49ers Struggle with Player Holdouts and Contract Issues

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00:00The Niners have a much bigger problem than the Cowboys.

00:04They don't have a bunch of guys reporting.

00:07And it seems like the Niners do this every year, right, Scotty?

00:09I guess that's the price of having a lot of good players.

00:13Eventually, you've got to pay them all.

00:14We've talked about Brandon Ayuk for what seems like months.

00:18He's there, but he did not practice today.

00:22I saw some video of him walking around, not doing much.

00:25And then Trent Williams, their left tackle,

00:28also, Scotty, has gone into the holdout realm,

00:32as he is not at 49er camp this afternoon.

00:36Here's general manager John Lynch.

00:39He says Ayuk's going to practice.

00:41This was last night.

00:42He was wrong. Ayuk didn't practice today.

00:44Do you know yet whether he'll practice once he reports?

00:48We expect all our players to practice.

00:51John, last year, you gave us an absolute

00:53that Boston would not be traded.

00:55Would you make that same statement about Brandon?

00:57Well, Kyle and I always, you know, we kind of...

01:01I did say that with Bosa.

01:03That's a no. I felt that way.

01:04But, you know, I think, again, no absolutes there.

01:09Wow.

01:10We fully intend on Brandon being a Niner moving forward.

01:14We're always open to listen to things.

01:17But, like I said, we expect Brandon

01:19to be an integral part of our team,

01:21like he has been, and excited about that.

01:24He sounded like Pete Carroll

01:26when he was talking about players.

01:28He's like, yeah, we fully intend on him being here.

01:32That's been our intent all along, and then they trade him.

01:35I'll tell you this much.

01:36It is some level of comfort knowing that he's there.

01:41He's not, like, not showing up at all.

01:44When they don't show up at all,

01:46and their agent keeps them away from the camp,

01:49away from the facility, away from the team and the players,

01:52then they just aren't doing a deal,

01:55and then they would trade him.

01:57But he's there, and it just seems to me,

02:00still at this outset,

02:02that they haven't been able to come to terms on a number.

02:06I think it's about money, and, I mean,

02:08everything's about money, but, I mean,

02:09I think this situation is that he's there,

02:12and I think they're close.

02:14They just don't have the deal done yet,

02:17and I firmly believe it's more weighted there

02:20than a trade, don't you?

02:24It certainly seems like it,

02:25and I think you're picking up the right scent in that.

02:28Why would he be there, you know,

02:30hanging around on the side of the practice field,

02:32watching everybody work,

02:33if something wasn't eventually going to happen?

02:37So, I think that there definitely is something there.

02:40Now, Williams is another story.

02:41It sounds like Williams didn't show up at all.

02:44He's the best player.

02:46He's the most important player.

02:48No question about that.

02:51Did you see this other story that Kyle Shanahan

02:54called Bill Belichick after he was, of course,

02:57fired from the New England Patriots

02:59and did not get a job anywhere else as a head coach

03:02and offered him anything that he wanted to do with the team,

03:06including the defensive coordinator gigs,

03:08and whatever you want to do, I'll have the doors open.

03:10Bill, of course, politely declined, Scotty, to work there.

03:14Well, I probably would, too,

03:16if I was sleeping with a 24-year-old.

03:19I mean, if I was getting some of that action like he is,

03:22who needs a job?

03:23He's got millions.

03:25He's got tons of money,

03:26and he's got a hot little girlfriend.

03:28Like, I mean, he sounds like he's living it up.

03:31He's living it up, and he's going to, you know,

03:33get a taste of that nice, cushy TV gig this year.

03:36You better believe he's getting a taste.

03:38Man, he's got it all going.

03:41He's also going to get to live

03:43that cushy TV gig life this year.

03:45Not the coaching life.

03:47The TV gig life.

03:48Inside the NFL.

03:50Here's an hour here.

03:52There's 20 minutes here.

03:54Here's a half hour here.

03:56And like you said, he's got plenty of time, then,

03:58to go and do other things.

04:01Plenty of money, plenty of time.

04:02He can do whatever he wants.

04:03He can go to an ice cream store.

04:06The Niners, of course, coming into this year,

04:08I've got, I believe, all the team action.

04:11Look at that for the Niners.

04:12With the win total, 11 and a half,

04:15minus 200 to win the division,

04:17plus 650 to win the Super Bowl.

04:19That's the highest in the NFC.

04:22I mean, you know, I got to tell you,

04:24like, I'll never forget the Lions choking in that game.

04:29So I want nothing more than for them to lose

04:32as much as possible.

04:33Like, I don't want to, they got five Super Bowls.

04:37I don't want them to get six.

04:39And that's just all there is to it.

04:41So screw all those futures.

04:43Screw their 11 and a half.

04:45Screw them.

04:46I hope that IU doesn't sign

04:48and that his agent is the biggest D

04:50in the world to John Lynch.

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