The 49ers Misplayed This Whole Contract Saga
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00:00with Brandon Iuki sat down with Tim Kawakami on the TK podcast.
00:03Really for Brandon it's just I want what's best for him and you know if he
00:09requests a trade I know I hope that he gets to go somewhere that's best for him
00:12and I have no bad blood with Brandon. It's always a really and each like
00:16contract negotiation is so different and so unique like I think everybody in the
00:20world knew what Bosa was gonna do. Like it was gonna be a holdout until they
00:22paid him exactly what he wanted and like that just is what it is because that's
00:25what his brother did and like I just think every contract negotiation is just
00:29so unique and so like and I don't know any details about Brandon's either
00:33besides just trying to remind him that contract negotiators are like braces and
00:37they suck the entire time when you get them off you have a nice pretty smile
00:39but millions of dollars in your bank account so it's just like whatever's
00:45best for him and I try my best to not ask questions about that stuff because I
00:49don't want to lie to you guys that I actually have no idea what's going on
00:52and but again it's just like I'm gonna focus on what I can control and I wish
00:55the best for everybody. So George could on how he's dealt with IU's absence. All
01:00I know is that currently right now we have a really good roster and I'm just
01:04gonna try to attack it every single day with the really good roster that I have
01:07and because if you think about the future and stuff like that like I remember
01:10being told in like 2021 that there hey it was we don't want it this year the
01:14windows closed and we've been in three NFC championship games since then so the
01:18window hasn't closed John and Kyle and Jed have done a great job about figuring
01:22out a way to whatever metaphorical window keep that open and we do a good
01:26job with that. So that's George Kittle yesterday now I'm seeing a lot of stuff
01:31on the text I say well if you trade for the Steelers draft conversation is to go
01:34get Devontae Adams I don't even know where that's coming from we just assume
01:38that Devontae Adams is gonna get traded from the Raiders and we assume that he's
01:41gonna be a 49er I don't know again have we learned anything from the Warriors
01:45offseason it takes two teams to tangle all right we may want something but what
01:50do they want you know I'm saying like we got we got to stop with this stuff we
01:54have a second team all-pro wide receiver in our building we're quibbling over a
01:58couple million dollars now I'm getting annoyed and now it's probably likely
02:02that Brendan Aiyuk is not traveling with the team to Tennessee. If you had to
02:07prioritize if I force you to prioritize one or the other Trent or Brendan Aiyuk?
02:13Brendan Aiyuk and I'll tell you why. So you're kind of with me then? Well no it's
02:17a little different in a sense that I want to take care of my young wide
02:21receiver I know he's gonna be here and I need a weapon for Brock Purdy a trusted
02:25agent for Brock Purdy you look at all the great Super Bowl winners they always
02:29got a target Mahomes and Kelsey you know see Brady and Edelman Brady and Gronk
02:34you know Montana to Rice Montana to Clark you just look all across the league
02:39in the history to the Bradshaw to Lynn Swan Bradshaw to John Stallworth you
02:43know Roger Stahlbeck and Drew Pearson all these guys have a guy that you could
02:47count on we throw the ball up Brock Purdy trust Brendan Aiyuk on crucial
02:52third downs you want to nitpick about numbers and this and that not you I'm
02:56saying but anybody out there crucial third down touchdown plays Thanksgiving
03:00night against Seattle I could go all down the list for Aiyuk the Green Bay Drive
03:04Detroit third down at three makes the miracle catch you know I'm third down
03:08boom quick slant touchdown on third down from the seven-yard line we want to get
03:13rid of our trusted agent so I'm taking care of Aiyuk first I'm telling big
03:16Trent I know what Trent's gonna do he's not for the what with the way he
03:20operates Trent Williams about his money he ain't leaving 23 million dollars on
03:25the table he'll just show up the week of the first game because he ain't gonna
03:28sell out his teammates he may not be happy but he'll come back for week one I
03:32truly will call Trent Williams but to say you're really not gonna play this
03:35year for us after us we traded for you to bring you out of Washington an
03:40absolute dumpster fire with Dan Snyder we've revived your entire career you've
03:44never had more fun playing football so I would call Trent Williams bluff you
03:48want to stay away from camp fine stay away from camp I'll see you a week when
03:51it gets to New York Jets but I'm taking care of Brendan Aiyuk because I don't
03:53believe for one second Trent Williams is gonna miss a game check I don't either
03:57and the irony too though if if it did go down that far I actually think you can
04:02get more for Trent Williams in a trade yeah I'm not I don't know if I'm doing
04:07that no I'm not gonna but I'm just saying I think you could if we're asking
04:10just straight up value I think you can get automatic first round yesterday from
04:14a variety of team yeah probably not gonna do that now no you're not gonna I
04:19want five one already paid him a ton of money guaranteed up front and now a
04:25couple years as he's acting like he's not gonna see the 20 just say what you
04:28want like it's not about guaranteed money Trent wants eight more million
04:32dollars that's what he wants and listen to this 510 should be mobile text I
04:37another good point Ryan Tannehill was never the same out of AJ Brandon I don't
04:40think Ryan Tannehill is that good but he lost AJ Brown and he was done come on
04:45he was done as to the CD it's it that's where Ross Tucker he lost me with you
04:49know just trade him you can find a bunch of bread and I used to the draft well
04:52Tennessee drafted Burks in the first round for Marquette on Berks trailer on
04:56birth yeah I might be mispronounced it worked out well yet no for two years
05:00he's been a bust no so it's not that easy finding replacements for all pro
05:05wide receivers Minnesota move digs and got Justin Jefferson though that's like
05:09hitting the Holy Grail right right you know I mean like how many teams do that
05:12you trade one all pro and you get a Hall of Famer well the nighters try to trade
05:16was the Forrest Buckner all pro with the Niners yeah well they tried to trade and
05:21they got a guy Ken law and he's on the New York Jets he can't even apply I'm
05:27with you it's just I'm exhausted by everybody with their handout at the
05:31collection plate just basically saying that they're broke and I'm tired of
05:35hearing a train you made 180 million dollars isn't this about getting that
05:38one thing that's elusive in your entire career the Super Bowl ring like well
05:41like honest and this is a thing like oh well the money the money dog the only
05:47thing missing from your resume is a championship and you're making it more
05:51difficult to win that championship you're gonna be compensated through the
05:54roof yeah like to me you want to talk about the GR word as in greedy this is
06:00as like high greed as it gets I'm just being real dude like come on dude like
06:04when's enough enough you need eight more million dollars I'm not gonna go
06:09there but he is under contract and he's gotten multiple contracts multiple
06:14contracts he doesn't have guaranteed money no he does have guarantee but I
06:19used to try to cash in this may be the only time I you can cash in and get a
06:23big-time make a deal Trent's already had a couple tricks had a couple you know
06:28said and I'm not sitting here pocket watching but they made you the highest
06:31paying player after you threatened everybody said yeah I'm gonna go visit
06:34my home to Kansas City I've ever heard now I'm we're I'm banning the word the
06:39phrase pocket watching because literally what Trent is doing is he's like penny
06:43swell and Tristan where's got money yeah I need to be paid higher that is the
06:47definition of pocket well it's just it's just I gotta get mine I got it no it's
06:51not even pocket watch it is just oh I'm happy for those guys I'm happy to make
06:55it 28 but I need to be known as the highest paid left tackle football it's
06:59really weird came in and told us last week right last five years he said it
07:05last week right love it he was like this guy stuck us for another 10,000 per year
07:10just to be above David Bakhtiar you to say I'm the highest paid left tackle of
07:15football there's a pettiness to it and what he's doing yeah you know what all
07:18you know what I'll be petty then how about you don't false start on the most
07:21crucial drive of the entire game of the entire season of the entire Kyle
07:26Shanahan regime how about you don't hold how about instead of getting front run
07:29and and and you know dancing coming out the second you have a tiny little
07:34injury on the team you're throwing swings on the Eagles looking basically
07:38you're looking like a punk that's what it looked like to me and I'm telling you
07:41I we all like Trent he's a great player but there's a front-running aspect to
07:45him at times that honestly bugs me it legitimately bugs me so I mean look it
07:52we're really you really want to lose Brandon I you've over a couple million
07:56dollars a million or two dollars that you can stretch out and you can
08:00restructure this deal you could you could structure it in a way that it
08:03doesn't kill the cap and I get that love door is gonna be around and Travis war
08:08want new money and Aaron Banks there's gonna be other guys who come off the
08:11books there's gonna be other guys who come off the books I was just we're
08:15really going to lose Brandon I you when you have a chance to build off an
08:20offense that I've averaged 29 points like what we saw last year with the
08:2449ers we hadn't seen since 94 team they were as explosive as deadly as that team
08:30that won a Super Bowl and we're gonna we're really gonna lose bread and I you
08:35can I'm with TJ who's was out of jet York where you at where you at just just
08:39don't let this happen don't let this happen because you could already feel
08:42the vibes good are you here for the players they're not distracted they know
08:46they know if they lose Brandon Iuk what we're not as good as we were no we're
08:51not as good because we just don't know about Ricky Purcell we haven't been in
08:54the foxhole with them yet I've been in the foxhole with Jake and Cowick we
08:58think Juwan Jennings is good boy Brandon Iuk is good on every damn down we could
09:02play him at every spot in the offense every single play it's just just
09:07frustrating it's just really frustrating you know I just I don't I don't even
09:11know like it's just two million for Iuk he just needs two more million about
09:16this whatever I'm on Trenton he's just another eight or nine just another eight
09:19or nine this is it's like he says Shanahan needs Brendan Iuk Kyle Shanahan
09:27is like he's a headstrong person he's a great coach but he's a great coach that
09:32should probably have two Super Bowls also let's go back to Atlanta when
09:36you're calling the plays you should have won that you should have won this past
09:40season Patrick Mahomes throw the ball get that ball to Christian McCaffrey games
09:43over you guys your Super Bowl champ and so just like there's some missteps that
09:48be a man taken Kyle Shanahan has had missteps also in coaching in the biggest
09:52games of his career and it doesn't get easier by getting rid of good players
09:56now who's was that I also acknowledge that he also acknowledged that I may
10:02regret leaving a situation I've been in this situation when I left Cincinnati
10:07now we ain't talking about the type of money that he getting I wasn't getting
10:12nowhere near that but let's clarify that but I was in this situation and I just
10:17always feels like I feel like it's better when you stay with your team it
10:21is they know you very well you know them well you have you go to a new team you
10:26okay let's just say for instance you go to the Steelers who the quarterback
10:28quarterback Russell Wilson Justin Field and then they have a young receiver in
10:35George Pickens that once the ball is gonna get his target y'all have to
10:39navigate that they already have a system with the Niners where C Mac gets his
10:44touches kiddo gets his touches people get his touches it's just different and
10:49so I just feel like when I left Cincinnati I was just like oh man I
10:54should have stayed and I think BA may have that if he was to leave San
10:59Francisco I agree with him I did 100% the thing I don't agree with what he was
11:05saying is like he's we're still blaming Kyle Shanahan as a coordinator for the
11:09Super Bowl you know what I want to start doing from now on Marv Levy did not lose
11:12the 1991 Super Bowl it was Bruce de Haven special teams coach he's the
11:17reason why Scott Norwood went wide right he's the reason Bruce de Haven lost that
11:22Super Bowl not Marv Levy. It's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
11:25No, who's the D-line coach the next year when he was mocking the Hogs so the Washington
11:28Washington team and he got fired shortly after the Super Bowl
11:32Washington just clean their clocks in a Metro Dome. How did Dan Quinn not get crushed?
11:40Shanahan lost as the coach lost two Super Bowls but this thing that
11:47Dan Quinn is just fully exonerated for the Atlanta Super Bowl is the most insane
11:53thing I've ever seen. A defensive coordinator, a defensive-minded coach who had a 28-3
11:57lead in the Super Bowl and Shanahan gets to blame. Shanahan gets to blame. Again, I've
12:01got the game log. I went over this one day Nash Alamo was getting on my nerves
12:05with it one day so BS and G I wrote down during the show I was sorry sorry to
12:09include I wasn't listening to you guys that day but I literally went through the
12:12game log watch the game up how I did a tutorial at my house last year we're
12:17watching the Spence Crawford fight at Big Dog City House and went went Philly Zoo
12:20and I had the game on and we went through every single play cuz I was
12:23adamant that how can you guys keep blaming Shanahan? Hell, they combo last
12:27year during the all-star break with Baby Chance swimming around the pool and
12:30added this guy I met from Atlanta. Oh I feel bad for you guys you got Shanahan
12:34I was like why you feel bad for me? All he's gonna do is blow another
12:38Super Bowl like he did for us. I said you really believe he blew that Super Bowl
12:41for you guys? You are dumber than rocks dude if you believe that Shanahan blew
12:46that Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl. It's like saying Marshawn Lynch shouldn't have
12:50got the ball at the one-yard line against the Patriots. No, he should have
12:53gotten the ball at the one-yard line against the New England Patriots. And I'm
12:55glad you bring that up because I was literally gonna go to that. Who was the
12:58offensive coordinator? Was it Beville? Was it Darryl Beville? You know who I blamed? Pete Carroll!
13:05I blamed Pete Carroll! The head coach! I blamed Pete Carroll! The head coach of the DC with a 25-point lead and we're
13:11blaming Shanahan for that. I mean like imagine like 25 years from now you know Robert Sala
13:15lost us that first Super Bowl against the Chiefs. You know it was Robert.
13:19No, it's people. Steve Wilkes blew the Super Bowl last year even though the
13:24Chiefs had 19 points going into the overtime period. It was 16-16. I just watched the
13:28receiver. 16-16. 19-19 going into overtime. Don't even start me because that honest to God that
13:38Super Bowl loss. The Detroit game was its own thing. Dan Campbell not going for
13:45the field goal then later on going. He was just all over the place. Dan
13:49Campbell just so foolish. I am never gonna get over. I think that that loss as
13:58bad as the first one was to the to the Chiefs and it's its own entity we can
14:02argue to. Losing that Super Bowl. Yeah, you know what? I just I feel like the
14:08team still hasn't gotten over it. Everyone's got their hands out. We're just in
14:12collection. I blame Greg Roman for losing the Super Bowl against the Ravens.
14:17The downfall is near and it's coming hard. I'm blaming Vic Fangio for letting
14:22Flacco go crazy. Who's our special teams coordinator that year when they lost to
14:26the Ravens and Jacoby Joe's recipes had to kick off return to open up the second
14:30half. Bruce Miller was held on that play. Yeah, I mean there was a lot of holdings on that
14:33play. I mean Jerome Berger. Bruce Miller's been held a few times.
14:38Jerome Berger. We don't need to go there. We don't need to talk about that.
14:41Jerome Berger was a lead official and I remember leading up to that Ravens game
14:45they said there was another referee who spoke. I was like, how did this crew get
14:48the assignment? They're the worst crew in football. Shocking. They were on the field. One of the
14:52guys pushed the referee and then John Harper was all on the field when they
14:56were going into a scratch. It was a disaster. But who's the special teams
14:59coordinator that year? I'm looking at him. Let's blame him. Let's blame him for that loss.
15:02Sick, man. Oh, our good friend Brad Seeley. Brad Seeley.
15:11Let's blame Brad Seeley. I love Seeley matches. Remember Jeep Crist?
15:15Oh, I do. Quarterback coach. His son played at Palo Alto High School.
15:19Jeep Crist. Jeep Crist. That's a fake name. Oh, man. Let's blame Steve Wooks.
15:28Let's blame Steve Wooks. Let's blame Steve Wooks. Unbelievable, man.
15:34This whole situation has made me sick, man. Because I'm thinking about three wide sets
15:39with Piers Saul and Deebo and Iyukur Juwan Jennings and McCaffrey and Brock Purdy.
15:44And that's the thing. Brock Purdy's going into a contract year. How does he feel about
15:48losing his top start? He's throwing interceptions every damn day at practice.
15:51You don't think he'd love to have number 11 out there? I'm going to be real with you.
15:55For the first time in a long time, quarterback isn't even a thought on my mind. I know what
15:59Brock Purdy's going to do. He's going to be really good. That's what Brock is, dude. Brock's
16:03the rock, dude. He's ready to roll. I'm not worried about him at all. It's all the other
16:07dudes and all the other stuff that's going on around him. He's the least of my worries.
16:12The absolute least of my worries. I guess I should calm down. This is Chicago
16:17Jason on YouTube says, because Iyukur's still a niner at this moment.
16:21Certainly don't sound like the players around him or the coaches are talking. Even Kyle Shanahan,
16:26they talk about it like he's already gone. And they've acknowledged the fact that, yeah,
16:30he's talking to other teams and we just want what's best for B.A.
16:33Didn't CMC say former teammate or something the other day?
16:36Basically said former teammate. So I guess the 49ers, this is per Diana
16:41this morning. The 49ers is still in communications with the Browns and the Steelers.
16:45The Niners have yet to move off the initial $26 million offer. Iyukur wants to remain a 49er
16:52and even moved his family to San Francisco during the offseason.
16:56Wow.
16:57SF prefers a wide receiver or a premium player in return.
17:02So now we're asking for the world. The Niners, the organization misplayed their hands and this
17:07is on Parag. And you know who could fix it? You know whose Q rating could go up if he does fix it?
17:13It's Jed York. And Jed York, I don't even want to come down Jed York's rope because
17:17he stitched out plenty of guarantee money to the team. Over $470 million
17:22he's giving out. So I got no issues with Jed York, but he can make this right and tell Parag,
17:26just chill. Give him the extra million and a half. I'm trying to hang a damn banner.
17:31I'm trying to get number six for crying out loud. I'm trying to get number six.
17:36Our best way to get number six is if I get Brandon Iyukur into camp and get him on that
17:40field and let's go. Come on, man. He moved his whole family out here. He doesn't want to go
17:46nowhere. I just, I live with these people. I love these people. They're part of my family.
17:51We're talking six to $8 million over a three year span. That's it. That's it. We're quibbling
17:58over nickel and dimes. Come on, man. Let's go. I'm tired of talking about this nonsense.
18:06Oh my God. But, but, okay. Again, I agree with you, but what if I put,
18:10we sure Brock pretty is going to be this elite without his weapon. Are we, are we ready to
18:13trust Ricky Pearsall? He can't even sell the field. No, I'm not ready to trust Ricky Pearsall.
18:17I'm ready to trust Brock. Brock's really good, but every look at every quarterback in the league
18:23needs weapons. This is not Brock exclusive. This is football. What do you do? All right. I get my
18:29quarterback. All right. I want to have a good defense and what else do I want to, I want to
18:32protect them, but you know, I really want to load them up with weapons, right? Every team in the
18:37league, literally every team, like that's what you want to do. That's team building one-on-one.
18:41All right. You got to get them as weapons. And yes, you got to give it. You got to give
18:46Trent is $8 million so that he's happy. And he can say that I'm the highest paid left tackle.
18:51It's just, it's just, we got to get this done because we need to get ready for the New York
18:56jets. We have to get ready for the New York jets and sauce Gardner and Aaron Rogers and Garrett
19:01Wilson. We got things to get done, man, the Superbowl or bust. And it's been like that here,
19:06whether you like it or not for the last five years. And we got to get it. If we did a GoFundMe,
19:12if we did a GoFundMe from Niner fans for the, for the one and a half million dollar difference,
19:17the $2 million difference, do you think people would not, they'd say, Nope, is there greedy?
19:21Or they would contribute to the GoFundMe. I think these fans will contribute to the GoFundMe. Fans
19:24are crazy. They would, they would throw a hundred dollars, $200. I mean, technically that's what
19:29we're already doing when we buy gear and stuff, but you get what I'm going with this.
19:36I, I, people donate money to us in the super chat. So I'm pretty sure they would donate to
19:39keeping Brandon. Now you care. We, we got to get rolling, man. We got a preseason game tomorrow.
19:47I'm looking forward to seeing some of these guys. Good. Is Ricky Pierce all even going to play
19:50tomorrow? So is Jacob Cowley even going to play tomorrow? I don't drink Jackson's out for the
19:53season. I haven't seen him since Pittsburgh, you and I was standing there talking and I said, Hey,
19:59when are you going to be ready? And he kind of gave me that look. I'll be right. We didn't
20:02go. We didn't go into detail, but I got the feeling that it wasn't going to be. He gave us
20:06a D D Ford. I got to get right, right. First. And he sat on the cart and he's not right. Right. He's
20:13out for the season. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.