Brandon Aiyuk's Transfer Saga: Impact on 49ers and Steelers

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00:00What's going to go on with Niners wide receiver Brandon Ayuk, Scotty?

00:08This has been going on, let's just say this has really been going on for months, right?

00:12This has been months of this stuff with Ayuk, and it seems like it's kind of getting to

00:16the end, right?

00:17They've allowed him to talk to other teams.

00:20They allegedly had deals in place with Cleveland and New England.

00:24New England has then backed out saying when they got to talk contract with him, he didn't

00:28sound like he wanted to go there, so they have kind of bowed out of all the proceedings.

00:34I'm going to give you the Steeler side of it too.

00:36I did just see a report from Adam Schefter that said that the Ayuk, the situation is

00:44at a standstill and that the 49ers are not in a rush to make a move.

00:51So maybe all of this for nothing.

00:53Here is Kyle Shanahan yesterday talking about the Ayuk situation.

00:58I mean, it's been at this point for a little bit, so it's nothing really new to me.

01:03I mean, you're always disappointed when you can't keep a hold of all your players or it's

01:06not going exactly right.

01:08I mean, I don't like losing anybody, so that's why I'm hoping it does work out here.

01:13But right now we don't have that solved yet, so I hope it does.

01:16Is the offer you guys made a final offer or is there a chance?

01:21I mean, I'm not getting any specifics with offers, contracts, trades, anything like that.

01:26What I can tell you guys is nothing has changed.

01:28A lot was out yesterday and stuff, but from the situation that we're in with Brandon,

01:33nothing's changed.

01:34Listen, I'll tell you what's changed is that they are not giving him the money he wants

01:42and it's not happening.

01:44And there is no way that it will happen when they're out having negotiations with upwards

01:50of three to four teams.

01:53Now, a couple of them have already backed out of it.

01:56Allegedly, the Patriots backed out and that turned into a big story.

02:00I don't understand, frankly, why that's a big story.

02:04What's so big about backing out of a deal?

02:06There was no deal.

02:07There was nothing consummated at all.

02:09And they turned the fact that they backed out into a story.

02:13Backing out of what?

02:14Backing out of nothing.

02:15They didn't have a deal.

02:16So the Niners are negotiating.

02:18Now there was talk of the Browns.

02:20There was talk of Amari Cooper being involved because he's got one year left on his deal.

02:25I can see that.

02:26That's what Adam Cabin was telling us yesterday here on C2C, that it's the Browns in the lead.

02:32And then I am selfishly imploring the Steelers to give this deal whatever it takes to be

02:40crossing the finish line.

02:42I mean, if they had Pickens and Iuke on the outsides of that passing attack and they allegedly

02:48have these, you know, Wilson, you can say whatever you want about him.

02:52He put up numbers in Denver and you can say whatever you want about how bad Denver was.

02:56They still had a winning record.

02:58You can say whatever you want about fields.

03:00But when they got him, you would have thought they got King Tut and Hamann.

03:04Like the Steelers acted like they had scored this great quarterback and then they didn't

03:09pick up his fifth year option so he can leave after this year either way, which is a mistake

03:14if you ask me.

03:15I think they need him there.

03:18And they're so cheap.

03:19I can see him not giving fields what he wants because fields is going to get a lot of money

03:23from somebody.

03:24Somebody's going to make fields a starter in this league.

03:26That's all there is to it.

03:27Now, he's going to start tomorrow night or Friday night, whatever it is they play, Saturday.

03:32I can't keep track of all these games.

03:34I think it's Friday.

03:35They're playing the Texans.

03:36Anyway, he's starting that game.

03:39But look, if they had Iuke to throw to and Pickens is already a badass.

03:44Can you imagine?

03:45Those are two great receivers.

03:48Great receivers.

03:49And they already have a pass rush.

03:50They already have a defense.

03:52They already have a running game.

03:54Now they have two quarterbacks that can play.

03:57What don't they have?

03:59If they got that guy, to me, they are a legitimate AFC North contender to win the division.

04:06Yeah, I don't disagree with you.

04:10And I think that fields is interesting.

04:13And I think that that's a guy that may, you know, I think he's made enough headway here

04:17where he might be the guy in week one, depending how things shake out.

04:21But when it comes to Iuke Scottie, I think you said the key word when it comes to the

04:25Steelers.

04:26And that's why it makes me seeing the Steelers involved, it's kind of interesting.

04:30You said they're cheap.

04:31They're cheap with a lot of these guys.

04:34How many wide receivers have the Steelers just let leave?

04:37That they drafted, that they developed, that they didn't want to pay?

04:42And now they're going to go give another wide receiver $30 million a year?

04:45That doesn't make sense to me.

04:46It's not their normal operating procedure.

04:49That's the only thing that makes it weird for me with the Steelers.

04:53You know, listen, you're right.

04:55And that is notoriously their track record is they just let him leave.

04:59Every one of them.

05:00They let every guy leave, whether he was crazy or not.

05:02Antonio Brown, they let him leave.

05:04I mean, every guy, Claypool, it goes on and on.

05:08Deontay Johnson, I could go on and on.

05:10But the reality is this, is that somebody, whether it's Omar Khan or somebody, even Tomlin

05:19or somebody, could it be Rooney?

05:22Could someone finally just admit that if they had a guy this good, and they paid him, and

05:28they had Pickens and this guy as their receivers, that to me is legitimately Lin Swan and John

05:35Stallworth.

05:36That is legitimately a sickening passing attack.

05:41And this is a league predicated on passing, predicated on quarterbacks, predicated on

05:47receivers.

05:48That's who makes all the money.

05:49So give him the money, and then you have a Super Bowl contender for the next three or

05:56four years.

05:57You'd have a Super Bowl contender for the next three or four years because Pickens is

06:00young and so is IU.

06:02And if you pay both of them now, you win.

06:06Forget about waiting for four or five years for the next star to come along that they

06:09can cheap out on in a rookie deal.

06:12This is a guy that could make them a Super Bowl contender, I think, immediately.

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