might you play?
03:58And Brandon said the National Football League.
04:01Nice.
04:01Good answer.
04:02Good answer.
04:03And Drew Rosenhaus was asked about the outstanding warrants in Santa Clara, and Rosenhaus said, quote, we're working on that.
04:15So that is what took place today down in Santa Clara.
04:19It's funny in that I think all of this stuff sort of, it's obligatory, like it needed to happen,
04:27but a lot of people put a lot of effort into being there to get one minute from Kyle Shanahan
04:34and one minute from Drew Rosenhaus and Brandon Ayoub combined.
04:37And I get that, and it just takes me back to the nascent or early days of my career when
04:43Barry Bonds had an appearance at the federal courthouse in San Francisco,
04:48and it might have been Gary Radnich or Lee Hammer who thought that it was a good idea to send
04:54me out there to, quote, cover it.
04:57And so Barry's walking out of the courthouse, and I was doing exactly what those reporters were doing,
05:01and it's like throwing nonsensical, they won't be answered questions as I'm live on the air with Gary Radnich.
05:09And so that's kind of what this felt like where they give their statement, and then they're going in, and
05:14it's like,
05:14Brandon, Brandon, have you talked to Jaden Daniels?
05:17Are you going to be at Commanders?
05:19You know, all the, Brandon, will you play on Sunday, but for the Raiders?
05:24Like, you throw out all these stupid questions.
05:26I don't know.
05:26I'm hoping he's going to answer.
05:28He should join one of the teams like the Jaguars or the Panthers or any of those teams so that
05:34he could be a little cat.
05:36I like what you're doing here.
05:37That's what he should do.
05:39So we've got plenty of teams around the league.
05:42They're little cats, and he can be on one of them.
05:46Are those the only cats?
05:47Like, you've got the Jaguars and the Panthers.
05:50There's no Tigers out there.
05:51Well, the Bengals.
05:53Good call.
05:53Yeah, the Bengals are a little cat.
05:55He could be wide receiver six on that team.
05:57Just doing a quick sort of, we've got a lot of animals.
06:01A lot of birds.
06:01Yeah, a lot of birds.
06:03Oh, Lions.
06:05Detroit Lions.
06:06That's a big cat.
06:06That's not bad.
06:07That's not a little cat.
06:08It's a big cat.
06:10I think that's it for, I think that's it for the cat.
06:13For the cat family?
06:14Yeah.
06:14Yeah, he should have said a little bird.
06:16He would have more options.
06:17Exactly.
06:18You got seabirds, and you got, you know, falcons and eagles and whatnot, but I'm just fascinated by what's going
06:24on, and it's 3.09.
06:26The meeting was supposed to start at 3, and we always talk about being a fly on the wall, and
06:31honestly, if you're a fly on the wall, you could get swatted and your life could end.
06:34It's a dangerous place.
06:36It is dangerous, but to be a fly on the wall in that room where, you know, Brandon and Drew
06:41sit down, and it's John Lynch.
06:43Is it?
06:44Is it John Lynch?
06:45I would imagine it's John Lynch, yeah.
06:46Remember now, John Lynch is the general manager of the football team.
06:50Right.
06:51I actually don't, I don't know that John Lynch is there.
06:54This is a business office legal matter.
07:00Maybe he's there, but I would not be surprised at all if he's not,
07:04because as Kyle Shanahan pointed out, this has got nothing to do with our football team.
07:10This has to do with money and the league and lawyers and how do we moonwalk out of this whole
07:18situation,
07:19and do we moonwalk out of this situation?
07:21And by the way, the people in the room don't even necessarily have the ultimate power.
07:26That's an agent, a player, and one team.
07:28He is still on a did-not-report list for the whole league.
07:33The league is the one that submitted the note to Drew Rosenhaus that said,
07:38by the way, your new client owes the 49ers $13 million.
07:42I just think this is above the heads of the actual football team, and they want it that way.
07:47Yes, but at the same time, think about John Lynch as a human being,
07:51and as a Hall of Fame player, he was an unbelievably ferocious safety,
07:56and so if he's even in the room, arms folded, and like shooting glares and glances across the table,
08:04and you're probably right, it's like, you know, John Lynch is in the middle,
08:07and you've got four lawyers here, you've got the other four over here,
08:11you've got somebody furiously taking notes, and it's Drew Rosenhaus,
08:15it's Drew and Brandon across the table, sitting in maybe folding chairs,
08:19and if you're John Lynch, you're basically not going to say anything, you don't have to,
08:23because you made your career out of silently lighting people up.
08:27I mean, it's interesting.
08:28I mean, I think that, you know, they're going to handle it with maturity,
08:32but John Lynch was also called a predator in this process.
08:36If I'm John, if there's no reason for me to be there in this initial meeting,
08:40I'm not going to run over there and be there.
08:43Maybe. I really don't know.
08:44That was, if there were more questions to be asked,
08:48and maybe that would have been a good follow-up for Kyle when he's like,
08:51I have no idea what's going on over there, and I don't care.
08:54Maybe the, like, you know, are you going to be in the meeting?
08:56No, and I don't want to be.
08:58Well, who is?
09:00I'm super curious.
09:01Who's Brandon down there talking to?
09:04Yeah.
09:04I don't know.
09:05We don't know.
09:06Yeah.
09:07Not really given the opportunity to know.
09:09Well, and I just wonder how it begins where, you know,
09:12they sit down and it's, you know, hey, Brandon, good to see you.
09:16What's going on?
09:17What have you been doing?
09:17I mean, I don't know what the icebreaker is, and, you know,
09:20let's go around the room and, you know, say our name
09:23and say an animal that starts with the first letter,
09:25and I don't even know what that's like because basically, you know,
09:28it comes down to what do you want to do, Brandon and Drew,
09:32and if it's, you know, we kind of want to be out of here, then it's okay.
09:36Well, let's walk us through that because you owe us $13 million.
09:40Look, this is a multibillion-dollar organization.
09:43I'm sure they handle themselves with a little bit more decorum
09:46than all of us would.
09:48I'd be pulling that phone out, put it on selfie mode.
09:50I'd be like, smile, Brandon.
09:51I'm going to put this on Instagram.
09:54Right.
09:55Like if I were John.
09:56Like if you, I mean, he defamed them.
10:00Well, him.
10:00He did.
10:02So, like, one piece of this that I appreciate from the Niners
10:06and the way Kyle spoke today,
10:08and we'll play that again here in just a second
10:10if you didn't hear Kyle's press conference.
10:13One thing that sort of, and listen,
10:15I'll admit the personal nature of this.
10:17It's a little triggering for me.
10:19I think all of us have experienced, not all of us,
10:21a lot of us, unfortunately, have experienced this in your life.
10:24If you've ever been a part of any sort of a partnership, relationship, anything,
10:29where you've kind of been mistreated,
10:31I would hope that you arrive at a spot where you're ready to stand up and say,
10:36I'm not taking this from you anymore.
10:39And the 49ers, through social media posting, they were, and by the way,
10:45somebody just turning their backs on their teammates, they were kind of mistreated.
10:50So, this idea that a lot of people have had of, like, hey, we got some injured wide receivers.
10:55Come on back.
10:56It's like, ooh, that, it triggers me.
10:59No, no, no.
11:01You don't get to roll over us and then come back.
11:04So, like, I do like that the Niners today stood up, Kyle Shanahan did,
11:10and was like, this has got nothing to do with anything with this football team.
11:14And I do not care.
11:16And it's been over for a long time.
11:20Like, that's the way.
11:22You don't need to be rude.
11:24You don't need to dance on anybody.
11:26You know what I mean?
11:26You don't need to flaunt it.
11:28I'm not saying that.
11:29But, like, put up a boundary.
11:31The Niners need and have to put up a boundary.
11:35And a lot of people have called this radio station this week
11:38and have advocated knocking that boundary down.
11:43And I am against that.
11:45And so are the Niners.
11:47And I'm glad they are against that.
11:48That is not the way to go.
11:50It depends on what happens and whether or not it's a non-negotiable.
11:54And for some reason, I was thinking about Lisa Left Eye Lopez, rest in peace,
11:58when she burned Andre Risen's house to the ground,
12:01if she would have gone back to Andre Risen and said,
12:04sorry about that, didn't mean to burn down your house.
12:07Well, you burned my house down.
12:09We're not going to be able to walk back from that one.
12:12I'm not saying that Ayuk burned down the house,
12:14but I just wonder when he and Drew go in that room for the meeting,
12:18what's their approach?
12:19Because, you know, the Niners could just sit there and say,
12:22hey, you know, I'm glad you guys came.
12:24Did you bring the $13 million with us?
12:26Because we're going to want to recoup that bonus.
12:28So, I mean, do you want our Venmo?
12:30Yeah.
12:31You can Venmo us.
12:33What is the max you can Venmo?
12:35It's less than $13 million.
12:36Okay, that's what I want to think.
12:38Yep.
12:39Unless you're Shohei, and it just shows up without a text.
12:41Well, he had access, so he didn't need it.
12:45Routing number.
12:46I just, every 49er fan, I get it.
12:50I get it.
12:51Everybody wants to win a Super Bowl.
12:53Imagine you're the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.
12:57You almost lost an eye in a car accident in the offseason,
13:01and one of your former players who turned his back on you and the teammates
13:08goes to Instagram after your car accident and makes fun of you.
13:14Imagine.
13:15So, what would you do if that player then was like, no, no, no, now I'm ready to play.
13:22What would you do?
13:24Like, that's my question.
13:26I know that we all want a Super Bowl, and Mike Evans has got tendinitis.
13:30I understand.
13:32But, like, what would you, like, try, that's what, try to put yourself in their position.
13:39You almost lost your eye, and as soon as the news came out, this guy went to Instagram
13:45to make fun of you.
13:48Like, you sat there.
13:49You had broken ribs.
13:50You were concussed.
13:51You were wearing sunglasses.
13:54You could not function in your job for the time being.
13:57There's another driver involved that I imagine was hurt on some level as well.
14:01This was an incredibly serious, dangerous moment.
14:04And this person went to Instagram to make fun of you.
14:08And you're going to have him, like, just come back and play football for you on a 6-1 team?
14:14Well, if he's really good, then you could tolerate it more.
14:17But, honestly, you know that the NFL is a zero-sum game, but you don't know how good he can
14:22be
14:23or how healthy he is.
14:24So, on the way in, Drew Rosenhaus, the super agent, and Brandon and I, you basically talk,
14:28and Drew says, yeah, he's 100% healthy and he's ready to go.
14:31So, okay, and if the Niners want to take that at his word, well, there's the physical
14:36and there's all the things that they would have to put him through
14:39before they either trade him or cut him.
14:41So, that's all a part of it.
14:42But I just wonder about the opening conversation, how much of it is, you know,
14:47acrimonious versus, like, you know, here's what we're thinking.
14:51Let's go back to the phones after we let you hear the one minute of Kyle Shanahan today
14:57with regard to Brandon Ayuk.
14:59Kyle, there's buzz about Brandon Ayuk and Drew Rosenhaus coming and going to the business
15:05offices, meeting with team officials.
15:07Ayuk, well, will you have any role in that?
15:10No.
15:11I'm going to talk about Ayuk.
15:13What's going to happen today?
15:14What's that?
15:15I'm going to talk about Ayuk.
15:17What's going to happen today?
15:18No clue.
15:18Your guess is as good as mine.
15:20What would you like to see happen?
15:22I could care less.
15:24Is there an incentive for you guys to, you know, kind of have this thing just be over
15:29as quickly as possible, just with all the noise that's going around with it?
15:33It's been over for our football team for a long time, so I don't hear much except
15:37questions about them today.
15:39But it's not too big of a deal for me to answer.
15:41Is it your understanding that if he comes off the reserve list, that he goes automatically
15:48onto the active list, and that you guys would have to make a transaction to accommodate that?
15:54I'd have to ask a lot of questions to get that answer.
15:57I think it's complicated, so I haven't asked one question.
16:01So I look at this as zero to do with our football team.
16:05Anything that has zero to do with our football team, especially during the season, I will
16:09give zero thoughts to.
16:10But doesn't it affect your roster?
16:12That affects your football team?
16:14I'm sure if it did, people would be letting me know.
16:17Okay, so that's Kyle Shanahan upon arrival down the street at the business office through
16:22Rosenhaus.
16:23Out of respect to you guys, we'll make this brief.
16:27Obviously, Brandon is here to meet with your team.
16:30Fortunately, he's feeling good physically.
16:33He's healthy.
16:34He's ready to get back to work.
16:36I don't really have any comment about where he's going to play.
16:41We'll keep that between us and the Niners.
16:45But obviously, we're here with all the right intentions.
16:49Okay, that's agent Drew Rosenhaus.
16:51And then he hands the baton over to Brandon.
16:54Nice to see y'all.
16:56Yeah, I'm feeling great, feeling healthy.
17:00It's a long recovery process, a long rehab process.
17:03But I'm back to 100% and looking to get reinstated to National Football League.
17:07All right, so that's the sum total of commentary from Kyle Shanahan, Drew Rosenhaus, and Brandon
17:13Ayuk.
17:14We're taking your calls, 888-957-957.
17:17Let's go to Adam in Oakland.
17:18Hi, Adam.
17:19Thank you for checking in, man.
17:22It's pronounced Adam Willard.
17:24That's why I said Adam.
17:25Yeah.
17:25I just want to say this whole thing reeks of CTE.
17:29Okay?
17:29The guy's having issues.
17:31And, you know, I think the Niners, if they come to an agreement, this is business.
17:37They should let him back.
17:40I don't know.
17:41Okay, there's so many questions with your statement.
17:44I didn't get that right.
17:45Your name's Adam, right?
17:46Which is...
17:47What is it?
17:48Yeah.
17:48Yeah, we welcome you.
17:49I just don't know if you can diagnose CTE through a sports talk radio call.
17:54That feels to me like a little bit of a leap.
17:56I'm a radio doctor who takes leaps.
17:58That one feels like, you know, Jackie Joyner-Cersey in the heptathlon.
18:03I mean, Adam, like, with all due respect, like, are you being genuine or are you just
18:09trying to, like, kind of have some playfulness here on the radio?
18:12I'm serious.
18:13He's having mental issues.
18:14He's having mental issues.
18:15So you want him back.
18:16He's crashing out on Instagram.
18:17So he's having mental issues, so you want him back.
18:21He's a great player.
18:23Got it.
18:24Boy, you...
18:25You know what?
18:26You run your stuff...
18:29Raiders!
18:30Ah, there it is.
18:31There it is.
18:31There it is.
18:31And he walked us off.
18:32There you go.
18:32Thanks, Adam.
18:34Right.
18:34I mean...
18:35The idea of he's a great player, I think that you can close your eyes and go in the wayback
18:41machine and think about when he was a great player.
18:43And, well, was it last year when he got hurt?
18:46He was not, at that point, a great player.
18:48Maybe it's because you didn't have a great offense and you were struggling, but it wasn't like
18:52he was Jackson Smith in Jigba the year before that?
18:56Yes, he was a great player, but now we're going back 24 months.
18:59So is he still a great player?
19:00We have no idea.
19:02I mean, this is a story that is as old as time, though.
19:06There are a lot of people who are great players in their given sport.
19:10And then they find themselves to become unsignable or just they've killed a relationship.
19:21It could be directly with the team.
19:23It could be with the world.
19:25Do you know what I mean?
19:26Ray Rice was a great player.
19:28Why weren't all the teams lined up to grab him?
19:32And before you get freaked out, I'm not comparing what Ray Rice did to what Brandon Ayuk did at all.
19:40But what I am saying is, it's fascinating to me how many people, in the name of chasing a ring,
19:49are just like, you need to throw everything that is either moral or emotional or anything else,
19:57personal, thank you, out the window in the name of winning.
20:03I don't look at it that way.
20:05If you do, good on you.
20:06But the other fallacy with all of that is you're making a wild assumption that Brandon Ayuk just comes back
20:14and is immediately the exact same player.
20:17That is a bananas assumption, in fact, that is unprecedented because I've never in my life of watching sports
20:25watch someone take two and a half years off from a league,
20:30also go through major rehab, and then walk onto the field and pick up right where they left off.
20:37That's not a thing.
20:38Think about Aaron Donald this year.
20:40So, ooh, Aaron Donald, he's going to come back and be a Rams,
20:43and even though they were kind of slow playing it like it wasn't going to happen,
20:46well, he came back and he played football and he has been injured,
20:50and he has not been the same Aaron Donald.
20:52I don't think he took two and a half years off,
20:54and Ayuk really missed a year and a half, whatever.
20:57I'm splitting hairs here, but you're right.
20:59The injury was over two years ago.
21:01It was midway through the 2024 year, and so he missed half that year,
21:05and he missed the other year, and so it's basically been two years of football.
21:09So can he come back and be good?
21:11Yeah, but it's less likely that he is good than it is that he's not good.
21:15That's more likely.
21:189-2-5, wasn't Drew Rosenhaus the agent talking to the camera
21:21when T.O. was doing sit-ups in the driveway?
21:24Yes.
21:26Yeah?
21:26Yes.
21:27Yes, that's true.
21:28He is an unbelievable agent, and he's also one to not shy away from theatrics?
21:33That's true.
21:34He's also, though, and I'd have to look at his entire roster,
21:37he's kind of become the PR recovery agent.
21:42It's a little bit of his specialty.
21:43When things go sideways, you hire Drew, see if he can get back in the league.
21:49T.O. had that.
21:50He's Tyreek Hill's agent.
21:52I noticed that Tyreek's not on a team yet.
21:56So that's a little bit of who, I'm sure he's got plenty of clients,
22:01but that's kind of become Drew's thing, if you will.
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