Dre Greenlaw to the Broncos

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00:0095-7 the game, breaking news.

00:08Dre Greenlaw just signed with the Broncos.

00:10Yeah.

00:11I'm going to let that marinate for a second.

00:16Yeah.

00:17Dre Greenlaw is signing with the Denver Broncos along with Talanoa Hufanga.

00:23Both of those defenders leave the 49ers in free agency and go to the Denver Broncos.

00:31So as I had said earlier, and I told you guys this earlier today, I don't think the 49ers

00:36have lost anybody they wanted to keep.

00:40That sentence changes now.

00:42Now they did.

00:43Now they just lost somebody they wanted to keep.

00:45It depends on how much they want to pay because we've seen these other contracts that have

00:50happened and whether it was Jalen Moore or Aaron Banks, and I'm sure that they wanted

00:55to keep those players but not at those prices.

00:58And so we'll see what Dre Greenlaw and the contract actually works out to be because

01:04I would imagine the number that he's going to get is going to be a lot bigger than what

01:09the 49ers would have wanted to pay.

01:11And I think it's going to wind up being north of 10 million a year.

01:17My best guess is going to be that Denver is going to give him a much bigger deal than

01:21what the 49ers wanted to do.

01:23Well, I've wondered what this was really actually all about all along, the Dre Greenlaw thing.

01:29Because remember the social media stuff at the end with the wives getting together and

01:33Fred Warner's wife and Dre's wife and they're throwing almost like what looked like a going

01:37away party but there's tears and everything and they're all begging and hoping that they'll

01:42stay and a miracle happens.

01:44And they know stuff that's going on that we don't obviously so I don't know what was

01:47being shared.

01:48But we had plenty of reports as recently as this morning where the Niners were trying

01:53really hard to keep Dre Greenlaw but it was going to be hard because there was a lot of

01:58competition for him.

01:59And so it was always seen as less than 50-50 and now it becomes reality.

02:06But I don't know that this particular one was just about money and years.

02:12I'm sure that's always a driving force behind it but I've also heard and I'm sure you have

02:18too that idea that Dre really wanted kind of to be the leader of a linebacker room.

02:23He wanted to be the dog and you can't do that here.

02:28You can't do that here because Fred Warner plays here.

02:30That's a fair thing to ask for and I'll have to wait and see what the money and the years

02:36are like.

02:37It seems to me more and more throughout the course of this day that these players that

02:42were 49ers are going out there and getting big contracts elsewhere and the 49ers don't

02:48want to to pay that.

02:50And I'm sure if they would have given Dre Greenlaw a same offer if not even a little

02:55bit more he probably would have put aside the desire to be the big dog in the room because

02:59he and Fred as a tandem they had a special run here.

03:04You think about the history of linebackers here you know Patrick and Navarro and the

03:08great things that they have done and you had Fred and Dre and it just is sad that it ended

03:13the way it did with a torn Achilles and then what he played two quarters this year.

03:19Not much and had to leave kind of with I don't know if I want to call it injured but concerns

03:24around his physical health in both of the games.

03:28Ian Rappaport is weighing in with a report on the money for Dre Greenlaw which is of

03:32interest based on what you just said.

03:35Three years thirty five million dollars.

03:37So A yes north of ten million dollars and B yes north of one year.

03:42I don't know where the guarantees fall on all of that.

03:44You can always get out of these deals early in the NFL but everything I had heard about

03:49the Niners is that they were kind of in that one year prove it deal kind of a situation

03:54which maybe means you could sign into a two year with kind of a parachute.

03:58But the fact that the Broncos are going to go to almost 12 million dollars a year in

04:03three years that that probably does the deal.

04:06Yeah.

04:07And that's I think the same thing you could say about the Aaron Banks contract and you

04:11know whether or not he's a mediocre player he was somebody they drafted and if the offer

04:16comes in at 70 plus million and the Niners are thinking no we'd rather have Ben Bartsch

04:21making one million then yeah it becomes a personnel move and also a financial move and

04:26I do look at the 49ers situation and they're not in cap hell by any stretch but they're

04:34in a little bit of cap difficulty with all the dead money they have and a quarterback

04:37that they need to pay so you can't just start shelling out basically 12 million a year for

04:44linebacker number two when linebacker number one is top three in money already.

04:49Yeah.

04:50I mean I'll be straight with you on this one here for a moment just as a fan.

04:54This one hurts.

04:55Oh it hurts.

04:56Yeah.

04:57Nothing.

04:58Nothing.

04:59Mooney Ward.

05:00Love him.

05:01We knew that.

05:02He was great.

05:03I almost won it for him because he was in hell this year.

05:04And his wife was like I don't want to go back to California because of the personal baggage

05:07and I fully understand that and even Hufunga who was drafted here and we loved him and

05:13the Hufunga.

05:14Yeah.

05:15The Joe Buck call and you know he was also hurt and it's like you know you drafted his

05:18replacement and the writing was kind of on the wall there as well but we all were kind

05:23of holding out hope that they were going to find a way to make this work so that Drake

05:27Greenlaw could still be a Niner 57 was going to still be in the red and gold and now that's

05:32done.

05:33Yeah.

05:34Although it's interesting because I sit here and say from an emotional standpoint this

05:39is the first one today that hurts.

05:41But if I were to define what the 49ers are trying to do this offseason is be unemotional.

05:49I think last year they got emotional.

05:51This year they feel they need to be unemotional because last year being emotional hurt them.

05:56You can look at it that way.

05:58You're saying that it's an overcorrection and I hear you and it may end up being that

06:04but I do think that we to some degree like we have to get used to this if you're a fan

06:11of an NFL team there really isn't room for sentimentality especially in the NFL.

06:18There just isn't.

06:19It's too physical of a sport.

06:21Things happen too fast.

06:23Great players turn bad really really quickly and so you have to be unemotional and sometimes

06:30that stinks and they might be wrong.

06:33They might be wrong.

06:34Drake Greenlaw may go to Denver and turn in to the same guy he used to be but they also

06:40they might be right.

06:42We may be looking at bad legs and someone who doesn't look the same when not playing

06:47next to Fred Warner.

06:48I really don't know but I'm not going to lie as a 49er fan this one is a kick in the

06:54shin.

06:55It sucks and just you know as a 49er fan this day has kind of been a gigantic bummer because

07:00every breaking news sounder has been so and so is signing somewhere else and you haven't

07:06had that real all right and now what we're kind of holding our breath for Joey Bosa.

07:11We're going to wait for day three of free agency and Joey's going to take less and come

07:15play with his brother.

07:16Cue up the Steine drop.

07:18Yay.

07:19Well I mean yeah it doesn't doesn't fire me up as much as maybe some others but again

07:27I like I'm not going to sit here and rip who they're bringing in till I know who they're

07:30bringing in.

07:31Right.

07:32I'm not going to rip their draft until I see their draft.

07:33Even then.

07:34Yeah wait three years.

07:35Yeah.

07:36Exactly.

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