Impact of Brandon Aiyuk's Injury on the 49ers Strategy

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00:00Let's start off with the San Francisco 49ers. Huge injury this past week to Brandon Ayuk.

00:09Really good player. Not as good as we thought he would be or anyone with the money that

00:13he got paid. So that leaves Debo and nothing with the San Francisco 49ers. I mean, who

00:20is the wide receiver to on the 49ers? I don't know. Who's a backup running back on the 49ers?

00:27I understand. I know who it is. I don't want to screw his name up again. So for me, I think

00:35Debo is a target. I think I'd like to have Debo Samuel. The other thing is, is when Christian

00:42McCaffrey comes back and Mason goes back to being like 1A or 1B, whatever you want to

00:48call it, I think Debo is going to see a lot more targets. I think I want him right now.

00:53He's had a problem staying healthy now, like the last year or so, but five, six games,

00:59playoff games with that offense, they already went through the toughest test they had. They

01:04failed against Kansas City. It was a miserable game. Not going to play a tougher game than

01:08that the rest of the year, George. I can probably go any direction you want to go here. If I'm

01:156-1, 7-0, a good team and I'm making the playoffs, I want Debo because I don't know what we're

01:22going to get from Sunday night. I don't know what strength he's going to be at, the pneumonia

01:25and all that. I do think he plays, but then they have a bye week. So it's two weeks. I

01:31may not be getting what I want from him. So maybe I can steal him from somebody. They

01:36need somebody good now for a lesser player. Like I said, the reversal is true if I'm 3-4

01:42or whatever, 2-5 and I need the win. I may not trust him this week, even against the

01:46Cowboys. I can't stop anybody. This seems to be that cursed year for the 49ers. Things

01:53aren't going well for them. So I do have some worries here. Aiyuk being out, in some ways

01:59we could look at a bonus because now he would be the number one guy here. Looking at their

02:04schedule the rest of the year. After the bye week, Tampa, Seattle, Green Bay, Buffalo,

02:08back-to-back is tough. That's before your playoffs though. During your playoffs, you've

02:12got Chicago, Rams at Miami, Detroit would be during your championship week. It's solid.

02:19It's not terrible. It's not great. I lean towards wanting him. That's the bottom line.

02:23I do lean towards wanting him, but I don't want to pay a heavy price.